It's that time of the week. Friday is today, and so I am required to supply a new chapter for all you lovely people. My co-authors, Brightburn1985 and Bartholomew Henry Allen, have helped me along this journey since the beginning.

Disclaimer: I don't own The Flash.

"I told you it was a mistake going after him." Jay rebuked as soon as Caitlin entered the Cortex.

"Barry left the city to me. That means it's my job to protect it from harm while he's gone." Caitlin said. "It shouldn't matter whether I can win. The safety of the people are what I'm concerned about,"

"You can't save anybody if you're dead." Jay replied, crossing his arms.

"What do you want me to do, Jay?! Just stand back and watch as he destroys the city and kills countless lives?!" She exclaimed, getting frustrated with her boyfriend.

"I just care about you. There are people in this city who are paid to take care of these problems," Jay said to calm her down. "Let them handle this guy, you don't have to risk yourself like this,"

"You were a hero once, I thought that you would understand but I guess you don't. You know, Barry wouldn't give up when the city would need him, so neither will I. If you can't support that, then you're no hero," She turned back to the exit and walked away.

Jay sighed as Caitlin walked away from him. That was so frustrating. Caitlin was his girlfriend. Why did she have to compare him to Barry of all people?

"Oh, troubles in paradise?" Iris smirked at him. She was taking way too much pleasure in seeing these two argue. That just meant things weren't working out and soon she would be having Caitlin and Barry together making her nieces and nephews.

Back on Earth-2, Barry and his family just arrived at their nice little house, it was quite quaint.

"Daddy, did you know that Josh from school gave me flowers?" Layla asked excitedly, she was so excited to tell her Daddy about her day.

"Oh? Do I know this Josh? Should I talk to him?" Barry said in a worried voice. He didn't even know about this little girl until a few hours ago and already he was acting like an overprotective parent.

"Yeah, he's one of my boyfriends." Layla innocently replied with a giggle, making Barry and Caitlin laugh.

"We have quite a player in our hands, don't we, honey?" Caitlin asked with a smile. She sat down beside Barry before grabbing her daughter from her husband.

"Yes, we have-" Barry was cut off by the door opening, they turned their heads towards it and Barry's eyes welled up with tears as he saw who came in. It was Henry and Nora.

"Mom? Dad?" Barry asked with tears streaming down his face. He can't believe that this Earth's Barry has it all, the parents, the family, the job.

"I know we dropped by unannounced but I just want to thank you for the tickets to Atlantis." Nora said with a warm smile that Barry missed so much.

"I'm glad that you enjoyed them." Barry hugged his parents tightly. He would give up everything to have this Earth's Barry's life.

"Are you okay Barry? You sound a little off," Nora asked in concern.

"It's nothing. I'm just really glad to see you guys, that's all," Barry had a watery smile as he tried to hold back tears in his eyes too much. He didn't want to seem strange to his parents.

"You know what? This is perfect actually." Caitlin suddenly exclaimed after embracing her in-laws. "Barry and I were going to go out this evening and call a babysitter for little Layla, but since you two are here, do you think you can do it?"

"Of course we will Caity," Henry promised her. The use of a nickname for Caitlin stunning Barry for a second but he didn't let that show. So this Caitlin preferred to be called Caity. Something to keep in mind. "Anything to spend time with our little granddaughter,"

"Honestly, you two don't invite us over enough. Look how big she's gotten these past few months," Nora exclaimed as she brought Layla into a hug.

"Along with multiple boyfriends," Barry muttered darkly at the thought of what they were talking about beforehand.

"Really? How many do you have?" Nora excitedly asked the little girl.

"Three," Layla answered.

"Three? Well that is amazing. They must love you very much," Nora said, placing a kiss on Layla's forehead.

"Don't you think that's a little unhealthy?" Henry whispered to his wife.

"Oh relax Henry. I had five when I was her age," Nora casually mentioned.

"Why is this the first time I'm hearing of this?" Henry asked incredulously.

"Oh you'll get over it," Nora waved off her husband. "I'm going into the kitchen to make us a snack. Who wants cookies?"

"Me! Me!" Layla exclaimed, jumping up and down as she followed her grandmother into the kitchen.

"So, are you ready, Mr. Allen?" Caity asked with a sultry tone in her voice, wrapping her arms around his neck. There was a twinkle in her eyes that clearly shows that she loves him with all of her heart.

"Yes, I am. Let's get ready, Mrs. Allen." Barry responded, playing along as he wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling Caitlin's doppelganger closer.

"Alright you two. Don't give us another grandkid too soon," Henry teased the young married couple.

"Oh shoot," Caity mumbled, completely forgetting about the present company in their house. "This is so embarrassing,"

"You're embarrassed?" Barry asked incredulously as they grabbed their coats to head out the door. "They're my parents,"

They went out of the house and got in their car before they drove off.

"I'm sorry men in blue but I'm looking for the man in red." Geomancer said before he totalled the police cars using his powers.

"Well, I'm sorry too but I guess that you'll have to make do with me, Quakey." Frost remarked, landing behind Geomancer.

Geomancer turned to Frost. "It's Geomancer for you, Elsa."

"Don't call me that, or you'll regret it," Caitlin threatened the criminal.

"Better leave so the big boys can handle this." Geomancer said. "No way a little lady like you can deal with me,"

Geomancer sent another tremor through the ground directly towards another building inhabited by civilians.

"Save them if you can, or get taken down by me. Either way, you'll lose," Geomancer taunted her as he fled the area. "I've still got a Flash to track down."

Caitlin wanted to go after him, but the cry of the people drew her away. Barry would put the people first above catching the criminal, and that building was going down unless she did something.

Caitlin rushed as fast as she could by sliding on the ice floor she created. She needed to rethink fighting in heels. That was just terrible. Caitlin reached the base of the building and put both her hands on the wall. Frost spread across the building, encasing itself in every crack to delay its instability.

It was tiring, and she had to take special care not to drain the heat from the people inside, even though it was so tempting. Her powers craved heat, and there was only so much she could take from inanimate objects.

Caitlin poured her powers into everything to stop the building from collapsing. Soon the building stopped shaking and Caitlin pulled her hands away from the wall. The building might as well have become a winter wonderland with frost and ice covering it.

The people were rushing out of the building with officials going in to find any stragglers.

Everyone outside applauded her for her efforts, and Caitlin was filled with a sense of pride. She did it. She saved these people by herself. And the people actually liked her.

"Hey Harry, what if we can't use my powers because we're on a different Earth?" Cisco suggested as Harry rolled his eyes at the engineer.

"Of course we can't use your glasses because vibrations are messed up!" He yelled to the mechanical engineer, getting frustrated for telling something they already know.

"What I mean is what if we find my doppelgänger here or-or any meta who has the same abilities as me and copy the vibrations." Cisco replied.

"You just want to see your doppelgänger, don't you?" Harry squinted his eyes at the engineer.

"I have been trying to find him for the past few minutes, and I cannot see him anywhere," Cisco complained.

"You're supposed to be looking at the Zoom sightings Barry sent us. What are you doing looking for your doppelgänger?" Harry scolded him.

"I've got the computer running calculations," Cisco waved him off. "I'm just curious,"

"Stop wasting time. My daughter is on the line here, and if she dies because you were too lazy to actually do anything useful, there is nowhere you can hide where I won't find you," Harry threatened him.

"Okay, jeez," Cisco raised his hands in a surrender manner and went back to the computer where he inputted the Zoom locations Barry managed to send them from CCPD. "What are we going to do about Bartholomew?"

"He's still knocked out, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it," Harry said, doing his own work, recalibrating his gun for the required dosage to take down a speedster.

After a moment of silence, Cisco asked, "Where do you think Barry is?"

"This is nice." Caity offhandedly commented while she looked at her husband's eyes longingly.

"What is?" Barry asked.

They are currently walking around the park.

This Caitlin likes aimlessly strolling around the park rather than eating in an italian restaurant.

"This," She gestured between them. "Ever since Layla we haven't been on a date because we're both busy. And not to mention that you always come home late, I swear you love your job more than your own family."

"Of course not, that's not true. You and Layla mean a lot to me, Caity." He held her hand while looking back at his wife. He doesn't know where all the sincerity is coming from but for him, it all just feels...natural.

"I just wish we could spend more time together like this." Caity snuggled up to Barry.

"I promise, there is nothing more important in my life than the two of you," Barry assured her.

Caity smiled and placed a quick peck on his cheek as they continued their stroll in the park.

They were interrupted suddenly when two streams of flames appeared in front of them, the rest of the people around them were frozen in shock as a blue portal appeared and someone stepped out of it.

"Everybody freeze!" the man said. It was Cisco! But different. This must be his doppelgänger.

Another figure dropped down from the sky in a raging inferno. It was Ronnie. He was alive on Earth-2. The sight of him brought pain to Barry at the reminder of what happened to his friend.

Nobody moved an inch, lest something happen to them while at the threat of two metahumans.

"Alright, quick show of hands," Ronnie shouted. "Which of you are in the wrong universe?"

Immediately, Barry knew they were after him. Who else could they be talking about? Barry felt guilty that he brought these people here, but he couldn't break his cover just yet, not with two metas threatening an entire park.

Ronnie soon caught sight of them, but his gaze wasn't focused on him. "Well look who's here Reverb. The traitor,"

Cisco, or Reverb, followed his companion's gaze to where they were and developed a smirk on his face. "Glacier. Can't believe you dared to show your face."

"I've got nothing to hide," Caity said defiantly. Barry was shocked. How was it that Caity knew these people? Was she involved with them somehow?

"Oh, like how you were hiding your little boyfriend over there and left 6 years ago?" Ronnie gestured over to him.

Barry was starting to get nervous. Obviously there was some unknown history between these two that he had no place with. He wasn't even sure if his doppelgänger was even aware of his wife's past.

But something the fire meta said stuck with him. 6 years ago? Layla looked to be around the age of 5. Caitlin must have gotten pregnant with his child and left the life of a criminal to take care of her.

Caitlin had a worried expression on her face as she glanced back at her husband. She clearly had not told Bartholomew about the things she'd been up to before she met him.

"He doesn't know, does he?" Ronnie smirked at the realization. "That you used to be one of us? Just another weapon for Zoom to use,"

"I left that life behind me," Caity glared. "If I stayed, I was going to die, and so will you. You can still leave Ron,"

"I am going to die," Ronnie, or Ron, acknowledged. "But that's not today. Him maybe,"

With that, Ronnie launched a fireball straight at Barry who was too stunned to react in time.

"No!" Caity shouted as she dove to intercept the blast. Her powers were absorbing the flames, rendering them useless.

"Run!" Caity cried out desperately at Barry as well as to the general public as the familiar transformation started underway. Her eyes glowed white, mist rising from her palms and her hair turning stark white.

Barry complied and ran away as he watched his alternate wife face off against her previous allies.

Once he was far enough away, Barry vibrated his entire body so nobody would be able to recognize him. He rushed back to the park and saw Caity struggle against the two metas. If it were just one of them, she may be able to handle it, but not two at once.

Barry rushed in and tackled Reverb to the ground, allowing Caity to focus on Ron. Her powers matched up better with his.

"I knew you were here," Reverb commented as he looked at him, not with fear, but with anticipation. "The breacher, and a speedster to boot. I always wanted to kill The Flash,"

Reverb sent a few blasts of vibrational energy at him, which Barry dodged easily. He let his lightning coat cover him to offer some protection. He wasn't sure how much the electric armour could handle against Reverb, but it was better than nothing.

Barry circled Reverb, trying to find an opening, but Reverb wasn't having any of that. Reverb simply opened another portal where he was and transported elsewhere.

Barry stopped, unsure of where Reverb could come out of, but kept his senses on full alert.

The world slowed down around him, allowing him to take in everything at once in a second. Turning around, he saw the beginnings of a portal begin to form.

Not letting him get the element of surprise, Barry reached into the portal and forcefully dragged Reverb out and threw him onto the ground.

Barry stood over him, his body still vibrating with a yellow glow in his eyes. Only keeping his feet from vibrating to avoid sinking into the ground, nothing could touch him at the moment.

From the ground, Reverb snarled at him and glanced back to where Ron and Caity were still duking it out, but the battle was clearly lost. Ron was on the ground, Caity over him, icing him up. Frost creeping over his entire body, he seemed to be unable to move.

Opening another portal directly under him, Reverb got out of there and landed next to his comrade where he picked him up and got away.

"The traitor and the breacher, working together," Reverb sneered at them. "Zoom is going to have your heads," he said as he dragged the frozen body of his accomplice through another breach.

Now that they were safe, Caity let out a breath of relief and reverted her transformation back to the brunette he so loves.

That is… not what he meant to say.

"Thank you for your help," Caity expressed her gratitude. "I wouldn't have been able to handle the two of them for much longer if you hadn't shown up,"

Barry dipped his head in acknowledgment. His body is still vibrating to prevent her from recognizing him.

"They're gone now, you don't have to keep up that trick anymore," Caity said, wanting him to reveal to her who he was.

Instead of answering, Barry sped off in a burst of lightning so she couldn't ask anymore questions.

A few seconds later, he returned to her as her husband. "What was that?" he asked.

"We have a lot to talk about, Flash," Caity glared angrily at him.

Barry blinked a few times at the reveal that she knew. "I think we do,"

Barry and Caity walked to the Cortex, where they found Harry and Cisco working on his Vibe Glasses while Bartholomew was still knocked out cold and he was cuffed into a table.

Cisco looked up and saw Barry and Caity standing on the entrance of the Cortex, which surprised him.

"Caitlin?"

"What the hell have you done to my husband?!" She exclaimed, quickly running to her unconscious husband.

"Husband?!" Cisco shouted.

"Yeah, see Caitlin and I, on this Earth that is, we're… married," Barry reluctantly said.

Cisco blinked his eyes and raised an eyebrow in suspicion at Barry. "You're married?"

"With a little girl at home," Barry nodded his head as he admitted it awkwardly.

It appeared as if Cisco's brain had just short-circuited. "Do you- How can you- Why?!"

Barry just shrugged. He honestly didn't know how to answer that question without making it seem like he enjoyed being Caitlin's husband. Not that he didn't, he just would rather not admit it.

"Caity?" Bartholomew asked groggily, starting to wake up.

"Hey honey, what did they do to you?"

"They tased me. They freakin' tased me." Barry winced at his doppelgänger's words.

"It's alright, baby. We should go home now. Layla misses you." Bartholomew nodded his head, slowly standing up.

"Why did you bring her here?" Harry asked Barry.

"Because we need her help. She knows where Zoom is," Barry told them.

"What? You know where Zoom is? How? How on Earth would you know that?" Bartholomew asked his wife.

"Please don't get mad," Caity quietly begged him.

"I'm gonna be angry if you don't tell me what's going on," Bartholomew said.

Closing her eyes in resignation, Caitlin allowed her transformation to occur once again, bleaching her hair and her skin turning pale. When she opened her eyes once again, they were glowing with power.

Letting the revelation sink in, she reverted her appearance back to normal.

"You- you- you're…" Bartholomew stuttered.

"Can we have some privacy?" Caity asked the others in the room.

"This is my building, get your own privacy," Harry demanded, getting back to work on the goggles.

Caity dragged her husband off to find an empty room where they could have a private conversation about what just occurred.

Once they were alone, Caity turned to face her husband with small tears in her eyes, dread plastered on her face with her biting her lower lip in the anticipation of what he would say.

"Talk to me," Caity said.

"Talk to you? I can barely even look at you," Bartholomew admitted. "6 years of my life. A lie,"

"I never lied to you." Caity insisted. "There were just some things I never told you,"

"Some things? Is that what you call them? Some things?" Bartholomew asked incredulously. "These aren't just some things Caitlin. Okay, your ex-boyfriends are some things. Being in debt are some things. Having powers are not some things."

When Caity heard Bartholomew call her by her actual name, she knew things had gotten serious. "I'm sorry. Okay? Is that what you want to hear? I'm sorry,"

"I just don't understand. You said you worked in a dentistry, not that you were the ice villainess Glacier," Bartholomew shook his head.

"I did work in dentistry, but when I found out about my powers I quit. I left that life behind me before anyone could find out," Caity told him. "Then I met Zoom and he offered me to join him and I couldn't refuse,"

"Well obviously you could, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation right now," Bartholomew said.

"Things changed," Caity said desperately. "I met someone. Someone wonderful and honest. Someone who saw the person behind this cold exterior I put up. And I fell in love,"

Bartholomew swallowed. Then a sudden horror filled him. "What about Layla? Is she…?" he trailed off.

Caity shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. Something like this has never been documented. If she has powers, she's never exhibited any. If she has any at all."

"That doesn't matter," Bartholomew shook his head. "Whether she has powers or not, it doesn't matter. She's our daughter, and I'll love her no matter what. I just wish I could have prepared if she does. And I could have if you told me about your past!"

"You think I'm proud of this? That I used to resort to robbing banks to make a living?" Caity had tears streaming down her face as she said that. "I'm ashamed of who I used to be. So when I met you and got pregnant with Layla, I left Zoom and begged for my job back at the dentistry."

"I remember you. I used to work to track you down when I was first starting at CCPD as an assistant CSI. I can't believe I never saw this before. I'm an idiot,"

"Don't blame yourself. Lots of people don't look beyond aesthetics. With my hair and my eyes, lots of people wouldn't recognize me." Caity stated.

The two sat in silence, taking quick glances at each other to make sure the other was still there and had not run off on them.

"So where does this leave us?" Caity asked, her eyes red at the fear of her husband leaving her.

"Well I love you Caity. I do. I love you so much and Layla as well." Bartholomew said. "When I married you, I married every part of you, the parts that I could see and the ones I didn't."

"You still love me?" Caity asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Of course I do. You're my wife, and I will love you until the day I die. Nothing is going to change that." Bartholomew brought Caity into a hug as Caity started bawling her eyes out into his shirt. "I'm just gonna need a little time to process all this,"

"Just come back to me," Caity sobbed into his shirt.

"I'll always come back to you Caity because you are my home."

"You're crazy to love me," Caity said, pulling away to look at him.

"Love is crazy. If it were simple, it wouldn't be love, it would be something I could just throw away. Something that wasn't worth fighting for," Bartholomew cupped Caity's face so she would be forced to look directly at him. "You are worth everything to me. This is what I want to work at everyday because I am in love with you and I want to spend every second for the rest of my life working on this with you,"

Caity leaned in and kissed him passionately which Bartholomew responded eagerly.

"I love you Mr. Allen," Caity whispered.

"I love you Mrs. Allen," Bartholomew whispered back.

Night passed, and the inhabitants of Earth-1 were still under the attack of Geomancer. He'd gone silent since the last time Caitlin faced him, which they were all grateful for, but were worrying over as well.

Morning came, and as usual, Caitlin was the first one to arrive at STAR Labs. She immediately got to work. There were several alerts, but none of them were signifying a meta attack. They were notifications that Barry would need to look over once he returned that Caitlin filed away. Honestly, she felt somewhat like a glorified secretary.

Jay was still asleep in the bunkers and Iris and Joe were at work. They would arrive for their lunch breaks unless something came up.

Caitlin felt she needed to have a talk with Jay about where their relationship was going. She liked him a lot, but without Barry here to be the hero, Caitlin had to step up, not that she was complaining. But the moment she did, Jay seemed to do nothing but complain and make it seem as if he didn't want her to be a hero at all.

It was forcing Caitlin to see a side of Jay that she wasn't very happy with. And one she didn't think she could overlook considering being a hero was a part of her now. She'd always expected that Jay would be in support of her, since he was once a hero as well, but instead it was if he hated the idea of being a hero and wanted her to step aside. It just didn't make any sense to her.

She hated to admit it, but she felt a break up might be inevitable.

Caitlin's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a rumbling. Caitlin activated the cameras they had outside of STAR Labs. Right at the entrance was Geomancer.

"Ice Queen!" he shouted. "I know you're in there! If The Flash won't show, maybe killing his little girlfriend will finally get him out of hiding!"

Rolling her eyes at the 'girlfriend' comment, she went outside to confront Geomancer.

"You wanted to see me? Also sorry, hate to break it to you but there's no way in hell I'm falling in love with that idiot, Quakey." Caitlin came out of the building from dropping down from the roof on an ice structure.

"You really wanna die, don't you?" Geomancer snarked back.

"I've got people depending on me, so I'm not dying. Not to you at least," Caitlin regarded him with an almost disapproving look.

The two of them faced off against each other, both waiting to see who would make the first move. With no civilians around, neither would be occupied with thoughts of other people.

Having had enough, Geomancer hit the ground with his fist sending tremors through the ground he controlled. The ground broke away where large spires of pointed rocks shot from the earth and headed straight towards Caitlin.

Not having enough time to dodge, Caitlin blasted a stream of mist past the rocks that hit directly with Geomancer's chest at the same time the rocks managed to reach her. One of them pierced through her suit and drew blood from her midsection.

Geomancer had been encased in a cube of ice, unable to move. Caitlin really put all her power into that one shot. Caitlin was left clutching her torso to stop from bleeding profusely. She was starting to feel light headed as her hand was drenched in her own blood.

Caitlin iced her wound up to stop from bleeding before going back inside to stitch herself up. She'd call Joe to pick Geomancer up from outside as soon as she got herself to a phone.

She was heavily proud of herself as she returned to the Cortex, but the smile on her face instantly vanished as soon as she saw Jay waiting for her, having witnessed everything from the cameras.

It may be time for that long talk.

So nobody guessed where I got the name Layla for Bartholomew and Caity's daughter. In fact, nobody guessed at all. I'll just tell you anyway. I got the name because that was the name of Danielle Panabaker's character in the movie 'Sky High', which is another superhero movie.

We got a little insight into the lovely Allen family. It was fun to create their backstory. I could already imagine how it all went down. In case you couldn't tell, I have fun adding in my own little things. It's the best part of the story and not just sticking to the storyline.

Some tension between Caitlin and Jay. Jay's 'death' is upon us, so I thought it appropriate to show that Jay's true colours. Not all of that is going to be hidden behind a fancy smile.

I think I've said all that needs to be said. So I'll see you all next week. Give me your thoughts on the chapter. I live off your reviews. Really, just tell me if you thought it was good or bad. Adios.