The Flash: Mini Flash

Chapter 23: Fast Enough

(Barry's POV)

I walked down to the Pipeline to see that Dr.Wells was up. He stood in his cell, just blankly looking back at me. I glared at him.

Harrison: "What? No Big Belly Burger?"

I glared at him in annoyance. How dare he ask for something, as if he deserves it.

Harrison: "It's one of the few perks of living in this time. We're out of cows where I come from."

I looked at him annoyed because I didn't care about that.

Harrison: "You don't care about that. You have questions. Go ahead."

Barry: "Not sure where to start...Thawne."

He looks at me with a smirk. I guess he hasn't heard his real name in a long time.

Barry: "That is your real name? Eobard Thawne."

Eobard: "Since the day I was born."

Barry: "And when was that?"

Eobard: "136 years from now. That's not what you want to know. Go ahead, Barry. Ask it."

I glared at him, knowing what he wanted me to ask him. 

Barry: "Why did you kill my mother?"

Eobard: "Because I hate you."

I looked at him shocked and confused. What did I do to make him hate me so much that he would go into the past and try to kill me as a kid?

Eobard: "Not you now. You, years from now."

Barry: "In the future?"

Eobard: "In the future yes. We're enemies, rivals, opposites, the reverse of one another."

I looked at him confused. Why are we enemies? What happened in the future?

Barry: "Why? Why were we enemies?"

Eobard: "It doesn't matter. "

He turns around from me and rests his arm on the wall of the cell. I glared at him, upset because it DOES matter! You killed my mother, sent my father to prison for it, then you are turning my daughter against me! Using her against me! I deserve to know why you hate me so much!

Eobard: "It doesn't matter anymore. What matters is that neither of us was strong enough to defeat the other. Until I learned your secret. I learned your name. Barry Allen."

He turned back to face me and smirked. How did he learn my name?

Eobard: "And finally, I knew how to defeat you once and for all. Travel back in time, kill you as a child. Wipe you from the face of the earth. But then you, future you, that is, followed me back and we fought. We both landed some pretty solid shots."

He chuckled, but I didn't sense any humor behind that laugh.

Eobard: "And then you, future you, got your younger self out of there. I was so mad. But then...I thought, what if you were to suffer a tragedy? What if you were to suffer something so horrible, so traumatic that your child self could never recover? Then you would not become The Flash. And so I stabbed your mother in the heart, and I was free. Finally able to return to a future without The Flash."

He paused and then rubbed his face in annoyance. As if this part of the story annoys him everything time he remembers it.

Eobard: "Only to realize that in traveling back, I lost my way home. Lost my ability to harness the Speed Force. And without it, I was stuck here. Stranded in this time, unable to return to my own. And the only way back was The Flash, but The Flash was gone...so I created him."