The Streak Lives - The Flash [Iris' POV]

Chapter 1

     It was a beautiful December day. My best friend, Barry Allen, had just gotten back from Starling City, so I was on my way to see him. Me and Barry planned to go watch the S.T.A.R. Labs partical accelerator thingy turn online tonight.

     My name is Iris West. I live in Central City, working as a barista at a coffee shoppe called Jitters. My dad, Joe, is a police officer at the Central City Police Department. My mother, well. . I never really knew her. She died when I was little, and I don't remember her.

     But I was happy growing up, because I had Barry.

     We had adopted Barry fourteen years ago. His father killed his mom when he was eleven. Barry, though, wouldn't believe that. He told me he saw lighting in his house when his mom was murdered, and that there was a man inside of it. I wanted to believe it, but I couldn't, my dad told him it was just his imagination helping him to accept what his father did to his mom, Nora Allen.

     But Barry and I weren't exactly like brother and sister. But best friends.

     "Alright," I said, entering Barry's work lab. "I'm ready to see this atom smasher. . smashing."

     "There was a shooting today." Barry said. "Your dad needs me to process some evidence - which means I don't know if we're gonna make it to S.T.A.R. Labs."

     "But seeing this thing turn on is like your dream. Your sad, little nerdy dream. Besides - I cancelled a date for this." I said, eating one of Barry's fries from Big Belly Burger.

     "Hands off my fries!" He said. "Unbelievable!"

     "I am stress eating over my dissertation! We started selling cronuts at Jitters - I ate two of them today. If I don't graduate soon, I'll be more muffin top than woman."

     "You look amazing" He said, and I rolled my eyes.

     "What's so special about this 'partical accelerator' anyway?" I asked him.

     Barry's face lit up. "Harrison Wells' work in quantum theory is light years ahead of anything they're doing at Cern-"

     "You're doing that thing when you're not speaking English."
     Barry had a knack for making absolutely no sense at all when it came to this kind of stuff.

     "Okay," Barry said, picking up a dry-erase marker and going over to his board. "Just imagine that that dot," he drew a small dot "is everything the human race has ever learned until this moment."

     "Does that include twerking?"

     He drew a large circle around the small dot.

     "That - is everything we could learn from the partical accelerator - it's a whole new way of looking at physics! It will literally change the way we think about everything!"

     I smiled. "You've gotta get yourself a girlfriend."

     "Hey, leave him alone, he's working." Came my Dad's voice from behind.

     "Hi, Dad." I smiled.

     I whirled around as I heard a small beep from behind.

     "Ah, your test thingy's done."

     "Ah." Barry said walking over to his computer. "I think the Mardon brothers are hiding on a farm. The fecal matter I found on the street, it was cow manure, which contained traces of oxytetracycline. It's an antibiotic. There are only four farms in the area that still use it in their feed. Bet you find a really sweet Shelby parked at one of them."