Short on Time

Chapter 63

"I feel fine," Wally argued as Caitlin and I fussed over him.

"So now Savitar's mind-punking you. Oh, boy, this never stops never stopping," Cisco said.

"How long has this been going on, Wally?" Barry asked.

"Like a week," Wally answered.

"A week? Excuse me?" I asked with my hands on my hips. "You know you should tell us if you're seeing things."

"Wally, why didn't you say anything before?" Barry asked.

"Because I didn't know what this was. I thought that this was just maybe in my head. You know, I wasn't looking at it like I was keeping it to myself," Wally said and I softened a little bit.

"That's exactly what you did, though, Wally. You did keep it to yourself, and with Savitar, that's not something we can do. This is Ginger's life we're talking about," Barry said.

"Yes, I know that," Wally said.

"Do you, though, Wally?" Barry demanded.

"Okay, let up on the kid," I told Barry pointedly. I've learned from expieirience that people don't want to talk about these things because they'll be viewed as crazy, and when they find out it was wrong to not tell anybody, well reprimanding them just won't help.

"Until now, you only saw him, right?" Jesse asked.

"Yeah, this was the first time it was physical," Wally said.

"What he wasn't there! Okay? You weren't fighting him. He was messing with your head. It was all in your mind," Barry said.

I grabbed Barry's arm, "cool it."

"I've been there. Done that. It's miserable," Julian said.

"Okay, why don't I run a brain scan on Wally, see if he was similarly affected to when Julian was possessed?" Caitlin suggested.

"Yeah, that's fine. Why don't we do that? Wally shouldn't be in here anyway," Barry said.

"What?" Wally asked offended.

"Barry, he knows he messed up," Joe pointed out to Barry. 

"That's not what this is about, okay? Look, it's if Savitar's using Wally the same way he used Julian, how do we know he's not spying on us through Wally right now? Wally, we don't know how this works.How do we know he can't see and hear everything we're doing?" Barry said. "Look, you're out.""I'm out?" Wally asked again.

"I'm sorry, Wally," Barry said.

"Yeah, you don't sound real sorry," Wally said.

"All right, fellows, let's take a quick ten. We're all still the "Four Amigos" here, right?" HR asked, and we all gave him a look. "What? You don't have that movie on this Earth?"

"I'll go talk to him," Jesse said. 

"Yeah, talk some sense into him," Barry said. But it seemed like they both needed that talk.

"All right," Joe said in a warning tone to Barry.

"So what now?" Caitlin asked.

"Well, we know from the future that Savitar gets out of wherever he is, but for now, he's still trapped, so I need to talk to him again," Barry said looking at Julian.

"No, I knew you were thinking this. All right? And I won't do it. I'm not gonna be your personal walkie-talkie to him," Julian said and I didn't blame him.

"Guys, we can't. We don't have the Stone," Caitlin pointed out.

"Actually, we can. We still have Savitar's spatial frequency from when we plugged in Linda Blair here, so I think we could work without the Stone," Cisco said.