Speed and Ice: His spark

Part 5: 6 Months Later

Barry's POV

As I am in the kitchen fixing dinner while talking with Lisa Mick and Lenny walk in. Now you may be wondering how I have gained the ability to use that nickname. for the past 4 months me and Lenny have been dating. Shocker right. "Hey babe...?" He says with a hopeful grin. "Lay it on the table. I'll fix it later. What the hell did you do to your cold gun this time?" I say. "He may or may not have hit a speedster with ice and this mysterious speedster threw lightning at him but it hit the cold gun but threw him back." He says. I go into panic mode seeing as I have been hit with lightning before from a speedster and it hurts me a lot but what would it do to a non meta human? Where were they that they got attacked by a speedster? Thawne wouldn't have done this would he have? Who is this speedster? Zoom can't be back can he? "Hey hey hey. Breathe." Len says wrapping his arms around me. After I finally get my thoughts lined back out into a steady train of them I take a deep breath. "did either of you get a good look at this speedster? Like Lenny, Mick said you were hit with lightning. What kind of lightning? Blue? White? gold? Orange? Red? Any other color?" I say. "The lightning was a purple color. I got this picture. They look young and they spooked Len is why he fired at them but that must have spooked this unknown speedster causing her to fire off lightning towards him." Mick says holding up a picture. "That lightning. I have seen it before. Where were you all at?" I ask. "Uh outside of jitters." They say. That is where I saw it at last. She had been following me. "She wasn't trying to harm either of you. Somehow and someway she knows you two are affiliated with me. She has been following me for the past 6 months before I ditched the team. I hadn't told anyone because I assumed the speed force sent her. But for some reason she wants to find me. No fucking idea why but she does." I say. As I finish up the spaghetti I was making I dish it out onto plates. "You guys eat. I will later. I have something I need to do." I say. I head upstairs and up in my room I grab a bucket and set down onto the floor with it. it has a shit ton of just files in it. Lenny walks in. "What are you doing up here? Go eat. I'm just not that hungry. Knowing that you pretty much were hit with lightning scares me that someone got that close to you even if they didn't mean it." I say looking through the files. He sets down beside me making me look up. "I am worried about you babe. You have been really distant the past couple of days." He says. I sigh. "I feel like I am a bother to you. I keep you up on nights I can't sleep. I'm always so torn up here recently I can't even write good. And I feel like such a burden because of my stupid mental health issues weighing down onto you. I feel like I'm dragging you down. And my one way to not feel as bad and hate myself more for it is to distance myself." I say. "No bubs. I am the one who chooses to set up with you on nights you can't sleep. I don't care how torn up you are because I know you can't stop it. You can't control your anxiety. I know you were having Caitlin get all of your meds from Argus so that they were strong enough to work with your metabolism. And you are not a burden to me because of your mental health issues. They aren't stupid. And I promised I would help you get better. I know you know that it doesn't just happen in a blink of an eye or by the snap of your fingers. You aren't weighing me down. I promise. Listen. if distancing yourself from me is what is going to help you try and figure things out, no matter for how long it is, do it. It won't hurt my feelings and I won't be mad at you. Do what is best for you." he says. I lean over onto him and he pulls me into his lap and rests his chin on the top of my head. "Now what are you even looking through." He says. "Old files that I had put together of this mysterious speedster." I say. As we talk for about 30 minutes we head back downstairs to see mick and Lisa getting more. I chuckle. "What. You cook better than Lenny does." Lisa says. "You really do." He says. All of a sudden a the mysterious speedster we were just talking about runs in and couldn't stop in time and runs into me. I catch her and help her balance. She pulls her mask off. "You sir are a hard person to find! 6 hard months of following you to make sure you were who I thought you were and to trace out places you would be just for you to up and disappear for 6 fucking months!" She exclaims throwing her arms up in excitement of actually finding me and in frustration of it taking so long. "Who are you?" We all ask in sync. "I'm your daughter!" She exclaims.