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Sometimes you can be selfless, at other times the greed may consume you. Sometimes you make mistakes, other times you mean exactly what you do, and once you do it there is no going back.
“Guys a little help here would be nice!” Barry screamed into his com set.
“Working on it Barry, just hold on a little bit longer” Iris worryingly said back to her husband. Two hours, in just two hours the country had been demolished. A group of meta terrorists started attacking and with the Legends Lost in time and team Arrow MIA Barry was facing them all alone. Explosions sounded everywhere, no matter where you looked you would see someone hurt, someone dead, or someone dying.
Three hours, Three hours and the flash was about to lose hope. There was no chance he alone could defeat this group of metas. He had no chance, STAR labs collapsed 30 minutes ago, the team just barely escaping with all their limbs attached. The Flash was lost his hope. Broken legged and hopeless, he fell to the ground.
Four Hours, Four hours vision fogged, and barely seeing straight Barry zoomed from building to building saving whoever he could, and putting out abandoned fires before they spread. The Army had arrived one hour ago, The fight was over.
Barry retreated home to the West house, (which was somehow left untouched anlong with the rest of Central City) and collapsed into his wife, no energy left in him to get up again. After hours of fearing the worst would happen to her husband, Iris finally exhaled and unleashed Barry from his cowl soothing his hair down.
The tension in the living room was finally released, Barry had awoken and was spread out on one couch with Iris, still exhausted from the battle. Joe was sitting in his armchair while Caitlin and Cisco battled in the kitchen over what snack was appropriate for this victory; nachos or pizza. Joe and Barry’s attention spans, however, were fixated on the news (Iris, of course, was yelling at Caitlin and Cisco saying for them to just pick something already so Barry could get some food in him). The reporter was removed from the screen and replaced with President Fredrick. He stood proudly as he began to speak.
“20,000 American citizens lives have been wasted today”. Barry winced at the number. “All of this caused by gruesome meta freaks who don’t belong here. None of them ever will.” At this point Iris’s attention was set on the News, she squeezed her husband's hand without realizing. “20,000 American citizens, 20,000 humans.” Joe’s brows furrowed in anger as he stressed the last part of the sentence. Barry was entirely calm, he knew what was coming. He went upstairs and changed out of his suit. “Metahuman, no meta-freaks’ rights have hereby been officially relinquished.”. Everyone in the house froze. “They are not human, they are not our friends, they will not be our neighbors, they-are-not-humans-.” The West house was silent. “Everyone in all of the US will be scanned for meta DNA if any metas are found they will be apprehended. All meta “marriages” are hereby terminated, along with any other relationships, Metas are not our children not our parents, nor any other part of our families”. Barry walked back down the stairs at this point and wrapped his arms around his crying wife, she was his wife, and no one would take that away from them.
The house was silent aside from Iris’ gushing tears, Meta jobs are terminated, everything is gone. The President announced that military officers will be going around to every building and scanning everyone that walks in, they said that anything found in this country will be taken, and terminated. The way he stressed that word, thing Barry hated that word, but what could he do about it, that's what he was now, a thing.
-------------------------Next Day------------------Barry and Iris’s loft--------------------------
“Barry no! How can you possibly be thinking of doing that” Iris yelled at her husband as he was getting ready for work?
“Iris no matter how much I try to escape it, I'm going to get taken, it's unavoidable. They will be at our Loft soon enough anyway.” Barry calmly retorted. “I'm not going to run from it if it's going to happen I'm gonna face it with whatever honor I have left.” Iris stayed silent. She slowly, slowly walked up to her husband and planted a gentle kiss on his soft lips. She knew there was nothing she could do to stop him, to save him. So she stood at the doorway as her husband walked out to his death, hushed tears leaving her weeping eyes.