Part 56

"What do you want to talk about Mr. Wayne?" asked Caitlin

"Call me Bruce. This speedster from the future Thawne. He is the one that told the Joker that Barbara was Batgirl. I don't want you to tell her that. I am not sure how well either of you know her. But she has a tendency to act without thinking at times. She would go after him on her own. Even in that chair." Said Bruce

"That does sound like the Barbara I knew in college. I mean I remember one time Dick just showed up and she was out on a date. He tried to get her to leave with him. She broke a bottle over his head telling him to get lost." Said Caitlin

"We still have no idea what Thawne is doing here."

"He probably still wants to kill Barry." Said Caitlin

"Yeah the reason he killed my mom was because a future version of me went back in time to stop him from killing me." Said Barry

Bruce just nodded.

"You should know that my mother and I have some ideas on possibly making it so that Barbara can walk again. But we have to wait until my babies are born."

"I hope you can. I have always felt guilty that she was shot."

"Barbara chose this life. She wanted to save her city. She could have given it up after she lost the use of her legs. But she didn't. She found another way to keep helping you. Bruce, the one thing I learned about Barbara is that she is stubborn as hell. She is also protective of those she cares about. While I doubt that she will ever take Dick back. I know she still cares about him."

"She always will. Just like she will always care about you. Why do you think that she has spied on you for all these years?"

"Yeah she really needs to stop doing that."

"You want to tell her that?"

"Not really."

"Didn't think so. In the future anything you need to build your tech call Barbara or me. I will make sure you get it."

"Thank you. You know if you ever need help then all you got to do is call."

"Caitlin, you must know that I prefer to work only with my team."

"Sometimes weather you like it or not you need help."

Bruce nodded and they headed back to the cortex.


Thawne came to a stop outside a building covered in snow. Looking around the frozen world he was in. He smirked Carla Tannhouser thought that she was so smart. But he was smarter. He took a deep breath and phased through the wall of the building. He looked around the abandoned lab. It wasn't long before the only inhabit of the lab joined him.

"Icicle, old friend. How would you like to get revenge on Thomas's wife for locking you away here?" asked Thawne

"Will I be reunited with my true daughter?"

"Of course."

"Then get me out of this prison."

Thawne smiled grabbed the ice meta and they were gone in a flash of red lightning.


Carla was sitting at her desk in her office when an alarm went off on her computer. She hit a few keys and went pale. The monster that replaced her husband disappeared in a flash of red lightning from his prison. She picked up her phone and called her daughter.

"Mom is everything ok?" asked Caitlin when she answered.

"What color is the lightning of your speedsters?"

"What mom? Why do you need to know that?"

"Just answer me Caitlin."

"Barry's is kind of an orange almost gold color. Wally and Jesse both have yellow. Why do you need to know that?"

"Do you know of speedster with red lightning?"

"Yes Eobard Thawne the Reverse Flash. He is an evil speedster from the future that should have been erased from existence more then once. But just keeps coming back. Now will you please tell me why you need to know this?"

"Your father is free. He was broken out by a speedster with red lightning."

"Damn. He is going to come after you for locking him up! Mom, I am going to send someone to bring you to STAR labs."

Just then a flash of yellow lightning stopped in Carla's office.

"Dr. Tannhouser, I am Wally West also known as Kid Flash. Caitlin sent me. You might want to close your eyes."

Carla nodded closed her eyes and felt Wally grab her. The next thing she knew she stood in the middle of the cortex of STAR Labs.

"Mom are you ok?" asked Caitlin

"I'm fine. Though I was a little nervous that my clothes would catch fire during the run here." Said Carla

"That is the reason speedsters have friction proof suits. Mine is also friction proof. My question is why would Thawne free my dad?"

"Caity, part of the reason that I locked him away was he planned to turn both of us into ice demons like he is. Killing off our human sides."

"Mom, I may have powers like him. But I am nothing like him. There is no other personality. That became integrated into me when I couldn't kill Barry when he challenged me to do it over a year ago. Actually it was a little over a month after I came see you."

"I don't understand how you were able to do that."

"Well it helps that my life has been tied to Barry since I was eight. Remember that last trip to the beach we took with dad?"

"Of course. An older child pushed you into the water off the rocks you were sitting on. A boy about your age helped pull you out."

"Turns out that was Barry. The speed force bond us at that moment. I became his lightning rod grounding him when he became a speedster. He became the only person on earth that could pull me back to the light when I started to fall into darkness. Mom, I will always have some darkness in me. But that doesn't mean that I will let it consume me."

"You have always been the shinning light in my life. I promise that I will be a better grandmother than I was a mother."

"I know mom. I love you."

"Love you always my beautiful girl."

Carla hugged her daughter. But released her when she felt at least one of the babies kick.

"Was that a kick?"

"Yeah they started to do that in the last couple days. Most of the time it has been at night."

"You were the same way. Is Barry still looking out for you?"

"Of course. He just bought a house for us to live in. Actually it's a small mansion."

"So he is finally using some of his inheritance. I am glad he is trying to give you what I couldn't. A home. I know that is why you never came back after you left for college."

"Mom, I have forgiven you for my crappy childhood. You are here for me now that is what is important."

Carla kissed her daughter on top of her head.