The Flash: Lost...

Chapter VII

Barry Flashes through the city aimlessly until he finds himself in front of Wenns apartment.
"What am I doing here?!"
He hesitates, but decides to knock.
Wenn opens the door.
She looks at him, puts her hands to her hips and teases "Barry Allen, is this gonna be a nightly routine from now one, because if it is I..."
She then notices the distressed look on his face.
"Oh god, I'm sorry, I was just... come in!" She pulls him in to her apartment and parks him on the couch.

She sits down on to the coffee table in front of him.
"Barry, what's wrong?"

"I...I'm sorry, I don't even know why I came here. I just, I..." He rakes his hands through his hair.
Wenn watches him, but doesn't say anything, waiting for him to continue.
"I don't know what to do anymore. I just want to keep them safe, I don't want anyone else to get hurt because of me. I shouldn't be here, I can't let you get close, I..."
Wenn grabs his hands. "Barry, calm down, what are you talking about?"
There is that feeling again. A tingling sensation and suddenly all the anxiety flows out of him.
"Wha..."
He looks at their hands then back up at her.
"How did you..."
Then it clicks "You're a meta!"
Wenns eyes widen, "No! I mean yes, but, oh god you weren't supposed to know yet!"
She lets go of his hands and gets up.
Barry watches as she paces the room.
"Care to share?" He asks.
"Well, cats out the bag anyway, might as well go the whole nine yards" she chuckles.
She walks over to the window and looks outside.
"I worked at Mercury labs. They wanted to rival S.T.A.R. labs particle accelerator and because of my experience at Cern, they hired me.
One day I was working on one of my experiments, particle separation using electro magnetism." She looks over her shoulder "It was one big ass magnet. There are only 5 in the world like it."
She turns back to the window.
"Suddenly everything went dark. I felt the ground vibrate and I was pulled across the lab. I slammed in to something which knocked me out."

She walks back to the couch and sits next to Barry.
"The first time I woke up I was stuck to something and I felt this searing pain, nothing like I had ever felt before. But also a strange tingly feeling, the same thing you felt when I held your hands just now."
She gives him a small smile, then continues.
" I passed out again and the second time I woke up, I was lying on the floor of my lab. I got up and walked to the door. Well 'walked', it was more like stumbling. I could barely hold myself up. I entered the adjoining lab, which was a mess. There was nobody there, but I heard noises. I turned around and literally every metal object was floating. I wanted to to run, which was almost impossible and everywhere I came, stuff made of metal would react."
She shudders at the thought of that night. Barry puts a hand over hers.
"Not much later I found out that the S.T.A.R. labs particle accelerator had exploded and I figured that my newfound attraction with metal had something to do with that."
She looks at Barry and chuckles "That explosion basically turned me in to Magneto."
Barry blinks, then states "You can manipulate metal"
"Among other things. I can sense and manipulate anything that emanates electricity, kinetic energy or is magnetized."
He stares at her. Besides himself, Bett and Firestorm there is not one Meta he's encountered that isn't hell-bound on destroying the city. He sometimes thought about that, figuring that there had to be more 'good' metahumans.
Wenn looks at him processing what she just told him. She's not sure about what his reaction will be.
"That is an amazing ability!" Barry replies
Wenn chuckles again, "Yeah, once I got a handle on it. I locked myself in my apartment for months after I accidentally sent a kitchen knife flying through a restaurant, almost killing a man."
Barry chuckles "Yeah, that would have me running for the hills as well"
"Yeah..." Wenn sighs, gets up and walks back to the window
"Speaking of running..."
"What about it?" but as soon as the words leave his mouth, his brain makes the connection; She can sense anything that emanates electricity, kinetic energy or is magnetized...
She turns around and looks at him.

"Barry, I know you're the Flash."