A/N: So yeah, I have rewritten this when I started watching flash, mostly because I thought it deserved a re-vamp since being written when I was 15... So I hope you like it with the changes.
I was sitting in the office flipping through my book to my robotics class, I was reading through to see if I had missed anything before going to class later. I loved this subject, picking controls, instrumentation and robotics on top of my biochem was the best decision of my life.
I had been left behind in the lab as always it annoyed me. I hated that Barry got to go out on his own to crime scenes while I was left here to do his filing. I would have to get back at him for that.
Finally an evidence bag was dropped on the desk in front of me. I looked up and smiled at Barry before looking at the pen with some excrement on the end of it.
"Good crime scene I see?" I said and he chuckled setting his bag down.
"Totally, bank robbery, and thanks to you discussing with me all night last night over text, I was late this morning." He said and I rolled my eyes at him with a small smile on my face and put down my book and taking my feet of my desk to get to work.
"Not my fault you are wrong about which doctor is the best. I mean sure, 13 was cool, but you cannot deny the power that 10 brought to the character." I said and he chuckled at me and shook his head.
"I don't know how to explain how wrong you are. Now get working on the excrement." He said with a small smile.
"You can't explain, because you know that I am right. And how come you get to analyse the cool cases and I get faecal matter?" I asked annoyed but still gathering up supplies to analyse it.
"Because I am the boss of you, I get to decide who gets cool cases and who gets to analyse faecal matter. Once you finish your degree maybe you can decide who gets the faecal matter." He said with an annoying smirk and I rolled my eyes as he got up to put on his coat, probably to go get us lunch.
"Seriously? You know we have the same degree! You're just mad I get to take another masters in engineering on top of my biochem." I said and he chuckled.
"The usual?" He asked and I nodded with an annoyed look.
"Good, please start the analysis, and remember that you get the shitty jobs, when you diss my choice for best doctor." He said and I looked at him annoyed.
"Please say that pun was intended. And also I hate you." I said and he chuckled and gave me a small hug before leaving.
"Yeah yeah, love you too. Get to work." He said walking out of our lab, rolled my eyes with a smile at him.
But I did go to work on analysing it, I put on my gloves and opened the bag trying to hold my breath in order to not breathe too much of the smell in. I put it into the equipment to get analysed.
As I did I opened the computer and set up the tech to cooperate with the equipment before starting the machine and letting it do its job. I sat down and looked the results slowly develop as I took notes and put it into a microscope to look at myself.
After half an hour of work and taking notes of the escrament Barry walked back into the lap handing me a bag of takeout. I smirked and took a sip of my drink before opening my bag and taking out my usual sandwich. We ate and discussed the partical accelerator as we ate most of our lunch and I told Barry about my initial findings of the matter.
"But we will know for sure when the DNA tests are done." I said pointing to my computer currently still loading data he nodded and stood up writing some things down.
I kept sitting there eating the rest of my sandwich. We worked only talking occasionally as we walked around the lab analysing the different data's and putting it into a case file. Until Iris walked in.
"How are my two favourite nerds?" She said as she walked in smiled at her and nodded through my googles.
"Hi Iris, good to see you. I'll be over in a sec, I just need to deal with some acids first." I said slowly.
I let Barry and Iris talk as I turned around and continued to pour the acid on top of the metal to see if it would react, knowing that the matter of which it reacted could determine what material it was. Plus I did want to give Barry and Iris a moment alone, they were much closer that I was with them, and besides I knew how much Barry truly loved Iris, and I wanted to give him space to do so. I had known the second I had met Iris shortly after meeting Barry.
I was a freshman at 16 because I had been accelaterated to college by my school. I was so nervous starting out with all these older people. We had a buddy system at the lab, where we would be shown around and shown all the equipment by shadowing a senior, and as luck would have it, I was paired with Barry.
I was weary of him at first, and I do not think he liked me very much. But after being forced to hang out a few times we became fast friends. He was nice, into most of the same stuff I was and we had a good chemistry. I knew I was in when I met Iris a few days later at the lab. She walked in and I thought she was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. Then I looked over at Barry and noticed he was thinking the exact same thing. I loved her, she was one of my only girl friends she understood me because she understood Barry and by default knew how to talk to me as well. Ever since then, I was practically adopted by those two.
I noted the metal and smirked as I packed away the acid and cleaned my surface before turning around and smiling at Iris and Barry, seeing him explain what was so important about that partical accelerator to Iris.
"Leave him alone he is working." Joe said walking in. I smiled as I saw him speaking of getting practically adopted.
"Speaking of your test thingy is done." Iris said and I smirked but let Barry read the results and entertained Iris and Joe instead, I walked over and finally gave Iris a hug.
"Still stress eating about your dissertation?" I asked and she chuckled
"Yes, god I wish I was you sometimes." She said and I rolled my eyes.
"What a biochemist working in as a forescic assistents assistent while you're taking your second masters?" I asked and she chuckled and shook her head.
"God, I do not understand why you would do college twice, I can barely get through it this once." She said and I smiled and shrugged but tried to comfort her.
"You'll get through it, if you do it right, maybe you can even do it once and not twice." I said with a smile and she rolled her eyes.
"Still, who takes two masters, wasn't one nerdy degree enough?" She asked I smirked, I kind of loved this question because I loved the answer to it.
"No, you know the reason it is so cool to combine my two masters is that I will both have the technical knowledge to build, fix and invent all of the equipment we use, but unlike normal engineers I will actually be able to use it and will see problems with the use before a normal engineer will. And combined with biochemistry there is infinite possibilities as to what you can do with combining the two fields. Its like-" I was cut off by Joe putting his hand on my shoulder.
"Iris, you know not to ask that question, it always results in a 10 minute speech about the possibilities of combining the two fields. Speaking off, shouldn't you be at school right now?" He asked me giving me that knowing dad look. My eyes widened as I looked up at the clock behind him.
"Oh shit. Why didn't you say something? I am gonna be late, damn my nano tech professor is gonna kill me." I said annoyed and slowly gathered up my things to hurry to class.
"Book." Iris yelled as I was running out of the door, I quickly turned around and grabbed my book of the desk.
"Thank you." I yelled running out of the door.
"You know for someone so smart, she sure is bad with time." Iris said making her dad chuckle and shaking his head, before Barry turned around to give them the results.
I made it to class just in time before my professor started, he gave me a glared but I just shrugged and sat down beside my lab partner before he started teaching. I smiled and nodded at Sarah as I did. She was cool, a huge robotics nerd, which was good because she was lightyears ahead of this class, meaning I learned more from hanging out with her than I did in this class. She was wicked good at inventing and I was so happy when we got paired together the first year. She was nice too, and I helped her sometimes, because she was usually moving so fast and constantly inventing that she forgot details, which is where I came in and fixed them and tried to combine her ideas with existing tech to make hers possible. We were a good team.
As I was headed home from class I was looking at my phone watching the news of the partical accelerator. I was super excited about it, thinking about how much it would do for the field of theoretical physics. Those advancements would mean so much for science as a field in general, which was just gonna be the coolest thing ever.
It started to rain and I put away my phone but continued to let the news run, so I could listen to it. The storm was getting pretty bad and I looked up at the sky annoyed, understanding why everyone else was hurrying inside. The streets were almost empty, I only stayed out in the rain because I was 500 meters from my apartment, I figured it would be stop when it was so close.
That was a bad decision as I later found out. I got more concerned when I heard from the news in my headphones that the partical accelerator was compromised, maybe it would even explode.
I took out an earplug looking towards star labs, that was only a few blocks away from my apartment. I was looking straight ahead and took out an earplug out of instinct.
They say when you have a near death experience your life flashes before your eyes. Well let me tell you, when it sneaks up on you you do not have time for a life flash. As I saw the explosion and the beam of energy that came with it the only thing I could think as it came towards me was:
"Oh, f*ck."