Glitching to Fix Time {Poor Execution, Rewrite occurring in diff book}

Ch 17: Crisis on Earth X pt 5 (The real one this time)

Once everyone had their ice cream Clarity sat next to Elicia, Oliver and Felicity having left the room to go help put Prometheus in a cell, and then presumably have a team meeting about the events.

Jonas and William were also in the room still, eating ice cream at a table nearby. Though, Will was super pissed at his dad, and no, getting a double scoop of mint chip did not make up for sending him away while his friend was in trouble or not letting him and his friends help out with the memory thing. As for Jonas, the boy was seemingly unphased by being taken captive by the Nazi's like he'd been. Something about almost getting killed by Vandal Savage so many times when he was younger, plus Mallus's constant tries to lure him to the opposing side, really just desensitized the boy to it all. In comparison to the demon in his dreams, the Nazi's were chump change. That, and really, a specially made banana split sundae by Clarity could turn any bad day around. Even him getting sidelined cause he was too young to help out.

"Mom, shouldn't you be at the meeting with the others?" Elicia wondered as she took a bite of her vanilla chocolate swirl ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.

"I can get caught up with all that in a bit." Clarity insisted. "This is where I should be. Right here with you." Clarity sat down next to her child, setting down a napkin beside her so Elicia could wipe some ice cream off her face. "I understand if you don't want to talk about it, but it would be nice to know how you're here. Last time I saw you..." Clarity shook her head. "...well you remember. If you don't want to talk about any of it yet I understand."

"It's okay." Elicia assured her. "Um, I remember being in your arms and then it all went dark. When I opened my eyes I wasn't surrounded by gumdrops and my siblings like you said I'd be. I'm still not sure how I did it, but Father's theory is that I altered reality so we didn't get erased from existence. Just erased from earth 1. My powers transported us to somewhere else. Somewhere very not nice."

"Your fathers alive?" Clarity asked a few electrical appliances sparking dangerously. Jonas jumped sitting at attention from the sound, okay so maybe the kid had a little PTSD from growing up in a war zone. But Will's hand on his arm calmed him down. He looked into his friends eyes and he knew everything was just fine. Jonas gave a little nod back at him in thanks. Will cracked a smile in reply nudging him with his foot.

"Ugh, Of course he is." Clarity complained, answering her own question suddenly feeling quite exposed in her flower girl dress regretting not changing when Caitlin had. She leaned closer to the counter arms crossing resting on the counter to hide her chest just a bit more shielding it from view. As if Eobard was in the room watching her, and maybe he could see her. Who knows where camera's that she couldn't sense were hidden. They missed so many the last time whose to say there weren't more? "Worse than a cockroach." Clarity whispered softly. She was quite torn between being thankful he took care of their daughter and being pissed he got to raise Elicia instead of her. Clarity for all extent and purposes had missed out on ever being a mother to her as it had been a future, a reality, she never really got to live. Now it seemed as though she had a second chance. She wasn't about to waste it. Thawne wouldn't ruin that for her. She had so many emotions coursing through her, overwhelmed by all the conflicting feels swirling inside her from relief to rage. But most of all she dreaded the fact that Eobard Thawne still existed at all. She knew it was too good to be true, even non existence wasn't enough to permanently be rid of him. "Did he hurt you at all?"

"No," Elicia answered. "He didn't hurt me, but he wants to hurt you. He's upset you betrayed him. That you tried to cut him out of our lives. He says you broke our family. Father wants to fix it."

"That's what he tells you!? He's the one who.." Clarity pinched her nose lightly biting her tongue. She took a deep breath before letting it out. She lowered her hand stroking a hand through her daughters blonde hair. "Are you upset about it?"