A Forbidden Love (The Flash- Harrison Wells Fanfiction)

Chapter Three

After Mardon, Barry decided he still wanted to play hero. I was a little worried at first, but I knew Barry could take care of himself. So here we are a week later, and Barry was rushing to help people out of a fire in a building on Western and 3rd in Downtown Central City. He was going 352 miles an hour, which was way faster than he was last week.

I was in the lab with Cisco as he talked Barry through all of this. "Barry?" Cisco said. "Barry!" I couldn't hear what Barry was saying because he was only connected to Cisco. "You overshot by six blocks."

Caitlin walked in just then. "What are you doing?" she asked.

"Nothing," Cisco and I said simultaneously.

"Are you talking to Barry?" she asked Cisco.

"Who?"

"Barry Allen. Struck by lightening? Was in a coma for nine months? Woke up being able to run faster than the speed of sound? Ring a bell?"

"No," Cisco said. "Haven't talked to him."

Barry was talking to Cisco but I couldn't make out what he was saying. Caitlin took Cisco's headset. "Barry, it's Caitlin. Get back to S.T.A.R. Labs. Now."

Barry showed up in a flash.

"Have you both lost your minds?" Caitlin scolded them. I, for one, was glad she didn't include me in this. "Who do you think you are?"

"Well, I'm the eyes and ears, and he's the feet," Cisco joked.

"This isn't funny," Caitlin said. She looked at me. "You should know better than to let these two morons do something so reckless!" She turned to Barry. "And you. You could have gotten yourself killed. You can't be running around the city like some supersonic fireman."

"Why not?" Barry asked. "This is what we talked about: Me using my speed to do good."

Caitlin sighed. "We talked about you helping us contain other people who might have been affected by the particle accelerator explosion. Meta-humans. And aside from Clyde Mardon, we haven't found any."

"People in this city still need help," Barry argued. "And I can help them. We can help them." Caitlin stayed silent. "Will you please say something?"

Harrison had been at the back of the room for quite some time, but he had stayed silent until now. "I think what Caitlin is trying to say, in her own spectacularly angry way, is that we are just beginning to understand what your body is capable of. Not to sound like a broken record, Mister Allen... I do caution restraint."

"Doctor Wells," Barry said, "I doubt restraint is how you got to be the man you are today."

"In a wheelchair and a pariah. Lack of restraint is what made me these things. Know your limits. Don't expect me to patch you up every time you break something."

Cisco spoke up, trying to break the tension between Harrison and Barry. "Hey, uh, anything happen out there today? The sensors in the suit were kicking back some weird telemetry, like your vitals spiked for a fee seconds.

"Never felt better," Barry replied. I could tell he was hiding something but I didn't want to press further. Barry's phone rang. He sighed before answering it. "Hey, Joe, everything alright?" Joe said something on the other line. "I'll be right there," Barry replied. He turned to everybody. "My day job beckons."

Barry left, still wearing his speed suit. "When do you think he'll realize he didn't take his clothes?" I asked after he'd sped off.

Later that day, I was gonna order a pizza because I was starting to get hungry but Harrison came in and stopped me from doing so. "Why don't you and I go out tonight?" he asked.