I remember one day when Jay looked honestly and truly terrified.
I looked up. I had been cuffed to the bed for conversing too brashly with who I knew to be the "real" Jay Garrick.
"Something's wrong." I strained slightly at the cuffs, eager to reach out to him.
In an instant, they were gone and he was sitting beside me. Jay was staring into the middle distance, head down slightly, not really seeing anything in front of him.
"I thought I saw a Time Wraith."
"A Time Wraith?" I wanted to curl up against his back, hold him tightly and assure him all was well. But that would have been difficult since I wasn't even certain what he was so scared of.
"They're like the law keepers of time and the timelines. If you alter them too much... they seek you out." His voice was flat.
"You said you thought you saw one. You actually didn't?"
"No, I think I'm safe."
I put my arm around him and leaned my head on the back of his shoulder. "What do they do to you?"
"Suck the life out of you. The time out of you. So we think. No one knows where they're taken after that."
My stonach went cold at the thought.
But now it is on fire.
"Allen?" I ask, tentative. I'm in his forensics lab, where Jay had brought me during his "Metapocalypse" as they call it here.
"Hey," he says, walking over, a box of files in hand.
Barry stops. "Whaaaat are you doing here?" he asks once he sees me.
"I need to ask about Time Wraiths."
"Oh, no," he says, almost whinely as he sets down the box.
"Oh no what?" I pounce.
"Wells asked me not to say." He looks at me imploringly, tilting his head to the side as he non-verbally begs me not to press for information.
I press. I know their fears of Zoom, but if Wells knew that this was an avenue and directly told Barry not to tell me... I feel a fury.
"What do they do? Where did they take him?"
"Look, Katrine..." He squints at me, then shakes his head. "I don't know. I'm sorry."
I step closer.
"Please, Allen. I need to know what happened to him."
Barry sucks in a breath through his teeth, then sighs. "I'll see what I can find out, okay?"
I smile. My first smile in a long time.
"Okay."