collide ⚡ barry allen [2] [ON HOLD]

05. take a chill pill, parents

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To say Spencer wasn't a morning person was an understatement. If you didn't know her well enough, that may not be your first assumption. Her job- whether it be at STAR Labs or CCPD- required an early start, and Spencer was a chipper person on good days (which used to occur more often). But that didn't mean she enjoyed getting up at the crack of dawn- which for her was before nine AM. So you can imagine her irritation when several loud knocks disturbed her from sleep a half hour before her alarm would go off.

Unfortunately, Spencer couldn't hit snooze on her annoying visitor, who couldn't seem to get the hint, so she forced herself out of bed. She briefly squinted at her phone, hoping one of her friends had tried to reach her so she could narrow down the list of suspects that could be banging on her door, but no messages or missed calls were on her screen. She sighed and begrudgingly stomped out of her bedroom give towards the front door, ready to give her mystery visitor a piece of her mind. Nothing could prepare for who she found on the other side of the door.

"Mom?"

The ginger-haired woman who was standing across from her offered her a tightlipped smile that didn't reach her eyes before brushing passed her into the apartment.

"It's about time you answered," Victoria grumbled, "I'm not getting any younger, you know."

Spencer shook off the initial shock of seeing her mother and spun around to face her with accusatory eyes, "What the hell are you doing here?"

The older woman frowned, "Really? That's the first thing you say to me in- oh, how long has it been, eight months?"

"Is that your way of saying you missed me?"

"Please. How can I miss a person I barely see as is? All I ask is that you at least tell me what's going on with you from time to time."

The blonde mockingly gasped, "Victoria Kress cares about what's happening in my life? Alert the media!

Victoria rolled her eyes, "You left the city for six months. I am your mother, I had the right to know where you were going- especially when you're running around, spending my money."

"Let me stop you right there. You do realize I've been making a living for myself for years now, don't you? I don't need your money to survive."

"Sure because STAR Labs pays so well, especially after that accelerator exploded," Her mother scoffed, making herself at home by tossing her designer purse on the couch. "And what's this I heard about you working at CCPD now? Finally realize you were going nowhere with that lab?"

Spencer choked back her emotional reaction at the way her mother carelessly brought up the night of the accelerator explosion, like it was no big deal. Like it wasn't the night her best friend was killed- the fact that he didn't die that night was not the point, as far as Victoria knew, that's when it happened but she still didn't care. "You have no idea what we even do at STAR Labs."