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Date: 2016-05-24 06:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
Super glasses.

[ he thinks about it and nods ]

Give me - two weeks. I should have some prototypes for both of these things by then.

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Date: 2016-05-24 06:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
-- Alright. My lab or yours?

[ it's nice and new having someone else to work with. Most days, Cisco misses Caitlin at least four times a day. Caitlin's family but now, in many ways, so is Winn. ]

we can schedule working hours assuming we wouldn't be sucked into playing this for hours.

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Date: 2016-05-24 07:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
Got it.

[ he'll spend a few more seconds on the game, watching the board with a pleased smile ( it works, which, of course it does but with the new space tech any small victory feels bigger ) before sighing a bit.

it's almost as if everything is normal but the cloud above their heads won't really dissolve unless he speaks of the Incident now will it? ]


Right. the Incident.

[ he takes a sip of his beer and sighs, sitting back and leaving the game be for a moment ]

....it's a seriously, seriously long story and I'll have to go backwards for you to actually...get it. are you sure you even want to know? it gets very, very creepy at times.

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Date: 2016-05-24 07:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
...Alright. Well, I guess it all started when I got my dream job. It was in STAR labs and I've been - pining for that job for years, working for Dr. Wells. Dr. Wells was -

[ a pause. it's weird to call him Wells but he reminds himself that Harry is Harry and Wells is....well. ]

a genius. probably the most celebrated genius of our time, his contributions to physics was amazing and he hired me which was...beyond anything I could have wised for. He said he saw potential in me and for months I worked to prove to him that he was right to trust me. Back then he was - everything I wanted to be and more, a mentor. to me, to Caitlin, everyone and our project, his life-project was a particle accelerator which was supposed to be a breakthrough in everything we knew about...everything. space, time, medicine. We worked solely on this and -

[ it's weird going so far back, it's been a while since he visited these memories ]

On the night we turned it on, it exploded. Caitlin's fiance died among...many others, Wells was left in a wheelchair but also it released anti matter, dark energy, X-elements, all the good stuff all through Central City creating.....meta-humans. That night, Barry got hit by lightening and got his speed. Following, so far?

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Date: 2016-05-24 07:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
Right so. Everything was...bad, STAR labs was shut, my - Wells was in a wheelchair and we were all grieving over Ronnie and also being the most hated people in town but then - Barry woke from his coma and became the Flash and we all became team Flash, led by Dr. Wells, he helped Barry with his speed and we helped him bring in meta-humans turned criminals and for a while it was - awesome. Thing is.

[ that it was all a lie, wasn't it? it was never meant to be ]

Barry's family was hurt when he was young by someone. He called him the man in the lightening, he killed his mom. Naturally nobody believed the story about a man wearing yellow inside of a storm of lightening but he came back and he was - seriously terrifying. He was a speedster in a yellow suit, he said he was the reverse of Barry and so we called him - you can guess that part.

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Date: 2016-05-24 08:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
Reverse Flash.

[ a nod ]

The man in yellow who killed Barry's mom and was now super intent on killing Barry so all of us tried to help Barry become faster because that creep was - seriously fast. We tried to capture him which resulted in him nearly killing Dr. Wells.. He was like mega-villain, worse than any of the meta-humans but what I couldn't get at first was how he even was a thing since if he killed Barry's mom that was - years before the particle accelerator went on and yet his powers were exactly like Barry's. so.

[ he takes another sip of beer ]

I rechecked the trap and surprisingly or not things weren't adding up. The one who worked on that was Wells and I started think he might be in league with the Reverse Flash as....awful as it was since he was - the most important person in our lives except for Barry. This is where it becomes creepy. While I was investigating, Barry was trying to stop a freak storm created by a meta-human, right? so, Barry's doing that while I go down to check the force field we tried to use as a trap for the Reverse Flash, I'm tinkering with it and in the trap there appears the--- Reverse Flash except it's not him it's a mirage and it keeps repeating the same things he said when we captured him which meant we never actually captured him.

[ a sigh ]

And that's not even the creepy part. The creepy part is the walking Dr. Wells who came in a minute later.

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Date: 2016-05-24 08:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
Oh yeah. It was him. The Reverse Flash or as he introduced himself, Eobard Thawne. Funny, since we all worked with a detective called Eddie Thawne which -- Wells- Thawne said was a distant relation. You'll get it in a minute. So as for the question of how the Reverse Flash nearly murdered Wells if they're the same person - speed mirage. He was moving so fast he could actually leave after-images of himself behind. As for the 'why', all he said was that he came to kill Barry all those years ago and ended up killing his mom, that he was - stuck for fifteen years and Barry's speed was going to sending him to his world and time. I - said I would help but he was - he never meant for any of that. All he said was that - I was like his son and then he - well. He was fast enough to close a fist around my heart and kill me.

[ dryly ]

and before you ask, I'm not dead. Remember? freak storm? Barry's trying to stop it by running really fast around it? well, he ran so fast that he actually ran back in time. He changed the timeline without even knowing he did. So everything - me finding out about Wells, the freak storm, Wells killing me, all were undone. But then - days after, I started remembering. the other timeline, the one Barry changed by going back. I remembered that but Wells didn't. We were closing in on who he actually was. What we found out was a secret room inside STAR labs that Wells used. Inside there was the yellow suit but also some sort of A.I system and a newspaper from 2024 citing something about the Flash being missing. Which means that Thawne, much like Barry, could travel in time which he did. He went back to try and kill Barry and stop him from being the Flash but the effort left him without his speed and stuck in a timeline he didn't belong at. He was cray before but after that he was cray and angry and he set out to create the Flash because he needed speed to go back to his timeline. Following?

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Date: 2016-05-24 09:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
[ it's easier once he tries to break the tale into parts ]

So what we knew was this, Eobard Thawne was the Reverse Flash, he went back in time to kill Barry who was a kid, failed - we'll get to that and because he was pissed, killed Barry's mom and since he was stuck without his speed and out of his time, he killed the actual Wells, used some creepy tech to take his face and identity and set out to create the Flash to use his speed, he created the condition, the explosion, everything that happened was planned. All of us were just - means to an end. Now, Thawne wants to go home, he told Barry that he - future - Barry - went back in time to save his...child self and ruined his plans. Thawne offers him a deal, Barry will run fast enough to create a tear in time and space and send him back to his timeline and in return, he could go back in time to save his mom.

[ with all the mess with zoom and earth-2, this all seems like it happened years ago ]

Barry went back but he - didn't change the timeline, he didn't save his mom. he did save his younger self and so Thawne's plans went to hell. he was - angry. we finally stopped only when - Eddie shot himself. He killed - himself. He was Thawne's ancestor and when he died, Thawne was erased from the timeline.

[ the night comes back in a flash, Iris screaming, Thawne disappearing, Eddie dying on the floor ]

before he died, I got the chance to talk to him, I told I remembered him killing me. He said - it wasn't a dream. He said I was - well. Like Barry. a meta-human, that I could - see through the vibrations of the universe - the multiverse, we later found out. He said he was excited for me, that my destiny is great, shaped by him and that I have to remember those powers were given to me by him. that he did it all out of love.

[ he looks at his beer and finishes it ]

Barry named me. You asked. I'm Vibe. But I'm - I can't be proud of what I have, these powers, they always feel like traces of him. They always feel like I'm channeling him and I know that there is a darkness hidden in them.

[ if he makes the wrong choices. he saw what he could become. reverb. the one eobard thawne would be proud of, really. ]

His darkness. I don't control them, I don't know if I want to. Every time I use them, I remember him, it's like he's always there. There are traces of him in my powers and I have the potential to become something like him. Someone - terrible.

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Date: 2016-05-24 09:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
Like - Voldemort and Tom Riddle, I know. But I saw my counterpart on Earth-2, Reverb. Before I came here. He was me, he controlled those powers and he was a killer. It was like I could see what Thawne thought I will be - what I have the potential of being.

[ he sighs, runs a hand over his face ]

My father never cared about me, he never even got to know me, Wells was -- he really cared but all he felt was twisted and - what if it's too late for me? What if Thawne saw Reverb when he looked at me?

[ he puts a hand on his shoulder ]

I'm sorry. About him. Fathers, man.

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Date: 2016-05-24 10:05 pm (UTC)
benames: (pic#10210000)
From: [personal profile] benames
Team New Family.

[ them. Their friends. Those who are here, those who are home. One thing, however, remains certain ]

...it has to stay a secret. Thawne, Vibe. I - don't want anyone else to know.

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Date: 2016-05-25 08:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
It's - whatever. dude. it's. yep.

[ he looks at his finished beer and then at him ]

If I get up to get another and you get up to help me, we could hug it out and move on to me kicking your ass in air hockey.

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Date: 2016-05-25 08:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
oh I feel an Earth-1 - Earth-3 show off, I feel it coming, you're on.

[ jumping to his feet ]

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Date: 2016-05-26 03:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benames
...dude if we make Donkey Kong happen, it'll almost make the awful food and the uncomfortable beds worth it all. it'll be so sweet..

[ grabbing a second beer, he sits down and looks at his board ]

My finest creation yet.

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