"Barry. Barry wake up, Felicity's here." Caitlin said shaking him awake.
"Wha?? How long was I asleep?"
"A couple hours. Come on let's go." Cisco says helping him up. Cisco brought him into a separate room where Felicity was sitting. Barry sat down in the chair.
"Hey Barry."
"Hi." Barry says back, looking down.
"We'll leave you two alone." Cisco says shutting the door.
"Cisco and Caitlin said something happened but they didn't say what. Want to talk about it?" She asked sweetly.
He sniffled and looked up at her, teary-eyed.
"They didn't tell you?"
"No they didn't. What's wrong?" Her facial expression turning concerned.
"Um-" his voice cracked and he let out a quiet sob. Tears fell down his cheeks.
"Oh Barry, is it that bad?"
He nodded trying to swallow his tears. "Sorry, I uh-"
"No don't apologize. It's alright to cry. It's just me, only me. You can cry as much as you want in front of me. Start from the beginning and tell me what happened." She said putting a hand on his shoulder.
"A year ago, I went back in time to save my mom." He sniffled as tears poured out of his eyes. "But I-I didn't save her, she died in my arms." He broke into sobs. "I- she-" The sobs were racking his whole body. Felicity rubbed circles in his arm, trying to comfort him.
"Shhh, it's okay, it's okay. What happened after that." She said as his sobbing continued.
"N-no, no it's not okay." His face in a pained expression. "A couple days ago Zoom Killed him, my d-dad Felicity. He killed him in front of me as I watched in horror." He said, crying hysterically.
Felicity's mouth was hung open. No one should ever have to deal with that much darkness and pain. No one. Not ever. Especially not Barry. Self-less, kindhearted Barry. "Oh Bar." She said pulling him into a hug. His crying hadn't stopped though, in fact, it seemed to get worse.
He was crying like this for about ten minutes. "Shhhh" she said trying to ease his pain.
He was sobbing really hard, and it was starting to worry her.
He started gagging for a moment in-between sobs. "Barry you need to calm down a bit. Your going to make yourself sick." He just cried harder.
"Barry please calm down." She said after he gagged again.
"I c-can't." He was hysterically, uncontrollably sobbing. He physically couldn't stop.
He started gagging again, hard. Felicity stood up quickly to grab the garbage can. He was actually going to vomit, he was crying so hard.
The gagging turned into retching though and he threw up all over the floor. He continued to get sick, but this time in the trash can.
"Who's throwing up?!?" Joe rushed in. He realized that it was his foster son.
"Is he okay?" He asked Felicity.
"Not really." She starts, shaking her head. "He was crying so hard, he made himself sick, and now it won't stop." She said sympathetically.
"I'll get a mop." Cisco says from behind them. Joe goes to Barry's side and rubs his back.
"Wow, and I thought we were done with this for a while." He states.
Felicity gives him a confused look. "He was sick with the flu a couple days ago. Just feeling better the night Henry died. I hope he's not still sick." Joe said frowning.
When Barry's stomach stopped heaving, Joe gave him a hug. "You okay?" Barry shakes his head.
"Dude what happened?" Cisco asks when he came in with the mop.
"I got sick."
"Yeah I couldn't tell." He says sarcastically.
"He was crying so hard he started gagging. Then he started throwing up. Not really something I want to witness again. I mean not like I don't want to talk to him when he's sad, that would be rude. I mean like I don't want to-"
"Felicity we get it." Joe stopped her from rambling. "How about we get you some clean clothes?" He says helping Barry to his feet.
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Anabelle walks into the Cortex. "Hey, sorry I'm late but-"
"Nah, it's fine. We weren't really doing much anyway." Caitlin says. "I just have something to asks you..." Anabelle nods, ready for the question. "I don't have anything that says where you lived before Central City."
"Oh, um. That's kind of a long story." Caitlin looks at her, wanting Anabelle to continue.
"I'm from a different Earth."
