Another Speedster//Barry Allen

Who Was Really There That Night?

Barry and I walked into his lab,with coffee cups that we had picked up from Jitters,and Joe was there staring at the tv screen in front him. He rang Barry and I,countless times but it seems we were both to wrapped up in our conversation to even notice.

"Hey" Barry said,as we approached Joe.

"I left you two three messages" Joe replied,without even greeting us.

"I know,I'm sorry" Barry apologised.

"So am I"

"For the lack of communication,or that hole out in the badlands" Joe said,sounding slightly enraged.

"We are all fine,thanks" Barry chuckled,as Joe looked worried.

"I wasn't calling about the explosion. I have to show the two of you something" Joe grabbed his jacket from the chair.

"What?" Barry asked confused,as we all left the lab.

What is so important Joe can't tell us here?

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Joe drove myself and Barry,to some house. It was in a nice area,kind of reminds me of Joes place. But I have a feeling this has some connection with Barry as he's looking around if he's having a flashback of some kind.

We walked in,and Joe shut the door behind us.

"It's smaller than I remember" Barry spoke,sounding like he was losing himself.

"Yeah. Have you been in here?" Joe asked,as he wandered in front of us. I'm still lost on what sort of connection this place has to Barry. Maybe I'm just being stupid. "I mean recently. Maybe you Sam?"

"I don't even know what's going on" I said to Joe,looking around the home to see if I could understand.

"No. I haven't been in this house since that night" Barry continued scanning the house. "This is my old home Sam. Where he killed my mother"

No wonder Barry and Joe have been so closed off since we entered. All those horrific memories of that night must be flowing back.

"Bar. Sam." Joe walked up to some glowing machine,and put his keys down. "This mirror. You remember it?"

"Yeah. It belonged to my grandma. How is it still here?" Barry questioned,laying his hands onto the antique.

"Just be glad it is. Look. I don't fully know how Cisco did it, but.." Joe was cut off by a very intrigued Barry.

"Do what? Joe. What are we doing here?"

Joe gestured for the two of us,to come behind the machine it's him,and so we did. He pressed a button on the top and I was shook.

It was a projector showing the night Barry's mother was killed. She was screaming in the middle,down on her knees. And there was lightning all around her,but that wasn't what I was focusing on. I was focusing on one of the three victims of the man in yellows rampage. Nora Allen.

"Mom." Barry said softly,staring down at his mother.

"You can definitely see three very fast people fighting around your mother."

"Three speedsters" Barry murmured.

"But I thought you only saw two?" I asked.

"Looks like I was wrong"

"You see that?" Joe said,pointing at some splatters of blood of the wall.

"The blood?"

"Cisco and I had it DNA tested. It's yours and Sams" Joe said,as if he didn't believe it himself. How is my blood going to be there when a day after my parents were killed? Barry it's reasonable,he was there in the house,but me? I'm more confused than I've even been with this case.

"No it's not. That's impossible. I wasn't even downstairs yet" Barry defended,trying to rule out Joes ridiculous claim.

"And I wasn't even here. My parents were killed the next day. I was in bed at the time this all happened"

"No Barry. Not that you,This you. Cisco had the samples analysed and the proteins in the blood were that of an adult,not a child. Same for you Sam."

"That mean.." Barry stuttered.

"Exactly. The two speedsters trying to stop the man in yellow" Joe continued.

"Is the Flash." Barry mumbled,trying to grasp the situation.

"And Bolt."

"That's us" Barry shook his head in disbelief,and I couldn't stop staring at the blood splatters on the wall. I witnessed Barry's mothers death. Not this version of me,but future me. And I failed to stop it.

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"Time travel" Dr Wells spoke,trying to grasp this theoretical idea.

"If these last five months have proven anything, its that anything can exist. But, to actually travel through time?" Barry said,questioning the theory.

Cisco, Barry, Joe and me of course were sitting across from Dr Wells in Star Labs,catching Wells up on the information we have learned about that night.

"Well, the greatest minds in human history put their collective genius into solving that puzzle." Dr Wells said,not really answering anything. Just saying.

"So. Is it possible?" Joe asked.

"Yes it's possible." Wells replied,sounding so sure. Maybe he's thought about this topic before. But something about the way he said it,sounded like he knew what he was talking about. "But problematic. Assuming,you could create the conditions necessary to take that journey, well that journey would then be front with two pitfalls, the principle of consistency,for example"

"That What now?"

"If you travel back to,change something,then you end up being the causal factor of that event." Barry explained to Joe,who really didn't understand our nerd talk.

"Like terminator." Cisco helped out,which made Joe understand a little bit more.

"Or. Is time plastic? Or mutable? Like any changes to the continuum could result in an alternate timeline."
Wells dragged on.

"Back to the future" Cisco once again helped Joe out.

"I saw that too" Joe said,proud that he understood.

"Doc Brown! tremendous picture." Dr Wells spoke. He has seen a few films,because of me and Cisco.

"Right. So, what's the answer?" Joe looked at Wells for his answer.

"I might be a clever guy Joe,but if your asking me to give you a working theory on how to travel through time,I'm sorry but I can't do that"

Something doesn't feel right about how Wells is talking,again with no emotion. No way of deciphering what he's feeling,like the time when he got Girder killed. No emotion. I need to find out what Wells is hiding,and fast.

"There is someone else you could talk to about this." Cisco said,giving a weird look.

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AN: Hello Guys! Sorry I am late with the upload. I got really held up by other We things and didn't get a chance to write. So my apologies. I hope your all like the new chapter,and finally we are getting deeper into what really went down that night! See you guys in the next authors note. Bye
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