Part 65
Caitlin was returning to the cortex from the bathroom when the Monitor appeared in front of her.
"What the hell do you want?" Asked Caitlin
Novu chuckled.
"Caitlin Snow Allen there is a reason that you have been given your gift on this new world in this multiverse. You are to pay a bigger part in this crisis."
"Yeah that is not going to happen. First my husband is not going to let me be put in any danger. Second I think that Oliver, Kara and my sister will object big time. Third, as an all-powerful being and the fact you are the reason my teenage children are here, I would think that you would know I am pregnant."
"You will play your part and no harm will come to your daughters. Ryan Choi was the second choice to be the paragon of humanity. But due to the fact that you and Frost were forced to share a body you could not fulfill that role. Though if I had realized how truly important you truly were I would have separated the two of you."
"There is no way I am any kind of paragon. The paragons are heroes. I am no hero."
"You have always been my hero." Said Barry walking up to them.
"Mr. Allen, your wife needs to answer the call or all will be lost for good. Before you say anything no harm will come to your unborn children. I have placed a protection field around your wife. Only if Mobius wins will there be any harm to Dr. Allen."
"It better not or I will find a way to destroy you." Said Barry
Novu disappeared leaving Barry and Caitlin alone.
"How much did you hear?" Asked Caitlin
"I know that you are now the paragon of humanity. Which I can't argue with. Cait, you have always been the one that kept me from going down a dark path. You believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself."
"I don't know about that."
"I don't think that it was just Iris's death that made me turn away from being the Flash, in that future on the old earth that Savitar killed her. I think it was also that I couldn't save my friend. The woman that was there for me from the moment I opened my eyes as the Flash."
"I forgave you a long time ago for not being there when I really needed you. I actually think that if Frost and I hadn't walked the fine line between the light and dark sides I never would have grown."
"I always felt guilty about abandoning you. I should never have been blinded by my obsession with saving Iris. You needed saving too."
"No Bare, I needed to grow. If you remember, once I accepted Frost as part of me and let my anger go things got better."
"But I still shouldn't have forgotten that you mattered too. In case you don't remember, once we learned who Savitar was we tried to erase my short term memory only to erase my whole memory."
"I remember. Savitar nearly choked me to death because he didn't know who I was. I had to freeze him to get him to let go. Then come back and fix your fried brain. You have no idea how cute you were when you asked if I was a super villian?"
"So even though you gave me a death glare you were smiling on the inside?"
"More like trying not to laugh. Barry, when you, Cisco and Julian had chased me to the elevator, I almost stayed. I lied when I said I never loved any of you. If you or even Cisco had been the ones to say that you loved me even if it was as a friend or the way a brother loves their sister I would have stayed. The only truth I spoke at that time was that I never loved Julian. I was using him to try and help find a cure for me."
"You needed a cure."
"No, I needed to grow and accept the darker part of me. Ironically it was Iris that got Frost and me to accept each other."
"I am glad you did. Cait, I love you."
"I love you Barry."
"Do we know how long we have until crisis?"
"Well we need to wait until Kara, Oliver and the Legends take care of what they need to. Not sure if Kate, Clark and Jefferson have anything to take care of."
"That reminds me. Jefferson's wife or is it ex wife? Lynn contacted me. It seems most metas in Freeland are not stable. Before the last crisis she was able to come up with a way to stabilize them but it involved using the bone marrow of the man that murdered Jefferson's father. She developed when forced to work for a corrupt government organization called the ASA. They got her hooked on a drug called green light. She wants my help seeing if a cure can be made without using Tobias Whale's bone marrow."
"Maybe you can modify the cure that removes powers to use to stabilize the Freeland metas."
"That is a possibility. But I would need to see Lynn's research on them. Plus we would need someone that is willing to be a test subject. Which might take a lot of convincing. From what I have seen these metas got their powers from a vaccine. They may not be to trusting of any scientist. Particularly a white one when nearly all of them are black."
"But you don't care that they are black."
"You know that. I know that. Jefferson knows that. But they don't, besides they have been kept in stasis since the 70's or something."
"Ok. Well see what Lynn has to say."
"I will get in touch with her."
"That can wait until tomorrow. How about we head home? You can take a nice bubble bath and I will make you dinner."
"You better not make pancakes. I might love them for breakfast. But not for dinner."
"I can make other things."
"Let's go home Flash."
