Eobard Thawne stared at the grey wall of his prison cell. The sound of rushing air and a faint golden reflection on the wall let him know someone had arrived, someone quite familiar.

"Barry Allen," Thawne said before turning around. "I was wondering if you'd figure it out."

Flash was sitting on the floor, his back against the far wall and his left leg bent in order to rest his arm on his knee.

"Still training speedsters?" Barry returned. "You always did have a talent for it."

"I have a talent for using people," Thawne corrected. "I used you, didn't I?"

"You might have had your own objectives," Barry admitted. "That being said, you were good playing the mentor, too good for it to be entirely an act. And, here you are, at it again. That's truly the saddest thing about you, Thawne. You've trained heroes and even had the potential to be one yourself. Instead, you traded it...for this."

Barry spread his hands to gesture toward the cold prison walls around them.

"Why did you come here?" Thawne demanded, forcing a bored tone into his voice. "Did you miss me?"

"I missed who you were," Barry answered. "For a time, you were a good friend."

"I was never more than your enemy!" Thawne shouted. He raised his hands, curling his fingers in the air in front of him as if trying to strangle Barry from a distance.

"I never wanted you as an enemy," Barry responded, his tone soft, barely above a whisper. "I still don't."

Barry got up from the floor and walked over to the clear partition between them.

"For what little time you have left, I want you to remember something," Barry told him. "You may have been pretending to be friends with me, but I wasn't. We didn't have to be enemies. You chose to murder and destroy. As much as you hate me for getting in your way, it was your choices that led you here. You always thought you were smarter than everyone, but how's that working out for you? Goodbye, Thawne."

In a rush of air and burst of golden lighting, Flash vanished from the prison, leaving Thawne completely alone as the timer on the wall, ticking down to his eventual execution, continued to decline.

Author's Note:

Just a little remake of a scene from CW's The Flash season 5.