Destiny

Fifty four

"Hey where'd you go?" Cisco asked as Barry walked into the cortex sulkily, his shirt covered with speed scuffs and his cheek scratched up and dirty. "What happened."

"He knows, guys," Barry said to Cisco and Charlie, who was also in the room, sitting down on a chair and holding himself. They knew immediately who he was talking about. "He knows he wants it know."

"What! How?" Cisco exclaimed.

"I got a call from work and I'd be taking my paternity leave. God I'm so stupid!" Barry yelled at himself. "We work at the same freaking place, he would find out."

"What's happening now?" Charlie asked, standing up worriedly from his seat.

"I just saw him, he says we have an hour..."

"Until you give away your other child?! There has to be another way, Caitlin just lost Henry-" Cisco started.

"He doesn't know we had twins..." Barry  cut him off.

"What do you mean?" Charlie asked.

"He doesn't know we had twins," Barry repeated. "I can't lose both..."

"So you're going to give him the corpse of your stillborn son!" Charlie yelled.

"It's the only way, Charlie!" Barry yelled back. Slowing his breath, Barry replied, "if we don't he'll kill all of us, Caitlin, Nora, Joe, Carla, all of us. August never said anything about alive or dead. At least this way he can't raise a corrupt metahuman kid.... Cisco, can you go get him?..."

"I don't know Barry..." Cisco trailed off.

"Cisco... please," Barry said, wiping away a tear.

Cisco reluctantly nodded and walked away to do the job.

"Caitlin wouldn't approve..." Charlie said.

"That's not what matters right now," Barry replied. "It's all we have left to do."

"So you're going to lie to my sister and then give the evil speedster what he wants!"

"Isn't this what you want?! A hero that sacrifices one life for the multiple lives of others!"

"Not like this, Barry."

"Then how, Charlie?!" Barry began to yell again. "One life for many. Isn't that how you want me to play hero! I can't leave Caitlin, Nora, Team Flash, or Central City. Especially Nora, I'm not letting her grow up without a dad. I've already lost Henry. There's nothing I can do to bring back him back. This is the only way. Unless you want to try killing Godspeed by yourself. 'Yeah, I'm sure you'll have a chance with your Jack Frost powers when I cant even manage to keep up with him.' What the hell do you want me to do Charlie?"

"I'm not going to let you do this," Charlie replied.

Barry furrowed his eyebrows, his mind was elsewhere now. The second after Charlie replied, there was a swift breeze of air.

Suddenly, they were in the pipeline with Charlie in a cell.

"I don't think you're going to be able to try..." Barry said locking him in.

"Barry! Barry stop! Think of Caitlin!" Charlie yelled as Barry began to walk out.

"I am thinking of her," Barry said before leaving.

.....................

"Alright," Carla said holding onto Caitlin she slowly took her first post labor steps. "One foot infront of the other."

"Whoa, I thought you shouldn't start walking until longer," Cisco said, frantically turning off the computer, earning an odd look from the girls.

"That's what I told her," Carla said.