Chapter - 10) Fast Enough...

~Rose's Pov~


Ever had that inner fight with yourself?


Not metaphorically but in real life?


Okay I sound crazy, but I'm not, I mean you read part one of the book, it wasn't me who did those terrible things. It was her.


And that made me think, is the Rose on Earth 2 dealing with the same thing?


~Rosemary's Pov~


"I'm very impatient when it comes to things benefitting me, you know that dad." The three of us stood there at a secret location.


Zoom.


Dad.


And lovely me.


"I'm still working on how I can take their speed, Ro-"


"Don't call me that. Now, because I'm such a lovely daughter, I'll give you the next 48 hours. If I don't get results, my dear sister is going to start losing limbs and body parts. Which eye should I go for first?" I say looking at Zoom.


"Don't hurt her. Please, I'll get you what you want. As quick as possible."


"I know you will, and when this is all done...your existence will be done as well." Zoom slices a hole into reality and I turn my back.


"48 hours, dad. And you know I'm punctual." I leap through and feel Zoom right behind me.


"Make sure my sister, is comfortable. I need to go see something." Before he can give me an answer, I take off and head toward the Millows.


I don't land but I do peek through the window and there he was.


Pacing and writing on his glass board.


I remember when I bought Bartholomew that thing. He was so happy.


I go to touch the window but he turns and I move into the shadows of the trees.


He was the only good thing that ever happened in my life. I continue to watch him and see Iris giving him files. I cock my head and feel a little smirk on my lips.


I wonder if she's still hurt over, Eddie. He was a hot partner, but so nosy. Shame he had that nasty fall and broke his neck.


I flip backwards in the tree and take off flying until I hear him.


"Following me?"


I land by the cave entrance. "You still love him." He says in a angered voice. I raise a brow. "Angry? Oh you've got to be kidding me, I will have feelings for whom I so ever choose."


"He will make you weak, Rosemary."



I purse my lips and slam him to the ground. "Ever say that to me again, and I'll break you like a statue and start over, got it?" He growls, and I get up dusting myself off.


"Showing concern is a stupid action. You asshole." I throw behind me as I walk inside...


~Rose's Pov~


"I'm just concerned, Dad." I say to him as I take his donut and hand him an apple. "And I love that, Rose. But right now, that donut is my salvation."


"Make that apple your salvation." I toss it and drink my hot chocolate. "Vincent, you know this whole concern about my health is very very-"


"Good! I mean I want you to be around forever." I tell him. "Sweetheart, I won't be."


I nod. "If you keep eating these donuts then, yeah you won't be." As Barry walks over my dad gets up. "You go with him." My dad pushes me off to Barry and walks off. "Hey! No donuts! I mean it!" I turn to Barry and give him a kiss on the cheek.


"Ohh, new case?" I go to reach for it but he moves it back from my grasp. "Not for you. This is for Joe."


"Fine, I just stopped by to say hey. Wally and I are gonna have lunch."


"You and your brother sounds like you're getting along." I nod. "Yeah, but truth be told. I don't think he cares much for me. Like there's moments where we click and it's cool, but then I say something and he gives me the cold shoulder. So, I figure, if we stuff our faces. I won't put my own foot in my mouth and we can get to know each other better."


"Sounds like a good idea. Oh, I just want to give you a heads up, Harry and I are working on sealing the breaches, permanently."


"Perfect! Oh I'm going to be late. Love you, have a good day and make sure my dad doesn't go near those donuts." I wave bye and meet up with my brother at Jitters.


I order two strawberry milks and toss him one. "So, you really wanted to be an astronaut?"


"Yeah, but not for what you think. It's one of the fastest ways to travel." He sure is a speed demon.


"Uh, cool. I always wanted to be either a cop or a doctor."


"Cause you like helping people? Joe mentioned that to me." I smile opening my milk and taking a long drink. "Yeah, sorry. Dad likes to brag, let him catch you in a great or bad moment and he will tell anyone who'll listen." I notice Wally on his phone and peek.


"Avenging Angel fan huh?" I ask as I take another drink. "Yeah, she's pretty hot." I choke on my milk and Wally pats my back. "You okay?" I manage not to die and move back.


"Yeah, it just went down the wrong pipe." My brother....ew.


"Hey, can we get a raincheck on this? I gotta go see some car parts."


"You're not still drag racing are you? That's dangerous."


"Yeah, for the people that race against me. Sure is." He says with a smirk. "Wallace that isn't funny." The smirk was gone. "I don't remember making a joke. Look, I'll talk to you later." He walks up and I sigh.


"How's that foot taste, Rose?" I mutter to myself...


The next morning I was waking up and feeling famished. "God I'm starving." I get up and start to rummage the kitchen when I get a call. "Hello?"


"Miss West." I grab some leftover chicken. "Hey Bruce."


"Good morning. Now, how do you know who I am?"


"Because, we are going to be good friends along with a few others, a justice league if you wanna call it that." I take the chicken out of the microwave and and grab some bread.


"Are you with-"


"Nope, but trust me. You're secrets safe, it's so funny you're on my top list. But oh, I gotta go. I'm sure we'll meet again. By the way, I think what's you're doing in Gotham is great, bye." I hang up and just when I was about to take a bite my meat sandwich I get another call.


"Hello?" I ask. "Rose, come down to the lab real quick."


"You got it, Cisco." I hang up and quickly take a shower, change, and take my breakfast then fly to the lab.


"I didn't want to wake you." Barry says as he turns to me. "No, it's cool. I think I'm going to sleep at my place soon though." I say taking the last three bites of my food. "Wait you have a place?"


"I didn't tell you this before? Wow. Cisco what did you wanna show me?" He hands me his phone and I see him press an icon. "This is the new meta app. If anyone sees a meta with this thing. I'll be the first to know about it." He says proudly.


"You really need to get out more." I say teasing him. "You and Barry really need to shut your mouths. This is genius." He says joking.


"It's meta tinder if you make it an app to look for the next Mrs. right Oh, you have to let me make you a profile. Barry wouldn't that be cool?"


"I'm still stuck that you've never told me you had a place before." I roll my eyes and we all walk into the main room. "Don't worry, I'll let you sleep over and we can have a girls night."


"No make overs." I snort. "Still traumatized about what I did to you when I was eight? Hey the purple hair dye came out three days later. But red-"


"Don't even think about it."


"Hey, Harry. How's the breacher thing going?" I ask. "It's going." He says in a clipped tone. The more and more I try to be friendly with him, the more and more I feel like he hates me.


"How about I help?"


"No."


"Hey, I think having Rose would help. She sees things sometimes no one else sees." Barry says making me feel good about myself. "I said no."


"Well, that's too bad. I'm helping. Zoom keeps sending his goons after Barry and I. So deal with it. So, where do we begin?"


Why did I say I wanted to help? Reading all these equations and science mumbo jumbo makes me sleepy.


"If you want to nap, Miss West..." I hear Harry's voice and snap out of it. "Sorry! Sorry, the words just seem to jumble off the page...hey, what's this?" I point at a paragraph and Barry reads over my shoulder. "That is really nothing, a simple equation." I look at the board Harry was writing on and get up.


"Here." I point to a symbol and erase it with my sleeve. "What are you doing?" Harry says glaring at me.


"This." I take the marker from him and write the symbol upside down and put square it.


"How did you?"


"I don't know, but it makes more sense don't you think?"


"It does." Harry mutters as he stands back and looks at the board. "Was your Rose smart?" I ask. He tenses up. "Can we get back to this?"


"You know, Harry. You don't have to be rude to her." Barry says sticking up for me. He takes the market from me and looks at Barry.


"I did not ask for either of you to help me. And I certainly did not ask about my attitude to be checked."


"Chill out-"


"No, Rose. There's no chill out. I have a lot on my mind, my daughters, how I need to save them and you don't make this easy."


"What's that suppose to mean?" I say feeling defensive. "It means, leave me alone."


I don't know why this hurt me so much. I did just want to help. "Well screw you." I snap at him and walk out the room.


Seconds later Barry follows me. "Hey, hey. Don't let him get to you. You're heart was in the right place."


"I know it was. But God, I don't know why but it's like I'm seeking his approval or something."


"Come on, let's go see if Cisco got my samples from the case I'm working on."


Barry asks about the samples when we find Cisco in the main room on his computer.


"So I ran your crime scene samples and there's something strange. Well two exactly."


"Like what?" Barry asks. "One, definitely meta-human cells in the oil. And two, the victim didn't die from his burns. He was suffocated."


I cringe looking at the photo. "I'm so glad my stomach isn't trying to yak up the last thing I ate. That is gross he looks like one of those toy soldiers you melt in the sun."


"This all makes sense actually. The burns indicated that the body was covered in something." Barry mutters. "Cross-referencing 02 levels in the organic matter, I found a direct match to animals trapped and preserved in an asphalt seep. The guy was fossilized." Cisco explains.


"So whoever killed him is like a walking--"


"Tar pit! Ha! Cisco too slow! In your face!"


"That's not right. That's just not right." I can see the regret on his face for not being able to name this meta.


"In other words, this guy is basically drowning his victims in tar. Now my only question is why did he target Daniel Burge?" Just as Cisco was about to answer, some scifi-thriller music plays.


"That's my app. Yeah, and it says...a meta was spotted at 6th and Bell, downtown."


Barry and I both get into our suits and take off towards the location.


Hmm, my suit feels funny. Maybe I can ask Cisco to check it out.


I push that thought to the back of my mind and keep going.


We get there right before any damage happens.


"What t...tell me you guys are seeing this?" I say over the earpiece.


"Oh yeah, we see it." Cisco answers back.


Right there we see Tar Pit and he looked like he was eating it, hell he smelled like it.


He throws a fire ball and we move quick.


Barry grabs the guy and I absorb the fire ball like tar.


Oh, that feels funny.


"How do we stop him?" Barry asks. "The viscosity of asphalt lowers as its temperature lowers."


"Yeah! It hardens, okay guys find a way to cool him down."


I look at the fire hydrant and look over at Barry. We both nod and he moves over to it.


"Hey, tar for brains! Does your mother know you're a terrible shot?" I see I've pissed him off and I take up in the air and fly towards Barry.


Tar pit throws anther fire tar ball but this time it hits the hydrant and he gets blasted with a mass of water.


My chest feels funny again but I ignore it and see Tar pit harden.


Barry grabs the guy he was after and I have to say, team flash 1, villains 0 this time...


"Are we really calling him Tar Pit?" Barry asks as we go over what we've learned.


"Yeah, do you hear that Cisco?"


"I'm in the same room as you." He snaps. "Don't hate. Don't hate." I say with a smirk as I open the latest Civil War comic.


Hmm, team Cap or team Ironman?


"Okay, well Tar Pit was after one Clay Stanley. As it turns out, is a suspect hit man that the CCPD has been trying to track for awhile, but they haven't been able to make anything stick."


"Do we know why he was attacked?" Caitlyn questions. I look up and remember something.


"Did you get those results yet, Cisco?"


"If you're asking if I get facial recognition software done on our meta then yes. I mean who's the greatest when it comes to software?"


"Felicity Smoak..." We say in unison. "What is wrong with you people? I thought we were friends."


Caitlyn clears her throat. "Our meta's name is Joseph Monteleone."


"Damn look at that mean mug." I comment while looking at his mug shot. "Monteleone was reported missing..surprise, surprise, the night of the particle accelerator explosion."


"So what's the connection?" Caitlyn asks.


"Simple, they're all bad guys. They must know each other." Everyone looks at me and I freeze with my comic. "What? I've been very observant these past few days, don't judge me."


"She's right. I just got a match that Tar Pit, Clay and our melted victim. All knew each other in prison." Cisco nods.


I fist bump Barry and Caitlyn says she wants to run some tests to see if she can get anything so we can use that weakness so he can't hurt anyone.


"I need to go to my job." I say hopping up. "When did you get a job?"


"I forgot to mention that to you too? I am so sorry." I tell Barry. "Hey, before you two go, are both of you feeling okay?"


"Yeah I'm fine. Rose?"


"Well, I have this feeling of impending doom and possible anxiety. Other than that, I'm right as rain."


"Well, anyways. I noticed on both of your suits that you're both going slower than normal."


I scoff. "Cisco, what's normal?"


"Hey, I'm serious. You both clocked in at 1,450 miles an hour. Which for the both of you that's slow."


"How fast do we normally speed?" Barry asks. "Roughly 1,500 or more. Are you eating properly?"


"Yeah, actually I have a steak burrito with my name on it as we speak. Now sorry guys but I gotta run. No fly. I'm gonna be late."


"Let me walk you." I shrug and we tell Cisco bye and head out.


"So you're working for a comic store?"


"Yeah, plus. I can do some studying on those freaky comics I got when I was a kid."


"That's true. Although I wish you would have told me about this job." Barry says as he opens the door for me. "Well seeing that we fight crime and look for meta's I didn't think saying hey I work for DC comics was the right time at the moment. See you later?" I say as I look up into those pretty eyes.


"Yeah, unless you're going to go and see your other boyfriend."


"How did you know?" I laugh and he pouts. "I'm joking. I'm joking. Mm, go and get some work done. Love you." I give him a kiss on the cheek and he shoves his hands in his pockets.


"Love you too." He looks around for a second and leaves out.


"Cute." I turn and see Anissa. One of the key holders. "Yeah, he's good too."


"Awesome. Well your shift is pretty laid back since the holidays are over. You'll be sorting through some comics and taking care of customers."


"Sounds pretty good. Oh, I was wondering if you knew this signature." I show her the Z signature that I snapped on my phone from the comic and she frowns.


"No, but...that looks familiar. Why?" I shrug. "Just wanted to get some answers. No big." As the shift goes on I yawn and finish up with Zack, one of the regulars from what Anissa says.


"Alright, and signature here." I look up and Zack was already heading out the door. "And you're gone. Great." I look around and sign Zack's name. Right as I was about to put his receipt in the register I pause.


I take out my phone and look at the Z and the Z I wrote.


They look exactly the same.


"Hey, Rose? Come look at this." I walk over putting the receipt and my phone in my pocket. "Someone made this Avenging Angel and Flash cover art. Sick right?" I look at it and I see me, but something was off with my features.


Like my smile, why did it look sinister?


Why did Barry look...afraid to stand next to me?


Better yet, why are my eyes colored pure black when they're suppose to be white?


"Who drew this?" I ask taking the drawing from her. "No clue. It just came in with this." She hands me a package and it was addressed to Rosebud.


"That's my nick name..." Anissa walks to the back and I open the package. Inside I see a cover of two Roses'.


On the cover it said;


The last Rose will wilt.


And it showed a white eyed me, in a casket while the black eyed me was smiling like the devil.


"Z..." Was the signature...


•••


I didn't care if Harry was upset or doesn't like me. But I need to know about earth-2 Rose. And I need to know ASAP.


He was in the study lab and I march over to him. "Look you don't like me and I get that it's because I remind you of your daughter, and speaking of her can you tell me about her?"


"Miss West-"


"Please, I need to know her." He gives me a look and turns away. "A ten year olds determination."


"What?" He turns to me and he looks at me and I see a kindness in his eyes. "Rosemary, when I first met her. She was ten. She was this quiet little girl but she had this talent for drawing. This kid could've been great at graphic design. But she used that skill to dry out the most difficult equation. I told her that it was impossible. But she was determined. When I woke up one morning, there was a book right at the foot of my bed and when I flipped through, there it was. The equation was not only drawn out, but in other languages I didn't know she knew. Her determination...that's what you two have in common."


"Do you hate her?" I don't know why I blurted that out. "No, never. The moment I saw her at the on a field trip to S.T.A.R. Labs was the moment she had me wrapped around her finger."


"So you loved her?"


"I wanted to be her mentor since she was the youngest to attempt to apply for a job there at the lab and when I discovered that she was in an unbalanced foster home. I just...adopted her."


"Is...is she...like me? Not like you described but is she a meta human like me?" I see him hesitate.


"Rosemary is not like other people, and it's all because of the way she was raised."


"How?"


"She suffered many losses, had countless therapy sessions and even would lash out at me or Jessie. But she always would be determined just to get answers. And she would always be determined, to be understood."


"I hope she's nice and not stubborn like you."


"I'm not stubborn." I purse my lips. "Yes you are, and you're not a team player."


"Look, I'm not a team player because at the end of the day, I will always choose my family. That is who I am. A father. And one day Zoom is gonna make me choose between you and my family, and every time, unblinkingly, unflinchingly, I will choose my family. I will betray you."


"I'd do the same if I were in your situation. But right now, I'm trying to work with you, not against you. You might not have faith in me, but...I have enough faith for the both of us. And by the way, the formula to close the breachers, I solved it. We need the electromagnetic insulator of the quark matter to be amped up as well as balanced with the other substances. You're welcome." I say placing my answers down in front of him.


He looks at it and he looks at me. "How did you?"


"Something Harrison, the other Harrison taught me while playing chest, look at all the pieces and always protect the queen piece. He might have been an evil guy, but he wasn't stupid." I shrug and walk out of the room leaving him with the papers....


~Rosemary's Pov~


"Hello, dad." I say as I lean against the stone building. "Drink up." He tosses me a vile as well as tossing one to Zoom.


I inject myself and feel a sudden jolt to my system.


I smile wickedly. "Had enough?"


"What? No why are you like this? Please let me help you?"


"No, because I've put my faith into someone else." The smirk on my face drops and Zoom grabs him by the shoulder. "You think earth 1 me is so great? How great will she be when I snap her spine and make her choke on her own blood...right in front of your eyes?"


I see Zoom squeeze and he winces. "I want more, I want it all, drain the bitch but not too much. I'll do the rest. Oh, and one more thing." I click my tongue and Zoom stabs his fingers into his shoulder making him gasp.


"Putting faith in others is pointless. I should know." Zoom let's my father go and I back up. "See you around, dad..."


~Rose's Pov~


The next day...


"Well, Rose. You were right." Harry says walking up to me. "That is twice in one week. I am on a ro-hey are you okay?" I ask looking at him.


"I'm fine. But I looked over the notes and they all were accurate."


"What was accurate?" Barry asks as he walks in. "Rose's side notes on closing the breaches permanently. You two ready to go?"


"Yup, let's do this."


"Have fun fixing the universe guys." Cisco comments as he takes a drink of his slurpee. "Don't worry, I won't blow anything up. At least this time." I say over my shoulder.


We were in an empty parking lot and Harry was tweaking the anti-breachers bombs.


"Now if this is all right."


"Which it is, cause I'm right." I say with my hands in my pockets.


"When this device detonates, it will collapse the event horizon o. This side of the breach, thereby shutting off any connection to earth-2 permanently."


I sit down on the ground and feel sleepy. I hear Barry yawn and Harry looks between us.


"Are you two up for this?"


"Yeah, just...wow I need more sleep."


"Who are you telling?" I say as I rest my chin on my knees.


"Who wants to do the honors?"


"Barry can, I'm already sitting I'll move quickly though." I say as I scoot back an inch. Barry tosses the breacher bomb like a football and it warps and...then it's gone.


"Goal!" I yell as I get up.


"Is it gone?" Barry asks. Harry scan it and nods.


"One down, 51 to go."


"Yes!" I hug Barry and then Harry. I thought he wasn't going to return the hug, but surprisingly, he does.


"Alright, let's get to work." I let him go after he says that and Barry wraps his arm around me as we walk to the van.


"You did good."


"What can I say? I'm doing this so he can be with his family." I say as u smile at Harry.


When we get inside, I get a call. "Hey Iris, I ca--"


"You and Barry need to get down here now. I don't know how, but your meta is starting chaos."


Tar pit...


He must of gotten out of custody somehow.


"Where are you? We'll be there quickly." My sister tells me the place and I tell Barry.


We get out suits on and we speed over to where my sister, dad and even brother are.


I see a car about to flip on tar and see its Wally inside.


I raise my hand stopping the car and yank my brother out, making sure he's safe.


My chest feels funny and I feel sluggish now.


Barry was speeding making sure people were out g the way. Even the latest victim to Tar Pit.


But in that mess anther car crashes and shards of glass was flying everywhere.


One large piece was flying right towards my sister.


No!


I try to fly as quickly as I can but the faster I flap my wings the more sluggish I feel.


And in that split second, the shard hits my sister in the shoulder and she goes down. I grab her before she hits the ground and it hits me.


I...


I wasn't fast enough.


"Iris!" I hear dad yell and I take off in the air towards the hospital.


"R..Rose?"


"I got you. I'm so sorry. Iris? Iris?" My sister had passed out in my arms.


I don't think I've moved out of my chair since. I sit in that chair and see my big sister laying there unconscious.


"She's a West, Rose. She's strong" Dad says as he places a hand on my shoulder. "But dad, I wasn't fast enough. What it the glass was higher and it-"


"Don't talk like that. How about you go get some fresh air?"


"But-"


"She's not going anywhere, Rose." I nod and get up and leave the room for a moment.


I was too slow. Even Barry was off on his speed.


Not only that I've been feeling a tad slow lately. If this accident hadn't happened then, I wouldn't have noticed.


But my sisters life was in danger, as well as my brother and father.


I decide to check on Iris and when I walk in she was awake.


I can't help but say to myself...



"Rose?" I look up and my sister had her hand out to me. "I'm so sorry."


"No, it's okay."


"No it's not. I can't lose my sister. I lost mom, and Francine. I can't lose someone else." I was shaking and my dad walks over and hugs me. "It's okay baby girl. It's okay."


I let it out. "Dad, no it's not. Iris could've died. And it would have been my fault like everything else."


"Hey, don't you dare do that. Don't you dare try to put the weight on your shoulders. I should've moved out of the way. But I was frozen there. And you did get me to the hospital. That was a good thing." My sister sits up a bit. "Ugh." I rush over and move her pillow up.


"Thank you."


"You're welcome." I say wiping my face. "I hate hospitals. Now I see why you always escaped." I chuckle at my sister's joke.


"They have terrible food here. Why else would I escape?" Iris smiles and I hold her hand. "You okay?" She nods. "I'm sore and I feel high as a kite, but yeah. I'm fine." I smirk and the door opens.


There was Wally holding a bundle of flowers. "Hey, I uh, wanted to stop by. And give you these flowers...I don't even know if you'll like them. Or, or are you allergic?"


"She's not. Come in." I say to him. He walks in and puts the flowers down and then shoves his hands in his pockets. "I'm..I'm sorry. I'll just go." He leaves the room and dad follows him.


"He's sorry. He's sorry you got hurt just as much as I am." I say holding my sister's hand. "I know, and I hope he stops doing those races."


"After this? I think he will. At least I hope..."


"How is she?" Barry asks as I walk into the main room. "She's awake, she's doped up to but she's okay. Any word on Tar Pit?"


"Not yet, but we'll get him. With these." Harry tosses something to Cisco and he glares at him. "What part of nitrous grenade don't you understand? You know what, that must be an earth-2 thing. Anyway these things have at least ten times the concentration of a hot rods nitrous tank and is triggered by extreme heat. We're talking 650 degrees. That's the boiling point of asphalt, so one of these puppies makes contact, you got a Tar pit popsicle for dessert."


"Good, and...um I think Barry and I need to get some tests done. I felt so sluggish."


"Me too, it felt like I was being drained." Barry says to me. "Maybe you should check out the suits-"


"That's unnecessary." Harry says as he tinkers away. "The readings from the suits are normal. You know those babies are taken good care of on a daily basis."


"Can we get sick? Like a speed cold?" I ask.


"I don't know, are either of you feeling different?" Cisco asks as he looks at both of us.


"Rose and I both know we're slower."


"And we're getting really tired." I yawn and cover my mouth.


"2% you two have slowed down by 2%." Caitlyn says behind us as she walks in the room.


"I ran some tests on the components in both of you and for the last 60 days you both were at 100%, now you two are at 98%."


"Zoom did steal Jay's speed. Maybe he's doing that again."


"But that stuff happened weeks ago. Why would we be feeling anything from that? Dr. Wells?"


He looks at me and I get this feeling. "Yes, Rose?"


"You've studied the speed force more than anyone. What do you think could have happened?"


"It could be any number of things." He says and looks away.


"Like what?" I yawn again. "I mean Iris could've died. Wally too. Barry and I can't lose our speed now. That's too dangerous even when we go against Zoom again."


"Your sister is gonna be okay and we're gonna make sure Zoom is stopped."


"Yeah, but this? This whole thing happening? It's a wake up call. Barry and I need to know our bodies better. Starting with why are we getting slower? I...I can't lose again. And I won't lose anymore people...."


"You won't." We all look at Harry when he says that.


"Huh?" He walks over to our suits and takes the bold and double A off revealing two tech pieces attached to them. "I did it."


"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's that?" Cisco asks pointing. "I've been stealing your speed. I gave it to Zoom an-"


Right then I see Barry punch Harry in the face and I see my dad run over pulling Barry off.


"You did this?! How could you?!"


"You're working with Zoom?" I say feeling this hurt feeling in my chest. My dad was about to handcuff him but I raise my hands and yank Harry right over to me.


"You got my sister hurt, you almost got my brother hurt, this is your fault and I want you to live with that...." I raise him higher and I see him gasping for air.


"You're working for the enemy? Zoom hurt me!" I screech causing the room to shake.


"Rose, stop!" Someone yells.


"I...I told you, I'll choose my family." He gasps out.


"And I choose mine." I let him drop to the floor and back away from him.


"Lock him up..." I look at Harrison and feel a tear fall. "I trusted you." I say before looking away.


"Let's go and fix this Tar Pit problem."


The plan was in motion to trap Tap Pit, we use Clay as bait and wait for the right moment to set the grenade off on Tar Pit


Right on cue he shows up and I swoop in, grabbing my dad and Clay so they were out of harms reach while Barry threw two grenades at Tar Pit.


Just like Cisco described, he was now a Tar Pit popsicle. His outer layer cracked and there stood a man.


My father simply walked over to him and punched him out cold.


"Way to go dad..."


•••


So here I am pacing, thinking. Trying not to go and smother Harry.


"You're in control." I stop and look at Barry. "I'm being selfish...I want him to be in there and think about what he's done. I want him to hurt just like I did. How could he betray us?"


"I talked to him, and he only did it because Zoom threatened his family."


"That makes sense. He does have his daughters. But I wish he would have said something. We could've help..."


"What's stopping us from helping him now?" I walk down to the pipeline cells and open the door to face him.


"Why? Why not be open and tell us? Hey I'm talking to you!" I snap. "You knew I would betray you. I told you."


"But at the cost of my family? Me and Barry?"


"Well I just sacrificed my family."


"You want a hand clap or something?"


"Rose-" I raise a finger stopping Barry. "Look, just send me back to earth 2. Close the breaches and you'll never have to see me again. Think about it, if you get faster, your speed gets taken. Both of you."


"That's not gonna happen. Not the speed or you going back to earth 2 to suffer in the hands of Zoom." Harry gives me a puzzled look. "What are you saying?"


"I'm saying..." I open the door to his cell. "We're a team and we don't let our teammates down. Barry and I aren't fast enough to beat Zoom, but we will close every breach around this city and leave just one open. If I have to, you and I will go to your earth, get your daughters and close the breach for good."


"Why would you do this for me?"


"Because, y...you're part of my family. And I'll always choose family."


And I told the plan to the others, they all seem hesitant, even my dad said no.


But I made my point clear. With Barry's support.


Guess you can say...we're going to Earth-2.


I wonder if earth-2 me can answer my questions about that strange comic I got.


I mean she's probably going through hell with Zoom...right?


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I DONT LIKE EARTH TWO ROSE SHES JUST...TWISTED BUT!! IN A FEW CHAPTERS YOULL SEE WHY. UGH IM SO EXCITED TO DO THE NEXT CHAPTERS AND GET TISSUES YOURE GONNA NEED THEM GOTTA GO UP UP AND AWAY😁😁 (this chapter is unedited)

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