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(Central CityS.T.A.R Labs)


"This is probably the most weirdest day of my life." Ralph says as he pulled in the parking lot of S.T.A.R Labs, with a lot of takeout in the back seat as Nora laughed from where she was sitting at. "I mean I remember Barry telling me how speedster can travel to another Earth?" He looked towards her and who nodded in affirmation. "But time travel, that's a concept I have hard time wrapping my head around, and you guys can do it easily?"

"Well not easily." Nora answers as he picked up the packages of takeout. "Even for speedsters time travel is not an easy thing, the only one who have managed to do it easily is my father, Bart and Reverse Flash." She shrugged her shoulders as she explained him. "At first I was really jealous of Bart seeing he was able to do the same thing as dad, ya know."

"That had to suck."

"Not much, after that whole getting girlfriend out of nowhere and few other things, we decided to put limit on time travel." Nora tells him as she picks few for her own.

"Need help with them?" Ralph asks as hile stretched his hands to carry more bags comfortably.

"Nah." Nora answers as she picked few bags. "I am good." She quickly sped away with the bags, purple lightning trail behind her.

"Wha?!" Before Ralph could let out his surprise the takeout in his hands were gone as he was the only one left at the parking lot. "Seriously if you are doing that atleast take me--" He also disappeared in a flash of lightning. "With you?" He complets confused and finding himself in the cortex with the others looking at him.

"Man this is great!" Cisco says as he opened up the takeout with his name on it. Iris made a face as the smell made her almost throw up.

"Sorry!" Iris said almost throwing up in front of Cisco, moving away from the group. "What's in that? It makes me want to hurl!" Iris gagged as Cecile began to rub her back.

"Sorry!" Nora says.

"Well we didn't know what exactly you would like with...her being inside of you!" Nora and Iris looked disgusted at the words. "What I am trying to say is with you being pregnant we didn't know what to get you so we asked the closest person nearby about what would be good for pregnant women, and so we brought this for you." He pulled several bags with Iris's name on it. "Or these, we really didn't know what you will like, so we brought quite a few things." Iris picked a bag, but dropped it soon, as she smelled something else.

"What's this?" She pulled out another bag with Ralph's name on it.

"That's actually mine." Ralph says.

"Well it was." Iris opened the bag and pulled out a large wrap. "Now it's mine!" She took a large bite as Ralph looked affronted that she was eating something he brought for himself. Now there are many thing he could tolerate, he tolerates them on daily basis, for example, Cisco's and Barry's constantly trying to get him to train his powers, or Cisco and Harry's arguments whenever he comes around, or Cisco weird habit of slurping his drinks when there's nothing inside, or how sometimes Barry looks like he haven't aged a day since the last time he saw him, or the weird thing going on between Barry and Caitlin which both would never talk about. But the one thing he would never tolerate will be someone messing with his food.

No one. And that means no freaking one messes with his food. He was about to blow up but stopped when he felt a tap on his shoulder.

"Here!" He turned to see Nora with another bag. "I brought a few extra wraps, you can have that." He didn't want to take that, because it was not about the wrap but about his right and his food, which was a wrap, but it washis, pregnant or not, you never touch his food, he was about to speak up but stopped when he saw Nora looking at him with a look that practically begged him not to say anything. So he quietly took the bag and pulled out another wrap.

"Hey!" Caitlin suddenly spoke up as she opened her package. "You guys brought me my favorite!" She was surprised as she pulled out her burger, looking at Ralph.

"That was actually her." Ralph says as he bit into his, savoring the flavor.

"You know my favorite?" Caitlin looks at her in surprise, because only Barry and Cisco knows about her favorite.

"Yeah." Nora answers. "I said before, we are closer to each other than most people." Iris watched the two with a complex of emotions raging in her.

"Close enough to know about meal orders and favorites?" Caitlin asks as she at her fill.

"Including many secrets." Nora answers with a smile and Caitlin eyes widened. They wanted to probe more but decided against it and ate in peaceful silence enjoying the moment of calm that is in their life and call it a night.

"As much as we want to find about what's stopping Nora from going back to her time." Harry began going through his tab. "I think it would be a good idea to call the night." He looked at the screen that showed time. "Its already very late and I don't think any of us can work properly without a good night sleep, that few are in the need of."

"Its a good idea." Joe says as he looks at the gathered people. "I mean the past few days have been a rush with whole DeVoe and birth of Jenna." He looked at the infant who was already asleep. "And with how today has gone, I think we all need a well deserved rest." Everyone agreed on that part.

"So, Nora." Iris begins. "Where have you been staying at?" She asks as others also turn to look at the time traveling speedster. "I mean you've been here for quite a while." She states remembering how she had been present during the Nazi attack and at the baby shower, so quite while she will say.

"Oh I got a room at a motel." She made a face as she remembers about the place she had been staying at for a while now. "Its not the best of place but it was the only thing I could get at the moment."

"Why don't you stay with me, I mean I am still at the loft for sometime, until I find a place for my own?" Iris suddenly says as Joe and Barry looked at her, didn't they just told her a few moments ago not to force Nora. Joe told her that Nora was not much happy with her, while the Iris that made the mistake was totally different from the Iris that was here, it didn't change the fact that both were, actually the same person, even if she is yet to make that mistake, it was clear with the expression on the face of Nora that she didn't want to he around her at the moment.

"I actually paid for my stay at the motel and I don't think they would give me the money I earned back, so I'll probably stay there for a while." It was a poor excuse and Iris was disappointed, she was hoping to get closer to her daughter and clear all the misunderstandings that the two have in the future, but she can't do that if she barely speaks with her.

"Really?" Wally was next to ask.

"Yeah..." Nora trailed off. "I will think about it...I need to get few things straight." She paused for a moment. "I also don't think it would be good for the timeline, ya know, me being with my parents, when I am about to be born." 'I probably should've started with that!' She thought as she tried to explain herself.

"Well you can stay with us." Joe was next to say. "I mean, Cecile and I, probably know a lot of what has already happened or will happen, so I think it would be safe that you stay with us."

"I don't want to impose." Nora replied.

"You wouldn't be imposing Nora." Joe answers with a smile on his face. "And I think it would be a great idea, we could use some extra help with Jenna." He pointed to herself and Cecile who smiled in her direction. "I mean our leaves will end soon, mine a lot before than hers, so it will probably be a good idea to have someone to look after our daughter when we are busy." After hearing that Nora nodded her head after thinking it over, before most of them left the building except for the original Team Flash with Harry, who stayed behind.

"So today was quite eventful?" Cisco started looking at others.

"You think?" Barry replies and Cisco broke into laughter.

"Hey at least, it wasn't my kid, who came back to the past!" He shot and Barry turned to looks at him with a frown. "But putting all of that aside, how are you?"

"I'm fine." Barry starts before he was interrupted by Caitlin.

"You are not fine, Barry." She stated in a matter of fact tone. "We can see the lines of worry, you are not fine."

"I am not fine." Barry admits.

"It's a good start Barry, now what exactly it is that is on your mind." Harry says as he takes a seat, sitting on a chair and for a moment, Barry was hit with nostalgia of his first year as the Flash. Him, Caitlin and Cisco, alongside Wells who turned out to be a maniac hell bent on ruining his life, the original Team Flash trying to figure out answers to problems or helping each other figure out a solution.

"Nora." Barry answers and Caitlin frowned at his words.

"Look, Barry." Caitlin begins. "I know it is a little wierd to suddenly have your daughter from future appear out of nowhere.."

"A little?" Cisco butted in. "Try a lot!"

"A lot weird to have a daughter suddenly appear out of nowhere." Caitlin says while glaring at him as he raised his hands. "And what were you thinking when you decided to put her in the pipeline?!" The glare turned towards Barry who did the same as Cisco. "She could've been injured when she arrived, the anti-meta dampners in the pipeline could've could've hindered the healing factor!"

"Look I was not really thinking when I Flashed her here." Barry admitted. "But none of us have a very good record with trusting people, especially when they are from the future." He says and the original trio frowned, Eobard and Savitar, both a sore point for the three of them. "So I really wanted to be sure."

"But taking her directly to the pipeline was not a good idea." Caitlin shot back. "Look you saw her when she arrived, she was tired and...

"Broken." Barry says and looked at Caitlin. "I know Cait, I saw her, it was a look that I have seen a lot of times." 'Many times in the mirror.' That was left unsaid between them. "And I know that taking her to the pipeline was not such a good idea and her worries are genuine, no one wants the repeat of what happened after the Flashpoint." Silence fell among the four as they looked at the screen.

"So now that we've put Nora to the side, let's talk about the other thing that's on your mind." Harry said looking at the screen, where the Barry had been searching for things for a while. "One thing that rattled you more than Nora being here."

"You mean the news about Nora's older brother?" Cisco asks.

"I think he actually wanted to ask about Barry's older brother." Caitlin says as Cisco looked at the screen where he was searching for the people who died during the event of singularity.

"Yeah, that too."

"But I think that the news of Nora's older brother, also brings some light towards the situation about the future." Harry speaks as he also looks at the screen. "Cloning? Meta-human cloning at that? Quite a fascinating concept."

"It also raises questions about morality and ethics of the society in the future." Barry points out.

"And if we do something to mess with that, there are chances that you will loose a son, who is also a big part of your daughter's life." Harry retorts. "And the only clue we've on finding who your brother is."

"What do you mean?" Cisco asks.

"He is talking about what Nora told us about her brother few moments ago." Caitlin specifies as understanding dawned on Cisco.

"You mean the part where he started to make sure that she and her siblings don't mess up the timeline, after probably a big mess they made?" Cisco asks and Barry nodded his head. "Question, how many kids do you think you have in future?" Barry made a face at the question and so did Caitlin.

"He broke up with his fiancée and you are asking about his kids in the future?!" Caitlin begins looking at him.

"I think you forgot the part where the break up happened few months ago." Harry states as he moved closer to the screen looking at the names. "Also how Dr. Snow and Ramone were able to get you back after you vanished in the crisis?"

"Yeah." Cisco nodded his head and then looked at the Caitlin and Barry. "Quick question, when was the last time any of us went to the time vault to check on the article?"

"I mean...we last saw it...what? Two years ago or something like that?" Caitlin asks.

"I mean it's been a while since we last saw the article?" Barry begins as he looks at others.

"Really?" Harry asks and the original trio nodded their heads. "So what did the article read?"

"That I vanish in the crisis." Barry shrugged his shoulder, there was still time left for the crisis and he was going to enjoy those years.

"Also that it was written by Iris West-Allen." Cisco adds and both Barry and Caitlin glared at him. "Sorry!"

"That's all well and good but what did the article said?" Harry asks and the three paused. What did the article actually said? Most of the time they decided to put most of their attention at the byline and the dates and the fact that he was fighting Thawne when he disappeared. Harry seeing their expression looked at the incredulity of the three.

"Judging by your expression I am under the impression that the three of you never actually read the complete article?" Harry asks with a sigh.

"I mean we know, it happens in 2024 or around that, and that Barry was fighting Reverse Flash, when it happens." Cisco speaks as Harry looked like he wanted to know more.

"So you are telling me that you have the front page of the paper from the future and you still haven't read the article that has been with you for what, five years?" He asks looking at the three. "I might've lost my intelligence but even then I wouldn't have been that big of an idiot to put something like that aside."

"Well I wanted to read." Barry tried to explain. "But after the whole Flashpoint, we just decided it would be good if we don't do that."

"The timeline was a mess when your Harrison Wells or Thawne or whatever he was decided to travel through time, which you later helped by creating the Flashpoint, and now your daughter unknowingly increased because she was running around because of some 'shit' that affected her in the future." Harry said looking at Barry. "So your decision of not reading the complete article was full of crap."

"A lot of my decisions were full of crap." Barry said. "And I regret a lot of them." His almost wedding passed through his heads.

"So who's going to read the article?" Cisco asks. "Cause I don't think I want to do it today of all days."

"Neither do I." Caitlin answers.

"So I'll close this place down." Harry says and stood up. "There are few things that I need to get in order before I hit the hay." He moved out of the cortex as Cisco did the same.

"I also need to sort out few things before we head out." Cisco says following Harry out. "Don't touch anything in my lab."

"Its not your lab Ramone!" Harry shot back heading towards the lab that both him and Cisco share.

"It is! But it's not yours." Cisco's voice rang as Caitlin and Barry smiled at the only normal thing that is in their lives. "You even lost your intelligence, what do you even need the lab for!?"

"I sleep there!" Harry shot back. The arguing voice kept coming for a while before the silence took over them.

"I am sorry!" Caitlin spoke up and Barry turned to look at her.

"You don't have to be Cait." Barry says looking at her. "My break up with Iris wasn't your fault."

"But why do I feel like it is?!" She asks looking at him.

"Its not!" Barry said and then took a deep breath for himself. "Look Cait." He took a step towards her. "It was not your fault, it's not!" He gently put her hands on her shoulder. "I...look what happened..."

"Was a mistake!" Caitlin says and it felt like he felt something pierce him. "I kissed you when I knew you were with Iris! It feel like I ruined your relationship with her!"

"Well technicallywekissed after Iris and I broke up." Barry answers and shrugged his shoulders. "I mean that kiss was a week ago and so the thing you are blaming yourself for, it was never your fault." He paused. "And I don't believe that kiss was a mistake." He says and Caitlin blushed at his words. "Also sorry." And she looks at him in confusion. "About not telling you about the break up." He paused for another moment. "Or not telling about the pregnancy."

"Which was a very idiotic decision!" Caitlin shot back. "I mean this is the first ever speedster pregnancy we are having and you decided to keep that fact from all of us, what were you thinking?!" Barry flinched at her words, he did not have an argument for that, he really wanted to tell Caitlin about the pregnancy, but Iris was hell bent on not letting anyone know about it. "You know it better than anyone else, Barry, that we do not keep secrets in science!"

"I really wanted to tell you, Cait." Barry tried to placate her. "I really did, I mean when I first learned about that, my first thought was to Flash both myself and her to your house, but."

"But?"

"She didn't want anyone to know about it." Barry told her a deep frown over his face, which made a similar frown appear on her face. "And I...I was not in a stable state of mind to speak with anyone, after that."

"What happened?" Caitlin asks as Barry stayed silent for the moment.

"We had a fight, after I found out she was pregnant and got my cell out to call you but she exploded on me." Barry told her about the last argument both Iris and him had. "I mean we've had a lot of arguments but that one was a really bad one. We went back and forth for a while and we sort of got to the point where we didn't even wanted to be in the presence of each other." She wrapped her hand around his shoulder giving him a comforting hug. "I sort of...broke down and she did too soon after and we just decided the thing between us was not working." He paused remembering the fight. "I...ah...I thought about staying there to help her with her being pregnant, but I soon moved out to stay at the Lab because back home, it was just suffocating me and I wanted to get out we both wanted an out, we wanted it a lot before than four months ago."

"Why, weren't you happy being with her?" Caitlin asks, a slight pang at her heart when she asked this, she developed the feelings for their resident speedster a while ago and she knew there was something between them. There always have been, but both of them never acted on it, because a part of her never wanted to believe there was something. "I mean when we saw the article we thought you would be happy because, it read--"

"Iris West-Allen, I know." Barry muttered. "And if it was before me being the Flash I would've been happy, but unknowingly, I found out that I already moved on from her, and one way or another I hoped and prayed that the Allen she was married to was not me." He paused a haunted look appeared on his face. "Which almost came true when the Flashpoint happened."

Caitlin frowned, that was the worst year of their lives. If people thought Particle Accelerator was the worst moment, than what happened two years prior was the moment they were in hell, murders in Central City, a new and absurdly dangerous speedster calling himself a god and his cult of followers, on top of that there were aliens and deaths, so many deaths. That moment broke the whole team Flash.

"I just pulled through and wanted to tell her that maybe the article wasn't written by her because we were not together and she went to pursue her dream in another city, well I did until I went to the future and found out the reason she didn't write that article was because she was dead." He paused looking at Caitlin face when they found out he went to the future. "It felt like the only way out for me was Iris's death." Her breath hitched, she never thought he was going through so much. "And I don't want that, I would never want a freedom that came at the cost of the lives of my best friends." He looked towards the screen where was the list of the people, finding Eddie's name among them. "So I just went along, thinking maybe because it was the only choice I was given or had." And Caitlin faltered at the last few words of his.

"What about the marriage?" She asked, she remembered how happy Iris and him seemed, but if what Barry said was truth than they were never happy with each other in the first place, they just went alomg with an idea that was already there. "I mean you two almost got married."

"Yeah, we were never so much pleased for a villain attack than we've been on that day." Barry said and she supposed he was right, both him and Iris seemed a bit happy after the Nazi attack, and truth be told so was she. "If they never attacked we would've been (a) In a relationship that we both never wanted and end up hurting each other or (b). Say no and create a drama of the century at the altar, and we both didn't want that, so the happening of *a* was lot more plausible than *b*."

"Both doesn't seem like a good option though." She mentions.

"Yeah." Barry says and moved forward a smile on his face. "I think I thanked Eobard for crashing the wedding."

"I am sure he would've been surprised." Caitlin answers with a smile of her own.

"He surely was, looked so surprised while running that he almost tripped, during one of our battles." Barry said with a bit of mirth in his voice. "Oliver sorta found out just after that."

"So Team Arrow knows?"

"No." He paused for a moment. "I think Felicity may know, but things there have been a lot crazy since..."

"Oliver was outed as the Green Arrow."

"Yeah." Barry says just thinking of the amount of trouble his friend has. "I went to talk with Oliver and Felicity but they rejected my offer, saying how they didn't want to increase our problems, both of them are very stubborn ya know."

"Yeah." A comforting silence fell between the two as Caitlin turned to look at Barry. "Why did you kiss me back?" She asked and Barry looked at her, she could see a lot of emotions going behind his eyes, before she could decipher what was there he averted his eyes gazing back at the screen.

"Because I wanted to." He answered not saying anything else, there were a lot of meaning behind that sentence that she wanted to know about. "Why did you kiss me?" He asked turning back to look at her.

"Because I wanted to." Caitlin answered with the same sentence as she gazed in his eyes, seeing a look of longing and expectations, both of their face inching closer until their lips met, in a simple serene kiss. It was a moment, but both savored it. They soon broke apart but didn't let go of each other, heads touching before Caitlin spoke up. "You didn't answer me."

"I still am looking for them myself." Barry told her before a goofy smile appeared on his face. "We kissed again."

"That we did." Caitlin said, a smile appearing on her face too. "What are we, Barry?"

"I don't know." Barry answered. "What do you want us to be?"

"I don't know." Caitlin answered for him as they both laughed at the answer. "You are one of my best and closest friends, I...this is really confusing, because I think I know what I want but I don't know how to express it and..." She paused and took a deep breath. "What I do know is that I really care about you and really like you and want to kiss you again."

"That's good." Barry replied their nose touching. "Because I do too." Before Barry or Caitlin could go for another kiss, they heard Cisco and Harry coming back shouting at each other, they quickly moved away from each other as the arguing duo entered the cortex. The former of the two going towards Barry and Caitlin, saying that they will be on his side, while the later.

"Did we interrupt something?" Harry asks as he took in the atmosphere, looking between the two making Cisco pause with his words, and turn towards the two.

"What is he talking about?" He asks as he looked at both Caitlin and Barry.

"Nothing!" Caitlin shot back, with a little squeak that made the three of them to look at her in surprise. "Sorry." She coughed before speaking again. "There was something in my throat." Harry doesn't seem to believe the excuse.

"You okay?" Cisco asks.

"Yeah." Caitlin nodded her head, not looking towards anyone except for the screen. "Just tired."

"We all are." Harry said. "So why don't you guys leave for the night and I will close this place down."

"That'll be good." Cisco said and turned towards Barry. "Let's go home, buddy, I really need to catch some Zzzzs."

"Sure." Barry said and turned towards Caitlin. "Do you want me to?" He asked.

"No thanks, even if you want to, I like my clothes not on fire." Caitlin said and Barry grumbled.

"That was one time." Cisco laughed remembering the first year of the Flash.

"Also I came here in my car and I am not going to leave it behind." She pulled her keys from the purse dangling it in front of Barry to see as she stood up and went out of the cortex leaving the three of them behind in silence.

"So what happened back here?" Cisco asks aa Barry stared in the direction Caitlin disappeared to.

"Nothing happened?!" Maybe he was bit too defensive when he said that, because both Cisco and Harry looked at him like he was an idiot.

"Look, I might've been loosing my mind." Harry began the effects of the thinking cap were still fresh on his mind, but he had started to regain it bits by bits, but he had to thank Marlieze, the lack of his intelligence made him more in tune with his emotional side. "But I haven't lost it so much that I won't notice things going on between people."

"Well you never did before." Cisco muttered. "But he is right, I've been getting some weird vibes between the two of you for sometime."

"Look I...it's difficult to explain, okay!" Barry almost yelled.

"You love her." Harry stated and Cisco looked at him.

"Wha--"

"I am? I mean I don't really know about the love part?" Barry said and Cisco almost snapped his neck when he turned to look at him.

"Wha--"

"You do." Harry spoke up before Cisco could even continue. "I've been more in touch with my emotions since the thinking cap incident and even if I don't have my smart mind, I have grown somwhat of an emotional mind and I can see the look that the two of you share. You do love her."

"Wait--" Cisco wanted to be a part of conversation but Barry continued.

"Look I admit that I do like her, as in I like her a lot." Barry said looking at both of them. "As more than a friend and maybe I want to be with her but I don't know, it's just confusing and on top of that my daughter from the future is stuck here."

"Barr--" Cisco tried again as Barry almost went into a ramble.

"But that's not the reason." Harry interrupts.

"That's not the reason." Barry admits and both of them looked at him. "I am afraid that things won't work out between us."

"You don't know that." Cisco finally said.

"I don't." Barry answered. "And I mean we kissed."

"Wait, when did that happen?" Cisco asks.

"Probably right before we entered the cortex." Harry mentions.

"Wait, you were making out at our work place?!" Cisco asked again.

"We weren't making out." Barry said. "It was just a simple kiss." He said and a teasing smile appeared on the face of Cisco, and the three of them failed to notice Caitlin Snow coming back to the cortex to get few things but stopped when she heard Barry's voice and something about a kiss,theirkiss?

"But you want more." Cisco said a gleeful smile appearing on his face taking the color red, Caitlin didn't want to eavesdrop but a part of her wanted to know what Barry's answer would be. "Take her out on a date make her laugh, whisper sweet nothings to each other." Did Barry want that, were they talking about her? Cisco on the other hand made the expression of disgust. "Just don't do any of that in here." He paused as both Barry and her blushed deep red, she would never do that in their workplace of all the place. "So are going to ask her out?"

'Is he?' Caitlin thought.

"I--"

"I think you should ask her out." Harry said taking a seat as Cisco quickly turned to look at him, and so did Caitlin from her place where she was hiding. Did Harry just agree with Cisco on something?

"Look guys I--"

"Wait, are you siding with me on this?" Cisco asked surprised and so was she. "I never thought that was possible?"

'Neither did I.' Caitlin thought.

"Neither did I." Barry said.

"Neither did I but we aren't talking about that." Harry shot back looking at Barry. "Are you going to ask Dr. Snow out?" So they were really talking about her.

"Yeah, you should do it, I mean you've done it once before." Cisco said and the Barry and Harry turned to look at him in surprise. So was she? When did that happen? "I just realized I shouldn't have told you that." Wait, does he not remember asking her out?

"Wait, when did that happen?" Harry asks as Barry looked at his best friend in surprise. She was too. When did Barry ask her out?

"In the Flashpoint." Cisco answered in a timid voice and Caitlin tilted her head in confusion. Were they dating before the Flashpoint? But Cisco said in.

'Wait he never told us what happened inside the Flashpoint!' She remembered that whenever Flashpoint was brought up, he would say that he messed up by going back in time to save his mother and all of our lives were different, that's it.

"How did you know about that?" Barry asked him in surprise. He never told anyone about what actually happened in the Flashpoint, he told them about who was there and who was not but not what happened in there.

'He didn't deny it.' Caitlin's thought were all over the place, what was going on.

"That's not possible, Barry was not dating anyone before the Flashpoint." Harry said. "One of the reason I was surprised when I found out that he was dating Ms. West, a relationship that you, Cisco, said had been going for months." He lived on another Earth, he wasn't as affected by the timeline change of Earth-1 like they were.

"I never said before, I said in Flashpoint." Cisco said and Harry turned to look at Barry in confusion and Caitlin nodded her head from the place she was hiding at.

"Is he talking about the months which have been missing from your memories?" Harry asked and Barry nodded, it was true than, he asked her out in the Flashpoint.

"Yeah, the time I've been living in the Flashpoint, which was basically another reality." Barry told him.

"And you told Cisco that you asked Dr. Snow out in that reality?" Harry asked again, Caitlin wanted to know more, but she knew if she enter now, Barry would try to take the conversation in another direction instead of what she wanted to know. Or the thing she was curious about.

'Why didn't he did that when he came back?' She thought as she continued hearing.

"They dated in that reality before hehadto reset the timeline again." Cisco answered for him making him more confused than he ever was, how did he know? And so was Caitlin and Harry, what does that mean?

"You told him you dated Dr. Snow in that reality?"

"How did you know about that?" Barry asked looking at Cisco. Did he admit that he asked her out?

"So you did ask her out there." Harry stated.

"You know when I said I remember our bachelor party much clearer than the others?" Cisco says and Barry nodded, whereas Caitlin frowned, she was thinking of drowning her sorrows before she was dragged by Felicity and Cecile and later had to fight Amunet of all people, it wasn't the best of days for her, but where was Cisco going with this. "So when you were drunk, you asked, well more like demanded from me to bring you to S.T.A.R Labs, because you didn't want to go home."

"And then you hitched ride with me, and after that I don't remember much." Harry tried to remember what he could of the time until he remembered that he quickly went to sleep that day after getting the bachelors out of the jail. She remembers Cisco telling her that they spent some time in jail.

"So you pulled few more bottles of the serum went to the time vault, and then began crying and told me a lot of things." Cisco told the two as the third kept her ear out, trying to listen everything. "Like a really lot of things, I was rich, Wally was Kid Flash, Iris helped me out with Wally, Joe and Iris didn't like each other, your mom was alive, Caitlin was pediatric ophthalmologist, you somehow got enough guts to ask her out and she said yes." He paused remembering few other things that Barry told him and keeping few things out. "Robert Queen was alive instead of Oliver and was the Hood or Arrow, also he was lot more dangerous than Oliver, also he was missing an arm? You also met Batman there, in some parts of the world there was some sort of rebellion going on, one of the meta in that timeline drowned almost one fourth of Europe." He turned to glance at his best friend who was looking at him with wide eyes, Did Cisco said one fourth of Europe was under the sea, is that why Barry had to reset the timeline?

"Or that you didn't wanted to marry Iris and probably thought that you were making a mistake." So he really was thinking all of that for a while.

"So you knew about that too?" Harry said mentioning the break up.

"Yeah." Cisco muttered.

"Is that the reason you didn't look that much surprised compared to others?" Barry asked, and Caitlin remember Cisco knew about the break up before she did, because he was now crashing at his place.

"Yep." Cisco said. "Also you keep on reminding me to not let you get close to those things again." He laughed and so did Harry and Caitlin, the later did it silently before a frown settled on his face, remembering few things Barry told him about the Flashpoint.


(Cisco's Flashback)


"He made me beg Cisco!"A drunk Barry sobbed as he looked at his friend. "He made me beg him to kill my own mother." Barry chocked as he took a deep swig from the bottle. "He knew thatIwould messupthe timeline, he knew people will die, it's why he wanted me to do it the first time, so I can beg him to kill...to do it again." Cisco looked at his friendwhowas broken from the inside as he tried to console him.

"He was right." Barry muttered almost asleep. "I can never be happy."


(Flashback ends)


Cisco got out of his trance when he heard Barry call out his name.

"Did I tell you anything else, apart from this?" There was a lot that happened in the Flashpoint, most of it were secrets that he has been keeping, including few things that no one knows about.

"Well..." Cisco began a teasing smile appearing on his face. "You wanted to ask Caitlin out in this timeline, too." Caitlin took a deep breath, so he wanted to ask her out, but why didn't he? "But stopped because you were too confused and put off because of things that have happened when you weren't even here."

"You mean like how he was suddenly dating Iris, Caitlin was almost Killer Frost, than Iris was supposed to die, Barry had a new partner or rival for the lab." Harry began counting. "Your brother was..." Ah, so that's why?

"Yeah." Cisco muttered, not wanting to talk about his brother. "Have you ever thought what it would've been like if you never traveled back in time?"

"Many times, buddy." Barry says as he looked at the screen again.

"Also remind me to wipe out those footages of the time vault." Cisco said looking at Barry and Caitlin paused, that place has cameras? When did that happen? "Tomorrow."

"Why tomorrow?" Barry asks. "On that note when did we got cameras down there?"

"Well Time Vault is a special place where originally no camera was installed." Cisco said thinking about the time when they first visited the vault, and Caitlin scoffed, for obvious reasons Thawne held back from putting them in there. "So I decided to put few there after Zoom because, why not?" He looked towards Barry and Harry. "Also those cameras are special and I also installed mic in that room, thinking if someday Reverse Flash comes back and visits the vault, than we will probably figure out what he is doing there, as for why tomorrow, well I am to tired to do anything."

So she could actually listen to what Barry and Cisco talked about, she slowly stepped back to not let others know that she probably heard their conversation, and pulled out her tablet, moving towards the time vault.

"So let's pack up here, and close it down for the night." Harry said as they began gathering their stuffs and moving them. Barry could have used his speed to help with process but he was enjoying these slow moments so he refrained from doing so. "We are going to have lot of work to do tomorrow."

"Yeah, we probably will." Cisco said as he picked few of the discarded take out box and shoving them in one of the bins lost in a trance of sorts, as Barry and Harry turned to look at him, stopping from from the cleaning.

"What do you mean?" Barry asked looking confused as Cisco was brought back from his trance.

"I don't know, it's like I got this feeling..."

"You mean your vibes?" Harry asked.

"No, maybe?" Cisco himself looked confused. "I mean I have this weird feeling that tomorrow is going to be a very long day for us." He looked at the two. "I mean I had been having this feeling since morning, but when Nora arrived the feeling just intensified by probably a million."

"Maybe it's a vibe?" Barry said unsure, Cisco's power were still a mystery to them just like his or Ralph's, or Caitlin's, even though she doesn't have powers anymore.

"About what?" Harry asks.

"I don't know." Cisco looked lost, he hasn't had this sort of feeling since he saw himself dying at the hands of Dr. Wells...Reverse Flash. "Its not like I got a chance to vibe her or wanted to vibe her."

"We'll discuss this tomorrow." Barry said as they cleaned the place. "Because we all need some rest."

"He is right." Cisco picked his bag, getting few files for himself. "I really need to sleep." He stood straight as Barry put his hands on his shoulder. "Good night, Harry, we'll see you tomorrow."

"Night Ramone, Allen." Harry says as they quickly vanished in the storm of lightning. "Hope tomorrow is a good day." He muttered to the empty cortex before moving to sleep for the night.


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