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Patty laughed as Barry sped towards her with roses that lit up in flames. "I didn't realize roses were so flammable."

"Oh, my gosh." Patty said. "Well, it's the... it's the thought that counts. And, you know, and proper fire safety management, that... that counts most." She assured him.

"I wouldn't trade what we have, for anything." Barry said as he and Patty kissed before she screamed as Zoom grabbed her and Barry stared in shock.

Zoom sped off with Patty as Barry followed them on the rooftop.

"Help! Help me…" Patty choked out as Zoom held her by her throat.

"Flash, everything you have will be mine." Zoom told Barry as he let Patty go, while she was falling to the ground, screaming.

"No!" Barry exclaimed.

Barry gasped, waking up and panting out.

"Barry, are you OK?" Patty asked as he turned to her, obviously terrified. "Barry—"

"I'm OK." Barry breathed out. "It was just a nightmare, that's all."

"What were you dreaming about—"

"Nothing. It's nothing, really." Barry assured her. Even though she knew that Barry was lying, it was obvious to her that he would not let her in.

"Barry, you know that you don't need to bottle it up, do you? I'm here for you." Patty assured, holding his hand as Barry sighed deeply, feeling himself deflate and it took a while before he let her in.

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"As some of you may well know, I've been deeply embroiled in a secret, one-sided battle with an invisible enemy." Cisco said he met with Barry, Caitlin, Jay and Harry in the Cortex.

"No, not the Turtle again." Caitlin muttered.

"What?" Barry looked confused. "What is the... or who is the Turtle?"

"It's Cisco's white whale." Caitlin said.

"Half whale, half turtle." Jay deduced.

"No." Cisco shook his head before shooting Caitlin a look. "Do you see what you're doing, Caitlin? Everybody's confused now."

"Get to it." Harry said.

Cisco showed them some news articles. "I stumbled upon a few of these cases, when we were looking for the Reverse-Flash, robberies that were seemingly committed at high speed... people holding their beloved items one second. Those items were gone the next. Tell me what you see."

Cisco showed them a footage on which the people seemed frozen as among them walked a hooded man.

"So he can... what? Stop time?" Caitlin asked.

"No, no, no. Look at the time code." Cisco said. "It's still running."

"Yeah, OK. So if he's not stopping time, what is he doing?" Barry asked.

"He's slowing down everything around him. And that is why we call him the Turtle." Cisco explained.

"Why have you never mentioned this guy to me before?" Barry inquired.

"Oh, I don't know, I think we've just been a little distracted, you know, what with Captain Cold and the Weather Wizard and Gorilla Grodd. Do I need to go on?" Cisco pointed out and Barry nodded.

"OK, so if we can catch him, figure out how he uses his powers…" Jay trailed off.

"Maybe we can show Zoom what life is like in the slow lane." Cisco nodded.

"How would you even know where to find him?" Harry wondered.

"Well, the robberies in the videos all correspond with police reports that were dismissed as lost or missing items instead of thefts." Cisco said.

"The suspect's M.O. being..." Jay trailed off.

"Items of immense personal value." Barry said as he typed away before speeding off.

Caitlin looked at the report that Barry had found. "Oh, it appears that there's a press conference at CCPD, because the Vandervoort diamonds have just been recovered."

"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee." Cisco cited.

CCPD

"The perpetrators who committed this heartless crime have been apprehended and are now in our custody. And we're happy to report that the famed Vandervoort diamonds have been returned to their rightful owner." Captain Singh assured.

"The real gem is the return of my great-grandfather's ring. Getting that returned to the family is what's most priceless to me." Mr. Vandervoort said before the Flash spotted the Turtle.

"Gotcha." The Flash sped in, trying to catch the Turtle but he then entered some force field, in which he was too slow to move as the Turtle stole the diamond ring, much to everyone's surprise.

"The ring is gone. What happened to it?" Singh demanded, perplexed. "Lock this place down. No one leaves this room. Sweep the precinct!"

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"Well, the good news is whatever the Turtle did, it only affected you temporarily." Caitlin assured.

"Yo. What was it like being in Turtle Time?" Cisco asked.

"Yeah, no, it was weird." Barry said. "It was like waves of inertness... like all the energy was suddenly sucked out of my body, and then it would return."

"That's because that's exactly what was happening. He has the ability to transfer all the surrounding kinetic energy into himself." Harry said.

"Leaving everyone else in a temporary state of potential energy." Jay finished.

"That's right." Harry nodded.

"So why could I still move?" Barry wondered.

"Your speed. Your speed allows you to change positions faster than anyone else." Harry explained.

"So you can convert your stored potential energy back to kinetic energy." Jay realized as Harry was about to leave.

"Excuse me, where are you going?" Cisco asked Harry.

"Trying to figure out how to use this against Zoom." Harry said. "You remember Zoom?"

"'Cisco, please join me. We'll use your idea and take it to new scientific heights and save the world.' 'Yes, I'd love to!'" Cisco said sarcastically.

"OK. Facial recognition software found us a match from the press conference footage. The Turtle's name is Russell Glosson. He was a small-time thief who stopped thieving after the particle accelerator explosion." Caitlin said, showing the profile.

"All right, I'm gonna head to work... catch Patty and Joe up. Let me know if you find anything else." Barry said as he left.

Later, CCPD

"The Turtle. Cisco's been looking for this guy forever." Joe said as Barry filled him and Patty in. "Singh just put an APB out on him."

"How did everybody know about Glosson before I did?" Barry demanded.

"You'd be surprised how many unidentified metas are on Cisco's list. The people here in the precinct call him 'Cisco de la Mancha.'" Patty said

Barry chuckled before he turned to Joe, noticing how uncomfortable he seemed. "Are you good? You seem a little jittery."

"A little anxious." Joe admitted. "Let's be honest. I'm really nervous about this whole dinner tonight with Wally."

"Come on, why... why are you nervous? You're, like, the best dad ever. He'll see that." Barry assured.

Joe sighed. "It'll be a whole lot easier, you being there."

"Joe, we'll be there." Patty assured.

"See you tonight." Barry said as Joe patted him on his arm.

"All right." Joe said as he left.

Patty then turned to Barry. "Look, Barry, about last night—"

"Patty, I—"

"Look, I get if you don't want to talk about it and I don't want to force you to." Patty assured him. "But you know that if you need something, I'm here for you. How about we go to a dinner later, to get your mind off things?"

"Sure. I'd like that." Barry nodded.

"See you at the dinner." Patty said.

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"Hey. You guys got anything?" Barry asked as he entered the Cortex.

"I think we found the next target for our 30-something, metahuman, not-a-Ninja-Turtle." Cisco said before realizing what he had said.

"How long did it take you to come up with that one?" Caitlin asked, staring at Cisco like if he was crazy.

"It just came out of my mouth... did you see that? That was amazing." Cisco said.

"That was nice." Barry chuckled.

"Central City Museum is hosting a special black tie event tonight showcasing 'The Crystal Ball'." Cisco said as Barry looked confused.

"It's a famous painting, apparently, recently recovered from Markovia." Jay explained.

"The painting is on loan to the museum from the Silverberg family. Jacob Silverberg himself said, 'The painting's safe return means more to us than all the money in the world.' It's like they're begging Turtle to rob it." Cisco said.

Barry nodded. "OK, yes. This is a plan. So the Turtle will make his move, and we can be there waiting to take him down."

"How do you look in a tux?" Caitlin asked, turning to Jay.

"Come on, he's 6'2", he's square-jawed, and he's jacked. I think he looks fine." Barry said.

"I'm 6'4"." Jay said.

Suddenly, Barry groaned as he remembered. "Oh, crap!"

"Problem?" Caitlin asked.

"One sec." Barry said as he called Patty.

"Is everything OK, Barry?" Patty asked.

"Look, Patty, about that dinner… I know we had plans but—"

"Another case?"

"Patty, look—"

"No, no. I get it. I get it, it's fine." Patty assured.

"Do you have a fancy dress for tonight?" Barry asked.

Later, Central City

Barry, in a tux, was in the gala with Caitlin before he saw Patty in a dress as he got a flashback of the nightmare but shook it off.

"Hey." Patty smiled.

"Hey." Barry said as she kissed him.

"You look very handsome." Patty said.

"I was about to tell you the same thing." Barry said as they danced.

"Of all the things we could have done, we have a date/case and we're here, undercover." Patty chuckled.

"Patty, I know this isn't how you imagined that our night was gonna—"

"Don't apologize, it's fine, Barry. Really." Patty assured. "I guess we're never gonna get any normal, huh?"

"I guess it's too much to ask at this point." Barry said.

"Barry, is there something you want to tell me?" Patty asked, noticing how on edge Barry was. "You've been having nightmares and I really want to help you but I can't, if you don't let me in."

Barry sighed. "I know. Look, Patty, I—" He stopped, when he saw the Turtle around the corner.

"What?" Patty asked.

"He's here." Barry said.

"What? Where?" Patty turned around and aimed her gun at Turtle, who was stealing a painting. "CCPD! Freeze!" The next thing Patty knew, the Turtle had disarmed her of her gun and was upstairs. "How the—"

The Flash sped in as the Turtle realized that it was a trap. He fired at a chandelier above as it was about to fall on Patty and crush her but the Flash sped in, trying to help Patty and despite that the Turtle was slowing him down, he managed to tackle her away as the chandelier missed her.

"You OK?" Barry asked and Patty nodded.

"Where did he go?" Patty demanded.

"He's gone." Caitlin said.

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"I'm fine, Caitlin, really." Patty said as Caitlin was shining her eyes with penlight.

"Pupils are normal." Caitlin said.

"How did he even do that? One moment I aim a gun at him, the next thing I know, he's behind me and he managed to disarm me somehow." Patty wondered. "Somehow he slowed time around us."

"We'll figure out how to stop him." Barry said.

Later, Patty's apartment

"Thanks for accompanying me." Patty said.

"You know why I did it." Barry said as they both chuckled before Barry got shivers again from the nightmare.

"Barry, are you gonna tell me what's going on with you?" Patty asked. "Lately you've been having nightmares. You barely sleep."

"Patty—"

"Barry, I'm really trying to be here for you but I can't do that if you won't let me in. Don't brush me off, OK?" Patty pleaded. Suddenly, they heard a 'knock' on the door. "I'll get it."

As soon as she opened the door and noticed the Turtle, before she could react, time slowed, with Barry not looking back at her, oblivious of time slowing and as he turned around, he looked confused to see Patty gone. "Patty? Patty?" Then it hit him. "No…"

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"Bar, we'll find her." Joe assured him.

"I'm not getting any leads on this guy. It's like he's totally fallen off the grid." Cisco said. "You know, it... any of the stuff he's stolen, I can't find it."

"He keeps them." Harry said as Barry turned to him. "He keeps them the way a serial killer collects trophies."

"He's stolen a lot of stuff." Caitlin said.

"Which means he needs a lot of space to store it, right?" Joe realized as everyone nodded. "That's where we start. See if he rented any storage spaces."

Cisco went through the records. "No, no... I'm not getting anything." Then he remembered. "His ex-wife used to be an archivist for antiquities at the Naydel Library before it shut down, and it shut down three months after the accelerator exploded."

"That place is big enough to hold Turtle's stuff." Joe nodded.

"OK, all right." Barry said as he was about to leave.

"Wait, Barry, we haven't even figured out how to neutralize the Turtle's power." Jay protested.

"Well, I'm gonna have to power through it." Barry said before suiting up as he sped off.

Later, Central City

"All right, I'm outside the library." The Flash said.

"Barry, the only way to save Patty is if you grab her in between each of the Turtle's pulses." Cisco advised.

"You'll only have 2/10ths of a second to make your moves." Caitlin said.

"I got it." The Flash took a breath as he sped into the library.

The Turtle heard noises as the Flash sped in but was forced to slow down due to the Turtle's powers. The Turtle punched the Flash as he fell down. The Flash sped away as the Turtle smirked at Patty. "I guess he doesn't care about you as much as I thought."

"No…" Patty whispered as the Turtle pulled out a knife. "No, no... please!"

The Flash sped in again, as the Turtle slowed him down again but the Flash broke through the pulses and tackled the Turtle, sending him flying back and the Turtle was knocked out as he hit a wall and crashed to the floor.

The Flash panted out as he turned to Patty, cutting her restraints. "You OK?"

Patty sobbed as she hugged him tightly. "Thank you. Thank you…"

Later, S.T.A.R. Labs

As the Turtle was locked up in his cell in the Pipeline, Harry entered and put an injection pistol into his nose, extracting some of the tissue as the Turtle fell down, dead.

Patty's apartment

"Are you OK?" Barry asked as Patty sat down, in shock.

"Yeah." Patty nodded. "Thank you, Barry."

"You never need to thank me. I'm always gonna be here for you." Barry assured her, holding her hands.

"I wish I could believe that." Patty said and Barry blinked. "Look, Barry… I care about you but I need to know that you're honest with me, OK? So talk to me. What's going on? Lately you barely sleep, you barely eat…"

Barry took a breath, wiping his face as he sat next to her as she held his hand. "Look, Patty… it's that… I was afraid of what the Reverse-Flash might do to Joe, you, Iris, everyone else but ever since Zoom… it keeps haunting me. And every time I close my eyes, I see him killing you. And there's nothing…" He swallowed as Patty realized what was going on as she held his hands.

"Barry. Together, we can figure this out. We've beaten the Reverse-Flash, we can beat Zoom too." Patty assured as they stared before they kissed, with Barry unbuttoning Patty's shirt, while she took off his jacket as they laid down on the couch, dropping their clothes on the floor.

Central City

In another part of Central City, the Reverse-Flash was in the middle of the street in the suburbs, looking around, confused as he pulled out a hologram, taking off his mask to reveal the face of Eobard Thawne.

"Gideon?" Thawne asked.

"Yes, Professor Thawne?" Gideon said.

"Where the hell am I?" Thawne wondered, confused.

I loved Barry/Patty and it was hurtful that they sent her off out of the sudden due to Shantel VanSanten casted into Shooter TV series but obviously Patty is staying here. But at least the writers didn't ruin the pairing by making Patty unlikable and insufferable like Iris or Felicity or Lana later.

And one thing bugs me, but that might be because of unavailability of Matt Letscher later, it's weird that Thawne still keeps the face of Harrison Wells and it's a bit weird that he was able to possess Nash Wells after the Crisis, when all the other versions of the Wellses merged with Nash somehow, with all of them living in Nash's brain now with Nash hallucinating Harry, Sherloque and the rest, despite that Thawne wasn't even a real Wells.

I know Tom Cavanagh is a great actor but Matt Letscher did a good job as Thawne too and it feels more fitting for Thawne to have his real face, rather than of Wells.

So, what do you guys think?

Please review and let me know if you have been enjoying this and want for me to continue.