Warning for a little Iris bashing. Savitar isn't too found of her. If that's going to bother you, then click off this fic right now.
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Savitar was stunned.
He stared down at Barry Allen's dead body in front of him. He didn't think he'd actually do it, but when Barry threatened to kill himself in an effort to save Iris West's life from him, he did it.
To Savitar's surprise and delight, he was right. The rules of time travel were no longer applying to him, the same way they weren't applying to Thawne. He didn't just fade out of existence the moment his younger self murdered himself with a hand phased through his heart.
Then, something hit him. He was the only Barry Allen left now. His younger self was dead, he would never live to make time remnants. Somehow, he still existed, at least for now, and there was no other Barry Allen out there. He didn't need to kill Iris West, though honestly a part of him wanted to after all the torment that woman put him through. He didn't need to unleash his wrath on Team Flash, but he honestly wanted to do that, too. They may not have done it in this timeline, but Savitar remembered everything they did to him. He wanted to make them feel the pain he felt. The memory of their fists hitting him, of the way he was left to writhe in pain without medical assistance when he was hurt in the field—he was disposable, so why would they ever help him when they wanted the other Barry to come back?—they way it felt when the dart hit his back, when he woke up on a cold table in a dark room, the scalpel sliding down his skin, tearing through it and letting blood leak out.
Savitar let out a shudder of horror at the memories.
No, he would still make Team Flash pay. They deserved it.
Savitar got back inside his suit and scooped up Barry Allens' dead body. He was going to start with this. He was going to show Team Flash what had become of their hero, of their Barry, the one they would choose over him. Ironically, he knew that this Barry was destined to become him just as much as he was destined to become 2024 Flash, but he also knew he would have been chosen by Team Flash over him if they were faced with the choice. Why choose the damaged time remnant when they had the less damaged "real" Barry?
Savitar sped back to STAR Labs, flashing into the cortex where he stood before the stunned Team Flash: Caitlin, Cisco, Joe, Iris, Wally, H.R., Julian… all of them there, all of them seeing him, and all of them seeing their dead hero.
Iris let out the most overdramatic scream Savitar ever heard. He wanted to both roll his eyes and plug his ears, grateful that he wasn't given super senses.
He dropped Barry's lifeless body to the ground with a sickening crack.
Caitlin sprang to her feet instantly, running toward Barry despite the fact that Savitar was right there. She didn't seem to care that he held a great threat to her. She crouched beside Barry anyway, her eyes taking in the damage as they filled with tears.
"No," her voice was small and sorrowful.
Savitar almost felt bad. Caitlin Snow always eventually became Killer Frost and joined him. She was the only one who never betrayed him. And yet, right now she was still Caitlin, she was still against him, and surely, she thought he killed Barry even though Barry killed himself. Savitar really had nothing to be sorry for. Barry killed himself in an effort to save Iris, the ungrateful woman he deluded himself into loving. That was his choice, not Savitar's. Savitar only ever wanted to live.
He wasn't going to apologize for existing.
"Your hero is dead," he said in a distorted, vibrating voice.
Joe whipped out his gun and aimed it at him.
"Careful," Savitar almost laughed. "Those bullets will only be a waste. They will ricochet off me and possibly hit all of you. Do you want more of your little team to die, Detective West?"
Joe shakily lowered the gun, his eyes filled with rage and tears.
Iris was still sobbing dramatically, her cries seeming so exaggerated Savitar wondered if they might be fake.
Cisco was staring in horror, tears welling in his eyes, as were Julian and H.R. Of course, they'd feel bad if this Barry died, despite the way they had all treated him in the past. And of course, they'd never extended Savitar the same courtesy. Once upon a time, he was just as much Barry as the dead one on the ground. But they never saw it that way. They would never even call him by his name. He was simply 'Time Remnant' to them.
"This changes nothing," Savitar said. "None of you have escaped my wrath. One has still fallen, one will still betray, and one will still suffer a fate far worse than death. And this will bring about your everlasting damnation. All of you."
Without another word, Savitar sped out of the labs.
He realized now, that while his prophecy had originally referred to Iris West as the one to fall, Caitlin Snow as the one to betray, and Wally West to suffer the fate worse than death, that this prophecy actually applied to Barry Allen.
Barry Allen fell. Once racing around the magnetar and now once when he killed himself.
He betrayed them when he became Savitar.
And he suffered a fate worse than death upon entering the speed force.
When he reached his lair, he realized with a jolt that there was one other the prophecy also could have referred to: Caitlin Snow.
Caitlin Snow died and was resuscitated to become Killer Frost.
Caitlin Snow betrayed Team Flash when she became Killer Frost.
And she suffered a fate worse than death when she was imprisoned both in Iron Heights and in her own mind as her thoughts were plagued with darkness same as his.
They really were quite the pair.
However, Savitar didn't know if any of that would still happen. His younger self changed things when he decided to ram a vibrating hand through his chest. None of Team Flash were going to harm his time remnant self in the future. Iris West was not going to die in the same manner, perhaps not even at all. Death was too kind for any of them.
Would Caitlin Snow become Killer Frost? And if she didn't, would she reject him the way Team Flash did if she ever found out.
Savitar swallowed hard. He didn't want to know what she would do, what any of them would do if they discovered who he really was. They would surely reject him again, and the off chance that they might want him back was only more upsetting. He would be a second choice, surrounded by people who had harmed him and are now expecting him to love them again. But surely they wouldn't do that. They wouldn't see him as real; they never did. They would blame him for the death of their Barry and then he would unleash his wrath upon them all.
AN: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! It was hard to kill any version of Barry because I just love him so much, but I had to do it in order to write this idea. I've had this idea for a while, because I always wondered what would happen if Barry did kill himself in an effort to save Iris, leaving Savitar as the only Barry left considering time travel allows the Thawne that literally faded out of existence at the end of season one to exist for the Crisis On Earth X crossover. I also always wondered how Caitlin would react if she was still Caitlin and found out Savitar was Barry. If she was so quick to join him as Killer Frost, (and that was back when Killer Frost was portrayed solely as dark!Caitlin, seeing as Caitlin remembered everything Killer Frost did, meaning she wasn't an alterego like the Hulk as she is in season four. I really don't like that the writers retconned Killer Frost into an alterego the way they did. I wanted it to just be dark!Caitlin), then surely Caitlin would have sympathy for Savitar-Barry. I can't see her rejecting him the way the others did, which is probably why the writers had her become Killer Frost and join him instead, as that it wouldn't make sense for Caitlin's character, a loving doctor who I honestly believe loves Barry Allen and has since 1x07 because the way she stepped toward him after he finished describing how much he loves being the Flash to her made it look like she was about to kiss him.
So, this idea where Caitlin was still Caitlin when Barry discovered Savitar's identity and Barry actually ended his life to try to save Iris was born. This is sort of Snowbarry. I guess it would be called Savisnow.
Please leave me a review and let me know what you think!
-SnowbarryLoverForever
