Canary After Lightning

Three

We sat around talking while waiting for Barry to finish his work. "What is the point of this Particle accelerator anyway?" Iris asked.

"Dr. Harrison Wells work in quantum mechanics is light years ahead of anything they're doing at CERN" Barry began.

"You are doing that thing where your not speaking English" Iris crossed her arms.

"Umm.." Barry grabbed a dry erase marker and drew a small dot on the whiteboard, "This is everything we've ever learned, leading up to this moment"

"Does that include twerking?" I giggled.

"This is everything we can learn from the particle accelerator" Barry drew a large circle around the small dot.

"It's basically the gateway to the future" I simplified it.

"Well, I believe it's a nuisance" 3 men walked in. "Especially since it's keeping my CSI from doing his job"

"Right" Barry jumped right back into his work.

"Who are you?" One of the men asked.

"Right, Sorry," I said, "I'm Avery Lance"

"Avery Lance? As in Quentin Lance?" The second guy asked. "That guy is a legend"

"Captain David Singh" "Detective Fred Chyre" "Detective Joe West, I'm Barry's foster father and Iris' father"

"Oh" Did not expect to be meeting him my first day here.

"Ha!" Barry exclaimed as his test finished. "I have a theory that the Mardon brothers are hiding out on a farm. The cow manure had traces of a chemical only used in feed, which is only used in 4 different farms in the city, bet you'd find a really sweet Shelby parked at one of them"

"Hiding at a farm does fit their MO. The hid in one when they pulled off the Washington Capital Bank heist" I said.

"You know their MO?" Joe asked.

"My dad had me go over every single notorious criminal's MO when I got accepted into the Academy," I said, "Our family is BIG on Justice"

"Well, since Barry doesn't really have much more to do" Iris began, "Can you let him join me and his new girlyfriend attend the accelerator opening?"

"Fine, but I expect you to be back tomorrow and finishing up all your other cases," Singh said. I smiled as Barry grabbed his jacket and took my hand.

"Thank you" Iris gave her dad a kiss on the cheek.

"Nice meeting you guys!" I waved back as we left the lab.

~

We arrived at STAR labs with an hour to spare, we checked out a few video clips of what it will be like inside the particle accelerator before making our way to the stage to watch Harrison Wells speech before the accelerator officially turns on.

"So, How was Starling City?" Iris asked.

"It was nice" Barry smiled.

"Did you find evidence of the impossible? Or did you just go to piss off my dad?" Iris asked. Would he tell her about The Arrow?

"I found evidence of steroids" Barry nodded. Huh...

"How did you two meet?" Iris asked.

"I was working a case for Ollie-Oliver, and He came to do some CSI work for us, and we just sort of hit it off" I shrugged.

"I didn't know you and Oliver Queen kept in touch after the..." Iris stopped herself, "Sorry"

"It's fine, the gambit is long behind me," I said. "But yea, Oliver and I are close, you don' fall into hell and climb out together just to forget each other"