It took two more days for Cecile to get the paperwork together, and today was the day Barry and Caitlin became Kara's legal gardens. Barry and Caitlin got up, took a shower together while Kara slept in to 'save water' then got ready and Barry started on breakfast. As Barry made breakfast Caitlin couldn't help herself, and wrapped her arms around Barry's waist hugging him from behind.
"So Barry what should we do for Kara's Birthday?" Caitlin asked, resting her head on his shoulder.
"I was thinking since we are moving into the house we could have a barbecue and have everyone over, since Oliver and Felicity decided to stay till after her birthday." Barry explained his idea to Caitlin.
"I love that idea. I'll go wake up Kara for breakfast." As Barry set the table for breakfast Caitlin walked to Barry's room to wake up Kara. When she walked into the room she saw Kara tossing in her sleep. 'She must be having a nightmare'. Caitlin thought to herself, she kneeled down to wake up Kara.
"Kara sweetie wake up, you're having a nightmare. Kara, wake up." As Caitlin went to shake her a little to wake up, Kara's Body started to vibrate just like Barry does.
"Oh my god, Kara. Kara!" She said a bit louder to try and wake her. "Barry!.." Caitlin screamed and Barry ran in and saw Kara vibrating. Barry ran to Kara and held onto her and counter vibrated himself so Kara wouldn't accidentally phase through the bed and floor.
"Kara, sweetie wake up you hear me, Wake up!" As Kara woke to the sound of Barry calling out for her she looked up and met Barry's eyes. "Kara sweetie can you hear me.." Kara nodded and started crying, remembering the nightmare she had.
"I.. I saw K..Krypton explode over and over again, I..I thought I was all alone again." Kara said in between sobs. Once Kara calmed down in Barry's arms and Caitlin held her hand to let Kara know she was there for her. Barry finally asked the question, that was in both his and Caitlins mind.
"Kara, why were you vibrating?" Kara felt a bit shy but answered the question.
"I've always been able to do that, my mom once told me that I got it from my Father, my real Father. My mom married my stepfather Zor El because they were promised to each other." Kara answered.
"Barry, I would like to run some tests to be sure, but it'll have to wait after we go to Joe's house." Barry nodded in response 'could Kara be a speedster? I mean I know the speed force exists throughout space and time but I didn't think it was true, even so we would have to do some tests to be sure.' Barry thought to himself.
"Come on Kara breakfast is ready, then after you can get ready and we can go to Joe's." Caitlin spoke to Kara bringing Barry out of his thoughts.
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Soon after, they headed to Joe's to finally adopt Kara.
"So Kara, are you ready to be an Allen?" Barry asked once they got to the door.
"Snow-Allen." Kara and Caitlin corrected.
Barry put his hands up in surrender. "Alright."
Kara was excited and knocked on the door herself. But to their surprise Iris opened the door...again.
"Iris what are you doing here?" Barry asked on edge, Kara got a bit scared so she backed up and hid behind Caitlin.
"What do you mean, I live here now. Which you would know if you still talked to me." Iris defended herself.
"You know why we don't talk anymore." Barry argued and clenched his jaw as he moved in front of both Caitlin and Kara. Iris soon made her way upstairs to her room, Barry, and Caitlin sat on the couch and Kara sat on Barry's lap. "Alright, shall we get started?" Cecile broke the ice.
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It took about three hours for Barry and Caitlin to read everything and sign. Barry had insisted that they go through every detail.
"Mom? Are we almost done?" Kara asked, she had started to get bored after the first hour.
Caitlin smiled at Kara. "Yes sweetie we're almost done."
"Ok? We're almost done, was Kara going to keep your name Caitlin or Barry's?" Cecile looked between the small family.
"Both!" Kara jumped with excitement. Joe and Cecile smiled and laughed a little at her excitement.
"Kara baby inside voice." Caitlin stood Kara in between her legs. Barry felt happy seeing his soon to be daughter and his girlfriend being like mother and daughter.
"And we are done." Cecile put the folder of adoption papers in her bag. "So, Kara how does it feel to be Snow-Allen?" She looked at Kara and Kara started tearing up, she turned and hugged her new parents.
"Ok, Barry we should get to S.T.A.R Labs." Caitlin looked up at Barry
"Yeah we should go." Joe looked at his son and was happy that after all that Barry's been through, through all the pain, all that he lost, he finally found happiness.
After Joe hugged Barry, Caitlin hugged him.
"Snow-Allen, it's a good name for Kara, maybe for you to." Joe whispered in her ear.
Caitlin's face instantly got red.
Barry noticed. "What was that about?"
"Oh um, I'll tell you later."
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Once at S.T.A.R Labs Cisco pulled Barry aside. "Barry, um can I uh, I need to show you something in my lab, it's about the message left in Kara's pod."
"Yeah, yeah sure, lead the way."
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"Barry, um you should sit down for this." Barry raised an eyebrow but sat anyway.
Cisco pulled out a small round object, and placed it on his desk. Cisco pulled up a chair and sat next to his friend. "So, I managed to fix it and spent a lot of my time trying to figure out how to translate the message, you don't need the specifics on that so..." cisco pushed a small button on the object. A small holographic woman appeared, the woman was crying but began to speak.
'Barry Allen I hope and pray that this message and Kara finds you. Thirteen years ago you ended up on krypton, you said that you might have traveled through time, but you had no idea how you ended up here. We spent the majority of your time with one other. I fell in love...but I knew it was one sided and that you would eventually have to leave. I wanted something, anything from you to keep with me to remember you by. On your last night here...I took some of your DNA, as well as some of mine... Kara is our daughter Barry. I hope you find her, please Barry, look after our baby girl.'
The message ended and Barry was crying. 'Kara is my biological daughter?' He thought to himself.
"I um...I don't know if you wanted to tell Caitlin or not, so I erased everything that I had on translating this message." Cisco didn't know what to do so he patted Barry on his shoulder. "And um, congratulations I guess."
"I have a daughter." Barry finally spoke coming out of the trance he was in.
"Oh, before I forget there was another message that was specifically for Kara."
"Yeah, yeah I'll um, can you Tell Caitlin to come in here? And um watch Kara for us." Barry asked, looking at his best friend.
"Yeah, sure man." Cisco tapped his shoulder with his fist.
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"Barry, What's wrong? Cisco said that you wanted to show me something." Caitlin asked, sitting in the seat Cisco had been in before.
Barry looked at Caitlin and said nothing, he turned on the message and waited for her reaction.
"She, Kara is...your biological... daughter."
Caitlin saw how big and infectious his smile was and moved to sit on his lap and smiled and just enjoyed the moment.
"So Kara's green eye is from you?" Caitlin aske wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Yeah it looks that way." Barry smiled thinking about it.
"So there was another message, on this hologram. It's for Kara." Barry looked up at her.
"I'll go get her." Caitlin said already knowing what he was implying.
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"Hey Kara, come here." Barry smiled at Kara, reaching out a hand. Kara sat on Barry's lap. He turned towards the desk.
"Your mom left you this in your pod." Barry tapped the message and the paused message appeared.
"It was specifically for you, if you want me to stay I will, but I want you to know that I'm here for you." Barry stood up and went for the door. Kara didn't want to be left alone so she stopped him. "I..I don't want to watch it by myself." Barry stood behind Kara as she sat and watched the message.
'Hi baby, now...I know you must feel alone...and afraid but I'm sending you to where your father comes from. I pray that you find him, because....Krypton...Krypton is dying and we can't stop it, we um...we had a chance to save Krypton but I wouldn't listen, and I'm so sorry Kara I...I could have gone with you but I chose to stay, it was my choice so don't you dare blame yourself. Kara, your...your father's name Is Barry Allen, he's a speedster Kara. Find him Kara, he's the only one that can help you control your power.'
The message ended and Kara was crying. "Mom could have come." Kara couldn't take the anger she had. "Sh-she could have come? She could have saved Krypton?" Kara yelled in anger, she stood, looked at the hologram and yelled. "Why, why didn't you come! Why didn't you save Krypton, You...you could have come here with me...but you sent me here alone!" The message started to short circuit and repeated 'I'm sorry. Kara's eyes started to heat up, Kara screamed in pain, blue and bluish green heat vision shot at the hologram but went through it and destroyed the monitor behind it.
Barry picked up Kara and pulled her to his chest "Kara! Kara it's ok, it's ok I'm right here, I've got you, I've got you...I've got you."
"Daddy, she left me...she left me alone in the dark...she said she would never leave me." Kara sobbed into Barry's shoulder as he fell to his knees just to hold her close.
Barry looked up to see Caitlin crying in the doorway, Barry nodded for her to join the hug. She knelt down and hugged them both, Frost felt how sad Caitlin was for Kara.
Kara still couldn't control her power's yet and lasered Barry through his right shoulder. Barry winced at the pain but ignored it to be there for Kara, Caitlin got scared when she saw it.
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Soon after Kara was able to calm down. Caitlin was patching up Barry and put his arm in a sling. "I'm sorry daddy I..I didn't mean to hurt you." Kara stood at the doorway looking at her shoes.
"Kara, come here." Barry patted the bed with his good arm. Barry still couldn't believe that Kara was his daughter, and liked how Kara started calling him daddy.
Kara sat next to Barry, Caitlin sat on the other side of Kara.
"Kara, sweetie I'm ok. It's understandable that you reacted that way, even though we didn't know about the 'laser vision'." Barry wrapped his good arm around Kara and pulled her into a hug. Barry saw Caitlin smiling at them and pulled her into the hug.
"Babe take it easy, you may have speed healing but you need a couple of hours to heal." Caitlin went full doctor mode for a second.
"Cait, we're having a family moment, just enjoy it...please." Caitlin couldn't stop the amount of flutters and the smile she got when he said 'family'.
"Yeah mom, enjoy the family moment." Caitlin just kissed the top of her head.
"What about aunt Frost?" Kara asked looking up at Caitlin.
"I'm sorry baby Frost doesn't li-." Caitlin was interrupted by Frost coming out and hugged Kara.
"Only for Kara and handsome over here I give hugs." Frost winked at Barry. Barry smirked in response.
Frost retreated back inside. "Well at least now we know why Kara vibrated this morning." Barry spoke remembering why they were at S.T.A.R Labs that day in the first place.
"We should be getting home. We have a lot of packing to do if we want to have That barbecue at the new house." Caitlin said realizing she hasn't been to her apartment in a couple days.
"Did you want me to pack up your apartment for you?" Barry asked, raising an eyebrow.
"How do you always know what I'm thinking?" She asked squinting at Barry. Barry just laughed to himself.