Chapter 18

Jesse couldn't believe that she was doing this, but her father had reached out to her and said that she finally wanted to make peace with her after all this time and she'd decided to go for it. Which was why she was currently standing outside her father's mansion and she couldn't but roll her eyes in disgust, since even Kara Danvers had a certain level of humility to not flash her wealth to this scale. Sure she had a huge penthouse, but at least she didn't try to act like she was better than others. Which was clearly what her father was trying to do, but she pushed down those feelings as she knocked on his door.

"I wasn't sure you'd come." Wells said to Jesse as he showed her into his home.

"Yeah, that makes two of us. But I figured if you were going to the trouble of offering up the invite, I could actually show up." Jesse said as she walked in as her father wheeled next to her.

"How have you adapted to the chair?" Jesse asked as she looked around her father's home, trying to make some kind of small talk with him to try and cut through some of the tension.

"It gets easier everyday and I take solace in knowing that I'm luckier than some of the people in this city, most of them thinking I deserve worse than this because of the accelerator explosion." Wells said as he led his daughter into the dining room, where dinner was already prepared.

"Steak?" Jesse asked.

"Cooked medium rare with that barbecue sauce you liked. It's still your favorite right?" Wells asked her.

"You remember?" Jesse asked.

"Just because I wasn't the best father after your mother died doesn't mean that I don't know you Jesse." Wells told her.

"You have a funny way of showing it." Jesse said.

"We all deal with grief in different ways. Not to mention guilt, since I felt guilty that I survived the accident while your mother didn't. So I pushed you away so you wouldn't have to see me like that. You were just a kid and I didn't want you to see me like that. Or to make you think you needed to fix me. I'm not saying I chose the right way to handle things, but it was the way I chose to deal with things." Wells said.

"Yeah well, I needed my dad. Instead I got a stranger who looked like him." Jesse said coldly, having no idea how true that statement was.

"Jesse, I invited you here because I wanted to make amends with you." Wells said.

"Right, sorry, hard to let go of that anger, but even I can admit that you don't deserve the ridicule this city is giving you, since you couldn't have known there was a possibility that the accelerator would fail and I know it was both yours and mom's life's dream, how could you not bring it to life?" Jesse asked and 'Wells' thought now was the time to make a calculated risk.

"Actually, I was warned of the possibility that the accelerator could fail." Wells admitted.

"What?" Jesse asked her father.

"A former colleague, Hartley Rathaway, my former right hand before he left Star labs prior to the explosion, he warned me that there was a chance that the accelerator could fail, but his data did not show a certainty, only a risk, but I was too prideful to listen. I thought that the potential benefits outweighed that risk." Wells said and Jesse sighed.

"I guess you're not the first scientist to make that mistake. But you do need to set the record straight." Jesse said.

"I know." Wells said, right as the lights flickered before going out completely.

"What the hell?" Jesse asked.

"I don't know. Maybe it's the breaker?" Wells asked, right as out of nowhere, the wine on the table suddenly began to float out of nowhere.

"What the hell?" Jesse asked, right as there was flash of red lightning revealing a vibrating man with glowing red eyes and wearing some kind of yellow suit that concealed his identity and his arrival had actually knocked Jesse backwards into a bookshelves and when she looked up, and she was horrified at seeing this man in yellow holding her father by his throat.

"Harrison Wells, it is time you paid for your sins." the man in yellow said, his voice vibrating as well as he picked up a knife off that table

"No." Jesse screamed as she helplessly watched the man in yellow stab the knife into her father's heart.

"Jesse, I love you." Wells began to say as he died as the man in yellow turned to her.

"You're lucky I don't have time to stick around to kill you too, but I have places to be and a certain amount of time to get there." the man in yellow said, speeding away, leaving a trail of red lightning behind him as the lights came back on and leaving Jesse shocked at what she'd seen before she walked up to her father's lifeless body and gently closed his eyes before calling the police, grateful that her watch had recorded this entire event to prove her innocence, along with her father's security system would prove that as well, before she started to cry.

Meanwhile, several miles away and underground in an abandoned sewer tunnel, the man in yellow came to a stop as he felt his speed starting to give out, but that didn't matter, since at least this time it had lasted as long as he'd needed it too, but once he came to a stop, he pulled off his cowl to reveal the face of Harrison Wells.

"At last, I can finally lose this ridiculous disguise." 'Wells' said as he began to vibrate to himself again until his hair had turned from black to blonde and his face had shifted from the face of Harrison Wells to the face he'd been born with. The face of Eobard Thawne.

"Though I can't deny a part of me will miss it, since it was handsome. But it's time to finally be Eobard Thawne again instead of continuing to pretend to be Harrison Wells. Thankfully I was able to stabilize my connection to the negative speed force long enough to create that time remnant and convince him to play his part." Thawne said, as if he was talking to no one.

"So what do we do now father?" a new voice asked from a dark tunnel and Thawne grinned as he turned to see his only companion.

"Well buddy, now we start getting you ready to play your part in my plan. And I promise, when it's over, you'll get everything I promised you." Thawne said as his companion walked out of the shadows to reveal himself to be a huge black silverback gorilla.

"Grodd is eager to assist you father." the gorilla said, using actual words, since Grodd was much smarter than your average gorilla, thanks to the experiments Eiling had done to him, activated by the particle accelerator explosion.

"Well then, let's get to work." Thawne said with a grin, since now his plans could truly begin, since he knew that his 'death' would lead to Barry pushing himself even harder, especially now that he knew that the man who killed his mother was back.

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