Episode 20 - Flash Fanfiction - A Snowy Flashmas

Chapter 2

"Are you sure your last name is West?" Joe asked Wally as he, Barry and Wally sat on the lounge in the living room.

"Yeah, man. Are you saying I don't know who I am?"" Wally asked, annoyed

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend, but you can understand how much of a surprise this is to me. Tell me about your mother." Joe said, trying to make sense of the conversation.

"My mother passed away just recently and I was given this letter." Wally said as he took the letter from his pocket and gave it to Joe. Joe read the letter, a few tears formed in his eyes.

"Hey, Joe. I'm going to give the two of you some space!" Barry said, as he stood and went to leave like a non-speedster.

"Barry..." Joe began, but he knew that this kid in front of him was truly his biological son. So he let Barry give them some space.

Barry arrived at STAR Labs.

Cisco, Harry and Astrid were not there, but he found Caitlin quietly going over some blood work in her medical bay. "Where is everyone?" Barry asked her, nervously.

He startled Caitlin, making her drop an empty glass beaker onto the floor. "Barry, don't you ever knock?" she snapped.

"I'm sorry, Caitlin, let me help you clean that up." Barry said. Within a moment he had cleaned up the mess before she could refuse.

"Thanks, Barry and to answer your question, Cisco and Harry have gone down town to organize the toy donations and Astrid is in a board meeting." She said as she got back to work, to avoid giving him any eye contact.

"So, Joe has a son, we never knew about. He just turned up at the house two hours ago and claimed that his name was Wally West." Barry said, knowing that she was doing her best to ignore him.

"That's nice, Barry." Caitlin said half-heartedly.

"Caitlin, is this how it's going to be between the two of us?" Barry asked her, "you ignoring me unless it's work related?"

"Barry... You don't understand, I was actually married and..."

"Caitlin, Ronnie would want you to be happy. You know that!" Barry said.

"Well, maybe it's not about what he would want. I feel guilty every time I'm around you. After Astrid awoke from her coma she had me watch over you. You have been my project for almost a year now, and at first I might have been protecting you because I felt that I couldn't protect Ronnie... but then you became the Flash and I was protecting you, not because of Ronnie, but because you were Barry Allen. But then Ronnie came back. I had him back in my life, and you were still there, and every time I have tried to push these feelings away, I can't. It's not right! You have always been amazing, Barry. You even organized and initiated my wedding! And then every time you get hurt, I wonder if this could be the last time that I will see you... and I don't want that. But at the same time, I'm reminded that I'm cheating on the memory of Ronnie... So, that is why..." Caitlin's words were interrupted by Barry kissing her. She had said everything that he had wanted to hear from her.

She let herself give in to the moment for a brief minute, but then she pulled away and made her way towards the elevator doors, which opened before her. Astrid was standing there.

She immediately noticed the awkward tension. "Caitlin. Are you okay?" she asked looking over at Barry.
"Astrid, I'm fine!" Caitlin snapped, "You're meeting ran a little late."

"You're angry that my meeting ran late?" Astrid asked, slightly confused.

"Yes, I mean no... Just..." Caitlin stammered.

"Just if you had been here sooner, you could have stopped me from making a big mistake..." Barry said. He left before Astrid could ask him 'what mistake?'

"Caitlin, what just happened? What mistake was he talking about?" she was tempted to read the girl's mind.

"Barry kissed me." Caitlin said.

"Oh my god!" Astrid said excitedly, but when she noticed Caitlin's expression, she changed her tone, "Was it an unprovoked kiss? Or a... provoked kiss?"

Caitlin turned away and marched towards her medical bay as she said, "Entirely unprovoked!"

"Caitlin, I don't need to read your mind to know that you're lying!" Astrid said.

"Okay, I might have... told him how I feel..."

"In what words?" Astrid asked with a smile.

"I told him I liked him for being Barry Allen... and just how long I've been hiding these feelings for."

"Aww Caitlin! This is so exciting! We should all double date some time!" Astrid said with a hint of excitement for her friends.

Before Caitlin could argue, they were interrupted by Cisco and Harry entering via a breach in the middle of the cortex.

"I was right when I called you an over-grown man child. Can't you just shut up for one moment?" Harry barked at him.

"Yeah well, you're a dick! There's no other word to describe you! Actually there is, You're a jerk too!" Cisco snapped back.

Caitlin and Astrid stared at the two of them, in frustration. "I seriously asked the two of you to play nice for one moment! You can't even do that!" Astrid snapped at them as she stormed into her office and slammed the door behind her.

Cisco and Harry's expression changed, "I told you that it was going to be a bad idea, Harry." Cisco said with a grin.

"What was a bad idea, Cisco?" Caitlin asked him.

"Cisco wanted to rile Astrid up a little. He said that if we came in fighting she would get mad." Harry said.

"You wanted to make Astrid mad, Cisco?" Caitlin asked him confused.

"Yep. It's all part of my master plan." He said with a smile, he followed Astrid into her office and closed the door behind him.

"What's his master plan?" Caitlin asked Harry.

"He hasn't told me yet, he doesn't want her to read our minds and get it of out us." Harry said.

"So, are you saying that you two got along just fine?" Caitlin asked.

"We did actually." Harry replied, "We're making a lot of progress." Wells received a message on his phone. It turned out that there was a life sized ragdoll being donated to the team at STAR Labs thanking them for all of their contributions. Harry showed Caitlin the message.

"I would get Cisco to help with this delivery, but I think I'll let the two of them have some space." Harry said.

"Good idea," Caitlin replied. "I'll help you bring it up."