In A Blink ? Barry Allen/The Flash

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The brunette, now returned to her self-claimed chair, was correct when she had said that Joe would be upset with them for going into what Cisco had named a Time Vault. She furrowed her eyebrows as she saw a frustrated Eddie, who she thought would be happier due to his recent repaired relationship with Iris, but briefly zoned out on Joe's chastising until Barry spoke.

"I did it. Or I will do it, I mean." Natalie looked up from the chair in confusion as her cousin mouthed the words 'time travel' to her, only confusing the brunette even more. Cisco got up from his seat, pacing a little as he began to get excited about the science, "One of the two speedsters in Barry's house the night his mother died was Barry. I mean the Flash. Which means that one day, in the future, Barry will travel back to that night."

Natalie and Eddie made eye contact, both having the same look as they thought they were sitting in a room full of crazy people. "Actually, I wasn't talking about that. I kind of already time traveled. On accident," Barry said, approaching the group tentatively.

"Okay either I'm drunk from just taking a few sips or Barry ran too fast into a wall," Natalie muttered as she propped her elbow on the armchair to rest her head. Joe narrowed his eyes at her, "You guys dank my beer?" She threw her hands up and huffed, "Well I think after tonight it was well deserved. I'll buy you a new pack, okay?"

Barry waited until he was sure the two were done before he continued his bizarre explanation, "I was running to stop a tsunami from hitting the city-"

"-When was that?" Barry sighed as he glared at Caitlin for being the one to interrupt him again, "A few weeks ago. It was right before Cisco started getting those dreams."

At the mention of them, Cisco shivered in response as his face darkened, "Oh, you mean the ones were Wells uses his super-speeding hand to shred apart my heart. Those?" Barry nodded his head sadly as his friend slipped back into his mind, the images of the dreams playing across his mind. "What if those aren't dreams?"

Caitlin tilted her head, looking between the two men, "Well what else could they be?" The young doctor's cousin piped up, "Like I said before when Cisco said the dreams felt real, they could be memories. Caitlin, you remember when we watched a few episodes of Teen Wolf and Stiles talked about how you know you're dreaming when you have the wrong number of fingers?"

"So that's why you asked me that?" Cisco remarked as his lips formed into an 'o' shape. Caitlin shook her head at her cousin, "You can't use a line from a show that focuses on a teen werewolf to determine whether or not Cisco was actually dreaming."

Barry bit his tongue to keep from chuckling at his girlfriend and took a deep breath before he continued as he saw all of the confused expressions in the room, "What if the day I traveled back, Cisco found out that Wells is the Reverse Flash. Then Wells killed him because of it and when I went back, I changed the timeline so that the event never happened."

Joe clicked his tongue and pointed at Cisco, "If it never happened, then how can Cisco remember it?" Not having an answer, Barry shook his head, "I think the important thing is.. he does. I think I've got a rally bad idea."

"Well do you think you can come with a good idea?" Natalie asked, wincing in anticipation for an angry expression from her boyfriend.

The next day, steps to carry out Barry's bad idea were taken, which was to somehow access Cisco's memory and get Wells to confess to murdering Nora Allen, thus clearing Henry of the charges. Given that, Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco were at S.T.A.R. Labs, working on a device to do the accessing while Natalie went to work at the station to keep up normal appearances. Plus, she would have to cover for Barry when Captain Singh needed work done, though she would have to call Barry or Caitlin for help if the precinct needed any forensics done. But for now, she was cleaning up all of the papers Barry had blown around in his Lab.