I'm moving my fic recs from tumblr to here.
Barry/Eobard or Barry/Harry fics are here. It’s mostly Barry/Eobard fics. Complete fics only. BTW I’m Serenityreview on ao3.
Reversed by UnknownSatellite84
Summary: The year is 2182. A mysterious being appears, targeting both Flash and Reverse Flash. To survive, these two lifelong nemeses must find enough middle ground to work against it and face the truth of their hatred, their tainted history…and of each other. Nothing stays the same forever. Note - This is a futuristic AU set long after a re-imagined ending to season one - one in which Eobard escapes to the future before Barry returns from the night his mother died. Eventual Eobarry pairing. Slow-burn.
Seventh Heaven by UnknownSatellite84
Summary: With Flashpoint, Barry Allen is living the life he’d wanted since he was eleven. Unfortunately for him, there is an arrogant, volatile speedster named Eobard Thawne in a cage ready to ruin this new, perfect life…by seducing him into a dark, sexual one unlike any he’s ever had or will have. (This is a series of smut fics.)
Tempus Fugit by Kyele
Summary: Nora is dead. The Barry from the future – the Flash from the future – is gone. If Barry wants answers, if he wants to know why his future self had waved him off of saving his mother, he’s going to have to get them from a different source. Fortunately, he knows exactly where – or, rather, when – his answers may be found. April 25, 2024. (AU from the end of Season 1.)
Boogeyman by PepperPrints
Summary: “You’re not afraid of the dark, Barry. You’re afraid of being alone in the dark, and that goes away when you realize something. You’re never really alone.” (Eowells barely shows up in this one but his presence is felt through out. I love the way this is written. It is very atmospheric.)
Ghost by andthatiswhythelightningstruck
Summary: Or, four times (flashbacks) Barry Allen thought he saw Eobard Thawne and the one time he finally did. (Kind of. It’s complicated.) [Pre-2x01, leads up to Harrison/Barry meeting in 2x04.] (This fic really conveys a sense of loss and shows how Barry misses Eowells even though he shouldn’t, because they were lovers before the reveal.)
The Best By Far (Is You) by cardinalstar
Summary: Barry reset the timeline when he saved his mother from dying at the hands of the Reverse-Flash, but the alternate future that resulted wasn’t one he could live with. With the help of Vibe, he was able to reset the timeline and undo his previous mistakes - but while the new life Barry is now living resembles his original timeline in most of the ways that matter, he’s still struggling to adjust.
Of course, as usual, the devil is in the details. And when Eobard Thawne accidentally winds up in the basement of STAR Labs, demanding to be returned to his own time, again, Barry can’t help but feel like he and Cisco might have missed something important.
Watch the Stars That Tremble With Love and Hope by Rehfan
Summary: Eobard is fresh off helping The Flash round up the Royal Flush Gang and is winding down at home. Now if he could only shake the memory of Barry Allen’s smile. (tangent story for S1 Ep11: The Sound and the Fury)
Barry Allen and Eobard Thawne Walk into a Bar (or, He’ll Have the Temporal Mobius Strip, on the Rocks) by Ayankun
Summary: “This is exactly what I’m talking about,” he hisses, fist striking an invisible target as he rounds on the Flash, “We’re nothing more than some double-helix self-fulfilling prophecy. None of our choices actually belong to us. Nothing we do, or think, or say actually matters. How can you stand it?”
The Flash grits his teeth, moving from foot to foot in that way he does when he’s got more energy than he knows what to do with. “You’re wrong. You’re insane. I decide my own future.”
The words come caustic, bitter, dripping with acid. “No you don’t .”
The Man With The Crooked Spine by cocoa_the_maniac, ladyofpride
Summary: When he stops to consider all the things he’s accomplished in his life and how they’ve inevitably changed him, Harrison would openly admit that he has developed a remarkably flat character over the years. That is, to say, that despite the complexity he portrays to the outside world, there’s really only one overwhelming identity at his core: Harrison Wells is an unspeakably cruel man… (This was written before the reveal of Wells being the reverse flash but it really gets Eowells’ character right. This fic is mostly just Eowells and Joe talking about Barry but it is so good.)
The Hazards of Irresponsible Time Travel by dancesontrains
Summary: Barry paused for a moment to look at the disordered scene in Harrison Wells’s office. Clothes were spread all around the floor, and both Dr. Wells and Barry’s - doppelganger? fake? - were lying on the black couch. Naked, with the fake Flash on top of Dr. Wells. Barry quickly turned his eyes away, feeling the blush grow on his face. What on Earth…? (2x17 response fic. Does not take into account canon from later episodes.)
The Science Fiction Brady Bunch Dinner From Hell by jujubiest, preussisch_blau
Summary: Harrison Wells brings his daughter Jesse to Earth-1 for the first time, and the Wests have them over for dinner. Things get awkward–well, more awkward–when Iris takes it upon herself to invite Barry’s dad without telling him.
Fire and Ice (Would Suffice) by Themadwomanwhoisunfortunatelylackingabox
Summary: He would be nothing without Barry Allen. He knew this now: A world without Barry Allen would change him irrevocably, and that wouldn’t be for the better. No, the best thing would not be to rid himself of him, but instead to change him.
What better way than to gain his trust, his love, his affection?
There was nothing that made Barry Allen faster than his love, after all, and what a better partner, what a better villain he would be, than a faster Barry Allen.
There’s a Second Time For Everything by howelleheir
Summary: “Who the hell are you?!”
Wells stops in his tracks. In the short time he hid out beneath this Earth’s S.T.A.R. Labs, he heard his own name a few times, never fondly, and always in the past tense. Which means that this is going to be complicated, and also, possibly, that he’s about to get hit. Very hard, by something moving very fast. Turning and pulling back his hood, he keeps the pulse rifle lowered but at the ready and a wary eye on Allen’s face. (In which Barry has ill-advised sex with his dead, evil ex’s doppelganger in an abandoned basement)
The Kissing Game by Maraceles
Summary: OTP question to end all OTP questions: Who unconsciously holds their breath the first time they kiss, and who pulls back and says, “Breathe.”
the boys all love to stare by ohmcgee
Summary: It’s Halloween and Barry forgets to change out of his costume before rushing to the lab. (Smutty fun.)
A Devil Between Us by skyline
Summary: The worst part isn’t the noises; the angry groans that Jay Garrick pulls from Harrison Wells’s throat, or the slap of flesh on flesh. It’s not the way their hands brand each other’s hips, possessive and bruising, either.
The worst part is the way that Barry remembers this, a different man with the same face, doing those exact things to him with his lips and his tongue and his teeth, fingertips tracing over Barry’s sternum in time with his rapid-fire, hummingbird heartbeat.
time in a bottle by callunavulgari
Summary: “If I didn’t exist,” Thawne says, quietly, moving to slide his fingers up Barry’s jaw; they leave goosebumps in their wake. “Then neither would you. And if you didn’t exist… well. We won’t get into that mess. So the universe — the, hah, Speed Force — sent me here. A paradox, clinging to the cracks between time. Just… waiting.”
His thumb strokes there hesitantly, palm warm and weathered against Barry’s jaw. He wishes it weren’t so familiar. Wishes it wasn’t still so wanted. Barry swallows and watches Thawne’s eyes track the movement. He still hasn’t pulled away. Why hasn’t he pulled away? “W—” Barry coughs when his voice creaks alarmingly, and clears his throat. “Waiting for what?”
Thawne chuckles, his thumb brushing over the curve of Barry’s lip. He slides it across them, slow and measured, and when Barry gasps, dips the very tip inside. Just enough to wet it. And then he says, blue eyes heavy with intent, “For you, of course.“
Whatever May Come, Whatever May Go (Don’t Give Up) by elrhiarhodan
Summary: A direct sequel to It’s Thin Line (between love and hate). At the end of that story, Barry and Eobard had negotiated a cease-fire to the centuries of hostility, but it doesn’t last - not for an hour, or even a minute. At least not until a pair of happily married doppelgangers decides that enough is enough. (This is a part of a series. I’m reccing this because it’s my favourite one.)
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