Before You, We had No One

Emergency Wake Up Call

"Daddy!" Bryn screams from her bedroom, causing me to jump awake on the couch. I slowly rub my eyes as I pull myself off the couch and I gently lay Isaac back down in his crib before drowsily strolling towards Bryn's room. When I push the door open I see her sitting on her bed, with sick spread across her sheets and clothes. "Aww, princess" I whisper as I lift her with my arms away from me off her bed. "Daddy, I was sick" she sobs as I carefully strip her from her sick-soaked clothes. "I know princess but Daddy is here now and he is going to get you changed and give you some medicine, okay?" I whisper as pull a clean pair of purple butterfly pyjamas out of the chest of draws behind me. "Daddy is going to give you a quick bath okay? That should help you feel a bit better princess" I explain and I lift Bryn into my arms and I carry her out of her bedroom and into the bathroom.

Once Bryn was clean and dressed, I sat her on the couch and switched on the TV while I stripped the bedding off her bed and replaced it with her backup bedding. Once her bedding was in the washing machine and her bed was made, I took a seat next to her on the couch. She shuffled closer and placed her head on my chest slowly. "How are you feeling now Princess?" I ask as i rub my hand across her back. "My tummy hurts" she moans sadly. "I know Princess but it will get better, I promise" I whisper as I pull her onto my lap. She spins around so that she is facing me and she places her head in the crook of my neck. I wrap my arms gently around her as I rub circles on her back.

When I open my eyes, golden light seeps through the windows as the sun rises. I look over at the clock on my left which informs me that it is 7:25 in the morning. The small snores coming from Bryn echoed in my ears as she slept, happily wrapped in my warm embrace. The house was so quiet. I could hear the shuffles and buzz of people waking in the apartment below us. The birds chirped happily outside the windows as they flew past and landed on the roof of the apartment building next door.

The silence is broken by the ping of my phone as a message lights up my screen. 

Alex.

I very slowly lean down to grab it off the coffee table without waking Bryn in the process. I unlock my phone and open messages to find a long paragraph from Alex which is unusual. Alex always writes small messages.

"Mon el, we need your help. When Kara went to help Barry yesterday, she was tricked. It wasn't really Barry. We are not sure who it was. All we know is that she is still on this earth, she hasn't been taken to another multiverse and that it is a woman who used a holograph to become Barry. Kara needs our help but we need yours. Can you please get down to the DEO as soon as possible".

Panic starts to wash over me as thoughts fly around my head faster than ever. What if she is hurt. What if she is already dead. I can't look after Bryn and Isaac alone. 

I lay Bryn gently on the sofa and wrap a blanket around her small body before rushing around the apartment searching for everything I am going to need to take with me. I grabbed the largest diaper bag that I could find and placed in multiple changes of clothes for each child, leaving one out for now. I grabbed diapers and wipes galore and lots of toys for them to play with. I folded up Isaac's muslim and Bryn's lovey blanket and placed them on top of all the rest as they would be needed. First I woke up Bryn briefly to get her dressed into some clean clothes. She asked why but I couldn't tell her the truth so I told her we were going to visit Auntie Alex since Daddy has to work. Once she was dressed, I let her lay on the couch again as I did the same to Isaac. I grabbed the frozen pacifier from the freezer and let him have it which calmed his tears almost immediately. I sat him in his bouncy chair as I grabbed the portable crib from the cupboard and placed it next to the diaper bag.

I lifted Isaac in one arm and used the other to hold the bags. Bryn followed behind slowly as we walked down the hallway, down the elevator and outside towards the car. I buckled them in quickly and threw the bags in the passenger seat before hopping into my own seat and driving as fast as I could towards the DEO.

*AN

Hey guys, it's Shipper102002. Sorry it has been a while. My life has been so busy that I haven't had anytime to just sit and write but since it is Christmas i am going to try and write as much as i can. If you read any of my other ongoing stories then I will be doing the same for them. Thank you for sticking around.

Merry Christmas xxx