[ the last two times he'd been struck with dark matter, he lost nine months of his life, the normalcy and mundane aspects of who he was, and he dispersed inside of the speed force. ]
[ barry's not sure what this dark matter can do. it's difficult to wrap his head around the fact that this dark matter isn't anything like the particle accelerator explosion, that it belongs to another world — it has different effects, produces different types of reactions in people. it's hard to disassociate what had changed his life before he'd even been born from all the bad and worrisome things that's already occurred during the course of the last two years. ]
[ he's still not so sure what will happen to him if he gets caught up in it. will it be like turtle time? will he disperse again? will the speed force somehow protect him from it getting its clutches on him? the speed force had been an energy force that had confused him, but barry suspects it's a member of his own team, insistent on protecting a speedster who has done nothing but try and keep time in place, even though he has to wonder if a time wraith has followed him to wonderland. ]
[ third time's the charm — and barry's not keen on finding out what being hit with dark matter for the third time would be like. ]
[ after concluding iris hasn't grown spikes on the side of her face, has all ten fingers and toes, and hasn't been eaten away by an invisible force, he visibly relaxes. they're still trapped in his room, and, not to mention — ]
They may have contained it, but there's some of it that's still out there. You can't control dark matter. It's not possible.
[ he thinks the dark matter has to have a mind of its own. there's a reason why only a few hundred people were affected and infected with powers in the city; there's no doubt in his mind many others were run over with the explosion's runaway residual energy, but haven't developed any sort of meta-human abilities at all. ]
[ barry's hands travel up her arms. ] You shouldn't have come up here. [ it bears repeating. ] I was going to come down to you.
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[ barry's not sure what this dark matter can do. it's difficult to wrap his head around the fact that this dark matter isn't anything like the particle accelerator explosion, that it belongs to another world — it has different effects, produces different types of reactions in people. it's hard to disassociate what had changed his life before he'd even been born from all the bad and worrisome things that's already occurred during the course of the last two years. ]
[ he's still not so sure what will happen to him if he gets caught up in it. will it be like turtle time? will he disperse again? will the speed force somehow protect him from it getting its clutches on him? the speed force had been an energy force that had confused him, but barry suspects it's a member of his own team, insistent on protecting a speedster who has done nothing but try and keep time in place, even though he has to wonder if a time wraith has followed him to wonderland. ]
[ third time's the charm — and barry's not keen on finding out what being hit with dark matter for the third time would be like. ]
[ after concluding iris hasn't grown spikes on the side of her face, has all ten fingers and toes, and hasn't been eaten away by an invisible force, he visibly relaxes. they're still trapped in his room, and, not to mention — ]
They may have contained it, but there's some of it that's still out there. You can't control dark matter. It's not possible.
[ he thinks the dark matter has to have a mind of its own. there's a reason why only a few hundred people were affected and infected with powers in the city; there's no doubt in his mind many others were run over with the explosion's runaway residual energy, but haven't developed any sort of meta-human abilities at all. ]
[ barry's hands travel up her arms. ] You shouldn't have come up here. [ it bears repeating. ] I was going to come down to you.