Barry Allen's Broken Daughter

Chapter 3

We were on our way to the lab, when Ba- I mean, dad, wanted to go to Jitters, say hi to someone. So we walked there and went in and saw my favorite waitress, Iris. Iris walked over to us and hugged dad and said hi to me. "Wait, how do you know Emily?" Dad asked. Iris came over and put her arm around my shoulder. "She came here all the time, with her grandma." She explained. I smiled from the gesture. Dad smiled too. Iris let go of me and walked back behind the counter to do something. Dad gestured me over to a table and we sat down.

"So Emily, tell me something about yourself." He said. I thought for a minute. "My full name is Emily Nora Cooper." I started, and I saw Barry gasp. I looked at him curiously. "What? What's wrong with my name?" I asked. He shook his head and chuckled. "Nothings wrong with it, but Nora was my moms name." He explained. I knew my middle name was after someone, but my mom wouldn't say who. "My mom always loved the name Nora. She said it was after someone she knew, but she wouldn't say who." I said. I know now, it was after dads mom.

"Continue Em." He said. I nodded and continued. "My birthday is December 14th, my favorite movie is any Star Wars movie, my favorite food is cheeseburgers. That's really all I can say." I said. He smiled at me. "Tell me something about you dad, the only thing I know is that I'm your daughter." I demanded. He laughed and nodded. "My real name is Bartholomew Henry Allen, Anna was my favorite girlfriend, but she vanished suddenly. Probably because she didn't want me to know she was having you." He said and grabbed my hands, not to make me feel upset. I smiled gratefully.

"Dad, if you don't mind, can you tell me something about mom?" I asked. He got tears in his eyes, but nodded anyway. "Anna was amazing and super kind. She would put anybodies needs before her own, she was best friends with Iris actually. She always hung out with me, and if I wasn't around, she would hang with Iris. Her older brother was my bully, well, half brother, Tony Woodward. That's really about it." He explained. After awhile of talking and getting to know each other, Iris came over and took our orders.

Later on, Iris brought us our stuff, and I'll skip the boring part, all dad and I did was talk. After that, we ran to the lab and went in, it was nighttime too, so dad just needed to do something. We went in and I chilled at his chair while he turned on the tv and watched Dr. Wells turn on the power accelerator. I saw everyone protesting saying to not turn it on. I shrugged it off and my mind went elsewhere. Then I heard loud thunder and I got a little bit scared. Then it started getting lighter and something was about to happen.

I screamed for dad and he dashed for me and as soon as lightning struck, he dove for me to protect me, he covered me with his body and the next thing I know, it's dark and I can't hear a thing.