Secrets are driving one particular person crazy; Andi Brave. She is curious for the truth that leads her to a path that could endanger her friends and loved ones' safety, especially her partner Barry Allen. Although towards Central City, he is well...
AN: The song provided is Where's My Love? by SYML.
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The next afternoon, Joe walked into S.T.A.R. Labs with the intention to talk to Barry, but found his son on the treadmill while Caitlin, Cisco, and Dr. Wells were in the other room, watching over his vitals.
Joe entered the surveillance room, letting out a heavy sigh, and crosses his arms over his chest. "How long has he been at it?"
"About an hour," Cisco answered, before taking another sip of his cherry slushie.
Joe eyed the boxes at the back of the room and looked through the scanners. He noticed Barry's speed on the treadmill. "I meant in this state."
"Since this morning," Caitlin noted, "but maybe even before that."
Joe looked over to Caitlin and raised a brow. She met his concerned eyes with her own and that's when Joe realized there's some anger hidden around them. Well, it was just last night that he and Barry told her and Cisco the truth about Dr. Wells.
Caitlin of course, like he suspected, wasn't easily convinced for her boss to be the man who murdered Nora Allen. But Joe couldn't blame her. Cisco mentioned having seen a life-like situation where Well's killed him. And that was what got him to consider what they said is the truth.
Still, now that they know, it meant they could bring it up with Wells. But then again, Barry trusted them, and because Joe trusted Barry, he had to go along with his son's judgement.
"What do you mean?"
"Mr. Allen slept here last night," Dr. Well's explained. "We found him asleep at the desk."
Before everyone continued to quietly watch Barry run, Caitlin said, "He must've been watching the scanners all night. . .looking for her."
Barry continued to run the treadmill, putting all of his strength and energy into every step. He tried to keep his heart and lungs at a slow, relaxed pace while pushing the rest of his body to get faster and faster at every step. He had to get faster. In order to save Andi. He had to get faster than Reverse-Flash. That's the only thing he can do since going out and searching for her didn't work, neither virtually.
His mind was somewhere else—far from S.T.A.R. Labs, but all there at the same time. He felt the soles of his shoes step against the metal and his arms swinging at his sides, but he also felt the touch of Andi under his hands, the warmth and smoothness of her skin. He heard the whooshes of the air through his ears but at the same time, he heard Andi's soft, special voice as if she were in the room. She may be gone, taken by Reverse-Flash, but she haunted him like a ghost.
