Part 41

After dinner Barry took Caitlin home. Barry led Caitlin over to the couch where they sat down. Barry pulled off her shoes after pulling her feet into his lap. He then began to rub them.

"Barry, you don't have to rub my feet." Said Caitlin

"I know. I want to. Cait, I know that you don't need me to take care of you. But I want to. I want to be here for you."

"I know. This is the you I missed. The one that put his friends needs before his own. When you were with Iris, it became about her. It was like I only existed when you needed me to patch you up."

"I shouldn't have treated you like that. Cait, you have been important to me from the day I woke up. You and Cisco were the first people I saw when I woke up as the Flash."

"Well you are forgiven. Besides you are one of the best things to ever happen to me."

"I could say the same about you. Now what are we going to do about Devoe?"

"I am not sure. It would be helpful if we knew which bus meta was going to show up next. Dominic Lanse is not a bad guy. He just wants to live his life as normally as he can. But it is hard with the power he now has. From what I got from the translation of the diary he has very strong mental abilities. You know like being able to read minds. He if given the right help could develop other ones too. But he would rather not have them at all. I need to talk to my mom. I have only glanced at my dad's research but there might be away to reverse it. Remove the meta gene without harming the person it is removed from. I know of another meta Devoe created that would want to have his powers removed for good. Neil Bormon, his power is a curse. He transports nuclear waste. The dark matter he was exposed to has caused him to become radioactive. So we should try and find him. Maybe Tim could help. Give him that cold gun prototype Cisco has been working on."

"Think the kid can handle it?"

"Well you do need a way to cool Bormon down if he starts to go nuclear. In my present condition even with my healing ability there is no way I should go anywhere near him."

"Yeah that would be a very bad idea."

"Barry, you do know that you don't have to stay with me. I mean if I need something I can call you. It's not like you can't be here fast."

"I just don't like the idea of leaving you alone. I know you can take care of yourself. But I screwed up big time last year by not being there for you."

"Barry, go back to Joe's. He and Wally need you. Iris is most likely going to spend a very long time in a psychiatric hospital. I mean a real hospital not like Arkham asylum in Gotham. Most of the people locked up there have no hope of ever being released. Why do you think so many of them keep escaping only for Batman to round them back up again."

"Ok but promise me that you will call if you need anything. I mean anything at all. I don't care if you wake up in the middle of the night wanting pot stickers and ice cream. Call me and I will bring it to you."

"Ok. I promise. Now go be with your family."

"Cait, I want you to be my family."

"We will discuss that later."

Barry nodded. He then leaned over and pressed his lips to Caitlin's. Caitlin was surprised at first but soon found herself returning it. When they broke apart Barry smiled at Caitlin.

"That was wow. But I get the feeling that was not our first kiss. I am not talking about your death kiss you gave me when you first went Frosty either." Said Barry

"Barry, I have never kissed you before. So I don't know what you could mean."

"Yeah uh Cait, you are a really bad liar. I still don't understand why Iris and Eddie believed that crap story you came up with about lightning psychosis. So want to try that again?"

"Fine technically we only kissed when I gave you that frost kiss. But I did kiss who I thought was you before. Remember Hannibal Bates?"

"That shapeshifter? Yeah."

"Ok when he looked like you he kissed me and I kind of returned it. In my defense I thought that he was you."

"Was he a good kisser?"

"Not as good as you Flash. In fact you might be a better kisser than Ronnie was."

"Well you are a damn good kisser yourself. Even when you tried to freeze me to death."

"Sounds like that turned you on Flash."

"Maybe it did. I love you Cait."

"Love you Barry."

"Sure you don't want me to stay until you fall to sleep?"

"I am sure. In fact I think I will go take a bubble bath before going to bed."

"Ok. Goodnight Cait. Sleep well."

"Night Barry."

Barry left and after making sure the door was locked Caitlin headed into the bathroom for her bath.

Devoe sat in his lair watching the prisoners in Iron Heights on his monitors. If all goes to plan he would soon have the metas that Team Flash had locked up. But so far nothing had gone the way he had planned. First the Flash was pulled out of the speed force much earlier than he had planned. Barry Allen was suppose to be in the speed force six months not two. But it went back earlier than that. Dr. Snow should have betrayed Barry Allen. But for some reason she never did and only pretended to. Then she started her friends in rounding up the metas that were needed for the enlightenment to come into being. But he was not going to be stopped not even if it meant he would have to kill the ice meta himself. He didn't care is the woman was pregnant with triplets. No one was going to stop him. Most definitely not that woman. He switched screens and watched as his wife walked into the office of the warden of Iron Heights. It would not be long before he would have some of his metas.