When The Seconds Change

Chapter 3

Emely was anxious. She didn't know what had changed.

Both her and Barry were running to Star City.

To Felicity

They whooshed in, causing all the papers Felicity had laid out to fly all over

"No." The blonde softly whined.

"So Barry and I reset everything. We tried to get everything back to the way it was and instead of doing that, it made everything worse. One things are the same anymore." Felicity stopped the shorter girl.

"Emely. Slow down. Take a deep breath. You're talking way too fast and that usually Barry's thing."

Emely took a couple deep breaths and calmed herself down.

"Barry. What happened?" He sighed.

"We screwed up, Felicity. And this time, I don't think Emely or I could fix it."

Barry and Emely sat down and explained everything to Felicity

"Okay. Let me get this straight. You both ran back in time?"

"Yeah."

"Stopped the Reverse Flash from killing your mom, then lived in an alternate reality where your parents and her family were alive." Emely nodded.

"That's right." 

"And then you both restored the timeline, came back to the moment you both left, and noticed that things were a little different."

"Precisely." 

"Does that just happen when you travel through time? Do things just change like that?" Emely shrugged.

"I mean, we changed about 15 years of Barry's life, including mine. Of course that'll change everything. Then we went back in time and let things happened the way they were meant to and maybe trying to change the past came back to us and bit us in the ass by changing everything we knew." 

"I don't know what we're gunna do Felicity." The blonde looked at the couple.

"Why don't the 2 of you run- walk me through what happened? And we'll try to figure it out. So what changed?" Emely looked at Barry.

"We went to S.T.A.R Labs, and that's when we noticed weren't quite the same."

***

(Flashback)

"What idiot still thinks I can't out run bullets?" was the first thing Barry said when they both entered the facility.

"That guy should be the criminal poster boy for what not to do against the Flash." Emely gave Wally a hug.

"So what are we gunna call him?" 

"You mean like a nickname?" Emely nodded.

"Yeah. Cisco does it for all of them, he's like the master of it." Barry looked at Cisco, while Emely noticed everyone else's reaction.

"What? Why do you guys have those faces?" 

That's when Emely realized that Cisco wasn't his goofy little self anymore. Something happened to Cisco because of them. She couldn't help but feel guilty about it.

"It's all my fault." She whispered

***

"So you began to notice changes in your friends' behavior." The pair nodded.