Thirty One

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Caitlin came in the next morning with the events of the night before. She kept going over the whole thing. Even though she didn't remember anything from before, she still couldn't get the idea of Julian and her being together. Was she in love with him? Deep in thought, she didn't see Barry approach from ahead and she collided with him. 

She watched him as he asked her something but she wasn't paying attention. She didn't know what was wrong with she but all she could think about was what Julian has asked her. "Why do you trust him so much?" Was it possible that there was something more between them then just friendship? No that can't be true. Barry was with Iris and they were happy.

"Hey Caitlin, you listening to me?" Asked Barry. Caitlin realised that he was holding her shoulders and he stood close to her. 

"Yeah, just trying to see if anything new to remember. So has Cisco come up with something?" She asked quickly changing the topic. 

"Well, nothing with Cisco but Joe may have something for us." 

Barry and Caitlin made their way to the cortex where Joe, HR, Cisco and to Caitlin surprise Julian stood waiting from them. Caitlin notice Julian look away when he saw her with Barry. Was he jealous?

"We have tried to locate Amanda but it looks like she has just followen off the face of this earth. We can't find anything on her of any alias that we know that she had. Either Jules and John nas a plan for her when she broke out or we are dealing with a much larger group," filled in Joe. 

"Felecity sent over classifed documents, which I don't think Joe would like, but the scientists that we thought was working with them... Isn't our forth member. They found their body near Starking City, Oliver sent me the pics and we are back to square one," said Cisco. 

"Seriously we are back to square one. We don't have anything and they continue to work on their plans to do whatever," spoke up Julian. "So what are we going to do next." 

Barry knelt down where he stood and tried to clear his mind. Getting up he left without saying anything. Caitlin and Iris saw the pain, anger and frustration on his face. Both motioned to follow him.

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Barry sat in the quiet as frustration rose inside him. He didn't know what to do when he heard footsteps. Slowly turning and looking up, he saw a figure standing at the door. She came closer and sat down next to him. 

"I don't know what to do. I have the ability of great speed and yet still I feel the slowest and most powerless person in the world. It feels like all is closing  in on us and I have nothing. I can't save people I love. Savitar was bad enough and now this. It's all my fault, Julian is right. I was selfish and this is all my fault. I wish that one day I wake up and this all is just a horrible nightmare. Feels like decades ago when my biggest worry was being on time for work. May I'm destined to fail," said Barry. 

"Nothing is written in stone. We control what we want to happen and there is no problem that doesn't have a solution. Yeah maybe at that time it's not the answer you want or even an answer you like but it's the best option," answered Caitlin. 

"Even though you don't remember it all but do you believe in destiny?" Asked Barry. 

Caitlin star there thinking for a few seconds before answering. "You make your own destiny. There is a reason why you get what you get. You getting your ability for great speed isn't easy but it's you made it your destiny when you chose to use it to save this city. You are a hero not because you do around saving people... No... It's because you make that hard decisions. You are human and no one expects you to have the answers all the time," answered Caitlin. 

"Than why do I feel like a failure, why do I feel like that everything  is happening and I can't do anything ?" 

"You just need to step back and look at the picture or problem in a different way. Sometimes the most important thing is right in front of you and you don't realise it," sHe said. 

From outside, Julian and Iris stood watching them talk. Jealousy was obvious on Julian's face as he watched Cailtin and Barry. Iris one the other hand was hurt seeing this but was happy that Barry still had someone to give him the pep talk that he needed. 

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"We have been looking it in the wrong way, the scientists was the one that helped them becasue they aren't that smart to figure all this out themselves. Something  went wrong," said Barry. 

"How can you be sure?" Asked HR.

"I had Felecity look into her background and she was receiving money on the same date every week. This wasn't a plan that was just thrown together, it is a well thought out thing. They have done their research and we need to be careful," added Cisco. 

"This ridiculous, we know what they are capable of yet we don't know their plans. We don't even know what they are planning to do with all that equipment and material," said Joe in frustration. 

Through this all, Caitlin stood there watching Julian who was silent. She could see that this all was just making him even more mad. He hated just standing around having discussions while not being actually able to do anything. 

She turned to Barry who was also deep in thought. He was processing everything that was happening and she still saw that frustration on his face. Looking around she saw everyone's face had that frustration. 

This was team Flash... At their lowest point from the looks of it...

"Guys, I know this isn't the best time to ask you all to relax. But from what I have heard, this is Tram Flash. They can do whatever no matter how big the issue. We are going to get through this, together. We just need to have faith in each other," said Caitlin. "I believe in you all, for what's it worth." 

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