elrhiarhodan

Title: You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: The Flash (2014)
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Barry Allen, Julian Albert, David Singh, Joe West, Cisco Ramon, Mention of Earth-2 Harrison Wells, Jesse Wells, Caitlin Snow, Iris West, Wally West, Eobard Thawne
Word Count: ~6000
Spoilers: All of Season Three, up to episode 3.03 - Magenta
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Summary: Julian Albert breaks about a dozen really big rules when he confronts Frankie Kane in the CCPD lobby and David Singh is almost ready to fire him. But he gives him a second chance - and Julian ends up on probation, reporting to Barry Allen. Something that he finds absolutely and utterly intolerable.

Or, Five Times Julian Albert's Humiliated Because of Barry Allen, and one time ... well, one time humiliation doesn't factor into it.

Or, a character study of Barry Allen, from the eyes of Julian Albert.

AUTHOR NOTES: There's a lot of murkiness about the timeline now. Supposedly Julian's been at the CCPD a year, but I have the feeling that more time has passed than just the few hours between Barry leaving Iris on the front porch and Eobard returning Barry to the "present". I'm probably wrong, but hey - this is what you get when you're writing in a fandom that plays fast and loose with time.

Also, as much as I love Julian, I have the feeling that he's pretty self-absorbed and completely uninterested in anyone else's life. He don't care about Barry until he finds that Barry's not who he's supposed to be.

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( Julian is on his way out to lunch and looking forward to a few minutes of life without listening to Barry Allen natter away like the moron he is. But he doesn't make it out of the CCPD lobby - half of which is roped off as workers struggle to reinstall the bronze frieze that came down, courtesy of the meta-human, Magenta - when he's diverted by none other than Captain Singh. )