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Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: Coast City

STAR LABS: CORTEX

Total Silence could be heard in the med bay As they stare at Barry with looks ranging from shock, Envy, anger and regret "B-Barry what are you doing here" Iris stuttered Breaking the silence But Barry Paid no mind to her as he glared at Them "so it's now you care about the consequences of your actions Eh joe" Barry said with a sneer "what are you doing here" Caitlin questioned As she looked at Barry with regret "was just passing by you know and just decided to check up on the team that had abandoned me and left me to rot in prison" it's not our fault barry that you were incarcerated'' wally replied ''yeah for a crime I didn't commit'' ''how do we even know that's the truth you could have just planned it with Oliver to make yourself and everyone think you a good guy'' wally said "wally right Barry u could just be deceiving us just to win back our trust so you can backstab us again'' iris concurred really barry said with an incredulous look on his face as he couldn't believe that iris the woman he had loved and married said this '' ''iris after everything we've been through you really believe that I had really killed devoe barry inquired yes I do she replied with look of confidence it was within those moments that barry had an epiphany and finally understood how stupidly obsessed he had been with iris all these years that he never noticed her true nature that she is a manipulative lying, hypocritically and controlling bitch who cared for no one but herself. AS all she had done was use him and then throw him away him he wasn't useful hell she had even opposed cisco when he tried to bring him back from the speed force and to think he had chosen her over linda or patty as his heart ached as he remember his two ex-girlfriends that he had broken up with cause of her ''did you ever love me'' he suddenly asked staring straight into her eyes iris opened her mouth to answer but faltered and looked away as he kept on staring at her ''I see'' was all barry said as he had gained his answer he turned looking at both jo and wally seeing un-certainty and regret in joe and a smug look in wally's ''joe after all these years did I ever mean anything to you or was I some boy with delusions that you picked up so that you could feel the hole in your heart of you not having a son'' barry inquired with a calm look ''look um bar its not that simple'' ''DON'T CALL ME THAT'' barry bellowed as lightning crackled round his body as joe unconsciously took a step back '' YOU DON'T GET TO CALL ME THAT AFTER EVERTHING YOU,VE DONE AND EVERY THING I WENT THROUGH DO YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND EVERTHING I WENT THROUGH THERE NO YOU DON'T CAUSE YOU,VE NEVER BEEN BEHIND BARS AND HOPING JUST HOPING THAT MAYBE YOUR FAMILY WOULD COME AND RESCUE YOU BUT NO ALL OF YOU HAD ABANDONED SO DON'T YOU DARE CALL MY NAME LIKE WERE STILL FAMILY CAUSE NONE OF YOU MEAN JACK SHIT TO ME DO YOU UNDERSTAND'' Barry shouted in anger'' ''don't shout at my dad you convict wally interjected as he limped over to Barry glaring at him '' ''or what you'll fight me you can barely even walk'' even I will then I'll throw your ass back in jail after all I am the champion of the speed force wally said smugly ''pffftt'' Barry giggled as he began laughing you the champion of the speed force that's rich you can barely dodge blaster shot besides when was the last time you trained barry mockingly said besides if you were really the speed force champion you would have a deep connection to it and be able to access its unlimited energy, and they would have been communicating with you always but looking at you now that isn't the case right as you can barely go pass Mach 7 mr champion of the speed force Barry said mockingly as he enjoyed the look of anger and embarrassment on Wally's face alright that's enough Caitlin said as she now stood in between wally and barry ''look barry I know this won't mean much but I say this for both me and cisco were both very sorry for how we've treated you and we hope you'll forgive us she said with look of remorse glancing at cisco he sees the same remorseful look on him ''Caitlin I understand but as of right now I just can't let go of all of this but i believe you'' he said turning to look at the wests ''I hope you all have happy lives'' he said in a condescending voice as he walked out of the cortex. Just as he was about to speed out he remembered Gideon speeding into the time vault welcome back mr allen how did the descusion with them go it was ok I cleared off everything from my chest that's go mr allen as suppressing ones emotions can be disastrous Barry nodded in acceptance "Gideon is there a way for me to transfer your consciousness somewhere else so I can take you out from the plinth ''yes mr allen I would have to shrink and convert myself into portable device though I wouldn't recommend it as no storage device would be able to hold all my data which is at 4 yottabytes" "4 what" Barry sputtered ''that's huge like really huge just what is being stored on you'' Barry thought "then what can we do'' professor thawne had a secret star labs satellite that he had used for his other un-savoring deeds I would like to upload myself there and then connect to your phone to maintain communication with you mr allen ''yes please'' Barry replies as her face fades out and there is a notification sound on her phone ''upload successful mr allen'' Gideon says through the phone alright Gideon thanks'' "your welcome mr allen" she's says as Barry pockets her as he speeds back to his apartment prepared to leave central city.

Central city train

There was something about staying at a single spot that speedsters found unbearable as they tend to move and think at incomprehensible speeds. So was the case of Barry as he kept on sitting in the train while his body urged him to move now why would a person who is able to break the sound barrier with just the click of his heels decide to take a train its simple he just wanted of have some peace and quiet as he gathered his thoughts as he hadn't gotten a wink of sleep last night with his thoughts drifting back and forth to iris and how he was a gullible fool not to see her true character. It was always kinda obvious but he had always ignored it because he had loved her or rather he was infatuated with her as she was the first girl who he had ever spoken to and was nice to him or so he thought as over time she began to use him to suit her personally needs and when he had become the flash it just made everything worse as she wanted to control him more and that's what she got she also never loved and just married him so as to indirectly control team flash and brag that she married the flash. She had used his infatuation for her to fool and use him. ''I was such a fool and to think I would've done anything for her am such a simp'' he thought looking out of the window deject fully as the train kept on moving ''never again never again would I be used again not by anybody especially women'' he muttered with a determined look ''um hello is anybody sitting here'' a voice called out turning to answer the person Barry froze at the sight of the person she had dark skin, wavy brown hair and a pair of beautiful brown eyes that could make you get lost in them. She wore a white halter wrap crop top which did very little to hide her double DD breast as she wore a white flannel shirt jacket, blue skinny jeans and a pair of white sneakers which complimented her curvy yet athletic build take a picture it'll last longer the mystery woman said uh what um no nobody sitting Barry replied coming out of his stupor ''shes hot'' he thought as she sat down on besides him raising an eye brow as he saw him still staring Barry immediately turn away as he noticed he had been staring for long you know I was serious about you taking my picture if you were going to stare for so long she said smirking what no I don't want your picture Barry defended ''so your saying I'm not beautiful and you don't want my number'' she said coyly '' no wait yes I mean um your beautiful yes but just because your beautiful doesn't mean I want your number'' he defended confidently but with a blush on his face hmm she hummed as she stared at him for some seconds as the air around them became awkward I'm "sara sara cruz '' she introduced "I'm Barry Allen" he replied, her name sounded familiar for some odd reason he didn't know why "not to be rude or anything but why did you come to stay here their other seats everywhere" " yeah well you look liked you could use someone to talk too since I saw you brooding, besides those guy over there where ogling at me too much" She explained "I wasn't brooding" he said in indignation "yes you were I saw you from over there you were totally brooding" she said "I don't brood that's like totally Oliver's thing" he denied "Oliver" she questioned yeah his a friend of mine who loves brooding am more or the cheerful one between us Barry explained ok if that's true then what's got you so down she inquired as Barry suddenly got sad face but covered it up with mask of cheerfulness but she had already noticed it oh its nothing just some work stuff " "anyone ever tell you that you suck at lying but it's not my business if you don't want to tell me she said shrugging "can I really tell her I mean it's not like she'll understand what I'm going through but for some reason I feel I should tell her" he thought taking a leap of faith he told her everything "so your saying that your family and friends left you to rot in jail for a year and a half and then you find out that your wife who was your step sister never truly loved you but was just using you that's tough" she said in disbelief "and I thought my relationship with Jessica was bad" yeah it was but that doesn't matter anymore. they don't matter to me anymore have moved on pass them but I have to find myself '' "is that why you're on this train heading to coast city" "yes that's its" I don't see how you could possibly do some soul searching in coast city" "well im actually going to a Buddhist temple there I heard the help people lost people find their way though I have to ask why are you going to coast city'' "oh I live there with my sister I just came to central for a soccer tournament and to find the flash" she said "the flash…why" Barry asked "Im not sure if I should say this" she said nervously "no it's not that it's just…" she said trailing off "look if you don't want tell me that fine" Barry said shrugging looking at him she knew that for some odd reason she could trust him "it's my sister she's a huge flash fan and um well something happened almost three years ago when my sister and her friends went hiking and came across some men trying to hide a dead a body but before anything could happen they were captured, raped and then killed off one by one but she had managed to free herself and escaped she had managed to get far and sent a live video on YouTube asking for help but after a few minutes they had caught up to her broke her phone and then they had decided to kill when was this crackle of lightning and a gust of wind and all of them where taken down as the flash stood there and helped her the took her and goons to the at the nearest prescient and explained everything to them as he then took her to the hospital when I had come the flash was already gone but I had heard of how she never wanted to let him go I had never seen her so broken all she kept muttering was please don't leave me flash that's why I had to come to central despite the tournament so I could find him but the flash hasn't been seen for like a year, so I thought I could ask kid flash but all he wanted was my number and to go on a date with him what an asshole anyway I kept on searching but I couldn't find him so I gave up" she said finishing her story "did I really save her sister I can't remember but her name does sound familiar as he was suddenly hit with a migraine as he saw images of himself saving her taking down the rapists taking her to the hospital and her crying hugging him tight "the hell why are all these memories coming in now" Barry groaned as he had just realized that this was after flashpoint when he was trying to taking down savitar as cisco had informed about the video when he was on date with iris that night as he left to the date to save her but had hurried back to see her as he had totally disregarded the girl he felt sad though iris said that he shouldn't feel sad just because he went to saves some bitch "ugh now another tally to add to what iris had made me do I should have helped the girl more instead of telling her it'll be ok before leaving" he bitterly thought "are you ok" he heard Sara ask him with a look of concern on her face "yeah I'm fine just a slight headache that all" "so um you still haven't told me why you need they flash wait don't tell me that she's gone crazy or something" Barry questioned "what no its nothing like that she countered waving off his question "it's just that after that incident she had been slow to recover from it and she did but sometime around last year some members of her assault group had gotten free and tried to take revenge on her but they were all hospitalized by the time the cops got there when I asked her what happened she didn't tell me but all she didn't remember and she had locked herself in her room ever since and began hording food and talking about an alien invasion and the end of the world so I had us move out from Oregon to coast city so she could adjust and find herself" she explained tirelessly "so you see that's why I needed to find the flash I feel he's the only person that could snap her out of it" she explained "it must be really bad I wish I could help her and sister but I can't not until I have figured myself out" he thought "so what are you going to do now" am still going to try to help her in any way I can but I won't be alone as I have a friend of mine who's helping his a pilot but he isn't always around but before I left he was watching over her and I think you guys would be great friends if you guys ever meet though he's a bad flirt" she said with a bit of humor "I would love to meet him sometime when am done" he said "that would be fine god know he needs a somebody to watch over him before he ends up getting himself killed by a girl or the girls boyfriend" she said shaking her head at her friends antics I'm sure I'll manage he said sheepishly as they continued their conversation.

COAST CITY STATION

"You really are a fun person Barry and to think you're a csi most csi I know are always grim and dark it's nice to know that their some cute lighthearted people like you in that side" she said coming out of train with her luggage "well thanks I guess he said with a blush holding his stuffs "yeah I almost forgot she said digging through her bag of something "this is my number and house address she said handing him her paper as she wrote down her phone number and address in case you get back and you know you want to maybe hangout" said as a blush adorned her cheeks um "ok I guess" "I'll see you later Barry" she said as she suddenly pecked him on the cheeks before disappearing through the crowd "what just happened" Barry said in shocked touching the area she pecked "heh may be coming to coast city was the right move" he said with a smile as he moved forward ready to embrace his new life.