Thanks for all the really awesome reviews! This next chapter will be kind of setting up the drama to come...
"Barry? I don't understand" Oliver stared at Felicity, unsure if he wanted to believe that Barry, a man that he had known for a few years now would be so lost that he would hurt himself on purpose.
"He came to me, a few weeks ago and told he messed up the timeline-" she paused seeing Oliver's confused expression "Long story. Anyway that doesn't matter. What does matter is that a week ago he showed up again, he was crying, apparently Cisco and the rest of his team had been giving him a hard time and he told me he couldn't take it anymore" Felicity took a deep breath and looked down. "You should've seen him, Oliver. He wasn't okay".
"Does anyone else know about this?" Oliver asked.
"I think I was the only person that Barry told, he made me promise not to tell anyone but this isn't some stupid secret".
"No of course not, this is life or death" Oliver said as if reading Felicity's mind. "So what do we do now?" He asked.
"We need to fix this, get Barry help" Felicity said. "I think we need to go to Central City".
Star Labs
"Can you do nothing right?!" Cisco yelled in the cortex to an out of breath Barry Allen, who was still dressed head to toe as the Flash. He had just come back from fighting a new meta created by Alchemy, one that had gotten away. "Cisco I'm sorry, I'll get him next time" Barry muttered, not in the mood to get yelled at once again.
"Oh you're sorry? Just like you were sorry about Dante? Well guess what man, the meta's still out there and my brother is still dead!" Cisco slammed his hand down on the computer table making Barry jump, but he was used to this by now.
"Cisco stop it please!" Caitlyn said loudly, yelling before Joe or Iris had the chance to get into this argument. "It's just another meta that the Flash will put away in the end, there's no need to take your anger out on Barry" she tried telling them as calmly as she could, but Cisco yelling at Barry was a daily occurrence in Star Labs, and it never ended well.
"Oh like you don't feel the same way, Caitlyn. He's the reason you have cold powers, he's the reason that you probably gonna end up being an evil super villain" Cisco reasoned.
"Cisco..." She said under her breath but she didn't say anything. Barry just stared at her and nodded
"Right. Yeah, Cait I'm just going to go train...in the speedlab" and then he was gone.
"I'm going to go talk to him" Iris said, then she looked at Cisco. "You don't think he beats himself up enough about Flashpoint?" She asked him without meaning for him to answer, and then she walked out to the go find Barry.
As Iris walked down to the speedlab she expected to hear air rushing rapidly and crackles of lightning but instead she heard silence. "Barry?" She asked, but their was no response. "Barry, you know how Cisco gets..." she said.
"Iris...please just leave me alone" Barry's voice called out to her, but as he talked his voice wavered.
He was sitting against the wall on the speedtrack when Iris came up to him, his head in his hands and his knees pulled up to his chest.
"Barry?" She repeated once more, as she sat down against the wall to join him and put a hand on his back to try to comfort him, she felt his body shake underneath her fingertips. Iris knew he was crying.
"Hey look at me" Iris said. For a few seconds Barry did nothing but then slowly but surely he raised his head.
"I'm fine" he said pulling away from Iris and sitting himself up. Then using both hands he began to wipe away his tears. He proceeded after to stand up and dust himself off as if nothing had just happened
"Wait, Barry let's talk about this" Iris said trying to pull him back down. He was obviously trying to avoid the fact that he had just broken down, which made her think this wasn't the first time he cried like this.
Barry shrugged while wiping his eyes once again "there's nothing to talk about. It's stupid" he muttered while Iris stood up as well.
"Please, talk to me Barry" she begged.
"You wouldn't understand" he replied. "No one would ever understand".
Star City
"What do you think John would say about all this?" Felicity asked as her and Oliver sat together on the train heading to Central City. "About Barry, I mean" she added.
"He's never understood metahumans or anything Barry does but I'd think he'd understand what Barry was going through" Oliver replied.
"Are we doing the right thing?" Felicity asked. "What if I over exaggerated? We could just go back right now..." Felicity said quickly.
"You showed me the security footage from that night, I saw his scars, I saw the look on his face. He's hurting himself because he thinks he deserves it, Felicity he needs our help right now, he needs your help" Oliver said and it was true, at first Felicity had been reluctant to show him the tape, she had felt like she was invading in Barry's privacy. But after some convincing she had shown him.
"Barry's never going to trust me again after this. He's going to hate me and blame me" Felicity said sadly her eyes suddenly felt wet as she stared out the window.
"At first he will" Oliver agreed. "But once he's better, once he's thinking clearly I think he'll actually thank you for saving his life".
"But what if we're too late? This has been going on for weeks before he came to me" Felicity said.
"What if he's too far gone?"
Ok I promise next chapter we will get some Oliver/ Barry scenes and will be way longer then this chapter (hopefully). Anyways, please leave reviews and follow!
