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BIRTHDAY SHENANIGANS

[Usually Hartley treats birthdays like any other day. He's not really the kind of person who sees any point in making a big deal out of turning a year older, especially when there's rarely anyone else to make a big deal of it with. But this birthday is different.

Because it's not just his birthday. He's sharing it with another Hartley Rathaway, another version of himself, and that almost certainly seems like something they should be celebrating. Who else gets the opportunity to do something like this? No one. At least as far as he knows.

So after sharing a "holyshit, I'm 30" drink with one of the few neighbors he's civil with, he comes back to the apartment determined to make Piper do something celebratory with him. He thinks alcohol should probably be involved. And maybe some property damage (he wonders where Harrison's staying these days), but either way, definitely alcohol.]

Piper, feel up to doing something tonight?

to whom it may concern

Test results

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sent at 11:28 PM (two minutes ago)
FROM	Dr. Harrison Wells <harrison.wells@starlabs.com>;
TO	Hartley Rathaway <r88gjfke8@hushmail.com>;
resultscomparison.pdf Mr. Rathaway and associate, Attached are the DNA comparison results for your samples. Please feel free to call, email, or visit S.T.A.R. Labs during regular hours if there are any irregularities you wish to discuss. - Harrison Wells Director of S.T.A.R. Labs 4737 Garrick Ave. Central City, MO 63118 314-574-5252
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property damage and all it entails.

[ He obviously needs to move. It's just a regrettable irony — hilarious. Really. — that he has no time to deal with that kind of thing. Having the house repaired is practically begging Hartley to come back at some later date and smash the whole thing again, and though he might not care, per se, about the expense or inconvenience, there are one or two things about this particular outbreak of pettiness that bother him.

The way the sensors were turned off, for instance. Quite focused. No evidence of any kind of EMP device (of this era) he's familiar with, and not exactly Hartley's specialty. Of course, he'll have been working on new things since his escape, but... Harrison turns the pen in his fingers, nodding through the unavoidable police report and Caitlin and Barry's concern and Cisco's fidgety guilt, all of which he treats as formalities and waves off. Hartley chose a time when he wasn't there. This isn't a threat, it's Hartley blowing off steam, and probably testing his new gloves.

Which, when they look into the same satellite tremor tracking as before, they can find evidence of in another place. That combined with the occasional glimpse of Hartley on street surveillance footage provides the CCPD with an area to canvas. They won't be able to take him in even if they find him, Harrison has no doubt, but Hartley isn't a metahuman and he is potentially very destructive; they're obligated to look, regardless of the fact he's only interested in targeting two people.

They won't take him, but they might still turn up something interesting. Something about the other man in the surveillance footage, for example. Harrison keeps tabs on the investigation as it proceeds from back at the lab. Unfortunate officers have to do all the footwork. By the time they reach Hartley's building, they're pretty annoyed with the door-to-door and photograph routine. Depending on how low Hartley has been lying, though, their day might get a little better soon. ]

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I assumed as much.