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Note: Given the very Monara-centric theme of the previous challenge, I kind of wanted to do one that concentrated on Barry and what happened to him after the reset, so do enjoy! Rules and Prompt at the end, once more.

Barry's Forgotten Marriage

He didn't remember how he got here, or where here was, but Barry blinked in confusion as he sat opposite Caitlin in a restaurant, she was saying something he only caught the end of though-

"…reminds me of Beauty and the Beast; well this is Paris after all," Caitlin grinned across the table from him. "It's weird to think it's only, what, 9am over in Central right now."

"Erm… what?" Barry looked around, confused as he looked back to Caitlin. "We're in Paris? But how?"

"Are you okay Barry?" Caitlin frowned, leaning forward across the table a little.

"I…" Barry paused. "We were rebooting the multiverse; Kara, Kate, J'onn and everyone… Oliver had just… and then I was here," Barry admitted, sounding a little deranged.

"Erm, no?" Caitlin stated. "We were having a romantic meal at our hotel restaurant."

"Romantic meal?" Barry paused.

"Obviously. We're on our honeymoon after all. Are you sure you're okay?" Caitlin asked as Barry moved back in his chair in shock.

"I… but… what?" Barry couldn't quite grasp what was going on.

"Urm… Let's head back to the room. We were done anyway," Caitlin sighed, obviously knowing something was off with Barry as she stood, and it was all Barry could do but follow her as they exited the restaurant and moved through reception and down a corridor to a large suite. Within was a large double bed; everything neatly arranged as the hotel staff had cleaned since.

Caitlin moved to the bed, sitting down before patting the sheet, indicating for Barry to sit next to him, which he did.

"What's going on? We were having such a wonderful time and then you just… flaked," Caitlin asked as Barry took a breath. She was his closest friend, he could confide in her, even if he had no idea what was happening.

"Crisis," he started. "It wiped out everything. We Paragons were left in what Sara called the Vanishing Point, but that didn't stop it. We had to reboot the multiverse and were helped by Oliver. But Oliver was dead, and then… I was in the restaurant with you."

"That… sounds like some wild dream, Barry. I know you dream in speed, but even for a momentary nod-off, that seems like a lot," Caitlin frowned, confused.

"It wasn't a dream!" Barry pointed out, not unkindly as he stood and started to pace. "Crisis really did happen. That's newspaper article in the Gideon room…"

"Oh," Caitlin's expression changed at that. "You… do you remember? That article vanished when Iris died."

"Iris is dead?!" Barry turned toward Caitlin at that, his hand absently going to the wedding ring on his finger.

"She was killed by Savitar two years ago… you went into a really dark place after that and then… do you not remember any of this?" Caitlin stood at that, moving to feel Barry' forehead. He didn't resist.

"No, like I said, the last thing I remember was Crisis… although come to think of it that newspaper article said Reverse Flash was involved but he was no where to be seen…" Barry paused at that, frowning himself. Had it all been a dream?

"I need to get you back to STAR Labs," Caitlin stated. "Only there do I have the equipment –"

"No. No… I mean, we're in Paris," Barry stated, having got that already. He was beginning to realize that, if it hadn't all been a dream, then whatever they'd done had restarted the universe in some way. Maybe only he and the other Paragons remembered Crisis while everyone else lived on as normal. He had to remain calm for Caitlin. "Just… what have I missed?"

"Missed? Okay... Well, what do you know?" Caitlin raised an eyebrow as Barry took a seat next to her on the bed again, showing he was calmer.

"Iris. I feel like what I know changes from there," Barry explained, wondering if there was a way to reverse this death. He and Iris had spent so long preparing for him to die in Crisis that he never considered the fact she would die instead. Sort of.

"Well, like I said, Savitar killed her," Caitlin stated, slowly. "You went into a deep depression after that, and I… well, Killer Frost, left Savitar because of that. Iris was her friend too. She regretted what she did, by teaming up with Savitar, so she kind of left for a while, leaving me to pick up the pieces. You were angry at the world, at your friends and me, but somehow, I got through to you. I picked you up, you stopped Savitar – and DeVoe – and then…" she indicated the room and then her own wedding finger.

"We married?" Barry summed it up. He did love her; he didn't know if he loved her like that, but he had been so hung up on Iris that maybe… it could happen.

"Yeah," Caitlin stated, suddenly looking away from Barry, who sensed this had suddenly got too much for her.

"Hey," Barry stated softly now, drawing her attention back to him. "I may not remember that right now, but that doesn't mean I don't love you." Caitlin smiled at that. "Maybe there's a way for me to get these alternative memories… I know J'onn has mind skills, maybe he…?" at that moment there was an alert on both their phones, both frowning as they pulled out their cell phones.

"Looks like our honeymoon's being cut short," Caitlin chuckled. "Beebo in National City."

"National City's on this Earth?" Barry asked.

"There's a giant Beebo wreaking havoc and that's the question you ask?!" Caitlin laughed as she reached into her clutch handbag to pull out a familiar extrapolator device. "Need to get to STAR first – both our outfits are there," she added as her hair started to go white and Barry chuckled, realizing she was still Killer Frost, after all.

…

Barry, as the Flash, sped into National City, just as a portal opened and Killer Frost appeared next to him.

"Good timing," Barry smirked as two people flew in besides them – Ray and Kara, albeit in their hero outfits.

"Barry!" Kara grinned going to hug him. He reciprocated the hug happily before glancing to the giant Beebo down the street.

"Oh, cool!" Ray stated as he pulled out his cell phone. "Smile!" Kara and Barry were in shot of his phone as they turned to look at Ray in exasperation; able to see the giant Beebo parading the streets on his phone behind them as he took the shot.

"Really, not the time," Barry stated as he turned and ran to Beebo, running around him before wondering what exactly he could do to defeat the giant stuffed toy.

"Any idea how to stop this… thing?" A voice spoke in their ears and the group looked up to the nearby building to see Batwoman observing the scene below.

"Hey! Kate's here," Kara grinned as Barry chuckled. It looked like the Paragons that mattered seemed to be gathering for Beebo.

"Not sure what Batwoman can do," Barry commented into coms, speeding next to Kara again. "Maybe…" he glanced to Kara and Frost now, who stood side by side.

"Freeze breath?" Kara nodded, getting the thought as she glanced to Frost, who nodded too. Kara took to the sky and started blowing ice on the toy as Frost joined from below, aiming to freeze the thing.

Strangely enough, Beebo withstood the freezing, shaking it off with a smile as Ray now aimed a well-placed blast on the toy's chest.

"Owie!" Beebo called as he went to hit Ray, who was flying around him, sending Ray spiralling away.

"This is so weird," Barry stated, watching it all unfold.

"Flash?" It was Sara over the coms.

"White Canary?" Barry smiled, glad to hear another fellow Paragon in his ear.

"This can't be natural. The only time we've ever seen a sentient giant Beebo like this was when we Legends became one," she explained.

"There's a lot to digest in that sentence," Barry mused.

"Another time. Look around the city, see if there's anything behind this – maybe a magic totem or a meta or something, anything, that started this," Sara stated as now J'onn joined in, keeping Beebo back.

"On it," Barry stated as he started speeding around the buildings, trying to come to terms that National City existed on his world now.

"Going to use my Batarang to try and contain him," Batwoman commented as Barry momentarily saw the boomerang-like device fly around Beebo, a rope attached to tie him up. It was impressive.

He had scoured a lot of the nearby buildings but was surprised when he reached a bank some distance away to find it being robbed. It seemed unusual that, amid the panic, someone would bother to rob a bank… unless…

He went to punch the robber, who was masked, and sent him flying back into the vault of the bank and unconscious. He moved back out of the bank vault to applause from the staff.

"Where did he go?" Multiple voices came across the coms and Barry grinned as he ran out of the bank and back to the action, to find Beebo had vanished.

"I'm guessing he was an illusion," Barry commented as the heroes gathered. "There was a bank robbery going on, I knocked the guy out and… well…"

"Abra Kadabra," Frost sighed now as eyes went to her. "He tried to return to the future, but we locked him up. He escaped recently but his M.O. must have changed…"

"That explains nothing," Kate was the one to speak.

"He's a meta human that can create very elaborate and realistic mirages – practically magic," Barry stated, to a smirk to Frost. He remembered that meta, at least. He hadn't recognised him just now, but the meta had been masked.

"We need to get him in ARGUS," J'onn stated. "They have the tech to lock him up."

"Not the DEO?" Barry spoke up now. "I mean, we are in National…?"

"Trust me, you don't want to go anywhere near the DEO," Kara stated darkly, as J'onn made the call.

"Hey, urm, do you guys… remember Crisis?" Barry asked now; with Kate, Kara, J'onn and Sara here with him, they were the Paragons that mattered and if he remembered Crisis, then so must they.

"Oh yes," Kate nodded.

"The Monitor, the Anti-Monitor… Spectre," J'onn spoke up, having made the short call to ARGUS.

"And now the world is different," Sara added.

"Yeah… I mean, I'm married to Mon-El," Kara stated, going red slightly as she said it.

"Seriously?!" Barry asked, smirking now.

"Who's Mon-El?" Sara and Kate chorused.

"Long story," J'onn was the one to speak.

"I have no idea what's going on," Frost added, bemused.

"Oh, you haven't got your memories back," Ray grinned, sharing a look with J'onn.

"Not here," J'onn stated. "We're gathering a crowd."

Indeed, they had gathered quite an audience at their defeat of Beebo and their after-chat.

"STAR Labs," Barry stated to J'onn.

"Meet you there," J'onn nodded, taking to the air.

"Erm, I'm going to… see you later," Kate spoke, a little awkwardly as she used another batarang to swing up and away from the group.

"Ray and I need to check on the Legends," Sara nodded as she and Ray made their excuses too.

"I need to speak to Alex anyway. See you guys later," Kara dismissed, leaving just the three of them.

"I guess that leaves us," Frost remarked, pulling out the extrapolator again and activating it.

…

Barry and Caitlin entered STAR Labs, much to the shock of Cisco, who was the only one in the room.

"You two are meant to be on your honeymoon! Oh, hey J'onn," he nodded as the Martian entered the room now.

"Giant Beebo in National City," Barry pointed out. "We got the alert. No one was here when we got our outfits."

"Oh. Well, Wally and Jesse…" Cisco started.

"It doesn't matter," Caitlin dismissed. She was still in Frost's outfit but was Caitlin once more.

"I'm sorry it ruined your honeymoon," Cisco pouted out.

"Yeah, about that…" Barry turned to J'onn now.

"Oh yeah, I can…" he moved forward to Caitlin, but Barry stopped him, surprising the Martian.

"There's a lot that's happened on this world I've forgotten," Barry started.

"You've forgotten?" Cisco asked, but Barry silenced him.

"I need memories. I was hoping…" Barry started.

"Oh, this is unusual," J'onn smirked.

"Can you…?" Barry asked.

"I can access your cerebral cortex, manipulate the information, dig deep to memories now repressed due to the new timeline. It works both ways," he nodded to Caitlin and Cisco at this – he could make them remember the timeline before Crisis, as much as he could make Barry remember the new timeline.

"And to do that… you'd remember both timelines?" Barry asked, hopeful.

"It'll leave you confused for several hours," J'onn confirmed.

"Then do it. To me," Barry stated, glancing at Caitlin now. She deserved this.

"Barry…?" Caitlin started; she'd long-since realized what had happened regarding this 'Crisis', and what had been missed.

"Do it, J'onn," Barry demanded as J'onn nodded, putting his fingers to Barry's temple.

"What's going on…?" Cisco was the one to ask, but this time Caitlin shushed him, causing Cisco to groan in agitation and fold his arms like a kid told off.

Barry gasped though as J'onn released his head a moment later; both Martian and speedster taking a step back from one another as Barry stood stock still for a moment.

"Barry…?" Caitlin asked, unsure now; but as he turned to her, he grinned widely, sped over to her and embraced her, kissing her passionately.

"That worked," J'onn smirked, happy. "Now, your turn," he looked to Cisco, whose eyes went wide with fear.

Of course, their day wasn't over yet as the Anti-Monitor was to return for one last hurrah, and Barry was to set them up in the STAR Labs warehouse, but for the moment, Barry was happy to embrace Caitlin, the wife he'd forgotten; all while J'onn gave Cisco his pre-Crisis memories.

Post Chapter Note: And that's it. I hope you enjoyed this – Barry's side of the post-Crisis world. Again, a reminder of prompt and rules for this challenge below.

Prompt: Crisis in Infinite Earths changed the worlds, but also changed the history and relationship between two characters. Write what you see fits.

Rules:

You can choose whatever couple you like that were not in a relationship before Crisis – that includes Karry, SnowAllen, Monara, Lauriver etc. It does NOT include WestAllen, Olicity, Kara/William etc…

You have three months to complete your challenge and get it up on fanfiction and/or Archive; so that's June; more info on when to be posted on our Facebook page, and likely one of Millie's Karry or New Justice updates.

The stories must be above 500 words.

Let us know when you post so we can share it on our Facebook page for others to read.

Karry Beta OUT!