Running Out of Time {Barry Allen/The Flash}

I sit in my house, pondering over the fact of Wells. I grab out my phone and text Barry.

ME: I'm coming over to your lab.

BOYFRIEND: Okay, just walk in.

Then in a split second (for him at least), I'm there. I walk in to see Joe there. I walk up to Barry and greet him with a kiss on the cheek. He quickly smiles before looking away.

"Alright, this is everything that we know about Harrison Wells, which is actually not a lot." Barry says. "Didn't you read a whole book about him?"

"Yeah, 600 pages, and the big takeaway is, he's enigmatic." Joe says. "Your mom was killed by a speedster. Wells' machine turned you into a speedster. That's way too many coincidences for this old cop." He mumbles.

"Coincidence?" I ask.

"Do you think that he wanted me to become The Flash?" Barry asks.

"What about me? My dads death, and my disappearing mother?" I ask.

"Everything he's done since that night you got struck by lightning bringing you to STAR Labs, giving you the suit, training you it's all been to keep you safe." Joe says to Barry.

"And to make me faster. Wells once said that he needed more speed from me." Barry says. Then I think back to Wells barely helping me. Maybe I wasn't apart of his plan...

"Why?" Joe asks.

"I don't know." Barry replies.

"But he wants something from you, Barry." Joe replies. "We just need to figure out what it is."

"Let's go get some answers." I say.

"We can't do that now as much as we might want to." Joe says and my shoulders drop.

"Joe, you had your suspicions about Wells from the very beginning." Barry announces. "You thought that he might be the man in yellow."

"Except the blood from your house didn't match him." Joe replies.

"All right, so maybe he's not the Reverse-Flash, but you think that he knows what happened that night." I say.

"He may have the key to getting my dad out of prison." Barry says, hopefully.

"Whatever Wells wants from you, it started 15 years ago."

"He's been patient." I mumble.

"Scary patient." Joe looks at me. "You gotta listen to me on this."

"We have to be just as patient." I whisper.

"Oh, I gotta go." Barry says and I look up to him.

"The Trickster." I groan.

***

I grab my bag off the counter before rushing out to my garage. I quickly hop on my bike, on my way to Iron Heights.

***

I walk in. "I'm here to see Henry Allen." I mumble.

"Are you family?" The woman asks.

"Yeah..." I lie. Soon I am escorted to the room with the window phone. I pick it up, waiting for the man to sit down. Soon he comes walking in. He gives me an odd look before picking up the phone.