In A Matter Of Seconds [Under Editing]

Chapter 40

"Rathaway posseses one of the finest scientific minds I''ve ever encountered."Joe looked at Dr. Wells.

"Any ties to Rathaway Industries?"

"His grandfather founded it. His father expanded it. Hartley was set to inherit the throne." Emely stared at his picture.

"What happened?"

"He came out to his parents. Old money, old values." Emely raised her eyebrows.

"They were estranged when we met, but brilliant. I couldn't have built the accelerator without him." 

"You guys have never even mentioned his name." 

"That's because Hartley had a challenging personality." Emely was confused.

"What do you mean?" 

"What she means is that he was mostly a jerk, but every once in a while he could be a dick." Emely giggled.

"Let's just say that Hartley, like many outliers, had trouble relating to his peers." Cailtin looked at Dr. Wells.

"Yes, but he was always your favorite."

"The chosen one." Cisco looked at Dr. Wells, "He referred to himself like that."

"So if you two were close, why would he target you?" 

"Hartley left S.T.A.R Labs about a year after we had a disagreement." 

"Another break-up." Emely muttered. 

"About what?" Dr. Wells was quiet.

"Look. Don't worry. We'll stop him." Emely looked at Barry.

"I won't let him hurt you. Any of you." Barry looked at everyone, then at Emely and smiled softly.

"Let's get back to my lab." 

***

At Barry's lab, Barry had a fork and a wine glass. 

"Everything has a natural frequency." He tapped the fork against the glass. 

"Since sound is expressed as a vribration, if the pitch of the sound matches the natural vibration frequency of an object, then-" 

Barry made a high pitched sound from a machine which broke the wine glass. 

"So you're saying that can happen to anything, not just glass?" Barry nodded

"Oh yeah. I think that's absolutely what happened to the windows at Wells' house. He's using some type of sonic technology." 

"I'm getting the feeling that Wells is hiding something. About this Rathaway character." Emely shrugged.

"I mean, it sounds like Hartley was a pill before he went all supervillian, so I get why he never mentioned him." 

"Just like he never mentioned his girlfriend who got killed?" Emely looked at Barry

"No. How do you know about her?" 

"He's taken up a big part of our lives. I wanted to know more about him." 

"Well, if you wanted to know more about him, you could've just asked me." Emely shook her head.

"I feel like you don't know him as much as you think, Barry." Before Barry could reply, Eddie came walking in.

"Joe, Emely. Multiple 911 calls. Rathaway Industries is under attack. Sector cars en route." Emely kissed Barry goodbye before heading out with Joe and Eddie.