Perfect Fit

Chapter 2

A/N: Thanks a lot for all your wonderful comments for the first chapter. I have always wanted to write Snowbarry's relationship from all the other characters' POV. This time it is our Arrow. Hope you like this one. Also this is into the future where everyone knows who Wells is and had still remained as a team through all that. Thanks!

Oliver POV

For Oliver the team in Starling City was completely different from the one Barry had in Central City. His team was chosen by him after he carefully got to know each of them and finally decided on trusting them. That was one of the reasons he was always angry when someone whom he had no intention of sharing his secret, figured out who he was. In addition he chose this life. He returned from Lian Yu and wanted to save his city single handedly. But in Barry's case it was not exactly similar.

A freaking lightning struck him that he made him the fastest man alive. He didn't even get a choice of choosing his own team. They were the ones who were able to explain what was happening to him and he had no choice but to trust them. In short Oliver's team was built block by block with people who earned his trust while Barry's team was thrown in together by a particle accelerator explosion leaving none of them any choice in the matter.

But the difference ended there. Even though Barry didn't have any choice regarding the super speed it was his choice to help the people of Starling City. It was his choice to put his super speed to save people in danger. Even though he didn't choose his team, it couldn't have been any better. Sure Dr. Wells didn't turn up to be the person they all thought was (Oliver always had his suspicions) but Cisco and Caitlin had proved that they were loyal to Barry and wanted to protect the city on their own.

Cisco had always been so similar to the Barry he met at Starling City. So excited to know the Arrow, always eager to know how he did all the "cool" stuff and excited when the mission got tougher. He was basically Barry Version 2. Thank god there was Caitlin to ground both these boys who always had their heads in clouds. He somehow felt that most of the saves would have resulted in Barry getting seriously injured if it weren't for Caitlin.

But still to Oliver, Caitlin was hard to read initially. She was intelligent there was no denying it. She was one of the best doctors (she would probably kill him if she hears this) he had known. He knew her as Felicity's best friend, Barry's trusted partner, the one who he would be eternally grateful for saving Lyla's life and the only one who refers to his best friend as "Mr. Diggle". But as he got to know her better, he realized that Caitlin played his role in the Team Flash (Felicity's words not his). They had even actually been able to bond over this.

He had often caught her eyes more than once when he was about to roll his eyes at some stupid comment Cisco and Barry came up with. She like Oliver was familiar with the truth that as much as they were superheroes the reality could still catch up with them. Just like Barry and Felicity were so similar that it had once left him jealous of their easy camaraderie. Maybe that was one of the reasons why Oliver was rooting for Barry and Caitlin.

He could see how their friendship had begun to evolve. In some ways they both revealed more from their mere glances than their actual words. He had noticed how only Barry could get Caitlin to see reason. Being a scientist she had always demanded proof to anything far-fetched. But Barry being the impossible himself would explain patiently why it was possible and get through to her magically as if it was no big deal. What usually follows was Barry reveling in the success when she agrees giving him a tentative smile. But the times when Barry would be the proudest were when he makes her smile either with his stupidity or sensibility.

Barry never even tried to be subtle about these. Their hugs were something Oliver had been all too familiar with. The way all Caitlin wanted to do was shoulder his pain and worries and unburden him. And the way Barry relaxes immediately and immerses himself into her hug and bury in her hair to soothe him. Not to add their constant and repetitive conversation about his recklessness which reveals more about how Caitlin couldn't even imagine about losing Barry and how Barry use his puppy eyes and innocent face to his advantage. Though he hadn't shared it with anyone it always had amused Oliver the way Caitlin reprimands Barry but in the end how Barry always managed to make her smile.

They were so domestic that it was no longer funny. He knew that they believe they were fooling others by refusing to give in but the truth was that they were fooling no one except themselves. Oliver knew it was just a phase and that they would eventually be hit with the cold truth. And from what he observed the other day when Barry covered Caitlin with a quilt as she had fallen asleep near her computer and the way his face lingered near hers and stared as if he was enraptured, Oliver was quiet sure that day was not far enough.