Jamie West // Book 2 // The Flash

Flashpoint: Paradox

I made a big mistake. I just couldn't take it anymore, you know? What happened with zoom and my dad dying, my mother's death, me becoming the flash.All of it. I wanted a new life. I wanted to start over. And that's what I did. But somehow I-I made things worse.
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Barry runs over 600 miles to talk to one of there people he thought he could talk to about everything. And that was Felicity Smoak, but of course, there was no telling her he was coming.

"So, I reset everything. I put everything back to the way that it was before. Except some things weren't the same anymore. Not even a little bit", Barry rambles.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Take a breath. You're talking way too fast", Felicity tells him. "What happened".

"I really screwed up, felicity", Barry says. "And this time I don't know if I can fix it".

"Okay, let me get this straight. You ran back in time? Stopped the Reverse-Flash from killing your mom and then lived in an alternate reality where both your parents were alive?", Felicity tries to comprehend. "And then you restored the timeline, came back to the moment you left and noticed that things were different?".

"Exactly", Barry says.

"Does that just happen when you travel through time?", she asked. "Do things just change like that?".

No, I mean, not like this", Barry says. "Not on- I don't know Felicity. I don't know what I'm gonna do".

"Okay, why don't you just run me through- walk me through what happened?", Felicity says. "And we'll uh, we'll try and figure this out. So what changed?".

"I knew once I got back last night something had changed, but before I could figure out how much, I had to deal with someone this morning", Barry tells Felicity.

Barry was stopping a thief who robbed a diamond store, as the guy on the motorcycle was shooting at Barry, he used speed to not only catch the bullets but also took parts of the motorcycle to stop him in his tracks.

"You are not gonna get too far on that thing anymore, are you?", Barry asked him. "I will be taking these back to the jewelry store you stole them from. But, uh, you can keep these if you'd like".

Barry tells the thief, as he's dropping all of the bullet casing Barry caught.

"After he was taken care of, I went to S.T.A.R. Labs, and that's when I found out a lot more had changed than I realized", Barry tells Felicity.

THE DAY AFTER COMING BACK FROM FLASHPOINT
"What kind of idiot still thinks I can't outrun bullets", Barry tells his friends.

"That guy should be the criminal poster boy for not what to do against the Flash", Wally says.

"So what are we gonna call him?"Barry asks Cisco, who's not even paying attention to him.

"You mean like a nickname?", Wally happily asks.

"Yeah. Cisco does it for all of them, he's like a master of it. Can't just call him Suspect on a Motorcycle. Right? What do you think", he asks Cisco.

"I don't know", Cisco says.

"I'll take this one. Uh, the Crook. Lame? A Five Finger...".

"How about Thief", Cisco says. "He robs stuff. Let's just call him Thief", Got to get to the gym. Excuse me".

"The gym? Is he– is he, like, working out now or-".

"You know, Barry, sometimes your jokes just aren't very funny", Caitlin says, as she begins to walk out the cortex.