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Chapter 1: New Co-worker, New Town

Central City

"West you'll be the one to show the new girl around" His white haired boss told him sharply. The boy in question resisted the urge to groan. He didn't want to show around another new girl who was just going to try to flirt with him. The attention was nice, but come on! Not while he is trying to do his job. Well his day job anyway, as Flash on the other hand… well that was just one of the perks of being a superhero.

"Of course sir" he said instead, while inwardly cringing. "When is she coming in?"

"Tomorrow morning 9:15" His boss told him. "Her name is Elizabeth Channing, she just moved here about two weeks ago, from Gotham"

Wally nodded though inside he cringed. – Gotham? The place where Batman hung out when he wasn't in the Watch tower? Well this was just getting better and better. Most people who worked in the police force there usually left Gotham frightened and jumpy.

Not that Central didn't have their fair share of costume baddies oh no in fact West still had the burn marks from Heatwave on his shoulder. Yet they weren't as bad or as crazy as Gotham's baddies tended to be.

Wally then frowned. Channing? That sounded almost like- Nah couldn't be, she wasn't the type to pursue forensics. She was too shy, too quiet. Normally girls like her would prefer botany or being a librarian.

Wally shook his head. He shouldn't be thinking of her he hadn't thought of her at all during high school, and had only spoken to her when they were paired that one time for a class project. Yet now that he thought about it… no it was in the past. No point in dwelling on it anymore.

Unfortunately he was going to regret that. Because where Liz Channing was concerned the past was not fleeting, it followed her wherever she went. No matter how far she and her sister ran it always followed her, that's why she moved back to Central, it was so she could confront her past, and hope for some final release.

Lizzie sighed at her little 11 year old sister. They had moved here from Gotham only two weeks before. Unfortunately her little sister didn't like the idea of going back to a place that held so much suffering for her older sister. Her younger sister remembered very little of what happened because she was so young. Only about four years old when they had finally packed their bags and left town. Where they headed to Gotham. The increasing crime rate meant that housing pricing was down – it was not a fun experience almost going head to head with the Joker and Harley Quinn on more than one occasion, but they made due.

Lizzie had struggled caring for a four year old. Luckily she was old enough to be in Kindergarten meaning that at least for a couple of days she could go to Gotham university- having earned a scholarship to study Forensics at the elite Gotham University. Unfortunately she still had to buy food, so she was forced to work out with the headmaster of the University how she could fit a job and caring for a four year old into her University schedule.

The headmaster had been helpful and very kind. She had even offered to babysit her little sister on nights when she was too busy. To this day the headmaster still called to check on her most hardworking student. While she had interned and worked at Gotham's police station her old head master had been one of her few friends. Yet making the headmaster her friend did not mean she expected good grades just because of her position with the headmaster. Many of her classmates would think the opposite, but she truly worked hard for her grades.

"Charlotte, I know you don't like being here, you missing your friends and all, but you can still talk to Tim on the phone and you can invite him here." She said trying to keep her sister happy.

"I just don't understand why we're here," Charlotte said shaking her raven head. "I hate it here"

Lizzie sighed. "I know, but please understand, I need to put the past behind me, for both our sakes. Ok Charlie?" She said.

"Why can't you do that, back home?" Charlie asked her eyes wide. She, despite all the crime in Gotham, loved it; she loved her friends, their little apartment, the restaurant that they used to visit during the weekend when Lizzie wasn't working, the bright blue sky in the morning when they woke up. She missed it all.

"I know you miss Gotham, I do to, but things here will be good too I promise" She told her younger sister.

Charlotte sighed. "Ok Lizzie, I'll try" Her cobalt blue eyes conveying her sadness, but Lizzie refused to bend it was to late to change her mind she had already gotten the job at Central City Police station.

Instead Lizzie smiled gratefully. "Thank you Charlie you won't regret it, and don't worry we'll visit Gotham during Christmas"

At that Charlotte smiled. "I know, and we'll have fun then won't we?"

Lizzie's smile broadened. "That's my girl"

End of Chapter 1

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