There Are Two Speedsters?! [The Flash] [Discontinued]

Riley

After saying goodbye to Roy, I sit at my bay window and watch the cars past by as the moon shines brightly.

This year has been really hard for me, from my mom dying to the S.T.A.R. Labs explosion to getting powers to having a breakdown on multiple occasions to having to spend Christmas without a family. 

I hope Barry's doing alright without his partner in crime.

Then all of a sudden, I see two red and yellow lighting streaks flash all across the streets.

"What?" I ask myself, shooting up from my seat and straight to my suit.

In a blink of an eye, I'm in my suit and chasing after Barry and who knows what.

I press my com to talk to Barry, "What's going, Barry?"

Nothing.

"Barry?"

Nothing. He must not have his suit on.

Barry takes a sharp turn into a football stadium, and I follow, he takes a stop and runs up to what looks like...another speedster?!

Barry gets thrown off and the man says in a distorted voice, "Not fast enough, Flash."

"Who are you?!" I ask, running up to Barry to see if he's okay.

Before I can get an answer the man speeds off and Barry and I chase after him around the stadium seats. We go around several times before I feel a hand on my neck and I'm being thrown to the freshly cut grass.

I try to get up, but I am kicked down by the man in the yellow.

"Who are you?" Barry asks, wiping blood off of him face.

"You know who I am, Barry," the man explains and then turns to me. "And so do you, Riley Miller."

Barry and I run up to the man and I throw a few punches and kicks before I'm thrown down again.

"I don't know who you are," Barry states, trying to get up once again.

"But you do, Barry and Riley. We've been at this along time," the man informs, making me furrow my eyebrows. "But I'm always one step ahead." Barry gets up and tries to punch the yellow man, but is pinned down, "It is your destiny to lose to me, Flash and Bolt. Just as it was your mother's destiny to die that night, as well as her father."

My eyes widen, my father? My father killed himself when I was ten, how is my father involved in this?

Before I could say anything to the new speedster, he speeds out of the football stadium and to God knows where.

---

"The tachyon device is in place," Cisco explains, showing us the camera pointed to the Mercury Labs device device.

"You think it'll work?" Barry asks.

Cisco nods, "It'll work."

"So how do we advertise to him that the prototype's here?" I question, looking at Barry and Dr. Wells.

"We'll take care of that," Dr. Wells explains, looking at Detective West with a look of concern.

"What's the problem?" Barry snaps at the two.

"Look, Barry..." Joe trails off. "...me and Dr. Wells have spoken...and we think that it's best if you weren't here for this."

"What're you talking about?"

"You're too close to this," Joe explains.

"Maybe you're not close enough," Barry growls. "If you hadn't been too scared and warned us weeks ago, we could've prepared for this."

"I think we can all appreciate Joe's concern for Iris, Barry," Dr. Wells defends.

"That's why I have to be here," Barry snaps in a raised voice. "The two of us are the best way at catching him is if the two of us are there."

"Neither of you are going to be there," Joe mumbles, loud enough for me to hear.

"What?" I ask, appalled. "Why can't I be there? I can do this."

"But what the man said--"

"My father was not murdered like Barry's mom was! He killed himself! He killed himself because he hated me, he hated his wife, he hated his friends, he hated living!" I shout, causing everyone to stare at me in shock.

"I'm sorry Riley, but--" Joe tries to say.

"Right," I interrupt him with a scoff. "Good luck."

I storm out of S.T.A.R. Labs and go running around the city.

---

I unlock my apartment door and slam it shut in anger and sadness, I take a deep breath before I start to scream and threw a chair across the room.

Why did they have to bring up my dad? It was bad enough when Barry tried to give me that picture frame.

Before I can break anything else, my phone starts to ring. I wipe any tears on my face and I press the answer button.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Riley, it's Felicity," Felicity states through the phone.

"Hey, Felicity," I greet, trying to sound okay. "How have you been?"

"Good," Felicity responds. "Listen, you know how a while ago, you asked me to look more into your dad's suicide case?"

Oh, the irony of this phone call.

"Yeah, but you told me the exact same thing the police did," I explain.

"Well...I was wrong," Felicity confesses. "Ever since you came back, I couldn't get your dad's case out of my head and I found out something..."

"What is it?" I ask anxiously.

"The police told you and your mom that your dad hung himself in the living room when you guys went shopping, but according to the data I've collected, his neck was already broken before he allegedly hung himself. Police said the note was written around six thirty pm, which meant he hung himself after he had written the note. But the autopsy says he died around five forty, how could he have written a suicide not when he had already hung himself?" Felicity asks. "So I did some more digging, the way your father's neck was broken couldn't have been done by a noose but by someone's bare hands and a whole lot of speed like you and Barry's. And then I did even more digging, and I found out that the day of Nora Allen's murder was two hours after your dad's suicide. So, it's very much possible that you're father didn't commit suicide, but someone staged it as one and then the killer went after Barry's mom."

"Oh, my god," I sob, sitting on my wooden floor with my back leaning on the wall. "For years, I thought my dad didn't love me and he killed himself because of me."

"I'm so sorry, Riley," Felicity says with sympathy clear in her voice. 

"Thank you for telling me, can you please not tell anyone yet?" I ask. "I'm not ready for anyone else to know."

"Absolutely."

"Bye, Felicity," I say, holding in a sob.

"Bye, Riley."

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Now you know what happened to Riley's dad, I was waiting as long as I could to explain what happened to her father. I hope you liked it!

Next chapter will be up soon!

This is CC, over and out.