73

I looked through a case file, seated at my desk, dressed in a black long sleeve t shirt, that was tucked into blue ripped skinny jeans, black heeled ankle boots on my feet, my hair straight. I messed with my badge, that was clipped to the small black belt I had around my jeans, as my eyes skimmed through the paper in front of me.

"Hey you," I heard from in front of me, as my head snaps up, landing on Barry Allen, a smile on his face at the very sight of me.

"Oh- hey, Barry." I smile, setting the case file folder down on my desk, sitting up lightly due to how I was slouching, my hands on the arms of the office chair I was sitting in, "What can I do for you?"

"Just because I came down here to talk to you, doesn't mean I need something." Barry told me, as he questions right after, "You workin late?"

"No?" I say, my sentence coming out as some sort of question, my eyebrows furrowing in confusion.

"It's seven." He points to the small clock that rested on my desk, my eyes landing on the bright red digits on the device.

"Oh-" I took the folder and placed it back in the cabinet, "Time ran away from me, I guess."

"What case were you looking at?" Barry questions, holding onto his bag.

"A old one." I simply answer, slipping on my black windbreaker, making sure my gun was secure in its holsters that was also attached to my belt, as I grabbed my hand purse and my phone, "It really doesn't matter."

He gives me a nod, dropping it, "I was gonna stop by Star Labs-"

"And you want me to come with you?" I question, already knowing what he would ask me right after.

He nods, a chuckle leaving his lips, "Yeah."

"All right- I'll come." I leave ccpd with him, as we walked down the sidewalk. Within minutes, both of our phones buzzed.

I fished out my phone as does he, as he both look at each other after checking our phones, saying in unison, "Cisco."

Barry runs, leaving his bag at his home before running back over to me, scooping me up in his arms, then running into Star Labs, into the breach room, setting me down, "What's going on?" Barry's voice sounded the room.

"That." Caitlin pointed to the breach.

"Why'd you open a breach?" I stepped down the stairs, looking at Cisco with confusion.

"I didn't." He answered, putting some sort of gun he had probably created at the breach, Joe holding his own gun towards the breach also, as Iris stood behind her father.

"What?" Barry asks confused.

"That's why we called you." Joe answered.

"Can't you close it?" I questioned.

"Once again, wouldn't have called if I could." Cisco told me, keeping his aim straight.

Barry comes over, standing right next to me, his arm out, guarding me lightly, as we all prepared for what would happen.

"Alright- somebody's coming through-" Wally spoke, as I pulled my gun out, setting it in place, also aiming at the breach.

"Get back-" Joe told everyone who was unarmed, as we stood still.

In jumped Harry, letting out a breath as he looked at Barry, "Allen."

"Wells-" Barry looked at Harry with slight wide eyes, as I lowered my gun, placing it back in the holster attached to my belt.

"I need your help." Harry told us.

"With what exactly?" I question, my eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

As if on cue, in came a whoosh, as some sort of lightning ran in circles, someone with abilities just like Barry's before stopping in front of us, Jesse being the one who had just ran around in front of us.

"With that." Harry points to Jesse.

"Hey guys." Jesse smiles at us.

I slowly look at Barry, my eyes wide, "Did you just- because I just- we all just- I'm not seeing things, am I?-"

Barry's hands move, one hand going to my lower back, the other hand covering my mouth to stop me from rambling, looking at me, a small smile on his face because of how I had started to ramble, as he spoke to me quietly, "We all saw that."

"Jesse-" Wally starts in astonishment, "You're a speedster?"

"Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?" Jesse starts, but corrects herself, "I mean- I would say so."

"When did this happen?" Caitlin questions.

"A few days ago." Jesse answers.

"When I got Allen his speed back- Wally and Jesse were hit with the dark matter, and she was affected, she was totally affected." Harry explained.

"But I didn't get speed, so could it have been something else?" Wally questioned.

"I doubt it." Harry spoke, "Dark matter affects different people- in different ways- at different times. Sometimes not at all, so be thankful that she was affected, and I have to run some tests to find out just how much."

"Then, you've come to the right place." Caitlin told him, a smile playing at her lips. "Let's go to the Speed Lab."

Barry and Harry question in unison, "Speed Lab?"

Cisco leads us all into the Speed Lab, as he speaks, "Something tells me you've never been in this room before."

Barry nods, "This is insane."

Harry speaks up, "Wait you've never- Allen. I suppose that means you travelled back in time again."

"Yeah, but-" Barry starts.

Harry cuts him off, "How many times did I tell you not to do that?"

"Well you figured that out really quick, Harry." Iris said.

"Yes, Ms. West, it was easy because we've never been here either." Harry says.

I end up zoning out completely as my stare fixed on the ground, my mind trailing off to things that didn't matter at the moment, but I couldn't get my mind off of.

The fear that it could crush Iris if there was anything between Barry and I still made me fall into a hole of remorse.

I knew I still had feelings for Barry, and that wouldn't change. No matter how hard I tried and completely covered it.

I knew whenever he spoke to me, my heart would beat out of my chest. When he smiled in my direction, my heart would stop. Whenever we were together my stomach would do flips. Whenever we made eye contact, my heart fluttered.

The fact that Barry was in another timeline, meant he didn't know anything that happened after him and I broke up because of Reign. Barry was hurt, and so was I. We couldn't be in the same room with each other unless we were going to try our hardest not to hold each other.

We wanted to be together, we did. But due to Reign's stunt, Barry thought it was best that we kept our desire to be in relationship off the table for now.

And I agreed.

We had soon learned to somewhat bring things back to normal, we were back to being friends. Eventually, Iris had admitted to somewhat meaning what she said the day we tried to get Barry's speed back.