Really sorry for the long wait guys, my granddad has been in hospital again. The second time in a month :( I have been trying to do this chapter in my free time but it didn't go to plan. Anyway I hope you enjoy it and you know I love to hear feedback :)

Eddie didn't know where he was going or where he was going to end up when he stormed out of the cortex after punching Barry, he just knew he had to get out of there. He was not angry that Barry had kept such a big secret, well he was a little but he could understand it and he would do the same if he was in that position. He was more upset that Barry could have been and was hurt quite a lot of times when trying to catch these bad guys. He felt helpless, he couldn't do anything to help Barry catch them, he was a cop, that was his job to protect and serve.

Eddie stopped suddenly as a thought came rushing to him. Barry didn't want him to get involved in this because it was dangerous, he was trying to protect him. Barry went out and caught metahumans every day so that Eddie and the rest of the city would be safe. He saved him many times. He had jumped in front of bad guys so he would receive the blow instead of Eddie.

Eddie fell to his knees and a tear rolled down his cheek as the conclusion formed in his head. Barry would rather die then let anything happen to him. He was willing to sacrifice his own life for Eddie's. He loved him that much.

Meanwhile in the accelerator.

Barry sat on the ramp with his elbows resting on his bent knees and his head in his hands thinking about what just happened. The punch had hurt but hadn't done any damage other than hurt feelings. He could see where Eddie was coming from and if it was the other way around Barry would feel the same but if he could go back and change it, he wouldn't. No matter how upset both of them are right now, they are both safe and that's what really matters.

"Hey" Barry looked up to see Caitlin walking through the entrance way and coming to sit beside him. He just smiled in response and sighed.

"He will come around, he just needs sometime to process things" she said resting a hand on his shoulder and squeezing it reassuringly.

"I know I just hate it, seeing him anything but happy kills me. I know a lot of people think we are taking things way too fast since we haven't been together that long but we both fall hard and fast when it comes to relationships. It's just what we do"

"You have to give him time, it's a lot to take in all at once. Finding out your boyfriend not only is seen as a superhero but he has super powers given to him by lightning that came from a big machine. Sounds like a bad sci-fi movie" she laughed and he had to laugh along with her because his life now was like a bad sci-fi movie and he wouldn't have it any other way.

"Yea but it doesn't make me feel any better" he said leaning back and looking up to the ceiling.

"It won't but at least he knows now" she said patting his shoulder then standing up and walking into the hallway.

He spent another half hour in the same spot before realising how tired he was and making his way back up to the cortex to grab his things and head home for some rest.

The whole run home he couldn't get Eddie out of his mind, his smile, his laugh, the sound of his voice, even the way he looked when the sun caught him a certain way.

As soon as he got home he dropped his stuff by the front door and collapsed face first onto the couch. He stayed there for a while not even bothering to loft hi head from where it was buried into the couch cushions. That was until he had left Kurt and Blaine with the rest of them at S.T.A.R Labs and he had taken the house keys which had the car keys on them. He sighed as he pushed himself off the couch and deeply made his way to the door, going through it then locking it on the other side.

He set off running to the lab and was there in a matter of seconds, getting into the elevator and making his way up to the cortex where he hoped he would find everyone.

He stepped off the elevator but heard no voices coming from the main room. He carried on walking and as he turned the corner he found a sight that made his blood run cold and his anger flare at the same time.

Hunter and the kid from Dalton were in the cortex with everybody huddled in a small group in the middle of the room. The two surprise guests circling them like a lion would its pray. They stopped when they saw Barry walk into the room.

"You got away from us once, trust me, that won't happen again" Hunter said coming to stand in front of Barry.

"What do you want, you can't expose any of my secrets to these guys because they know everything" Barry said putting his arms out as if to say he was open and had no secrets.

"Not just to these. You see I have a tiny little video device hidden in my jacket and it is hooked up to the big screen on the side of the fleetwood building (ok lets just pretend that is a real thing). They can see everything that is going on here" Hunter laughed and so did the kid that Barry had forgotten was there. Everyone's eyes went wide and glanced nervously at each other.

Hunter sped round the room and in the blink of an eye he had Cisco, Caitlin, Iris, Blaine and Joe were in a tight group fastened together by wire which connected to a fairly large bomb that sat in front of the terrified group, Hunter had placed his jacket on a nearby chair so the camera could see everyone, and was holding Kurt tightly around the waist holding a sharp knife to her neck while the kid was holding Eddie the same way.

"Now you can choose to save one of them and let the rest die or you can show your true nature, who you really are and save them all. What is more important to you, your loved ones or the secret you have kept from everyone?" Hunter had a gleam in his eyes, one that looked detached from reality and slightly insane.

Barry looked around the room knowing which one he had to do. He couldn't let his friends die knowing he could save them. For Barry it was not a choice, he would willingly share every secret he had with the world to protect the group of people in front of him that he had come to think of as family. Looking at the timer on the bomb he realised he only had 3 seconds left before the bomb exploded. Taking a big breath of air he carefully deactivated the bomb which was just a switch before he knocked the kid to the other side of the room to knock the kid out of the way and sit Eddie down with he rest of the group.

But as he turned around to the last person he found Hunter nowhere to be seen and Kurt falling to the floor with a hand trying to stop the blood flowing out of the large cut across the front of his neck. Crashing to his knees then laying out onto his side, his breaths got faster and shallower until his chest stopped moving all together, his eyes became lifeless and dark. With that his arm dropped to his side and head lolled to face them, eyes staring blankly into theirs.

Everybody was so focussed on the man in front of them the did not hear nor see the kid slip out of the room. Barry ran his hands down his tear soaked face and mentally blamed himself for this.

He should have been faster, he should have been better.

:o I know I am cruel please don't hate me. I know this chapter is short I just wanted to post something and this is as far as I have gotten. Leave me a review and tell me what you think.

Thanks Mandy :)