I wanted to write my first Arrow/Flash crossover oneshot and I was watching clips about Team Flash locking Barry in the pipe line. And this came. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I'm just slightly salty and bored.

It burned

Being put in the Pipeline by his friends and family. It burned like he was being set ablaze. Their betrayal burned him.

He hates cells, cages.

Something like that couldn't be forgiven and forgotten so easily.

He trusted them. Now he feels so unwelcomed, they lost his trust.

"Hey, Bar. You okay?" Iris' voice snapped the speedster out of his thoughts.

She did that to him. His best friend. His love.

"Yeah," Barry sat up from the couch. "I'm going for a run." He walked to the front door of the West Household.

"Okay," Was her sad response as he closed the door.

Barry took a deep breath of the cool night air before disappearing in a flash. He ran and ran. Not really paying attention where, just letting his legs takes him where they wanted.

While his legs ran his mind wandered.

They drugged him like he was a feral animal that would attack he would even think of hurting them on purpose.

It hurt more than when Zoom broke his back or killed his Father.

They kept saying they were protecting him.

Protecting doesn't mean locking him in a cell. Where he felt defenceless, weak, and alone.

Was this what the other metahumans felt like?

Barry felt so many emotions in that cell. Anger, betrayal, pain that turned to sadness, weakness, worse pain, loneliness, and massive defeat.

He hated cells. No space to run. No way to free himself.

He once voiced to Cisco one late night at S.T.A.R Labs after a bank robbery. Barry was so filled with trust, confident that Cisco wouldn't do that to him.

He was wrong.

When Barry talks to his team (it feels so wrong now) he feels the throb on his shoulder and heart. The phantom pains of the dart and the hurt of not being trusted. By close friends and family

Barry skidded to a stop in the ever familiar Arrow Cave. It was empty.

Except for one person.

"Barry," Oliver gave the speedster a nod in greeting, the closest one could get a greeting from the man.

"Hey, Oliver," Barry sighed. He was feeling emotionally tired.

The Starling City hero raised an eyebrow, acknowledging that. "So why the sudden visit?"

"Just needed to get out of Central for a while," The speedster sat down in the nearest chair.

It felt like they forgot me.

Oliver nodded and the room fell into silence. While Barry drifted farther into thought as the Archer observed him from the corner of his eye. Barry normally didn't like silence.

The speedster had a different aura around him. Normally, his aura was like a hyper and happy lightning bolt, striking others with his joy and giving it to them. Now it was subdued, like the lightning had lost the sparks that fueled it.

It felt so...wrong.

Barry was always happy and optimistic. A ray of sunshine after a terrible storm. There are so few people like that in this world, they are so rare to find.

Many of them lose that happiness, that flame that makes them one in a thousand. That can't happen to Barry.

Especially in this line of work.

"What's bugging you, Barry?" Oliver spoke up.

It took a while for him to respond. "My… team did something to me that his hard for me to forgive and forget."

The Archer furrowed his eyebrows. Barry find it hard to forgive someone? "What happened?"

"They tranqed me and locked me in the Pipeline," Barry put his face in his hands. "Locked me down there and forgot about me...like I was a feral animal."

"Why did they lock you down there?" Oliver pulled up a stool and sat in front of his friend.

"They said I was too angry to fight Zoom."

"Were you?"

"I was numb, not really feeling much emotions until Joe started interrogating me. Then I felt frustrated that he didn't believe in me. Anger never appeared thought. I learned with the Reverse Flash that if you let feelings get in the way of fighting you end up injured in the middle of a Football Stadium."

Oliver nodded. "They misunderstood your emotions at the time."

"I guess," Barry sighed. "When I was in the cell it was the only time I was actually angry, because they locked me in there."

The Archer was silent. Part of him wanted to hug Barry and fight off everything bothering the kid. The other part of him wants the Arrow to go visit Barry's team and have a little chat.

"The important fact is that you aren't in that cell anymore."

"I know. I just feel like they don't trust me and I lost all my trust in them. They try and act like it didn't happen, but I can't do that."

Oliver almost winced at the pain in the younger man's voice. "If my team did that I would drop them pretty quickly because they didn't trust me to keep a level head. If they do it again you can always come here."

Barry nodded and stood up. "Thanks, Ollie. Knowing that I can trust you helps a lot."

With that, Barry disappeared. Only leaving a gust of wind and a trail of lightning.

Maybe Oliver will have a tiny visit with the rest of Team Flash, after he tells the rest of his team about what Barry just told him. He is pretty sure Felicity wouldn't mind putting a little bug in their phones. That might cause the cellular devices to explode and short out.

Barry ran back to Central City, feeling a little bit better he at least had friends he could trust. He was sure he would eventually forgive his friends and family because that was what he did. Forgive. It will take a while though.

It doesn't mean he couldn't let them think about what they did for a while.

They hurt him pretty badly and somethings aren't forgiven so easily.

I kinda wrote this because I'm the kinda person that forgives easily, it's how my Dad raised me. But if you are my friends, you knock me out, and you lock me some where be damn well sure I'll be ticked for a while.

I love Oliver and Barry fanfics (fluffy romantic or brotherly platonic I don't care, it's cute) and y'all can see this as what ever you want. Shipping or a bro moment, I don't care.