ALL THE KING'S MEN | BARRY ALLEN

06. WILDEST DREAMS

❛ chapter six! ❜

six | wildest dreams—taylor swift

       I stand with my arms folded and with my eyes staring into nothingness when Barry tells everyone how he went back in time and created a new timeline. He's done it so many times that he almost sounds like a broken record. The reason for him to be telling this to everyone is that Professor Stein and Jax found a message from the future, forty years from now and it was sent by none other than Barry Allen from the future. Message in which the mention of a war and not trusting anyone, not even himself, is clear and makes me and pretty much everyone realize that we've just touched the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding Flashpoint, the changes in the timeline are bigger and worse than we had thought.

       Barry even gives details on who has been noticeably affected by the paradox; Cisco, Caitlin, Wally, Dig. That's when everything goes out of control. Like Oliver said, this wasn't the right time to tell everyone about the message from the future. The slightly heated argument is interrupted when Felicity informs us that the Dominators have abducted the President and we seem to get back to business, kind of.

       "I'm gonna sit this one out," says Barry, his words taking me by surprise, "you have Supergirl and Violett, they're as fast as I am, get the President, we're gonna talk about this later," he gushes. I feel my stomach roll when I see almost everyone walking off as if nothing's happening, I can't believe they are actually leaving without saying a word, leaving the guy basically unheeded.

       "You still trust me, right?" I hear Barry ask to Kara when I get closer, still trying to keep myself together and tell everyone that we have to leave this behind for a little while, we have to be together for the sake of innocent people; Barry then looks at me, he doesn't need to ask me, for I trust him as much as Kara does, "If you need me, I'll be there."

       "The lives of innocent people are at stake, Barry," I say, "you can't stay here just because they're mad at you," he lowers his head, "you must come with us. We need you."

       "This is crazy!" Oliver's voice booms across the hangar, reverberating every so often and making everyone look over their shoulders at him, "Everyone's going, including Barry! I'm not going without him," his voice gradually becoming softer, clinging onto the speck of hope that maybe they will let him come with us, but—incredibly—they don't. Eventually we leave without Barry and Oliver. I go with the rest, not happy at all; they're supposed to protect people, but they refuse to work as a team when people most need them just because they're mad at each other. That's not how it should work and I'm growing tired of all this fighting each other thing they have going on, it's all they've been doing in the past hours.

       I walk in silence behind Firestorm as we walk on the moist soil, its smell coalescing with the pine trees scent behind us. We finally reach the last place the President's tracer signal was caught. We stop dead on our tracks when we reach the building that looks like a factory of some sort, Cisco said something about it being a salt mine.