The Flash: What the future holds

This fanfic is based on numerous videos on YouTube based on everyone's reasons for why Snowbarry have more chemistry than WestAllen. This story is based after the events of the S4 season finale. Barry starts having doubts about his marriage to Iris and talks to best friend about it.

To find out what happens, read this.

I don't own the CW or The Flash but if I did, Snowbarry would happen and no more WestAllen.

After meeting his daughter from the future, he starts thinking about what else had changed in the future but he knew that he couldn't ask Nora about it because of the whole paradox (wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff) so he kept his thoughts to himself. Barry hadn't wore his new suit, thanks to Nora, because he knew the dangers of being a hero and trying to cope with personal issues which meant Cisco and Ralph were the only heroes out protecting Central City.

STAR Labs, Cisco's workshop/ lab:

Barry was in the lab thinking about how his life was going so far; he was too busy thinking that he didn't hear his daughter walking towards him. Nora sat next her dad and looked at him, she knew there was something on his mind but couldn't figure out what.

"Is everything okay, Dad?" Nora asked, Barry looked at his daughter and looked down. "I can't help if you don't talk to me, Dad." Barry knew his daughter was right so he decide to tell her.

"In the future, are me and your mom still together?" Barry asked, Nora shook her head. "Could you tell me what happened?" Nora looked down, she took a envelope out of her pocket and handed it to her Dad.

"When you realize who you truly care about, open that and talk to her." Nora hugged her Dad, Barry hugged her back then his daughter bolted away. Barry looked at the envelope then placed it in his pocket when his phone started ringing.

STAR Labs:

Caitlin was in the medical bay, she was asked by Joe and Iris to check Barry to find out what was wrong. Ralph walked in after returning from stopping a bank robbery, he noticed Caitlin was working very hard and decided to make her a cup of walked over to Caitlin and placed the cup next to her, Caitlin looked up and saw Ralph smiling at her but she didn't return

"Is everything okay, Cait?" Asked Ralph, he was concerned about his friend. "You're usually the one who cheers us up, why do you look like you're about to cry?" That hit Caitlin's heart hard that her eyes changed for a moment, she felt her powers coming back.

"It's none of your business." Caitlin replied, Ralph could tell that there was a hint of ice in her breath as if it wasn't Caitlin Snow talking but Killer Frost. "Now do me a big favour and leave us alone. I'm trying to help her yet no one wants to understand." Caitlin's hair changed to white and her eyes became an icy blue colour, Ralph could see that Killer Frost was back but before he could say anything, Frost had gotten up and walked away.

CCPD:

Barry was at the CCPD, talking to Captain Singh to try and get his job back but so far, he wasn't having any luck. He was told the same thing that Singh said the last time; that there was still no evidence proving that he didn't kill DeVoe and there were some people that didn't want him working. Barry walked out of Singh's office before anything else could be said, Joe saw his son walk towards the stairs in a terrible mood so he followed him. Joe arrived at the forensics lab to see Barry packing up all his belongings, he felt terrible that he couldn't help his son but it got worse when Barry walked past him.

"Barr, I'm sorry." Started Joe, Barry looked down and looked disappointed. "I can't overrule Singh's decision." Barry looked at Joe but he still looked angry, Joe didn't know what was going through Barry's mind until Barry spoke.

"Thanks Joe but I think I'll be moving out of the apartment. I heard that there's an apartment close to a friend thats open." Barry told Joe, he handed his father his keys to both the West house and to his and Iris' place. He then used his speed to get out of the CCPD, Joe was worried about Barry but noticed that he dropped something; it was a white envelope with a message on the front, it read:

"Not to opened until you know where your heart stands."

Joe was confused about what the message meant so he decided to go and ask the one person he knew that may know what it meant: Nora West-Allen.

STAR Labs, speed lab:

Ralph and Caitlin were with Nora to see how fast she could go, she was going even faster than Barry could go. Joe walked in and waved at Ralph and Caitlin waved back, Nora ran out and waved at Joe.

"Nora, could we talk?" Asked Joe, Nora nodded and with that, Ralph and Caitlin left the two to talk. "Barry dropped this earlier, do you know what's in this envelope?" Joe asked as he held the envelope, Nora recognized it quickly.

"I know that envelope because I gave it to Dad," Nora confessed, Joe was surprised to find out this information. "Dad asked if he and Mom were still together, I had to be honest and told him the truth."

"What do you mean by the truth?" Asked Joe, Nora sat down and drank some water before she could tell Joe.

"In the future, Mom and Dad break up because Mom thinks Dad is cheating on her but the truth is that Dad was always busy protecting the city." Nora explained, Joe sat down and hugged his grand-daughter. "They got divorced a few weeks later then it was me and Dad. At the time, I was eight but then a year later, Dad got married again." Joe smiled and so did Nora, she took the envelope out of her grandad's hand and opened it.

"What's that?" Joe asked as he pointed to the paper inside the envelope, Nora took out the paper and handed it to Joe.

"On the other side of that paper, is a photo of Dad, me and my Step Mom." Nora told her grandfather, she stood up with a hopeful smile on her face. "I hope it doesn't matter to you who my Step-Mom is." With that said, Nora bolted away to leave Joe with the choice to find out who Barry married and raised Nora with.

Jitters:

Caitlin decided to take Barry and Nora to Jitters to have a relaxing cup of coffee on the top floor. They sat and laugh until Caitlin decided to ask Nora something which was personal.

"Nora, could you tell me what Barry and Iris are like?" Asked Caitlin but Nora didn't look happy. "I'm sorry if I touched a sore spot there, Nora." Caitlin felt terrible, Nora looked at Caitlin and placed her hand on Caitlin's shoulder.

"Caitlin, the reason I didn't answer was because in my time, my Mom and Dad are…" Barry and Caitlin were concerned about Nora but it didn't take them long to wait for the future speedster to tell them about her parents. "They split up, but you married again a year later, Dad." Nora revealed but it left Barry and Caitlin on suspense to find out who the scarlet speedster married.

STAR Labs, Cortex:

Ralph and Cisco were trying to understand the symbols that Barry first drew but were getting nowhere, Joe walked in and he coughed to get the team's attention. Ralph turned and could see that Joe was holding a photo so he decided to talk to him and see what was the photo about.

"Joe, what's up?" Joe and Ralph left the Cortex and walked towards the Time Vault to talk privately.

"Nora showed me this," Joe started as he showed Ralph the photo, Ralph shrugged as he no idea what the photo meant. "This photo was taken in the future. Iris isn't in the photo." Ralph nodded as Joe kept on explaining. "Iris and Barry got a divorce and look who he marries and becomes Nora's step mom." Ralph looked at the photo again and his jaw literally dropped to the floor.

"You mean, Barry marries her in the future?" Asked Ralph, Joe nodded. Now they knew this, what were they going to do with this information?

Caitlin's apartment:

Caitlin and Nora were sat down talking when Caitlin was thinking about their conversation back at Jitters, it was bothering her so she decided to ask Nora the question again.`

"Nora, now it's just us, could you answer my question?" Nora smiled and nodded, she knew in her heart that she had to tell them more else they start to lose faith in her.

"You wanted to know who my Dad married," Nora asked Caitlin who nodded, Nora sat forward and held Caitlin's hand. "I'll whisper to you who Dad married." Nora sat closer to Caitlin and whispered the name into Caitlin's ear, she looked surprised after Nora told her.

STAR Labs, speed lab:

Joe and Barry were talking about Nora and why did she was her surname just Allen and not West-Allen, Caitlin walked in with Nora and straight away, Barry could see that Caitlin was blushing.

"Joe, what's going on?" Barry asked but Joe didn't answer, Nora walked over to her grandfather and hugged him. "Nora, are you involved in this as well?" Nora shook her head then smiled at her dad.

"No Dad, I planned this and asked my grandad to help," Nora started, he grabbed Caitlin's hand and linked it to Barry's hand. "Try and guess what this means?" Nora said cheekly, Barry stuck his right hand in his back pocket and noticed something was missing.

"Where's the envelope?" Asked Barry, he was worried in case it went into the wrong hands but in this case, the wrong hands were Joe's hands.

"This fell out of your pocket back at the CCPD, I picked it up and asked Nora about it." Explained Joe, he sat down on the stairs by the computers, he sighed before he looked at Barry and Caitlin. "Nora told me that in the future, you get married to another woman and when we looked at the photo, we knew who it was." Joe pointed to the entrance and there stood Ralph in his Elongated Man suit as he just returned from stopping a bank robbery.

"Hey rookie, Joe showed he the photo too but I promise I haven't told anyone else, not even Iris." Ralph crossed his chest where his heart was, Barry smiled and nodded. "Besides, shouldn't someone tell Barry something." Ralph suggested as he looked at Nora, she nodded then looked at Barry.

"Dad, you asked who was my stepmom and I didn't tell you," Nora smiled and looked at both Barry and Caitlin. "But what you didn't realize was that you were standing next to her the whole time." Nora looked at Caitlin and then Barry realized what Nora was saying.

"You mean that your stepmom is Caitlin?" Asked Barry, Nora nodded with a smile then she hugged both Barry and Caitlin. "Well, at least the family's altogether."

STAR Labs, Cortex:

Barry and Iris had decided to go into the medical bay and have a private chat without anyone disturbing them. Iris was feeling concerned that her husband wanted to have a private chat away from everyone.

"Iris, we need to talk about Nora," Barry started, Iris sat on the edge of the bed and listened to what her husband had to say about their daughter."Today, she told me something that actually surprised me a lot." Iris could tell there was something on Barry's mind that he wanted to tell her but didn't know how to explained it.

"Barry, what did Nora say?" Iris asked, she wanted to know badly as she hoped it was nothing bad.

"In the future, we aren't together." Barry said but the reaction from Iris was surprising as she laughed. "Why are you laughing, Iris? Do you think this is funny?" Iris nodded, she looked at Barry and saw that he wasn't laughing.

"You mean it's the truth?" Asked Iris, she looked terrified. SHE AND BARRY WEREN'T TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE! "She must be lying, Barry." Iris looked angry as she looked down at the ground.

"Iris, maybe Nora coming here helped me," Barry admitted. Iris looked up at Barry, she was confused what he was talking about until she saw Barry taking off his ring. "She may have our DNA, Iris but Nora is with her real mother right now." Barry said, he placed the ring in Iris' hand then ran to be with his daughter and her true mother .