.:07:.
Barry ran a hand over his face as he yawned, trying to stay as quiet as possible. He pulled the brim to his cap lower on his forehead, pulling up the hood to his hoodie up on top of that. Anything to keep attention away from him. The last thing he needed was for someone else to follow him around and recognize him as the Flash. He shook his head, feeling anxiety move through his body, reaching out his hand and tapping it against his cup of CC Jitters' The Flash.
The irony wasn't lost on him.
If Jay Garrick could tell he was the Flash from only a few months of research…anyone else could. Leaning forward, Barry rested his elbows on the table and ran his hands over his face. Oh, this was starting to become so frustrating. The moment he was starting to have some fun and regroup with his friends again things started to fall apart once more. Not that he didn't expect it in some way; he just thought he had a better chance of coming across Captain Cold more than the potential of another Speedster.
Zoom.
Barry took a sip of his drink and replayed the conversation with Jay in his head. The minute he had stepped into STAR Labs, everyone turned his way, surprised to see him there. Not only because he was able to waltz in without an issue, but because of how quickly he revealed to know who each and every person there was.
"Please, just let me explain. I mean you no harm," Jay said, holding up his hands as he stepped further into the room. Barry had been seconds away from racing towards him and shoving him by the shoulder into the wall, and then forced every muscle in his body to stop himself. If it wasn't for the fact that he had said Barry's name he would've been out of there in seconds. "I came here with a warning. Zoom is coming and your world is in danger."
"'Your world'?" Cisco repeated. He closed his eyes for a moment before slowly sticking up his finger. "Do you mean there are other worlds out there?"
Jay nodded. He slowly lowered his hands, seeing that no one was about to attack him. "I promise you, I can explain everything. I'm not here to hurt you or attack you." He turned and looked directly at Barry. "You created the singularity above Central City six months ago and when you did that, you created a breach; a portal between my world and yours."
Caitlin's eyebrow rose. She waited a moment for Jay to continue but he stayed silent, eyes moving around the group. Taking them in now that he was close up to them. "And?" She pressed.
Jay's lips pursed for a moment and Barry's eyes narrowed as he watched him. He seemed a little annoyed for someone who was trying to explain their reasoning of being there. "A week ago you found Al Rothstein dead in your city's power plant; that's not something hard to figure out as it was mentioned in the Central City Picture News due to the nature of his death. But then another Al Rothstein tried to kill you, correct?"
Finally having enough, Barry spoke up once more. "So, Jay, how do you know all this?"
Then Jay explained everything that had happened over the last six months. How he had raced through 'his' Central City as the Flash and tried to stop Zoom. How the Singularity had opened up in the sky above him and sucked him through, losing his powers in the process. How he had moved through 'this' Central City, without his speed, for the last six months trying to get his bearings and understand what was going on. How he came across everyone at STAR Labs through his studies.
"So you've been following us all this entire time?" Harrison commented, crossing his arms.
"Watching!" Cadence suddenly jumped in. All eyes turned to her and she flushed, biting her lower lip, kicking her foot along the ground. "Sorry."
Barry then keyed in on something Jay had said. "Zoom? Atom Smasher said Zoom sent him here to kill me."
"Hydro Hunter said the same thing," Brady piped up.
"Right, Zoom." Jay nodded slowly. His eyes shifted downwards for a long moment, as if going through a painful memory. "He's faster than anything I've ever seen, even faster than me. Probably faster than you, Barry. But he's evil, an unstoppable human with a face of death."
Barry pressed his lips together. He wasn't exactly sure if he believed Jay. What was there to believe? He couldn't completely trust him, despite how honest he seemed. The last time he trusted someone, that trust had been broken in the worst way he had thought imaginable. Still, he wasn't completely heartless, and he was curious to know what else Jay had to say. So he instructed that tests be run on him which Caitlin and Cadence immediately set off to do.
Sitting in CC Jitters the next day, Barry couldn't help but look at every face that came through the door, just in case it was someone who was going to point some sort of a gun in his face or was seconds away from revealing his identity. He became relieved when he saw Iris come through the door and walk over to his table.
"Hey," She greeted him as she sat down, placing her purse aside. Her eyes lit up as she took the cup of The Flash that Barry had ordered for her. "Thanks. I really needed this."
It was then Barry noticed the slight bags under her eyes; and for someone who took meticulous care over her appearance—not to an obsessive point as Iris had told him time and time again—that wasn't normal. "Have you been working all day? It's only nine in the morning."
"I know, but there've been some breaking news that we've been working on," Iris explained. "Mostly with Mayor Bellows and whether or not he's going to run for office again within the next year. And then I was talking to Lois and Clark about some more of the metahuman things that we've experienced over here and what's been going on back in Smallville and Metropolis with things they've been dealing with."
"Oh really?" Barry's eyebrows rose. He didn't have a lot of time to talk to Lois Lane or Clark Kent when they had been around in Central City. As a matter of fact he remembered talking to them briefly while at Eddie's funeral but otherwise there had been so much going on he hadn't really gotten to know them. "Is everything okay back there?"
"Nothing that Superman can't handle, apparently," Iris replied with a warm smile. "There's a story about him nearly every day. Just like someone else I know," she said.
Normally, Barry would've been pleased at Iris's comment. It at least let him know the people of Central City continued to hold him in such high-regard and that his best friend continued to believe in him. But that was before Jay Garrick came to see them. "On please don't start, Iris. I'm trying to avoid attention now, not bring anyone else who could possibly reveal it to everyone else."
Iris's eyebrows came together. "What do you mean?" She asked. "What's happened?" And Barry explained everything to her about Jay, about Zoom, about the long conversation that had added to his anxieties of taking care of the city.
"Wait a minute." Iris brought her fingers up to her temples and started to rub them. "There's another Earth out there?"
"If what Jay is saying is true, then yeah," Barry agreed.
"And on that other Earth this Jay Garrick guy is a different Flash? Not you? So, what are you on that Earth then?"
"Maybe an electrician," Barry said lamely.
"And this Zoom guy? He's from this other Earth, is a Speedster, and wants to kill you because he wants to be the strongest speedster out there." Iris slowly leaned backwards in her seat, crossing her arms. Her eyebrows rose. "Wow, I just…it's all so…"
"I know," Barry agreed.
Then Iris flicked her gaze up towards Barry and he could see something flash in her eyes that he hadn't seen from her in a long time. Anger. "Why didn't you tell me before?"
Barry's jaw dropped. That wasn't the reaction he had been expecting. Some concern, maybe, but not anger that she hadn't said anything to her before. He was still working things out himself. "I…you…" Barry lowered his voice to an almost croaking whisper. "I only found out about this yesterday, Iris. It's not like I went to everyone and said 'don't tell you'."
"Really?" Iris's right eyebrow rose. "And I'm supposed to believe that since you took so long to tell me about you being The Flash in the first place. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, there are a lot of things that you don't seem to be telling me lately." Barry continued to look at her in confusion, he was sure he was starting to catch flies from the way his jaw was still dropped. He slowly eased it closed. "Yeah, I know you guys went to the bar, too. Something I wasn't invited to."
Finally, Barry leaned back in his seat and ran his hands over his face. He wondered if that was going to be brought up. He had felt a little bit guilty about it, wondering if she should've been invited. He started to defend himself but Iris kept going.
"All of this Flash stuff…it's like you're purposefully trying to keep me out of that part of your life, Barry. I'm supposed to be your best friend. So the minute I find out your true identity and I'm pissed that you didn't tell me, which I have every right to be angry, it's like I don't matter compared to Caitlin and Cisco and everyone at STAR Labs."
"Iris, that's not true," Barry said.
"Is it?"
"No!" Barry looked around, realizing his outburst had been a bit louder than he wanted. He hunched over, keeping quiet until he was sure no one else was staring at him. "I didn't tell you about being The Flash because I was trying to protect you. You know that; I've explained that to you already. And I know it was a dumb decision to make without your input because you don't need to be protected. I'm sorry. But what's been going on now it's nothing that we're trying to keep you out of. I'm still processing what's going on with Jay and Zoom, I haven't even told Joe yet. And as for going to the bar, that was a last minute thing for my birthday. I spent my birthday with you and Joe and I didn't see the rest of those guys for six months. And our friendship has been weird so we just went out to the bar." Iris continued to stay silent. "It's not like I'm trying to replace you or anything."
"It seems like it, Barry," Iris said honestly. She shook her head. "Sorry, not sorry. It feels like you're trying to replace me."
Barry frowned. "How do you think I felt?"
"What are you talking about?"
"With Eddie." A strong silence hung through the air between the two of them. He could see hurt storm through Iris's eyes. For a moment she closed her eyes and looked away from Barry. "You don't think I felt like I was being replaced when you spent all of your time with him."
"Don't Barry," Iris said quietly. "Please."
He understood how she was feeling. It hadn't been long since he gave himself up to save everyone. Not long since he had been a hero in his own right. It wasn't something that was easy to get over, if there was anyone who understood that, Barry definitely did. However, this was someone she was in love with, who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, not simply a parent. (Not that he was trying to compare).
Still, Barry had to push forward. Just so she completely understands, he motivated himself. "I don't think you get what it was like to come out of the coma, Iris. I was out for nine months."
"I know, Barry, I was there. I saw you in that hospital bed nearly every day."
"No. I was out-out. Waking up, I didn't remember anything and I still don't. All I remember is coming back from Starling City, then going to see it turn on. That's it. Everything after that is black. So then I wake up nine months later. Not just with new powers but in a completely different world." He leaned towards Iris and looked her in the eye. She has to understand. "You don't think nine months is a long time but it really is. You know the first thing I did when I woke up…after going to see you and Joe? I went onto Facebook and I saw what happened. There were so many songs released, movies that came out, different things happened in everyone's lives. And then I find out that you had been dating someone for almost a year, for almost the entire time that I had been completely gone…you moved onto someone else."
Throughout his speech Iris's face softened.
Barry took a deep breath and lowered his gaze to his cup of coffee, watching steam rise from the top.
"It's a scary thing to see how much time passed. And I realized it happened again, but this time I did it willingly because of what happened. I went back onto Facebook and I saw how much Cadence, Brady, and Cisco or Cadence, Brady, and Caitlin had been hanging out throughout the time I had been gone. Brady even calls them Uncle Cisco and Aunt Caitlin now and I had no idea. I didn't know Caitlin and Cisco weren't hanging out. I didn't know that Harrison and Tess had started running STAR Labs again. I didn't know any of this. The only person that really gets it is Oliver and he was gone for five years. And it's hard to explain to other people how weird it feels to know that while you were gone they all moved on as if you didn't exist. And it hurts to know that in some ways I'm responsible for Eddie and Ronnie and that since then I can't seem to do anything right."
That was it. He said it. That was everything he had wanted to say since coming out of his coma. How everything he felt had been pushed aside due to his duties of being The Flash. It was harder than he thought it would bet to say.
Iris brought a hand up to her face and dabbed at her eyes with a napkin. He'd never see her cry often, only when things got really bad. He hadn't meant her to start crying now he just wanted to get her to understand.
"I'm sorry," he finally said.
Iris nodded. She placed her napkin back on the table and said, "I'm sorry, too. I never knew…"
"It's okay," Barry reassured her.
Iris got up from her seat and Barry followed her lead, getting up to give her a hug. He could hear her sniffling as he held onto her. But he felt that things were okay between them now. Now that they finally had things out in the open and actually, really talked about it.
Iris looked at her phone as it started to ring and she took a step back from Barry's embrace and glanced at it, a quiet sigh escaping her lips. "That's work; I've got to get going."
"Yeah, I've got to stop by work to pick up some stuff," Barry said.
"I thought you had the day off."
"I do. But I need to get some things in case I'm called in last minute." He lifted his hat and ran a hand through his hair. "Are we okay?"
It took Iris a second to understand what he was talking about. Then she nodded. "Yeah, Barry. We're okay."
"I'll see you later then?"
"If work doesn't kill me first." Iris lifted her Flash in cheers to him before leaving the coffee shop. Barry picked up his and followed her outside, turning to the right instead of the left to go to the CCPD. As soon as he stepped inside Patty came over to him.
"Barry, hi," she said to him.
"Oh, hi, Patty, how's it going?" He asked, coming to a stop.
"Not bad, just, I had a question." Patty bit her lower lip as she took a step closer to him. Then she smiled, glancing over her shoulder before turning back to him. "About Joe. I'm trying to join his anti-metahuman task force but he's not saying anything. But he's sort of your Dad, right. Do you know how to crack his 'no code'?"
A light laugh escaped Barry's lips. "Yeah, I've been trying to crack that since I was eleven and so far have had no luck. But if you ever figure it out let me know."
"Deal." Patty reached out her hand and shook Barry's. He shook her hand and continued towards the staircase. "So, you're the forensic scientist around here, word on the street is that you're really good at what you do."
"I'm not sure about really good, but I do my best," Barry agreed. He looked at her funny. "But you knew that…you…"
"Right, I read all of your files," Patty agreed. "I mean, I really did do that. I wasn't lying when I said I enjoyed them. I'm just…" she bit her lower lip again. Barry then noticed she smiled a lot. "I'm trying to get a handle on this place, on Central City as a whole."
"Oh, well, I think you'll make it just fine considering you clearly don't take 'no' for an answer," Barry agreed with a smile of his own. He found her smile infectious. "That may not work so well with Captain Singh but for everything else that'll bode you well."
"That's what I was hoping." Her eyes shifted behind her and Patty called out to Cadence as she walked by. "Hey, you're Cadence right? We met before."
Cadence turned towards her. "It's—"she immediately stopped in correcting Patty on the pronunciation of her name, eyebrows rising. "Actually, you got it right. I guess I got so used to people calling me Candace it became a habit."
"Or not correcting Captain Singh is starting to get to you," Barry pointed out. "And your kill him with kindness plan isn't working." Cadence elbowed him in the side before reaching out to shake Patty's hand.
"Yeah, I heard about your work here while applying," Patty said to Cadence with a warm smile. "You work as the medical examiner. It must be really cool to look at the bodies and everything to see what's made them tick and what took their life away." She paused for a second. "Not that they're deaths are cool, I mean, it kind of is. But not that they're gone, you know? But it must be a really fulfilling job."
"It is when I can help in solving a case," Cadence replied, resting her hands in the back pockets of her jeans, pushing the bottom of her blazer aside as she did so. "The hardest part is going to court to testify. So far I haven't had to do it, so fingers crossed." She looked at Patty closely. "You're interested in being a medical examiner or…?"
"Oh, no. Being out on the field is for me. You know, getting in on the action and everything." Patty motioned towards the pistol that was attached to her hip, sitting next to her police badge. "But I am interested in the science and everything. I mean, I triple majored at Hudson in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics—"
"Oh god, you're another Barry," Cadence blurted out, making a face. Eyebrows lowering Barry turned to her with an offended expression. "Not that there being another Barry is a bad thing; but it seems like everyone around me is so intensely into science it's actually starting to scare me."
"But you're…" Patty started to say then quickly changed her tactic. "I'm sorry, what's your background?"
"I was working to become a pediatrician but then some things came up and I took this job instead," Cadence explained. She scratched the back of her head. "It's a long story."
"She also teaches some dance classes down at the health center," Barry said.
"Oh, so that's where Twinkle-Toes came from," Patty stated.
Barry's head jerked back for a second. "Excuse me?" He had a sneaking suspicions what it was about but also wasn't entirely sure. He wasn't ashamed of going to different Zumba classes with Iris…or at least had been before they both became too busy to go every morning. He hadn't brought it up but it seemed that someone at the CCPD liked to tease him a bit more than others. But then again the CCPD had been his family since he moved in with Joe and Iris all those years ago and they did rib on each other every now and then.
The smile was immediately wiped form Patty's face. "Nothing. It's nothing. I promise."
"Oh, no. I kind of want to hear the rest of this one," Cadence stated, taking on Patty's bright smile. Even her eyes lit up at the prospect. Patty was then called across the hall by a fellow officer and she motioned to him that she was coming before turning back to them.
"So I guess I'll see you two later," She commented, looking back and forth between them, her eyes resting on Barry a little bit longer. "Maybe we can go out for a drink or something."
"Or something," Barry agreed.
Patty then smiled to the two before turning and heading over to the officer that had called them.
He watched her leave for a moment before Cadence reached out and tapped him on the arm. "I was looking for you before I remembered you had the day off," Cadence said. "And I don't want you to take anymore of your off time here. But you got a sec?"
"For you, I have plenty of secs," Barry replied. Then immediately blanched. Oh, that was so stupid. He let out a nervous laugh, running a hand through his hair before resting his hand against his forehead, right above his eyebrows.
Cadence laughed. "That wasn't exactly what I was asking, but I'll keep that in mind."
"I'm trying to think of a way to come back from that one, but I don't think I can," Barry admitted. He gave another nervous laugh.
"Don't worry about it." Cadence motioned for him to follow her to her office. She glanced at him as they went, taking in his hoodie, baseball cap, and basketball shorts. "You know, I don't think I've ever seen you dressed in anything but jeans and a cardigan. Nice to know you can be relaxed every once in a while. But you really need to tan your legs."
Barry let out a low snort. "I'm underneath a super suit all the time, it's hard to get any sunlight," he defended himself. "Besides, I've always been naturally pale."
"There's pale and then there'd blinding, Tholly, just thought you'd want to know." Cadence sat down at her desk and Barry stopped in the doorway, looking around at the bouquets of flowers that lined the room.
"Did a flower shop explode in here?" He asked.
"No." Cadence pointed to her left. "Those are from Michael Bloom, thanking me for the help I've given him while he was in the mental hospital and since everything that happened with the Assassination Bureau." Then her eyes shifted over to the flowers on her right. "And those are from Dale."
"Dale from the club, Dale?" Barry repeated. He frowned, feeling his stomach clench.
"Yeah, I have no idea how he managed to figure out where I work," Cadence said. She shook her head. "Anyway, you know that guy that had the heart attack?" Barry nodded. "Well, I haven't found anything yet, because the toxicology reports have only just come through and then I need to test his tissues, but I wanted to let you know that we may be called in as witnesses."
"Witnesses?" Barry repeated. "This is going to court?"
"If it's found to be a homicide, yes. And considering the other pieces of evidence we've found…" she trailed off and Barry nodded in agreement. Then she sighed heavily, tilting her head back. "D'you hear what the news had to say?"
"I…" Barry thought for a moment then shook his head. He wasn't entirely sure what she was talking about. His day consisted of (for him) sleeping in, doing some laundry—which was the only thing he couldn't speed up, and getting some coffee. He hadn't paid too much attention to anything else.
"How the guy whose car I destroyed is saying how he wants to sue Flare and thinks that every other meta should be held accountable for the damage they cause." Lowering her chin, Cadence looked Barry in the eye. "Including the Flash."
Barry pressed his lips together.
He was starting to think that the Flash Day celebration came a little too soon.
Caitlin pushed herself back from the cabinet that sat in front of her, writing on a clipboard. She looked up as Harrison walked towards her and immediately turned her gaze away from him. Just focus on inventory. That's what you're working on right now, Caitlin. Inventory. She ignored him until he finally said, "Looks like you're hard at work."
"Yep, just taking stock of everything we have in here," Caitlin said coldly. Then she winced a little. She hadn't meant for her words to come out like that. A little biting, maybe, but not completely emotionless and biting. "We're running low on some supplies and I want to be sure that we can get a new shipment in before Barry or Cadence manage to get themselves hurt again."
"That's your quick thinking at work," Harrison said with a small, nerdy smile. "One of the reasons I hired you in the first place."
"You sure it wasn't Eobard who hired me?" Caitlin couldn't stop the question before it escaped her lips. The silence stretched between them and she sighed, turning towards him. "Look, Harrison, I didn't mean—"
"No, it's alright. This is hard for everyone and you're justified in the way you feel." Harrison sat down in s nearby chair and leaned forward, resting his arms on his legs. "Tess told me it'd be something I should see coming. But she's the one that's studying behavioral sciences and can read people much better than I can." He started to pick at his fingernails. "I tend to be a little more socially awkward. I can't read social cues very easily."
Caitlin smiled a little, but continued to keep her eyes away from him. "Yes, well, that seems to be something that many in our profession have problems with. I've gotten used to it, it's not a big deal." She took in a deep breath then dared to ask, "So Tess hasn't been around here much."
"She said she doesn't feel that her background fits much into what the team needs and will come in when we need help or if I've forgotten my lunch." Harrison managed to let out a small, almost wheezing laugh. "
Yeah, right.
Caitlin knew that wasn't the entire reason why. It was because Tess didn't want to be around and make things confusing for her. Confusing wasn't the best word, torturous might've been better.
Embarrassing.
Mortifying.
Confusing was what Jay had to be feeling, especially since he had been sent directly to the Pipeline once all of their questions had been asked, just in case. Still, she couldn't help but ask a few more once she and Cadence were running some tests on him.
"So, Mr. Garrick, how long have you been the Flash in your world?" Caitlin asked, moving a stethoscope across multiple areas of his back while Cadence wrote down the findings Caitlin called out to her.
"Not long enough to be called mister," Jay replied with a half smile. "It's just Jay. And I've been there for about two years."
"And how did you get your powers?" Caitlin noticed Jay pause for a long moment. His eyebrows twitched a little as if trying to figure out the best way to explain it. Or else the memories might've been too painful for him. His body tensed as she moved the stethoscope and he took short, sharp breaths. Finally, he calmed down and regained his friendly demeanor.
Caitlin looked over at Cadence whose eyes narrowed for a moment over her clipboard. She had noticed it too. Then Caitlin noticed Cadence's eyes change to a light orange color before she lowered her head over the clipboard once more.
"I'm not sure," Jay said. "I was working in my lab; there was a flash of light, and the next thing I know I woke up from a coma."
A lab? That piqued Caitlin's interest as she moved to Jay's front. "You worked in a lab?"
"Yes, I was a part time chemist, part time physicist."
The conversation had died out after that and shortly afterwards they put him down into the Pipeline. That had been awkward; this current situation was something Caitlin could barely handle. "Look, Harrison, I don't want Tess to feel like I don't want her here. She's just as welcome as anyone on Team Flash is."
"She understands that but she and I also want to help clear the air." Harrison licked his lips. "Because as much of the person I was, was partially Eobard, it was me too. And my wife and I, both, essentially just came back from the dead. This is something that not even any of our greatest studies could predict or teach us how to deal with. But knowing what was shared with you…"
"Please don't," Caitlin interrupted.
She could feel her heart started to clench. It was all too hard. Especially as her mind shifted towards Ronnie was well. If there was anyone who knew what it was like to come back from the dead, she understood that perfectly. She didn't need to be reminded of it again.
Caitlin clenched her hands then immediately let them go once more, immediately noticing the bright blue glow that came over her fingertips, the wisps of cold air that sifted out form her hands. Her heart rammed into her throat and she looked up at Harrison, whose eyes had moved to her hands as well. He definitely noticed.
How much did he remember of her moments of powers that came and go? That she hadn't told the others yet?
If he was going to say something Harrison didn't acknowledge it, he stayed quiet as long as Caitlin needed it. Finally, she cleared her throat and said, "I know the things that happened between us…or a version of you was real. Everything I felt was real. Everything I said was real."
"And the same for me," Harrison said.
"In a way I'm embarrassed about what happened, I probably wouldn't be able to look you in the eye for a long time, but I was hurting. I was hurting about a lot of things. And now that Tess is back and Ronnie is gone still hurts, probably a little bit more than it had before." She forced herself to look him in the eye. "But I love what I do. I love working here, I love my research, and I love being a part of something bigger than me. And whether or not it was you that hired me, you hired me for a reason and you continued to push me because you saw my potential. Just like I always knew if the time ever came to stand up for you."
Caitlin tucked her hair behind her ears. "I'm not going to give up on any of this because it's given me something to focus my life on. I'm not going to lie, it hurts a little when I see you two together but you were married long before I met you. But I respect you more than anything else. Just give me some time."
Harrison nodded. "I will," he promised. "Thank you."
Caitlin nodded back.
And for the first time in a while, she smiled.
Ryder dropped his tool belt to his desk before sitting down in his office chair. He scratched his forehead, pushing off his construction helmet. It clattered loudly as it fell to the floor, rolling to a stop under his desk. Then he leaned back in his seat, pressing the heels of his palms against his eyes.
His office was silent for a moment before there was a knock on his door. "Come in," he called. He lowered his hands from his face and took a look at his co-worker's face as he entered the room, closing the door behind him. "Any sign of him?" He asked.
"No." His co-worker shook his head, holding a helmet out towards Ryder. He took it and rested it on his desk, letting out a heavy sigh. "I've asked around and everyone on the site is saying the same thing; one minute he was there, the next he was gone. No one saw anything."
"They didn't hear anything?" Ryder asked, green eyes flashing.
"Nothing other than his startled scream. That's what had the others go running to find him. That helmet was the only thing they found."
Ryder picked up the helmet and twisted it back and forth in his hands as if the answer was going to jump out at him. Then he flipped it to look at the inside and frowned when something in the light caught his attention. He tilted the helmet towards the light then grabbed the object, watching as it stuck to his fingertips and danced on the air from his air conditioner.
Ryder studied it for a second before lifting his gaze to his co-workers.
"Is that a web?" He asked.
A/N: You can't imagine how excited I am for what's coming up. Anyway, are you guys watching the Legends of Super Flarrow Crossover? What do you think so far? I think the idea is good but the execution isn't great. It's been three episodes so far and it doesn't really feel like a lot has happened to move the plot forward? But that might just be me.
What are your guys' thoughts? Oh and what about Savitar? I think he's cool.
Please remember to review, I'm serious about my writing and my stories, and if you have anything to comment about, anything to mention, or anything to say, I would love to hear it and it motivates me to write more. I respond to every review I get even if it's anonymous.
Also, if you enjoy the story then recommend to others. I know Barry/OC stories are a bit of a small niche lately but I'm sure others would enjoy it.
Also check out my sister's and my new one-shots Smile, I'll Be There, Chance Encounters, and Movie Magic. And don't forget to check out my sister's story In A Flash (this and the one-shots are on this profile) and my other sister's story The Mark of Sage on the FFN profile Crystal Manning. ALSO! Check out the Supergirl story Supergirl & Diety by PowerHero432! It's a great story, always keeps on your feet and keeps you guessing.
Cheers,
-Riles
Review Replies
Ethan: I couldn't keep Henry in prison, especially after hating that decision on the show. He had to stick around in this one a little bit.
DarkHelm145: Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy how I continue to change the show as I move through it. As for Mick and Snart (As I told you in a PM) it'll be dealt with by the time their leave for Legends of Tomorrow comes. But it'll work out a bit differently considering the plot of them within this story.
yummers: Haha, thanks! I think Cade really held her own, don't you?
PowerHero432: I always figure the real Harrison wells to be a bit of a private guy even when he's not Eobard/Harry. So it'll be kept quiet for a while but will be brought up again later. I always enjoy Barry's scenes with this father(s) so it's great to have added here.
