Believe in the Impossible ϟ The Flash

Chapter 17: Time of the Rogues

"Are you sure are okay?" I asked Barry for the third time. The silent alarm had gone off at the morgue when I was having a movie marathon with Wells and Cisco. Cisco called Barry and told him to meet me there. He seemed very disoriented when he got there.

"Hey, you two," Joe greeted us. "What's with all the water? Did the sprinkler system go off or something?" I was about to say we didn't a get to chance to check yet when Barry said he had. Barry went from weird to downright out freaky when he brought Joe and I over to the body of the coroner. We didn't have time when we were in our alter egos to look around the place because we knew the cops were close. But how did Barry know all of this?

I leaned down and pulled up the shirt of the coroner. Sure enough the bruises Barry said were there, were. I raised my eyebrows at him as I turned away from the body. Barry looked around bewildered.

"Bar, how did you know that?" I asked before leaning in. "We didn't even have a chance to check him ea-"

"He was killed by hail," Barry continued to ignore me. "We have to listen to the recording."

Before I could ask him what he meant, Eddie came up to us with a tape recorder in his hand, "Joe, we got something. The coroner's office just installed an automated dictation system. Listen to this." As we listened to the tape, Barry rubbed his face with his hands.

"It's Mark Mardon. He wants revenge," Barry told us before Joe could say who it was. Now I was officially freaking out.

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"So Clyde Mardon has a brother?"

"And he's cute?" I questioned.

Wells ignored my comment and continued, "Both brothers survived the plane crash, and then the dark matter released from the particle accelerator explosion affects them both in virtually the same way." Barry muttered the last few words along with Wells, surprising everyone. Wells and I exchanged a look of concern. I sent him a text earlier saying to keep an eye on Barry when we came by with the case, telling him he was acting strange.

Barry continued, "Only Mark's not like Clyde at all. He can do things that you couldn't even imagine."

"You mean he's sort of like a...," Cisco started, but Barry joined in. "Weather wizard?" Cisco agreed before taking a huge sip of slurpee. He winced in pain.

"Trigeminal headache?" Caitlin and Barry said in unison.

"Barry," I started as Wells gave me a look. "Can Wells and I talk to you for a quick second?"

I could barely close the door in time to the treadmill room when Wells said, "You ruptured the time continuum, didn't you? You're experiencing temporal reversion."

Barry agreed before I asked him how long, "Uh, a day and some change. It's like I'm living it all over again."

"So probably haven't stepped on too many butterflies then," I sighed as I went to sit down on the treadmill. "Please tell how the hell you managed to become a human DeLorean?"

"I...I don't know," Barry spoke quickly, even for him. "I mean, I was running faster than I've ever ran, and the first time that I lived this day some really horrible things happened. There was a tidal wave and..."

Wells held up his hand to stop him, "No. Do not tell us. We do not want to know anything about the future you experienced. Nothing! Barry. Time...is an extremely fragile construct. Any deviation, no matter how small, could result in a cataclysm. Now here's what you're going to do. Everything you did before. Every word you uttered, every step you took, you're going to do again. And you're not going to tell anyone this happened." Barry sighed as he sat down next to me. Wells left the room.