What's wrong with us when happy hurts

If you're fighting the good fight don't give up

Chapter 58

If you're fighting the good fight don't give up if you fall to your knees look up to the stars you see the light keep fighting you're not alone

John

Oliver was his brother. They had been brothers for years. He was as much his brother as Andy was. This reminded him he hadn't heard from his younger brother in a while. He needed to call him and invite him over for Christmas. Andy was all alone, after all. He didn't have a family, not like he did with Lyla and Sara. Andy had never had a family, at least not in this timeline... according to Barry and Roy. He had still trouble handling that. Handling the fact that Barry had gone back in time and changed all of their lives. That there had been a timeline in which he had had a nephew, a timeline in which Andy hadn't been alone. A timeline in which Andy had had his own family. It was hard to believe, and a part of him wondered what else had been different before Barry's selfish choice. The other part hoped he would never find out. Because it didn't matter in the end. There was nothing they could do to change it.

And what he knew was already too much for him to handle.

Let alone the knowledge that Barry, just like Roy and his team, could go back in time whenever he pleased. This was something very dangerous. An ability not to be taken lightly. He trusted Roy and, in effect, his team not to abuse that power. They had sworn to protect the timeline, and it was literally what they were doing. Making sure no one was going back in time and changing events with possibly catastrophic consequences. At least if he understood what his former teammate had told him correctly. He wasn't sure if he could trust Barry to do the same, if the young man had learnt his lesson, if they could trust him not to abuse said power again should something transpire he couldn't handle the consequences of, and if he did, how were they to know? Or if they were aware of it, how would they keep him from changing the past again? There wasn't anything they could do to stop the Flash. Not really. Like Barry had pointed out during the invasion when Oliver had refused to let him turn himself in.

"You and what army."

Barry was almost unstoppable, almost indestructible.

He wasn't sure if even Oliver would be able to stop him if they had to. Maybe, but he probably needed to get lucky. They could ask Kara for help if they had the time to. She seemed to be even more powerful than Barry, which wasn't anything he really wanted to think about. If anyone on their earth, what a strange concept, there being more than one earth, on their team had a chance to stop the speedster, it would be someone who technically wasn't even a part of their team anymore, hadn't been for years. Sara would probably have the best chance. Or at least used to. John wasn't sure whether or not she would still be able to stop him. Not that they had ever tried it, or even considered the possibility. They had only learnt about Barry's powers after Sara had already been killed. He'd have to talk to Oliver about that. He made a note to himself to question his friend the next time he saw him. It was important to know just how capable Sara still was and what other effects her resurrection through the Lazarus Pit had besides the Bloodlust. Another thing he had serious trouble wrapping his head around and dealing with.

Sara had been dead for more than a year. And now she was alive again. It was hard to get used to. So much had changed in the last two years, ever since Barry had shown up as the Flash and metahumans and magic and aliens were introduced into his life. None of that should be possible, but yet it was.

Well, that wasn't entirely true.

Barry hadn't been the first person to introduce him to the impossible. But while his first run in with a metahuman hadn't been the speedster, Barry had been the catalyst for all the crazy that ended up being introduced in his life months after. When their first meta hadn't been a part of their lives anymore. Maybe that was the reason he always considered Barry to be the cause for all the crazy in his life. His mind automatically connected the Flash's appearance with all the metahumans they ended up fighting whenever Barry showed up. While he rarely ever made the connection between the craziness of the abnormal and their first meta. They had been too focused on Slade and the Mirakuru at the time and it had had little effect on his life specifically. Oliver was another story, though. He had been more involved with their friend's superpower, helping in training and mastering it. But Felicity and he had very little to do with the meta side of their former team member. Oliver had made it a point to keep them away from it, not knowing what the possible side effects or consequences could be.