A/N: Hey readers! I wrote this in a day, this is crazy, it's hardly been this fast in a while. I did notice a lot of you guys responded to the first chapter really quickly. I have more planned for this story, I'm eventually building Barry and Kara's relationship from here on, there will be supporting characters on the way. Nods to the Flash show, all that jazz. Thank you for those of you who gave me reviews. It's amazing to know that people are actually reading as opposed to putting it on story alerts/favs and silently reading. I want you guys to give me reviews, look at how fast I'm writing, see! Can I have more for this one? I put more into the chapter in terms of their official meeting together. The rating might change as I go it might get more mature. Thank you so much for the awesome responses! You guys rock! I'm going to update my other stories but there's more to come with this one, I find them so adorably cute in the show, let me know what you think of their meeting in this! Bye all! :)
Kara stumbled in place, watching this man slowly; this man who...saved her life just now called himself the—
"The Flash? Who the hell is that?" She almost demanded; uncertain if she should feel threatened or elated.
"Me, I am...here, I'm sorry, let me take this off..." He spoke as if he wanted her on his side.
Kara was weary as the man in the deep crimson cowl began slowly peeling back his mask to reveal a harmless face; unassuming yet skeptical nevertheless. Kara watched him closely as he made a move to touch her shoulder. She cowered away.
Suddenly her senses were on full alert; she heard something off her radar. Her powers were nearly coming back full throttle. It's about time! She thought.
She viewed him and noticing a device attached to the lightning bolt emblem in the center of his chest. It was beeping; she could hear the ticking just as clear as the crickets surrounding them.
She X-rayed the device and saw it was beeping eternally, fluid was leaking inside. She made a swift move to grab it up, shed her clothes and flew up to hammer throw the device in the air, watching it explode to small fragments. Whatever it was, it almost made a mess. She could smell it, the fumes, the near combustibles laced into the building. This wasn't her area but she knew something wasn't right.
She flew back to her roof only to nearly crash into the scarlet speedster on impact.
"OK, what the hell was that?" He accused, gesturing wildly. "You had no idea what you just did! I need that to get back!"
Kara shook her head and rolled her eyes as she furrowed her brow. "Get back where? You clearly didn't know that whatever that was, well, you would have been Spaghetti-Os had it not been for me destroying it."
She folded her arms staring him down. He looked as if he didn't know what he was doing and it was obvious to her.
Barry looked her way feeling irritated, "That was the only way I got here. I'm...wait, where am I? When am I?" He looked around bewildered then glued his eyes back on Kara. "And who exactly are you? Another meta human Thawne created? How could Cisco not flag me in on this—"
"Thawne? Meta what? Seriously—" She almost charged forward, getting ready to inject heat vision his way. "What are you doing here? I need to know who are and if you sent here by Non?"
Barry held up his hands when she came toward him and shook his head vehemently, "I have no idea what you're talking about. I just saved your life and you think I'm what—wait, who's Non? Is that like Arrow territory?"
"What? What's an Arrow?" Kara's confused mind reduced the red veins around her eyes.
She held back on killing whoever this guy was, for now.
"You really have no idea who I'm talking about do you? Astra did warn me there would be other threats coming." She sent him a strong look, "How do I know you're not just pretending to not know?"
Barry took a deep breath, trying to clear his head, this girl was relentless, clearly wherever he landed, had similar threats to his own world.
"Look, there's no way I can really say this straight, OK, maybe not. I can time travel, I'm a bit rusty but somehow I landed here. Where is here?"
"You didn't answer my question. How do I know I can trust you?" Kara pressed him, Barry's solid green eyes almost made her fall back.
He looked innocent but she had to be sure, she was fooled before in the past. This Barry guy might be hiding something. Non could have brainwashed him into hiding incognito.
"Alright, tie me up, do something. Ask me things. Anything. I don't even know what day it is, what year it is. This obviously isn't Central City."
Kara's amused smirked subtly replaced her scowl. "You really want me to hold you hostage? I don't even know how strong you are. Let me tell you, if you come from another planet, if you're a Krytonian, I don't want to regret this."
Barry almost laughed at her observation. "Try me. I'll tell you everything you wanna know. Now if I was hiding things why would I ever admit to that? We'd be fighting wouldn't we?"
Kara smiled sinisterly, "Yeah you don't wanna do that. I just need a second; my powers aren't fully restored like I thought."
"Powers? Yeah, about that, I just totally saw you fly just as fast as a Boeing airplane, not to mention you just were about to deep fry me with your eyes. Now it's my turn, who are you? What are you?"
Kara nearly answered him but she heard a noise and turned her attention to looking around. "Did you hear that?"
"No...am I supposed to?"
She shook her head wondering what was going on with her super hearing, it seemed off, she could hear fine one minute, then the next it felt like she was imagining hearing things that weren't there. Barry looked at her with inquisitive eyes, wondering what was going on with this girl and where can he get some answers for once.
"Look...I don't have time to explain who I am, but I do need to know who you are and where you've come from."
Barry scoffed. "So what's the plan? I clearly said I would tell you what you need to know and I don't even know who you are. This is not looking good." He looked down to the oddly shaped "S" bolded on her emblem. "S Girl? Is that your name?"
Kara scoffed back, "No, I'm not that, my name is Kara and you seem to not know about me, not that it matters, seems like no one cares who Supergirl is anymore let alone Kara."
Barry realized he was in more than thought with this girl. He looked at Kara as she turned away glancing over the city. He took a chance and came near her but not too close, she had more abilities than he did. Just to be on the safe side he cleared his throat before he spoke.
"I had a feeling something was going on, I don't want to be a part of it if I'm not supposed to be. There had to be a reason why I came here, at this time, to save you from whatever that was that almost mangled you. Can we not fight about this? I really need your help, Supergirl, Kara."
She didn't want to relent and give up her defense but the way he was looking at her made her reconsider. Even if it was just one person, Kara whipped around to stare into the eyes of the man who saved her life. There's someone who does need her, she was going to need a plan to make this work.
"You say you traveled through time? From where? When? How did you do that?"
Barry shrugged, looking almost uncertain himself. "I just do, I figured it out recently. My speed, oh yeah, I'm a speedster, you know what those are?"
Kara humored him. "Yeah, I do, not many of them here. Least not from Fort Rozz. Alien species are more advanced."
"OK you guys have aliens here. Alright in our, in my world, my world, that being Central City we have meta humans, a mutated species from a scientific experiment that left everyone permanently effected. I was one of those effected. My city fights threats every day...it's never ending. But it's all I know. It's what I was meant to do…"
Kara watched Barry as he talked; he looked as if he wanted to confess something but remained composed in seconds of frowning.
"I need to get back there. Central City is my home; there they call me The Flash. I'm sort of a hero; a superhero."
Kara nodded slightly, understanding what he said. "Yeah, well this is my city, I'm the hero here."
"What city am I in? You never told me."
"You're in National City, 2016, Friday, 11pm." Kara replied slowly.
Barry pulled back with wide eyes and rubbed the back of his neck, unsure of what to do next. The more he thought about what had just happened the more his head hurt from everything that had happened so far in his life. Zoom, Caitlin, Cisco, Harrison Wells, it's all gone.
"Barry?" Kara asked gently.
But he didn't move. He let the reality sink inside him as he partly collapsed on his knees, feeling his eyes glass over; there no way he could go back. He was stuck in this world, now that the device that took him here is destroyed.
Kara gulped, moving carefully as she neared closer to him. He appeared in a somber daze, unflinching, unaware of anything around him. That scared her more than a villain ambush. He easily could have killed her, but he isn't doing that. All he seemed to care about was what she just said. She didn't notice the weight of the words she spoke until she watched him wipe his eyes.
"I'm so sorry...I didn't—I didn't know...maybe there's another way, there has to be."
He turned to her, eyes blazing and naked with raw emotion. "It's gone. Everything I am, everything I was a part of, my friends, my family, my life, my world, all the good I've done, all the good I'm supposed to do. There isn't another way." He turned his back to her as strong tears slid down his cheeks. "That was the only way."
Barry never cried in front of people but he honestly didn't care now. His world is gone and he didn't get a chance to know until it was too late. His mother Nora's face appeared as he closed his eyes and rubbed them gently. His mother had died all over again. His father leaving without another word, so much was wrong and he wasn't going to have another chance to make it right.
Kara bit her lip and gave what he said some tough thought. She shook her head, she was being too pessimistic now; this wasn't like her.
"What if there is? You don't know that there isn't. I..." Barry hung onto her words, slightly turning his face but just barely looking her way, "we have to try."
"We? You mean?"
"Yes, I mean me. I don't know what's going on, but you did save my life, my powers were completely out before, that thought scared me more than anything. While I have these powers I can use them to help others, including you." Kara's soft voice echoed through Barry's hearing.
His mind was racing a mile a minute, thinking over her words. One thing was apparent, he did need to know if there was anything left he could do. He turned to her, slowly standing with her following his lead.
"That was my only chance to go back, but, I'm willing to do everything I can to try again. You're right..." Barry commented, watching Kara as she watched him, slightly smiling through his anguish.
She nodded, her super hearing picking up his heart beats; they were speeding faster than she could count.
"We should go, I mean, inside."
Barry awkwardly nodded, pulling back with a raise of his eyebrow, "You mean in your place? You sure you trust me?"
"I should, but, I won't take my chances completely with knowing so little about you." She said, walking over the fire escape, looking his way before starting down.
Barry held her gaze, frowning as he came close to where she was. "I get that. So, what do you wanna know?"
"Let's get inside before someone sees us." Kara climbed down the escape and slid into her apartment.
Barry was already inside from the window before she could think. "And could quit doing that? I don't draw attention to myself living here just because I can do things others can't."
Barry clucked his tongue, "Alright, sure. Now what are we gonna talk—"
Kara took him up and chained him swiftly to her radiator pole in mere seconds. Barry looked between what she did and her standing there with her arms folded tightly. She took a stance, making him gulp inwardly. Blinking wildly he pulled at his hands above his head that were locked tightly in the chains. Her bored face titled as she put some distance between them.
"Is this seriously necessary? I said I wasn't going to hurt you." Barry gritted his teeth, roughly tugging at the chains once again, Kara stared him down, unphased.
"No you didn't. You said you were going to tell me everything. I just don't trust you won't do something behind my back." She eyed him until he stopped resisting, which he hadn't. "It's no use I bound them to be unbreakable. You're wasting your time."
Barry banged his head against the alloid metal of the poll, wincing in slight pain from the impact. "Great."
Kara took a step closer, leaning down to his level, staring into those eyes of his; she hesitated before she went back to her hard stare. "So start talking, Flash, is it?"
Barry looked at her with tired and reddened eyes. Kara backed away before she saw something that distracted her again.
That was the last thing she needed, more distractions.
