Hey guys! I'm a huge Flash fan and have decided to do a fic! Whoo! It was just a quick idea, so I would greatly appreciate it if I got some feedback on whether or not I should continue or not! Hope you guys enjoy!
*don't own any of these characters, although I wish I did, except Bailey of course! :)*
Earth 2
2 years earlier
"I'm sure your father will be here soon." My mother said with a forced smile.
"You don't have to lie mom, he has more important things to tend to at the moment-" I paused, taking in a few well needed breaths before continuing,
"besides, the whole world is watching him, this is the day he's been waiting for, my dying shouldn't get in the way of that." My mother made a disgusted face, causing the small age lines around her eyes to show.
"You are NOT dying!" She snapped as the tears began to gloss over her tired eyes. A small laugh escaped my lips before I had time to catch it. How could she still refuse to see the truth? After the last five months of being confined to this damn hospital bed, after ten different doctors giving the same exact answers, after looking at me wither away slowly all this time, how could she still not see?
"How can this still be a joke to you Bailey?!" The tears were falling now, pouring. She stood from her place on the small beige couch she had been sleeping on every day since I was admitted here.
"Cancer isn't a joke, your life isn't a joke!" She was sobbing uncontrollably now, but I wasn't certain how to comfort her. She was right after all, but what else was I supposed to do? The cancer had spread throughout my body, there wasn't anything else to do. Of course it wasn't fair, I was only 25 years old and soon my life would be over, gone, without much to show for it. How else was I supposed to react!? Yes I was afraid, terrified, but there was nothing else to do now, nothing but wait for the end. I had finally accepted that, but my parents were still in denial.
"Mom-" The air suddenly stung my lungs with every inhaling breath, burning through them rapidly like a wild fire. My chest began to feel unbearably heavy, as if a ton of bricks had been slammed into me. My body was going into shock.
"Bailey!?" I heard my mom yell, as the monitors surrounding me began to sound simultaneously. I could feel my body begin to convulse, my head felt as if it were going to explode, pounding like the beat of a drum, boom, boom, boom! Harmonizing with the sudden sound of footsteps entering the room frantically. This is it. I thought. This is the end.
"Harrison!" I heard my mother sob, "You need to get here now! I don't think she's going to make it much longer!"
The room suddenly fell silent, no more hysteric chatter from the doctors and nurses, no more sobbing from my mother, it was almost peaceful. The room grew dark around me, I could see nothing but the bright, blinding light, felt nothing but the rumbling of the hospital walls, and then just, nothing.
2 year later..
"He's not coming, we should just go." Jay paced back and forth on the rooftop, like a caged animal waiting for its death.
"He'll be here" I step in front of him and place a hand gently on his shoulder, willing him to stop.
"I don't feel comfortable doing this, using you." He looks down at me, there's an intensity in his dark green eyes that I recognize as fear, worry even.
"And I don't feel comfortable with an overpowered psycho running around."
"You can thank your father for that one." He grumbles as he walks passed me to stand near the ledge, gazing out into the brightly lit city scape.
"He's also kind of the reason I'm alive too, or is that irrelevant?"
"He's also the reason your mothers' dead too, or is that irrelevant?" He snaps. There's a silence between us for a moment before he takes a deep sigh,
"Sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
"Look, I'm not the biggest fan of my father either, but whether or not you want to admit it, he gave us both second chances at life. You're always saying it wasn't his place to mess with fate, but what if this is our fate?" I pause, waiting for his reply, but he doesn't give me one, he just stands silently, still overlooking the city.
"You once told me that being the Flash gave you a purpose you thought you could never have."
"That was before."
"Before what? Before Zoom? Before things got too hard to handle?"
"I'm afraid Bailey! When will you see that I'm just a coward? When will anyone see?"
Before I could reply, a sudden gust of air whisked around me, accompanied by a blue streak of light. I cold chill ran up my spin, he was here.
"How dim of you to think no one sees your cowardice." Zoom's hot heath hit the back of my neck, and his hands slid slowly around my shoulders, grasping them tightly. I stood motionless, fear gripping every part of me. He could kill me right now in an instant if he wanted, but he wouldn't, I was too valuable a hostage. Jay spun around, his eyes wide with terror. I could see the immediate regret of ever going along with such a crazy plan cross his face.
"Let her go Zoom, she's done nothing."
"But her daddy has."
Zoom's hands clasped my shoulders tighter, causing me to wince.
"Don't hurt her!" Jay reacts, taking a small step forward.
"Just do it Jay! You can beat him, I know you can!"
Zoom chuckled sadistically in my ear, sounding more like a demon than a man. "
She believes in you, which is a mistake she will soon learn to regret. But you should be thanking me, because two of your wishes are soon to come true. After tonight the whole city will see you for what you truly are, a coward, and Harrison Wells will finally pay for what he's done."
Before I have time to comprehend what Zoom was saying, I'm being slung over the side of the ledge. I try to scream but no sound seems to escape me. "
Bailey!" I hear Jay yell, I see his streak of red light running down the side of the building after me, but he's intercepted by Zoom, slamming him into a nearby window. He won't make it to save me, I'm going to die, again. I close my eyes, I don't want to see what happens next. Just when I can feel the impact drawing near, there's a loud rumble in the sky, and I'm suddenly not moving downward anymore, but being pulled upward. I open my eyes to see a huge black hole drawing nearer to me.
"Jay!" I finally get out, before I'm sucked inside.
Earth One
"Where do you think she came from?" I hear an unfamiliar voice.
"I don't know man, but she just came flying out of that thing, it was crazy awesome!"
I open my eyes to see three people staring back at me in awe.
"Were am I?" I ask, looking down at the hospital bed I was occupying, and a sudden burst of panic fills me.
"Am I in the hospital? Where's Jay? Is he okay? I have to get to my father I-"
"Wow there, slow down," One of them says, stepping closer towards me. He was about my age, tall and slender, with a warming smile that made me feel safe.
"I'm Barry Allen, these are my colleagues, Cisco Ramon and Caitlyn Snow." The pair gave me a small wave.
"You're not in a hospital but you do have a slight concussion." Caitlyn adds, "But we are more than equipped to take care of you here, until everything is resolved of course."
"Where is here exactly?" I say, remembering the black hole.
"S.T.A.R Labs, in Central City." She smiles. A feeling of relief rushes through me. I was safe.
"Has anyone heard of any Flash sightings recently?" Barry looks at me quizzically.
"Uh-ha, what do you mean exactly?"
"I mean has anyone seen the Flash?" The trio look at each other, then back at me like I'm a crazy person. I let out a sigh.
"Look, I work with the Flash, okay, and last night before that thing sucked me into it, he and I were fighting Zoom, and then I ended up here, I just want to know if he's okay."
"I think she may have hit her head just a tiny bit harder than you think Caitlyn." Cisco whispers, causing the brunette to frantically flip through the scans she's holding.
"What did you say your name was?" Barry asks in a concerned tone.
"Bailey," I huff, "Bailey Wells."
Barry's eyes widen with confusion and surprise at my words, Caitlyn lets the scans slowly slip from her grasp as she stands, staring at me in shock.
"Uh-you wouldn't I don't know, happen to be related to a Harrison Wells, by any chance..would you?" Cisco finally speaks.
"Yeah." I say, frustration evident in my tone. "He's my father, and if we are in S.T.A.R. Labs then he's sort of your boss, and I'd like to speak with him if you crazy people don't mind!"
"Harrison Wells is dead!" Barry says with a growl. "And he didn't have a daughter, so I'll ask you again, who are you?"
"What is wrong with you people!?" I yell, tears beginning to well up in my eyes. Of course he has a daughter! I'm his daughter! And he can't be dead! Because if he's dead that means Zoom got to him..and..and..that means..oh god that means Jays gone too!" I can't hold the tears back any longer, this is all my fault, I caused this, if I would have just listened to Jay then they would still be alive. This is all my fault.
"Barry," I hear Cisco say through my uncontrollable sobs. "I think she's telling the truth."
"How can you say that? Of course she isn't, we all know Wells is dead, and he definitely didn't have a daughter." Barry snaps.
"Yeah, here maybe, but where she comes from.." Cisco pauses for a moment looking for the right words to say.
"What if, the anomaly opened up a portal to and alternate timeline, an alternate Earth even, I mean it's not the craziest thing that's happened, and if you can go back and forth through time, this could certainly be a possibility."
Barry looks at Cisco, then back at me, seemingly contemplating his theory. Could his theory be true? I think to myself, could this be an alternate Earth? If that's the case then Jay and my father may be okay after all.
"I want to know everything." Barry finally says, "Everything about you, your father, and this Zoom guy you keep mentioning, and I want the truth."
I nod my head in agreement, and wipe the tears from my face.
"I'm Bailey Wells, my father is Harrison Wells, and he founded S.T.A.R Labs, along with my mother, Tess. Together they had been working on a clean energy device that they hoped would be able to power all of Central City-"
"The particle accelerator" Barry murmurs.
"Yes. I worked for the Central City Police Department as their lead Forensic Scientist, but then I-I got sick, cancer. My mom ended up quitting to take care of me but, my father was determined to finish. He worked day and night, I barely ever saw him. The cancer ended up getting worse, it had spread throughout my body, I was dying that night, the night it exploded, the last memory I have is of how cold and numb my body felt."
"You don't look like you're dying," Barry starts, "which means-"
"It healed you." Caitlyn says in disbelief. "Yes," I confirm, "But it also changed me."
"You're a meta-human." Cisco blurts.
"Yes but, nothing fancy. May I?" I ask, gesturing towards a small cut on Barry's face, it was almost fully healed but it would do.
"Um..sure." He says hesitantly.
I reach up slowly and place my hand gently over his face. I couldn't help but notice how soft his skin was underneath my fingertips, but that was neither here nor there. Exhaling slowly I concentrate on the cut. The familiar warmth begins to emit from my fingertips, radiating through Barry's face.
"There." I say with an accomplished smile.
Barry quickly moves his hand to his face, rubbing the tips of his fingers over his cheek where the cut had been.
"It's gone." He looks at me in amazement. "You can heal."
"Like I said, nothing fancy."
"Nothing fancy? Are you crazy?! Do you know what this could mean for modern medicine? You, you can heal! Do you know how many lives you can save just by a touch of your hand!?"
"Caitlyn." Barry says, clearing his throat.
"Sorry." She says sheepishly. "Go on."
"I was kept in the hospital for further testing after my miraculous cure from cancer, which is when I met Jay. He was put in the bed next to mine, he was in a coma. One day he started going into shock, convulsing, I rushed over to help but when I touched him I felt this overwhelming warmth radiate throughout my hand, and I could feel every cell in his body, I had never felt anything like it before. He stopped convulsing, his vital signs went back to normal, and then he just, woke up. We became good friends after that, he was convinced I was some guardian angel or something." I laughed at the memory. "That is until he found out about what he could do."
"Jay's the Flash." Says Cisco.
"Yes. When the particle accelerator exploded, it created metas like Jay and I, and then, it created ones like Zoom."
"Who is this Zoom?" Barry asks
"He's just a man, a speedster, like Jay, but, he's a monster, a nightmare you can't wake up from. He killed my mother, to send some sort of message to my father. Jay and I have been trying to stop him for over a year now, but, he's just too fast."
"I'm sorry." Barry says solemnly. "I know what getting your mother ripped away from you like that feels like." He lets out a sigh. "You see here, in this world, or whatever it is, your father, or well this Earth's Harrison Wells, was a monster. He was a speedster too, called the Reverse Flash, and he murdered my mother."
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't know. My father may be a jackass who used the particle accelerator as a cash out but, he's not a murderer." A thought crosses my mind. "What a minute, if there was another version of my father here, and he created the particle accelerator then that means there's another Jay here too."
"Jay's not here, at least, the Jay you know." Barry says, scratching the back of his head nervously.
"How do you know?"
"Because here, Jay's not the Flash, I am."
In an instant he was gone and back again, just as quickly, dressed in a red leather suite with the familiar lightning bolt insignia embroidered onto his chest.
"Holy crap I just realized something!" Cisco blurts. "She's the Earth 2 version of you Barry! By the way it's called Earth 2 now." Barry and Caitlyn both release a sigh, as if they were used to all of this by now. "Just think about it! Barry, Bailey, both forensic scientists, both affected by the particle accelerator, both your mother's tragically murdered by evil speedsters!" Cisco clasps his hands to his face in overly enthusiastic disbelief. "Oh my god this is so crazy!"
I can't help but laugh. "Cisco?" Barry smiles, placing a hand onto the dark haired boys shoulder,"Can we just, take it down a notch?"
"Right," he says clearing his throat and straightening his posture. "sorry."
"Well until we can stabilize the anomaly to get her back home, she'll need a place to stay." Caitlyn adds.
"She can stay with Joe and me in Iris's old room," Barry suggests. "You'll be safe there incase this Zoom decides to come after you."
"Thank you," I smile. "No problem, and there maaay just be an opening at the CCPD for a forensic scientist, if you're up for it." He smiles warmly back at me. I let out a small laugh, "sounds great."