"Jaelyn, you need to wake up," came Bianca's worried voice.

Jaelyn opened her eyes and found herself in some sort of lab or hospital. Around the bed she was on, there stood quite a few people, including Bianca and Daniel. She sat up but her head immediately began pounding painfully, so she had to lay back down.

"Don't sit up quite yet," said a brunette woman of about her age. "You've been having migraines from all the stress of the robbery and…other things we found when we ran tests."

"What did you find, exactly?" Jaelyn asked, concerned. "Is something very wrong with me?"

She tried to sit up again, but this time, it was Daniel who made her lie back down. "Jaelyn, please," he said pleadingly. "These guys will explain everything."
Jaelyn forced herself to calm down, though many questions were circling through her addled mind, the most prominent ones being where am I and why am I here? She was worried that something might be seriously wrong with her. Why else was she in a hospital?
She took a deep breath and looked the brunette woman in the eyes. "First of all, who are you?"

"I'm Doctor Caitlin Snow," the woman replied.

"Barry Allen," said a good-looking brown-haired man.

"Cisco Ramon, tech guy," added a black-haired man in a funny T-Shirt that said "I see dumb people".

After the only other woman in the room had identified herself as Iris West, Jaelyn noticed that there were three other men in the room, standing in a row with their arms folded. One was black like Iris, one was DRESSED in all black, and the other had blonde hair and wore a waistcoat.

Cisco rolled his eyes and pointed to each in turn. "The Sulky Squad over there is Joe West, Harry Wells, and Julian Albert."

"Sulky Squad?" repeated Joe, raising an eyebrow.

"I'm not sulky," Harry and Julian said at the same time.

"I've been working with both of you for long enough to know that's not true," Cisco snorted.

Jaelyn realized that Bianca and Cisco had the same last name. So did Daniel and Caitlin. She was so overwhelmed with everything going on. Names and headaches and the robbery, she didn't know what was even going on.

I guess it's time to ask questions and get to the bottom of this, Jaelyn thought.

"Caitlin, can I ask some questions?" she said. "I'm just so confused."

"Of course," Caitlin replied. "It's completely normal to be confused after all of this."

"Okay then." Jaelyn said once she got most of everyone's attention. "Why do you and Daniel have the same last name? He's never said anything about you."

Caitlin looked a little relieved. "Daniel is my brother. I'm actually glad you haven't heard about me yet. I asked him not to say anything, but I'll explain that when you're...more ready."

"And since I'm sure you'll want to know," added Bianca, "Cisco is my brother. Same reason as Caitlin and Daniel why you haven't heard about him."

"Alright that makes a little more sense," said Jaelyn, relieved it was that simple. "But where am I and why?"
Nobody answered for a little while. Jaelyn thought that was because she was in a hospital and about to die.

Finally, the one who called himself Barry said "You're in S.T.A.R. Labs because you called Bianca. But when she found you, you were passed out and in unstable conditions, so she called Cisco and brought you here."

"That about sums it up," added Bianca.

"Okay, I think this is the last one," said Jaelyn, feeling somewhat more stressed. "What kind of unstable conditions am I in? Please just tell me. I'm a scientist. I can handle it."

"Jaelyn," Daniel said. "I am pretty sure you don't want to know right away."

"Daniel is right," said the man in black who Cisco said was Harry. "You need to be less stressed before you take on the knowledge of your...condition."
Jaelyn sighed and said, "Alright, if all of you think I'm not well enough to know of my own health, then fine. I guess I'll rest until you do think so." She really disliked how her friends and their friends thought that she was incapable of knowing her own health.

Everyone left the room and let her go to sleep. Jaelyn was still not very happy, but she just wanted to get it over with so she could figure out what was going on and get back to work.

When she woke up three hours later, she didn't even have a headache. She tried to sit up carefully and she felt fine. She got up out of the bed and she was completely fine.

"Okay, maybe now they'll tell me what else I need to know," Jaelyn said to absolutely no one. "I'm not stressed at all right now."

She walked out of the room and tried to find where the others were, but Daniel and Bianca found her in the hall.

They saw her and said, "What are you doing?" Bianca said. "You're supposed to be in bed."

"I know," Jaelyn replied. "But I rested and I'm not stressed at all. Now please, I want to know what is going on."

Bianca and Daniel still looked a little worried, but they also looked relieved they didn't have to hide anything anymore.

"Okay," Daniel said. "We'll take you the others and they can explain it. We actually don't really know what's going on either."
When they got to the cortex, everyone was working on something and talking to someone on speaker phone. Daniel and Bianca looked a little surprised, but they headed in anyway.

Cisco, who was typing frantically, said, "You need to go towards the east entrance. Be careful because it looks like he found the weapons in this place."

"Got it," said the voice on the speaker. Jaelyn thought it sounded fairly familiar.

Bianca noticed that Jaelyn was getting curious and asked Cisco, "Uh, are we ready for Jaelyn to know about this and everything else?"
Nobody knew they were there, so Caitlin and Cisco nearly fell out of their chairs. A few seconds later, there was a burst of wind and a man in a red suit was in the middle of the room. As Jaelyn looked closer, she noticed it was Barry, the taller brunette man whom she met right after she woke up from the headaches. She also noticed that the suit he was in was the Flash's suit. She was so surprised she was lost for words.

Bianca face palmed and said, "Well, there goes that."

"Well, Aspen is in the pipeline, and everyone in that building is safe," Barry said with a smile, but as soon as he saw Jaelyn gaping at him, he added while gesturing to her, "And I just did that, didn't I?"

Daniel sighed and replied, "Yeah, you did. We weren't sure she was ready to know about you yet."
Jaelyn was plenty surprised but soon she mostly got over it. She really just wanted to get to the answer she was looking for.

"Guys, I'm ready to know what's going on," she said with a bit of annoyance in her voice. "I've rested, just like you said to, and now I'm ready, so just get on with it and tell me what on earth is wrong with me!"

As she got more and more angry, the granite counter she was touching turned more and more into gold. Everyone backed away from her. Cisco pointed at the counter and said, "That's what's wrong with you. You're a meta-human who can turn objects and other materials into another kind of material, like rock into gold, or even water to poison." Caitlin glared at him, but he just said, "What? She wanted to know and she needed to know. So now she does."

Jaelyn was very stunned, but she immediately stopped turning the counter into gold and reversed the change somehow. She felt a little bit dizzy, but sat down and relaxed. In a few minutes, she was fine. She decided that she wanted to go home and relax there so that she could go to work the next day, so she said to all the others, "I think I want to go home for a while. I'll come back tomorrow if you want, though," and left to go. She really didn't want to believe any of this was happening, but she also wanted to accept it. Somehow, she was going to figure out why and how this had happened to her and what Jeremy Aspen was doing in her lab that day.