The Day

Is Saved

(But Not All Is Well)

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the general idea you see here within this story. After last night's fairly awesome Flash episode, I just had to do something with it. Cause Christ was there a lot of feel punches to the gut! And yes naturally, this will be AU as you might could say this is kind of sort of a fix it.

As Cisco Ramon looked on at Harrison Wells with a tear running down his face as he knew then and there that he was about to die after finding out the other man's secrets. He found himself wishing for a lot of things he could have done one last time. Like seeing his family again despite all the issues they were having. "I am sorry Cisco, but to me... You've been dead to me for centuries." The older man spoke with little to no emotion to be found in his voice now.

But before he could use his vibrating hand to kill Cisco, he was suddenly struck hard in the back of the head. Crumbling to the ground like a puppet who's strings had been cut with Cisco looking down at him in shock before looking back up to see who his surprising savior is. The sight of Caitlin with a metal pipe in her hand both surprised and relieved him. And he could tell she was in a state of shock at having knocked out their long time mentor who was apparently a huge whack job. "Oh! Oh my God! I can't believe I did that!"

But before she could freak out further, Cisco ran over to her and grabbed her by the shoulders and looked her in the eyes. "Caitlin, you did what you had too! If you hadn't, I would be dead!" He told her seriously. Which gained him a nod in return, though he could see that tears were welling up in her eyes at their mentor's betrayal. And he could only imagine how Barry was going to feel when he found out the truth.

"Come on, let's get him into a containment unit before he wakes up." Caitlin nodded again and the two rushed to grab the man and then dragged him to where he would stay contained. And where he would hopefully stay for a good long while too.

After ten minutes of doing just that, it was then that Caitlin got a call from Barry and tried to help him with a solution to the tidal wave that was currently headed towards Central City as Cisco was still ensuring that Wells wasn't going to get out. "More problems huh?" Cisco asked as he came up to her after finishing up what he was doing.

Caitlin sighed before answering him. "Oh yeah, a very big one if Barry isn't able to stop Mardon's wave." Cisco looked at her with a worried look in his eyes and hoped with everything in him that Barry would succeed.

At The Beach...

As Iris looked on at the oncoming Tidal Wave that quite frankly just shouldn't be possible. She was torn between fear, anger, happiness, and hope. Fear that Barry would fail and that many would die. Anger for him hiding the truth from her about his being the Flash. Happiness that he did in fact still love her and had given her one of the most exhillarating kisses she'd ever had in her life. And finally the hope she was feeling was that he would indeed succeed in whatever it was that he was doing and then save her dad. A news chopper could be seen within the air reporting the oncoming wave while those who had yet to run away in fear looked on from all around Iris.

Barry could even be heard screaming loudly as he exerted himself to speeds he'd yet to have even reached just yet. And in the blink of an eye, he was gone and seeing himself as he ran by the night before. Which explained so much now for him as he kept on going as he turned into another direction to keep going and found himself back at the beach to continue his back and forth run to stop Mardon's wave. Figuring that he'd finally figured out how he was going to go back into time and save his mom's life. And with one final scream as he continued to push, the wave came crashing into his work and failed to go further. Forcing it to pretty much come apart. Barry fell to his knees in exhaustion, completely unaware of the cheers or even the news chopper in the air above.

And while he just wanted to stay there on his knees, he knew he had to go and rescue Joe. Forcing himself up, he took off quickly in search of Joe. And thankfully it didn't take him long to do so. Striking Mardon in the jaw with a very hard punch that would knock him out. He then worked to free Joe and carefully picked up the man and hauled butt back to where he'd been previously at the beach. Propping his surrogate father against the cement walling that helped to separate the car lot and the beach, Barry then collapsed on to his own back near Joe as he also pulled back the hood. Now completely exhausted and in need of something to help give him energy. But unfortunately his bag was too far away to reach for him right now.

Iris quickly came running over to her dad and Barry to see how they were with tears coming down her face. Happy to be alive and that she had her father back. "I... Iris... Get... my bag..." She could barely hear Barry due to how exhausted he sounded but quickly rushed to get it and brought it over to him.

Getting to her knees near Barry with the bag in hand. "What do you need this for Bear?" Wondering why he wasn't asking to get an ambulance called instead. As she could tell her father was in serious need of it due to how his leg looked and Barry's own speed seemed to be against him at the moment too.

"Calorie Bars... Cisco made them... Helps me keep... Energy.." He managed to get out.

She reached into it and pulled out a bar while wondering just how this could possibly help him out. Unaware at the moment that her dad was looking at the two with a slight smile on his face, even if a part of him wasn't too happy that his baby girl now knew the truth about Barry. He'd be sure to have a word with the boy soon about that but for now trusted his son to have a damn good reason for telling her. Barry weakly grabbed the bar from Iris as she handed it to him after she unwrapped some of it. Biting down on it and wincing a little from the taste, he began to eat on the bar a piece at a time so that he could slowly build his strength back up.

"Ugh... Cisco seriously needs to improve the taste on these things." He grumbled, causing Joe to chuckle which ended up with him groaning a little from the pain he was in. Causing Iris to rush around to her father's side.

"Hey now babygirl, I'm alright. I promise, once I get checked out at the hospital I'll be good as new." Well as good as can be anyway due to how his leg was.

Sirens could be heard in the near distance, indicating that either someone had called it in or that they somehow knew where they were. Barry looking up at just the right time showed him that a news chopper was likely why. "I need to get out of here, if Eddie's along for the ride he might want to still arrest me."

Iris wanted to protest that notion and maybe even slap him as she was still feeling angry with Barry for having kept such an important thing from her. But knew this wasn't the right time or place for that confrontation. Joe only nodded at his son's words. "Right, good plan."

After struggling to get up and Irish rushing around yet again to help him up. He was finally on his feet and looking into her eyes. "Again, this is never how I intended for you to find out." He told her in full sincerity.

"I know Bear, I know." Was all she could say, and then before she knew it. He and the bag was gone, leaving her and her father where they were as an ambulance and several police cars were pulling in. Not even realizing that many across the city were celebrating over the fact that the Flash had saved all their lives. Or that the news chopper had even managed to see their faces.

Author's Notes: And that is that! I may continue this in the near future if there is enough demand for it. However if it is continued, I don't expect it to be a very long series. Maybe just a few chapters and then that'd be it. And Jesus, poor Cisco! I wanted to start raging over what happened! Hope you guys enjoyed! And now... For tonight's Arrow! R and R!