How much longer? I've lost the will to go on. I'm trapped in the same place, staring at these four grey walls for as long as I can remember. I can't remember a time when I wasn't stuck in this house.

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Whilst Barry was taking care of a fire, Cisco was putting the final touches on the force field. It should be able to handle the impact of a speedster, even one on The Reverse Flash's calibre.

Their plan wouldn't go into motion until the next day. Considering what happened the first time, they couldn't risk any mess-ups. Barry had tested the force field several times, and he had yet to disrupt it once, but he had gotten close a few times. With Wells being even faster than he was, there had been a few tune-ups.

Until then, Barry was greeted with a pleasant surprise. Eddie was planning on proposing to Iris tonight. It seemed like everything was falling into place. Iris would get engaged and they would catch his mother's killer.

Which is why it surprised Barry when he learned Joe did not agree to Eddie proposing to Iris. Eddie asked him to confront Joe about the issue because he was going to be proposing to Iris either way and he hoped Joe would at least approve of their relationship for Iris' sake.

Barry brought Joe to the entrance of the Pipeline. There had been a few lectures and inspirational speeches that had taken place here. It just seemed appropriate.

"So Eddie talked to me today and told me he was planning on proposing to Iris tonight but that you said no when he asked for your blessing," Barry revealed. "I mean, I'm sure you have your reasons but I just don't get it Joe. Why'd you say no?"

"Well first off, they haven't been dating each other for that long. Barely even a year and Eddie is already deciding he wants to spend the rest of his life with her," Joe pointed out.

"Okay, I can agree with you there. Things are moving pretty fast between them, but come on Joe. It's pretty clear they both love each other. What does it matter how long they've been together?" Barry dismissed his concern. "I know you, that isn't the main reason you said no,"

"Because Iris is going to be swept up in the romance and she's going to say yes," Joe revealed his real concerns.

"Isn't that a good thing? That she's going to be happy with Eddie," Barry said, confused as to why this was a problem.

"It won't be when in a few years Iris will wake up and realize she married the wrong guy," Joe said. "But she won't do anything about it because she made a vow to always love him. I don't want that for her,"

"Iris isn't you Joe. She's not going to make the same mistakes of loving someone not right for her. If that day comes, she'll realize they're not meant to be together and divorce. Until then, it's her choice in who she wants to marry," Barry assured him Iris would make the right choice.

"Iris isn't even sure what she wants," Joe denied. "She's got feelings for you Barry. They may be buried deep down, but she's got them. I can see it,"

Barry just looked at Joe in shock. Iris had feelings for him? He wasn't sure how he felt about that. Since the moment he saw her, he'd had a crush on her, but these last few months, something had changed. He didn't feel the same way about Iris anymore. A few months ago, he'd be ecstatic but now, everything changed.

He'd finally gotten over Iris by not following her around everywhere. And having finally told her his feelings and being rejected had certainly helped. He wasn't waiting on her hand and foot for anything she could possibly need. He became his own person. He'd been feeling good about himself and learning to deal with his trauma that he no longer needed Iris for support. Without that, the feelings quickly vanished.

"What am I supposed to do with that?" Barry asked Joe about the revelation of Iris' feelings. "I don't feel that way anymore,"

"Since when?" Joe asked in astonishment.

Barry thought back to the last time he actually had feelings for Iris and he couldn't. At least, not anytime after his coma. "I don't know, but I'm not burdened by this anymore Joe. If Iris has feelings for me, that's her problem. I told her about my feelings at Christmas and she said no. It's too late. I've moved on after I've finally gotten the closure I needed,"

"Then what do you think I should do? She'll hate me for sure. What should I do, Barr?" Joe asked, not wanting Iris to hate him.

"I don't know, Joe. Maybe you should talk to Eddie and finally accept their happiness and yes, their relationship might be a little bit too fast but when you find the one that makes you happy, you gotta hold on to it." Barry patted Joe on the back to comfort him.

"I don't like it Barry," Joe said, shaking his head. "I don't approve of their relationship and I don't think they should be getting married any time soon,"

"Well I'm not asking you to approve it. They have some problems they need to work and talk through, but if they're meant to be together, they will work it out. You just need to accept that it's happening and promise you won't do anything against them," Barry said.

"Oh I know this is happening. A little too well," Joe mumbled.

"Remember, Eddie is in love with Iris. Tell him how you feel but promise you won't come between them," Barry reminded him.

Joe nodded his head in contemplation and turned to Barry one last time. "When did you get so wise in matters of the heart?"

"Well having so much love in your life from so many people helps you put love into perspective," Barry said.

Joe smiled and brought Barry into a hug which Barry reciprocated. "I love you Barr,"

"I love you too… Dad," Barry told him.

Everything was set up. The cameras were in place, Caitlin was in the Cortex, ready to tell Wells what Cisco was doing as soon as he entered.

The hologram was activated with Cisco staring directly at it in anticipation of Wells walking in on him.

Barry and Joe were concealed behind anything they could find so Wells wouldn't notice them as soon as he came.

They had rehearsed this so many times. Exactly what to say in order to get Wells to admit to his crimes on camera. The force field should be able to remain intact when activated to prevent Wells from getting to Cisco, who had a remote in his pocket ready to be used at any time.

Caitlin softly whispered into their earpieces that Wells was on his way. If he were to come in walking, he could be here at any moment if he were to use his speed.

It took a few extra minutes than they expected, but there he was. Standing on his two legs looking at Cisco who had the hologram of The Reverse Flash behind him.

Barry and Joe sat through the entire conversation between them. Cisco based his words on what he remembered in his dreams, but altered them to get a confession from Wells about the fact he killed Barry's mom.

"You killed Barry's mom," Cisco accused him.

"It was never my intention to harm Nora," Wells said, shutting off a laptop on a nearby desk.

Barry turned to Joe looking hopeful that they got it. Wells all but admitted to being the one who stabbed her.

Joe just shook his head dejectedly. "No, that's not a confession," he whispered.

Barry looked back to Cisco. They needed him to keep talking. They almost got it.

Cisco stumbled back and fell down on the platform of the containment unit. Wells had his hand raised, ready to start vibrating and plunge into Cisco's chest and to squeeze his heart until it explodes.

Cisco immediately pulls out the remote and pushes the button and activates the force field with Wells on the other side. Wells just chuckled.

"Oh-ho," he smiled in a condescending way as he gazed at the force field in place. "You're smart,"

He gasped in false realization before stepping right through the force field as if it weren't even there. How was that possible? They made it impervious to speedsters. He shouldn't have been able to just casually walk through it like nothing.

With their safety precaution gone, Joe shoots up from his hiding position and fires three shots at Wells in order to stop him from killing Cisco.

The sound distracts everyone except Barry. They all turned to see a streak of lightning chasing the three bullets before they could reach Wells. If they killed him now, they would never be able to get his father out of jail.

Chasing desperately, he managed to catch two of the bullets, but the third passed through the barrier before Barry could reach it. Instead, Barry was deflected and the bullet reached its target. It went straight through to his heart. Blood was already flowing out of the wound and Wells collapsed to the ground.

"He didn't confess!" Barry wailed. "This was it. This was my last chance to ever get my dad out of jail,"

They deactivated the force field and they could enter to inspect the body. Caitlin was already making her way down.

"Are you kidding me?!" Caitlin shouted at him as soon as she entered the room. "Cisco almost died and all you can think about is your father?! What were you going to do if you did catch that last bullet? Were you just going to let Cisco die again?"

"Of course not! We would have gotten the barrier down before he could have the chance," Barry defended himself. "Then I would be able to get my hands on him and avoid getting Cisco killed,"

"Caitlin, relax. I'm okay," Cisco tried to calm her down.

"Cisco, it is not okay," Caitlin shook him off. "You almost died. If Joe didn't take that shot, Wells would have killed you,"

"But he didn't. I am very much alive right now," Cisco assured her. "I'm sorry about what happened man," he addressed Barry.

"Don't apologize Cisco," Caitlin said. "I doubt he can see past his obsession to really care about us,"

"Of course I care!" Barry shouted. "When Wells got in, I wanted to do everything I could to get him away from Cisco. If the force field wasn't working against Wells, I figured if I rushed it, I could get in before whatever happened to the force field fixed itself. I could have saved both of them,"

"Well obviously that didn't work out because both Wells and a bullet managed to pass through it, but you couldn't," Caitlin pointed out. "We designed that force field to be impervious to speedsters and obviously it works,"

"So what does that mean?" Cisco asked, looking down at the bloody body.

Suddenly, Wells' body transformed into Hannibal Bates. They all stared at the shapeshifter in shock, Dr. Wells used him, like they used all of them, like a pawn in a chess game.

"Let me re-introduce…Mr. Hannibal Bates. Who has the ability to transform into anyone he touches. I knew his powers would come in handy someday, but I didn't expect to use his abilities this soon. You never cease to amaze me, Barry." Wells' voice echoed around the room from the speakers.

"You used him! Like you used all of us!" Barry shouted at him. "He was just a pawn in your plans,"

"It wasn't that difficult to convince him. Just the simple promise of his freedom and he was willing to do anything I asked," Wells told them.

"We know you're not Harrison Wells. Who are you?" Joe asked.

"That would be telling Detective," Wells dismissed him with a slight chuckle.

"After everything that happened, we stood by you, but you manipulated us since the beginning," Caitlin accused him.

"Why are you doing all this? You came here for me. So hurt me. Kill me, just get my dad out of prison," Barry offered to him.

"I don't want to hurt you Barry. I need you," Wells revealed.

"Then face me now," Barry demanded.

"Oh, we will. In due time. But not today," Wells said. "See you soon Flash."

An alert sounded on Cisco's phone about speedster activity in STAR Labs that wasn't from Barry. "He's in the Time Vault," Cisco informed them.

Immediately Barry sped out of the room towards where the Time Vault was only to be shown a wall covered in footage of the past year taken from various places. "Oh my god," Barry mumbled to himself as he watched all the past events unfold. "We thought we put a trap for him, but he had a trap for us," Barry realized that Wells was aware of everything that was going on around him. Nothing got past him.

Barry focused on one video that didn't have any of the STAR Labs gang. It was Iris in her workplace at CCPN. "Iris," he mumbled to himself, worried of what Wells would do.

Barry ran back to the Cortex to tell everyone of what he learned. "Wells had been watching us. He has cameras set up everywhere. In our homes, work stations, Central City Picture News." Barry directs that last location to Joe, informing him that Iris was being watched as well. "Cisco, call me when you get a location for Iris."

"She's at the waterfront!" Cisco yells after pinging the location of her phone.

Barry got on his suit and he ran towards the waterfront. As he ran, he saw two people standing on the bridge. He immediately recognized the two figures, it was Iris and Eddie. Eddie was on his knees, kneeling in front of Iris. It didn't take a genius to figure out what was happening, Eddie is proposing to Iris.

Before he could get there, he saw a flash of red lightning. Wells was already there. Eddie was knocked to the ground with Iris left standing in shock. Barry pushed himself to make it, but another show of red lightning appeared and the two people on the bridge became one.

The very instant The Reverse Flash left, Barry kneeled down to a sobbing Iris. Barry vibrated his face as well as his vocal chords in order for Iris to not recognize him. "He took him. He took Eddie," she mumbled.

Ordinarily, she would have been awestruck at meeting The Flash. The blog she created about him and giving his name after the incident with Tony Woodward was the entire reason she had her current job at the paper, but she hadn't really seen him since then.

"Hey, it's alright." The Flash assured her. "I'm going to find him, I promise," he then ran out of there in order to chase after the yellow speedster. There was a brief spark of electricity he felt when his hand left Iris', but he paid it no mind. His entire body was coated in lightning when he used his powers, he even learned how to utilize it as a weapon. A small spark of static electricity didn't mean anything.

Every second he spent comforting Iris was probably an hour to the speedsters, and that was time they couldn't afford with Wells on the loose and with Eddie as a captive.

After several failed attempts of trying to pinpoint a location on either Eddie or Wells, Barry had returned to STAR Labs dejected. He was so close. His goal for the past decade had almost been accomplished tonight, and he had let it run away.

If he was just faster, he could have stopped Wells before he had a chance to ruin what was supposed to be the perfect night. Eddie was going to propose to Iris. She should be out celebrating her engagement, not worrying about the life of her boyfriend.

"I've searched everywhere in the city at least twice. I can't find them," Barry said.

"Well obviously not everywhere if you still can't find them." Caitlin retorted.

"Wells could have taken them out of the city. As a speedster, he could be half-way across the world by now." Barry pointed out that Wells could have taken them out of the city limits.

"No, Wells wouldn't do that. He'd stay close because he wants to see his plan take fruition. He's still somewhere nearby, we're just not looking in the right places," Cisco shook his head.

"Well then maybe he's got some secret hideout that only he knows about," Barry suggested.

"It wouldn't be the first secret to be pushed around," a voice sounded behind them.

Everyone turned around to see Iris West walk into the Cortex with an angry expression on her face. Her eyes seemed to glow with a silent rage as they locked onto Barry, who had not yet changed out of The Flash suit.

Barry sighed, deciding to explain to Iris over a private conversation. He guided her to his and Cisco's cosmic treadmill, thinking that Caitlin and Cisco can't hear their conversation.

"Why didn't you tell me, Barry? Why?" Iris demanded, crossing her arms over her chest.

"I did it to protect you and because Joe asked me to…" Barry trailed off as Iris picked up his last statement.

Meanwhile, Caitlin kept glancing at the other room while Cisco was just eating his red vine. Caitlin then stood up and voiced her distress.

"I think we should listen to their conversation." Cisco turned his head towards Caitlin with a confused look.

"Why? What's going on between them isn't our business." Cisco shrugged off.

"But The Flash is our business and Barry is The Flash, so by transitive property, Barry and Iris is our business." Caitlin argued smugly, reaching out to press the mic button but was stopped by Cisco.

"Why are you really doing this? Tell me, Caitlin. I'm your best friend, you can tell me anything."

"You can't tell me that you aren't a little worried about what they're talking about," Caitlin said.

Cisco looked at her, determination on his face to give Barry and Iris some privacy. But his curiosity won out in the end. He sighed and let go of Caitlin's arm and let her activate the mic to listen in on their conversation.

"My dad knew about this?" Iris yelled at him.

Barry cringed. He probably shouldn't have told her that yet. "He was one of the first people I told," he revealed.

Iris scoffed in disbelief. "Who else knows? Was I the only one who didn't know you were The Flash?"

"No!" Barry denied. "There's…" he trailed off, trying to think of anyone else who didn't know about his secret identity. Now that he was thinking about it, there really wasn't anyone in his circle of friends who didn't know his identity by now. The only one he could really think of was Captain Singh.

"When were you planning on telling me?" Iris asked him.

When he didn't reply, instead his mouth gaping trying to find the words to try to calm her down.

"Were you ever going to tell me?" Iris demanded.

"You know I don't have to tell you anything," Barry blurted out.

"Excuse me?" Iris asked.

"You heard me. I don't have to tell you what's going on in my personal life. And in all honesty I wish I didn't have to tell anyone," Barry said. "And come to think of it, how did you figure out I was The Flash?"

"When you held my hand before, I felt a spark of electricity. I only felt that once before, when I was holding your hand in your coma," Iris revealed.

Barry had a look of confusion on his face, trying to come to grips with how his identity was revealed. "You're telling me you found out I was The Flash because of static electricity?" he asked in disbelief.

"Was I wrong?" Iris questioned him.

"That is beside the point. What is everybody who gives you a static shock, a suspect of being The Flash?" Barry asked.

"No, that shock was familiar to me," Iris argued.

"That was a one time thing months ago," Barry said. "How do you differentiate between the regular shocks you get?"

"That's not important," Iris sighed. "What matters right now is that you kept this big part of your life from me for months. We grew up in the same house together. We tell each other everything,"

"Oh, like how you were hiding your relationship with Eddie from Joe and I?" Barry pointed out. "Tell me Iris, if I hadn't caught you two, when were you planning on telling me?"

"That's not fair. You just got out of your coma after nine months. I didn't want to burden you with all this new information that so much has changed," Iris retorted. "And that is a completely different situation."

"You're right, telling your best friend about your new boyfriend is much different than talking about how one of us now has powers. I'm glad we're both on the same page here." Barry said.

"I thought you trusted me Barry. But now because you didn't tell me about this other part of you, Eddie has been kidnapped, and it's all your fault." Iris shouted at him.

"That is not my fault. I'm not the one who took Eddie. I didn't want him involved in all this but Joe insisted it would be better if Eddie was in the know," Barry said.

"Eddie knew about all this too?" Iris asked, shocked.

"The bottom line is, even if I had told you, you wouldn't have been able to do anything. I don't want you to be a part of this. What I do with my life is none of your concern. So I don't have to tell you anything if I don't want to even if you are my best friend," Barry said.

"Then I guess I'm not your best friend," Iris said, walking out of the room.

"Come on Iris," Barry sighed in frustration. "Try to see things from my perspective. I'm the biggest target in Central City for every other metahuman. The less people who know about me the better,"

"You still should have told me," Iris demanded.

"For what reason? The only thing that would happen would be putting you in danger. No matter what happens between us I never want to see you get hurt, especially because of me," Barry told her.

Iris walked up right to his face. "Well it's too late for that, because now The Man in Yellow has Eddie, and I'm going to do everything I can to bring him back,"

"Iris please leave this alone. I will handle it and bring Eddie back to you, I promise," Barry pleaded with her.

"No, I am going to be a part of this. And I won't stop until I have Eddie back with me," Iris argued.

Iris didn't wait for Barry to reply, she angrily stomped back to the Cortex, where she was greeted by Caitlin and Cisco shuffling to themselves. She then left the STAR Labs and went to the CCPD to talk to Joe about keeping her in the dark.

Meanwhile, when Barry finally decided to head back to his friends, he caught the tail-end of their conversation.

"That had nothing to do with us at all." Caitlin said, after they made sure that Iris was out of earshot.

Barry turned to the two suspiciously. "Were you two spying on me?" he asked.

"It was all her idea!" Cisco quickly shouted, pointing directly towards Caitlin before getting out of sight.

"Cisco," Caitlin angrily grumbled.

"Do you have an explanation on why you are listening in on my private conversations?" Barry glared at her.

"For your information, Iris just found out you were The Flash. It was important that we make sure that Iris wasn't a threat to revealing our operations." Caitlin said.

"Iris is my best friend, and practically my sister. I trust her with everything," Barry told her.

"Well if she's so trustworthy I don't understand why this conversation hasn't happened already," Caitlin replied.

"Of course there are things I would rather keep from her. This being one of them," Barry gestured to The Flash suit he was still wearing.

"So you don't trust her with everything," Caitlin said.

"I'm not saying I don't. I just said there are things I want her to know and things I think would be better left unsaid," Barry argued.

"You know, I don't even really think she's mad about the fact that you're The Flash. She's more mad that you didn't tell her and instead she had to find out for herself," Caitlin told him.

"I would have gotten around to telling her about this someday, when things weren't so hectic around here. Maybe sometime after her upcoming birthday," Barry said. "Things would probably be settled down by then."

"If you were going to tell her, you should have just told her, because there is never a good time to tell someone about being a vigilante," Caitlin said.

"I never wanted her to find out about any of this. I miss the days when The Flash was still just a whisper on the street," Barry reminisced of the old times.

"We were still fighting constantly back then," Caitlin reminded him.

"Well, that's one thing I could do without, but really I wouldn't trade that for anything," Barry said.

"God, you are so sappy Fleet Feet. It's making me sick," Caitlin rolled her eyes, but there was a small smile on her lips.

It didn't escape Barry's notice. "Well, it seems I'm not the only one who feels that way Ms. Frosty,"

"Shut up, you speed demon," Caitlin suppressed her smile and glared at him. She shouldn't be feeling happy around him. That would only lead to the future they saw in the Time Vault.

"Make me, you ice witch," Barry glared at her back. He needed to control his emotions as well. He didn't want to be tied down to her in the future at all, and the only way to do that would be preventing these elated feelings whenever he was around her.

They both didn't notice they were slowly leaning into each other. Their glares still present, their faces getting closer with every second.

"God, just kiss already!" a voice yelled. Cisco re-entered the Cortex, startling Caitlin and Barry away from each other. They both noticed just how close they had gotten to each other, a blush evident on both of their faces. To distract themselves from that embarrassing moment, they both turned to Cisco to yell at him instead.

"Shut up Cisco!" they yelled at the same time. Shocked, they both turned to the other again, irritation taking over them. They both grabbed the other's shoulder and activated their powers.

Barry's lightning crawled up her arm and Caitlin's frost and ice encased his shoulder. Barry's entire left arm was frozen and there was smoke coming off of Caitlin's sleeve.

Satisfied with what they had done to the other, they both turned their attention to Cisco again, taking a step away from each other in the process.

Cisco just stared at their interaction, not at all surprised they still tortured each other whenever the need arose. It was increasing exponentially when it was revealed they were married to each other in the future. They spent the entire day either ignoring the other or arguing over stupid things the day they were preparing the trap for Wells.

"Anyway, I think I found something. When I was looking for places that could be potential hiding places for Wells, I stumbled across this article about a monster in the sewer systems," Cisco informed them. "Two city workers went to check it out, but they haven't returned."

"Think it could be Wells?" Barry asked, intrigued.

"No, that was a couple days ago, but who knows? Maybe Wells has a stash down there and he's hired a meta to keep everyone away. Either way, it's worth checking out," Cisco said.

This turned out to be a weird case. It was the work of a meta, but not human. This was their first case of a meta animal. A giant gorilla who had been a lab experiment for STAR Labs who was looking into creating humans with mental abilities in order to question suspects.

The gorilla's name was Grodd, and he was working for Wells. He saw him as his father as he saved him from being subjected to more experiments after it was revealed the study was meant to create human weapons for the army.

Unfortunately, this didn't involve Eddie in the slightest, but they had their new meta of the week.

When they tried going down in the sewers to search for him, trying to pinpoint his lair, he grabbed Joe before they got too close. That was bad, seeing as Joe was deathly afraid of gorillas. Especially one who could talk and take control of his mind. It didn't help that Grodd's presence literally induced fear, similar to how Bivolo induced rage.

They tried every tactic they could think of. Grodd managed to catch the supersonic punch. Speed punches barely fazed him. The lightning seemed to be working for a while, but that soon ended when he managed to grab Barry and throw him through a wall.

They created a device that was designed to prevent Grodd from entering his mind and deal him with crippling fear, but that was destroyed when he was thrown through a wall.

Soon, Barry couldn't even stand due to the feelings of fear and panic Grodd was inflicting upon him. Which wasn't good since he was on train tracks with a train coming very soon. If he didn't get off of them, he would be flattened and die.

"Barry!" Caitlin yelled in concern.

There were grunts and rapid deep breaths on the other end as Barry tried to calm himself, but it was all in vain as they were interrupted by another scream of pure fear.

"Barry, you need to get out of there. A train is coming and you are literally in its way," Cisco yelled at him.

Barry tried to stand up, but another wave a fear elicited another scream, keeping him rooted in his place.

"Barry, listen to me," Caitlin shouted. If they could somehow get Barry to overcome this fear Grodd was inflicting, Barry would be able to get away. Luckily, Caitlin was trained in the art of angering Barry Allen.

"Barry, you need to stand up and get out of the way because if you don't, Wells wins. Your father is going to rot in jail for the rest of his life because you couldn't get justice for your mother. Grodd still has Joe, and Wells has Eddie. You are going to let all of them die, just because you're a little scared. You are so pathetic!" Caitlin yelled at him.

"I'd like to see you go up against a giant mutant gorilla that-AHHHHHH!" Barry started to yell, but left clutching his head, but at least he was still standing.

"Then prove me wrong, because all you need to do is take five steps back, but you can't even do that. What kind of hero are you, Fleet Feet?" Caitlin challenged him.

"I'll show you Ms. Frosty," he grumbled under his breath. Barry lifted his head to stare up at Grodd. Lightning crackling behind his eyes, he kept his resolve firm.

Grodd saw the human before him stand up to him. He entered his mind again to cause another feeling of fear.

Barry felt Grodd enter his mind again. He saw images of his worst nightmares, and stumbled slightly, but he remained standing, glaring at Grodd, not letting any indication that he was scared to his wits end.

Enraged that some measly human could counteract his powers when Wells made him to be superior to them, he jumped from where he was towards Flash, but at the last second, Flash moved away, and Grodd was too caught up in his own pride of power to notice the train coming up beside him, which collided into him.

Letting the train pass by, Grodd was nowhere to be found, but Barry could hear the groans of pain coming from Joe where he came from.

With Grodd who knows where, Barry brought Joe back to STAR where he could be treated by Caitlin.

"Maybe it was a good thing we didn't get Grodd. I mean where would we put him?" Cisco says, trying to lighten the mood. "The Pipeline isn't really designed to be housing giant gorillas."

"This was all a part of Wells' plan. He used Grodd to distract us from what he was doing, but what is he planning?" Barry asked the team.

"We'll get him Barr, just like we always do." Joe assured him from the med bay.

"Joe, you should be resting or you won't get better." Caitlin scolded him.

"I'll be better when we get the freak who sent a giant gorilla after me," Joe growled out his hatred for Wells.

Thanks for sticking with me everyone. I know things are a little grim right now, but we just gotta stay safe. This was not my best work, I'll admit. There were some fun parts but I just don't like this one as much as the others.

To guest reviewer bing: Since you're reviewing on Chapter 3, I get the feeling you haven't read the rest of the story. If you have, then you should know that I'm not planning on having Barry and Caitlin together until much later in the series. And the reason why there was no apology from Barry for the reveal was because he believes he doesn't have to. Keep in mind, Barry and Caitlin are not close to friends. They're colleagues at best. And just as they were starting to get along, it turns out Caitlin has come up with the idea of the cold gun, that not only was designed to stop him, but was used to kill a man. If anything, Barry feels that he should receive the apology.

So season 2 is coming along. Granted at a much slower pace than I would like, but it turns out it's because there's so much I want to incorporate into it that it's taking much longer. There's probably going to be one chapter left for season 1, unless I decide to split it up into two parts. Either way, I'm definitely going to need a vacation from staring at this screen for so long.

I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter. Tell me your thoughts, ask away any questions. I am at your command. See you all next week.