Radioactive {Barry Allen} [1]

The Particle Accelerator

So, after tracking Caitlin's call on her computer, with a backpack and a train ticket, Mackenzie set off to Central City. She had only been in Central City one other time, and she had never, ever been back.

Flashback

Thirteen year old Mackenzie, her little brother Evan, and her mother and father walk through the dark streets of Central City one fateful night on a weekend family vacation.

Mackenzie and her family walked through the dark streets of Central City, hand in hand, after eating what was probably too much ice-cream. Evan skipped far ahead of them, giggling all the way.

"Mack Mack Mack!! Come skip with me!" Her 5 year old little brother called

"I'm too full Evan! I can barely move my body" She whined, clinging to her father

"Suit yourself!" He giggled and skipped ahead into the darkness.

"Momma," Mackenzie said after a little while to her mother, "I can't see Evan anymore"

"Oh he's fine, he's just being an adventurous little boy" Her mother smiled, kissing her daughter on the head, but Mackenzie moved out of the way.

"I'm worried" She said uneasily

"Stop pestering! He's fine. I know how to take care of my children" The mother said, annoyed at her paranoid child.

"But-" Mackenzie started again, only to be interrupted by her father, who had heard enough bickering for one night.

"Don't worry honey, Im sure he's just-" A scream cut her father off.

"Evan!" She screamed as a gunshot went off.

The three of them raced down the street and around the corner, but they were too late.

"Oh my god! Evan! What's happened to him?! Why does he look like that?! No! Evan! No!" Mackenzie screamed as her father pulled her away from her little brother.

"Call 911 with my phone and then go to the store over there to get help. Okay?" Her father told her and she nodded.

By the time Mackenzie got back to her family, they were in an ambulance, heading to the hospital. Her mother had called her friend, Joe, to pick Mackenzie up and drive her to the hospital. When she arrived, there was nothing the doctors could have told her that she hadn't already imagined. Evan was dead. Mackenzie was in tears and denial. They left Central City the next morning. They held the funeral in their hometown. Mackenzie didn't take any charity or sympathy, she became stone cold. She started putting all her energy into other things, never confronting the truth of her brother's death. Mackenzie never fully trusted her parents ever again and they grew distant quickly. Mackenzie never spent time at home anymore, she sleptover at her friends' house, went to dance and soccer practice, ran, and avoided her family at basically all costs. She couldn't bear to see them, especially without Evan.

*End Flashback*

Mackenzie shut her eyes and shook her head. The train shuddered to a stop and she grabbed her backpack and got off. Mackenzie squinted as the bright sun shone into her eyes. She walked through the streets of Central City and finally reached a coffee shop. CC Jitters, the sign read. Mackenzie pushed the doors open and headed to the counter, the line was surprisingly short for 11:30 in the morning. The barista smiled at her,

"What can I gettcha today?" She asked. She was very pretty.

"A caramel macchiato sounds pretty great right about now" Mackenzie replied