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[commanderspecs]

I'm so sorry to everyone I've hurt.

[He locked himself in a metahuman cell when he's back to normal and Barry realizes what he's done. He sits on the floor and runs a shaking hand through his hair, then curls up]

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[vivifier]

What are you doing?

[commanderspecs]

I hurt people. When that...that thing, whatever it was, made us all topsy turvy, I hurt people.

[He remembers what he did.]

[vivifier]

If I locked myself in the pipeline every time I did something insane or hurt someone, I'd be in a hole forever.

[ ...helpful? ]

Don't martyr yourself. You're fine.

[commanderspecs]

You what?!

I'm not.

[vivifier]

You heard me.

Sure you're not, Barry.

[commanderspecs]

Sam. I...I really hurt people. I can't be roaming around out there. Not when I--you saw what I did to poor Bart.

[vivifier]

Literally no one is going to tell you to be locked up.

[commanderspecs]

But I will. Sam, what I did was just...it was awful.

[vivifier]

It really wasn't that bad.

[binarythinking]

Allen, stop it.
I have a new watch for you in the workshop. Come get it.

[commanderspecs]

No. Doctor Wells, I hurt people. I can't be trusted out there.

[binarythinking]

What happened wasn't your fault.

[He's collecting the watch and heading towards the cells, immediately kicking off the one Barry put himself in.]

[commanderspecs]

I need to pay for my actions. It was still me that did those things.

[By the time he sees the cell, Barry is huddled/crumpled up in the back corner of the cell.]

[binarythinking]

Barry.
[God he looks like a kicked puppy. Harry lets himself in and sits beside him.] No one is blaming you for what happened. Half of everyone here went a little crazy.

Frost wore a pink dress and made cupcakes. Rory was saving people.

[commanderspecs]

[He looks up, looking like he'd been crying for a while and backs away to the other side of the cell, already shaking his head]

No. Doctor Wells. You need to get out of here. I don't want to hurt you. please.

[binarythinking]

You're not going to hurt me and I'm not leaving until you decide to get out of this cell. [Try him, Allen. He's not budging.]

[commanderspecs]

[He's so torn up about it. He tries to tuck himself further away from Harry by tucking himself in a corner further.]

I am--I did. Just ,please leave.

[kid_flash_found]

I'm fine, Sparky. No lasting damage. Wasn't the first time I had someone suffer a personality shift.

[commanderspecs]

Bart, how are you talking to me? I hurt you.

[kid_flash_found]

If I stopped talking to everyone who did that, I'd be a very lonely person. Nothing's ever that simple.

Grife, I'm pretty sure that doesn't even land on the top five worst experiences I've had. I suppose it might beat getting shot, but not the hours of reconstructive surgery without anesthesia that followed.

[commanderspecs]

Not even the top fiv w--

[Bart, you're going to be able to kill one grandfather by giving Barry-2 a heart attack.]

[kid_flash_found]

My life was never going to be what most people would consider normal.

[commanderspecs]

Bart, I--

[He's a hugger. He knows that Bart isn't his own grandson but he feels that sort of closeness with the young man either way.]

[kid_flash_found]

If you're going to gush, shouldn't we be doing this in person?

[commanderspecs]

I locked myself in one of the metahuman cells to make sure I don't hurt anyone.