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he's beauty he's grace he'll fall right on his face.

Barry Allen
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The Flash
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You're one of my best friends too, Barry. And you're my family, you and Cisco. I understand things being complicated and you don't have to tell me everything. I guess I'm just a little homesick. I'm so used to you, Cisco, and me seeing each other every day, or pretty much every day. I guess I miss that.

I take it the Wally here isn't the Wally we know back home.

Zoom's the name he wants to be called. I like Hunter better.

[ If it sounds bitter when Barry's saying it, he doesn't seem to mind that it sounds that way. He is better about it. He had told Shade that Jay was here and that he had finally met him and he was so happy. To have it ripped away like it was by a simple trip over some shoes makes him so angry. Everything about the situation makes him angry and bitter and makes him feel like he's not the Barry Allen he wants to be or should be. ]

It's been him all along. I don't know how because I only found out because of Cisco tripping over shoes and vibing it and Caitlin telling me. If I get ported out I'll likely live through it but I'll be honest, I really don't want to if this is how I feel now. [ He lets out a shaky exhale. ] He broke my back. The man who I was treating as a mentor broke my back and I had no idea it was him.

You're...not the only one. I wasn't kidding when I said I missed you when you first got here. It's been almost been a year and half here for me and I had to bond with who I could so I didn't go stircrazy from only having Eobard from home here or just Cisco and him. You want me to run over right now? I can. Bring take out and everything. Maybe make a mean pillow fort if you're up for that not adult act.

Nope. Still...pretty good though. And his Iris' nephew, I think? Because I'm his uncle. Or other me is. He replicated how I got my powers, it was so dumb but I mean he has them at home too so.

Or I could come over there? Either way, I do want to see you. And I need to make more of an effort to not ... hide in my apartment because I'm trying to avoid what this power does to me. Big yes, to the pillow fort and not being an adult thing.

Wow. So that means the Iris on his Earth has a brother (or a sister), like our Iris.

Replicated? He set off a dark matter wave, doused himself in chemicals used during fingerprint analysis, and got struck by lightning?

Liar works, too.

[ She really hates how worked up she's gotten over the Hunter debacle. It reminds her that she's actually been desperate enough to allow herself to get too attached to people, essentially strangers, all because she's mistakenly seen a piece of home in them.

Well, imagined it. How could she have been so blind? ]

Jesus. [ Hunter's made a huge mistake wronging them both, she thinks. ] Has he gone after you here?

Best of both worlds, I come pick you up and we run back to my place? Or we can casually walk, but that might take a little longer.

Yep, which makes the whole naming thing weird, but I don't even entirely want to know.

Well. Not the dark matter wave bit? But the other bits, yeah. Had the right chemicals and then he got struck by lightning.

We don't have to walk. It's been a while since you've literally picked me up and sped me somewhere.

Well, is Wally or Wallace a family thing in Iris's family?

That's crazy. Not crazy. But, astonishing? I was always under the presumption it was the dark matter that was the catalyst for your abilities.

Have you spoken with or seen Harrison lately?
Like, in the past couple days.

Why would I talk to The Flash unless it was to remind him just how low he still is even after all of our fights?

Barry, what are you talking about?

I think the better question is what are you talking about, Caitlin?

[ It bothers him to type her name. She hasn't gone by that name since he stopped using Barry and Cisco stopped using Cisco. But she's going by that name here. Just like he's going by Barry and it just makes him sick to see.

He's better than that sad forgotten, beat down nerd of a kid. Caitlin's better than she ever was with Ronnie and working in that stupid lab. ]

[ A hard knot settles in her stomach. No. No, please. Not Barry, too. ]

Who am I to you?

My right hand woman, just like Cisco's my right hand man.

[ His only friends, the only two who helped him with his powers as they learned their own. His fellow generals, his king and queen to go along with his high king status as the one who'll make sure Earth-1 knows how to be ruled. ]

Who do you think I am to you?

[ Somewhere deep inside he dreads hearing an answer that isn't Zoom. ]

[ That answer isn't at all comforting. Not one. Single. Iota. She isn't quite sure how to play this. It'll be easier to lie through text. But would it be any safer? The disdain for The Flash, the talk of right hands, she knows who Barry thinks he is. Or, who he currently is. ]

My best friend. One of my only two friends.

You know I don't admit this to everyone, but just for you. You're not wrong about that. We're best friends. Cisco's the other one, right?

[ It's the truth, Caitlin is his best friend, just like Cisco is and just like— well Iris could have continued to be. Maybe one day. If he can ever drag her away from that idiotic father and Harrison Wells. ]

Caitlin. You know I know you better than anyone.

Of course he is.

I know. That's part of being best friends, isn't it?

It is. And you know what the other thing about being best friends is?

It's that we tell each other things. Is there something you'd like to tell me?

Nothing is really coming to mind? I'm sure I haven't been keeping anything from you.

Really, Caitlin? That's the answer you're going with? That you haven't been keeping anything. Come on now, it's me and you know I'd never keep things from you.

Really, Zoom. [ She cringes as she types it. ] That's the answer I'm going with.

How are you doing, Barry?

[As opposed to most speedsters, he might not be able to run that fast, but he catches on quickly.]

Frost. Was that so hard?

:D Be there in a bit then, okay? Prepare yourself for the speeding away.

I don't think so? But I never asked Joe about it because it didn't seem important.

Apparently it was the lightning. Or at least it is in Wally's world. It's entirely possible it's true in our case.

Yes. It was downright painful. I think I pulled something.

Ready when you are.

It was just a thought. With two relatives of Iris named Wally, but for them to be different relatives.

Why do I have the feeling our world, our corner of the multiverse, is the outlier?

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