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"You're saying you're our daughter?" Barry stares at Nora, as I cleared my throat after having a coughing fit, sitting the glass of champagne down.

My voice is raspy, removing my hand from my mouth after taking a deep breath through my nose, holding back anything that would lead me to throw up, "From the future?"

"Named Nora?" Barry finished my sentence.

"After your mother." She shyly replies, looking up at Barry.

"Anybody need a refill?" Cisco interrupts, as we all shot him a look, "No? Just me? Mm."

"Cisco Ramon, always cutting the tension with a joke." Nora steps down, after Cisco had gotten up from chugging down his champagne, moving for a refill.

"You know our names?" Caitlin questions.

"Of course. I know all of you." Nora walks around, naming them off, "You're Caitlin Snow, Ralph Dibny, Papa Joe, Mama Cecile. Aunt Iris. Little Auntie Jenna. She's so cute. And Uncle Wally."

"Uh, and your nickname is XS?" Wally asks her.

"Clearly not my doing." Cisco drinks straight from the bottle.

Nora turns towards me, as I was stood completely still, Barry looking right at Nora and I from being a foot away from us, right next to us.

Nora finally makes eye contact with me, "No, uh, it's a nickname that you gave me when I was a kid, Mom."

"Mom." I repeat her words, staring at her, my eyes slightly wide.

"You said I did everything in excess." Nora rocks back and forth on her feet, "Guess I've always been like that. Overdoing things, getting in way over my head. Like, uh, recently."

"This mistake that you made?" Barry questions.

"Big mistake." Nora nods.

"And this big mistake was?" I question, crossing my arms.

"Helping you save the city by destroying the Star Labs satellite last night." Nora admits, her eyes connecting with Barry's.

"You were the other speedster." I pieced it together, uncrossing my arms, rubbing my temples, "That all makes so much more sense to me now."

"I just couldn't stop myself from getting involved." Nora admits, "But something happened when I did, because now, I can't seem to go fast enough to open up the Speed Force."

"Pardon me." Ralph interrupts, "Are we talking about actual time travel here?"

"Do you just like, not pay any attention when we have our briefings?" Cisco looked at Ralph.

"Y'all didn't teach him about the Legends?" Wally asks.

"Look, nobody said bubkes about time travel." Ralph defends himself.

Jenna starts to quietly let out whimpers, causing Caitlin to shush Ralph, "Come on, Ralph. You're scaring the baby."

"Yeah, you're scaring the baby." Cisco repeats.

"No, no, she's not scared." Cecile rocks her lightly, "She just said she's hungry."

Cecile gasps, "She said that she's- Joe! I heard her! I read her mind!" Her tone changes, as she gets up, speaking in her baby voice, leaving the room, "I might not be losing my powers! I might not be losing my powers!"

"I'm sorry." Nora apologizes, "I know how bizarre this must seem, meeting your daughter from the future as an adult. But really, this wasn't my plan at all, but I'm kind of stuck here now, and you're the only people who can help me."

Nora looks at all of us, "So anybody know what to do?"

Barry was next to me, as I slowly muttered to him, my eyes not leaving Nora, "I think I'm gonna pass out."

Barry was quick to grab my waist, holding me up straight, his eyes glued to Nora also, "I got you- I got you."

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"This is so, so weird." Barry stared at Nora as we stood in the Speed Lab, Nora running in circles, training, so we could run tests on her.

"I spoke too soon when I said the thought of us being parents now would be crazy." My head snaps towards him, "Oh my god, did I jinx us?"

"You didn't jinx us." Barry tells me, looking at me.

I exhale, gesturing towards Nora, "I can't believe that's our daughter up there."

"We have been lied to before." Barry reasoned with me.

"Oh, come on." I looked at him, "Barry. Yellow lightning like yours, purple lightning like mine? I mean, it's got to be her."

"We're meeting our daughter for the first time, Barry." I grab his hand, stopping him from pacing, "I mean- we actually have a kid."

"It was bound to happen." Barry pulls me into him, "You've always acted like a mom. It was about time you had someone to act that way towards."

"Oh absolutely not-" I shook my head instantly, "No way."

"Believe it or not." He laughs very lightly.

"I've always mentioned our kid to be plural- as if we would have children. It seems we only had one." I watch Nora.

"Well, I definitely want to have more than one child with you, so- we will most definitely do something about that." Barry lets go of my hands and squeezes my arms in comfort, "But, that's besides the point right now. We have been lied to before."

"Yeah-" I shrug at him, clouded up in the thought of us having a child.

"Yeah, well, look." Barry shakes me once to catch my attention, "If it is true, Nora could say the wrong thing or step on the wrong butterfly and screw up the whole timeline."

"Step on the wrong butterfly?" I stared at him, "Do you step on butterflies when you run?"

"Zee." Barry shot me a serious look, "I mean, she could Marty McFly herself out of existence."

"I'm not even gonna try to guess what movie that's from." I run a hand through my hair, "I just- I don't know. It makes me happy to see we have a daughter."

"Look, we just need to be responsible, all right?" Barry told me, "I mean, I think we need to find a way to send her home, fast."

"Barry," I turned towards him, shooting him a serious look right back, completely paying attention to his words, "Don't you think future us taught our daughter how not to screw with the timeline?"

Nora suddenly runs over by us, pausing her training, a giggle leaving her lips, "Wow, this Speed Lab sure is archaic, huh?"

"La-la-la-la-la," Barry presses his fingers to his ears, closing his eyes, loudly making it clear that he didn't wanna hear what she had to say.

"Don't- no-" I make a gesture that signaled for her to cut it out, knowing how Barry would reaction, me doing this in unison with him.

Barry opens his eyes, uncovering his ears, "Sorry, just no future talk, all right, please?"

"Right, I don't want to wreck the timeline." Nora nods, recalling.

"All right, Nora." Caitlin and Cisco walk over, Caitlin injecting something into her through her finger, "This is gonna link us up with your biometrics."