you know im still thinking about smth q said last week about law student barry and i can’t stop thinking about like. public defender barry allen who is so deeply insistent that everyone deserves a right to a fair trial and to have someone in their corner even when the whole system is working against them, and who also maybe chose this career as a little bit of a fuck you to joe, bc half the time the people that barry is defending are people joe arrested, so barry can sit and stare him down across the table in the interrogation room bc maybe he couldn’t prove his father’s innocence, but he can make damn sure that no one else gets wrongly convicted bc joe made the wrong judgement call. aka, as we know, barry has daddy issues and he’s gonna make them everyone else’s problem. (also i maintain that they threw away a GOLDMINE of interesting content in s1 and beyond by not having barry be way more angry and bitter about everyone not believing him about henry being innocent; he had such a chip on his shoulder in the pilot and then they IMMEDIATELY abandoned it and i’m still mad about it. PLS IT WOULD HAVE CREATED SUCH GOOD CONFLICT)

so anyway. i’m just thinking about len being arrested and being told he has the right to a lawyer, and len is like ‘pass’, bc he did it and if anyone asks, he’ll just admit to it. he doesn’t give a fuck. he could get out of jail literally whenever he wants and they all know it, they’re all just pretending not to. if he even lets them get him to iron heights it’ll be bc he’s in an unusually tolerant mood. 

so they assign him a lawyer and he’s waiting in detainment when he hears the door open. len’s ready to spend an afternoon making some overworked lawyer’s life a misery, and maybe steal their wallet while he’s at it, mouth already open to deliver some sarcastic remark... and then he claps eyes on barry allen, out of breath bc he’s chronically late, practically dropping the huge pile of folders and case notes that he’s juggling alongside a cup of jitters coffee that’s almost certainly cold and definitely half spilled on the sidewalk outside, and len takes one look at him and is immediately like “everybody get the fuck out, i need to talk to my lawyer in private. preferably over dinner but coffee will do in a pinch. fuck you, i know my rights”