Another week has gone by, and so I am due to deliver you all a new chapter. Is the new summary working for everyone? I just thought the old one just wasn't encapsulating the story anymore, so I changed it last night. Is it okay? My co-authors go by the name of Brightburn1985 and Bartholomew Henry Allen.

Disclaimer: I don't own The Flash.

"Why so sad Flash? What happened to Patty?" Cisco asked, worried why his friend is sad when he was excited before he left the labs earlier.

"I didn't tell her. What's the point when she's moving away from Central City? From me."

"Patty's moving?" Caitlin asked, barely containing a smile on her face at the news.

"To Midway City. She's going to school there since Mardon has been arrested," Barry nodded his head.

"Oh, that's such a shame," Caitlin curled her lips to stop from smiling. "She seemed like such a nice person,"

"You know, maybe this isn't the end," Barry said. "She said we could try long-distance. Maybe that's a thing we could work through,"

"Dude, have you never seen TV shows? Long-distance relationships never work out. It's a proven fact," Cisco shook his head.

"This isn't TV Cisco. This is real life. Maybe we could work it out. I just need to convince her I'm not The Flash," Barry said.

"She thinks you're The Flash?" Caitlin asked in disbelief.

"I said something that I said as The Flash and now she thinks I'm The Flash," Barry mentioned.

"How could you be so careless?" Caitlin shouted at him.

"It was a slip of the tongue. I didn't mean for it to happen," Barry argued.

"You're left with two options now," Caitlin said. "Either tell her right now or avoid her for the rest of your life,"

"What do you think?" Cisco asked. "What are you going to do?"

"I think it's pretty obvious what needs to happen," Barry said.

"Yeah, I think you do," Caitlin smiled at him.

"I need to tell her right away and hope for the best between us," Barry said smiling. "Excuse me I need to go prepare,"

Barry left the Cortex, leaving just Cisco and Caitlin behind.

"You wanted him to avoid her for eternity didn't you?" Cisco asked Caitlin.

"Shut up," Caitlin denied.

Patty was just clearing her desk when Barry came back, she already knows he's The Flash but she just needs to hear it from him.

"Hey Patty, can I talk to you in private?" The CSI asked, nervously fiddling his fingers.

"Of course," Patty smiled at him, already having an idea of what he was going to tell her.

Barry gripped her wrist and led her to his empty lab upstairs. "Okay, what I'm going to tell you is really important and-" Barry was stuttering, trying to think of some way to tell her.

"Barry, it's okay," Patty reassured him. "I know that you're The Flash,"

"Wha-" Barry stammered.

"Please don't treat me like an idiot. I'm a detective, all the signs were there," Patty bemoaned to herself. "It was so obvious but I was so infatuated by you that I didn't want to see it, but now I do,"

"Patty, please," Barry begged Patty to stop.

"Just tell me Barry. Tell me, and I'll stay. I'll stay in Central City with you," Patty offered him.

At this point, Barry knew he couldn't tell Patty. If he did, Patty would be staying in Central City and she would be miserable. He couldn't let that happen.

"I can't do that, because I'm not him Patty. I'm not The Flash." Barry lightly shook his head. "I just wanted to wish you the best of luck with everything and that I hope no matter what we'll always be friends."

A few tears started to form in Patty's eyes as Barry slowly backed away from her. "Well, that's too bad. I would have been happy to stay. There's a lot of people here I would've been sad to leave behind, but I'm sure they'd understand. I'll see you around Barry,"

Patty walked out of the lab and back to her desk to continue packing up for her future.

Joe was on the other side of the door and watched as Patty left with tears streaming down her eyes, but she kept her head low to try to mask the few tears that fell to the ground.

"What was that all about?" Joe asked the only other occupant in the room.

"Patty's leaving for Midway City to attend school there and we were just saying goodbye," Barry summarized their conversation.

"Oh?" Joe questioned him. There was something else to the story.

"She knows Joe. She found out I was The Flash," Barry revealed.

"Oh," Joe murmured his understanding.

"She said she was going to stay if I told her I was, but I just couldn't," Barry said.

"But you are The Flash," Joe quietly pointed out. "She would have stayed,"

"That's the problem Joe. If she stays then she's throwing away her dreams. She's wanted to go since forever, and if I tell her, then I'll just be holding her back, and I care about her too much to let that happen," Barry declared.

"You remember what you told me when Eddie was going to propose to Iris?" Joe questioned.

"Yeah, I told you I no longer had feelings for Iris," Barry recalled.

"You told me that I should let Iris make her own decisions. That her mistakes are her own and I should let them happen because it's her life, and she needs to live it," Joe said. "It seems to me you're not letting Patty make her own decisions,"

"This is different Joe. That didn't involve you," Barry argued. "But Patty was all set to leave me behind before she figured out I was The Flash. If I tell her now…"

"You're afraid Patty is only staying because she's dating The Flash," Joe realised.

"It may sound selfish, but that's not what I want for us. It's not fair to me, and it's not fair to her," Barry said. "It would be best to just leave things as they are,"

"Alright, it's not my decision, but if you don't want to tell her, that's your choice," Joe said, leaving behind a few papers he wanted Barry to look over afterwards. "And this is just my opinion, but I think Patty would be staying because she sees how much you respect and trust her by telling her you're The Flash. Not because you are,"

Joe left, and Barry took a few deep breaths to calm himself before beginning to look over the files Joe left him and what needed to be analyzed.

"So Patty's leaving?" Cisco asked.

"She should be on her train by now," Barry nodded his head.

"It's too bad, she would have made a great member for Team Flash," Cisco sighed. "And she made you happier than you have been in a long time."

"I was happy. But if I found it with her, maybe I can find it again," Barry contemplated. "Besides, we're going to keep in touch and maybe someday we'll be co-workers again when she graduates,"

"That's good. Keep a positive outlook. You'll be that happy again someday," Cisco smiled at him and patted his shoulder.

"I'm going to miss her," Caitlin declared.

"Oh? Why is that?" Barry asked.

"Because she was the only thing keeping you occupied Fleet Feet. Now that she's gone, I'm gonna have to put up with you so much more," Caitlin moaned.

"Well maybe I should get myself a girlfriend more often Ms. Frosty, if it means I'm not spending as much time with you," Barry mentioned.

"Patty was a one time thing. You won't get that lucky again," Caitlin said as her phone alerted her of a text message. "That's Jay, my wonderful boyfriend. I'm gonna take this,"

When Caitlin was gone, Barry's phone rang with a phone call. He took it out to see it was Patty calling him. Confused, he answered it. "Hello?"

"Barry? I'm on the train right now," Patty whispered to him in a desperate manner. "There's a man with a knife. I'm scared,"

Put on alert of the danger, Barry sprung into action. "Hold on, I'm gonna get help,"

Rushing into his suit, Barry ran to catch up with the train and phased his way in.

"Is everyone alright?!" Barry shouted with his face and vocal cords vibrating. Everyone was calm. There was no danger anywhere. What was going on?

"Everything is fine," Patty called out to him. Victory in her eyes.

Patty slowly approached him with recognition in her eyes. Barry, realizing he'd been caught, stopped moving his face to focus on her. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay," he whispered.

Patty nodded her head in gratitude with a sad smile on her face. She knew why he didn't tell her. And she cared for him so much more for the fact. "Thank you," she mumbled.

Barry nodded his head and raced off back to Central City.

"Goodbye Barry," Patty whispered to herself as she watched the lightning disappear from her vision.

Everyone was at the hospital where Iris was currently being treated. She had tailed her new brother, Wally, to discover he took part in illegal races.

A new metahuman had shown up, a being with the body of tar. Tar Pit, as Cisco named him. Tar Pit attacked the race trying to get someone he knew previously and Iris was caught in the crossfire. Stabbed by a shard of glass that Barry wasn't able to get to in time, but she should have gotten out of the way instead of standing there when a car was flipped over.

Regardless, she was hurt and being treated. Joe was really laying it into Wally about getting involved with these kinds of people and causing his sister to get hurt.

Wally had come to the West household after his mother died in Keystone. He was looking for what was left of his family. Instead, he brought danger to his new family and would be on house arrest for an indefinite amount of time.

Getting back to Tar Pit, their plan relied entirely on Caitlin. Just like how Sand Demon's body was composed of what appeared to be sand and Barry's lightning strike rendered him immobile, Tar Pit's body was made of liquid asphalt. If reduced to cold temperatures, his body would harden, and he would hopefully become immobile as well.

Using one of his targets, they were able to lure Tar Pit to where Caitlin was waiting for him.

As soon as he was within her sights she blasted him with her mist that drained him of his heat. The effect was instantaneous. The tar began to harden and soon there was frost covering every inch of its body. The hulking mass of asphalt was left standing still. It seemed as if a decent breeze would knock it over, causing it to shatter.

Barry soon rushed in before that could happen and placed him in a heat resistant cell in Iron Heights for any villainous fire metas. That should be able to contain him until they were able to fashion another cell specific to his powers. If he would ever be able to recover his original body.

"So, nice work on the meta today," Barry complimented Caitlin.

Caitlin rolled her eyes. "The guy was doomed the second I came in. There was no way he could have combated me with his powers,"

"Don't need to sound so arrogant about it. You had a favourable matchup," Barry pointed out.

"Which is exactly why you called me in to take care of him," Caitlin argued.

"What are you saying?" Barry questioned her. "That I wouldn't have been able to take him? Because I could have,"

"Not as easily as I could," Caitlin said. "Look, all I'm saying is there are certain things our powers are more easily able to handle than others. Tar Pit was something I could deal with better than you,"

"And what does that mean?" Barry crossed his arms in frustration.

"It means I was the hero today Fleet Feet. Not you," Caitlin taunted him.

"You don't even have a hero name Ms. Frosty," Barry glared at her. "I'm still the hero of Central City. You're just the sidekick,"

"Well then maybe it's time I get my own name," Caitlin said. "You know, I've been doing some hero work around the city, and there are things you don't even know about,"

"So what are you saying?" Barry pointedly glared at her.

"I'm saying," Caitlin's smile held no warmth to it. "I'm Killer Frost,"

"You got that from the newspaper," Barry stated.

"So what if I did? It's a good name," Caitlin retorted.

"Could have come up with something original." Barry muttered. "I see you're clearly lacking in imagination,"

"Says the guy who got his hero name from a pun," Caitlin countered.

"It was catchy," Barry shouted. "And clearly a lot of people liked it. I've even got my own holiday,"

"Don't even get me started on Flash Day. It's like they were just adding to your ego when they made it official," Caitlin huffed in anger.

"Well, too late for that because I'm the official hero for Central City and nothing you can do about it," Barry laughed at her.

"Well, every hero needs a heroine," Caitlin glared at him, looking directly into his eyes.

It took a few seconds for her words to catch up to them. "Did you just-"

"Forget I ever said that. That's not what I meant," Caitlin shook her hands.

"You just said we should be partners," Barry said.

"Terrible idea. We'd just get in the other's way all the time,"

"Your suggestion is that we be seen working together as a duo in the streets, fighting off criminals,"

"Everyone would think we were involved or something," Caitlin said in dismay.

"People are already getting that vibe between us. I don't think I can handle if people thought The Flash was involved with Killer Frost," Barry shouted.

"So you're warming up to the name," Caitlin noticed.

"If you never suggest that again, I will announce Killer Frost as a new hero in Central City," Barry offered.

"I already am a hero in this city Fleet Feet, whether you say anything or not,"

"Just don't get in my way Ms. Frosty,"

"So, are you sure this works?" Barry asked as he looked at the breach in their basement. They found out in the last 24 hours that yet another Harrison Wells betrayed them. He stole Barry's speed and gave it to Zoom. He was the reason that Iris was at the hospital but Barry gave him another chance. His daughter was apparently at the mercy of Zoom and that's why he did it.

Now they are standing in front of the breach in their basement after closing the rest of the breaches around the city. Now this was the only entrance between the two worlds.

"All you need to make sure of, is that you keep your speed up until you reach the other end. You're going to be shown a lot of things, but you can't let them distract you," Jay advised him.

"Yeah, I got it," Barry nodded his head as he, Cisco and Harry prepared themselves for the trip.

"Are you sure you don't want to come with us?" Barry asked Caitlin.

"I'm sure," Caitlin nodded her head. "Besides, someone needs to stay behind and defend the city in your absence,"

"My city better not be destroyed when I get back," Barry warned Caitlin.

"Don't worry about it, it's in good hands." Caitlin assured him. "You better come back in one piece,"

"Concerned about me?" Barry teased her.

"Hardly. More like I'm concerned about your ego expanding by the time you return," Caitlin rolled his eyes.

"Later," Barry bid her goodbye with a poke of an electrified finger.

"Ouch," Caitlin yelped. She got him back with a tap of her heat draining finger.

Barry visibly shivered at her touch, brushing at the spot Caitlin touched him.

"Alright, if you two are done flirting, we have somewhere to be," Harry called to them.

The two of them scoffed as they separated, Caitlin climbing the stairs to reach the top and Barry joining the two men accompanying him on the journey.

"For the record, that wasn't flirting," Barry told Harry.

"Sure it wasn't," Harry said in a tone that indicated he didn't believe what was said.

"I mean it," Barry insisted.

"Keep telling yourself that," Harry said.

"Remember," Jay called down to them. "Don't get involved. The people you'll be seeing aren't real, at least not to you,"

Barry stood in the middle and grabbed their shoulders. Keeping a firm grip so they wouldn't slip out of his grasp, Barry ran into the breach, leaving his world for the next.

Barry was shown various images but he paid them no heed. They were all irrelevant to him. Barry was just focused on the Earth that was approaching. Everything else he dismissed.

They made it. They were on Earth-2 now. In an alternate STAR Labs.

Harry led them to his office where they could work on locating Zoom using Cisco's powers to track him.

The problem was, because they were on a new Earth, the wavelength was off due to the new frequency of the planet. Meaning Cisco's powers were on hold until they managed to recalibrate the goggles.

The TV in the room was on, and at that moment they saw Barry on the screen, only this one was different. He was wearing a different set of clothes and glasses. His hair was styled differently and his mannerisms were completely different from the Barry they knew.

"I've got an idea," Barry mumbled as he sped off and returned a second later with his double.

"What is going on here?!" E2 Barry shouted.

"Did you just kidnap yourself?" Cisco shouted at his Barry.

"How do you look like me?" E2 Barry finally noticed his double. "Are you a clone? Is there a clone of me? How is this possible?!"

"Listen Barry, you need to calm down," Barry tried to soothe himself.

"Only my parents call me Barry. It's Bartholomew," Bartholomew corrected.

"Bartholomew. Okay. Weird," Barry said, his actual name feeling uncomfortable on his tongue. At least it would be easy to differentiate between the two of them.

"Did you have to bring him here?" Harry asked Barry.

"Harrison Wells?" Bartholomew looked at his idol in awe. "The Dr. Harrison Wells? Okay, I don't know what's going on here, but Harrison Wells, you are my hero. Your work on quantum mechanics and string theory was revolutionary,"

"Oh, that's great. I actually won an award for that. It's over there," Harry pointed to a trophy on a shelf, tossing a taser to Barry whilst Bartholomew was distracted.

"Oh, it's beautiful," Bartholomew complimented the trophy.

Barry brought the taser to his doppelgänger and shocked him, rendering him unconscious.

"What just happened here?" Cisco shouted. "Have you gone to the dark side?"

"Relax, he just blacked out. He'll be fine," Barry said, tossing the taser away.

"Okay, but why did you bring him here?" Cisco was still confused as to why Bartholomew was here in the first place.

"So he could become him," Harry said, already figuring out the plan.

"Exactly. I'll go to CCPD as him and dig up recent sightings of Zoom. Using those, we'll possibly be able to triangulate a location of a lair where he's keeping Jesse," Barry explained.

"Good. Okay, good. We've got a plan. While you're doing that, Harry and I will work on fixing the goggles. Think you can do this?" Cisco asked.

"Sure," Barry said, taking out his contacts so he could put on the glasses. "How hard can it be?"

"Where is The Flash?!" A metahuman named Geomancer yelled as he sent tectonic shockwaves that destroyed a parking lot at Downtown.

"Is he another one from Earth-2?" Caitlin asked Jay, already in her Killer Frost suit. She figured with their luck these days that something wrong was going to happen the second Fleet Feet and his little gang went to a parallel reality.

"No, the Geomancer in my world died a couple years ago. This guy must be from this Earth." Jay replied before Caitlin turned towards the exit, making the former speedster confused. "You can't take this guy, Cait. Your powers have no effect on him."

"Well, Jay, I have to try." Caitlin replied with determination, mirroring Ronnie's last words to her.

Caitlin rushed out of STAR Labs, her eyes glowing and her hair turning to a stark white.

Once outside, she thrusted her hands forward to create an ice path to glide on. It may not be as fast a speedsters, but it was the best she could produce.

Gliding on her ice bridge, she reached the battle area in time to see Geomancer create another shockwave.

Coming in from above, Caitlin let loose a burst of ice towards the metahuman. The blast enough to knock him to his feet, but it wasn't enough to stop him. It was really just meant as a distraction.

"Who called for the Ice Queen?" Geomancer said. "Run away Elsa, this is no place for girls,"

"So what are you still doing here?" Caitlin called out. After what seemed like an eternity arguing with Barry, insults barely phased her, and the Frozen jokes had gotten old a long time ago.

"Feisty, I like 'em like that," Geomancer sneered at her. "Still, you're no match for me," Geomancer punched the ground under him, controlling the destruction directly towards Caitlin.

Caitlin slid out of the way with another ice path, but the destruction continued its chaos behind her. Looking back, she could see several falling structures due to the shaking. Some of which were now falling on civilians.

Caitlin sprung into action and froze the falling debris in place as well as icing up the cracks in the ground. Workers would be able to dig them out of the ice and fix them.

In the ensuing chaos, Geomancer managed to make his escape since with her arrival, it seemed The Flash wouldn't be making an appearance.

Caitlin grunted in frustration. She let the guy get away, right after she promised Barry she would be able to take care of any problems in the time he was gone. She failed him. Which is why she was so disappointed in herself.

Barry had arrived at CCPD, but it seemed different to him. There were people here he didn't recognize and things were out of place from where he remembered them. He tried not to let them get to him.

"Hey Bartholomew," people greeted him.

Barry just waved at them politely and offered a small smile. He didn't know how he was supposed to react, and hearing his actual name was bothering him. There was a reason he didn't like it.

"Allen! Come over here!" A familiar voice called out to him. He turned to the source of the voice and found this Earth's Caitlin.

"Caitlin?" He whispered, he was so shocked at meeting one of his friends on this Earth that he didn't notice the toddler beside Caitlin.

"Yes, Caitlin. Is there another Caitlin I should be worried about?" Caitlin looked at him with an exasperated look that said she couldn't believe him. "Sometimes it feels like you're living in another world after spending so much time on those reports,"

"I'm-I'm sorry, I just wanna catch Zoom, that's all." His eyes drifted downwards and noticed the small little girl clutching Caitlin's left leg.

"Is work all you can think about? Your shift ended almost an hour ago and you're still here. Layla missed her daddy," Caitlin gestured to the little girl by her side.

"Daddy?" He was so shocked but a smile quickly made its way on his lips. Just by looking at her, he could already see features that resembled both him and Caitlin. The little girl had his brown hair and green eyes along with Caitlin's nose and cheeks. She was going to grow up into a spitting image of her mother, he could tell.

"I missed you, Daddy." Layla left her mother's leg and jumped into her Daddy's.

"I'm so sorry Layla that I was late. You know I don't mean to, right?" Barry looked down at the little girl that was his daughter.

"I know, you're working really hard to find bad guys so they can go to jail. Mommy's just being dramatic," Layla smiled at him.

"Alright you little monster, get over here," Caitlin grabbed their daughter into her arms and gave a big kiss on her head.

"Is daddy coming home now?" Layla asked her mother.

"Of course he is," Barry assured her. "I just need to go to my lab and send in one final report,"

"This better be the last one," Caitlin said with doubt in her eyes.

"I promise," Barry said. He rushed up to his lab at a normal pace. Once he was inside, he sped around, looking for information on Zoom's whereabouts. Quickly snapping a photo of all the ones from the last month, he sent them to Cisco. Hopefully this satellite would be able to act the same as the one back home. It said they were sent, which helped to relax him slightly that Cisco received the messages.

He made his way back down to his family. Layla and Caitlin actually smiled when he came into view, which, unbeknownst to him, made him smile back.

"Home?" Barry asked his wife, still smiling as he picked up his daughter.

"Home." Caitlin smiled at him and leaned in to give him a kiss on the lips.

Barry didn't react when that happened. This all felt so natural to him. This girl could have been his daughter and Caitlin as his wife. Still, the feeling of Caitlin so casually expressing love to him was a shocking feeling.

Well? What did you all think? I got Barry and Caitlin married on Earth-2 with a little girl. Kudos to anyone who can tell where I got Layla's name from. Them being married on Earth-2 was in the works long before I actually wrote it. It was just something I felt needed to happen. And WestAllen has no place at all in my story.

Did the breakup between Barry and Patty feel awkward? It felt awkward to me. I mean one second, I had Barry striving to tell her he was The Flash, and the next he's withholding the fact from her. I have a few things to justify it, one of which being in the spur of the moment and Barry wasn't thinking about the consequences at the time until he was actually doing it. But still, it felt awkward to me. It was still sad to see Patty go though.

Leave a review. Tell me what you thought and anything you'd like to see in future chapters. I'm always open to criticism. I'll see you all next week.