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A/N: Some quotes belong to The Flash, Arrow and The DC Universe.

Barry was beyond frustrated as he stormed into the time vault and sunk down to the floor. He put his knees up to his chest with his head in his hands and started to cry. Ever since he had changed things, everything had been one mess after another. He felt so broken and no one understood or was too angry to care.

Unbeknownst to him Oliver had followed him and had managed to slip in behind him and was now sitting opposite of him. He sat there for a minute not knowing what to say- all he could see was that his friend was falling to pieces right in front of him and he knew that he needed to do something about it.

"Barry! Barry! Oliver said trying to get his attention.

Barry slowly looked up at him and his eyes were red from crying and looked haunted. Oliver also noticed something else- Barry had dark circles under his eyes.

"Oliver, how did you get in here?"

"I followed you and slipped in before the door closed."

"Why bother following me? Aren't you just as mad as everyone else?"

"No."

Barry looked at Oliver shocked.

"Why not? I deserve it." After saying this, Barry put his head back in his hands.

Oliver had heard enough.

"Barry look at me," he said sharply.

Barry did.

"You need to stop beating yourself up over this!"

Barry looked shocked at that and immediately lashed out.

"I'm sorry, but how can you say that? I'm responsible for all this."

Oliver didn't even flinch, but continued.

"Maybe, maybe not. Barry, you made a choice. You wanted to see your parents alive again. Do you honestly know anyone that, if they were in your shoes, wouldn't do the exact same thing? I would do the exact same thing! After the Gambit went down, it was me, my father and a crew member on a life raft, lost at sea. Enough food and water for one person, maybe. My father took a gun, shot the crew member, told me to survive, and then turned the gun on himself and shot himself in the head. He sacrificed himself so I could live. Nothing I could do, no choice. Slade Wilson drove a sword right through my mother's heart in front of my sister and I. I was there, I was helpless on the ground. I was powerless to stop it. No choice. You don't think that I'd give anything to go back to make things different?"

Barry was shocked.

"You never told me that."

"Barry, the world isn't different because you changed the timeline. Change happens. Tragedy happens. People make choices, and those choices affect everyone else. You're not a god, Barry and furthermore no one deserves what has happened to you."

From the look on Barry's face, Oliver knew that he had gotten through to him. They proceeded to sit in silence for the next few minutes, before Oliver decided to bring up something else that was bothering him.

"Barry, when was the last time you slept?"

"I don't know. When I try to sleep, I just wake up with nightmares."

"What are they about?"

Barry ran a hand through his hair.

"The price I had to pay to reset the timeline."

Oliver waited patiently for Barry to continue and he finally did.

"To reset the timeline, I – I had to beg Thawne to kill my Mother. I had to watch him kill her and then the timeline was reset."

Oliver sat their gob smacked at what he was hearing. Finally, he pulled himself together.

"Does anyone else know?"

"No. It's not like they would care. There too angry and they have a right to be. Besides, even though they may have done the same thing like you said- I'm the one that made the mistake."

Oliver was starting to get angry on Barry's behalf. Just because he made a mistake didn't mean they all had to be angry and treat him like he didn't belong. He sat there in silence for a minute trying to figure out what to say. While sitting there he looked at Barry, really looked at him. He saw that Barry was tired, broken, angry and frustrated; but what he saw most of all was that Barry needed a friend.

"Barry, it's going to be okay."

Barry looked at Oliver.

"How do you know that?" he asked in a defeated tone.

"Because you are one of the strongest and most hopeful people that I have ever known."

Barry smiled at that.

Oliver than got up and held his hand out to Barry, who proceeded to take it. Once he did Oliver pulled him up into a hug. Not used to Oliver doing this, Barry was shocked for a minute, but returned the hug. They were then interrupted by Cisco saying the others needed there help.

"Ready to go kick some alien butt?"

"Yeah."

Barry then lead the way out of the time vault and Oliver followed him all the while thinking that when all this was over he was going to talk to the team about what Barry had told him.