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Star Labs. Post 3x16.

"What did you see, Barry?" HR was merely curious, but his question quieted the room.

Barry opened his mouth to speak but no words could properly describe his experience in the Speed Force. Iris shifted uncomfortably. She threw not so subtle glances of concern at Jesse and Wally over in the corner. She opened her mouth to interrupt. "Maybe Wally shouldn't be here..."

He looked up at his sister from his previously frozen stare at the floor. He said nothing and Jesse stood to guide him out of the room.

Barry watched Wally go, his face stricken with guilt. He looked exhausted, beaten down with loss. Jay had sacrificed himself and the time in the Speed Force had smacked Barry with a much needed sense of reality. He realized everyone else was still waiting for his response and he gauged the room quickly. HR fiddled with his drumsticks earnestly, completely unaware of the tension in the room. Cisco appeared restrained but Barry knew the curiosity was killing him. Joe hardly seemed present, his mind with his son. Iris stood by her father, expression indescribable. Caitlin and Julian stood together off to the side. It only occurred to Barry in that moment that there had been a strange chemistry between them of lately.

"The last time I was in the Speed Force, it came to me as my mom. This time it appeared to me as Eddie Thawne."

Iris' eyes widened and blurred with tears. Joe pulled his daughter into his side. Julian looked at Caitlin with a quizzical stare. "Iris'... ex-fiance. He sacrificed himself to save us. It's complicated." She whispered to him softly, her attention on Barry.

"I saw… what could have been…" Barry murmured, more to himself than to the room. "Caitlin, you were there. Not as the Speed Force. You had a baby… with Ronnie."

The scientist's mouth fell agape. Julian stared at her, obviously lost. "A baby? Why would Caitlin have a child?"
The room was dead silent and Julian's question went unanswered. Caitlin's struggles with love was a subject often left untouched. Between losing her husband twice and the next man she had feelings for ended up being an evil sadist, Caitlin had been through a lot. "I need some air." Caitlin rushed the words and almost ran from the room.
"I'll talk to her," Barry said.

"Let me do it." And just like that, Julian was gone, to chase after the girl and thaw her frozen heart.