"Felicity have you seen my keys?" Lyla shouted from the foyer while walking into kitchen.
Felicity shifted the keys to her older sister across the island and took another sip of her coffee while opening up a box left on the table.
"Thanks, Caitlin not up yet?"
"Nope, she spent all last night with Rory," Felicity rolled her eyes.
"Rory? I thought she was seeing Wally?"
Felicity shook her head.
"What you got there?" her sister asked.
Felicity smiled, "Barry sent me this. It is the most important ingredient in the recipe I am making for Chef Jacque to be a cook at Verdant."
Lyla sipped her coffee, "Good luck."
"Good morning sisters!" Caitlin responded with glee to her older currently single siblings.
"Uh huh," Lyla replied, "Well, I have to go to the auction house or I will be late."
"Lyla, can you give me a ride to the Verdant, my car is acting weird?" Felicity asked quickly.
"Why don't you just have Oliver look at it?" Caitlin winked.
"He's a handy man not a mechanic."
"And I do imagine he is good with his hands," added the youngest of the Smoak women.
"Whatever, let's go," Lyla shouted out the door.
"Bye." "Bye."
Since Caitlin's psychology class wasn't until noon, she decided to check out the old attic. The sisters had moved back into their family home to save expenses after their grandmother passed away about a month ago. Lyla and Felicity had rented an apartment together previously and Caitlin had the habit of staying with her string of boyfriends.
Caitlin walked up to the attic with the set of old keys she found in a kitchen drawer. But when she reached the top of the stairs, the door was already open. In the center of the room, stood a wooden pedestal that held an old book with a strange symbol on the front. She opened it and found a page with strange string of words.
As she had a habit of doing, Caitlin read the words allowed out of curiosity,
"Hear now the words
of the witches,
The secrets we hid
in the night.
The oldest of Gods
are invoked here.
The great work of
Magic is sought.
In this night
and in this hour,
I call upon the
Ancient Power.
Bring your powers
to we sisters three!
We want the power!
Give us the power!"
Lyla stood inside an office at the Argus Auction House.
"What do you mean you put your name as the lead?" Lyla's anger simmered.
"Come on, Lyla, you know I had to. These old guys rather deal with men," her coworker and former fiancé Harrison Wells stated, "Besides we both know I brought in the client."
"And we both know that is total bullshit! You are just doing this because we aren't engaged anymore," she shouted, "You know what…I quit!" and she stormed out.
"You better not take any pens in your purse," Harrison said causing Lyla to squeeze her fists in frustration as she walked away.
What Lyla missed was how the tie around Harrison's neck got tighter and so tight he had to cut it.
"Your time is up," Chef Jacque entered the kitchen as Felicity tried to finish her cooking interview.
She hadn't been able to put the Lafitte Rothschild wine on it and panicked when he picked up a spoon. As she held up her hands to stop him, he completely froze but she did not.
"Chef Jacque? Hello?" Felicity asked, freaking out before getting the idea to take an eye dropper and put a bit of the wine on his spoon.
After she placed the dropper behind her back, the chef suddenly unfroze and placed the spoon in his mouth.
"Mmmm, that is very good!"
Felicity smiled and took a deep breath wondering what happened but thankful that it did.
Caitlin decided to ride her bike to the store downtown. It was always so peaceful in the morning in Star City and she wasn't the only one enjoying the fresh air. Caitlin noticed some kids rollerblading on the sidewalk about to cross the street when suddenly she felt a flash.
It was as if she could see one of the children being hit by the truck that would come over the hill. The vision chilled her to the bone.
"Watch out," she shouted, riding her bike to reach them while falling to the ground just in time for the truck to have stopped but still injured.
"What the hell?" she whispered to herself while the truck driver got out of the car to call 911 on his phone.
Lyla rushed to the hospital as soon as she heard about Caitlin's accident. She stopped at the nurse's station, "Caitlin Smoak?"
As Lyla turned around, Caitlin walked out wearing a cast on her arm.
"Are you okay?" her older sister asked.
"It was a clean break. We have to go to the pharmacy and then I think we should talk," Caitlin answered.
"Alright let's go," Lyla nodded.
Caitlin and Lyla drove to the pharmacy and on the way, Caitlin told her about the vision.
"So you expect me to believe you saw what was going to happen and rode across the street to save some kid from getting hurt, breaking your arm in the process," Lyla rolled her eyes as she drove into the pharmacy parking lot.
"Yes. Didn't anything strange happen to you today?"
"You mean besides my asshole of an ex taking credit for an appraisal I did with one of the biggest Argus clients making me so angry I quit my job after five years," Lyla gritted her teeth.
"More like powers weird," she said as they searched the aisles for the pain medication.
"No because there is no such thing as powers and witches and the Wiccan rede nonsense you are talking about," Lyla grunted, "Where is the Tylenol?" and suddenly a container of Tylenol flew into her hand.
"You were saying," Caitlin smirked at a wide eyed Lyla.
"Barry, you were a lifesaver today," Felicity stated in the car as her boyfriend drove them away after picking Felicity up from the restaurant and buying Chinese food on the way to his apartment.
"Glad, I could help," he said, "Hand me a fortune cookie."
"You are supposed to eat these after, "Felicity handed him one."
"Soon you will be on top," he said after opening it.
Felicity quickly turned to him, "Let me see that…Soon you will be on top of the world," she answered with a smack to his arm.
He laughed, "Is it okay if we take a little shortcut? I want to show you something," Barry asked and she nodded.
Barry drove them to an old abandoned building at the edge of the Glades.
"What are we doing here? This place is creepy,"
He held out his hand to help her out of the car, "Don't be such a scaredy cat. I want to show you the view."
She shrugged and followed him in to the building where he entered an old elevator shaft that you pull to get to the top.
"So how did you find this place?" Felicity asked.
"Doesn't matter, witch?" he turned to her holding a knife.
"What the fuck?" Felicity moved away from him, scared for her life as her boyfriend's face shifted.
He moved towards her and she screamed. Barry suddenly froze like the chef did and she opened the doors to the elevator running out of the building to the car just in time.
Felicity bolted from her car up the stairs into the house, slamming the door and scaring her sisters that stood in the hall.
"Lock all the doors, call the cops, hurry, move," Felicity shouted at them.
"Wait, wait, wait, what is going on?" Lyla asked.
"It's Barry, he said he wanted me to see this building and I asked him how he found it and suddenly he got this knife out and his face changed. He became," she felt her breath catch in her throat.
"A warlock?" Caitlin replied.
"A what?" "A what?" her sisters said.
"Hurry, we have to go to the attic," their younger sister scurried up the stairs leaving two very confused women.
Little did they know, Barry was already on his way to kill them and get their powers.
As the sisters entered the attic, Caitlin pointed to the book. To get rid of a warlock, we need to get these things and say this incantation.
"What is going on here?" Felicity said.
"Just listen to me…I'll explain everything later. Hurry before her gets here."
The sisters prepared the items and Felicity added another ritual to kill Barry by pushing a roses into a doll,
Your love will wither and depart
from my life and from my heart.
Let me be, Barry.
And go away forever.
As they believed the spell had worked, Lyla and Felicity put away the candles and Caitlin touched the bowl. She had another vision showing Barry walking to the house with rose thorns through his skin.
"It didn't work," she cried.
"What do you mean it didn't work?" Lyla asked, "You said it would work."
"I don't know but I saw him walking through the door."
Suddenly, they heard Barry shout, "You think you can hide from me witches!"
"Barricade the doors, "Felicity said.
They moved tables and an old wardrobe cabinet in front of the door and backed away.
"Do you think these would stop me?" Barry's voice bellowed behind the door as the furniture flew to the sides of the room, "I am more powerful. You cannot stop me."
Once he was in the room, Caitlin, Lyla and Felicity grabbed each other's' hands.
Felicity asked, "What do we do now?"
"Umm… the power of three will set us free?" Caitlin answered.
"That's it?"
"How am I supposed to know?"
The sisters chanted the power of three will set us free and noticed a whirling wind encircled them blocking Barry from touching them.
"No one can defeat me. I will end you," he shouted that turned into a laugh.
"It's not working," Lyla said.
"Just keep saying it."
The Power of Three will set us free!
The Power of Three will set us free!
The Power of Three will set us free!
All of a sudden, Barry laughter turned into a scream as his body appeared to shatter into nothing.
"What was that?" Felicity looked at her sisters.
Lyla shrugged, "Ask your sister," pointing at Caitlin.