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""Flash missing, vanishes in Crisis. After an epic street battle with the Reverse-Flash our city's very own Scarlet Speedster disappeared in an explosion of light."" Barry read.
"Guys. The date." Patty said, looking closely at the article.
"April 25th, 2024." Barry read as the realization hit him. "Guys, when I fought the Reverse-Flash at Christmas, he said that we'd be fighting for centuries.
"Wait, you can't really think that this is from... the future." Caitlin stared in disbelief.
Cisco shook his head as the realization dawned onto them all. "That would mean Dr. Wells, whoever he is, is also..."
"…from the future." Barry finished.
"I have to say, I'm really digging the brighter red suit." Cisco looked closer at the Flash's photo on the news article. "And the white on the symbol, that's dope. Wait a second. Suppose we now change the color on your suit. Will it be because we got the idea from this picture? That would mean we're living in a causal nexus." He gapped. "Wow, this is so trippy. Like "Marty and the Polaroid" trippy."
"Guys." Patty pointed at the name on the byline that kept changing from "JULIE GREER" to "IRIS WEST", then "IRIS WEST-ALLEN".
"Iris West…Allen?" Barry trailed off.
"But looks like it might not be the case." Patty said as the name kept changing.
"Mazel tov?" Cisco shrugged.
"Hebrew, ancient language of the Jewish people." A female robotic voice sounded off in the room, startling them all.
"Uh-uh. What the hell was that?" Cisco demanded.
Barry looked around. "Is someone here? Hello?"
Suddenly, on the pedestal appeared a holographic female head. "Good evening, Barry Allen."
"Uh... Hi. You… you know who I am?" Barry stammered.
"Of course. Barry Allen. Director of Central City Police. CSI Division." The hologram nodded.
"Director?" Barry repeated.
"Someone's got a promotion." Patty quipped.
"Also known as the Flash. Founding member of—"
"What are you?" Barry interrupted the hologram.
"I'm Gideon, an interactive artificial consciousness." Gideon introduced herself.
"A.I. Sick." Cisco said, enthusiastic.
"You know Dr. Wells?" Barry asked hesitantly.
"Yes." Gideon nodded as they all stared.
"Do you know who he really is?" Barry inquired.
"I don't understand the question." Gideon shook her head.
"I mean, what is he doing here? Why did he come here?" Barry asked.
"To kill you." Gideon said as they stared in shock.
Cisco checked his phone. "Wells is in the building."
"How do you know that?" Caitlin demanded.
"I put a tracker on his wheelchair. Which, if we're wrong about him and he is paralyzed, I'm going to hell for that one." Cisco said.
"Barry, we gotta hurry." Patty said.
"He's in the Cortex. Ask questions fast." Cisco said.
"Why did he kill Nora Allen?" Barry demanded.
"Because he was angry." Gideon said.
"About what?" Barry asked, confused.
"That you escaped."
"He's on B level. He's coming this way." Cisco said.
"What does he want from me?" Barry demanded.
"For you to be the Flash." Gideon replied.
"Well, maybe that's why Wells let the particle accelerator explode." Caitlin turned to Barry. "So that you could become the Flash."
"What? That doesn't make any sense, why?" Patty wondered.
"Guys, we gotta go. He's almost here." Cisco said.
"Hurry." Caitlin said.
"All right." Barry said as they were about to leave.
"Wait a second. Wait." Cisco pointed at Gideon, realizing something. "What if HAL over there tells Wells that we were in here?"
"That would be bad." Caitlin said.
"Very bad." Patty nodded.
"If I can get into its operating system, maybe I can disable its memory core." Cisco said.
Barry turned to the hologram. "Uh, Gideon, can you show us where your operating system is?"
"Certainly." Gideon showed them the blueprints as they all realized that their plan to disable Gideon was not going to work.
Cisco laughed humorlessly. "Yeah. Nope, that's not gonna happen."
"Guys, he's in the corridor." Caitlin said, looking at Cisco's phone.
"Uh, Gideon, could you just, like, not tell him that we were here?" Barry asked.
"Of course. I will accept any command given to me by you." Gideon said.
"Barry, we gotta go." Patty said.
"Wait, wait." Barry turned to Gideon. "Why? Why would you accept my commands?"
"Because you created me." Gideon said as they all stared in disbelief before Barry sped them out of the room as it closed and a moment later, Wells arrived, unaware that they had been in his secret room.
Later, Wests' house
"Really? For four very smart people, that was really stupid." Joe scolded them all as Barry, Patty, Cisco and Caitlin filled him and Eddie in. "What if Wells had caught you in that...?" He gestured to Cisco, not sure how to call Wells' private room.
"Time Vault." Cisco said.
"Thank you." Joe nodded.
"OK, I know we've seen a lot this past year, but time travel?" Eddie asked, skeptical.
"I did it." Barry said as they all turned to him, confused. "I will do it, I mean."
"Excuse me?" Eddie stared.
"One of the two speedsters in Barry's house the night his mother died was Barry. I mean, the Flash. He was there. Which means that one day in the future, Barry will travel back in time to that night." Cisco explained.
"OK." Eddie nodded.
"Actually, I wasn't talking about that. I kind of… already… time-traveled by accident." Barry said.
"What?" Joe and Patty said in unison, staring at Barry incredulously.
Barry sighed. "I was running to try and stop a tsunami from hitting the city—"
"Wait, when?" Patty asked.
"A few weeks ago." Barry sighed.
Suddenly, Patty snapped her fingers. "That's how you knew where Mardon was."
Barry nodded before turning to Cisco. "Right before you started getting those dreams."
"Oh. You mean the ones where Wells uses his super-speeding hand to shred apart my heart? Those?" Cisco said dryly as he sat down.
"Yes, right. So… what if they're not dreams?" Barry pointed out.
"What else could they be?" Caitlin questioned.
"Memories." Barry said.
"I'm not following." Joe said.
"What if that day, Cisco found out that Wells is Reverse-Flash, and then Wells killed him but when I ran back a day, I changed the timeline so that never happened?" Barry said.
"That doesn't make any sense." Patty shook her head. "If it didn't happen, how can Cisco remember it?"
"I don't know. I don't know. I think the important thing is he does." Barry said. "Guys... I think I've got a really bad idea."
One year ago, Central City General
"Is he awake?" Iris asked as Patty was outside the hospital room, where Joe sat next to comatose Barry.
"No change in his condition. And I told Joe to get some sleep too but he doesn't listen to me." Patty sighed as Iris held her hand.
"Patty, it's gonna be OK." Iris said as she entered. "Dad, it's been three weeks. You barely eat or sleep. You should go home at some point."
"Hey, baby." Joe said, picking the cup of coffee Iris handed him. "I'll go home when Barry does."
Suddenly, Barry spasmed as the heart monitor flatlined.
"Oh, God, Barry!" Patty exclaimed as she and Iris neared him.
"Help, my son's coding!" Joe called out as the doctors entered.
"They said he was stable! Barry!" Iris gasped. "Oh, my God!"
"I need the room. Let's go. I need the room." One of the doctors said, forcing Joe, Iris and Patty out as Iris ran down the corridor.
"They can't save him." Joe and Patty turned around to see Harrison Wells on the wheelchair. "But I can."
"You…" Patty glared.
"You're that scientist that Barry's obsessed with. The one who blew a hole in the city." Joe sneered.
"Harrison Wells. Interestingly enough, my facility is the very place I'd like to take him." Wells offered.
"You're out of your mind." Joe shook his head.
"Why would we trust you, after what your particle accelerator did to Barry? To God knows how many innocent people in this city?" Patty glared.
Wells neared them. "Not gonna try and convince you with promises, but, detectives, give me a chance."
"We already know what you're capable of, doctor. You hurt a lot of people that night." Joe said as he looked at Barry hurtfully.
"So those doctors in there, they're good enough?" Wells pointed out as he turned to Barry's room. "Best in the city? Best in the country? Look at them. They have no clue what's going on. They're baffled. The reason for that is what's happening inside Barry is a mystery and they don't have the tools to solve it."
"But you do?" Patty raised her brows.
"That's right." Wells nodded. "Millions of people used to look at my lab, and what did they see? They saw the future." He turned to Joe. "Well, let me take that technology, let me take that know-how into ensuring that your son actually does have a future."
Patty turned to Joe. "Joe. I don't trust him… but this may be Barry's only chance." She turned to the doctors trying to revive Barry as Joe considered.
"Detective. Let me save him." Wells insisted.
Joe stared at Barry before turning to Wells again. "Then save him."
Present
"Joe. Joe, are you listening?" Barry said, waking Joe from his thoughts.
"Yeah." Joe said.
"We... we have to access Cisco's memories somehow. Somewhere in his subconscious is the key." Barry said.
"The key to what, now?" Joe asked.
"Getting my dad out of prison." Barry said.
"And how are we going to do that?" Caitlin questioned.
"We're gonna get Wells to confess to killing my mom." Barry said.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
"So this will allow Cisco to see into his dream?" Barry said as Cisco was working on some hi-tech glasses.
"I got the idea from a journal article on lucid-dream therapy. It can be used to help people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder." Caitlin said.
Cisco snorted as he put down his tools. "Heh. Traumatized, stressed, check and check."
"The theory is it will allow people to objectively enter their dreams and face their fears. Still working on the talking part." Caitlin said.
"But are there gonna be some side effects. I mean, it's not gonna fry Cisco's brain or something like that, is it?" Patty asked.
"Oh. The amount of electricity required to trigger lucid dreaming is harmless. Probably." Caitlin assured.
"Who's gonna be lucid dreaming?"
They all turned around, startled to see Wells enter.
"Um..."
"There have been reports of strange sightings ever since the metahumans showed up. Things that people can't comprehend." Patty lied.
"And it's really just a matter of time before psychological issues develop." Caitlin added.
"And lucid dreaming will help the doctors better understand their fears. Intriguing." Wells nodded as he looked closer at the glasses that Cisco had been working on. "Of course, you still need to guide the patient from the outside, right? Direct them to specific aspects of that dream."
"We're still working on a communications interface." Cisco said.
"When we dream, the middle brain lights up with electrical activity, whereas the higher brain remains dormant." Wells neared the computer. "Once we find a way to make both parts of the brain active, then it's just a matter of finding the frequency that will stimulate the language center."
"Then the dreamer could speak." Caitlin realized. "He could describe his dream."
"Exactly." Wells nodded.
"Or her dream. Anyone can use it." Patty added quickly.
"Right, it's not gender-specific. I would try a frequency of 45 hertz to start." Wells suggested.
"Thank you, Dr. Wells." Caitlin said.
"Well, you never cease to impress me, Caitlin." Wells said as he left.
Later, CCPD
After a rather uncomfortable talk with Eddie about him purposing Iris, Barry and Patty met with Cisco and Caitlin in Barry's lab.
"OK, can we go over this one more time?" Cisco asked.
"Yes. You put the glasses on, fall asleep and start dreaming. Not that hard." Caitlin said.
"Except I'm pretty sure I die in this dream. If I go back into it, will I die in real life? I mean, what are we talking about?" Cisco shuddered. "'Inception' or 'Dreamscape'?"
"Here, drink this." Joe offered Cisco a glass of drink.
"What, am I five?" Cisco snorted.
"Just drink it." Joe insisted.
"OK, I'll drink it." Cisco drank the glass.
"You're gonna be fine, Cisco." Barry assured
"OK." Cisco took a breath and laid down, while Caitlin put on him the glasses.
"The glasses are emitting a low-level delta wave, which should help you fall asleep." Caitlin said, setting up the device.
"OK. I gotta warn you, though, usually it takes me a long time. I mean, I'm not saying I'm like an insomniac or anything..." Cisco trailed off as he tilted his head, seeming to have fallen asleep.
"Ah. So that's how you get him to shut up." Joe said as Patty chuckled.
"He's entering REM. It's working." Caitlin said.
"Cisco, can you hear me? You're dreaming, bud." Barry said.
Cisco was back in S.T.A.R. Labs, reliving the day, when Mark Mardon was out there.
"OK, I will take Dr. Wells to Jitters so you can do whatever it is you wanna do." Caitlin said, as she left.
"Whoa. Guys. This is mad freaky." Cisco said.
"OK, well, um, where are you?" Barry asked.
"Um... In the Cortex. I mean, I know I'm just dreaming that I'm in the Cortex but… it feels so real." Cisco said, looking around, confused.
"What is dream-you doing?" Barry asked.
"Caitlin just left. I asked her to take Wells to Jitters." Cisco said
"Why would you want Wells out of the lab?" Patty asked.
"I think he might have tampered with my work." Cisco said as they all looked at each other. "I need to check."
Cisco walked down the corridor of S.T.A.R. Labs.
"OK. OK, I'm walking to the bunker." Cisco then looked at his shirt. "Oh, man. I love this shirt. I thought the dryer ate it."
Joe chuckled, amused as Patty shook her head.
"Focus, Cisco." Barry said.
"OK, OK." Cisco said.
Cisco was in the room, where was the trap they had set up for the Reverse-Flash.
"All right. Now I'm running tests on the containment system." Cisco said. This data... it doesn't make any sense. All the super-capacitors, they were all still fully charged. There's absolutely no reason that the man in yellow should have escaped." He examined the trap before the Reverse-Flash appeared in the trap. "Oh, my God. It was just a hologram. He tricked us."
Barry, Caitlin, Patty and Joe stared at each other in shock.
"Hello, Cisco."
Cisco turned around in shock as he paled, breathing out. "Oh, God. Wells is here."
"Cisco, it's just a dream. He can't hurt you." Caitlin assured, holding him by his shoulder.
Cisco sighed. "You better be right about that."
"My name is Eobard Thawne." Thawne said.
"Eobard Thawne." Cisco repeated.
"Thawne, like Eddie Thawne?" Joe demanded, all of them shocked again.
"You killed Nora Allen." Cisco said.
"It was never my intention." Thawne said.
Barry leaned closer. "Wait, Nora. What about my mom?"
"He's confessing." Cisco said.
"Cisco."
"He... He didn't wanna kill her. It was you, Barry. He was trying to kill you." Cisco revealed, much to Barry's, Patty's and Joe's shock.
"His blood pressure's 200, and his heart rate is 147. Guys, he's losing higher brain function." Caitlin said as they noticed how he was hyperventilating. "Cisco. You're gonna be OK. It's just a dream. You're gonna be OK."
Cisco stepped back in shock as Thawne was vibrating his hand. "I have grown quite fond of you, Cisco." Thawne said.
"His hand, it's vibrating. He's gonna kill me." Cisco panicked.
"Oh, my God, he's gonna have a stroke." Caitlin said.
"Get him out of there!" Barry ordered.
Thawne was about to plunge his vibrating hand into Cisco's chest. "In many ways… you've shown me what it's like… to have a son."
"Help me. Help me, please." Cisco panicked.
"Cait." Barry turned to her.
"Help me!" Cisco exclaimed as he saw Thawne driving his hand through Cisco's chest and then he screamed before he came to, putting down the glasses, breathing out.
"You're OK. It was just a dream. You're OK." Caitlin assured, holding Cisco's shoulder as Barry wiped his face and Joe and Patty stared, startled.
"Oh, God. It felt so real." Cisco breathed out.
"Barry?" Patty turned to him.
"My mom. This was my fault." Barry realized as he sat down before his phone rang and he answered the call. "Hello?"
"Where are you?" Wells said as he paled. "Barry. Barry, are you there?"
"Dr. Wells." Barry said as they all looked at him in shock. "Yeah, sorry, yeah, it's a bad connection right now."
"Where have you been?" Wells asked.
"Why? What's going on?" Barry asked.
"A fire. A huge fire just erupted." Wells revealed.
"A fire, where?" Barry asked.
"New Brighton. Bradford Tower High-Rise." Wells said.
"I know that building. That's where Captain Singh's fiancé works." Joe said.
"On my way." Barry sped off, putting on the Flash suit.
Central City
The Flash was in the upper office level that was completely on fire.
"Dr. Wells, the sprinklers, they're not working." Barry said.
"I see that. Just get everyone out of there, Barry." Wells ordered.
Barry saw the fire around. "No, I can't. I can't save them all. Dr. Wells, please, what do I do?"
"You create a vacuum. Rotate your arms at superspeed. That will create a wind funnel that will suck the air right out of the room." Wells said.
Barry tried to follow Wells's instructions but it didn't work. "It's making it worse!"
"Barry, listen to me. You need to move your arms faster." Wells said. "I believe in you, Barry."
Barry took a breath. He was reluctant to listen to the man, who had murdered his mother but right now, he had no choice. He rotated his arms in superspeed, creating cyclones that extinguished the fire.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
Barry was in the treadmill room, putting on his clothes as Wells entered.
"Mr. Allen." Barry turned around to face him. "Tonight at the fire, I saw hesitation, I saw you doubting yourself. Why is that?"
"I don't know. Uh..." He put on his shirt, trying to avoid any contact with "Wells" to avoid suspicion. "I guess I was afraid I couldn't save everyone."
"Right, but if there is anything that I have learned in our time together, Barry, it is that the only thing standing in the way of you achieving every goal that you set for yourself is you." Wells said as Barry turned to him again. "There is no limit to how strong you will get or how fast you will go. Everything that you need, you already have."
Barry nodded and right now he felt like if he was tasting something sour. "Thank you, Dr. Wells." He was about to leave before turning to him again. "You know... I couldn't have done any of this without you."
Wells nodded. "I feel the same way about you."
Wests' house
"It's so strange. I mean, I look at him now and I know that he killed my mom and he sent my dad to jail but sometimes he's just so kind that, in the moment, I actually like him." Barry said.
"I know. Me too. But you never did." Patty turned to Joe.
"No." Joe shook his head.
"No. Well, at least now we know how to trap him. I mean, in Cisco's dream, he confessed to everything. If we can just recreate those conditions, he'll do it again." Barry said.
"Wow, Barry." Patty sighed. "Taking down bad guys, pulling confessions… that's my and Joe's job. We're the cops."
"If we're gonna get him to confess, it has to be with someone that he truly trusts. Someone he'll genuinely let his guard down with." Barry paced. "He thinks of Cisco as a son."
"Well, then we need to do a better job protecting him than I did protecting you." Joe said.
"I'm not sure what that means." Barry blinked.
"Barry, this is all because of me." Joe said.
"No." Barry shook his head.
"I never should've let Wells take you from that hospital. None of this would've ever happened." Joe said.
"Joe, this isn't your or mine fault, if you hadn't let him take Barry, he would've died in that hospital, you heard what he said that night, there was nothing they could do for him." Patty assured.
"But even then, we both knew something wasn't right." Joe snapped, turning to her. "Everything in my gut was telling me not to trust him and I'm pretty sure you felt the same way, but we did because we were so desperate to see you OK."
"Joe, you can't blame yourself." Patty said.
"Look, every bad thing that has happened to us, all of it... it was him." Barry neared Joe.
"And now we'll make sure he's gonna pay for it." Patty vowed.
Later, S.T.A.R. Labs
Eddie was in the lab, where the trap for the Reverse-Flash was, alongside Joe, Cisco, Barry and Patty.
"So Wells set up a fake showdown with a fake opponent who was never really there?" Eddie realized.
Barry nodded. "He figured if we saw both of them together, it would prove he wasn't the man in yellow."
"This all just keeps getting crazier and crazier." Eddie muttered as Cisco turned off the hologram and Caitlin entered.
"I just talked to Dr. Wells. He's attending a lecture downtown, won't be back until five." Caitlin said.
"Alright, Cisco, you know when he gets here, you need to be working on the trap so he sees you set off the hologram." Barry said and Cisco nodded.
"Hold on, isn't that in your dream when everything went all..." Joe trailed off.
"'Kali Ma,' Temple of Doom, yeah. That definitely happened." Cisco nodded. "But this time, I'm ready for him." He stepped towards the containment unit. "I originally designed the force field to keep a speedster from getting out. But I've reversed it. Now, it won't let one in." He pulled out a remote and turned on the containment field and then gestured for Barry to try get through it.
Barry nodded and gestured towards everyone. "Back up." They stepped back as Barry tried to speed to Cisco but bounced back upon hitting the containment field, crashing towards a toolbox.
"Barry, are you OK?" Caitlin asked as they neared him in worry.
"It works." Barry groaned as he got up.
"OK. As long as I'm inside, Wells won't be able to get near me." Cisco said.
"Caitlin and I will be in the Cortex, monitoring and recording everything that happens." Patty said.
"As soon as we get the confession we need to free my dad, I'm moving in." Barry said.
"So, what do I do?" Eddie asked.
"Wells also threatened Iris. So if something goes wrong here, keep an eye on her until Wells is neutralized." Joe ordered.
"I'll always keep Iris safe, Joe." Eddie promised as he left.
Caitlin was in the Cortex in her lab, working as she turned around to notice that Wells had entered. "Hello, Dr. Wells. How was your lecture?" She asked with an obviously faked polite tone.
"Oh. Boring, tedious." Wells shrugged.
"Platitudinous?" Caitlin asked, turning to him.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Wells looked around as Caitlin got up. "Um, where...? Where's Cisco?"
"Uh, he is in the bunker. He thinks he finally figured out what went wrong at Christmas." Caitlin said as Wells raised his brows. "You know, when we were trying to catch the Reverse-Flash?"
"Yes, I remember that night." Wells nodded. "Well, did he say what he's found?"
Caitlin shook her head. "Nope, just that it was important."
"Hmm. Good for Cisco." Wells mused. "Um... OK. Well, maybe I'll wheel on down there, see what he's got."
"OK." Caitlin nodded as Wells left before she neared the mic. "Here he comes." She whispered.
Wells stopped at the corridor, suspecting something was off.
Cisco had turned off the hologram before Wells entered. "Hello, Cisco." He clapped his hands. "You've been busy. You really are incredibly clever, Cisco. I've always said it." He paced around.
"You're him. The Reverse-Flash." Cisco glared at Wells in betrayal. "Joe was right this whole time, wasn't he?"
"Good old Joe. Joe West had his doubts all along. Even from that first night in the hospital, Joe knew something wasn't right. Cops. As inconvenient now as they will be in a hundred years." Wells said.
"Come on, Cisco, we need a confession." Barry whispered, impatient.
"You killed Barry's mother. I want to know why." Cisco said.
"It was never my intention to kill Nora." Wells shook his head. "But from my perspective, she was already dead." He raised his hand, nearing Cisco. "Just happened sooner than it was supposed to."
Barry turned to Joe and Patty, who both shook their heads. "No, that's not an admission." Joe said.
Cisco crawled back as he fell down.
"Oops." Wells said.
"You're not gonna get away with this." Cisco sneered, pulling out a remote.
"I'm not gonna get away with it?" Wells gloated before Cisco turned on the containment field and Wells laughed, impressed. "Oh, you're smart. You're smart, Cisco." He stepped in through the containment field, much to their shock. "But you're not that smart."
Joe went out and on instinct fired at Wells.
"No!" Barry exclaimed, trying to catch the bullets but was unable to get through the containment field. Wells dodged and pulled out his gun, shooting Patty in the hip before one of them shot bullets shot him in the heart as he fell down.
"He didn't confess." Barry breathed out.
"Cisco, are you OK?" Caitlin asked, worried as she neared him.
"Yeah. I'm never ever gonna sleep ever again, but, yeah, I'm OK." Cisco said before nearing Patty, who was holding her wound on her abdomen. "Patty?"
"Just a flesh wound. It just grazed me, I'm fine." Patty assured, trying to stop the bleeding.
Caitlin knelt down, measuring Wells's pulse. "He's dead."
"He didn't confess. This was it." Barry felt his eyes get wet. "My dad's gonna be in prison forever."
"Barry, I'm sorry." Joe said, regretful before suddenly, "Wells" turned into a faceless man.
"Hey. Uh...Whoa! What the hell?" Cisco demanded.
"I told you this before. I am always one step ahead, Flash." Thawne gloated over the P.A. "Allow me to reintroduce to you Mr. Hannibal Bates... and his incredible ability to transform into any person he touches. I knew that ability would come in handy. I did not expect it to come in handy this soon."
"You used him. Like you used all of us!" Barry shouted, betrayal filling them all.
"He served a purpose. Didn't take much convincing, just the simple promise of his freedom." Thawne said.
"You ruined my life, all of our lives!" Barry yelled.
"We stood by you after everything that happened!" Caitlin called out.
"I can see how this must be difficult for you to understand, but trust me, your lives now are so much better because of what I have done for you." Thawne said.
"Drop that act, we know you're not Harrison Wells." Patty called out.
"Just tell us who you are." Joe said.
"A confession will get you nowhere. You've seen who I am. You know what I can do." Thawne said.
"You wanna kill me, go ahead. I'm not gonna fight you. But just tell the police what you did. Get my dad out of prison." Barry begged.
"I don't want to kill you, Barry. I need you. And..." Thawne trailed off. "I also did not anticipate, as difficult as the past 15 years have been for me, how much I would come to love working with you. With all of you. And yet that does not change what needs to happen. But as for Detective Spivot, well, nothing personal but she needed to be taken out of the equation."
Patty glared. "Why?"
"You would never understand. But I'm not done yet." Thawne said.
"Then face me now!" Barry yelled.
"Oh, we will face each other again. I promise you. Soon. Very, very soon." Thawne said.
"He's in the Time Vault!" Cisco checked his phone as Barry sped off.
"Barry!" Joe called out.
Barry entered the Time Vault and saw the holographic footages of his house, CCPD and S.T.A.R. Labs, realizing that Thawne had been watching them the whole time, explaining how was he ahead the whole time. "It was all a setup. We thought we set a trap for him, but he set a trap for us." He then saw Iris on one of the footages. "Oh, my God. Iris."
Barry sped into the Cortex as Caitlin had finished bandaging Patty's wound. "You OK?"
"I'm fine." Patty assured.
"We have to find Iris." Barry said.
"Why?" Joe asked, confused.
"Wells has been watching all of us. He has surveillance set up everywhere. Our homes, my lab at the police station, Central City Picture News. Cisco, call me when you have a location!" Barry ordered, putting on his suit as he sped off.
Central City
Thawne had interrupted Eddie's attempt to purpose Iris as he was about to vibrate his hand and drive it through Iris before he sped off with Eddie. Iris screamed before the Flash knelt towards her.
"Hey, Iris. It's me, it's me." The Flash assured.
"He took him. The man in the yellow. He took Eddie." Iris breathed out, terrified.
"I promise I will find him, OK?" The Flash assured, vibrating his voice.
"What is happening?" Iris asked, confused as they both got up.
"Listen to me. You go home, you don't say anything to anyone. I swear to you, I will bring him back, all right?" The Flash said.
"Wait..." The Flash sped off as his and Iris's hand sparked for a moment and she felt familiar shock as it hit her and she stared in disbelief. "Barry?"
The Reverse-Flash had dropped Eddie in somewhere in the sewers as Eddie groaned. "You might as well take that mask off. I know it's you, Wells, or whoever you really are."
"Well, allow me to introduce myself." The Reverse-Flash put down his mask, revealing his face. "My name is Eobard. Eobard Thawne."
Eddie stared in confusion. "I don't understand. Why do you have my name?"
"Why?" Thawne opened the box with the engagement ring and smiled at Eddie as he threw to him the box. "Well, because we're family, Eddie."
"Funny, I haven't seen you at any reunions or weddings." Eddie drawled.
Thawne chuckled. "That is funny, and the reason for that is because as far as those guest lists are concerned, I haven't been born yet."
"So that's why you didn't kill me that night at S.T.A.R. Labs." Eddie realized as a dreadful thought occurred to him. "This whole thing, it's been about me?"
"Not a chance." Thawne shook his head as he knelt towards him. "You, my friend, are simply my insurance."
One year ago, S.T.A.R. Labs
Thawne shook his head as he was at comatose Barry's side. "You look so young." He got up, vibrating his hand, aiming it at Barry's chest. "And I could kill you... right now... so easy." He pulled away. "What I wouldn't have given all those times before to have had you like this." He paced around Barry. "So helpless. But fate... fate's tricky, isn't it?
Thawne adjusted the sedative injections. "I come here to destroy you... and then to get home, I have to be the one who creates you." He chuckled as he set the dosage. "But I will say, it's been an education... watching you grow up all these years. Science fairs and soccer games. No hint, no sign, no trace of the man you will be one day." He glanced at Barry. "For whom I have nothing but hate. And to be clear... nothing is forgiven. There will be a reckoning. I promise you, Barry Allen. And you will die." Thawne vowed, glaring at Barry.
I skipped the most of WestAllen stuff for obvious reasons and I think that I don't need to explain why did Thawne have Bates shoot Patty.
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