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Ch. 3: Mistakes Never Forgotten

Pairing: Barry Allen x OFC // Fandom: The Flash

Story Masterlist ● Previous Stories: Rise Up • It Had To Be You ●Belén’s Masterlist

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Dr. Nina Clarke hardly received any friendly visits while she was on the job, much less from Barry who was supposed to be at his own job right now. Yet, here he was, sitting across her in the hospital's cafeteria...detailing the story of how he royally messed up.

Nina was, shamefully, awed by the fact that changing a timeline was very possible. "You actually...did that…? You went back in time?" All this time they had only so far gone through worlds but then again, she had to remember the one moment where Barry traveled back in time to save his mother 2 years ago. Apparently, this time around he went through with it.

"Well, I've done it a couple of times but...just a day, the most had been a year...until…" Barry trailed off, letting her fit in the pieces.

"Until you went way back in time." She eagerly ate her grapes.

"But I reset everything! I put everything back to the way that it was before!" Barry exclaimed, obviously frustrated with his unsuccessful efforts. "Except some things weren't the same anymore. Not even a little bit."

"Oh, I bet they weren't," Nina shook her head. "What changed?"

Barry didn't know where to start. For one, Cisco wasn't speaking to him. Iris and Joe weren't speaking to each other. Not everything was bad but it was changed. He found that out when he learned that Axel, Belén's nephew, was already back from Italy. The only thing that remained completely the same was Shivhan Jade—Black Orchid—leaving the team for a while to go back to school. Barry was utterly relieved to find that her life hadn't been screwed up. And last, but not least, there was Belén. Belén.

"Well… I'll start with the most obvious one, being the reason I've had to stay at Joe's for the last couple of days..." Nina unashamedly chuckled, making Barry roll his eyes.

"Belén's pissed at you," she popped in another grape into her mouth.

Barry's deep frown was enough to confirm it. He came back to a world where he and Belén had a royally big argument that ended up with him leaving the apartment. He couldn't possibly remember any of that but it happened and Belén wasn't speaking to him now. The worst part is that he couldn't figure out what they argued about. "She won't talk to me because I won't apologize for what I did. But I can't do that because I don't know what I did!"

Nina rested a cheek against her closed fist. She could tell Barry had no clue—it was all in his face. He was utterly lost and confused. "This is sure coming back to bite you, isn't it?"

Barry's face fell flat at the question. It was a fair thing to ask but he didn't want to answer. "Point one, Nina."

Nina sighed heavily, finally taking pit on him. "You want to know why she's mad at you?"

"Very much, yeah."

"Datura." Nina smiled when Barry's face fell flat again. The mere mention of Belén's Earth 2 doppelganger put him in a sour mood. He thought that woman, and everything related to her, was completely gone after her defeat. "In your reality, before you changed it into, uh, that perfect world, did Belén fight Datura in the community theater?"

"Yeah..."

"Did Datura manage to escape?"

"What!?" Barry's eyes had widened.

"I will take that as a 'no'."

"What do you mean Datura escaped!?" Barry asked a smidge too loud that Nina had to shush him before someone overheard them. "Datura's gone? How can that be? Belén had her with the dampeners and the...there was Caitlin and Shivhan too! They captured her!"

"In this reality, Datura escaped when Belén stuck her with the cure. Belén passed out and Shivhan was too weak to get up. Caitlin making it out alive was a miracle. Datura let her live."

"No, no, no, no," Barry buried his face in his hands. Datura was gone? She escaped!? All of the work Belén had put into capturing her doppelganger had gone down the drain!?

"This didn't happen in the last timeline?" Nina felt terrible for him right now. Being responsible for the doppelganger of his girlfriend—the same doppelganger who tried murdering Belén countless times—was on the loose again...because of him.

"No," Barry shook his head. "Belén captured her and brought her back to STAR Labs. She was in the pipeline."

Belén came to a stop in front of the door and looked over her shoulder. She could feel Barry looking at her and for some reason she couldn't bring herself to face him. "Datura knew something about you," she whispered. "Something that you were going to do."

Barry's heart ached. "Yeah?"

Belén nodded. "She said it didn't matter what I did because you were going to do something that would screw it up. What are you going to do, Barry?"

Barry remembered that lost moment with Belén before he changed the timeline. Had Datura meant this? She had low level psychic abilities—those of which were siphoned from some poor soul—which, in theory, could have allowed her to see him changing the timeline.

"She said it didn't matter what I did because you were going to do something that would screw it up."

Barry brought a hand to his face. Was he going to screw Belén over? Like this? He couldn't believe he was in a world where Datura was right, and possibly the better person between them. "Nina, what exactly did I say to Belén?"

"Barry, it's not like I have a transcript or something..."

"Nina please," Barry begged. "I have to know so I can fix it."

Nina sighed and thought for a moment. Belén had been a hot mess after that fight so a lot of her words were meshed together even more than usual. "Um, something about thinking Belén let Datura go because of her psychic abilities. I think Datura said something about you doing something..."

Barry closed his eyes. "The timelines. Datura must have known that I was going to change the timelines."

"You thought Belén let Datura go so that she could try to change the timelines herself, stop the steps that would lead you to not change anything."

"What!?"

Nina raised her hands in defense. "I'm just the informer. You gonna eat that?" She pointed to the yogurt he'd barely touched sitting idly in front of him.

He shook his head and passed over the snack. He wasn't very hungry for anything that day. "Okay, well, I'll fix that. I don't know how but I will fix it. Tell me what happened between Iris and Joe. How come they're not talking?"

"Oh, let me guess, in the other timeline she actually forgave Joe for not telling her about her mother still being alive?"

"That's why they're mad?"

"Yup. To be fair, I would be upset too."

"You don't need to tell me about Cisco," Barry said before Nina even opened her mouth.

She swallowed some of the yogurt and blinked. "You know?"

"That his brother, Dante, is dead? Yeah," Barry had the stupid idea of following Cisco to 'the gym' which turned out to be a support group. At first Barry thought that Cisco developed a bad habit in this new timeline but no...Cisco felt guilty over not patching things up with his brother before he died. "I just don't know why he's mad at me."

"Yeah that's a very complicated one that I would rather stay away from," Nina apologized with a smile. "So you're all up to speed now, which means we're done," Nina put her spoon down and have a knowing smile at him. "And now that we are, I can finally say it."

"Say what…?" Barry dreaded yet another change he wasn't informed of.

"There were plenty of people you could've talked to about this, and yet...you chose me," Nina's intense stare made him squirm. "I mean, I guess Shivhan was another option but she's at school so here's me. Meaning, I have to either have the same life as in the other timeline, or…my life turned out to be better here. Which is it?" As she stood up, Barry's gaze slowly fell to the floor but then briefly flickered to her very pregnant stomach.

In this world, Nina Clarke was pregnant and about to give birth.

"So, which is it," the woman put her hands on her stomach. "Was I not pregnant? Or not married?" She waved her left hand with her wedding band. "Or both?" Barry met her playful gaze and hesitated to speak. "You can tell me," she chuckled. "I am asking. Full consent here to know what my other life entailed."

Barry sighed and just gave in. "Fine. You weren't married nor pregnant."

"Did I have my husband as my boyfriend or—"

"No."

"Ah. Did I have my powers?"

"The Tempest?" Barry was actually a little afraid he'd cost Nina her metahuman powers too. He'd only seen her once and got the gist the timeline was a bit kinder to her than the rest of their friends.

"The Tempest," Nina nodded and gestured her stomach. "And, according to Caitlin," she started in a whisper, "Mini-Tempest."

"Your baby...is a meta…?" Barry's eyes comically widened.

"She is following in her mother's footsteps," Nina proudly.

"And does your...husband know…?"

"He knows everything. Elliot knows about all of us," Nina decided to let him in on that secret. "You and Belén both said it was okay…"

Barry smiled. "Don't worry. You trust him, that means we do too."

"And, just a little advice between us, maybe explaining this whole timeline thing to the others isn't such a bad idea," she patted him on the shoulder. "I should get back to work."

"You shouldn't be working," Barry said off handedly.

"And you shouldn't be changing timelines," Nina quipped.

Barry took that second blow with a nod. Yeah, he deserved it. "Point 2 to Nina."

He considered the idea of telling the others about the new alterations of the timeline with some serious degree...but perhaps he was too much of a coward. By the time he got to the precinct, the idea had been thrown out the window. He was at least relieved to see that Singh was back as Captain once again.

Because then even Barry was met with his own unique alteration.

"Um, hello?" He geniously greeted the blonde man working in the second desk of the room.

"Yes. Hello, Mr. Allen," the blonde greeted with an English accent without looking up from his work. Barry already wasn't liking the stiffness in the tone of the man, but right now all he wanted to know was who the he was. "I can still see you're there and no, I don't want your help, thank you."

Barry moved up to the desk and eyed the name plaque sitting at the edge. "What are you doing here, Julian Albert, meta-human CSI Specialist?"

Julian met Barry's curious gaze with a deeply annoyed one. "I did tell you the meta-human conference was only for two days."

"Okay, but this is…"

"Still our lab... unfortunately," and the regret truly showed on Julian's face. "Yes, County forgot to mention that significant detail before assigning me, but here we are. Looks like you and I get to be roomies for a little longer than we'd hoped. Roomies."

At this point, Barry didn't know what to expect anymore. How many more things were changed? And in what ways would he find out? Someone cleared their throat at the doorway and garnered the attention of both men. Belén stood with a duffel bag slung around her shoulder.

"Bells-" Barry wasn't sure how he was going to apologize for something he really couldn't remember, but he would try as much as needed to.

Belén stopped him with a finger. "I'm in a rush. Save whatever sorry excuse you have." She them directed her gaze to Julian who was, rather amused, watching Barry's reaction. "My Mom said you were heading out anyways. You think you can give me a ride to the theater?"

"Your car still not fixed?" Julian asked, yet Barry was a bit indignant all that sourness in his earlier words were gone.

"Are you kidding me? Meta-apocalypse totaled it. I have to buy a new one but that's not the point here!" She exclaimed. "Point is, practice time is now and I have to be there! Let's go!"

"Yeah, alright," Julian agreed so easily it stunned Barry.

"Thank you," Belén said and turned to leave, but not before giving Barry a look. The poor speedster had no idea what the hell was going on.

Julian had gathered his things and started after her. "I don't know what you did, Allen, but it is fairly fun to see it unfold," he smirked and went on his way.

~0~

Nina laughed after hearing Barry's unfortunate run in with Julian. She was on her way to her car when the meta stopped her. "Oh right, Julian hates you."

"What—why!?"

Nina shrugged. "Don't know. But you hate him too. You always claim that he liked Belén."

"That makes sense," Barry muttered, thinking back to drastic change of attitude in Julian after Belén walked in. "He was all sunshine when Belén came into the lab—I hate him."

Nina smirked. "Green eyed speedster is not a good idea. And Belén doesn't like him. They were childhood friends, that's it."

"Childhood friends?" Barry repeated, trying to think of any story Belén might have told him including such a 'friend'.

Nina understood it was hard to feel relaxed when he really did not know what this new timeline entailed. She explained to him the situation since he was meant to already know this. "Barry, he's Mrs. Andrew's grandson, Belén's neighbor? He's been here for a year now."

"He wasn't here in the other world," Barry said the obvious.

"But he is now," Nina softly said. "And you're going to have to get around it somehow. I suggest not to argue with him a lot. That's always a source of arguments between you and Belén." Barry rolled his eyes and Nina added, "She's been his friend since they were kids, so they're close."

"Okay, but—"

"And she loves you," Nina purposely said louder to shut him up. "You guys put her in the middle of your fights like high schoolers. Since you've changed a lot of things, it wouldn't be a bad idea to change this too," she gave him a soft smile and a pat on the arm. "I have to go. My feet are killing me."

"You shouldn't be driving! You're pregnant!" Barry exclaimed as Nina got into her car.

She laughed in her seat and reached to close the door. "And you shouldn't be changing timelines yet here we are." She closed the door and left Barry to mumble a "Point three, Nina."

~0~

Caitlin wanted to be polite, it's how she found the way to survive throughout these rough times with the team. Being polite and mostly not talking worked like a charm whenever everyone was around but now that it was just her and Barry in the cortex, she could speak freely and tell him his sample just wasn't working.

"You know, there's really not that much here…" she looked up from the microscope examining the sample of a human body husk he'd brought in earlier.

Barry stood behind her with arms crossed. "Yeah, no, I know. It's basically touch DNA. I had to steal the sample because our meta-human expert wouldn't let me take one." It was mighty annoying having to work with someone who clearly disliked him and made things much more complicated.

A little smile worked its way across Caitlin's lips. "Oh, you mean Julian Albert?"

Barry sighed. "Yeah, you know him?" But of course they would know about that guy. It was just another thing he forgot about the new timeline.

Caitlin gave him an odd look for his question. "Yeah, Belén introduced us, remember?"

"Sure," Barry replied through gritted teeth.

Caitlin noticed the tension straight off and glanced at the threshold to see if Cisco was anywhere near. He'd gone off almost immediately after Barry arrived. "You know, Cisco told me you showed up to his bereavement group last night."

Barry dropped his arms to his side and sighed again. "Yeah, I did. He also tell you it didn't go so well?"

Caitlin apologetically nodded. "It's only been a few months since Dante was killed by that drunk driver. I'm sure he just needs a little bit more time."

"Yeah, but why is he mad at me?" Because as much as Barry looked at the situation from every possible angle, he just didn't understand why Cisco was upset with him.

Caitlin raised her hands almost instantly and turned away in her seat. "Oh no, I am staying out of that one!"

"Cait, he'll... he'll barely look at me unless other people are in the room!"

"Maybe it's just easier when the rest of us are around?"

Barry rubbed his face and surprisingly did good at keeping his frustration at bay. "Everyone's just... everything's wrong." Caitlin tilted her head in question over his choice of words. Barry leaned his hands on the desk and thought for a second. "Cait, do you think maybe you could convince Cisco to come with you to Joe's for dinner tonight?"

'Why?"

"So I can try to fix things between us, maybe between Joe and Iris, too. Just all of us together again in one room and try to work this out once and for all."

Caitlin thought that was definitely some god complex he was creating. "Are you sure that's a good idea? We haven't had a get together in...in a very long time…"

"It's better than just letting things keep going like this," Barry got himself a new round of determination and took a deep breath in. He started heading out.

"Where are you going?" Caitlin called from her seat.

"To get things arranged and then I'm gonna find Belén," he marched out with a good source of determination.

~0~

It was late in the afternoon when Belén finished her aerial dance practice. Today especially she needed the distractions so she might have stayed a little longer than planned. It explained her more weary attitude as she made her way up to the floor of her apartment. She unlocked her door with her free hand as she was carrying a cup of coffee she stopped by Jitters for, and automatically went to find the light switch. She stopped halfway when candlelights illuminated the entire apartment.

"What the…?" Her brain immediately wondered if a fire metahuman had popped up but soon deemed it ridiculous. No metahuman would take the time to delicately arrange candle lights everywhere before striking.

"I'm sorry," Barry's voice startled her. He emerged from the hallway. "Of course I know that you wouldn't purposely let Datura go, not even for my sake. You were obviously hurt and I should have focused more on that instead of stupidly believing that you let her go."

Belén seemed hesitant to believe it straight away. They'd spent a whole hour arguing over her last battle with Datura. She closed the door and dropped her duffel bag on the floor. "You said I was being irresponsible. That I shouldn't have let her go. Barry, I didn't." Her eyes glimmered with tears rather quick, making Barry wonder how much they argued about this and what terrible things were said. "In fact, I made a huge mistake when she escaped. I wasn't strong enough to keep her—"

"You were," Barry said, but she shook her head. "Belén, you passed out. Caitlin said that the device she made to cure Datura went haywire when it was connected to you and Datura. Plus, you had a chest injury. Passing out wasn't something you did voluntarily." Barry was frustrated, and the worst part was that he was frustrated with another version of himself so he couldn't technically do anything about it. He put his hands together, in front of his face, and took a deep breath. "Belén, you have no idea how sorry I am. I...ruin things—it's my trademark." He let his hands drop to his sides and shook his head. "I ruin things and the worst part is that I ruin them for everyone I love. I...screw them over." Datura's words were coming back to haunt him again. "I screwed up your fight and for some stupid reason I blamed you."

"You don't ruin things…" Belén said quietly. He was far too worked up this time around. "I just...I don't understand how you would think that I purposely let her go. What she said about you changing things, breaking the ultimate rule...even if she was saying something coherent, I wouldn't let her go for that. I'm trying to find her — every day, every night, I try to look for her."

"I know, of course you would. I believe you, trust me." Barry took a few steps towards her. "I know you would do that because it's who you are. You make good choices...I don't."

Belén shook her head. "No, don't say that, Barry. You try and that's what matters. I just need to know that you trust me."

"Of course. Bells, you have no idea how proud I was of you. You used to be so afraid of Datura and you ended up fighting her and putting her friend away, bringing her down. I got to see that."

Belén smiled sadly. "Yeah," she swallowed hard. Despite how the fight ended, she would always be proud of herself for rising up to that woman. She stood up and fought. She'd technically won too...she just passed out before she could imprison Datura.

"I'm sorry," Barry said again and reached for her free hand. "Can I make that up to you, little by little?"

"One condition: you're going to get rid of the candles all on your own." Belén gazed at the dozens and dozens of candles surrounding them. Barry laughed but promised he would. "Without speed," she warned. "Fire, wind...bad."

"I solemnly swear," Barry raised a hand to show he was serious.

Belén didn't bother with it as she leaned forwards, far too excitedly to kiss him. In her excitement, she bumped her coffee cup into him and spilled said coffee on him. She gasped and covered her mouth. "I am so sorry!"

Flashes of her previous (yet nonexistant anymore) drink-spilling accident made Barry laugh even harder. No matter what timeline they were in, this would always happen and he wouldn't want it any other way.

"Why are you laughing?" Belén asked, dead serious. "We're good now, you don't have to keep trying here!" She wanted to help him but didn't know how. Her hands kept going forwards and backwards trying to get him to keep still enough for her to help him get cleaned up.

Barry had other ideas instead. He slid his arms around her waist and pulled her up to him for a sound kiss. Belén didn't mind the warm coffee staining her too; she missed her boyfriend a lot.

"Is it okay if I sleep here again?" Barry still asked cautiously afterwards.

Belén chuckled with her arms still around him. "Yes, I've missed you. But you'll have to share the bathroom with Iris again. She'll hate that."

"What?" Barry blinked and looked around for Iris as if she would pop up any moment.

"She's staying here, remember? She and her Dad…?" Belén wasn't sure how to take his realization. This wasn't news. It was like he was barely hearing about it. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, uh…I was just focused on you that I...forgot about everything else…" Barry was slowly putting the pieces together of this new timeline and with every new piece he found everything was worse than he thought.

"That is cliche and I love that...and you... and this place…" Belén looked around with a big smile. "I'd feel more romantic if I hadn't spilled coffee on you and if I had showered…" She then poked him on the chest with an innocent twinkle in her eyes, "Two of which we can fix...together…?"

"How…?" The fact Barry looked genuinely confused made Belén want to kiss him again, but she held herself for another moment.

"Don't make me explain. My singing scientist you are much smarter than that…" She pointed them to the hallway and let her smirk clarify it all for him. She laughed when it finally donned on him.

"Oooh...!"

~0~

Dinner was difficult to get everyone together, but what Barry found the hardest was getting people to talk. Belén could have told him this idea wasn't going to work out but she thought he would probably realize before…

Apparently not.

"This hits the spot, huh?" Barry said after dead silence for a good ten minutes. He hoped it would spark some conversation at the table, but only Joe followed.

"You can thank Grandma Esther…"

"Well thank her indeed," Nina was the only one eagerly eating. She hated her big appetite but no one seemed surprised.

Barry couldn't help smile at her. "Actually, I just meant, um... all of us, actually, just here, together. I was actually thinking, um, that maybe it'd be fun if we all went away together for a few days. Just like a little Team Flash vacay…?"

Iris lowered her fork, trying to understand what he was getting at. "And do what?"

"Bond? Reconnect?" Barry was getting nowhere with them.

"You mean like a retreat?" Caitlin asked just to be sure.

"That's the ones with trust exercises and the weird songs…" even Belén was having trouble picturing the idea.

"Epic fail, party of eight," Cisco muttered as he angrily stuffed his forkbite into his mouth. Caitlin gave him a disapproving look but he merely shrugged and ate.

Barry did his best to keep things going despite the odds of winning becoming more and more slim. "I just... I just feel like we're not the team that we were or can be."

"I'd be down for it," Wally felt awkward as he raised a hand. Thankfully, Nina did the same.

"I would be too, but, uh…" she gestured to her current state, "I'm afraid I think I'll pop at any second. Plus, I'm not sure Elliot would be okay with it. Sorry."

"I...I get what you're trying to do, but...you don't think we can afford to take a vacation," Belén bit her lip, sending Barry an apologetic smile.

"You were the one that said we should take a break to Italy," Barry said without thinking.

"I did?" Judging by her face, Barry figured the changed timelines erased that part of her too.

"I'm going to have to agree with Belén, sorry," Caitlin spoke up, very much sorry. "Especially with all these husks showing up all over town—"

"Speaking of husks, I'm glad you're finally ready to open up about them," Iris gave her a father an expectant glance.

"Iris, I already told you, I can't tell you anything about this case."

Iris was confused only for a second before she realized what actually happened. "Oh, really? Because that's not what I was told."

Joe was quick to figure it out as well. "Strange. I was under the impression you had some things to say to me, too. Isn't that right, Bar?"

"Told you. Epic fail," Cisco murmured to Caitlin who, by this point, didn't know how to keep his comments at bay.

Barry sighed and gave up. "Okay, look, yeah. I arranged this. I put all this together. I'm sorry, guys. Look, I just... we're not acting like a team, and I just wanted things back to how they were. Just fixed."

Cisco shook his head and let his fork fall on his plate with a loud clang. "If you wanted things fixed, maybe you should have gone back in time and stopped my brother from dying!"

Everyone went dead silent, including Barry who had finally understood the real problem Cisco had with him.

"You want me to change the timeline to save Dante?" The mere question added on an extra layer of guilt on Barry.

"Why would you do that?" Cisco sarcastically responded. "It's not like he's your brother." Everyone's cellphones went off with the same alert.

Cisco picked up his phone first. "Meta-human app. We gotta go!"

"I would love to help—" Nina barely got the words out when Belén shushed her.

"Elliot would kill us," the ombre-blonde pointed Nina to Wally. "Look after her please," she asked and hurried off with the others.

Barry was the first one to reach the spot where the metahuman app had directed them. Saying he was stunned to find the Rival was a clear understatement. He was beyond confused and wondered if, somehow, the timeline was yet again being changed as a consequence of his decisions.

The Rival seemed to understand perfectly the situation Barry was in. he ripped off the hood of his mask with smug rage. "Remember me, Flash?"

"Clariss?"

"Oh, you do remember, Flash? Good, I remember everything, too."

"How are you here?"

"It doesn't matter. You see, what does matter is that I know your little secret. You changed the timeline. Because if I recall correctly, the only Speedsters in my other life were me and that smartass Kid Flash, until you showed up and stole everything from me!"

"I didn't steal anything from you, Clariss. I... I was just trying to put things back to the way they're supposed to be!" Barry hoped to God no one was listening in on them.

"This is how my life is supposed to be!" Clariss shouted. "For years, I felt like something was missing. And now I know why."

"Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do this to you-"

"Yeah, well, you did. And here I am. Your Rival, back again," Clariss gestured to himself with utter pride. "Believe me, Flash, this time, you're not gonna steal my life so easily!"

He took off with his usual speed, leaving Barry to go after him. The two chased each other all over the city with no upper hand. When it looked like the Rival was about to speed ahead Barry surprised him from the side and threw him with all his force. The Rival toppled over many streets until his body flung over the water bridge. Barry was there mere seconds later but as much as he looked the Rival was gone.

~0~

"Barry, hey!" Belén found him first after coming back to STAR Labs. "I'm sorry I didn't catch up - something...came up…"

And perhaps if Barry had been paying better attention to her instead of the fact Edward Clariss was back, he would've sensed her strange excuse. He merely told her it was alright and went on to tell her, and the rest of the group, what happened.

Belén's mother, Veronica, was the first to get frustrated. "You mean to tell us that after finally getting rid of Zoom there's another evil Speedster?" The detective flung a hand towards Belén who blinked with surprise. "At least tell me there's no doppelgangers this time?"

"Why do you imply it's going to be another me?" Belén frowned. Veronica waved her off, deepening her frown. "I'm praying that Datura was the only evil one of my doppelgangers."

"Okay, well, who is this guy?" Iris asked Cisco and Caitlin at the desk.

"Well," Caitlin got up from her chair as she worked to bring up the profile of their new meta, "I finally got the results back from the test I ran on the husk that Barry gave me this morning. And it's weird, because there's no traces of dark matter, but there are traces of the Speed Force. His name is…"

"Edward Clariss," Barry dejectedly said just mere seconds before the screen behind him came to life with Clariss' profile. Everyone's eyes flickered from Barry to the screen and so forth.

"And somehow Barry is exactly right," Caitlin sat back down trying to figure out how that was possible.

"You're holding out on us," Belén knew right off the top. She didn't mean it to be demanding, but that's the lead Iris took.

"What is it?"

Barry couldn't take their accusing looks, especially when he knew it was all his fault. Clariss had come back, and on top of it he created terrible rifts between his own family. It was all him. He did it…

"Barry?" Belén cautiously called his name. There was something not right with him but she couldn't decide if it was still grief or... something new.

"I'm sorry...I have to...I have to fix things," Barry decided and sped out of there. He would attempt to fix things the only way he knew of…

"What just happened?" Iris was left asking in the room. No one had an answer.

"It's just Barry," Cisco muttered and walked out.

"We need to figure out a way to put that speedster in the pipeline," Joe told the remaining women. "Before he does something really bad."

"We'll figure something out," Caitlin promised him and Veronica as the two began to leave as well.

"Belén, can I show you something?" Iris asked ad soon as it was just them and Caitlin. She motioned Caitlin to near them too as she pulled out her phone.

"What are we looking at exactly?" Belén asked after Iris pulled up a security video of the waterfront where Barry and Clariss were.

"This is the feed Cisco pulled up while you and Caitlin went M.I.A after dinner," Iris explained, although she missed the nervous glances of her two friends. "He didn't pay too much attention to it - does that a lot now often - but I did. Okay look, it's pretty obvious that this guy knows Barry." Because indeed the two speedsters were conversing quite emotionally before they chased each other.

"I don't... understand…" Caitlin gave a tilt of her head. It did look like Clariss was...accusing Barry of something? That pointed finger at Barry couldn't say anything else.

"Barry is keeping things from us, I know it," Iris put her phone away and settled a sharp stare on Belén. "And you need to find out what it is."

The woman in question blinked with alarm. "Me?" she pointed at herself. "Demand to know about a secret? I don't...I don't think I can, Iris." She avoided Iris' scrutinizing eyes by backtracking several steps from her and Caitlin in the process.

"What? Why not?" Iris crossed her arms, expecting some sort of explanation that would possibly make sense.

Belén's eyes kept flickering to Caitlin, something Iris picked up on fast, while she really did try to answer the question. "I just...I don't...it would be very...I can't." And Belén hated how that made her sound, but she just couldn't go demanding Barry to reveal something, not when she was…

Iris turned to Caitlin to see what the brunette had to say, but Caitlin followed Belén's league and avoided making eye contact with Iris at all costs. "You want to fill me in or something…?" Iris asked both of them.

"I just can't, I'm sorry," Belén shook her head and hurried out.

"I think it's better to just drop it, Iris," Caitlin gave Iris a soft warning and went after Belén.

Iris truly had no words, and much less a clue as to what had just happened.

~ 0 ~

The last thing Barry ever thought would happen now was facing his father's doppelganger and actually being forced to have breakfast with him on Earth 3. Really, what else could happen now? Oh, right, this earth ran a little slow so it was also 1998.

Barry really hoped that was it. "This isn't the reason you pulled me out of the Speed Force right?" he gestured to the menu on the table.

Henry gave a shake of his head. "Because you were about to reset the timeline again after screwing it all up." Barry opened his mouth but only noises of his shock came out. "Oh, yeah, I know about that."

"How did you—"

"After your not-so-subtle reaction when you first met me... Harry told me all that happened with Zoom and your mom and your dad, so I decided I'd keep my eye on you for a bit."

Barry figured that was exactly what Harry would have done the moment they were gone. "He tell you anything else?"

"He did. I'm your father's doppelganger. Sorry about that…" Because even now it was hard for Barry to keep an eye-level conversation with him.

"It's just...really weird."

"And really sad, too... I'm sure. Having a loss like that in your life, I see why you'd wanna erase it. Who wouldn't try to save their parents? I understand that, Barry, completely. But the thing is, there are consequences to time travel."

"I have heard all of this before—" Barry tried to say, even about to count the times he'd heard the same lecture. It didn't matter anymore as he'd done already.

"Not from me you haven't. I'm not some Doctor with a theory, Barry. I'm a Speedster, like you, who's traveled in time, and made these same mistakes you are making right now. Here, let me show you something," Henry reached for an empty cup of tea beside the menu on the table.

Barry rolled his eyes, and surely was about to leave. "Okay, you know what—"

"Humor me, kid," Henry motioned him to keep in his seat. "This coffee cup right here. Think of it as the space-time continuum. Whenever you go back in time it breaks." He vibrated the cup until a chip of it cracked.

Barry wanted to know how the man was giving speedster lectures when he just vibrating his hand in open daylight. "For real?"

"Now... you can reset the timeline, you can try to fix it, but no matter how hard you try…" Jay had pulled the chip of the cup off and tried placing back as if it was never broken in the first place, "...it's never gonna be exactly how it was."

"Look, I've learned all this stuff that I didn't know before, okay? I'm not gonna make the same—"

"Mistakes," Jay finished for him. "Yeah, what you just said right there? That is the paradox of time travel, and also the paradox of life. I mean, if I only knew then what I know now."

"Why have these powers if I can't go back and fix what I broke?" Barry couldn't help demand with frustration. Here he was with powers not a lot of people had and yet he couldn't do something grand like saving people from death without causing even more trouble? What kind of logic was that?

"We're not gods, we're men, who, for whatever reason, have been given extraordinary abilities," Jay hoped Barry would catch on. "The question you need to ask yourself is, what kind of hero are you gonna be? Are you just gonna take a do-over every time you make a mistake? Or will you live with them and move forward?"

Ah, the ringing honest question that made Barry pause for the first time and think about the long run. It wasn't the present, nor the next day he should be thinking about...it was the future. What kind of person was he going to be for the rest of his life?

~ 0 ~

"Are you sure you're okay?" Caitlin's question carried into the cortex as she and Belén walked in. Cisco, Iris, Joe and Veronica were already there, recruited once again.

"Yeah, yeah," Belén waved Caitlin to stop just as they faced everyone. "Where's Barry?" she asked the group.

Just a mere second later, Barry sped into the room with a face worse for wear. "I need to tell you all something," he said almost instantly. He needed to be fast or else his courage might slip away from him. "The truth."

"The truth about what?" Iris asked.

"Okay, um... after Zoom killed my dad, after we defeated him, um... I wasn't in a great space, and I felt like the only way I could fix that was to run back in time and save my mom."

There was a silence over the group as Barry's words settled down.

"You stopped the Reverse-Flash from killing your mom?" Belén spoke slowly, as if that would make better sense for her.

"Yes…" Barry let his head hang in shame.

"Wait, so, is she alive?" Wally wondered out loud.

"She was. For a few months. I lived with her and my dad. I had a completely different life," Barry still smiled at the bittersweet memories. "I wasn't even the Flash for most of it."

"You mean to tell us you created this whole...other world, then?" Even Veronica was lost like Wally. She didn't understand the full extent of a speedster's powers, and she never cared enough to ask.

"Okay, um…" Barry spotted a nearby clear board and picked up a marker to explain in the usual way. "This is the timeline," he drew a horizontal line and made a dot at the end. "This is the point that we exist on it right now. This—" he scribbled in a dot at the other end of the line, "—past point is where my mom was murdered. So when I saved her, I created a new reality. A new timeline. I was living in…"

"A mirror universe," Cisco mumbled but Barry heard him.

"It's called a Flashpoint, apparently."

"But you decided to leave it," Joe gestured to the obvious. "Why?"

Barry sighed. "That life started to spin out of control. This guy, Clariss, he was a Speedster there, too. He was known as the Rival. He caused a lot of problems. So, um... I decided to run back in time again and let things happen as they were supposed to, in hopes of... resetting the timeline, but…"

"Things weren't the same," Belén understood first.

"She said it didn't matter what I did because you were going to do something that would screw it up."

She shuddered. This is what Datura had seen this coming. It had to be. "You screwed it up," the words tumbled out of her mouth.

Barry knew what she was thinking of. They both remembered. "When I came back, things weren't the same. People weren't the same. Um, I created another timeline."

"Another world to live in," Caitlin nodded. "This—" she gestured with a finger at the room, "—isn't the original world we used to live in?"

"It's not as different as the last one. Not in large ways, but in some ways, in smaller ways, and, uh—" Barry swallowed hard, "—meaningful ways for all of you or anybody that's close to me. And I can't ever really put it back together." He forced himself to face everyone in the eyes, like they deserved, because at this point it was all he could for them.

"Barry, that's a lot to take in…" Joe murmured from his spot.

"We got along in that other life, my dad and I, didn't we?" Iris finally realized that part and didn't know whether or not to be furious or plain sad. "That's why you've been working so hard to get us talking again."

"Okay, here's the thing. Um, I will tell you what's different, all of you, if you wanna know," Barry made it clear, even though it might not even do them well. He would still give them that choice. "But you have to live with those differences because I can't change it again. But at least you'll know. And you all deserve that choice."

Belén put her two index fingers together in front of her nose, her mind thinking rapidly. "That's why you asked about Italy. I never said anything about a trip. And the fight we had...that's why you were so confused. You didn't argue with me, this timeline's version of you did."

"So you decided it was okay to change things when someone in your family dies, but when it's someone in my family…" Cisco pointed after the two and waved at the others, indicating he was taking a leaf out of their book.

Iris rubbed her forehead, unsure of what she even thought at the moment. "We're...going to need some time, Barry."

"I know," Barry whispered. He understood the consequences, and that was what he was going to face...with all his courage.

~ 0 ~

Belén was heading into the Green room of the building for some space when her phone buzzed. She pulled it out of her pocket and saw an unknown number on the screen. She brought the phone to her ear to answer it. "Hello?"

"I did warn you, didn't I?"

Belén froze.

"Tsk, tsk, the speedster breaking the ultimate rule: changing the timelines. He has no idea what he's done to everyone."

Belén swallowed hard. "Datura."

#ocappreciation #arrowverseocs #fd: the flash #the flash #barry allen #the flash fics #barry allen fics #barry allen imagines #barry allen x oc #the flash imagines #the flash x oc #arrowverse ocs #arrowverse fics #arrowverse imagines #oc: Belén Palayta #oc: Belen Palayta #fic: make you stay #i'm also catching this fic up across platforms #i have like 4 more chapters left to catch up to so bear with me!!

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Rebecca Williams gifset {Lavender, Red & White}

requested by @darknightfrombeyond

send me a character + three colors and i’ll make a gifset for that character in that color scheme

taglist: @lilac-lemonade @witchofinterest @reggiemantleholdmyhand-tle @ocfairygodmother @nikolai-lantsv @eddysocs @sentineljedi @stanshollaand @foxesandmagic

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#lowkey love this #my best work to date???#mayhaps #thank you isa for teaching me how to do the colouring ages ago #arrowverse ocs #ocapp #ocappriciation #allaboutocs #my edits #oc: Rebecca Williams

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ARROW-VERSE OCS MASTERLIST

Full Name: Romana Joan Garcia-Diaz

Faceclaim: Eiza González

Affiliation: Team Arrow

Species: Human

Gender: Cis-Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Residence: Star City || Garcia Mansion

Relationship Status: Complicated

Occupation: Surgeon at Starling General Hospital

Fic Title & Status: Broken Promises ☀ WIP

Full Name: Melissa Yeona Park

Faceclaim: Sandra Oh

Affiliation: Team Arrow

Species: Human

Gender: Cis-Female

Sexuality: Bisexual & Demiromantic

Pronouns: She/Her

Residence: Star City || Apartment

Relationship status: Divorced

Occupation: Surgeon at Starling General Hospital

Fic Title & Status: Broken Promises ☀ WIP

#keke masterlist #masterlist: arrowverse #arrowverse ocs

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sa·pi·o·sex·u·al: n. a person who finds intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.

#young justice oc #yj oc #arrowverse oc #the flash oc #dc oc #yj chemzone #gabbi ramirez #cisco ramon x oc #cisco x oc #im aware yj has a cisco but ive made the executive decision to ignore that one and replacing him with arrowverse cisco #he's so cute #vibezone #gar's art #gar's oc #oathofoaks

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A great commission drawn for me by @maddiedrawz of Linda Lee (aka Red Daughter from Supergirl) and my DC OC, Marcia Constantine. Marcia is the niece of John Constantine, a scientist and supporting character in my fic "A New Team (Done Right)". Which is an MCU crossover with DC (including Supergirl and Arrowverse, along with other DC continuities all on the same earth)

In the fic, Red Daughter/Linda survived the ordeal with Lex and started a new life, with friends and family and found love with Marcia. NOTE: The story is not friendly to Steve Rogers or Wanda Maximoff. Story Link: A New Team (Done Right) - Chapter 1 - iamgoku - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

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Meet The Wells - Harry Wells Fic

Tv Show: The Flash

Setting: Season 4

Pairing: Harrison ‘Harry’ Wells x Leanna ‘Lea’ O’Conner

Featuring: One of the best characters on the show, Cisco Ramon!

—-

The morning everything pretty well. Team Flash was doing their usual work at S.T.A.R LABS. Discussing lunch breaks, new metas they possibly discovered, new experiments to create and plans for the weekend. That was until Harry mentioned friends.

Cisco sat up, “No he’s delusional. That’s because the lack of sleep he’s has been having. Uh, Harry friends are in here!”

Caitlin looked at Barry, who stood there confused, guessing that he’s being sarcastic.

“I got friends other than you guys! You will meet them.” Harry respond, siping his morning coffee.

Cisco gave his second girl a look and asked, “Lea help.”

“I-i know nothing about this.” Lea admitted with her hands up in defense.

“Ramon, believes i don’t got any friends. When i clearly do.” Harry yelled and sighed, typing away on his keyboard, “You told me to go make some friends, right?”

Cisco yelled back, “Yeah but last time i checked, you don’t have any friends besides us!”

Leanna who was tinkering with her tools looked up and nodded, “Yup! I did tell you that. Actually I’m curious to meet your friends, but I gotta hand some paperwork over to Joe first.”

She stood up, giving her boyfriend of 3 years now, a quick kiss on the cheek, in which Harry wraps his hand around her waist pulling her in for one more starling kiss. Clearly he was excited for today.

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Cisco and Harry were in the speed lab being introduced to their scientific ragtag team of friends. But it wasn’t what Cisco suspected Harry’s friends to be. One of them even practically threw Cisco Ramon out of the speed lab for being annoyed and offended. Lea walked in, confused onto why her best friend ran out of there but her confusion came to a pause after what she see saw.

There stood right in front of her brown eyes the doppelgängers of Harrison Wells. Not 1, not 2, but 3 Harrison Wells in the speed lab. And if add Harry, that makes 4! In total stood 4 very different variants of Harrison Wells, going from one with gray hair and a turtleneck to one with war general uniform like he just lost an eyeball for God’s sakes.

She didn’t know to laugh at how insane this is or internally whine about this little endeavor being oddly weird for her. But at the same time she was very much integrated into this new situation. She met versions of Wells beforehand but this was completely different. Before she can even say a word or pull together another set of thoughts, when a voice called out to her. More or less a catcall followed by a cheeky whistle.

“Who is this little beauty queen? She’s finer than a flower on a summer morning!” Yelled out a rusty almost burnt blonde Wells in a red rode and slippers.

Lea didn’t realize they were staring at her that moment, quickly fixing her dark gray shirt with tiny daisies scattered all over and dark jacket she borrowed from her friend, Caitlin Snow, earlier that week. She firstly mouth a small “What the fuck?” to Harry as he jogged over swiftly taking her hand with ease. The man was clearly excited about this.

“Honey, come meet my new friend!” He exclaimed holding a grin, returning back to earlier spot but this time with her next to him, “This is Harrison Wolfgang Wells, H. Lothario Wells and Wells 2.0. Men, this is Leanna O’Conner.”

All 3 of them smiled at the lady. Wolfgang Wells stayed wondering his eyes at the brunette, as if he trying to pin point something in particular.

Lea had to just smile politically for the 3 idiots to go sight seeing on her, if allowed. Without a second later the women dragging Harry out into the hallway for a quick chat.

“Harry, honey, what the hell?!” She whispered yelled.

“What the hell? What do you mean ‘what the hell?’?” He whispered yell back.

“Are you out of your mind? Have you officially lost your marbles?!”

“You asked me to make some friends and that’s exactly what I did!”

“When I told you to make friends, I didn’t mean with yourself!”

“They’re technically NOT me! They’re my double hitting doppelgängers from other earths and one of the biggest baddest brightest mind out there.”

“Again! There’s literally 3 of you in that room, all three of them ready to make goo goo eyes at me and oh yeah, one of you is enough but a friend group of Wells that’s just—”

“Sweetie I can handle this. There is nothing to worry about, they’re just charming and intelligent people with different kinds of backgrounds. It’s gonna go great. I promise.”

“You promise? Cause—”

“Lea it’s fine! I got this.”

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Once the couple walked back in, Lea announced the plan with Harry, but the second they all heard her voice they looked at her like 3 somewhat trained dogs. Harry had to scuff down a laugh, snorting a smidge.

Sandy hair blonde Wells aka H. Lothario Wells, grinned at her. He found her pretty and said, “Say, gorgeous you got any sisters? Or are you free this Sunday night?”

She blushed chuckling as she shook her head ‘No’ as Harry face them with a glare saying that Lea was HIS girlfriend. So hands off fellas!

Wells 2.0 spoke up, “I had a Lana on my earth…”

“Really? How was I like?” Lea asked, her eyes perked up curious about the answer.

“I wouldn’t know, she died or was it that she left the country? Oh well, i don’t remember! Ladies on my earth aren’t as nice looking as you.”

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The four of them kept talking, mainly Harry and his doubles, Lea just stayed sitting back writing on her iPad a few notes on an old equipment and equations. She listened every once in a awhile to their conversation, walking in and out of the lab to other part of the building or heading down to Jitters for some java.

Blowing a kiss to all 3 copies of Wells as she left. All of them stayed with a loopy and cheeky smiles after that. Harry Wells was the lucky one, he actually got a kiss of the cheek.

Returning with a coffee for her boyfriend, after handing one to Caitlin and Cisco she heard it. “Annie..” said the voice. It belongs to Wolfgang Wells, who staying eyeing her for the moment due stepped into the room in the first place. She rarely heard that nickname tossed around but it been said plenty of times beforehand. Only Cisco or Barry will throw that nickname out.

“That’s Leanna, not Annie, can you believe this guy fellas?” Replied Sandy Wells with a chuckling, figuring his doppelgänger was nuts in the head or something.

“No, Annie O’Conner..” Wolfgang Wells said once again with curiosity and confidence in his tone.

“Yeah he’s right.” Lea confirmed his wording, “Did you know a version of me, on your Earth?”

“My wife.”

“We’re married?”

Harry’s eyes darted towards them, mumbling, “You married a verison of her? When?”

“Yeah but I left her. Too much of a handful.” Wolfgang said with a shrug.

Lea gasped, “HANDFUL? I will have you know that I’m not a handful, you guys are. No offense, Harry..”

Wolfgang snickered, “You sound like her too! I left her cause we fell out of love, she was too uptight and I was too busy to care.”

“OUCH!”

“But I think still love her very much. Still, love is love. I think we all got a verison of this lady on our earths, right?”

Sandy Wells chuckled, “Mhmmmm! I do. She’s my 2 A.M bootycall. Speaking of which…”

Just like that, blondie wells was gone saying he got business to take care of. Leanna jaw dropped, meanwhile Harry held back a little smile, grabbing everyone’s attention back to the matter at hand.

All 3 men went back to work. But the looks Wolfgang and 2.0 didn’t go unnoticed, glancing at the half Asian brunette every once in a while. Both men saw something in her, and they liked it. Harry had to snap their towards himself instead and looping a hand on his girlfriend’s waist to signify that once again she’s taken!

The men were talking over one another and bickering more often than not about the topic. Honestly it was kinda hilarious.

Cisco walked in soon enough with a smile, “Soo Council Of Wells, how are we doing? Any progress or we just chitchatting about who’s smarter?”

Leanna chuckled at the last part, because half of it was true.

Harry on the other hand groaned in annoyance, “It’s not going anywhere! We can’t even agree on what method to use.”

“What? You had an entire day.”

“I know! I know!”

“Is it cause Lana is distracting them?”

This time Lea spoke up, “HEY! Right here you know?! First we’re complimenting me, then you’re treating me like a diamond in the rough and now you’re insulting me?! What is it? Leanna Day and I didn’t get the memo?!”

“Well welcome to my life, girlfriend! Theses guys love to do the same thing to me! Ain’t so easy, isn’t it?” Cisco repiled back, tossing her a glare.

“Ohhh, so this is the way your framing this, huh?”

“I guess so, Annie!”

“Cisco I swear—!”

“Wait?”

“What?” Harry asked.

“Isn’t there a 3rd one? Isn’t there 3 of—”

He pointed out there was only 2 Wells standing there, not the original 3 from the beginning of the day. Harry was about to say something about it but as if on cue, Sandy haired Wells reappeared with a cheeky grin blabbing on about something.

Sandy turned toward the trio with a smile, “Oh sorry! Had to take care of some off camera business—”

“OHH MY GOD!” Cisco shouted holding a hand, covering whatever it was he didn’t want to see.

This Wells had his pants down, showing everything his mother gave him. Harry tried to looked away, his face accidentally saw it. Leanna just blinked, gasping as she turned around burying his face in her boyfriend’s black shirt.

“What?” Asked Sandy Wells softly , confused.

“I can see your Frank and beans.” Said Wolfgang, looking rather uncomfortable.

“Come on, now. Do my best thinkin' commando,” Sandy defends himself with a shrug, “Plus, it ain't like we all haven't seen it before. Especially, you little missy.”

“I haven’t seen it!” Cisco yelled, sounding funny and offended by the fact.

He shoots a wink Leanna’s way and she feel like she can’t help but peek her face towards all the men in the room. She saw so much more than clearly expected today! Like Jesus Christ! She rested her head, still sorta hiding her face in her boyfriends shirt.

She didn’t look confident or heroic in that moment.

Harry placed a comforting hand on her head, holding his lady while smiling at her embraced blushing and embarrassment.

Cisco held back a couple of laughs, “Aww! You’re traumatizing the poor girl! But seriously, dude put that away..please.”

Wolfgang agreed with Cisco for once.

“Ah, you Earth Folks. You are so uptight.” Sandy replied pulling up his pants.

“Ah, alright! Can we get back to the take at hand? We need answers.”

Suddenly all men started throwing out suggestions left and right, speaking over one another not allowing Cisco nor Harry to keep a full sentence in.

Lea’s ears were ringing loudly and she groaned in annoyance, “Okay! That’s enough!”

“Enough? We’re just getting started!” Add 2.0 Wells, in which causing another explosion of words being thrown around.

Clearly Harry was losing it having enough of this shit and yelled, “Guys! Guys! Ga—gentlemen!” Grabbing all their attention he continued, “Clearly this isn’t working. And just for the record, it’s not me, it’s you.”

With a simple push of a button, all three holograms disappeared, leaving the trio to themselves.

“This, was a bad idea.” Harry said walking back, placing his hands on his girlfriend’s shoulders whispering, “You okay?”

“It’s like your junk was burnt into my brain.” Cisco answered instead.

“Your welcome.”

Leanna did not answer or add into the previous statement, just walking out with a hand covering her ears silently. Harry and Cisco shared a tired look, figuring something bothered her..

——

Him and Cisco were talking for a bit, the genius still grumbling about what happened. That he needed to accept the facts and himself, since they are technically his doppelgängers but still. He didn’t truly like it too much.

Until he found her.

Harry found his girlfriend in his lab, scribbling in a notebook wearing her noise canceling headphones, that both him and Cisco carefully crafted her due to her meta human abilities, and playing with her bangs.

He sighed, knowing she was flashed today and practically felt just as insulted as he was. But because Leanna was more of a sensitive soul in the relationship, rather busy lately with Iris’s wedding planning, and helping the team with their issues. Along with the overheating bickering wasn’t probably too pleasant to her ears.

He winced, taking a marker to the whiteboard and tapping it against the clear sided screen. Harry walked over to her, tapping her shoulder and simply asked, “Hey, are you alright?”

“Hm?” She asked, removing her headphone registering what he said and chuckled, “Oh! Yeah honey I’m fine.”

“Isn’t that my line? Lea, honey, what happened? You kinda snapped at them.”

“Yeah well, so did you!…I, uh, umm wasn’t expecting today. Part of me knew something was gonna happen! I felt like I was being pulled left and right. I mean 4 Wells in one room, that’s overwhelmingly surprising and kinda chaotic..no offense.”

“None taken! They are just huge self minded, idiots. Uptight, roughly insulting, snooty and just jerks. I—I didn’t think it would go like that! Hell they flashed you and choose to make eyes at you the whole time. Treated you like you were an prize to be won and be thrown away…no one was paying attention to anything and just talking over one another! Jesus…”

Leanna stayed quiet hearing him rant about how he felt about the situation and the protection his mind created, recognizing things she didn’t notice until now. It made her feel better, knowing that she got the best Wells in the multiverse. All he wanted was to make some more friends and figure out a way to help with his teammates issues.

But instead, he realized that rather became a host and solid choice for a complete conversation than the other guys. He also felt sorta good about himself being one to unlock the door to an O’Conner’s heart unlike his counterpart.

“I uh, don’t take you for granted, you know?” Harry said, with a soft grin.

“I figured as much. You stayed.” She replied with a tired smile.

“Wolfgang had a version of you then lost you, 2.0 Wells was just gah not—the best thing with women and uh, Lothario was something else where uh, you know!”

Lea chuckled and nodded, “Oh I know! I..I know!”

Harry couldn’t help but laugh, “But in all seriousness, Leanna I love you and I’m so sorry you had to deal with that—us, today.”

“I’ve been part of Team Flash for so long, where something like that shouldn’t surprise me but it did. It was chaotic chapter for the books, but I really hope that doesn’t happen again!”

“It better not! I can’t take another moment with those guys. They’re one of the most annoying minds of the multiverse!”

“Harry, honey..”

“What?

“Thank you.”

“For what?”

She stood up from her chair, wrapped her arms around his middle and looked up at the man gently grinning. He looked down at her, placing a hand on the small of her back, smiled softly confused since she left her second line incomplete.

“For being you! You came to this Earth and took it as it is, trying to help it. And those idiots, didn’t have to FaceTime us but they did. Because you would’ve done the same thing.” She added.

“Of course I’ve would’ve, I kinda like you guys. Especially you and Dr. Snow.” Harry admitted.

“Most importantly, you fell for me. All those other versions of Lea and Wells don’t know what they’re missing.”

“Well, technically, this wasn’t planned. I came to another earth for one goal. But we sorta happened.”

“Do you regret it?”

He leaned down, cupping her cheek a bit, “No.”

“Why’s that?” She asked, leaning in.

“Because it proves my multiverse theory. Every version of you or me, ends up being with an such interesting partner.”

“I love that theory.”

“I know you do.”

Harry closed the space between them, tossing in a few solid pecks of Lea’s waiting lips. A couple of sweet nothings and laughs were thrown into the mix, chatting about getting Big Belly Burger later.

When suddenly..

“Oh come on!”

Came Cisco’s voice, standing at the door with his hands on his hips.

“Seriously? Y’all didn’t need my help making her feel better.” Cisco said.

Lea snorted and smiled, as Harry tossed his friend a playful grin, only ever reserved for Cisco Ramon.

“We’re heading to Big Belly Burger later, you coming?” asked Lea.

“Oh hell yes!” He replied, replacing the frown with a smile, snatched up his friend from Harry into his arms for a hug and yelling, “She was mine first.”

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irrelevant-86 · 7 months

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Is there an agreed upon character tag for an OC character that’s from our world/universe who gets thrown into the universe of their favorite tv show or movie?

Cause like I love that fic trope honestly! And sometimes I really wanna read fics with that exact premise but I can’t find them among all the other fics. And putting OC in the filters doesn’t narrow the search down enough sometimes. Like I know there’s plenty of fics with this premise in the Doctor Who fandom, so it’s pretty easy to find them that way. But for other fandoms not so much.

And if there isn’t an agreed upon character tag for an OC character like that, then we all need to come up with one. And start using it when writing fics with characters like that. Just so it makes finding fics like that (or excluding them if that kind of fic isn’t something you like reading) easier!

I suggest maybe either “Ourworlder OC” or “1218 OC” (this one since that’s the number given to our Earth/universe in the Marvel comics). Anyone else got any suggestions for this? If you do drop them into the notes of this post. I might make a poll post tomorrow with all the possible suggestions and everyone can vote on which one they like best. And whichever one has the most votes can be our new official Character tag for this kind of OC!

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elejahfanfic · 6 months

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Amelia x Oliver_

@darknightfrombeyond

#amelia queen #oliver queen #arrowoc #oc tag #arrowverse #fun moments #amy helping him with his speech #amiver #fanfiction

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negative-speedforce · 1 month

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OC Creator Bingo!

From @occreatorexchange's challenge

Prompt: Secret Identity/Disguises

With: My OCs Siv Thawne and Hailey Laurence

"When were you going to tell me that you were the Shadow?" Hailey pinned Siv to the wall by her shoulders.

"The Shadow, eh?" Siv raised an eyebrow, still cocky despite her vulnerable situation. "Better than the one I was using, I guess. I like it."

"This is no time for jokes!" Hailey growled. "We've been... whatever you want to define this as... for months! And now, I find out that you're the villain that we've been chasing since that explosion at Mercury Labs!"

"First things first, that explosion was an accident. My powers are erratic and hard to control. You and I both know that." Siv replied, effortlessly calm. "Second of all, villain? I prefer the term 'vigilante'. Sure, I'm no saint, but I have a code. I only go after the people who deserve it. No children, no civilians, no animals. I may not be Miss Goody-Two-Shoes Hailey Laurence, but I'm no villain."

"You blew up a bank last week."

"Another accident!" Siv insisted, wiggling out of their jacket and out of Hailey's grip. Hailey's face immediately turned red at the sight of Siv's muscular arms and stomach, though she shook off the feeling of heat that rose in her core at the sight of the other woman's body. "You don't know a thing about me, Hailey Laurence. I suggest you stop pretending that you do."

"Stop deflecting the blame. What have I been to you all these months, Siv?" Hailey asked, tears of anger in the corner of her eyes. "You knew who I was! I don't wear a mask, unlike some people, so you would have seen my face a thousand times when we fought. You should have at least told me!"

"Please, you would have thrown me in a cell the first chance you got. You don't know the first thing about me. You think I'm this mastermind, when really, I'm just... some person. With superpowers. You don't know me at all, or why I do anything that I do!"

"Then tell me!"

"I'm trying to right a wrong that happened a long time ago." Siv replied. "What do you know about the death of Regina Rivera? March 19, 2015?"

"March 19..." Hailey trailed off, eyes going wide, her gaze a thousand miles away.

"They'll tell you she died in the fire, right? The one that burned the convention center nearly to the ground." Siv started circling Hailey, reaching for the collapsed baton in their thigh pocket. "She was murdered by a man. A monster, more like. I'm just trying to get justice for her."

Hailey clearly wasn't listening, frozen in fear and shock. Siv had clearly hit a nerve. Siv reached out to touch Hailey, but their hand swept right through her body. "The fuck?"

Siv again attempted to touch Hailey, but each time, it was like interacting with a hologram, or an illusion. There was nothing tangible in front of them. They clenched their fists, charging them up with lightning, and pressed them to where Hailey's chest should be, before releasing a cloud of static into the taller woman's body.

"Ow!" Hailey shuddered, her body becoming tangible again. "What the hell, Siv?"

"You scared the shit out of me!" Siv retorted. "You were transparent and intangible! It was like I was touching a ghost!"

"That's because you were." Hailey replied. Siv could tell that somehow, Hailey wasn't lying.

"Looks like you have some explaining to do, too."

"Maybe. We should take this elsewhere."

"My place?" Siv offered, raising an eyebrow.

"Fine. But if my boss catches us..."

"Relax." Siv squeezed Hailey's arm. "So far, you're the only one who knows who I am. Except Jay."

"Wait- you know Jay Barron?"

"Yeah, we were like, besties in high school." Siv replied. "Like I said, we both have a lot of explaining to do."

#arrowverse oc #siv thawne #hailey laurence #revan writes #oc creator bingo

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vexic929 · 2 months

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Arrowverse OC (Earth-63) Killer Frost (he/him)

Full name: Dr. Caelen Snow

Alias: Killer Frost

Gender: Cisgender man (he/him)

Orientation: Demi-biromantic asexual

Age: 26

Nationality: ???

Religion: Agnostic

Western Zodiac: Pisces

Eastern Zodiac: Snake

Element: Earth

Birth Stone: Amethyst

Blood-type: A-

Personality Type: ISTJ

Disabilities: PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, DID

Eye color: Brown (white while Killer Frost)

Natural Hair Color: Brown (white while Killer Frost)

Natural Hair Type: 1B

Skin Color: Pale, neutral undertones

Height: 6 feet, 0 inches (183 cm)

Weight: 159lbs (72 kg)

Appearance: Caelen generally keeps his appearance neat and often wears business casual while Frost prefers a more alt aesthetic

Personality: Kind, reliable, loyal, and intense

Moral Alignment: Neutral good

Backstory: Dr. Caelen Snow met his fiancée on his first day at S.T.A.R. Labs. Unfortunately, S.T.A.R. Labs would also be where he would lose her.

Faceclaim: Tom Sturridge

#vexic ocs #my ocs #arrowverse ocs #earth-63 #earth 63 #rule 63 #dr. caelen snow #caelen snow #genderbend #genderswap #vexic lives

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saiilorstars · 1 year

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Ch. 2: A Ghost World

Pairing: Barry Allen x OFC // Fandom: The Flash

Story Masterlist ● Previous Stories: Rise Up • It Had To Be You ● Belén’s Masterlist

• Can also be found on Fanfic and Ao3 •

Taglist: @ocappreciationtag @arrthurpendragon @anotherunreadblog @maaaaarveeeeel @stareyedplanet @foxesandmagic

The incessant knocking on the Palayta residence made Rayan scream at his sister to get it.

"You're so lazy!" Belén shouted from downstairs and went to go answer the door. She was mighty surprised when she found Barry on the other side.

The man was nervous as hell. Her face was indescribable yet fear worthy.

"For the record, my brother says I should punch you in the face," Belén warned. She leaned her head on the side of the door, refusing to open it completely.

Barry rubbed the side of his neck, accepting his fault. "Yeah, I deserve it. Probably deserve a lot more to be honest."

"Why'd you stand me up? If you didn't want to go out with me anymore, you only had to say," she spoke quietly, and fraily. Barry knew that was her voice when she was just despondent.

"I didn't mean to, I swear, I just…" Barry paused to think we'll how he was going to explain. "Can we talk, please?"

Belén nodded. She thought she deserved an explanation and she was going to get one. She stepped out on the front porch and closed the door. "So, what happened?"

Barry had Wally's full consent to divulge his secret. He figured after being helped, Barry deserved to clear things up with Belén. So, that's exactly what Barry did. Belén listened and never spoke until Barry was finished.

"I know it must be hard to believe but—"

"Actually, no," Belén cut him off. She moved to sit down on the front steps of the porch. Barry followed and sat down next to her. "I mean...Iris has given me such ridiculous excuses that...her brother being the Flash is really the only logical explanation for everything."

"Is it?" Barry was a little doubtful that this was going to so easy.

"Yeah," Belén passed a hand down her hair in thought before nodding. "It does. And so...you just...got yourself entangled with it?"

"Well, basically…" Barry left his speed out of the story for the moment. "And I'm so sorry. I just...I was on my way for our date, I swear, and...it just happened."

"So...you didn't stand me up?" Belén asked, just to make sure.

"No, no! Of course not!" Barry quickly shook his head. "I couldn't - who would stand you up?" He gestured to her, making her blush and smile. "I mean, really?"

"It's happened," she said, shrugging her shoulders. "My last date said I wasn't up to his level. He's this brilliant scientist at Mercury Labs. Carlton."

Barry physically cringed at the reminder of her ex. He was sure he would despise that man in any reality. That was the price someone paid if they kidnapped his Belén.

"I mean...you're this top-notch forensics so I just thought…" Belén shrugged again, "...you'd rather be with someone like that. It's totally fine if you do…" she added much to quickly and failed to look nonchalant about it too.

Barry smiled at her. "I know who I want to be with." Belén slowly looked at him, actually a bit nervous to hear the answer. "Bells, it's always been you!"

"Bells?" she repeated, reminding Barry that nickname had never come into play for her in this time line.

"Sorry…"

But Belén ended up smiling after a moment of thinking about it. "I like it," she bobbed her head.

Barry smiled at her too. He scooted closer to her, hoping his nerves weren't too obvious right now. "Okay then, Bells, would you please consider giving me another chance at a date?"

Belén seemed to be thinking about it until she took pity of Barry's nervousness. "Mm, one condition."

"Anything!" he swore.

"No Chinese food. I hate Chinese food."

Barry laughed and remembered that was the first thing she had said to him after—

He stopped suddenly when he realized he couldn't remember. He knew there'd been a moment with those same words, involving him and her, but…

"Barry?" Belén noticed his frantic face. He snapped out of it and saw her concerned look. "Are you okay?"

"Y-yeah…" he slowly nodded. "Just...happy...that we're okay again." She scrutinized his face for any giveaway so he quickly moved onto the prime topic. "Um, so listen, Iris and Wally...they have this idea, of, um...meeting with Cisco...Ramon...but they said they need an access card or something to get into his building."

Belén smiled only so lightly. "So did you only apologize to get my help?" She truly enjoyed seeing his widened alarm.

"No! Absolutely not!"

"Mhm," she playfully rolled her eyes. "But since I'm such a good person, I'll help."

"Belén, it's not—"

But Belén got up from the porch ground and motioned him to wait. "You don't move, got it?"

"Yes, fine, but can we just clarify that I didn't apol—" Barry was forced into silence when she once again warned him to stay put. She walked back into the house and kept him waiting for all of two minutes. When she returned, she held a pass key in her hand. Barry was surprised to see her name written on it. It was very official. "How do you have one of those?"

Belén chuckled. "It's a long story. Well...not long, but...embarrassing. So, ready to go?"

"Uh, yeah…" Though confused, Barry gestured her to walk first. "Bells, you do know that I didn't apologize just to get your help, right?" Belén stopped walking and turned around. She purposely stayed silent to hear what else he would give her. "I don't want to ruin this," Barry stepped closer to her.

"Ruin what?" Belén asked. "Barry, I stapled you! If that didn't ruin things I don't know what would."

Barry smiled at her. "You are one of a kind—"

"And that's a nice way of saying I'm the only woman who's ever stapled you."

"And you are the only woman I'd like to be stapled by."

Belén laughed and gave him a hug. "Mm, we're definitely going on a date."

"I really hope so," Barry kept hold of her for a minute longer. It'd been far too long since he could have just one moment with her.

He really missed her and he wanted nothing more than to get back to where they were...just in this world of course. He brushed some hair from her face and felt her warm skin from a probable blush. Belén watched him come closer to her and didn't do anything to stop it. She'd be lying if she said she hadn't imagined what a kiss would be like between them.

And it was way better in real life.

It was a small kiss but a fulfilling one nonetheless. Belén slowly opened her eyes to meet Barry's gaze.

"Please tell me this is just the first of many?" She bit on her bottom lip.

"If I get lucky," Barry blurted and immediately regretted it. "Not that I-I—no! I meant—"

Belén laughed and pulled him down for a second kiss. Barry managed to remember that he loved when they cut each other's sentences off in this way. But for some reason, he was having trouble remembering some of those too.

"I'm sorry," Belén murmured against his lips.

"You? What for?"

Belén looked up at him with a matching apologetic smile. "Because you're not going to like the reason I have a pass key to see Cisco Ramon."

~ 0 ~

As it turned out, Cisco now worked in what used to be STAR Labs. Though once they were at the building, Barry realized Cisco didn't exactly "work" there.

"He owns the place," Barry repeated after listening to Iris' explanation.

He had learned from the very beginning that there was no STAR Labs in the new reality, and that Cisco had made himself rich with tech apps...he just never learned how filthy rich Cisco was.

"Cisco Ramon is the richest man in America," Belén said just as the elevator doors opened up.

"And you've got him wrapped around your finger," Iris nudged her.

The group were met with a fun, careless atmosphere inside the building. People bustled about fufilling duties, creating quite the ruckus with the music in the background. Of course, there was one voice that went above the rest, one that everyone in the group recognized instantly.

"LogicFrame is a relatively small startup," an older man was in the middle of conversing with Cisco himself. "The I.P. is expected to be in the low teens."

Cisco, rather carelessly, motioned the man to quit talking. He seemed much more interested in the tall brunette, dressed sharply, beside him. "Offer them 20 mil."

Barry was quite frankly in awe of what Cisco had created. The man himself was stark different from the Cisco he knew. He was in a blue suit and tie - something the old Cisco usually hated - and his hair was neatly tied back in a low pony tail. There were thick rimmed glasses framing his face...overall, this Cisco was the utter opposite of the old Cisco.

Belén cleared her throat and immediately caught Cisco's attention. She gave a meek wiggle of her fingers as a wave.

A new light flashed across Cisco's eyes when he saw her. He waved the brunette woman behind him to leave. "I got business to attend to." Before the brunette woman could even respond, he walked off towards Belén. "Your brother's not in today which means you have to be visiting me."

"I hope you're not busy," Belén began, rather embarrassed about his undivided attention.

"Mm, for you, never," Cisco gingerly took her hand and gave it a kiss on the back.

Barry's face went flat. He now understood perfectly how it was that Belén got a passkey to the building without actually working there. In this reality, Cisco Ramon still had a crush on Belén like he did in the previous time line. Only in this time line, he never got over it because he and Belén never got to know each other. They never got close enough to decide that they were better off as friends...and so Cisco was left with his initial image of Belén: she was a pretty, young woman.

Hell no.

It seemed like Iris was reading his thoughts because the moment his foot stepped forwards she grasped his arm. She shook her head at him.

"We need your help, Cisco," Belén went on with the plan without noticing the green-eyed speedster behind her.

Cisco looked past her and frowned. Things could never go his way, could they?

~ 0 ~

Cisco, very annoyed, led the group into a conference room, practically shouting at them. "I make you a friction-proof suit so your clothes don't explode at mach 2, and you leave me out of your brother/sister war on crime! That was the deal!" He turned, pointed fingers at Belén, and with a new bright expression for her. "Definitely not shouting at you, sweetheart."

Belén was, at this point in her life, very accustomed to his ways so she just smiled. "Cisco, they really need your help. You've seen the Rival and what's he's done so far."

"Yes," Cisco came up to her, hoping she would see his perspective and get a clue. "And it is exactly why you should not be near them, sweetheart. It's too dangerous out there for you."

Barry balled his fists but somehow kept it together.

Belén raised an eyebrow at Cisco and very kindly responded with, "Don't patronize me, Cisco."

"Sorry," Cisco retracted from his statement. He cleared his throat and walked away from them. "But I still stand by my view. You know what happens when you mess with a Speedster?" He made the gesture of a shaking hand that slashed through something. "That. That's what happens. You get a vibrating hand going right through your ribcage. No thanks. My money needs me!"

Barry rubbed his forehead and got it together. He needed to remember this wasn't the Cisco he was accustomed to. "Cisco, please, you need to help us."

"Oh—" Cisco leaned on a hip, "—that reminds me. Who the hell is this?" He directed a finger at Barry. "I don't appreciate you bringing these folks—" he addressed Belén but waved a finger at Iris and Wally, "—to my place already, and then you go ahead and bring this one—" he moved his finger to Barry again, "—too? And suddenly everyone knows who the Flash is? Belén, sweetheart, what's your plan?"

Belén apologetically glanced at Barry. She probably should have explained that before coming to the building but...he did leave her hanging for a date so he owed her a little bit. Still, if they wanted to push through their agenda, he'd need to suck it up and leave the matter alone.

"Cisco—" he made his attempt but was immediately cut off.

"Uh-uh. I don't know you, string bean."

"Stri... Mr. Ramon?" Barry tried again, having to bite his tongue.

"Oh, yes?"

"I do know what kind of person you are. Deep down, you care about helping other people."

Cisco rolled his eyes. "Please, tell me more."

"I heard a story about how, when you were 15, your brother Dante owed a bookie and he couldn't pay back what he owed, so you gave him all the money you earned that summer delivering pizzas to help him…"

Everyone ended up staring oddly at Barry, all wondering how he knew that...but no one more than Cisco.

"How do you know about that?"

"I have a feeling that... we would work really well together as partners," Barry replied honestly. "Taking down meta-humans together. I mean, it's what we're supposed to do. We're a team. We're friends." But the moment he started to think about all those times where they'd worked together to solve a meta case...it came crashing down on him.

"Barry?" Belén grew worried again and rushed over to him. He'd stumbled back against the conference table and ultimately had to take a seat.

"I'm okay. I'm okay, I just... What was I…" Barry came to the realization he'd forgotten what he was talking about, completely. He had no idea what just happened in the last minute. "What was I just saying?"

"Are you sure you're okay?" Belén bent down in front of him.

"I'm...I'm not sure…" Barry admitted.

~ 0 ~

Barry stormed into the warehouse demanding answers from the only man who could possibly know. But of course, Thawne loved to play the game. He was sarcastic in the beginning, only fueling Barry's anger. "And here, I was starting to think you'd forgotten all about me."

"But I am forgetting!" Barry continued to shout. "What's happening to me?"

"I was wondering when you'd notice…"

"It's like I'll be thinking of a moment from my past and then it...it vanishes. I can't get it back!"

"Flashpoint. It's a side effect," Thawne got up from the cruddy floor of his prison. "See, I told you before. You don't know what you're doing. This new reality you've created is starting to overwrite the reality that you and I know. So your original life...your friends, your family... Pretty soon, all of that will just fade away."

"Why isn't it happening to you?" Barry spat. Why was it only affecting him?

"Not sure. Unless…" Thawne trailed off, and it annoyed Barry thinking it was another part of his game.

"What? What?"

Thawne began to laugh.

"What the hell's so funny?"

"Your speed! The more you use it, the faster you lose your memories!"

"No, you're lying!" Barry snapped, speaking louder than the laughter Thawne had going on. "You just want me to let you out of here. That's never gonna happen."

Thawne slowly sobered and gave a condescending stare in return. "The you I know from the future, he's not this stupid. Pretty soon, you won't even remember that you're The Flash. And when that happens, this world will become permanent. Time will set like concrete, and nothing will be able to change it back to the way it was."

"That's fine by me," Barry shrugged, giving the fact he didn't care. He wouldn't need to in a couple of days as it seemed. So he would forget about the other world, but in this world he would create a better life. He already had his parents and Belén. He was starting to get to know Iris, Wally and even Cisco. He'd only need to find Caitlin to have the group back.

"You know what you have to do," Thawne taunted. "You have to take me back to that night and let me finish what I started."

"You go to hell!" Barry screamed and stalked off, leaving Thawne to shout after him.

"You're taking both of us there! Now who's the villain, Flash? Now who's the villain!?"

~0~

It was a long thought to decide but ultimately Barry thought it was the only way to do things right this time before he lost his speed. And so, one by one he sped Wally, Iris and Belén into Cisco's main room - used to be the cortex.

"Don't do that! I told you it freaks me out!" Cisco shouted at the first person sped into his premises.

Wally looked around in confusion. "It wasn't me."

Cisco paused when Iris was suddenly in the room with them. The woman seemed just as frazzled as the other two. Finally, they heard Belén's deep gasp from across. In less than a second all eyes were on the red suited figure.

"Who are you?" Belén leaned forwards on a table, actually feeling a little motion sickness.

Barry pulled off the hood of his suit and gave everyone the surprise of their lives. "The man who's gonna help you stop the Rival." It took Barry all but five minutes to explain about the timeline being changed and who he was...that was the easy part. The hard part was getting the rest to actually believe in it. "Okay, so... I can tell from the 'I don't believe you' looks on your faces that you don't believe me. "

"Sure you're not Sherlock under that too?" Belén asked, and it worried Barry that he couldn't tell if she was joking or dead mad.

"We believe you're a speedster, but you're gonna have to explain that part about Flashpoint again," Wally said.

"All right, look. This is as simple as I can put it," Barry grabbed a nearby marker and headed for the nearest wall. "I'm gonna use this glass, Mr. Ramon. Okay?" Cisco barely had time to disagree before Barry began to write on said wall. He drew a straight horizontal line. "Imagine that this line is time, okay? I went back in time—" he drew a second line jumping back to the beginning, "—and stopped the Reverse Flash from killing my mom. In doing so, I created an alternate timeline." He then drew another line going outwards from the original, "A whole new existence where you're Kid Flash."

Wally almost didn't care about the time line explanation when he heard the name again. "The Flash."

"Kid Flash," Belén, Cisco and Iris corrected much to his dismay.

"And Cisco's a billionaire," Barry finished with.

Cisco raised a finger. 'So you're saying there's a time line out there where I'm not rich? Boy, that's a glitch in the universe."

Wally shook his head at it all. "No, not buying it. Um, my life is my life! Didn't just start three months ago, okay? I've always been me."

"But it's like on those TV shows," Belén quietly spoke up. "Um, you know, where they change the timeline and suddenly all of us have something different in our lives but no one knows except…" she slowly directed a gaze on Barry, "...for the one who changed it."

"But this isn't a TV show!" Wally exclaimed.

Iris raised her hands to get the room quiet. "Okay, look. Even if we did believe you, why are you telling us this now?" she asked Barry.

"Because...I've been hiding here for too long. The Rival needs to be stopped. I stop the bad guys. And...we can all take him down together."

Wally frowned. "I can get him myself."

"Then why haven't you?"

"Well, I'm not interested. I don't know how many times I gotta tell you freaks, I already did my bit for queen and country," Cisco for up from his chair but almost immediately Belén moved in front of him.

"No one leaves until we figure this out," she warned.

Cisco smirked at her. "Whatever you say, sweetheart."

"Okay—" Barry made a move towards them but Iris called him back.

"Argument here? We'd like to hear more of it."

Barry rolled his eyes at her. This was probably the part where Caitlin would get them to settle down. Caitlin. He rushed to the nearest computer and began doing some research.

"Hey!" Cisco went after him only to have Belén pull him back. "Don't touch that!"

But Barry finished the job quick and sped out. He returned a mere second later with Caitlin Snow. The slender brunette had a mouth in the shape of an 'o' from the sudden trip.

"What just happened!?"

"Stop bringing strangers into my lab!" Cisco frantically shouted.

"Who is this?" Iris asked, eyeing Caitlin curiously.

"Dr. Snow?" Belén was the one to recognize, much to everyone's surprise.

Caitlin relaxed only a little bit when she saw the familiar face. "Belén?"

"You know each other?" Iris made a face.

"She's Axel's eye doctor," Belén explained then looked at Barry for an explanation. "Did you just kidnap my nephew's doctor?"

Barry was now the one confused. "No, I didn't...well, yeah, I guess, I…" he stopped and tried again. "In my timeline she's a scientist."

"But I'm not a scientist," Caitlin gently reminded. "I'm a pediatric eye doctor."

"And...we're done," Wally wrapped a finger in the air.

Belén watch as everyone began a commotion with disagreements. She pulled Barry to the side and asked for a word. The two easily slipped from the room into the hallway.

"Look, I'm sorry. I know that this is hard to believe...and a lot to dump on, but…" Barry stopped when she turned to face him.

"In that other world, you knew me, didn't you?" Her question caught him off guard. Belén looked dead serious, and a little annoyed.

"I, uh, what?"

"That's how you knew about my almost going into journalism, my twin brother, and the fact that I hate eating alone," Belén stepped closer to him. "I don't tell anyone that last one because it—"

"Embarrasses you," Barry finished with her, basically confirming her suspicion.

"Just like in the shows," she whispered. "So...in that other world, who am I? I mean, are we friends? Were we friends?"

Barry sighed. He pondered shortly of what to tell her and what not because it really wasn't necessary to put her through that kind of pain.

"Were we…?" she frailly pointed between them. "You know...?"

"Yeah," he ultimately nodded.

"So then...right now, this..." she pointed again, "Is it real? Or is it just a ghost of a relationship I have no memory about?"

"It's real, you know it is," Barry promised her. "Do you think I just crash into a revolving door for a 'ghost relationship'? No, because I love you." Belén's eyes widened. "And that will not change no matter what reality I'm in." Seeing her stunned face was a heavy indicator of his mistake. He shouldn't have dumped in the 'I love you' far earlier than needed, but it wasn't a tactic. It was the truth. It was a truth that would follow into whatever world he was in. "I am so sorry I'm telling you all this." Barry was fully conscious in the fact he could potentially be scaring her off for good but he was willing to work for the ending they deserved. "I know it's...I would understand if you're scared or something—"

"You would think that…" Belén's eyes darted to the side, "Any normal person would have run out that door—" she pointed at the door behind them, "—and never ever speak to you again. And yet…" A nervous smile crossed her face, "I'm weird as hell because instead all I want to do is hug you."

Barry chuckled. "You're not weird, Bells."

"Yeah, I am," she nodded. "I've never been normal. I guess it was only fair that I find the only man who could change timelines. Yeah...I deserve that." Her nervous smile widened. "Actually, it makes me feel all giddy inside."

Barry pulled her into a tight hug and set a kiss on her hair. He couldn't believe his luck at all. He thanked God he met Belén - in this world and the last. He couldn't ever think about living in a world where he didn't end up with Belén.

~0~

After a phenomenal argument between the group regarding kidnapping and timelines, actual work got done and there was a realization that they actually could work together. Caitlin had taken position at a single computer desk and was able to find a way to track the Rival.

"I have always wondered why no one turned the speed cameras in the city to register near sonic velocities," the brunette remarked while she waited for a scan to be done. "Seems like a ready-built early warning system. So I reprogrammed the cameras, and…"

The light alarm going off indicated her scanning was done. Cisco peered to the screen beside her.

"Babadook! There's your rival! The old sawmill out by Williamson."

"All right. Follow my lead?" Barry looked over to Wally, thinking they'd work together but Wally was more than ready to go on his own.

"The Flash doesn't follow anyone."

Iris rolled her eyes at her brother. "Listen to him, Wally. He's the Flash."

Caitlin had been (not so) discreetly staring at Cisco and finally worked up the courage to tell him "You know, you would be an excellent candidate for Lasik."

Cisco settled a rather snarl-like glare on the woman in return. Caitlin then knew never to bring that up again.

~ 0 ~

Both Barry and Wally - each in them respective suits - had arrived at the location where the Rival was meant to be.

From Cisco's building, remained the others without much to do. Belén circled the desk Caitlin had used to search for the Rival in the first place.

"Shouldn't there be some sort of way to communicate with them?" She finally gave her thought up to the others. She shyly smiled at the uncommon group. "I don't know, it just...it feels like we would have one."

"You mean in this other world where we're supposedly all friends?" By Cisco's tone of voice, everyone knew he wasn't planning on becoming friends with any of them.

"It sounds fun," Belén maintained her cheery attitude. "But seriously, do you have a way to see what's going on?"

"You are lucky you are you," Cisco pointed at her then motioned her to step aside from the computer. Belén of course did and backtracked until she was beside Iris.

"When do you think he'll realize you're going on a date with Barry?" the woman whispered fairly low.

"Shhh…" Belén waved the question off. For now, that information didn't need to be known.

Cisco managed to break into one of the cameras on the location where indeed they saw both Barry and Wally and the Rival all together in deep fight mode.

The Rival - who had minutes before he revealed himself as Edward Clariss - was going head strong against Wally first. Just like many of their previous fights, however, he flipped Wally over to the ground. Wally would not give up, and more so when he was sure the others were monitoring him for real. He jumped back on his feet and went straight for the Rival. The latter, however, had a different plan that he set in motion. He passed by Wally and came up behind with a piece of a metal that he struck right through Wally's left side.

Wally crumpled to the ground and moved no more. From the building, Iris cried for her brother but Cisco pointed that the suit entailed Wally was still partially alive.

"That one was never my rival. You could be, though," the Rival now faced Barry, quite smug from his victory.

"You want to find out?" Barry angrily stalked towards him.

The Rival laughed shortly. "Defeat me, and I'll let you take your little friend for help."

"No. You're the one who's gonna need help!" and Barry set loose on a chase that consisted of a roundhouse kick and a series of punches across the face.

The Rival escaped his clutches and started swirling in a circle, creating not one but two hurricanes. Barry stepped back, getting flashes of Mark Mardon and - oh Lord, he was forgetting again. He felt the memories of his early days begin to slip away and even caused a momentary balance problem.

"God. It's like "Twister" in there, the movie, not the game," Cisco stared at the computer with alarmed, widened eyes. "The satellite's picking up two distinct funnel patterns. Tornados measure at F3 on the Fujita scale. This guy's like a Weather Wizard or something."

"Nice name, but terrible moment," Belén remarked quietly.

"Guys!" Barry called in frantically. "I can't stop him!"

"Cisco, move it," Belén now waved him to leave the seat. She gained easy access and plopped down on the chair. "Okay now listen to me, Barry, you brought this entire - admittedly weird - group together because we're a team."

"Did she just call us weird?" Iris mumbled to Caitlin who hummed a 'yes'.

"Which means you've done this before, I'm sure, in that other world," Belén continued. "Just...just think about what we do if this was still your world."

"A little easy to say. In the other world you were here with me - you had meta powers too," Barry said in his frantic thinking.

Belén's face went flat at the prospect of having 'cool' powers too. "I'm gonna kick you for that because I could've worked with Solar...but it's not the point. You're the Flash, Barry, so...what does he do? It's not giving up, right?"

Barry managed to smile a little. "No. I'm the Flash…" He supposed he'd forgotten what that meant in these months he spent basically hiding.

He sucked in a deep breath and stared at the two hurricanes that gained more force with each second. He knew exactly what to do, and so that's what he went on. He charged for the left hurricane and started running counter-clockwise. It took some extra energy that perhaps he could have had easier if he'd spent more time keeping up with training.

"That's impossible!" the Rival practically screeched as he saw both of his hurricanes dissolve into nothing. He barely had time to process Barry coming straight for him before his body had already met a series of construction poles on the ground.

Barry went back to check up on Wally who was barely raising a finger. He still felt a vital, a weak one, but a vital nonetheless.

"You really are the fastest man alive—" the Rival had barely extended forwards a vibrating hand when a gunshot went off.

Barry internally scolded himself for being so careless, but Wally's life was on the line. Still, he relaxed when he saw that it had been Joe who fired at the Rival. Joe wasn't sure of what he'd done, but Barry was hoping that seeing his son in need of help would stir the man back to life.

~ 0 ~

Caitlin had been nice enough to extend her abilities to see that Wally was properly taken care off. Barry had thought about finding Nina Clarke - Belén's close friend from the other reality - but had the good sense of asking her if she knew Nina in this new timeline. He was given a very harsh 'unfortunately'.

Apparently, this world's Belén and Nina did not get along. It didn't matter in the end because, much like Caitlin, Nina turned out to be a school teacher in this world.

"Wally's vitals are low, and he's lost a lot of blood," Caitlin felt sorry to inform both Iris and Joe.

"He should be rapidly healing. It's one of the gifts of being a speedster," Barry kept staring at the unconscious Wally in his bed.

Caitlin shook her head. "He's not. I'm sorry." She coughed, rather awkwardly before asking, "Am I free to go?"

"Dr. Snow, you weren't kept against your will," Belén gently informed, though she could see why Caitlin would think that.

Caitlin smiled only slightly due to the circumstances. "Axel is due in another month."

"I'll tell Maritza," Belén assured and watched the brunette leave.

Cisco passed right by her, this time not even her presence was enough to pull out his playfulness. "This is why I didn't want to get involved. Crime fighting sucks!"

"I thought I could just make things better, but everybody's been paying for my happiness," Barry slowly came after the other two and walked with Belén into the main room. "Will you help me?"

"Anything I can do," Belén immediately said, though she thought he was talking about simple strategies to get things better.

Barry had made his decision - yet again - about the timelines. He needed to stop being selfish and let...life take its course, even if it meant excruciating pain. "I need to make things right," he stated with the heaviest heart possible.

~ 0 ~

Normally, meeting the parents of the guy you liked was nerve wrecking but the situation gave nothing but despondence for Belén. She walked into Barry's home and soon heard the light laughter of his parents.

"Hey, guys," Barry greeted quietly. He'd already begun to take in the last images of his parents.

"Hey, slugger," Henry smiled and stood up from the couch with his wife.

Nora was the first to spy Belén just a little behind. "Who's this?"

"Belén, remember?" Barry took Belén's hand to bring her up to his side. He needed all the support he could get in order to do this.

"Oh, yes. We loved your show," Nora's praise elicited a light pink blush from Belén.

"Thank you," Belén kept her words short and brief. She wanted to give as much time to Barry as possible.

"You okay, Barry?" His father was the first to notice the expression sitting on Barry's face.

"Yeah, I just... wanted to see you both one more time…" Barry decided to go with the simple truth. It wouldn't matter soon enough...

"What does... that mean?"

"Nothing. Nothing. I, uh…" Barry paused, hoping to find the right words, yet they didn't come. He would just have to continue with the truth. "These last three months have been the best. Just getting to spend time with you. I just...wanted you to know how grateful I am, to both of you, to be your son."

"Barry, you're scaring me," Nora's eyes flickered to Belén as if the woman would give some clarification. Belén wanted no part in that explanation.

Barry went up to both of his parents and have them a last goodbye hug. "No, there's...there's nothing to be afraid of. Promise. I just...I love you both."

And though neither understood, Henry and Nora hugged their son back just as tight.

Barry honestly wasn't sure how he managed to walk out of the house after that...but the image of an almost dead Wally was a good pusher. Just as he walked down the front porch steps, he felt another rush of memories leave his system. He nearly fell over if Belén hadn't grabbed onto his arm.

"What exactly is that!?" Belén had made her conclusion that his small episodes were a result of his changing the timeline.

"Memories are disappearing," Barry grunted as he took one last step to the pavement. "It's getting worse. We have to hurry before it's too late."

He used his last bits of energy to bring them to the warehouse where Thawne was already waiting for them. Belén had to help Barry walk now but she hoped it was just a temporary weakness.

"Having a bad day, Barr?" Thawne called out in a tainting voice until he spotted Belén walking beside Barry. "Well...if it isn't the future Mrs. Allen?"

"You even sound annoying," was all Belén had to say to him.

Thawne had a small laugh before he set his eyes on Barry who was reluctant to do the same. They both knew what was going to happen but Thawne was going to exploit it for as much as he could. "All you need to do is ask me, Barry," he spoke calmly, yet the smug look on his face spoke volumes.

Barry still didn't look at him. "We need to go back in time. To that night."

"To do what?" Belén couldn't understand how there could be someone so sinister like him. "You know what I need you to do. But I want to hear you say it," Thawne basically commanded.

Barry gritted his teeth together and glared in the man. "I need you to kill my mother."

The smile on Thawne was automatic. "With pleasure."

Belén watched with utter disgust as the man was let go from his prison. There truly could not be any justice in the world if this was truly about to happen.

"If you can, punch him a bit," she told Barry afterwards. She knew her words weren't valuable at the moment but it was all she had. There were absolutely no comforting words for this type of situation. "I'm so sorry. No one...should have to do things like these."

Barry took her hands and gently squeezed them. "This was...always meant to happen." And yet it sickened him that it actually wasn't. Thawne had already messed with the timeline before and made his mother's death a fixed event in time.

"When you get back to the other me, in that other world, let her comfort you."

Barry managed to smile at that. "I look forwards to that. You're all I look forwards to, actually." It was true. With his parents dead, Belén was all he had. Sure, there were his friends but...he loved Belén, and she was the most important thing to him.

"And you owe me that date, with other me," Belén added, just to give some humor.

"Promise," Barry said.

She smiled at him as best as she could. She didn't want to say that she didn't want to see him go. It would just make things harder for him. She brought her hands up to his face and pressed a kiss to his lips. She wished it could've lasted longer but Thawne decided to cut things short. "STOP!" Belén screamed when Thawne gave Barry an unnecessary throw to the ground. "If there's any justice in the world, you'll die too!"

Thawne picked Barry up like a ragdoll and chuckled. "The Missus always had a way with words, huh?"

"Don't." The last thing Barry wanted to hear from that man were his thoughts on Belén.

"God, I wish I could kill you. But today, I get to be the hero," Thawne actually laughed before speeding off.

They entered the cursed night in the past, and Barry willed himself to let the event run as it once had. His mother was dead, yet again, and with it the chain of reactions were set off.

Thawne dropped Barry just in front of the West residence, although there was a knowing smile on his face that Barry wasn't liking. "There we go. Things are back to how they should be. Well, for me, anyway. For you…" he chuckled, "Well, I guess you'll just have to wait and find out."

Barry frowned. "What? What does that mean?" His demand went unnoticed.

"See you sometime soon, Flash," Thawne saluted and sped off.

Barry wasn't going to stand there and wonder what the hell Thawne meant. For all he knew it was just another trick. When he entered the place he was surprised to find only Wally and Joe inside. He wondered if the celebratory party had already finished. He went straight in and hugged both Wally amd Joe. At least they were back in order.

"Are you okay?" Joe thought it was a redundant question but nonetheless an important one.

"Yeah…"

"You just lost your father, Barry. You don't have to be okay."

Barry sat down on the couch and accepted a beer from Wally. "Actually, I feel closer to my parents than I ever have."

'Well, good, son. To your pops," Joe clinked the beer with his and Wally's.

"To Henry," Wally agreed and took a sip.

"To my Dad," Barry said with a bitter-sweetness. He looked around the house and saw it was exceptionally clean for a place that had meant to be having a party. "How did Iris get this place cleaned up so soon?"

Joe's face went flat in an instant. "That ain't funny. I'm gonna chalk that up to grief." He put down his beer and decided to call it a night. "I'll see you both in the morning."

Barry was left in a state of confusion. He turned to Wally with the intention of asking what was wrong but instead met with an incredulous Wally.

"Are you kidding me? You know Iris isn't here!"

"Wait—"

"They don't talk, Barry. You know that," Wally shook his head at Barry. "Don't pull that again unless you feel like sleeping on the streets."

"Why would I...sleep on the street…?" Barry was dreading the answer. The timeline wasn't setting in correctly was it?

"Grief can be bad, I know it," Wally went about it in another way. "And maybe that's why you and Belén had that argument—"

Yup, there it was.

"Wally, what!?"

Wally still chalked it up to the aftermath of their battles but Barry was in a real despair. He wasn't understanding anything!

"Just...get some rest," Wally patted his shoulder. "And tomorrow you'll probably have a better idea of what to say to Belén." He left Barry alone in the living room.

Barry fell back onto the couch with a horrified face. Iris no longer talked to Joe? She didn't live with Joe? He argued with Belén? That meant they weren't on speaking terms either, but why? "Oh, God. What did I do?"

~ 0 ~

Belén went back and forth in the cortex while Caitlin continued their search on the computers. It was already a long night but Caitlin doubted that Belén would ever give up so easily. And truth be told, she wanted the search to come up successful too. She needed it.

"Anything?" Belén asked once again. Every fifteen minutes or so she would do the same thing.

Caitlin shook her head. "No. She's not coming up on the scanners."

Belén groaned. "She's an Earth 2 metahuman! It shouldn't be this hard finding her, dammit! Where the hell could Datura have escaped to!?"

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