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Cadence leaned back in her seat as she came to a stop at the red light. The last thing she would ever complain about was being able to teleport. Not only was it incredibly easy to get around by doing so, but she certainly took it for granted in terms of getting stuck in traffic.

And Metropolis was the worst offender for traffic. It made her miss the times she and her friends would go into Smallville on their half days or when they skipped class just to have some fun in a smaller town. There were some tensions between those in Smallville and those in Metropolis; the sports teams between the cities were rivals and always had been. And the high schoolers took that very seriously. But it had always been fun.

Thankfully she was able to get back into Smallville under her mother's question to get to the farmer's markets. Smallville had some of the best food imaginable and being able to take Brady this time was even better. If it wasn't for the fact he was constantly trying to sneak his hand into side the plastic bag on his lap to get at the food inside.

"Did you just get into the blackberries?" Cadence asked, turning from looking out the front windshield to look at her son, who quickly shot his hand to his lap.

"No." He shook his head but Cadence could see his other hand working to wipe away the reddish-purple splotches on the sides of his mouth. "I'm just looking."

"You've been 'just looking' for the last half hour, bud."

"There's not much else to look at," Brady pointed out. He turned and rested his elbows on his arm rest and his chin in his hand. "Unless you want me to stare at you like this." He laughed as Cadence reached out and pushed his face away from hers. "Can we go swimming when we get back to the house?"

"Sure. That sounds like it'll be fun."

"When are we going to go back to Central City?"

Cadence made a face and looked at Brady for a second, pulling on the steering wheel to take a corner. The city landscape turned into houses lining the suburbs within seconds. "We haven't been here for more than a few days and you're already asking when we're going back to Central City?"

"I was just wondering."

"Right."

"Who's that?"

Cadence sighed and smiled. He certainly was someone who wanted to know everything and anything, his attention leaping from topic to topic in seconds. But this time it grabbed Cadence's attention as she leaned forward and peered out the front window at the tall brunette that walked down the driveway of her parents' house. She looked up as Cadence parked the car and their eyes locked, causing Cadence to stare for a minute before climbing out of the driver's seat.

"Be Fri?" She asked, just to be sure.

Mallory Jenkins smiled back, ending their signature greeting with, "St. End!" She reached out and gently grasped Cadence's shoulder. "It's been so long. I can't believe, when did you get back to Metropolis? Wait, I thought you moved to Central City, what are you doing here?"

Cadence laughed at Mallory's rapid-fire questions. If it were possible she was sure Brady got it from her. Maybe all of the time she spent with Mallory while she was still pregnant. Before things had changed, before she had dropped out of school, before…everything. (Just so she could ignore the fact that her parents reminded her she was the same way when she was young). The fire metahuman motioned towards the house. "I'm visiting my parents."

Mallory's eyebrows rose in surprise. "I was under the assumption you weren't very…"

"We're not. But some things have happened and we're trying to work things out." If 'working things out' meant she confronted her parents about Harrison and Tess being her birth parents, that she was adopted, and that she finally forgave them for the decisions they made but wouldn't forget it, then yeah. They were working things out. "But enough about me, what's been going on with you? What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I'm working in advertising now," Mallory explained. She smiled and tucked her hair behind her ears. "Yeah, I know, I was on the fast track to take over my parents' publishing business but that wasn't what I wanted. Come to find out I can be really creative."

"You always were; art and drama were your best subjects." Cadence grinned, starting to laugh as she remembered their time in high school together. They were absolutely best friends and did everything together; partnering up on projects when they could, spending nights together finishing homework and hanging out, spending so much time together they were part of each other's families and barged into each other's houses with no issues. "I mean, you came up with the most creative presentations."

"And you were amazing with public speaking," Mallory replied. She looked over at Brady as he continued to pace up and down the driveway, holding his arms out and balancing as he placed one foot in front of the other, as if on a high wire. "He definitely takes after you," she remarked. "Graceful."

"And very talkative," Cadence agreed. All of a sudden she felt sad. This was small talk, the same sort of conversations that happened between people who were just meeting and others who didn't have an idea of what to do when meeting each other again. It just showed how much their lives had changed since high school. And reminded Cadence how much she enjoyed her life back in Central City. "Though you wouldn't know it from the way he's acting now."

"You've done an amazing job with him, Cade. I always knew you would."

"Thanks."

Then there was an awkward silence that Cadence broke through by instructing Brady to bring the food they had bought into the house. She turned back to Mallory and said they should meet up again sometime soon, which Mallory agreed to as enthusiastically. Cadence didn't know if it would happen, but she hoped it would. If she could forgive her parents for what they had done, then she could put her own stubborn pride aside and figure out how to stay in contact with people she had lost over time.

"I'm going to the pool!" Brady shouted as he ran by her when she went into the house after saying goodbye to Mallory. Cadence chuckled and walked into the kitchen to find her mother putting the groceries away as carefully as possible, making sure not to chip any of her fingernails.

"Where's Dad?"

"I think he's going to go swimming with Brady," Maya replied. She pushed her blond ringlets out of the way, using her hip to close the refrigerator door. "Which is highly opportune as that gives me time to speak with you about something."

"You mean how Mallory was here earlier today?"

"Oh good, you ran into her!" Maya beamed as if she had just received praise for the surprise. She certainly was someone who liked to think she did everything right. Or at least held the opinion she did. "Did you know she got into advertising? She wanted to speak to your father about his company and how to expand the one she's starting."

"And you didn't tell me she was going to be here because?"

"Sweetie, because I wanted to surprise you." She reached out to smooth Cadence's hair but the fire metahuman ducked her head out of the way before she could do so. Hurt, she dropped her hand. "You haven't seen each other, or anyone else in Metropolis, for a long time."

"Yeah, well, that's what happens when you move away."

Maya let out a deep breath and closed her eyes. She carefully pulled back a seat, lifting it so not to scratch the marble floor and daintily perched on the edge of the cushion. Cadence pulled back a seat and sat across from her mother, resting her hands on the granite counter-top, noticing that it was as clean as ever. The entire house resembled a museum or a set out of a catalogue more than a house. It had irritated her as a kid—due to strict cleaning chores—and still made her feel uneasy now.

"Honey, I know things have been hard between us, especially now that you know the truth about your parentage. But you really need to know that despite what's happened everyone loves you. Your father and I love you, Harrison and Tess love you, and everyone wanted you to have the life that you deserved to have."

Cadence raised an eyebrow but didn't respond.

Maya hurried to continue the conversation. "And you've said that you forgave us for the decisions that we've made concerning your adoption as well as…our actions in having you leave the house and I wanted to explain that further. It's time that you know. And your father wanted to speak about this as well, but it's something that he's finding it very hard to speak about. It took him a long time to even admit it to me, but to say it to you is harder."

"Why's that?"

"Because you're his daughter and for a long time he didn't want you to think about him as anything other than perfect."

Cadence couldn't help it. She laughed. Hard and loud. "That's a joke, right?"

"It's not something he can help, Cadence, that's what I'm trying to explain to you." Maya steepled her fingers. "When your father was young he and his friends were in a car accident. Your father was driving, he tried to swerve out of the way of a deer that ran into the road and he overcorrected, crashing the car. Two of his friends died and he suffered some head injuries. He recovered and went on with life as usual. He only told me this a few years after we met. We got married and soon found afterwards that I was unable to have a baby, which is all either of us wanted in life. So when we heard that Harrison and Tess were giving up their baby for adoption and that they were going to let us, their friends, adopt the baby we jumped at the chance. Soon after we got you, maybe about a year, I noticed a change in your father.

"He wasn't as patient and kind as he used to be. Every now and he started to lash out when things didn't go his way; he worked longer hours and as hard as he could. His work life became incredibly…strong. And that seeped over into our home life where, as you noticed, things became very strict and pressured. Don't get me wrong, he loved you very much; in his eyes the sun rose and set on you and he spoiled you as much as he could. But I knew there was something wrong with him. He continued to get headaches and I asked him time and time again to go to the doctor to get things checked out."

Now Cadence smiled, shaking her head. "Dad hates the doctor," she remarked.

"I know." Maya smiled as well, almost laughing. Then she turned serious once more. "And I didn't realize how much he did until I continued to push him and push him to go. Finally he agreed and we got tests done, only to find out that he has a brain tumor. An inoperable brain tumor. And its what was causing him to act differently, what caused him to make impulsive decisions." She reached out for Cadence's hands and held them tightly so Cadence couldn't take it back. "Of course we were disappointed when we found out you were pregnant, and your father made the irrational decision for you to leave because he was afraid of what would happen with his career. I begged him not to do it, but you have to understand I was incredibly torn. As the tumor progresses your father is going to need a lot of help and he was already starting to become belligerent and angry and…"

Cadence slowly pulled her hands back into her lap and stared at her mother.

"I know it's not an excuse and it still doesn't really make sense—"

"—He's dying isn't he?" Cadence whispered. "That's why you and Dad are so nice to me being back here." She thought of how she and her father had a nice conversation the night before about movies they had seen recently. Much like they had when they were younger and went to movies together. Things were even pleasant as they interacted. "His tumor has gotten bigger?"

For a minute Maya looked normal. Cadence had only seen her mother dolled up and putting out the image of being the 'perfect mother and wife' through every avenue that was possible. But now she looked like a mother and wife that was tired, that cared a lot, that had a lot of love to give and was aware her husband wasn't going to be around much longer. She looked sad and strong all at the same time. She looked like a real person.

"Yes, it has. And that's why we're so glad that you're back here, so we can clear the air and spend some of the time he has left as a family instead of arguing and holding grudges."

And Maya had apologized. She apologized for being so concerned with what other people thought of her instead of raising her family the way she wanted it to, she was sorry that she didn't take Kent to the hospital when he first started to show signs of changes in his personality, that she was sorry she pushed Cadence so hard and didn't stick up for her when she had gotten pregnant.

Cadence forgave her for that too. How could she not?

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Barry bent backwards out of the way as a rush of flames came towards his face. He closed his eyes, feeling the sting of the flames as they barely shot by him. Then when things rapidly cooled, he opened his eyes again to find Firestorm had backed away from him. Readying themselves to start another charge of power. He flipped himself back to his feet as Cadence sent a stream of fire back towards them, then held out her hand.

Barry grabbed onto it and she spun him in a circle before propelling him forward where he struck Firestorm directly in the chest with a flurry of electricity. Barry landed on the practice mat in a crouch as Harrison's voice came booming towards them.

"Please try not to attack the Tachyon device as we're unsure of how much power it can hold," Harrison explained. Barry stood up and wiped his hands off on his t-shirt as there was a flash of light and Firestorm separated themselves into Ronnie and Professor Stein once more. The two gasped for air with the force of their merging and demerging. "We're still testing to figure out what capacity they can stay together and apart and if we break this device, then they may go nuclear once more."

"And as cool as it may be to see if we can control a nuclear reaction like that in such a small space," Cisco started, but was then elbowed in the side by Caitlin, who gave him a stern look. "But we won't do that. What we will do is say that this was the best mash up of a fight I've seen since last year's skirmish with Oliver and a whammied Barry."

"I'm sorry, whammied?" Henry looked over at Cisco in confusion, eyebrows coming together. "What does being whammied mean?"

"It means that Barry was being mean to everyone," Brady commented, chin in his hands as he watched. He leaned his head and looked up at Henry. "He told everyone I was my Mom's son when they thought I was her brother."

Barry cringed. First their date had been ruined because of the Reverse Flash and then he ruined it even further by blowing up at Cadence—which he was justified with considering he was having a happy moment being reunited with his father and she turned the conversation back to her—and calling her self-centered. And now Brady had to remind him that he had, under no will of his own, revealed her secret to their vigilante comrades.

Cadence slapped her hand to her forehead as she sighed. "Brady, why do you keep blabbing like that?"

He looked offended as he shrugged. "You told me when I meet people to be personal."

"I said personable; to be nice and charming.!"

"Oh."

"Can we please get back to the subject over whether or not we'll continue to get beaten up like this?" Professor Stein asked, rubbing his wrist. He looked over at Ronnie, who glared back at him from under his fringe. "I understand that we're using your body and my head, but I can still feel everything you're feeling Ronald."

"Ronnie," Ronnie corrected him automatically. Then he turned towards the older man and looked at him curiously. "You can feel everything I've been feeling? When fighting."

"Well, I can't say I'm surprised," Cisco said, walking into the practice space to remove the tracking bracelets attached to the metahumans's wrists. "Cade's got the strength and Barry's got the speed. Together they make a great team. Our very own Batman and Robin."

"Yes, I just finished saying that. Young man, you really need to listen when your elders are speaking," Professor Stein admonished. He cleared his throat then turned back to the rest of the STAR Labs team. "Throughout this fight, even if we weren't using all of the power we could, I felt everything that landed on Ronald here." He ignored Ronnie's eye roll. "And even before then I had a strange craving for pizza."

"I don't blame you for that one," Henry remarked with a warm smile. "I haven't had a good slice of pizza in a long time."

"Well, you've got plenty of things to catch up on, Dr. Allen," Caitlin said to him. She matched his smile, then turned serious as she shifted her gaze over to her fiancé and new acquaintance. "If Professor Stein and Ronnie can feel each other's pain then there's something else going on here that we didn't think about before." She picked up her tablet and started to shift her fingers and thumb across the screen. "This means their connection isn't just physical but mental as well and that opens up even more possibilities, hindrances, and complications of their merge and separate than we originally thought."

"That certainly does seem like something that we have missed over," Harrison remarked. He snapped his fingers. "As intuitive as always, Dr. Snow." Almost as if he didn't see Caitlin's flush and glance towards Ronnie, he moved his wheelchair over to the metahumans. "We'll need to monitor your levels for a few minutes then we'll get started on testing the new connections between these two. Cadence, would you mind assisting me in the medical bay?"

She started to respond but stopped when her cell phone rang. There was a second before Barry's rang as well. The two looked it over and found a text from Joe alerting them to get back to CCPD headquarters.

"We've got to get back, actually," Barry said. He quickly changed out of his workout clothes and into his street clothes before going over to his father, patting him on the shoulder. "I know I said we'd go to get some dinner, I'll try to hurry this up before Joe comes around."

Henry nodded and reached his hand up, patting Barry's hand. He curled his fingers around Barry's and squeezed it to show how he felt about it. Him leaving this time was going to be even harder than Barry leaving the jail. For the past couple of days they had been able to spend time together, even if Henry was a fugitive, just because of the threat of the Reverse-Flash. Joe, after Barry debriefed him about the Reverse-Flash attacking during his date, spoke to Captain Singh and got him to agree to hold the man at STAR Labs for a few days until it was deemed safe once more. Being able to spend the extra days with his father out of jail was the best time Barry had.

His father being there to actually sit and talk with, even if it was in the confines of STAR Labs, joke around with, to catch up on everything he missed…now he knew how Oliver's friends and family felt when he returned from the island.

"No rush, Slugger. I know you'll do your best to get back here as soon as you can," he replied.

Barry smiled and nodded to Cadence, signaling he was ready to go. Cadence then turned to Brady. "Stay here for a while; Ryder will be around later to get you okay?"

"I'll be fine, Mom," Brady replied. He thought for a minute. "I'll help Harrison with the medicine stuff."

"We'll fill you in on the results of the tests," Cisco said, crossing his arms. "I'm thinking we put them through the same paces we did for Barry. Maybe a little of ping-pong and chess." His eyes widened. "If they share each other's brains, will they be able to figure out who is going to do what move? What about in poker? Will poker faces even make a difference?" He threw his hand into the air. "Who's coming with me to Vegas?"

Barry chuckled. "Let us know what you come up with and we'll be back soon." Barry shifted his eyes over towards Harrison and watched him for a moment before running to the CCPD. He briefly expected the Black Flash to show up, but it seemed like he only came around when the Reverse-Flash made an appearance. The way they he spoke with the Black Flash during their fight proved they were at least familiar with each other if not working together.

And if Harrison really was the Reverse-Flash, then how was he able to speak to Barry at the time he was fighting him? The simple answer was that he was able to disguise his voice just as Barry could. The even more simple answer was that Harrison wasn't the Reverse-Flash.

Over the past few days Barry had watched him closely to see if there was a sign that would give away his secret identity. If there was a secret, Harrison was good at keeping it. Still Barry's suspicions didn't go away.

If anything they became worse.

Barry knew he had to say something to Cadence or else surprising her with the information and his and Joe's suspicions would put her into a tailspin. If only I knew this for sure, he thought as they arrived at the front steps, with Barry skidding to a stop as he did so.

"So what do you think is so important?" Cadence asked. "It's after hours but no meta sirens went off back at STAR Labs."

"As far as we know, a meta figured out how to keep from setting off our alarms," Barry replied. He thought for a moment. "Or else Captain Cold has become increasingly smart and figured out who to go to first." He closed his eyes at the mention of Captain Cold. That was something else he was worried about; the criminal knew his name, face, identity, and had struck up a deal with Barry that his past criminal records were to be expunged and he couldn't be arrested.

It was only a matter of time until the Rogues popped up and he couldn't do anything about it.

"Listen, Cade, there's something I need to tell you," Barry started, slowing his steps. Cadence instinctively matched his stride and walked by him as well. "I don't know how to say it but—"

She sighed, smiled and said, "I already told you, you don't' need to apologize. You were right. I can be self-centered at times. I'm working on it."

"No, it's not that. It has to do with Harrison—"

"Barry!" Iris's voice turned his attention to the top of the steps. Her gaze flittered to Cadence and she grabbed onto Barry's arm. "I need to talk to you, in private."

"No problem," Cadence replied. "I was actually going to look for Eddie anyway."

The corner of Iris's mouth turned upwards and her gaze shifted to Cadence's once more. "I'm sure you were." Then she pressed her lips together and crossed her arms. "Sorry, but I don't know where he is."

Cadence tilted her head to the side and watched Iris for a minute before turning to Barry with raised eyebrows and walked into the CCPD. Barry turned back to Iris and grasped her arm, slowly walking the two into the building. "Iris, what's going on, are you okay?"

"Yeah, Barry, everything's fine, it's just…" Iris trailed off, letting out a deep breath. "Okay, I was taking a break from working on my article so I could update the blog—"

"Oh, Iris." Barry lowered his voice as he looked around the lobby of the CCPD. There were enough police officers and detectives walking back and forth that anyone could overhear them. There was no use getting anyone else in trouble for listening to their conversation. "I thought we already told you that this article wasn't a good idea—"

"—It doesn't have to do with the article, it has to do with my blog. I was putting up a post and looking at the comments and links people were giving and I realized that a lot of them had to do with a Man in Yellow. The same guy you were saying had been in your mother's house the night she died. And the same thing I saw during Christmas."

Barry's heart sank to his feet.

Iris took a step towards Barry, grasping his wrist. "I don't know what's going on, but you're right, Barry. There is a Man in Yellow and he's hovering around Central City. Sightings have been seen near the outskirts of the city, Mercury Labs, STAR Labs…Barry, this could be your chance to catch your mother's killer! I had to tell you as soon as I found out!"

Now Barry's heat shot through his feet and into the floor. That was the last thing he needed to hear. It meant he was right. It was all true. The Reverse-Flash was staling Central City for him and if he was hanging around STAR Labs then that was all the proof he needed. "Listen, Iris—"

"Barry, hey, I'm glad you got here so fast," Joe said as he walked over. He leaned over and gave Iris a kiss on the side of the head. "I really need to talk to you."

"Then why'd you call both of us—"

"—Captain Singh is going on the war path and needs everyone here for some reason." Joe shrugged, slapping his hands to his sides. "I think the DA is coming and you know when he does Captain Singh gets to be even more insufferable than he already is."

Great, Barry thought. Now he had to worry about Captain Singh's bad mood becoming downright demonic. "Iris was just telling me that her blog has more postings of the Man in Yellow." He said the last three words through clenched teeth and Joe immediately picked up on Barry's distress.

"But you haven't run into him have you?"

"No, Dad, I haven't seen him myself. Not since Christmas."

"Okay, good. Why don't you go back to the house and get dinner started. We're just making sure everything is in its place before the DA arrives." Joe put his arms around his daughter and squeezed her tightly. "But be careful okay? And if anything goes wrong, you can call—"

Iris rolled her eyes as she hugged her father as well. "I know where to call you, Dad. I've known since I was five, don't worry, I'll be okay." She then turned and gave Barry a hug, too. "I think I'll go find Eddie, chances are Cadence has already found him."

Barry met Joe's eye as Iris took a step back and headed off in the direction that Cadence had just gone. Joe turned back to Barry and he held his hands up defensively. "Before you ask, I have no idea what's going on. One time we were talking about The Flash and Flare and how she's been helping out The Flash and the next thing I know we're here and she's been the coldest I've ever seen her."

Joe looked like he was about to burst out laughing. He cleared his throat and covered his mouth under the guise of rubbing his goatee. Finally he turned serious once more and said. "As much as I really want to come back to this topic of conversation, the fact that she brought up the Man in Yellow, Reverse-Flash just now means we need to move faster than we were before to prove this guy really is Harrison Wells. And now that Iris has mentioned Tess, we need to investigate this car accident that supposedly killed her."

"So what are you going to do?'

"Well, the accident happened in Starling City. So I think I'm going to go out there and look around at the crash site, maybe stop by the SCPD to get more information otherwise not released to the public. Maybe I'll take Cisco with me, if there's anything that can explain why someone who was thought to be dead comes back to life I'm sure he's thought of something." Joe smiled a little. "I'm sure he already has his plan worked out if the Zombie Apocalypse happens."

He probably was right. Cisco had talked about it enough when they were doing a zombie movie marathon; after making a comprehensive list of how they rated on the zombie scale.

Barry held up his hands.

"By all means, Joe, because the only thing I can think of at this point is just going in there and killing him," Barry said. It wasn't until he heard the words come out of his mouth that he realized how true it was. He wanted nothing more than to get his hands on the Reverse-Flash and kill him, to finally have him out of his life. To finally use him to prove his father's innocence and that the Reverse-Flash didn't have anything over him anymore.

He wanted him gone.

Dead, buried, and gone.

Even if that meant getting rid of Harrison Wells as well.

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Brady took the tablet that Harrison handed him and carefully turned it off. He walked it across the medical bay and handed it to Caitlin as she cleared things up. "Thanks Brady," she said to him, placing the tablet back in its proper place. "You really helped us today."

"I don't know how." Brady shrugged. "I'm not good at science."

"Well, what's your favorite subject in school?"

"Recess," Brady replied with a smile.

"Recess isn't a class," Caitlin reminded him.

"My favorite class is PE," Brady said. He started to run his hands through his hair then stopped when he realized he'd mess up his Mohawk. "I like to play different games. I don't really like my classes. I'm not good in them. I'm bad at math and science. Language arts is boring. I don't really like social studies."

"But you like to learn here, with us at STAR Labs right?" Caitlin insisted. She lowered herself down into her seat and leaned towards the young boy. "And be exposed to all sorts of different things that you may never see again."

Again Brady shrugged. "Yeah, but I don't get what's happening. I just like fighting off the metahumans. Fighting against Hartley was fun." He looked over as Harrison came to a stop beside him and rested his hand on his shoulder.

"Then I guess we're going to have to change the definition of fun, because school can be very fun." He shook Brady's shoulder. "Why don't we give Caitlin some time to herself. I'm sure she would like to spend some more time with her fiancé and Professor Stein."

Caitlin cleared her throat and looked away. "We've found more instance of the common link between the two of them. It definitely is through the brain. When they're merged it's like Professor Stein is the driver of Ronnie's body, or the vessel. I think it's because at the time of the Particle Accelerator explosion the force of the blast knocked Professor Stein into Ronnie rather than the other way around, and with the dark matter and the x-element particles within the blast it made them merge. And it seems the time they're spent separated just increases that bond, hence Professor's Stein want of pizza."

She leaned forward. "Can you imagine the kind of medical advancements and research this could bring in? Studies on twins, studies on close family members, studies on empathy links and even sympathy pains. This is something that could really turn STAR Labs around. But, of course, there's the chance of someone looking for the information."

"Who would want to do that?"

"General Wade Eiling would," Harrison replied, to which Caitlin nodded to. Brady watched as Harrison's eyes narrowed for a minute into an almost steely cold glare. Then he relaxed and grinned as if the notion had never occurred to him. "Like I said, as intuitive as ever, Dr. Snow. I'll leave you to your work."

Brady waved to Caitlin and followed his grandfather out of the medical bay and into the cortex. "What were your favorite classes when you were in school? Did you always like science?"

"Yes, science has always been one of my favorite subjects. But I also greatly enjoyed sports as well. I used to play basketball all the time. And some hockey as well."

"Did you ever play any soccer?"

"A few pickup games here and there," Harrison said. He came to a stop at his desk and pulled out a chess board. He set it on the table and gathered all of the pieces. "Being tall translated to me being very quick. And with basketball my understanding of physics aided in the sport, as well as making me a very distinguished pool player. But my true love has always been chess."

"I've never played," Brady said, watching as Harrison set up the pieces on the board. "Mom has but she says she's not good at the long-con, whatever that means."

"Well, that just means that we'll have to teach it to you, won't we?" Harrison smiled.

A/N: Well a mention of General Eiling along with Firestorm has started that plot and it certainly can't be good. Not to mention other plots from the show. Thank you all for being so patient with me while waiting for an update. I'll update again soon.

Let me know what you think.

-Riles