100 Days of Arrowverse 2017 Volume B: The Flash & Legends of Tomorrow
38 days until Supergirl - 39 days until Flash & Legends - 41 days until Arrow
"SPEEDSTER'S TRAIL"
(The Flash: Team, part 5 of 10)
Even though they had all heard every word of the exchange between Barry and the Speedster, the rest of the team couldn't quite believe the team couldn't quite believe their ears until the pair of them sped into the cortex. Wally had already returned, picking up his father on the way, and he might have looked more confused and stunned than any of them as they were brought face to face with this woman who had once been a girl they knew.
"Jesse?" Wally stood transfixed. She didn't turn to him; she seemed to struggle to look at any of them, as though it would only cause more trouble. She had never meant to be here with them, had she?
"What happened to the Legends?" Barry asked. It was something that he'd convinced her to come, to let them do anything to help her with her search.
"If I knew, I wouldn't be here talking to you, would I?" Jesse told him. She was looking around the room now, with reminiscence in her eyes, and it was hard not to ask about the future. "This year is when it happened. I hoped that in coming to this point in time I could find some way to understand what became of them."
"Why now? For you, I mean," Barry wondered. "Why… well, you?"
"I was asked to investigate, to answer questions and put some minds at ease who never got to forget them."
"Asked by who?" Cisco asked. Jesse weighed each dispensation of information before it was given.
"Lily Stein. She asked for my help to find out what happened to her father. "How could I say no?" Her gaze had flickered for a moment to HR, the man who wasn't her father, but some version of him still.
"Let us help you," Barry looked at her, standing there like she wanted nothing more than to be somewhere else. "Whatever happened, we can find them, we can fix it."
"Because that's worked so well before?" Jesse turned to him, and the all too knowing look in her aged eyes said it all. "I knew I couldn't come here without falling on your radar, but I tried not to involve you and I stand by it. I came for answers, that's all."
"Wouldn't you rather have it so those questions never needed answers?" Iris told her. Jesse looked at her; she couldn't argue with that.
"Two days," Caitlin followed Iris' lead. "Give us two days to try. Whether or not we find them, you could still have something to bring Lily back." She'd looked distant since her arrival, unwilling to even look at them, and it had been hard to see her in there… their Jesse. But at this, she seemed to emerge.
"Do you see what you're asking me? I can return to where I belong, knowing I'll be erased, or stay here and help you and become a remnant, with no place of her own. What do you expect me to do? I want Lily to have her father back as much as you do."
"Best intentions, right?" Barry tipped his head to her. She frowned, then finally allowed herself to look them all in the eye, though again when it came to Wally she appeared just a bit evasive.
"So where do we start?" Jesse asked Barry. He looked at the others, who had no specific idea yet, by the looks of them. This older Jesse had something intimidating about her for sure; her speed alone was something to behold. For now though they had to forget it all and focus on the Legends and bringing them home – if they could be found.
See you tomorrow back here for more Flash!
