The Scarlet-Canary Collection

11. Surprise from the future PT 1

Chapter Summary: Prompts by WritersBlock039: 1 Got room for a third? How about one where Nora is actually Barry and Sara's daughter, and she's come back from the future to make sure her parents get together? (If you somehow add Kariver to this, too, that would be absolute gold.) 2 OK, I swear this is the last one (until the next one is posted, probably ) All of Team Flash are trying to make sense of Nora's arrival, who is being very shifty, when someone else arrives at the door. Barry is shocked to see Sara barely holding herself together and asking to talk to him - immediately. He's about to say no when he sees how devastated he is and lets her in. When they talk privately, Sara tells Barry what happened in StarCity - Oliver's arrest and her dad dying. They bond over what it feels like their last family member dies (Dinah Lance has been extremely scarce), and Sara apologizes to Barry for what she told him during "Invasion!" Barry brushes it off and tells her she understands now, and that's enough. When they go back out, Sara asks who Nora is, and she drops the bomb that she's their daughter. I just seem to like playing with ideas that involve Nora being Barry and Sara's daughter, apparently. – I put those 2 prompts together and changed Nora's name.

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Barry blinked twice as he tried to check if that was really happening because it felt like a weird dream. His vision got blurred and he felt his heart beating fast inside his chest, his breath becoming erratic. Cisco, Joe and Caitlin looked worried at him, and he felt like saying something but nothing came out. They all heard a desperate knock on the door and Barry felt like coming out of his torpor. He blinked twice again and walked towards the door, opening and staring surprised as Sara Lance looked at him, trying to hide her tears.

- Sara? Is everything ok? – He asked but hugged her back as she threw herself in his arms, crying.

- No. – It was all that she could say. – I need to talk to you... To someone... I... I didn't even think, I just came straight here. Can we talk?

- Sure. – He said.

- I just... Can we talk outside? – Sara said as she noticed there was more people in the living room.

- Sure – He smiled at her and looked back at everyone else inside – I'll be right back, guys. – He said as he stepped outside with Sara and closed the door.

They were both sat on the front steps of Joe's home. Sara took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. She felt a million things happening inside of her, a mix of emotions and she felt like going nuts if she didn't talk to someone who would understand her.

- I got a call. From my... my sister's doppelganger.

- Oh... Black Siren.

- Do you know her? – She stared at Barry, incredulous. – No one bothered to tell me about her, by the way...

- I'm sorry. We just... When I met her, she was a villain. A criminal that we arrested. And then that Prometheus guy helped her escape and Oliver told me they gave him some headache. We just didn't want to make you guys suffer again, given the fact that she was not your Laurel... But Oliver told me she was making an effort and your dad was trying to help her...

- Yes, my dad... he... She called me because he was dying. – Sara said, trying to hold more of her tears back and failing miserably. – He died... and then Ollie got arrested right away.

- Oh... I didn't know about your dad... I'm sorry.

- Yes... And there was nothing his team or I could do about Ollie, and I had just lost my dad... I went back to work with the Legends just to hear Ollie almost got killed the day he was released; I went there with Dig to take him home. But then, all I've been hiding... I just couldn't hide anymore. Since Stein died I've been feeling like I need to be strong for my team, and that I can't mourn the people I love like everybody else. I just... I needed a break. And I was going to my mom's, when my legs brought me here...