The song title is from the lovely Florence + the Machine! I mainly chose it because it captures the element of having lost someone dearly cared for/a loved one has moved too far out of reach. Enjoy!

This chapter is from the perspective of Hannah's friends. Also forewarning that this chapter has SPOILERS for bit later on. It isn't a required reading chapter, but it was a lot of fun to come up with. It also functions as a backdoor into a friend's one-shot where Noemi ends up in Supergirl, S2 while looking for Hannah. The link is at the bottom.


Noemi knows something's up when she doesn't wake up with a "Morning!" text, or a long rant about something, or a link, or anything really. Hannah didn't leave for Germany until tomorrow.

She shoots off a quick text, a simple "good morning," figuring Hannah might have been at work and been too busy to reply.

Noemi proceeds to go about what constitutes a usual day for her. Get up, get dressed, and watch her sister's kids. They're a rowdy bunch, but she loves the munchkins dearly.

At one point, while working on a paper and the kids sat watching Zootopia, she glances at her phone. It's early afternoon and still no text. She wonders if it's gonna be one of those days where they don't talk, but something heavy is settled in her stomach and the idea of the younger woman not texting back worries her.

She types out a simple, "Everything okay?"

She frowns as she sets her phone down.

"Neho?"

Noemi looks up and smiles at her sister's youngest daughter, Lila. "Yeah?"

"Can we watch something else?" The little girl asks.

"You don't wanna watch Zootopia?"

"I wanna watch heroes!" Micah declares, and Noemi raises an eyebrow. "Can we watch Batman versus Superman or The Avengers?"

"No, you can't." Noemi sets aside her computer, grabbing the remote to exit back to the Netflix home screen. "How about the Flash?" Minimal cursing, campiest of the camp, good father figures and friendships and romantic loves, and the added benefit of watching hot guys. And it should be below PG-13.

The kids look at each other. Lila doesn't want to, clearly. Micah is thinking about it. Maria and Jack, the twins, are completely on board and already climbed onto the couch because they're tired of sitting on the floor.

"Sure!" Micah sits back down, wiggling excitedly. "We were at the end of season one!"

"I guess." Lila pouts a little. "I wanted to see Wonder Woman."

"That's still in theaters, sweetie." Noemi pats her lap. "Come and sit with Neho. I'll let you choose next."

"Okay…" Lila still doesn't look convinced, getting up to sit in Noemi's lap, arms crossed.

Noemi is distracted by her phone going off. She grabs it and is a little surprised to see it's from Stacey. They almost never talk.

"Have you talked to Hannah today?"

Noemi frowns, passing the remote to Micah. "Find what episode you were on."

"Yes!"

As Micah is clicking through the Flash episodes, Noemi replies to Stacey.

"No. Why?"

It's blank for a minute then she sees the answering dots in the bottom. The text comes in a moment later.

"Hannah went missing last night. No one has seen or heard from her since DND."

Oh shit. "Wait, doesn't she do dnd with a lot of people?"

"Amber was with her when it happened. Car was left, keys gone. She's gone." There's a break in texts. "They think she was snatched."

Fuck, fuck, fuck. "How's her aunt and uncle doing?"

"I haven't gone to see them. But I bet pretty bad."

Fuck. Fuck fuckity fucker fucking fu–

"Who's she?" Noemi is snapped out of her thoughts by the twins. Maria is frowning at the screen and Jack is thoroughly confused. "She wasn't in the last episode!"

"Maybe she showed up at the end?" Jack shrugs.

Noemi looks up and nearly drops her phone. Hannah– and it is Hannah, with her dyed hair and fat purse and teal tank top, no one can convince her otherwise– is on the screen, sitting at Jitters across from Cisco, talking about something but the sound is too low.

She takes the remote from Micah. Noemi rewinds the episode and turns up the volume. She really hopes she isn't hallucinating because Hannah wasn't even in Flash the first time she watched, and certainly wouldn't have been 19 in season 1 either.

She hits play.

It's clearly starting from where the last episode left off. Cisco is on one side of the Cortex and Hannah is stood in the entryway of the room. Cisco is pointing at her.

"So," Flash!Hannah says, tone contemplative, "clearly this is pre-season 2." Her expression seems to brighten with surprise. "Oh shit, is this before Eddie dies?"

"Eddie what?" Cisco's voice went up two or three octaves when he spoke, eyes huge.

"Oh shit. I'm fucking up everything! Oh shit!" Flash!Hannah then devolves into tears, going on about how she couldn't be crying and couldn't get home.

Noemi reaches for her phone. "Stacey have you watched the Flash?"

"No. Why?"

"Watch rogue air from season one for me."

Noemi hits send, pauses, can't believe she's about to tap out the next message.

"I need some help."


"So Hannah has an acting career and she didn't tell us." Noemi can hear Stacey's shrug. "So?"

Noemi is scrolling through the Flash tag on Tumblr, reading the confused posts about the 'new girl' to the series, indignant outcries to the change in episodes suddenly, support for an original character that "emulated the interesting qualities Harrison Wells and Felicity Smoak brought with a 'fangirl' and 'breaking the Fourth Wall' twist". She had checked the Chronicles of Cisco blog and found some of it had been changed too. None of the actors or show creators had yet to say anything. This had happened overnight.

"Stacey." Noemi shifts her phone, wondering what Stacey thought of her voice. This was the first time they had ever talked for more than a couple minutes, which always happened over text. "Listen to me. This happened in a matter of hours. This isn't 'been here for months'. And when would she have had the time? You said it yourself, she spent everyday at home and if not there, then with friends or at work. No time to fly to Ontario and back every day, where the job demands 10 to 20 hour schedules and several weeks to film a single episode."

"True…."

Noemi rubs at her face. "This is so damn weird. How is this kind of shit even real?"

"Multi-verse theory." Stacey opts, finally starting to sound nervous. "Must of stumbled on a weak space between worlds."

"Into the Flash?" Noemi found it hard to believe. "C'mon."

"Cisco can vibe universes you said, right?" Stacey asks. "Hannah has said the same thing. Maybe he left one open?"

"No. His close automatically. And this took her to the past. Cisco can't do that." Noemi pushes away from her computer, rubbing her face again so she wouldn't start crying. "Must be from the black hole in 'Fast Enough'. Probably ripped open but was too far away for the team to notice. Talk about shit luck."

"So how are we gonna get Hannah back?"

Noemi looks at the TV playing episode one of season 2. It had opened on Hannah and Barry talking in a rebuilt Jitters. From what she could gather, killing Eobard instead of Eddie hadn't stopped the Singularity (it being something of a fixed point), but it stopped Barry from feeling like he couldn't be close to people. Jitters still got trashed, just not as badly. Ronnie was still dead.

Her eyes narrow on the speedster as he fidgets and touches her friend's hand. Hannah– oblivious as ever– doesn't seem to notice as she takes a sip of her tea.

"She's gonna rip his heart out."

"What?" Stacey asks, startled.

"Sorry." Noemi shakes her head. "Started season 2. Barry is getting a crush."

Stacey is surprisingly chipper over this. "He is her type."

"Number one rule with Hannah, if she has a crush she isn't going to do a damn thing about it. She's smother it, in fact."

"Hm, I know. But she isn't here anymore. She's there. Forty bucks she'll fall in love."

"Fifty she doesn't."

"You're on."


"Amber swears up and down this lady is a legit witch." Stacey walks up to the place, a little shop with plants growing in pots all around, ivy crawling up the faded two-story building, called Eclectic by Nature. "Amber's gonna meet me here."

"I'm concerned for you."

"It's fine. I'll keep you on the line the whole time. You have the best theories and ideas."

Four months they had been searching for a way to get Hannah back. They'd been able to watch to the season 2 finale, but it was like the rest of the show suddenly forgot about it. Fans were confused and angry. Hannah was still going strong at the end of season 2, going so far as to stop motherfucking Flashpoint, which still happens in season 3. Noemi theorizes it deals with their end. Something has to happen on their earth for season 3 to adjust or take Hannah on.

Stacey hated science. Noemi hated science. Amber hated science.

Hopefully magic- and this witch or Wiccan or whatever named Tevane- was the answer.

Noemi owed Stacey forty dollars.


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