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CHAPTER 16- TOO SOON
Barry woke up and walked out of his room. Jessie who was in kitchen saw Barry holding his head as he sat down on the couch.
"Here's your coffee" Jessie said handing him a cup.
"Another nightmare?" Jessie asked as Barry nodded his head.
"What did you see exactly?" Jessie asked.
"I don't remember it. All I know is that my head is hurting" Barry said.
"It's the 3rd one in this week! Why don't we go to labs and check what's wrong with you" Jessie said.
"What, No!!! Caitlin's going to kill me for hiding it, Kara's going to freak-out" Barry replied.
"Bar, we care about you" Jessie replied.
"So do I. That is why we are not telling anyone" Barry said. Jessie was about to say something but Barry stopped her.
"Let me figure out first" Barry said as Jessie nodded her head.
"So everything set with Ray?" Barry asked.
"Pretty much, I will be going to Star City today for some final works and after that Ray will take care of everything and that includes protecting Star City as well" Jessie said.
"Crime rates have been very low since Oliver's death. Star city is in good position now" Barry replied.
"For now!" Jessie stressed as Barry laughed.
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Caitlin and Felicity were in the cortex when Barry ran and came back with a cup of coffee.
"Bartholomew!" Caitlin yelled, "What is wrong with you? This is your 6th coffee in 2 hours"
"Nothing" Barry lied, He was still trying to get rid of his headache.
Caitlin was about to speak when Barry received a message
"Sorry, It's Joe, emergency!" Barry said and ran off as Caitlin just groaned.
"Bartholomew! Umm" Felicity mocked as Caitlin glared.
Barry ran to a address Joe messaged him after collecting his kit from the lab.
"Don't tell me another murder?" Barry asked as he walked into a middle-sized house.
"We don't know yet, the wife just returned from a trip upstate and found her husband lying dead on the floor" Joe said.
Barry walked over to body and started looking for clues.
"Did you ask any neighbours about noticing something odd?" Barry asked.
"They are being interviewed, so what do you think?" Joe replied.
"No stabs, no injection marks. From this, it looks this might be a heart attack" Barry said when an officer came to Joe and informed him something.
"Bar, Come with me" Joe said and walked him to the back door of the house.
"This might not be a natural death" Barry said after seeing the broken backdoor of the house.
"Another homicide…Great" Barry groaned.
"Is something wrong? You look off today" Joe asked noticing Barry being rigid.
"Nothing, It's just lack of sleep" Barry said as Joe gave a look.
"Oh! Kara okay" Joe hissed as Barry face blushed.
"What? No!" Barry replied as Joe just laughed and patted his back.
"Let's get back to the case please" Barry said as Joe nodded.
"I've collected all I need to. Lets wait for the autopsy report. My guess some poison is definitely involved" Barry said collecting all the things and left the crime scene.
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"Hi Caitlin" Kara said walking into the cortex of STAR labs.
"Hey Kara" Caitlin replied as Kara sat beside her.
"So anything interesting going on in Central? National has been pretty much empty for a while" Kara said.
"Same here, but we do know that something big is going to happen suddenly" Caitlin said.
"Yeah" Kara replied.
"So you know what's wrong with Barry?" Caitlin asked.
"Wait? What happened to Barry?" Kara asked with concern in her voice.
"He's been behaving odd today. He had almost 6 cups of coffee. As you both are a thing now and are pretty much sleeping together, I thought you might know what's wrong with him" Caitlin said.
"That's the problem, Barry doesn't share everything with me" Kara replied.
"Give him time, we do know what he went through, losing Oliver and getting to know about.." Caitlin stopped at the end.
"Iris?" Kara asked as Caitlin nodded her head slowly.
"Do you know what happened?" Caitlin asked hesitantly.
"Not totally, but I never thought she would do something like that" Kara said as Caitlin just remained silent.
"Do you want to know?" Caitlin asked unwillingly.
"I wanted to for a long time… But now I don't think it matters anymore, everyone's safe now" Kara said.
"But Barry...he needs to know" Caitlin said.
"He does, but may be not now" Kara said as Caitlin shook her head.
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Felicity walked out of Star Labs and entered Caitlin's car which she borrowed from her. She noticed a photo frame in the back seat, so she took it to find a picture of Barry, Caitlin, Cisco & Doc.Wells alias Reverse flash.
She just stared at it when she started remembering the team she used to work Oliver and Diggle.
She took out her phone and put a message to Dig asking about how he is doing these days.
She stayed in the parking lot for a while and started looking Oliver's pictures and then she remembered the conversation with Oliver about a war coming.
"Give me some clue Oliver" she mumbled and started her car and the radio turned on itself playing " On my way from Alan Walker"
"I hate you Oliver" Felicity cursed and drove off.
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Kara was asleep in her bedroom. She heard some strange sounds from the living room that woke her up.
"Barry! Is that you?" Kara asked still on bed.
There was no response from the other side.
So she used her vision to see past her bedroom and a unstable breach was trying to form there. Kara walked out of her room.
"This definitely feels like Speed-force" Kara mumbled remembering the time when Barry took all the paragons during crisis.
Suddenly there was a increase in the light coming out from the breach.
"Mom!" A woman shouted who was trying to get past the speed-force but was unable to do it.
"Mom?" Kara asked still unable to see totally due to the lightning.
"Listen to me Mom, I don't have much time, Save Dad… He can't …can't die…Save The Flash ... Oliver... He's the key mom… he's the key" The woman yelled.
"Am I too soon?... I'm too soon" The woman yelled.
Kara was unable to see anything clearly but at the end she observed that the woman was wearing Laura's necklace which Kara had passed it on to Mon-El and also her damaged suit had house of El crest.
And then suddenly the lightning increased and Kara closed her eyes to avoid it.
And suddenly Kara woke up from her bed.
Kara was full of sweat and was panting.
"What the Hell?" Kara mumbled after relaxing.
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