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Barry was panting heavily as he felt the Speed Force leave his body. He suddenly felt weak and collapsed off of the treadmill, falling to the ground hard. It took him an extra second to register Iris running up to him, Joe and Caitlyn standing behind her with looks of concern on their faces.
“Barry, are you okay?” She asked crouching down in front of him.
“I’m okay.” He was still having trouble breathing as he reassured her that he was fine. “I’m okay.” He repeated.
He looked over her shoulder just in time to see Jay injecting himself with his Speed. The man’s eyes darkened into a devilish red and his body began surging with blue and yellow lightning. Barry looked on in silent horror as Jay screamed loudly. A second later he was being grabbed by his neck and forcefully thrown against a pipeline. His vision blurred considerably from the impact and he began gasping for air as Jay tightened his grip around his neck.
The man had a crazed grin on his face. “Thank you, Flash!” He yelled.
“Jay, stop!” He heard Caitlyn shout. Jay turned to her, hand still wrapped around Barry’s neck slowly choking the life out of him. “Please.” She said desperately.
Barry glanced over at her then back at Jay. He was desperately trying to pry Jay’s calloused hand from around his neck with both of his hands, but the man didn’t falter, not even slightly.
Dr. Wells entered the room, Cisco trailing behind him, and he aimed the blaster he had in his hands at Jay’s back from a distance.
“If anything you ever said to me was true, or anything we ever shared was real, then please just let him go.” Caitlyn begged with tears in her eyes.
Barry looked on powerlessly as black dots began dancing across his vision. Zoom was really killing him. He was going to die.
“Please. I know some piece of you did care for me, so if you have any humanity left, then please, let him go.” She finalized with a choked sob.
Jay glanced over at her, seeming to consider her words, before he looked back at a red-faced Barry whose eyes had rolled into the back of his head.
He slowly turned back to Caitlyn with a lunatic’s grin and said: “You’re wrong. You mean nothing to me.”
A second later, Barry passed out, but not before feeling Jay unwrap his hand from around his throat and dashing off, taking him along with him.