Author's Note: WAAAAH I think this might be the last chapter and I'm SAD imma miss all the incredibly late nights I've had trying to plot this story. XD

As I have said to a few of you through PMs, I want to maybe do a little series of drabble-ettes showing the rest of their life, like a wedding, Nora's birth... we'll have to see how it all goes. If you have something you'd like to see, prompt me! The more specific, the better :)

After Thawn ran off and vanished, everything happened very quickly.

Barry fell to his knees, feeling an overwhelming pressure in his head. Footsteps made him look up blearily and he had a second to brace himself before Caitlin had thrown herself into his arms. He hugged her back tightly, burying his face in the crook of her neck.

"I love you," she whispered into his ear. "You did it."

"We did it," Barry corrected. "You keep me grounded, Cait; you keep me always have."

A second later another figure joined their group hug. Nora was positively sobbing, clutching at both of her parents with suit-clad, trembling fingers. Caitlin opened her arms and let her into their hug.

Oliver, Kara, Ralph and Cisco came jogging up. "Would you look at that," muttered Ralph, looking around him in amazement. "The lightning's stopped, the sky is blue, and Allen is still here."

Barry slowly got to his feet, untangling himself from his family. He gave Cisco, Ralph and Kara all hugs before stopping in front of Oliver. "How 'bout it?"

Oliver grunted. "Just this once," he grumbled. "And none of you can tell a soul."

The two of them hugged and Caitlin tucked Nora under her arm. "Ughhh," she groaned. "Does anyone else have a terrible headache?"

"I was actually wondering about that," Caitlin admitted. "I thought it was from using my powers too much."

"No, I've got it too," Barry agreed. He glanced at the rest of his team but they all shrugged, heads clear.

"It's gotta be from the timeline," Nora murmured thoughtfully.

"Ah, great," Cisco groaned. "Another change? Are you kidding me?"

"It'll just be for Nora, Cisco," Caitlin said. "Because her father will be there to watch her grow up."

Barry looked down at her adoringly and kissed her. Kara beamed at the two of them. "I'd say this calls for a celebration!" she cheered.

"I'm always up for one of those," Cisco grinned, high-fiving her.

Barry laughed. It felt like a weight the size of Central City itself had been lifted off of him. He could breathe again. "Why don't we head back to STAR Labs and see Joe and Iris?" he suggested. "Cisco?"

"You got it," Cisco said with a thumbs up, opening a breach for all of them to step through.

Once in the Cortex, Joe grabbed Barry in a bone crushing hug. Laughing, Barry hugged him tightly in return, before he was stolen back by Nora and Caitlin for more hugs and some Advil.

Joe invited everyone over to the Wests house. Twenty pizzas were ordered (and what with Barry, Nora and Kara all there it would be a wonder if anyone still was able to get any) and beer was handed out. "A toast!" Oliver suggested, raising his bottle. "To Barry. To the fact that, even against impossible odds, he was able to save everyone once again, and keep his family close."

"Man," Cisco smirked. "Impossible odds is our average Tuesday."

Everyone laughed and clinked bottles. Barry draped his arm around Caitlin. "I'm glad that we can finally be together without this hanging over our heads," he murmured.

"Yeah," Caitlin agreed, pressing her lips to his cheek. "I am too. Very glad. I don't- I don't know what I would have done if I had lost you."

Barry did, in fact, know what she would have done. The memory would continue to haunt him for the rest of his life, the look on her face as she lay on the floor of the bar, the one tear rolling down her puffy cheeks. It had, quite possibly, been the most terrible moment of his life.

But the knowledge had also given him a new angle on things. Whenever he had seen himself leaving, he had known that it would be hard. He had hated that he had to go. But at the same time, he had always seen himself as the hero, that leaving was the right thing to do. Now he knew that, even if he was saving some people, he would be breaking others. The best option- the only one he would allow himself to take, if possible- was to save everyone. Including Caitlin. Including Nora.

Including himself.

"Hey," Caitlin murmured. "You alright?"

"Yeah," Barry said back, smiling as he rested his cheek on her hair. Nora, laughing with Cisco and Kara across the room, caught her parents watching her and sent them a brilliant smile.

"Never better."

Author's Note: AHHHHHH WE FINISHED THE FLUX SERIES I'M SO SAD YET SO HAPPY AND SO PROUDDDDDDDDDDD :'D :'D :'D :'D

I hope that ending made you all as happy as it made me. I LOVE YOU GUYS AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT!