Barry has lived through lots in his life, trauma more than anyone should experience- everyone could take one look at rue start of life and agree.

He knows what he has is common with children that have experienced something traumatic early in life. He knows he should not hide it. But he can't help it, they allow him to escape, and he can't do that when people know.

So he hasn't told anyone, and he so hopes to keep it that way.

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"Are you sure this is safe," Barry asked, backing up warily.

"Yeah!" Cisco yelled, "we've done it on everyone else, Caitlin became Killer Frost, Joe was a nerd, and so was Iris! We want to know about you!"

"Don't think you do..." Barry slowly said, trying to back away again.

"Oh, no," Iris started as she pushed Barry back into the room.

"If we had to, so do you," Caitlin finished, making sure to close the doors.

"What about you, Cisco?" Barry tried to reflect.

"Oh, I became this weird person that enjoyed tea," Cisco shrugged, "had to test that it worked."

"I'm not getting out of this..." Barry sighed.

"Sorry, Bare," Joe shrugged.

Just as Barry went to warn them, he felt the reverse-personality beam hit him. When the smoke cleared, Sebastian was stood there smirking at them. "Hello there."

Cisco watched as the man before him took in the situation and what room they were in, the smirk growing as his eyes landed on Caitlin and Iris.

"What are two fine ladies like you staring at me?" Sebastian purred, "is it my looks, the way I stand, the power I hold," he continued to sing as he slowly started to circle them.

"Cisco," Joe stated, "reverse this, please."

"I should warn you," Sebastian suddenly growled, "it's going to take a while."

"No, simple as pressing a trigger, Barry," Cisco scoffed as he stood tall as the man glared as he slowly approached him.

"My name isn't Barry," Sebastian spat out.

Cisco didn't waste another moment as he fired the ray, hitting the man squarely in the chest.

Chris cried out as he felt himself be forcefully ripped from his nest in Barry's brain, "who-who are you-you?" He stuttered, backing himself into the corner.

"Cut it out, Barry," Iris scoffed.

"I'm-I'm not B-Barry, I'm Chris," Chris stuttered, wanting to curl up in his nest again.

Cisco squinted before firing the ray again, seeing as to whether 'smirky' would replace 'Chris'.

"Who the fuck are you?" Seductive Demon growled, looking over everyone.

"I don't think that's Barry..." Iris said, glancing back at Cisco.

"IT'S AN OPPOSITE PERSONALITY RAY! You can only have one wtf, Barry!" Cisco shouted.

"I am the Seductive Demon!"

"You know what, okay, Barry... You are..." Cisco sighed before firing the gun again.

The person was too confident, then to egotistical, was just flirting with Caitlin and Iris - oh, another curled up in the corner.

They all felt like screaming at the top of their lungs, 'how many are there?!'

Then they just got one that stood in the centre of the room, smirking his head off like he knew what was happening.

"TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENING, BARRY!"

"Where is the fun in that, and its Sebastian," Sebastian smirked.

"WHO'S SEBASTIAN!"

"Me."

"I THOUGHT YOU WERE; BARRY, CHRIS, SEDUCTIVE DEMON AND NOW YOU'RE SAYING YOUR SEBASTIAN?!"

"Oh, there is another," Sebastian smirked.

"WTF THERE IS ANOTHER?!"

"Oh yeah, there is another - at least, from what I remember," Sebastian smirked before thinking to himself and the others, 'everyone play along, Barry, don't let them realise when you appear again at least once.' He got a range of different agreements from the others and couldn't help when his smirk widened.

"Just say when you are Barry!" Cisco yelled out in frustration before firing the ray, "Barry?"

"Nope."

Cisco tried again before asking, "Barry?"

"Ah!" The person screamed as they backed into the corner, "get away from me!"

Cisco growled to himself before firing the ray, "Barry?"

"Hello, beautiful," Barry purred to Cisco, going along with Sebastian's plan.

Cisco flushed as he fired again, asking, "Barry?"

"Did you have to go through all of me, Cisco?" The man asked, clutching at his thumping head.

"Ah, you're back," the others sighed in relief.

"Try again; I'm Scarlet!"

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPEED FORCE!" Cisco yelled as he fired the ray again. "Barry?" He asked with a sigh.

"Yeah, I'm Barry," Barry finally said, before going very dizzy headed, "and I think I'm going down..."

"He's unconscious... How does that happen?" Iris asked.

"We might have overloaded his body," Caitlin said as she checked over his vitals.

"So what do we do now?" Iris asked.

"I want to know why we had to go through so many personalities to get to Barry," Joe stated.

"So we wait for him to wake up," Cisco said, "with his speedster powers he should not be out for that long."

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"Wh-what happened?" Barry groaned, clutching at his head.

"We were trying the reverse personality ray on everyone for fun when we realised it worked," Cisco started, "but with you, instead of having one, you had so many I lost count!"

"I have so much to explain, don't I?" Barry sighed as he leaned back in the medical cot.

"Yeah," Joe said as he moved into view, "you have a lot to explain."

"I have multiple split personalities..." Barry sighed, "they formed after my mother's death to protect myself from the 'traumatic event'. They are all opposites of each other so its no surprise you managed to get them during your 'fun'."

"But, you had one called Scarlet," Iris stated, "does that mean one of them is a villain."

"You met the Seductive Demon?" Barry asked.

"Yes, he was one of them," Cisco confirmed.

"My highschool made a villain club when our rival school made a hero club; I was the founding member and leader of the villains," Barry sighed, "it wasn't actual leadership of villains, but I was cold and rude to anyone back then that they already saw me as the villain I thought I should just own it."

"Bare, did you?" Joe started.

"If you check Sebastian Smythe's records you will see a list of criminal offences, each petty in their retrospect," Barry sighed, turning his head to look away from them.

"Did you regret them?" Joe asked.

"All the time."

"Did you say sorry?" Iris asked.

"Continuously after I graduated and before I left," Barry sighed.

Knowing what would make Barry feel better about it, Caitlin asked, "did you get a chance to help them?"

"Yes, I helped Blaine Anderson and Kurt Hummel-Anderson propose and was there during their wedding," Barry smiled.

"You know the Hollywood Gay couple?!" Iris spluttered.

"Oh, I knew them very well!" Barry laughed.

"Why do I have a feeling you're not going to tell us how well?" Caitlin asked.

"Because I'm not."

"That's no fun!" Cisco whined, before sighing when he saw everyone looking over at him, "on it."

"Knew you wouldn't back down to the challange!"

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