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"Guys! I have to go!" Nat said grabbing her white cane and getting up.
"What? Barry has just left! Do you not want to stay and see what happens?" Caitlin asked.
"No. No. I'm late for... for something... I just have to go... I'm sorry... I'll be back later!" Nat said as she tried to hustled out the door. She really needed to think of a good excuse for leaving in such a hurry, she decided to think about that on the way home.
She got onto the street and managed to get a taxi, it is a lot more difficult to do when you are blind. She hurried into her apartment and quickly got changed out of her usual, formal work clothes into all black, flexible clothes, well as quickly as she could. She then bolted out of the door, leaving her white cane behind and ran to the old abandoned factory that she knew Barry was currently in, she already knew the way and used her hearing and sense of smell to detect obstacles, about 2 minutes into running, she heard an oncoming car and slid over its bonnet. 4 minutes later, the smell of bricks hit her nose, she knew she was coming up to a brick wall, she jumped onto the left wall and then grabbed on to the edge of the roof of the building on the right using her momentum from the previous jump. She pulled herself up and continued running towards the scent of smoke. The factory had been abandoned for years but for some reason it still smelt strongly of smoke, well it did to Nat at least. Finally, she arrived at the building and could smell rusty metal underneath her, presumably a balcony used by those who used to work there, she couldn't hear a rattle from the wind shaking it even slightly so she assumed that if she jumped down, nobody would hear. She took the risk and jumped, landing without a sound, crouched on the floor.
She creeped in through a window in the wall of the factory that was open and accessible from the metal balcony and saw Barry fighting the leader of the group. It was the perfect combination of people Barry targets and those Nat targeted. The leader was a metahuman, he could control water. The other two in the group were not, instead they trafficked children. Barry was fighting the leader up by the abandoned machines whilst the gang members were trying to sort out money at the back of the factory. Nat could hear them, she creeped up on the balcony that was above them. She suddenly jumped off and ambushed the two people. As she jumped down, she grabbed onto the neck of one of them and brought him down with her leaving him on the ground whilst she rolled to stand up. The second person, a woman, swung her fist at Nat but she grabbed it and flipped the woman over her shoulder. When Nat had gone blind her senses became fine-tuned. She could hear the attackers heart beat change when they were scared, or confident, or lying. She could also hear the beginning off their movements so would almost instantly know where she is being hit but sometimes, they were just unavoidable or she was distracted.
Suddenly the man lunged for her with a knife and it pierced her stomach, she grabbed his arm and twisted it at an unnatural angle, hearing a satisfying crunch and letting go, she then punched him, leaving him knocked out on the floor. The woman punched her in the face, she felt it cut her eyebrow but she quickly grabbed her arm and flipped her over her shoulder leaving her lay on her back, she began to shoot at Nat but she somersaulted and jumped with grace and dodged every bullet and stood over the female attacker, punching her in the face until she was fully unconscious.
Nat quickly looked over her shoulder to watch what was happening with Barry and the water-guy but they were no longer there, it could be assumed that Barry had returned to Star Labs. Nat quickly climbed out of the window she came in from and jumped from the windowsill to the roof and ran back to her apartment following the way she came. When she got there, she went to the medical kit. She knew that stab wound would need stitches so she took a swig of whisky and pulled out the needle and thread, this was another thing she should be terrible at but she was actually surprisingly good at. Soon she was stitched up. She couldn't tell how bad her face was after receiving the punch. She quickly removed the mask she uses to cover her face, she didn't need her eyes so she covered them as it is these that usually give away a person's identity.
She quickly had a shower and got changed back into the same black pencil skirt and dark grey button up shirt and black blazer and began to walk to work, white stick in hand.
Finally, Nat reached Star Labs and everybody was staring at a computer screen, "How is Barry?!" She exclaimed.
"Holy cow Nat! I thought we should be the ones to make you jump!" Barry said whipping his head around from looking at the computer screen and chuckling, Nat smiled at him to show him that she was happy he was safe.
"Nat! What happened?" Caitlin exclaimed and Nat just looked confused so she elaborated, "You've cut your eyebrow and it obviously bled pretty bad."
"Do I? Oh damn. I wasn't paying attention taking the bins out and I tripped." Nat said trying to locate the cut and blood on her face.
"You need to get someone to do that for you." Caitlin said and Nat insisted she was fine but Caitlin interrupted her, "Stop messing with it! It'll get infected. Come here and let me get you cleaned up." Caitlin said kindly as she guided Nat to a chair.
Nat must have blacked out, she would use the term "everything went black" but everything was always black to her. She awoke to feel hands on her and couldn't smell anything familiar, there was nothing she could use to identify the place or link it to one she knew.
"Where am I! Get off me! Where am I, I demand you to tell me where I am!" Nat started to shout as she threw her body about only to be held down harder.
"Nat. Nat! It's fine, it's me Caitlin, me and Barry. It's okay. You must have fainted, did you have breakfast?" Caitlin said in a smooth, calming tone.
"Where the hell am I!" Nat said grabbing Caitlin's arm.
"Oh my God! I am so sorry! You're on the couch in one of the break rooms. I don't think you have ever been there. I should have led with that really." Caitlin said and Nat finally calmed down. She knew she didn't faint because she didn't have breakfast, which she actually didn't, but instead collapsed from blood loss. She could still taste the copper in the air from the stab wound on her stomach.
"I'm fine! I'm fine! I have to get home!" Nat exclaimed sitting up.
"No! Nat. Nat you can't! Odharnait Sabia Aislin Aileas Bronte O'Boyle you cannot leave!" Caitlin said trying to sound in control. Nat paused for a millisecond but then continued to get up. She grabbed her white stick and stood up. She winced and lowered herself down a little bit but then began to walk out of the room.
"Nat. Where are you going! At least let me come with you, check you get home safely." Caitlin said, worrying as usual and Nat just shrugged and rolled her eyes, which was useless because she had her glasses on, "Whatever then but if you die on your way home, I'm not being held responsible." Caitlin continued and both of them burst out into laughter and with that Nat left.
Once Nat had reached her apartment, she went up to her medic kit and replaced the stitches in her stab wound. She finally had gotten sorted when she heard the familiar, monotone voice saying, "Mildrew...Mildrew...Mildrew" she knew immediately it was her phone and she groaned as she followed the sound to her phone.
"What?" She said sharply as she picked up her phone.
"Woahhh! I just wanted to see if you needed any help from your nurse-friend." She said chuckling.
"No Mil, I'm okay, just tired... Can I sleep now?" Nat said and she put her phone down before she got an answer. She put down her phone and pulled her blanket over her, she shut her eyes and drifted off to sleep right on the couch.
