Sweet Sister | Barry Allen [ 1 ]

Chapter 16

Barry

This was it.

We were finally going to earth-2 to end this all and to get Harry's daughter back. I ran around the city closing each breach that I found wanting everything to go according to plan. This was going to work, it had to. I ran trying to distract myself from what I was really feeling.

I let myself feel again after so long, I had let myself fall for someone. And in the end just like always I ended up being hurt. It felt like this always happened the one time I let myself actually care about someone, something always happened that showed us it wasn't the right time.

But now, I had something else that I needed to worry about. It wasn't like before when I had no powers. I couldn't just keep trying now there was a reason why it couldn't work out. Now it was dangerous for me to care about someone.

But I can't think about Lana now. I needed to put all of my attention to this and nothing else. I couldn't let myself fall out of focus because if we make one mistake it could all end badly.

Although I needed to take care of some things before I left for earth-2. If anything did go wrong I wanted to have left on a good note with some.

"You know you haven't made lasagna since I left to college" I say

Joe, Iris and I sat at the dinner table as we talked about me leaving for earth-2. I could tell Joe didn't want me to go, he was afraid I wouldn't make it back. But I knew if I didn't then earth 2 was doomed. No one else would risk their lives to help.

"Well college is a heck of a lot closer than another earth" joe says "hey did you tell Henry"

I look at him and shake my head, "No, look if he knew he would just try and talk me out of it and he probably would." I tell him

"Dad, can you give us a minute" Iris says looking between us

Joe stands from the table and heads out of the room leaving Iris and I alone.

"Look Iris, I know that this is... nuts, is the only word I can think of right now but it's not like I've never done anything dangerous before" I say sitting up and looking at her trying to make her worry less

I could hear her take a deep breath before she spoke, "Look, I get why you are doing this, innocent people are in danger. That's always been the direction that you run even when you run a little bit slower. I just want to make sure that you are not doing this because you think you don't have anything left here anymore" she says smiling

I grew quiet realizing what she was saying. Iris was my best friend. She knew me better than anyone. And she had just told me what I had been thinking. Sure I was pushing myself a little harder to distract me but it was still better than doing nothing. This way I was helping even more people.

"This isn't about Lana '' I tell her "it's not, of course I wonder what could have been but I know what I have here. I love my life, I love my job, being the flash, I love you and Joe. I'm not trying to escape. Besides, I can wait for her until she's ready. I think we both aren't ready right now. She has her own things she needs to figure out with her family and i have this" I say

Which was not a lie. When she told me we were better off as friends I knew there was something she was holding back also. I knew she didn't completely trust me and why should she when I couldn't tell her my one secret.

By the time we arrived at STAR labs I could tell most people were nervous. I took a deep breath wanting this to go smoothly. I didn't want things to get worse.

This was it.

We all walked into the room holding the last breach to earth-2.

"Alright Barry listen to me, you're about to go through the looking glass. You're gonna see things that look and feel familiar but they're not," Jay says "up is down, black is white and do not let yourself get sucked in emotionally. Good luck!"