Chapter 5: Where it all ends...
Hey guys, sorry I did not post on Friday I was quite busy and through the weekend as well, so I have decided to combine the chapter that was suppose to go out on Friday and the one that was suppose to post today. I hope you guys enjoy this extra long chapter.
- Wells the Grey
Caitlin's POV
I kiss Barry knowing he won't be returning, crying like a waterfall but I couldn't see him like this so I leave the Med Bay only to hear the sound of a gasp of air. I turn around to see Barry looking around while still lying down.
"Barry!" I yelled while running towards him giving him a kiss.
"What happened? Why can't I feel my legs?" Barry asked
"When you were fighting Zoom he kinda broke your back"
"How long will it take you heel?"
"A three to six hours at least"
As I start to cry of joy Cisco runs in.
"Barry! Dude don't scare us like that. We thought we lost you" Cisco said
"Hey don't worry this won't happen again" Barry said. I hear people running in the hall outside of the Cortex to see Joe, Iris and Eddie running towards us.
"What happened?" Joe asked "Harry said that Barry died"
"He did but as you can see he's not" Cisco said "Come on let's give them some space" Cisco and the rest of them walk out of the Med Bay and it's just me and Barry.
"I'm so sorry Barry this is all my fault" I told him
"Caitlin, it's not your fault"
"Yes it is. If I hadn't escaped you would have been find but I let you almost die. I don't know if I could have lived if you had of died."
"Cait, I'm not dead and it's not your fault"
Christmas Day
Barry's POV
"Hey Cait, are you ready for the party?" I asked
"Almost I just need to grab something" She replied. As I waited for Caitlin to be ready, I saw her walk out of her room I was in awe.
"Wow, you look… amazing" As I say that I see her blush.
"Thanks. You look amazing too."
"Then let's going"
"Can we drive there? I don't really want to mess up my hair and makeup"
"Yeah of course, I'll drive" We walk over to her car and drive over to Joe's. As we arrived is asked Caitlin "Hey Caitlin should we tell the rest of them about… us?"
"Well who knows about us so far?"
"All I know is Joe, Cisco and maybe Iris and Eddie"
"Okay let's tell them" As we walk in we are welcomed by everyone. I look over and see Cisco silently laughing.
"Hey Cisco can I talk to you?" Both of us walk into the kitchen.
"What is it Barry?" Cisco asked. I pull out my gift to Caitlin which is a key.
"A key? Did you get a place?"
"Yeah and we've decided to tell people about… us"
"How do you think they will react?"
"Well the only ones who won't be reacting would be you, Joe and maybe Iris and Eddie, but I would think that they wouldn't be surprised. We have a lot in common. Anyways do you know if Professor Stein and Jackson will make it?"
"I don't know. They've gone radio silent." We look over towards the door to see Caitlin standing there.
"I think it's time Barry" Caitlin says. As we walk back to the family room Cisco sat back down we got everyone's attention.
"Can we get everyone's attention?" I asked
"Yeah what is it Barr?" Asked Joe
"Well we have announcement" I said while grabbing Caitlin's hand. "Well for the past several months we have been keeping this a secret from you guys but we shouldn't have, so we're telling you now. We have been… together" We saw as everyone was in shock. They probably didn't expect it.
A hour later…
Caitlin's POV
Barry and I were sitting on one of the chairs when we decided to exchange gifts.
"How about we exchange gifts?" Iris suggested
"Yeah let's go that" Barry piped in
We started to exchange gifts and I noticed that Barry waited till the the end to give me my gift.
"There's one more gift Cait" Barry said while grabbing the box. He gave the box to me and I start to open it. "Don't open it yet" We walked outside and he picked me up and ran us to a house.
"Where are we?" I asked
"Home"
"What?"
"Cait, open your gift" I open up the box to find a key. "I signed a mortgage and put both of our names on it"
"I only got you that lab set"
"And I love it" He said while hugging me.
"Barry I don't know what to say"
"Then don't" He said then proceeding to kiss me. After a couple of minutes, both our phones goes off. Joe was calling Barry and Cisco was calling me. We both decided to answer the calls.
"Hey Cisco what's up?" I asked
"Caitlin, you and Barry have to come back to Joe's immediately" Cisco said quietly
"Why?"
"After you and Barry disappeared from the party Zoom showed up and has Henry." I end the call and look at Barry. It looks like Joe said the same thing. He picked both of us up and ran us back to Joe's.
"Cait wait out here" Barry told me
"Why I can help?" I asked
"Because I don't want to lose you again to Zoom" Barry walked into Joe's but I knew I could help so I entered to house behind him.
"Dad are you alright?" Barry asked as if he was very worried.
"I'm fine son just remember that I will always love you" Henry said
"Zoom let him go"
"Like I said I would take everything from you." Zoom said as he ran out with Henry.
Barry's POV
As Zoom ran out with my dad I followed. I chased him all around the City but ended up in my old home, the house where my mom was murdered.
"It's poetic, returning to your childhood home." Jay said
"Jay don't do this" I begged him "Alright, I'm begging you. I'm begging you! Take me. Kill me"
"No. You still don't believe that you and I are the same"
"Barry, look at me, son, look at me" Dad told to me.
"So I'm going to have to make you believe me" Jay said while putting my dad in front of me.
"You have been the best son that a father could have. You have made me so proud Barry, both your mother and I are proud to have you as our son." Dad said with the look of death in his eyes. He knew that Jay was about to kill him. Jay phases his arm through my dad killing him in the process.
"No!" I yelled for a couple of seconds
"This is what is going to make you just like me" Jay yelled. I ran up to my dad repeatedly saying "No, no, no, dad, dad it's going to be okay" until he died in my arms. This had put so much anger in me that I had considered killing Jay right where stood and Jay was right that this would make me just like him but it did not last forever. I was the better man and someone who would not kill but only if it's necessary to save lives.
"Now you are just like me" Jay said while running off. I chase after him for a while and eventually catching up to him. I trip him which sent him flying into a wall. I grab him turn around and start to phase my hand.
"Come on Barry do it. Kill me!" Jay yelled. Out of nowhere his own hand went through his chest and killed him. I looked up to see Jay standing right in front of me.
"Let me do it for you" He said with his demonic voice
He took off his cowl and said " So close Barry"
"Another time remnant" I panted
"You see Barry, there could be two of you. You just don't have the courage to kill yourself." He said running off. I got thrown into a dumpster and got knocked unconscious.
Caitlin's POV
"Where's Barry?" I asked Cisco as he watched the suits location.
"He's at his childhood home with Jay" He responded
"He's going to kill Henry!" I yelled
"There on the move. There!" He pointed to the monitor. I saw as Barry's vitals dropped as if he was unconscious.
"Cisco you need to breach to him, now!" He breached us over to him where we found him unconscious next to a dumpster with blood on it and Jay's body, dead. We pick up Barry and Cisco breached us back to STAR Labs where we put him on the Medical Bed. I patch him up and waited for about and hour before he woke back up.
"Where is he?" Barry asked
"Jay? He's dead Barry" I responded
"No, he's not dead. It was a time remnant"
"He created another time remnant?"
"I guess after he…" Barry started to talk but started to cry. I went over to him and hug him.
"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked him
"I can't believe he killed him, right in front of me. I mean he didn't do anything he was innocent, he didn't deserve this" He sat back down and started to cry again. I sat down next to him.
"We'll find him Barry. I promise you we will find him..." I started
"and when we do I will kill him" Barry finished
"Barry like you have told me, what you have even told Oliver, killing is not what heros do, it's what villains do. I know what he has done to you but killing is not the solution." He put his head on my shoulder.
"I was just getting over my mom dieing and now my dad… it's like the Multiverse wants to take everyone I love away from me… I have no one left"
"That's not true Barry, I'm still here. You haven't lost everyone." I said hugging him. A few minutes later Joe, Eddie and Iris come running in.
"Barr I'm so sorry" Eddie said while give Barry a hug
"Yeah Barry I'm sorry. I knew how much you Dad meant to you." Iris said. We all went to Henry's funeral and I was quite hard on most of us. After the funeral we all returned to Joe's.
Barry's POV
"Barry, I had no idea that you were the Flash" Wally said walking up to me "All the things you have done for everyone, the city and now with this thing with your dad and Zoom. I'm so sorry"
"Thanks Wally" I said while trying not to cry.
"If there is anything you need, just say the word" I walk over to the rest of them and we start to come up with a plan to defeat Zoom.
"Look guys I need some air" I said while walking toward the door. I exit the house and just lie on the stairs until I hear the door open and shut, it was Caitlin. She walked over and sat next to me.
"When I was in the speed force I was able to finally put her death behind me and move forwards, but now that my dad's gone I couldn't help to think what life would have been like if i did save her that night." I said while tearing up. "How am I supposed to find peace with that?"
Caitlin had grabbed my hand and had said one word "Together" She leaned over and kissed me. We kissed for a couple of seconds before we see blue lightning and a hush of wind go by us.
"Zoom" I said under my breath. I ran after him.
"Bad time, Flash?" Jay asked "Thought I would give you some time to mourn."
"How nice" I snarked back "This ends now"
"Not quite yet. There's always more to take"
"You're going to stay away from, especially Caitlin!" I yelled
"That's completely up to you"
"What?"
"When we first meet I told you that Zoom needed to be the best. But at the time you didn't know I was referring to me"
"Is this what it's all about?"
"A race Barry, you and me to see who's the fastest man alive." Before I could say anything he took off running but I did not pursue him. I ran back to Joe's where Caitlin was still sitting there on the front stairs.
"Cait it's cold outside you should have gone back inside" I suggested
"I couldn't before you came back." I could tell she could see that something was bothering me. "What's wrong?" She asked. I sat back down before I said anything.
"Jay challenged me to a race, to see who's the fastest man alive."
"Barry you can't. It would be a trap."
"And if I don't I would be putting Joe, Iris, Eddie and mostly you at risk. I have to do it"
The next day
"Allen you can't race that.. thing it's too fast even for you" Captain Singh remarked
"Thanks for your support Captain" I replied a bit offended that he thinks I can't defeat him.
"Captain Singh's right you can't defeat him on his terms" Harry said "and plus you can't he'll kill everyone if you do"
"What does that supposed to mean?" Cisco asked
"The magnetar that was just developed by Mercury Labs was just stolen by none other than Zoom and it can act as a pulsar."
"Whoa"
"What's a pulsar?" Asked Eddie
"It's a power amplifier with a highly magnetized, dense rotating core that can be easily weaponized"
"Forget that I asked" We look up at one of the screens to see a projection of what happens if the pulsar gets activated.
"That's what happens on Earth-2" Cisco says while pointing to the screen
"If that thing if powerful enough to destroy a planet…" Iris starts to say
"Well, more than I planet if it has the right power source" Harry cut her off
"Me" I said
"That's why you can't race him Barr" Joe said
"Joe I have to there's no other way" I say walking out of the Cortex. I walk down to the pipeline and sat down on the wall. I heard footsteps thinking they would be Cisco's or Caitlin's but they were Captain Singh's
"Allen. Your friends in there do care about you a lot and I won't say that I know what any of you are talking about this Multiverse but what I do know is that if you do this you would destroy an infinite amount of Earth's if you do this" He said.
I stood back up and asked him "What do you mean I would destroy the Multiverse if I do this?"
"If what Snow and Wells told me was correct then Zoom would siphon both your energy it would destroy everything." I turn around to lean on the console behind me.
"I'm still going to race him and beat him"
"No Allen you won't" I felt a dart fly into my neck. I turn around to see Harry with a gun in his hand. "I'm sorry Allen" was the last thing I heard until I woke up in a cell.
"What? What are you doing? Why did you put me in here?" I asked
"Because your not thinking straight" Joe said
"You can't race him like that..." Eddie started to say
"Without a plan… you'll lose" Cisco said
"Keeping me in here will get everyone killed!" I yelled "I'm the only one who can stop him and you all know that"
"On his terms you'll lose" Harry said
"This is not your decision to make!" I yelled again
"This time it is" Joe said "We all decided together"
"What? Eddie? Cisco? Cait?!" I asked and was disappointed that Caitlin didn't back me in this matter.
"Dude I was like a straight 60-40 for most of it."
"Ramon"
"Yeah we all decided"
"Barry this is for your own good" Caitlin said walking over to the console a closing the door
"You can't do this, you have to let me race him" I said as the door shut. I could faintly hear Caitlin crying through the door.
A few hours later...
I could see the door opening it. I thought they had finally come to their senses and let me race him but it turned out to be Wally.
"Look everyone is going to freak out when they find out I did this but we need you help Barry. Zoom has Dad." Wally informed me. I ran both of us up to the Cortex.
"What the hell were you guys thinking letting him take Joe!" I yelled while walking towards Harry.
"Allen there was nothing we could have done" Captain Singh defended Harry
"You could has let me race him" I responded
"And if you did that we wouldn't be having this conversation right now"
"Allen" Harry said "Your not racing, Zoom"
"What are you going to do tranq me again?"
"Don't tempt me" I look quite surprised because I could see that he wasn't lying and that he would do it again if he had to.
"Look, I know you guys made a pact to keep Zoom on Earth-2 but you did that without Wally or I and it's Joe we need to save him." I yelled
"Barry look at yourself right now. Your not okay. You have been consumed by anger" Cisco said
"Of course I am Cisco. My dad was murdered in front of me. Do you know what that feels like."
"Watching someone you love die? Yes I do Barry but I didn't let the anger, the hatred take control of me, I took control of it." Caitlin said "When this happened to me the person who put me in check was you, Barry. You told me to take a breath and that's all we are trying to do right now"
"I'm sorry you guys and Cait you're right I do need to take a breath but that doesn't change the fact that I need to race him. I'm doing it with or without you help." They agreed to help me so Cisco vibed me to Earth-2 to tell Jay that I'm in and asked where we would be racing. We were racing where Harry thought we would be, the magnetar.
A couple hours later
We were at Joe's celebrating the defeat of Zoom. I was still torn up by my dad's death and it seemed to be getting worse. As everyone was celebrating I tried to leave unannounced. I left and sat on the stairs. I saw the door open up and Caitlin walked over and sat down next to me.
"I can't stop thinking about my dad's doppelgänger and how seeing him reminded me of how I couldn't save my dad." I said trying not to cry.
"I can't even imagine how hard that must've been for you. Knowing, somewhere out there part of your dad is still there he just doesn't know." She said
"I thought it would be easier knowing that but I don't know. We just won. We just beat Zoom, but I still feel as upset as I did before. I feel as if we just lost"
"Barry you have lost a lot in your life so it would be expected that you still feel horrible even after winning. But remember Barry I will always be there for you, we will always be there. That will never change" Caitlin said leaning in and kissing me.
"You gave me time to coup with Ronnie's death and you helped me through it. So now it's my time to return the favor."
"Thanks Cait" She got back up and started walking back to the door.
"You coming?" She asked
"In a second" She walked back into Joe's house. "I know you'll be there for me Cait but I'm sorry I have to do this." I sped off as fast as I could go hoping to create a rift threw time. One opened up and I entered it. I thought of the moment my mom was murdered and arrived outside our home in the year 2000. I saw the lightning from both me and Thawne. I saw my lightning exit the house and I knew this was the time to save my mom. I run in and launch myself at Thawne throwing him against the wall.
"You're not going to kill her" I said punching him "You're never going to kill her again" I knocked him out and walked over to my mom. "It's going to be okay, he's not going to hurt you." I look up to see my past self smile then vanish into thin air.
To be continued...
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