The Allen Residence, 1600 hours.

After a few more hours of testing, and eating a mountain of ice-cream and burgers from Big Belly Burger, the Garrick family found themselves on the porch in front of Nora and Henry's home. Lizzie held on to her parents hands while she stood in the middle as Joan knocked on the front door with her free hand. Lizzie remembered spending most of the day having tests run on her as to how fast she could go while Caitlin and Tess were checking on her psychological reactions to using her speed. Lizzie didn't understand a lot of it, but Jay simplified it for her.

They wanted to check if her body was in danger from using her speed in her young age.

"You're connected to something called the Speed Force," Jay had told her while they were having lunch at the abandoned runway with Joan and the others, "I should have realized it earlier… I mean, look Lizzie, you were already connected to the Speed Force when you were born. But I don't know why it's starting now… all I know is that we'll help you understand it, and control it."

Back on the porch, Lizzie tightened her grip on Jay and Joan's hands as the door opened. Nora stepped toward the door frame, and smiled at the Garrick family. They heard Henry's voice asking who it was, and once he came to the door while wiping his hands with a kitchen towel, he smiled at Lizzie, and then at Jay and Joan.

"Hey kids," Henry said.

"Mom, Dad," said Jay as Lizzie grinned.

"Jay?" asked Nora while she was glancing at Lizzie, and remembered their agreement not to call them 'mom' and 'dad' in front of her, even though it still broke their hearts. She saw Lizzie looking up at Joan, and then at Jay who looked at his daughter and nodded his head.

"Grandma," said Lizzie as she rushed forward and wrapped her arms around Nora's waist. She held on tight while the redhead whose glasses were hanging from her neck seemed a little bit confused, but she still held on tight to the girl. Lizzie then went on to hug Henry who looked back at Joan and Jay with confusion on his face while Jay and both of them that they needed to talk.

Once inside, Jay and Joan explained the situation to Nora and Henry, including what happened to Lizzie. The young girl smiled before super-speeding around the living room, and then stopped next to Joan and Jay.

"We had to tell her truth," Joan said as Lizzie clasped her hands together and smiled at Nora and Henry. The both of them were surprised, but quickly rushed towards Lizzie… with Henry grunting as he picked her up and hugged her. Lizzie was giggling while Nora rubbed her back as Jay and Joan simply looked on. Jay was happy that his daughter would finally get to know her grandparents from an early age, but there was a part of him that was terrified that Lizzie would begin doing what he used to do as the Flash; putting herself in danger to protect other people.

And he feared the rise of villains who would be formed purely to bring down a superhero, even without the use of a particle accelerator explosion. But Jay knew that there was no way to stop Lizzie from using her powers to help people if she wanted to.. she was too fast for him, now that his powers were gone. And there was another part of him that feared Thawne, at least his time-remnant, who Jay was aware was still in the speed-force somewhere.

'And he could come out of the speed force at any time,' thought Jay to himself.

It would be a few minutes later that Henry brought down a duffel bag from the attic, wiped off the dust that was gathered on the surface, and then handed it to Jay. He then unzipped the bag while Lizzie was sitting next to him, with Joan sitting on the other side, and then placed it on the coffee table in front of them. Joan then leaned forward and spread the top of the bag open.

And Lizzie's eyes went wide upon seeing the red suit shining under the lights in the living room. She reached out with her hand as she leaned forward, towards the uniform before pulling back nervously. She then looked at Joan, and then at Jay who told her that she could touch it.. that it wasn't going to hurt her.

Lizzie chuckled, and then shimmied towards the edge of the couch before stepping onto the carpeted floor, and then brushed her fingers on the smooth red weaved material, and then on the lightning emblem on the chest. She looked at the accents of yellow, and then at the lightning symbol once again… it was an orange lightning on a white background, and smiled.

"Flash," whispered Lizzie before she looked up at her grandparents, and then at Joan and Jay who were holding their hands together, "mommy, daddy, I want to be the Flash."

"Only after you get trained, honey," said Joan who, like Jay, had her heart racing while imagining every nightmare scenarios there was while Jay nodded his head, "and there are going to be a lot of rules."

"Okay," Lizzie nodded her head excitedly while Henry and Nora looked on; the both of them also getting deepening worry about their granddaughter being in danger, forming in the pit of their stomachs. While Lizzie was watching television after dinner, Nora and Henry discussed their concerns about Lizzie with Jay and Joan, the both of whom shared their concerns as well.

"We can't stop her, dad," said Jay shaking her head, "that's going to be nearly impossible. All we can do is tell her the dangers that exist out there, and make sure that she has a childhood. That's the best thing we could do."

With Henry and Nora, after discussing it much with Jay and Joan, reluctantly agreeing that Lizzie needed to learn how to control her powers, to realize the responsivity she has now to make sure that she doesn't hurt herself and others if, and when, she uses her powers in the open. Jay started Lizzie's training the next day. It was later the next night that Lizzie was given a new heart shaped golden locket, complete with a picture of Jay and Nora in each half, containing a tracker that would be traced through a STAR Lab's satellite. Cisco assured Jay and Joan that the tracker signal would be scrambled, and that only he, Caitlin, Harrison, and Tess would have any access to it. Once they had given the tracker to Lizzie, Jay and Joan came up with an agreement with the little girl; that her first priority was her studies, and that the police were the main ones responsible in keeping the city safe with Lizzie helping out occasionally. Joan told her daughter that she didn't need to have the weight of a while city on her at such a young age.

Jay told Lizzie to pretend as if everything was normal; to hang out with her friends, and do everything that she would normally do. They also told her not to attempt to do things that she wouldn't do normally. Once Lizzie agreed, listening intently to her father and mother, Jay began the training with Harrison and Tess supervising the young girl.

And it wasn't long before Lizzie began skidding to a proper stop in nearly all weather conditions that she may encounter in Central City. There were certainly times when she broke a few bones, and got some scratches… but the little girl simply shrugged them off with a laughing while Kay and Joan scolded her for being reckless.

Sometimes.

For the most times, Lizzie was careful with her powers. She would occasionally play tricks on her friends, but she made sure that they weren't noticing her. Following nearly a year of training, the little girl was able to control her speed, she was able to throw lightning, phase through a wall, run on water, and she even was able to run around the planet at an eventual speed of Mach Eighteen, all without the use of an artificial booster.

AS Joan and Jay stared at their daughter running through Tokyo on the screen in a classified lab that was connected to a Speed Lab, an area where Lizzie could hone her speed related abilities. They watched as she zipped in and out through traffic, and then sometimes using her phasing ability enabling her to run through the buildings harmlessly, using her speed in unique ways to simulate super strength by using her momentum… Jay explained to Lizzie the physics behind the super-sonic punch.. which she did get to try on a dummy. She was taught the best way to stop high speed cars, and criminals using Joe and Wally as her guinea pigs, together with Barry and Iris. Back in the present day, Jay commented that she was faster than he ever was as he watched her speed.

"Is it because she's been connected to the Speed Force since she was born?" asked Joan.

"I think so," whispered Jay, "which means that she could potentially be faster than the real Jay, Reverse-Flash, or even Zoom."

"Why does that kind of scare me?" asked Joan.

"Because she's doing better than we thought she would," said Jay, his heart racing at the box they had at home, the box containing a surprise for Lizzie with her birthday coming in a month' time. It was several minutes later that Lizzie ran in to an underground entrance at the edge of central city, and then into STAR Labs so that no-one could see which way she went since the entrance would close us once she had returned to the lab.

"Hey peanut," said Jay as Lizzie hugged her father while looking up at Joan and asking her if she had seen how fast she was able to go.

"You're doing real good, Lizzie," said Tess as she swivelled in her chair, her pregnancy showing while Harrison stood behind her and told Lizzie that all of her vitals were normal.

"For a speedster, at least," said Caitlin as she and Joan accompanied Lizzie to a bed. Joan helped her daughter hop onto the soft mattress while Caitlin ran some additional tests. It would be later that night that Lizzie would be holding her ninth birthday party at her home. She was there with her friends from school, as well as her parents, Barry and Iris, Joe, and Wally who had come along with his girlfriend, Linda Park… one of Iris' colleagues, and finally Nora and Henry were present as well. It was a night of revelling and fun with games, food, and of course, cake. It would be after all her presents had been opened with her friends present, and after they had left… that Lizzie got a box wrapped in multi-coloured paper from Joan while Jay gave Lizzie a wide smile. Barry held onto a pregnant Iris as everyone watched Lizzie tear the packaging of her box.. the wrapper falling among the torn remains of the wrappers from her other gifts.

"What do you think?" asked Jay as Lizzie looked down at the contents of the opened box, her mouth hanging wide open before looking back up at Jay, and then at Joan who told her to remember the rules that she agreed to before she started training."

"And most importantly," Barry reminded his 'niece', "no time travel, and no dimensional jumping."

"Yes," Lizzie nodded her head excitedly while Cisco told Lizzie about the technologies in the suit. However, Lizzie wasn't listening as she continued to stare at the suit in the box in front of her. With a smile on her face, Lizzie put the uniform on at super-speed while the others looked on… the girl stopping once she stood in her red suit; there was a long bolt of light that made up her belt, with lines of yellow going up her sides and to her back before ending at the edge of her high collars. She wore a cowl with the entire top section cut-off so that her hair could flow down; with Nora suggesting that she tie it up in a ponytail. Lizzie nodded her head while looked at the yellow lighting motif going down her arms sleeves and then at the gloves, and then she looked at her father smiling back at her.

"Can I…?" asked Lizzie as she pointed out the window, "just for a little bit? I mean, I think Uncle Cisco would like to know if the suit works nicely."

"Oh, it's gonna work nicely," said Cisco nodding his head, "friction proof suit with everything that was contained in Jay's old suit, and some extra stuff. Anyway, just.. you know… don't damage it."

"Be back quick, Lizzie," said Jay as the little girl smiled.

"Be back quick, Flash," said Joan before Lizzie dashed out of the house, her wake making everyone's clothes and the torn wrapping flutter in the air before falling back on the ground.

"Oh yea," said Jay shaking his head, "we can't stop her."

TBC.