The next day flew by fast for Barry. He went out for lunch, assuming from what Cisco said that he could eat whatever and not get fat.
Right as the bell rang, Barry ran (normal speed) back to his dorm to change, before going out of the building and running (full speed) to CC Jitters.
Getting there somewhat early, Barry decided to order a coffee and a few muffins while he waited.
"Excuse me, are you Barry Allen?" Someone asked, as Barry was getting his muffins. Barry turned around to see who it was, and saw a lady in her late-teens smiling at him.
"Yea, that's me, who are you?" Barry asked cautiously.
"Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon told me we were meeting here?" The girl - Caitlin, asked. Barry nodded.
"Yea, yea, we are," he said. "Where is Cisco, by the way? It's three o'clock," Barry said, looking at his watch.
Caitlin shrugged. "You can always count on Cisco to be fashionably late," she joked, and Barry laughed.
"Normally, I'm the fashionably late one," he said, seriously. Caitlin laughed.
"Clearly," she said, hinting at the fact that Barry was there before her.
Barry laughed again. "I got lucky this time," he excused.
Cisco chose that time to show up, asking, "So, you two got to know each other?"
Barry shrugged. "We got each other's names, and we talked about you. Not each other," he teased, and Cisco put his hand to his heart in offense.
"Caitlin, tell Barry about yourself," Cisco said, as if he were a teacher instructing a class. Caitlin rolled her eyes and said, "I'm eighteen, but I skipped a year in school so I'm a freshman in college, I'm majoring in Bioengineering and pre-med," she said proudly. Barry raised his eyebrows.
"Well, I'm seventeen, I've got a twin," at that, Cisco raised his eyebrows, whispering something like, "That's so cool." Barry continued, "I go to a boarding school in Dalton, but I was raised in Central City," deciding against telling them about him being a foster kid.
"Dude, I've always wanted to meet a twin," Cisco said in awe.
Barry scoffed. "You don't want to meet mine. We're all lucky I'm the one who ended up the way I did," he said. "Speaking of which, how about we head over to the airport now?" He suggested.
Cisco nodded excitedly, and said, "Yes, definitely!
Barry and Caitlin smiled, and headed out the door, Cisco following suit.
"Oh, and Barry, don't take this the wrong way, I took your measurements while you were asleep," Cisco said, and Barry raised an eyebrow, starting to feel trust issues bubbling to the surface, "and Caitlin was able to pull some strings, and I made you a tripolymer friction-proof suit," He finished quickly.
Barry shook off the utter violation he felt in terms of admiring the fact that Cisco managed to get tripolymer. That stuff was extremely hard to get, especially as a teenager.
"I don't know if you've noticed yet, but normal clothes tend to burn up with high speeds, so I decided to help you out a bit. Your clothes were burnt when I found you, but I may or may not know how to fix clothes," Cisco sheepishly admitted, earning a confused look from Caitlin.
They didn't talk the rest of the way there.
"Alright, so this is the suit," Cisco said, pulling something red out of his messenger bag. "Try it on, see if it fits, and if it does, I'll explain everything it does," Cisco excitedly said. Barry smiled at his enthusiasm, and grabbed the suit, going to put it on.
The suit fit perfectly, and he looked like an actual superhero!
Barry walked back to Cisco and Caitlin, with his cowl down, and asked, "How do I look?"
Caitlin smiled and gave a thumbs up, and Cisco said, "So, freaking, cool!"
Cisco then proceeded to tell Barry about the different things the suit did, how he could communicate with them, and why it was so helpful.
Eventually, Barry got ready to run, and Cisco got the portable speedometer ready, as Caitlin pulled up his vitals.
"Damn, Barry, you're heartbeat is so fast," she said in awe. Cisco went over to look at his vitals, and mumbled, "Holy shit, that's awesome."
Barry sighed and said, "Can we start? My brother's practice is probably over soon and I don't want him to get suspicious."
Cisco nodded. "Yea, yea, let's get started," he said, and Barry put his cowl on.
"Ready?" Cisco shouted, and Barry mumbled, "Ready."
"Alright, I'm going to count down from three, and you're going to take off," Cisco instructed, and Barry nodded, getting into a runner position. "Three, Two, One!" Cisco shouted, and Barry took off.
Now that he knew what he was doing, the feeling of running, it was… exhilarating.
The feeling of wind rushing past him at impossible levels,he felt like all his worries, his problems, they were left behind him.
Barry was almost at the end of the landing strip when he remembered.
Mom?
Barry! Don't let it touch you!
Barry tripped, losing his balance. He waved his arms around, trying to keep his balance.
Run, Barry, run!
Barry tripped into a bunch of barrels, taken aback by a sudden realization.
He has the same powers as the man in yellow.
Rather than focusing on his probably broken wrist, Barry started thinking of how he could get his dad out of prison, how he could prove to Sebastian, and the court, that his dad was innocent.
The only problem with that would be telling everyone about his powers, and he wasn't sure he even wanted to tell Joe about this.
"Barry!"
Barry was snapped out of his thoughts by Caitlin and Cisco running to him, Caitlin with a tablet in her hand.
"I think I broke my wrist," Barry groaned, as they got closer.
"What happened out there?" Cisco asked with concern a few hours later, as Caitlin was looking at Barry's x-ray in concern. Both boys thought it was cool that she had an x-ray machine, even though it was her parents, but they opted to admire that later. "You were doing amazing, then you just… fell."
Barry sighed. "I… when I was eleven, my mom was murdered," Barry started. Cisco opened his mouth to say something, but Barry kept going. "The guy that did it, he had the same powers as me, but the police arrested my dad for it. My brother, he believed the cops, and I've been trying to figure out what really killed my mom and how to find him, and now, I think I have a way," he finished, leaving Cisco and Caitlin, who looked up from the x-rays to listen, speechless.
Neither of them knew what to say, so Caitlin just walked over to Barry with her tablet and showed him his x-rays.
"So this was three hours ago, when you first crashed," she said, and Barry winced. He was never good with looking at medical things. "Looks like you had a distal radius fracture."
Wait a second. "Had?" Barry asked, confused, and Caitlin swiped up. "It's healed. In three hours," she said, still shocked herself.
"What does that mean?" Barry asked, shocked.
"Looks like you have accelerated healing," Cisco said, a smile stretching across his face. Barry smiled about as wide as Cisco. "That's awesome," he said, before he got a text.
From Sebastian (just now): Lacrosse practice is done, do you want to eat dinner with the warblers and I?
Barry put his phone down, and said, "I've got to go, but I'll call you guys," Barry said, before taking off.
"He means call you, right? I don't have his number," Caitlin said to Cisco, and Cisco just shrugged.
Barry changed back into his clothes once he got to the school, hiding his new suit in a messenger bag he found on his way back.
Walking into the school, Barry almost literally ran into Sebastian.
"Hey, I was just about to go looking for you!" Sebastian said, smiling at his brother.
"I was outside, walking around the school. Don't really feel like exploring today," Barry lied.
Sebastian chuckled. "And I don't really want to lose you again," he said, before asking, "Are you doing track this year? It's not too late to sign up."
Barry shrugged. Honestly, he really wanted to, but he couldn't, not when he was still exploring his powers.
"I don't think it'd be a good idea, I just woke up, don't want to use up too much energy," he excused quickly.
Sebastian put a hand on Barry's shoulder. "True, plus, there's always next year," he said. Then, he gave Barry a mischievous smile.
"What are you doing…?" Barry asked, knowing that look all too well.
"You know, in our time here we've only pulled one prank?" Sebastian said as they walked up the stairs.
Barry laughed. "You're right, we haven't," he said.
Sebastian looked at him. "We should do something about that, prank the Warblers or something," he said, and Barry thought about it.
"How about you fix up my hair, and we go looking the exact same until someone notices?" Barry suggested, and Sebastian smiled.
"Now we're talking!" he said, happily, as they walked into his dorm.
"Go into the bathroom. We've got some work to do, your hair's grown too much," Sebastian ordered, grabbing a pair of scissors.
Barry laughed. This would either end terribly, or extremely funny.
I'm back! So, my birthday is next week, so I'm hoping to get this up to date by then, so brace yourself for an influx of updates :)
