Chapter 16

Those few words brought tears to her eyes and suddenly iris was sobbing uncontrollably into Barry's chest as he just stroked her hair trying to calm her down.

Iris couldn't understand the reasoning to her actions, Rudolph had been a terrible father, person for that matter who had done unspeakable things but still iris wept out of sadness for her only brother was dead.

Barry just held Iris throughout everything while he to was having a hard time understanding how he felt about everything. A part of Barry wanted to feel sad or even a bit unhappy over everything but after what Rudy had done to Wally, Barry couldn't bring himself to feel anything over his death and in a way this confused him.

Wally's brain was on hyper drive trying to process what had just been said but couldn't think clearly, images of Wally's father beating him mercilessly tainted his brain and out of every emotion fear was most prominent. Although Wally was angry at his father he couldn't bring himself to be happy over his death. His father had been a good person and more memories of Wally as a child played throughout his mind as he thought of himself his mother and father enjoying a picnic or spending time at the the zoo back when life was so happy.

Barry looked up towards Wally who was just standing there his face expressionless. Barry sent an "I'm sorry." kind of look before returning his attention towards Iris who had slowed down her crying slightly.

It was silent for a while only Iris's sobbing could be heard until Barry spoke.

"How did he pass?"

Iris looked up towards her husband's great blue eyes and strung together a sentence. "T..The .man said h..he a heart at..attack."

Iris then looked over at her nephew who stood there in total silence.

"Wally I'm sorry h..honey, are you alright."

Wally didn't respond he just stood there as still as ever as if he hasn't just heard what his aunt had said.

"Wally." Iris pulled herself away from Barry and made her way towards he nephew. She slowly reached out her arm and just barely touched Wally's hand before he flinched away and began to scream.

"I'M SORRY SIR PLEASE DON"T HURT ME!" Wally began to tremble and hid himself behind a chair.

Iris was taken a back concerned for her nephew. she quickly looked back at Barry who was now right behind her who looked slightly mortified at Wally's reaction.

Wally began to whimper behind the chair and thick tears began to pour out of his emerald green eyes.

Barry took one last look at Iris before slowly making his way over to wally kneeling down in front of him careful not to alert the trembling boy.

Slowly Barry put his arms around Wally and began whispering into his ear.

"Shhhhh Wally it's alright it's just Uncle Barry and your Aunt Iris, your father is gone now and no one can hurt you, your safe." Barry soothed the younger boy as Iris also came towards the 2 now comforting her nephew as well.

Wally's stopped trembling and the tears began to slow but still images of his fathers cruelty flashed throughout his mind and his brain just couldn't process anything at the moment.

"Everything is going to be okay kid, you had a panic attack but your safe now, no one is going to hurt you." Barry continued and the 3 just sat there until Wally was able to get up.

Wally's head had cleared enough for them to move towards the couch and the 3 sat down in silence as they all began to process the reality of what had just happened.

"How could he have let himself think that Aunt Iris was his father how It just was so real." Thought Wally who was now looking down towards his worn out sneakers not wanting to meet his aunt and uncles gaze.

"Are you feeling okay?" Barry asked almost startling Wally.

Wally shrugged before returning to staring at his shoes.

"Wally it's okay to talk about your feelings, we can help, you know that don't you." Iris began now looking directly at Wally.

Wally sighed before decided that talking would be best.

"I don't really know how to feel." Replied Wally looking unsure of what to say.

There was a slight pause before he continued.

"I guess I should be happy right, that my dad is you know." Wally gulped. "Dead.. But I don't know, everything just seems so confusing. I want to feel happy but he was good to me once and my mind just can't seem to decide what to think."

This time it was Barry and Iris who looked away, They new exactly what Wally was trying to say the matter was confusing at best. Neither one of them knew how to feel or what to say because Rudolph was family and whether they wanted to or not his death brought a bit of sadness to everybody.

They all sat in silence for what felt like the 100th time but everyone was just confused and upset.

Finally Iris spoke up. "I know how your feeling Wally, Rudolph was my only brother and even though I know he did terrible things to you I just can't help but feel sad that he's gone, But I know we can over come this and win in the end."

Barry squeezes Iris's hands as tears threatens to returns to Iris's eyes once again.

the 3 stayed like that for a good long while before finally Barry got up from his seat and walked towards the drawer nearest the TV.

"You know what I'm done with all of this for today, we need a distraction. Let's let this be tough on the day of the funeral but for now let's just relax at home." Barry began now rummaging through a neatly organised cabinet before lighting up after seemingly finding what he had been searching for.

Barry then held up and old CD case filled with the original 3 Star Wars movies.

"Anyone up for a movie?" Barry grinned.

Iris wiped away the last of her tears smiling at her husbands attempt to lighten the mood.

"Barry had always been good at that, making people feel better while never overstepping on any serious situation." Iris thought.

"I think a movie is just what the doctor ordered." replied Iris sarcastically.

Barry then turned his attention towards Wally.

"What bout you kiddo, want to watch a movie?"

Wally looked towards his uncle and then his aunt. Both looked tired but then again both looked happy in a weird way.

"A movie would be a good distraction, plus how could he say no to watching his favourite movie with his favourite aunt and uncle." Thought Wally.

"Weeeel okay sure let's watch a movie." Wally agreed a small smile spreading its way across his face.

At this Barry looked happy and quickly popped the CD into the TV, before sitting in between Iris and Wally.

For the rest of the night the 3 watched the Star Wars franchise although Iris fell asleep towards the end of the first film, the 2 speedster didn't feel the need to wake her.

Wally desperately wanted to stay awake for fear of dreaming of his father if he closed his eyes.

Barry sensing this decided that he would stay awake as long as his nephew which ended up being nearly all night until around 4:30 in the morning when Wally finally drifted off allowing Barry to do the same.

Wally was happy that night sitting there with his aunt and uncle almost made him forget about the drama that had taken place earlier that day. And this could be the sleepiness talking or maybe not but thinking about it now didn't bother Wally so much. He didn't need to feel anything over his dad's death because that man wasn't his father. His father was the blond haired scientist sitting next to Wally watching Star Wars at 3 in the morning.

Wally's real father was Barry Allen.

I hope this chapter was okay, I had a better one written but then Google Docs went all crazy and deleted everything I had written. :(

Hoping this is something like the original chapter I had planned but my brain could only remember soo much and I'm pretty sure this is close enough.

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