Harrison Wells' Human Shield

Pilot [2]

"You don't believe he can run that fast?" Caitlin voiced as the STAR Labs employees were at an abandoned airfield to test what was happening with Barry.

"I believe anything is possible," Clara shrugged.

"And in a few minutes, maybe you will too," Dr. Wells reasoned.

"How does it fit?" Cisco asked as Barry walked out in red gear.

"It's a little snug," Barry admitted.

Clara laughed as she took a picture with her phone. "At least you will be moving so fast no one will see you,"

"See, you thought the world was slowing down," Cisco explained. "It wasn't. You were moving so fast that it only looked like everyone else was standing still. Dr. Wells will be monitoring your energy output and Caitlin, your vitals,"

"What do you do?" Barry wondered.

"I make the toys, my man." Cisco grinned. "Check it. This is a two-way headset with a camera I modified. Typically designed to combat battlefield impulse noise, or in your case, potential sonic booms,"

"Which would be awesome," Clara said as she high-fived Cisco.

Caitlin walked over to Barry to check his vitals. "What?"

"Nothing," Barry lied.

"He noticed you don't smile too much," Clara admitted.

Caitlin rolled her eyes. "My once promising career in bioengineering is over; my boss is in a wheelchair for life, and the explosion that put you in a coma also killed my fiance. So this blank expression kind of feels like the way to go,"

Dr. Wells wheeled over, "Mr. Allen, while I am extremely eager to determine your full range of abilities, I do caution restraint,"

"Yeah," Barry nodded as he moved to the track's starting point.

Dr. Wells wheeled back to where Clara sat.

The group watched with baited anticipation as Barry readied himself for a run.

Clara laughed when a gust of wind threw everything back, and Barry was no longer there. The only sign of where he was was the pack of dust trailing behind him.

"He just passed 200 miles per hour," Cisco reported.

"It's not possible," Caitlin reasoned.

"Barry's hurt," Clara said as the man ran into barrels filled with water at full speed, causing them to explode on impact.

***

"It looks like you had a distal radius fracture," Caitlin explained as she held up Barry's X-rays.

"Had?" Barry asked.

Caitlin swiped on the screen to show Barry's more recent x-ray. "It's healed...in three hours,"

"How is that even possible?"

"We don't know...yet,"

"You need to learn how to stop," Cisco laughed.

"What happened out there today?" Dr. Wells questioned. "You were moving pretty well, and then something caused you to lose focus,"

Clara tilted her head to the side. "You remembered something,"

Barry looked at her in surprise. "When I was 11, my mother was murdered. It was late. A sound woke me up. I came downstairs and...I saw what looked like a ball of lightning,"

Dr. Wells grabbed Clara's hand as she stiffened.

"Inside the lightning, there was a man. He killed my mom. They arrested my dad. He's still sitting in Iron Heights for her murder. Everyone, the cops, the shrinks, they all told me what I saw was impossible. But what if the man who killed my mom was like me?"

Dr. Wells squeezed Clara's hand from speaking, discreetly shaking his head. "Well, I think I can say unequivocally You are one of a kind,"