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[Huff.]

You can't possibly be serious.

[His smile fades a little.]

So that's a no, then.

I'm not only serious, I also happen to be right.

You may be right, but the outcome is unacceptable. You're allowing for too much in the way of collateral damage.

The calculations need to be worked again.

That's a no. [No Barry. You are not talking him into going anywhere for his birthday.

Nope.

And he'll have words with his dear daughter for sharing that date with Barry.]

First of all, I'm not the one here with the history of allowing for collateral damage. Actually, I'm the exact opposite. So I'd try to turn down the shade by quite a lot if I was you. I'd not allow for collateral damage. I'm just saying that I'm right. Not that we should do it right away or even at all.

[Annoyed eye roll.] Wrong Wells. [Again. He'd at least tried to contain the explosion, hadn't deliberately set off one like the Thawne-Wells of this world.] You might be right, but the calculations are still off which means it's wrong.

We need to start again.

Not so wrong, based on all I've heard. Mostly you've taken less responsibility and helped divide your city, so I'm almost tempted to prefer ours.

[A case of there really not being a good option.]

Sure. After you.

But Harry.

[Yes, he sounds like he's five. But it always worked when Iris was being stubborn about something, so it's worth a try.]

It's your birthday. We have to celebrate.

[No. While Harry would like to think he's immune to the plea in his voice and the kicked puppy expression - he's not.] No we do not. We have other things to worry about and me being a year older is not one of them.

[He's not going to get drawn into that argument again. So Harry simply scowls, turns on his heel and goes back to his own board, scrubbing the math clean to start again.] If we can retask the STAR Labs satellite, we should be able to get a better fix on how to close the last of the breaches.

Happy occasions are important, Harry. When everything else is crappy, you need to do something fun.

[Hartley takes that as a win for his argument, not that he really doubted that he would win.]

Easier said then done. We'd have to rewrite the entire software for that and that's going to take time, even with all the supposed genius in the room. Worth a try, but a shortcut would be better, if we can figure one out.

You think I won't fire it? 'cos I will. [ It's a tiny purple laser gun. ]

Why not?

That's how it works. You do wacky science experiments, and superheroes happen.

So if you wanna beat the big bad just make more superheroes.

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