"All right kids, the busses are just leaving the station in Presque Isle, which means we have less than 1.5 hours till Summer officially begins!"

Iris looked up from her phone mid text. "Your spy network in action, huh, Dad?" she asked with a playful smile.

"More like Sheriff Lance," Barry chuckled, plowing through his third blueberry glazed potato donut on the morning.

"Why would the Sheriff care about Camp busses?" Jesse Wells asked, clearly curious.

Wally grinned at her. "The Sheriff's daughters are campers and Dad is a deputy in the off season."

For 15 years, Joe West had run Camp Superflarrow, one of the Northeast's many summer camps. He had been a police in Central City, but an on the job injury had made him rethink his career path. He and his family had moved to rural Maine, where he joined the Aroostook County Sheriff's Department and ran Camp Superflarrow in the summers.

At first, it had just been Joe, Francine and Iris, but soon Wally had been born. Country living turned out not to be what Francine wanted, so she left not long after that. A few years later, Joe adopted Barry, who had been Iris's best friend since they first day they met and had some family issues, completing their little family.

They, and the camp, flourished and by the time the kids were in their teens, Joe decided to expand the camp's summer programs. As the renovations we about to get underway, Joe had heard about an… incident at a Camp STAR a few towns over. He knew Harrison Wells, all the local camp owners were aware of each other, and found out that there had been an explosion in one of STAR's Science building that had enough of an impact to render the camp unable to re-open. As Joe would have been devastated if something happened to Superflarrow, he had reached out to Wells.

After a few meetings, they had decided to merge their camps. So far, the summer was looking to be the biggest season either camp had ever seen.

"Well, I can't wait to start!" Jesse enthused with a bright grin that made Wally beam at her. "I actually get to stay in a cabin this year."

Her father frowned over his coffee. "Honey, you can always stay at the house, in your own room…."

Wells had a house built on camp grounds not far from Joe's, as both families now lived there in the off season. Unlike Joe, Wells clearly didn't know it was futile to expect the kids to stay in their houses when all their friends were in nearby cabins. He understood the impulse though, especially now that Iris was dating Eddie, a local boy who lived in town and would probably be arriving soon, before the busses.

The boy was always around. He was a good kid, Joe thought, but his relationship with Iris had been slightly less worrying before he'd had a growth spurt and hit the gym.

"Not happening, Dad," Jesse said gleefully. "I'm a Counselor-In-Training this year, remember?"

Joe had always run his camp simply, a few adults in positions of authority while most of the counselors were older teens who had been campers at one point. He, J'onn J'onzz (Camp Activities Director), Gideon (their on-site EMT) and Rip Hunter (Head Counselor) had been the only 18+ employees for the past few years. Wells had brought his Martin Stein (Science Director), Clarissa Stein (Nurse), Donna Smoak (who would be running the front office), C.C. Jitters (Chef) and Lex Luthor (who would be Co-Head Counselor with Rip), as well as the any specialists who would be coming in through the summers to give lectures.

To be honest, it was probably going to take all of them a little time to get used to this new set up, but it would give the campers a broader experience. Barry had been over the moon to be able to chat with Wells and Stein about all manner of scientific interests and Wally was interested in the scheduled engineering lectures, so Joe already knew this was going to be good for them.

"So, what are we waiting for?" Joe asked and the answering grins told him the kids were way ahead of them. "Let's get out there and welcome summer."