Chapter 2
Harrison Wells looked at the woman who lay on the bed that had once housed Barry. He saw the lightning that had brought her here, into the middle of the lab while they had all been going about their normal day. That lightning, that was the speed force, he would have recognized it anywhere. She was obviously not a speedster however, seeing as how she was not healing at an accelerated rate. For some reason the speedforce brought this woman here from the future, the clothes she had arrived in were familiar twenty fifth century superhuman attire. Of that he was sure. She looked oddly familiar to him but, he did not recognize her. His thoughts were broken however as Caitlin entered the room
Caitlin's shoes clicked on the tile flooring as she made her way into the lab. She looked up from the tablet she had in her hands to where Doctor Wells sat in his chair looking down at the woman. When Caitlin came to a stop next to the bed she looked back down towards her tablet. "I couldn't find a DNA match for her, I did however contact Felicity for some help and she found a strange resemblance to a blood sample she had on file for Oliver Queen. Looks like they might be distant relatives."
Harrison had to keep the smirk from his face as his memories clicked into place. She looked familiar because he had met her before. He had met her, right before he had traveled back to kill Barry. She must have only been eight or nine at the time, she was in the Flash museum, sitting on a bench staring up at the version of Barry's suit. He had moved to sit next to her on the bench and he too stared at the suit.
"One day I'm going to be a hero." She had spoke turning to look at him.
"Hero's aren't as great as they appear to be." He replied casually, turning to look down at her as well.
She appeared to be shocked by his words. "But you're a hero." She said simply, as if she was saying something as simple as the sky is blue, and the grass is green.
"I'm no hero." He responded, tilting his head as he looked down at the girl.
"It's okay I'll keep your secret. I'm Jade Queen by the way." She said with a large smile and then she turned to look back at the suit.
"What secret?" Eobard questioned as he continued to stare down at her, now taking the time to examine her long dark brown hair and her green eyes.
"That you have powers." She turned to look back at him. "It's okay I have them too, watch." She then extended her hand out towards where a gentleman had just placed a silver briefcase on the floor. Eobard watched as the young girl moved the case over slightly as the man bent back down to pick it up, finding it not in the same spot it had been in before.
Eobard then continued to watch the man as he looked around the large room and then reach into his jacket pulling a small object out of his pocket. As Eobard got a better look at it he realized that it was a detonator. Quickly he moved and grabbed the girl and in a flash they were outside of the building and half a block away when the building blew. That was not the last time he ran into her, As she trained to join the Justice League they had many other encounters.
"Doctor Wells?" Caitlin's voice brought him out of his memory.
"Sorry, my mind wondered off." Harrison spoke as he moved his chair around the bed and towards the entrance to the room. "Do let me know when she wakes up."
Caitlin just nodded her head in response and looked back down at the woman in the bed. She wore what looked to be a super suit. It was tight fitting and leather, but it was simple like Barry's. It looked like it was only their to conceal her identity but didn't appear to house any weapons. Just plain black leggings and a black corset type top, her outfit reminded Caitlin of the Black Canaries. The only strange thing was the large silver collar that was around her neck, Caitlin reached out to touch it.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you?" Cisco spoke as he entered the room. Caitlin slowly pulled her hand away and turned to look at her colleague. "It's emitting some kind of frequency. It doesn't appear harmful, but we don't know what its doing to her ye…"
Jade groaned from her spot on the bed interrupting the pair. Caitlin and Cisco moved closer to her and watched as her eyes fluttered open, as soon as she noticed Caitlin and Cisco beside her she panicked and attempted to move but found her body protesting.
"It's okay, we are trying to help you." Caitlin spoke quickly as she looked down at the woman. "You were badly injured when you just appeared in our lab. Please, we mean you no harm."
Jade stopped trying to get her body to move and looked at Caitlin. Opening her mouth to speak Jade found her throat dry and no sound wanted to come out. "We can talk later." Caitlin spoke with a smile. "Right now, you need to rest."
Nodding her head in response Jade settled back into the bed and closed her eyes, and let the sleep overtake her. "I'll go tell Doctor Wells that she woke up, and seems to be doing okay." Caitlin said this as she moved to the doorway, she looked back at Cisco for a quick second and then left the room.
"Now, lets see if I can't figure out what this thing is." Cisco spoke to himself as picked up a laptop and moved to sit in one of the chairs along the wall. He began typing away as he looked at the readings that the collar was emitting. It appeared as though it was doing something to her brain chemistry, but Cisco just could not seem to figure out what.
Before he knew it he had fallen asleep and he had been awoke but the sound of Jade's groans. Cisco stood from his chair and set his computer down upon the seat. Slowly he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and made his way over to Jade to see her sitting up slightly and clawing at the collar around her neck.
"Can you please get this thing off of me?" Jade questioned as she turned to look at Cisco. She had heard when he stood figuring her groans of frustration must have awoken him.
Cisco approached her slowly and had just begun to bend over to look at the collar when he heard Doctor Wells's voice behind him. "Cisco I wouldn't do that if I were you." Just then Cisco was zapped by a small electric shock emitted from the collar. As Cisco pulled back to look at Jade he found her frozen still staring straight ahead at Doctor Wells.
"How?" Jade questioned as she sat staring, unblinking at the man sat before her in a wheelchair.
"Cisco, may our guest and I have a private word?" Cisco did not respond and instead just moved to head out of the room, but Jade shot her hand out and grabbed him before he could get far.
"No!" Jade spoke as she looked at Cisco. "Don't leave me with him, please."
"I assure you, I will not harm you. I just want to have a word with you before we remove that collar from around your neck. I am sure you would like to be able to use your powers again." At his words Jade released Cisco's arm, and when the young man looked to Jade to make sure it was alright that he left she just nodded to him.
Once Cisco was out of the room Doctor Wells shut the door and moved his chair around the bed, coming to a stop next to her. "Eobard." Jade greeted him politely but he could hear the fear in her voice.
"Jade, It is good to see you again." Harrison spoke as he examined her. The last time he had seen her she in her late teens. She was older now, late twenties maybe, and her once long brown hair had been chopped off at her shoulders.
"What happened? Where am I?" Jade questioned as she looked the man sitting next to her over. "You're younger…" Jade paused and then looked around her to the machines along the wall and the wires that were stuck to her. "What year is it?"
"You my dear have stepped into the year twenty fifteen." Harrison watched Jade's eyes get large, and begin to get glassy. "The speed force brought you here, how I am not sure."
Jade sat herself up better against the headboard of the hospital bed and looked down at her hands as she pushed them together tightly. She traveled back in time, the speed force had brought her here, had it just been coincidence that she was brought back in time to the man that had just tried to kill her; to the man that had started the war that killed everyone she cared for.
"Jade, what happened right before you came here?" Harrison spoke as he moved slightly closer to where Jade sat on the bed, and he watched as she quickly looked up at him and he halted his movement do to the look in her eyes. She had looked over at him with such sadness and fear that he knew right away he was not going to like the answer.
"You were older. You were going to kill me, but something happened…" Jade trailed off not having been really sure herself as to what had happened.
"I get back." Harrison spoke flabbergasted. He does get back to his time, he finally makes it home.
"You were gone for so many years. Then I heard you were seen again, and that's when the war started." Jade let the tears roll down her cheeks, not caring that the man that had just tried to kill her was only a few feet away from her. "You're going to kill me now aren't you? You're going to finish the job your future self couldn't."
Harrison watched the tears as they rolled down Jade's cheeks and splashed onto the skin of her chest. He then turned to look out the glass doors to where Caitlin and Cisco stood next to each other watching Jade and himself. "Jade, today is not the day you die. But I can't exactly have you going around telling people about me. Here I go by Doctor Harrison Wells, and no one knows my true identity, and I need it to stay that way."
Jade just sat staring at Harrison, the tears rolling faster down her cheeks. "I won't say anything." She whispered with much fear. She didn't want to die, and she knew that while she had her collar on she would stand no chance against him and his powers. "This, it's your own design. It makes it so I cannot use my powers." Spoke Jade as she pointed towards the device around her throat.
"Perhaps we should leave it on for the time being." Harrison spoke with a slight smirk. Jade just lowered her head in defeat, there was no point in arguing; she was weak, and without her powers. "We will discuss this situation tonight, once my staff has gone. For now you will rest in here without interruption from the others."
Harrison then moved his chair and headed for the doors. Opening them with a push of a button he left the room and re-closed the doors once he was on the other side. Jade watched him leave and laid herself back down on the bed to rest. The best thing she could do now was to just rest, regain as much of her strength as she could and hope that she could find some way out of the mess.
Meanwhile Harrison sat looking at his two young scientists as they bombarded him with questions about their newest resident. "Shouldn't we be helping her?" Caitlin spoke as she stood on her tip toes, looking past Harrison and into the room that housed Jade.
"She will be fine, for now I think it best to leave her to rest. It appears as though that collar around her throat is negating her powers. Until we know more about her I think it would best to keep her in quarantine."
"You seemed to be talking to her as if you knew her." Cisco mentioned as he looked at his boss, trying to piece together what was going on. That's when Barry came rushing into the room.
"Guys, something crazy just happened." Barry spoke as he looked between everyone in the room, and judged by the looks on their faces that something else was also happening. "What's going on?"
Cisco just pointed towards the medical room and Barry looked around everyone to see a woman laying on the bed. Quickly Barry averted his gaze to Harrison. "Who is she?"
"Her name is Jade, and she is resting. Now what is it that you wanted to tell us Barry?" Harrison spoke maneuvering his chair to look at the young man directly. Barry lowered his hood and rubbed the back of his neck, not sure where to start.
"I think I traveled back through time. The murder scene at the morgue, it was the same, it's all been the same." Said Barry as he looked down at his mentor.
Harrison's face stayed neutral as he took in what Barry had just told him. "How?"
Barry shrugged his shoulders. "Tomorrow, there is an attack on Iris. as well as the rest of
the coast. I had to run fast enough to build an air wall to stop the tidal wave that was coming. The next thing I knew I was seeing myself, running. That speed mirage wasn't a murage. It was me."
"This is amazing!" Cisco spoke as he moved to stand in front of Barry. "You can time travel."
"This is not amazing, this is anything but amazing." Harrison spoke as he moved his chair around the room and towards the large computer desk. "When you mess with time, it always has a way of messing back with you. Barry, you have to be careful, if you change to much…"
"I can stop the weather wizard from kidnapping Joe, I can stop him before he kills all those people. I can stop him before he hurts Captain Singh." Barry spoke quickly. This was it, he could change things, none of the things that happened just an hour ago would not need to happen.
"Barry yo…" Harrison was cut short however when Barry rushed out of the room.
"Should we go after him?" Questioned Caitlin as she looked at the aftermath of papers of Barry leaving. Harrison just nodded at the pair of scientists and they took the cue to follow after Barry. Once Harrison was sure the others had gone he locked down the facility, securing the building so that he would not have any uninvited guests.
Standing from his chair he slowly walked towards the door that separated himself from Jade. He stood there and looked through the window at the sleeping Jade, it would be so easy to just alleviate the problem that she posed.
Raising his hand Harrison opened the door to the room and then stepped inside. Approaching Jade slowly he took the time to now examine the cuts and bruises on her skin. He felt the remorse stirring inside him from the realization that he had most likely caused those injuries. Every time Jade and himself had crossed paths he was never able to bring himself to making that final blow, he had always just left her.
Maybe it had to do with the fact she had done the same to him. There were multiple occasions where Jade could have taken him in, locked him away. Yet she too it seemed could never bring herself to.
"If you are going to kill me just do it already." Whispered Jade, her eyes were still closed as she lay on her back on the bed. She was too scared to open her eyes, it was easier to accept her fate if she just hid herself away behind her eyelids. Jade could hear the sound of Harrison approaching her slowly, the heels of his shoes clicking lightly on the hard tiled flooring.
She felt the bed sink at her side indicating that he must have sat next to her, then she felt the warmth of his hand brushing against her cheek, pushing her hair behind her ear. Jade let her eyes fly open at his touch and found herself looking straight into Harrison's own eyes.
"Your hair, it's shorter." Harrison spoke plainly, as if they had been friends for years and it was the most normal thing in the world. Jade sat up and wove her fingers together in nervousness.
"After you disappeared, I…" Jade let her voice trail off as she remembered the day she cut it. She had been just walking down the street after finishing a shift at the hospital where she worked as a paramedic. All day she found herself pulling on her hair, pushing it around, attempting to keep it from driving her mental. She had had long hair all her life, and generally it lived its life in a high ponytail. However all at once it was a nuisance, it was getting tangled in things, and flying in her face when she needed it to stay put.
She had stumbled upon a small locally run hairdressers and decided today was the day she needed to hack it off. That today was the day she was going to change her life, she wasn't going to let her ghosts haunt her anymore. Jade remembered how sad the hairdresser had been when she had said she wanted to chop it all off. The woman spent a good ten minutes trying to talk her out of it, but that had only caused Jade to break down into tears and tell the woman the story of her last five months.
The woman and everyone else in the shop had been brought to tears by the end of her story and Jade too had found the tears just flowed from her without her even noticing anymore. After that the woman agreed to chop off her long locks and cut her hair at no charge. Jade was brought from her thoughts however when Harrison whipped a tear from her cheek. The memory that replayed in her mind bringing her to tears in the present.
"What happened to you?" Harrison asked her in a whisper.
Jade just stared into his blue eyes before speaking, "you broke me." She then began to sob. Everything that had happened in the future, in the past and in the present came crashing down on her in an instant. Squeezing her eyes shut she raised her hands to her face as her cries echoed throughout the room.