Authors Note: This is the first time I have ever written anything, so I kept it short. I do have more to add if you all like it.

Enjoy!

Chapter 1.

3 weeks have gone by since Caitlin had left the team to find herself, since Barry had entered the speed force and they put HR in the ground. What was left of the team was still trying to fix up STAR labs from the latest explosion. Iris was tired of eating fast food in between STAR labs and trying to keep her job. Barry had told her to hold on and keep running. She was trying, trying so hard. But for tonight she wanted a break; to go out and be waited on, if only for a few hours.

Iris walked in the cortex and found Cisco and Julian busy working. She looked at Cisco. He looked lost. He had been distant since Barry left; he lost both his best friends in one day, as well as HR. Cisco would never admit to liking HR but he really did. But then there was Julian, he looked awful. Hair not cut and a mess, eyes with dark circles like he had not been sleeping. He looked thinner then he had before, "Was that even possible?" she thought to herself. She had never really talked much to him, but if she was going to lead the team it was time she started. She walked over to him and touched him on the shoulder.

"You're not sleeping are you?" Iris whispered.

"I sleep." Julian retorted. After a moment he looked at Iris and added "Okay, not well."

"I think we all could use a break. Don't you? How about we all walk down to that nice steak house a few blocks away for dinner?" Iris said to him and Cisco.

Cisco stood up and thought "Oh,no." But said nothing, of course Iris didn't know. How could she. Quickly he tried to change the venue, "How about Chinese, instead?"

Iris looked to Julian for his opinion. He was frozen in place, staring straight ahead; lost in thought.

Iris asked "Julian what's wrong?"

"Sorry, I'm not hungry." Julian stammered, as he practically ran from the room.

Iris looked at Cisco, "What did I say?"

"Julian took Caitlin to that steak house on their first date." Cisco explained.

Iris felt awful, "I didn't know."

"How could you? You were a little busy. Besides they had decided to take things slowly after everything that Caitlin has been though the past 2 years. Along with all that was going on, I just don't think Julian's heart ever got the message."

Iris found Julian in the lab he and Caitlin had shared. He was sitting at his work station staring at his phone, a picture of Caitlin the day they went to Gorilla City on it. "She looks happy there."

Julian turned his phone off. "We were on a date."

"I am so sorry Julian, I know how much you miss her. She will come back. I am sure she will."

"It's all my fault Iris. Perhaps if I had not joined the team, had worked harder on finding a cure or been a better doctor." Julian begin crying. He felt like a school boy, not a man. All he seemed to do lately was cry.

"It's hardly all your fault Julian." Iris tried to console him. "You did find a cure. She chose not to use it. Besides you never expected or planned on being a trauma surgeon. I think you did remarkably well."

"But her necklace!" he protested.

Iris cut him off, "Any one of us would have done the some thing being faced with that. You saved her life."

"I was being selfish Iris, not heroic."

"And who could blame you. You're in love with her."

"Yes, well she made it quit clear, not once but twice, that she does not love me. Perhaps my father is right and it is time for me to stop playing American, go home and reclaim my title. I can hear him now telling me how no woman in her right mind would want a complete sod like me with out it." Julian gave Iris a nervous smile, "Maybe it is time for young Lord Albert to go home."

Iris placed both hands on his shoulders and turned his chair around to face her. "You listen to me, Lord Albert! First of all your father is wrong you do not need a title to make someone want you. I have no idea what a sod is, but I am sure you are not one!" Julian let out a small soft chuckle.

Iris continued "Second, Caitlin does love you. That day in the hall was just Frost being mean. At the cemetery she never said that she didn't love you, just that she needed time."

Iris walked over to Caitlin's work station. "All you have to do is look around. Her digital frame, full of pictures of you. The scarf you lent her when it was cold, still hanging on the back of her chair. The only card on display, the Valentine you sent from England, and look at her notebook." She picked one up and took it over to him. "When she is working out a problem, she doodles. Open it."

Julian took the book and reluctantly opened it up. On the first page in the upper right hand corner was his name with little hearts all around it. On the next page just a heart in the middle, formulas all over the page, but a J in the middle of the heart. He found similar things on the next few pages, but on the 7th page he stopped, staring at the only thing written on the page, "I love Julian." He felt his heart pounding and impossibly he cried even harder.

Iris looked at the page, "I think that says it all." she told him. "Julian, we will set everything right. I promise. We will help Wally find his place; Cisco and Gypsy will figure out a way around the road blocks in front of them. We will get Barry out of the speed force, and Caitlin will find her way back to you. I am not saying it will be fast. It may take weeks, months or longer. I am not saying it will be easy. There will be challenges and mountains to overcome and climb. At times it may seem impossible, but we will come out of this."

Julian closed the book and put it on his desk. He wiped his face and stood up. "I think Chinese sounds great." Together they went to find Cisco and Harry. As they walked past the steak house, Julian stopped to take a picture. He sent it as a text to Caitlin, with the words "Wish you were here". As he caught up with the group he told Cisco, "I might as well take a chance and see what happens."

I know this was not really Snowbert, mostly just Julian and may have been out of character for Iris, but it felt right having her talk to him rather then Cisco. What do you think?