A/N: Hey guys! Thanks so much for all the feedback for the first part of this story! I'm glad you're interested. Here's the second part!


He ran through the lab, searching for her. She wasn't there. He ran to the West house and Jitters, and then back to the lab. He must have passed her as she was going, because she was in the lab with a fresh Jitters coffee in hand.

"Hey Dad!" she greeted when he raced in.

Barry ran up to her and wrapped her in a tight embrace, finally letting himself breathe.

"Dad, what's wrong?" she asked.

"I thought you might have… I'm so glad you're safe."

"It was a coffee run," she said, frowning in confusion.

Barry grabbed her arm and started walking towards the med-bay. "Come with me. I'll explain."

"Barry, is she – Oh, thank God," Iris said when they walked in.

"Mom, Dad won't tell me what's going on."

Iris looked at her with a straight face. "I'm pregnant, Nora."

Nora didn't seem to react much. She didn't smile or anything. She just kept looking at Iris.

"I'm pregnant, and we thought it had to be with you," Iris said. "But Caitlin did a sonogram, and we're having a boy. That's why your dad was so scared, Nora. We thought things had changed and maybe you hadn't… well, it doesn't matter, you're here now."

Caitlin stepped forward. "How is that possible, unless…"

Barry caught onto the same wavelength, and looked at Nora. "You're not our only child, are you?"

Nora reacted now, and her expression was easy enough to recognize from when she'd first appeared in their lives: guilt.

"We have a son and a daughter," Iris said, sounding as stunned as Barry felt.

"Nora, why didn't you tell us?" Barry asked.

"It wasn't supposed to happen this soon. It should be a year from now, but since you didn't have to recover from the satellite… I guess I sped things along."

Iris stood. "We need an explanation, Nora."

"He didn't want to come back with me. He said it was a bad idea, and that it could mess up the timeline in ways I didn't know, so I didn't think I had to mention him."

"No, there's something else," Barry said. He walked right up to his daughter, trying to be gentle but also let her know that he needed an answer. "Why didn't you tell us you have an older brother?"

Nora seemed close to tears, though not entirely from sadness. If anything, the set of her features made Barry think she was slightly angry. "Because he's working with Thawne, Dad. He says he's not, but he's dating Frost's daughter, so how can he not be?"

The room was still for a few seconds, with barely the sound of breathing as the implications of Nora's words sunk in.

Barry's eyes went to Caitlin, as, he was sure, did Iris's. Caitlin's brows were furrowed, and she was starting to raise a hand questioningly as she looked at Nora. "Frost's daughter?"

Nora was definitely angry. "You know what I mean. Your daughter, but with Frost's powers, and all of Frost's worst qualities. Power-hungry, distant, manipulative -."

"Hey, hey!" Iris interrupted. "Remember how upset you were with me a few months ago, for things I hadn't even done? Caitlin and Frost haven't done anything wrong. Don't go off on them."

Nora's nostrils flared as she breathed out, but she didn't go back to insulting Frost.

Barry looked at everyone. "Alright, I think we need to talk things over," he said, when he realized no one was meeting anyone else's eyes.

"I need to go for a run," Nora said, and disappeared from the room.

Barry clenched his teeth together, and then looked at Iris and Caitlin. "She'll come back soon, and explain why she's so upset."

Caitlin was staring at the doorway, no doubt thinking about Nora's outburst. Barry went to put a reassuring hand on her arm, but Caitlin started walking before he'd even moved. "I'm gonna talk to Frost," she said quietly. "I'll be upstairs if you need me."

Barry watched her walk out and put his hands behind his head. "This is a mess."

Iris wrapped her arms around him from behind, sighing and placing her hands on his chest. Barry placed his hands over hers, trying to let her know that he appreciated the contact. He couldn't figure out anything to say, so he hoped the motion was enough.


They waited in the lab for two hours before Nora came back. Iris had gone to check on Caitlin in the beginning of that waiting period, and told Barry the scientist was just using the mental activity dampener to talk to Frost. After checking on her, Iris started scouring the internet for clues on an article she was writing, as Barry caught up on the write-up for a CCPD case. When Nora walked in, Barry saw that she was wringing her hands in front of her, and moving with slightly hunched shoulders.

"Hey," she said quietly.

Iris glanced at her, still scrolling on the computer. "You ready to tell us what's going on?" she asked.

"Yeah."

Barry looked at Iris, and both turned their full attention to Nora. "Should Caitlin be here too?" Iris asked. "You at least need to explain the Frost comment to her."

Nora ran out and returned with her arm linked through Caitlin's. Caitlin looked between them as she took a quiet breath. "You guys need to give more warning when you do that," she said, removing the mental activity dampener from her forehead.

Barry pushed out a seat for her, which she took after a second of hesitation. Caitlin looked at Nora with a guarded but expectant expression.

"I told you I came back because I wanted to get to know Dad," Nora said. "That's completely true. I knew I was going to come back to meet you guys, because I needed to know who you were. Henry tried to tell me not to."

There seemed to be a cold spot in Barry's throat. "Your brother's name is Henry?"

"Henry Joseph, after Papa Allen and Papa Joe. He's a speedster too. He was the one who told me I have powers. Once I knew that, I started planning when I should come back to see you, even though he said it was a bad idea." She smiled lightly, with a trace of sadness, as she looked at Barry. "You know how impulsive I can be. He couldn't convince me to stay in our time, but he made me realize I needed to pick a moment carefully. I wanted it to be after you guys were married, but before you had Henry. I was thinking it over in the Flash Museum when the curator pointed out that Dad was always fastest before the Enlightenment. After that night, his speed fluctuated more, and never went back to the speed it is now."

"So you wanted to change that," Iris said.

Nora nodded. "I figured, maybe if Dad didn't lose part of his speed that night, he would be able to keep up with Reverse-Flash in the future, and wouldn't be trapped by him. I wanted to prove I could be a hero too. So I helped destroy the satellite that, in the original timeline, Dad destroyed but took months to recover from. And we all know that it changed more than I thought it would."

"My speed is fine, but Cicada is different," Barry said, nodding.

"Why do you think your brother and my – and my daughter – are working with Reverse-Flash?" Caitlin asked.

Nora finally looked at Caitlin. "Reverse-Flash has shown interest in cold powers before, to help him fight my dad. Frost followed Savitar for power. Henry told me that Reverse-Flash confronted he and Kristin once, on a date. A few weeks later she started acting all weird, and I didn't see Henry as much. Which makes me think Kristin is working with Reverse-Flash, and Henry is tagging along, either blind to it or ignoring it."

"But you don't know that she's actually working with him," Barry said.

"No," Nora admitted, almost reluctantly. "I didn't want to take the chance of missing it, though, and thought I'd come a little earlier than the Enlightenment. I thought maybe I could change one little thing, and take Frost out of the picture. So I visited each of you before I revealed our connection, and in my visit with Caitlin and Harry, I kept Caitlin from realizing -."

"The first time I remembered what Frost thought," Caitlin said, leaning forward. "Harry and I were talking about it when you spilled your drink on us."

Nora dipped her head guiltily. "I wanted to keep you separate so when DeVoe put the mental block in your head, you might not try to get her back. If Frost wasn't active in your life, Kristin might not get her powers, so Reverse-Flash wouldn't even try to recruit her."

It was a lot of information, but Barry thought he had everything straight. He knew he probably had a stupefied look on his face, but he was more concerned with thinking it through than what expression he was wearing. Barry could tell that Caitlin wasn't sure how to feel. To be honest, he wasn't sure himself.

"I still don't know why you wouldn't tell us about Henry in the first place," Iris said.

Nora took a breath, standing straighter. "I told Henry I wanted to help Dad with the satellite, right before I left. He said Dad was supposed to lose his speed." She fixed a stern look at them. "Why would he say that unless he wanted Reverse-Flash to trap Dad?"

"Because he wanted to keep the timeline intact," Barry said.

Nora walked over to them. "He didn't care about seeing you."

Iris was shaking her head. "No, Nora, he just didn't want to change things in the future."

Barry looked at Caitlin and saw that she was studying Nora carefully. He couldn't read Caitlin's expression anymore, it had become so stoic.

Reverse-Flash had brought so much pain and trouble into Barry's life. According to Nora, he would be a threat in the future as well. Whether or not Caitlin's daughter, and Barry's son, were actually working with him (which Barry doubted), Nora had been scared enough of Reverse-Flash to change a pivotal moment in Barry's life – she'd saved his speed. They'd thought the changed Cicada was the biggest consequence of that action, but now… Barry wasn't sure what to think.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you," Nora said, to Barry and Iris. "And Caitlin, I'm sorry I distracted you that night." She held her head high. "I did what I thought was right, to change the future."

"Which you did," Caitlin said. "Iris is pregnant a year early."

Barry looked at Iris, who had her hand protectively placed on her stomach. "Now we just have to see how much it's changed," he said.

She seemed to realize what he was thinking, and he could see how torn she was. "Barry, I don't know," she said.

"We need to know," he said quietly.

"Dad -."

Barry stood up. "I want to go to the future."


A/N: So originally, I had written everything up to those last few lines. I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue, after explaining Nora's secret. But I want to explore the future, so I'm going to write a bit more.

Also: am I the only one that thinks Nora isn't a big fan of Killer Frost? In this chapter I brought up Nora's first meeting with Caitlin and Harry. Nora had a strange, serious look on her face after they walked away in that episode. With everyone else, she seemed her usual smiley/happy self when they walked away. I really hope the show explains why she reacted so differently with that meeting than with all the others, because I find it suspicious. And the fact that Nora interrupted the conversation by spilling a Killer Frost drink on them? Like I theorized in this story, I don't think Nora likes Frost much. What do you think?

If you have any ideas for the future Barry wants to see, let me know. I'll be working on it this week, but my next update might be a few days late, because of classes wrapping up for the semester. I hope you liked part two, and until next communion!