When Everything Fall Apart (Snowbarry)

A long-awaited wedding

6 month later

Caitlin's impatience was palpable, she couldn't sit still, after all, it was a very important moment...

After how things had gone between her and Barry, whenever she was around Joe and Cecile she felt uncomfortable despite their efforts to make her comfortable... yet she would never let her insecurity stop her from doing something for which she had waited so long...

"Congratulations Mrs. West!" Caitlin said hugging Cecile right after the ceremony

"Thanks, Caitlin... I never thought we would get to this point..."

"Why do you say such a thing?" Barry asked

"Well, Joe hasn't decided to ask me for years... then for us, weddings are a problem..."

"Don't overdo it..." Barry said

"Barry...Cecile is right..." Caitlin said "A few minutes after mine the city was almost destroyed by a black hole... yours with Iris was practically cursed... fire or flood in the reception hall, the priest feeling bad for cinnamon incense, and an invasion of..."

"Maybe you're right, but in the end, everything worked out for you" he said looking at Joe, across the room talking to Wally

"Are you two next?"

"Well, we..." Barry said blushing

"We've only been together for 3 months..." Caitlin said

"Well, you're a nice couple, we won't have to wait long," Joe said walking up to them

"Grandpa Joe is right, mom!" Nora said, appearing behind Caitlin

"Nora! What are you doing here?" said Barry and Caitlin hugging her, "I thought you and Mia couldn't make it because of her adaptation to the bionic arm"

"She has made so much progress, so we decided to stop by to attend the wedding, after all, we could not miss such an important event"

"We are happy to see you again!" Caitlin said

"Thanks, I'm just sorry I won't be able to come back..."

"Why?" Caitlin asked, sad not to see her again

"Gideon said that in a few hours the window of time in which I can act without altering the timeline will close... So I'm running out of time..."

"Oh... but you and Mia have spent the last 6 months on a Tannhauser site... and now..." Caitlin said, her eyes starting to fill with tears

"Don't be sorry... you still have the me from the past... By the way, where am I?"

"Frost insisted on taking you for a ride, but Becky is with my mother"

"Speaking of mothers..." Nora said, sighing "Iris... is she here?"

"Yeah...she was here when we got there...she was getting close, then walked away when Becky fell and skinned her knee," Barry said, trying to reassure his daughter

"Ok... I don't want to see her... especially not now..."

"Why not now?" asked Barry, intrigued by the choice of words

"I can't talk about it..."

"Hey, honey!" Mia said to Nora "Sorry if it took me so long!"

"Don't worry Mia, it's not a problem... I hadn't said goodbye yet"

"Are you already leaving?"

"Unfortunately yes, at 14:00 we will no longer be protected and we will change the timeline... I'm glad I could be here... I would have preferred to stay much longer, but we can't"

"Okay, we get it... just promise to be careful!" Caitlin said, hugging Nora

"Don't worry, I'll take care of her!" Mia said

"Shouldn't it be the other way around?"

"Nora, I'm a vigilante with Years of experience!"

"Me a detective and a speedster with years of experience!"

"Nora... stop it, I'll protect you, you and our daughter!"

"Girls, it's a minute to 2:00," Barry said

"Oh... bye then, and thanks for everything... without you, I would never have found my Nora!"

"It was a pleasure Mia," Barry said

"Goodbye, years will pass for you, for me... well it will be a flash!"

"Nora, it's not funny!" Mia said laughing

"Well for me it is!" Nora said, before running into the future with Mia

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Future...

"Wow...that was incredible," Mia said

"I wish I could have stayed for my parents' wedding too," Nora said

"Nora would have been nice... but we couldn't stay 2 years..."

"Unfortunately we couldn't even travel through time until then..."

"I never understood why those two waited 2 years!"

"Mia, I waited 2 years to propose to you..."

"Well, you didn't..."

"And if I were doing it now..."

"I would tell you that I would like to be the one to ask"

"I love you more and more every day!"

"I love you too, Nora..." Mia said, kissing her lover

"I would love to marry you today..."

"Then let's do it, Nora!"

"It's not the time... now we should think about Lillian..."

"Speaking of Lilian... I spoke to Iris at the wedding..."

"Oh... what did you talk about?"

"I bumped into her and she asked me about my arm... if I was okay and... what my life was like in the future..."

"How did she know you were from the future? For the arm?"

"No, she recognized me... and..."

Mia hadn't even finished speaking before Nora ran off without saying anything

Central City Hotel

Iris's room... 20 minutes after Nora had left

"Mom..." Lilian said as she entered the room

"What's going on honey?"

"Don't lie, mom! I heard what that girl said... is she my sister? I have a sister!?"

"She's not your sister! I didn't want children..."

"You didn't even want me?"

"Of course, I wanted you, Lily...I meant I didn't want Nora...I didn't want children with that person...I lost my memory when I gave birth...I forgot when I fell in love with him...one moment I was with the man I loved the next I found out he was dead and I was married to someone else and had a daughter with him! It wasn't my life and I left..."

"Haven't you ever regretted it?"

"No..." Iris said, not even meeting Lily's eyes

"Why don't you look at me? Look me in the eyes and tell me about her!"

"Get out of here!" cried Iris crying

"I thought you were here in town to hang out with me...but...I was wrong!" Lilian said, running out of the room, leaving Iris in tears

"Iris..." Nora said, approaching the woman as soon as Lilian had left the room

"How did you get in?"

"You never lost your memory, did you?"