Our Broken Pieces

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"What did you do?!" Dawn asked again, angrier as her vein began popping out of her head.

"Dawn, what are you doing? Why are you here?" Barry asked.

"Huh," Dawn laughed, "That's the thing, Dad. I'm not supposed to be here!"

"What are you talking about?"

"You said you'd be careful! You said you knew what you were doing," Dawn began pacing. "I should've known. Time travel. Always bad. Never do it. Something YOU taught me. As much of a hero, you are Dad, you seem like a pretty big hypocrite right now!"

"Dawn! What are you talking about?" Barry interrupted her rambling.

Dawn stopped pacing and looked at her father dead into his eyes. "You erased me from the timeline."

"What?..."

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"What- How- How did I... How are you here?"

"I'm sorry to be so honest to you, dad, but Henry may worship you the same way he's been since we were kids, and don't get me wrong, I do love you. But don't be so offended when I say I have my doubts," Dawn replied. "After you left, things were fine until Mom, Henry, and I went home for the night. Mom was making dinner when...

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2040

"Ha! Beat ya!" Dawn teased her brother as she ran in front of Henry into the kitchen.

"Only because you basically tripped me on the way down the stairs," Henry defended himself. "Hey, mom. What's for dinner?" Henry asked as the twins peeped into the kitchen to not see their mother. "Mom? Where is she?"

"I don't know..." Dawn replied looking around. She then saw the dirty dishes in the sink and rack of wine bottles.

Suddenly, the twins heard the door open and close and the jingling of keys walk towards the kitchen.

"Oh, hi. Are you two with the cleaning company?" Iris asked as she entered the kitchen with a bag of Chinese food. She placed the bag down and walked towards the wine rack to pour a glass.

"Mom, what are you talk-" Henry began before Dawn kicked him and cut him off. "Ow!"

"Yes... we are. We just got here, we're about to go start the bedrooms," Dawn replied before pulling her brother into another room.

"What are you doing? What's wrong with mom?" Henry asked.

"I'm not sure, but I have an idea," Dawn replied as she paced around thinking. "We have to go?"

"What? Go where?"

"We have to run into the speed force, now!"

"Why? Dawn, what are you talking about?"

"The timeline is changing. We have to go before-"

"Dawn! What's happening?" Henry said as he held up his disappearing hand.

"No, it's already happening!" Nora yelled, trying to think of what to do.

"Dawn, go before you go too."

"I'm sorry," Dawn cried. "I'll fix this. I'll bring you back," Dawn said before she sped away.

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2020

"I watched him disappear. I watched him get erased from the timeline!" Dawn said. "I ran into the speed force where I could hide out from the timeline and time wraiths until I could come here and fix whatever mess you made!"