When The Seconds Change

Chapter 7

"Shh." Both Harry and Joe were trying to calm the crying ex-lovers down

"I hurt her, Joe! I broke my promises and hurt the one person who meant the world to me!" The detective looked at his foster son and saw that he was in fact broken. 

Emely, on the other hand, was completely and utterly destroyed. She trusted Iris, yet Iris seemed to be against her.

"Emely." Her shoulders shook violently as Harry held her close to him. 

Emely got out of his arms and went back into the Cortex. 

"Why?" She headed to Iris.

"Why did you take the one thing I had left? You still have your family. Why couldn't you have let me have mine?" Lily took Emely into her arms and rocked her

"Let's go." Lily led Emely out and back to Harry who held her again. 

Aside from Lily and Hunter, Harry is the closest person Emely's got. He knows her all too well. 

"Let's go." Harry dried Emely's tears and took her out. 

"Where do you want to go?" Emely was silent. 

She whooshed away, leaving Harry alone. 

"Or you can leave." Harry sighed and went back to the Cortex where Barry was sitting on the treadmill, not uttering a single word. 

"Harry." Lily called him over to the medical table.

"How is she? Where'd she go?" 

"I don't know. She took off." Lily ran a hand through her hair.

"I'm guessing Allen isn't talking." Lily nodded

"Yeah. He feels so broken and so guilty. Everything that Emely's been through within these days is making Barry blame himself. And he blames himself for breaking the charm bracelet he gave her." 

"They're discussing Frankie?" 

"Yeah, but her meta-human name is Magenta." Harry nodded.

"Do you think they'll be okay?"

"Something tells me that we're not at the end of their love story just yet."

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Wally and Jesse were walking on the sidewalk, talking about Jesse's powers, no doubt.

"Jesse, look." Both teens looked as Emely walked around with a jacket on, one that looked like Barry's jacket. 

"She still misses him. I can tell." Wally nodded.

"Who's side are you on?" Jesse shook her head.

"I'm not on anyone's side. Their both at fault for it. You can't blame one without the other. It's like those Twix commercials where some say the left is better and others say the right is better. They're both the same. They both make up one candy. Just like Barry and Emely. They both went back in time together. You say it's Barry's fault and Iris says it's Emely's fault, when really, they both made the mistake. You get what I'm saying?" Wally nodded

"Yeah, sorry for asking." Jesse smiled

"It's okay. I just hate to see her and Barry like this." 

"Yeah. I would've loved to see them get married." 

"Yeah, they really loved each other." 

From across the street, Emely saw Wally and Jesse together. She sighed as she was reminded of when her and Barry used to take walks and just talk to each other. She shook her head and sped away to where she was cooped up.