As Barry Allen was slowly healing, and as Caitlin Snow finally began to accept life without her fiancé, Eddie Thawne and Iris West were coming to terms with what they had discovered about the world and about each other in the past year. When Doctor Wells' particle accelerator went off and created the meta humans, the world change, sometimes for the good, other times for the bad. But so long as they were willing to keep working, to keep fighting for what they believed in, both Eddie and Iris were sure that things would work out. That neither of them had spoken about the ring Eddie had brought with him before Wells had taken him, was just a choice they had decided to make. They both knew that eventually, they would need to talk about it, but for now they were content to let it lie.

Jitters was busy, quite busy for a Thursday afternoon, but neither Iris or Eddie could bring themselves to mind. They'd both managed to find some time off in a rather busy and hectic week, to spend some quality time with one another. Of course, Iris was concerned about one thing at work, and so she spoke. "You know, I'm convinced my boss has something against the whole Star Labs team." She thinks about his tirades against Star Labs, against Wells, Caitlin and Cisco and she finds the anger growing within her again.

Eddie looks at his girlfriend and asks. "Oh, what makes you say that?" he's met Iris's boss, and he thinks the man's got a huge chip on his shoulder, but he's not sure why.

Iris thinks for a moment and then says. "Well, he keeps going on and on about how they were so irresponsible, how everything that has gone wrong with the city for the past year can be traced back to them. Back to that night. He's convinced that Caitlin and Cisco knew that something was going to go wrong, and that they should be brought for trial."

Shock runs through Eddie then. "What?! Really? Surely he does not think that they knew anything about what Wells was planning?" he's met a lot of people who lost someone because of the accelerator, but he's never met anyone who's outright blamed the people at Star Labs.

Iris nods, thankful that her boyfriend's just as shocked as she is. "I know right. I tried pitching that to him, but he wouldn't hear it. It's almost as if he's got some sort of blinker on when it comes to them. With everything else he's fine, he's rationale, but with them it all just disappears."

Eddie listens to his girlfriend, a thought forming in his head. When Iris stops speaking he takes a breath, then asks. "Have you done some digging into him?" He knows that it seems like an odd question, but if anyone has done digging on their boss, it has to be Iris.

Iris hears her boyfriend's question, and for a moment she considers protesting, she'd never do something like that, except that she has. And so she sighs and nods. "I did. There's nothing on him, nothing serious anyway. He had a fairly average job history before coming here."

That peaks Eddie's curiosity and he finds himself asking. "Where was he before?"

Iris hesitates a moment before responding, she'd seen a lot in his file, but the name of where he was before coming to Central City News escapes her, until she remembers it. "I think he worked in Smallville. Some off kilter newspaper that hadn't really had a big story for a while."

Eddie thinks on that for a moment and then asks. "Is he a Smallville native?"

"Yes!" Iris exclaims, everything suddenly clicking into place. "And he was a little kid when the meteor shower hit the place. Do you think that's why he's so anti Star Labs?"

Eddie nods. "I think so. It would make sense. Those meteor rocks did a lot of damage." He thinks on what he had heard about the place growing up and shudders.

Iris bites her lip nervously then and asks. "Do you think he'll try and find out more about the place? And exactly what happened there?"

Eddie thinks over the question and then sighs. "I don't know babe. Do you think his grudge runs that deep?"

Iris thinks for a moment, considering everything she's learned about her boss, in detail and the minute and then she shakes her head. "I don't think so. Unless there's another series of meta attacks, I don't think there will be anything serious."

Eddie nods, and then says. "I think you should let it lie babe. Don't want to antagonise your new boss do you?"

Iris smiles. "Well no, but if he keeps saying things about Caitlin and Cisco, I don't care who he is, I'll be having words with him."

Eddie smiles lovingly. "I know."

"Oh!" Iris exclaims suddenly. "That reminds me, how is Cisco doing?"

Eddie smiles softly, thinking of Cisco, he likes the guy, really he does. "He's doing fine. He's made a good impression on the cops at CCPD and Singh likes him. So even if Barry doesn't get the team back together, he'll be fine."

Iris frowns at that, thinking of her foster brother, she hasn't seen him nearly as often as she would like, but from what she's heard, he's been spending a lot of time with Caitlin, which is good. He needs someone to talk to. "How's he doing?" she asks, knowing Eddie doesn't need to ask her who she means.

Eddie sighs. "He's doing okay. Or as okay as one can do when you know that the person whose committing all of these murders somehow got a hold on your mother's DNA."

Iris nods, and goes to say something, but before she can, Eddie pulls her down, just as gun shots are heard and glass shatters. She hears screams and then looks at her boyfriend and asks. "What's happening?"

Eddie goes to reach for his gun, but instead looks at his girlfriend and replies. "I don't know, someone's firing at the shop though." He sees Iris nod and then he gets his phone and dials 911, as the shots ring out around the coffee shop. Having to shout into the phone he says. "This is CCPD Office 129, I'm calling to report a shooting at Jitters, back up requested."

The shots continue to ring out and then they stop, and silence falls, Iris looks at Eddie, asking with her eyes if they should get up, but she sees Eddie shake his head. She freezes when the door opens, and she hears a voice she thought she'd never hear again. "Well, well, isn't this something. Time to make the man know where I was." Another shot is fired, and then the voice speaks. "I'll be back again Flash." And with that the door closes and people start getting up, they start looking through the debris, and Iris looks at Eddie and whispers. "Did you hear that voice?"

Eddie nods, shaken. "I did. I thought he was dead."

"So did I." she says, and then she whispers. "But apparently Harrison Wells is much harder to kill than we thought." She hates to think what Barry will think when he hears.