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[Well. She's already run into two future, grown versions of her son that desperately needed help. Nora finds herself sitting in the Cortex with a cup of hot tea in her hands, trying to wrap her head around the entire situation. She doesn't know how she got here, she doesn't know how she'll get home, but she knows that there are two sons here that she needs to look after for the time being. Maybe more.]

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"I see."

That saddens her.

"Or you could stay here. And it seems like it's in between time so that you could just live life here."

"I don't know if it's that simple."

She purses her lips.

"Henry is going to need to put up with that, then. There's a few of you that I am taking back with me."

He frowns at her, suddenly uncertain. More uncertain. "What?"

"I'm taking you, and the other two, with me when I go home. Barry, you can't expect me to just leave my son, no matter what he looks like, alone in the world."

He doesn't imagine he'll be in the world long, though he's certainly been in it longer than he thought he would be. "...no, I guess not."

Nora hugs him tightly. All of this was so much to take in.

"Oh honey."

"You might need a bigger house," it's a vague and not very good attempt at a joke.

She chuckles and doesn't let him go.

"That's okay. I think you'd like having big brothers suddenly. You've been asking for a baby sister."

A sort of broken laugh. "Have I?" And then he got Iris.

She laughs a little too.

"Yes, do you remember the Ognats next door? How you would try to play with their baby girl but she couldn't run around like you?"

"Kind of?" He remembers Iris West more, but well. Of course he would.

Iris was never a sister type. Not in Nora's eyes at least. She knew that her little one was smitten with the girl from kindergarten. She smirks a little.

"Do you remember asking me if you could take more dinosaur stickers to school?"

The barest hint of a smile. "I remember that."

"I asked you why and you said that you gave yours to a girl at school. She was sad because her own mom wasn't there," Nora chuckles. She sits back, mind made up on bringing home as many broken Barries she could get her hands on.

A sad and brief smile. "I remember that."

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