The Flash: Lost...

Chapter XIII

She doesn't know how long she held him like this, but the sobbing and whimpering had died down.
It broke her heart to see him like that, but letting it all out was usually a relief.
His breathing had evened out so she figured he had fallen asleep.
But when she looked down at him his eyes were wide open, staring in to nothing.
For a second she was afraid that whatever/whoever he kept hearing inside his head had gotten the better of him.
Then he started to speak.

 "I told you that when I was eleven my mother was murdered. And that my dad went to prison for it."

"Yes" She answers.

 "He didn't do it. There was lightning inside my house. Inside the lightning I saw a man, he killed my mom."

He sits up, untangles himself from her grip and takes her hands in his.

 "Nobody believed me. I was sent to shrinks, everyone thought I was crazy, or trying to cover for my dad."

"But... The man in yellow, he was like you?" She asks

 "Yes." He answers.

"How is that even possible? We didn't get all these Metahumans until after the particle accelerator explosion."

 He gives her a small smile "I'll get to that."

"Sorry...' She whispers "Go on."

"Well, all my life I wanted to prove to the world that I was right, that there was something unexplainable inside our house that night and that my dad was innocent. It's one of the main reasons I became a forensic scientist."
He looks down at their hands.
"I looked in to unexplained cases, hoping I would find what I was looking for. But I never did. Until that particle accelerator explosion."

 She chuckles "Yeah...that made the world a lot more...interesting."

She looks up at him, "I got my powers because I was close to one of the biggest magnets on the planet, I'm guessing you got them when you got hit by that lightning."
He looks up, surprised.

"I read up about you, remember?" She smiles

"Oh yeah", he replies sheepishly

"Yes, well in those 9 months I was in a coma, I was transferred to S.T.A.R. Labs where Dr..." He swallows and starts shivering.
Wenn starts rubbing his hands, using her powers just a little to make him feel more at ease.
 He takes a deep breath and continues.
 "Dr. Harisson Wells and his team nursed met back to health.

After I discovered my speed, they helped me keep the city safe and track and trap other Metahumans. Joe knew about my powers and now believed my story about my moms murder.

He reopened the case and over the next months he and Cisco, one of my friends form S.T.A.R. Labs, investigated different angles of the case.

They figured out that besides the man in Yellow, there was another Speedster there, fighting him. After analyzing the DNA from a blood sample they found after all that time, they figured out who the second speedster was..."

He looks up at her.

"It was me..."