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If last week had been a solid boring day at STAR Labs, well, this week had not. For a start, Cisco's metahumans alert software had caused a major issue that he, himself could not fathom. One second the Labs was blaring the metahuman alert, the next it went down on full silent mode. He had checked again and again for any malfunctions in every possible ways only to find out that his pride and joy is supposed to be up and running like his pride and joy should. The only problem; it did not, henceforth putting this week on Cisco's least favorable week at work despite of it not being boring.

"You still haven't figured it out yet?" Barry asked as he flashed in from yet another destination he was supposed to go to. Cisco gave him an exasperated groan as he threw his notes across the room. "Sorry," he muttered to Barry.

"I have a theory. What if—this is quite a long shot and big 'What If', but what if there's something out there stopped the metahumans before we have the chance to send you the signal to stop the metahumans?" Caitlin swung her chair over to face them, finally caving in to an idea she did not quite like.

"You mean like another speedster?"

"Team Flash 2.0?" he lifted up his head and his eyes are beginning to sparkle like he did whenever he was about to get excited about something. "That actually make sense, but at the same time it doesn't." he started. "I mean, how on earth did they get awesome stuffs like ours? I mean, it's not like you've seen these babies up on the sales on E-bay, and they're faster than we are?"

"You think they're from another Earth?" Barry questioned, frowning at the thought of what else might come along from yet another Earth.

"I—yeah, no. But we closed the breaches. That can't be it." he countered.

"Have you considered psychokinesis?" Caitlin suggested slowly like she was not confident of the possibility herself. "I say this because we have to consider all possibilities of the metahumans that we might be facing." she explained. "If they can stop metahumans faster than Barry can run to do what he always does, who knows what else they are capable of? We don't know if they are a friend or a foe." she said.

"Caitlin Snow, you are a genius. Let me just go check to see if there's any pattern we can track. Then, we might get something going on from there." Cisco clapped his hands after brushing off the chills of hearing Caitlin's cold tone at the end of her perfectly productive reasoning. No later than that, Cisco made his way to his spot to get started on cracking the case.

"Hey, you're alright?" Barry asked as he smoothed over Caitlin's desk. He heard the cold tone in her voice too, and he was sure Caitlin was still recovering from everything that had happened to her. To be honest, he was amazed by how strong Caitlin is, given by what she had been through. A little part of him felt ashamed for behaving the way he did when he snapped back when they had to deal with Zoom. It was expected of him and Caitlin had never mentioned it ever since, none of his friends did, but he felt ashamed nonetheless, especially towards Caitlin. So he was not going to deny her the right of having a friend when he sense there was something not right going on in Caitlin's life that she was trying to hide and was failing miserably.

"Yeah. Why did you ask?"

"You just went Killer Frost back there." he stated, earning himself a glare from her. "And you're doing that biting your lower lip thing." he added quickly.

"Well, you know how people with psychokinetic ability can make people do things?" she asked as her brows furrowing closer. When he nodded, she continued, "Well, that was not all that they can do. I've been crunching possibilities for a while and I am hoping that my expectations are wrong. Terribly wrong."

"Don't worry. We're gonna be ready the next time there's a metahuman alert and we're going bring in this psychokinetic. Whoever they may be." he assured her. "But that wasn't the thing that's bothering you, is it?" he began and when she looked away to escape his concerned, yet scrutinizing look, she had affirmed his assumptions. "Cait, you don't have to bear this alone."

That earned him a look that he did not understand. If he had not known Caitlin any better, he would have said it was a look of pity and sympathy, but he did know Caitlin, better now than ever, she was not one for giving pitiful look when someone least needed it. "I'm worried for you." she managed to prove him wrong, yet again. "Our team's different now with Harry's departure, but don't get me wrong, it's not like I didn't have faith in Cisco because I do, I have never doubted him," her voice trailed when she saw Cisco coming into the cortex with a proud look on his face. "What I'm trying to say is, we have limited manpower, but the metas we'll be facing, who knows how many of them are affected and uncontained out there. Be extra careful, please." she said in a tone so heart-wrenching it gave a tug on Barry's previously invincible confidence for a second.

"I will." he said, giving her one last squeeze of her hand before turning his attention to Cisco. "Okay, Cisco, show us what you came up with." Barry hoped silently that Caitlin's overbearing worries for him was a normal thing that he did not noticed before, (even if he did, he had casually brushed it off and chose to ignore it) and not a result of her and Iris' spending time together. He will never get the hang of a girl and her habits, and it was going to beat him forever to figure out what two girls spending time and developing synchronized habits would be. He already noticed some changes in Iris for the past few days after their night out, she had been in a good mood, almost as good as when he had first woke up from coma. Maybe Caitlin and Iris bonding over as friends isn't a bad thing.

"Alright, you're not gonna believe this, but they all came from the same source. Remember that day that we had three alerts and then a quiet two days of work without alerts?" he asked enthusiastically.

"Yeah, you were throwing stuffs around at the board and impersonating Harry those two days, how could we forget?" Barry and Caitlin laughed but stopped when Cisco about to retort, signaling him to continue.

"Right, all from the same location. Then, these are from two days ago. The location has been moved, but check this out," he pointed at the map.

"They came from the same location." Barry muttered.

"And this," he pointed at a red mark on the map he printed, "This is from earlier today. My bet is when the next alert comes, it's gonna be coming from here." he said with a smug grin on his face. "What do you say?"

"Let's go get 'em."

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"It's a coffee shop!" Cisco whined as soon as they arrived on the address he had copied from the map. "How come it's a coffee shop?"

"Are you sure you copied the right address?" Caitlin asked she was about to make her way enter the premise when she saw Cisco was not budging from his spot. Where is Barry and why do I get to babysit big man-baby Cisco? She thought to herself before mentally berated herself.

"Of course I copied it right. It's an address, not some sort of Harry's or Well's theorems." he huffed indignantly at her.

"Go check if there's anything out of place on that building. Maybe this coffee shop isn't really a coffee shop. Work your magic." she suggested while making magician's hand gestures to him. "Barry, are you in place?" she asked over the PA.

"Oh, yeah. You know, times like this made me feel like it wouldn't hurt to have x-ray vision." he joked.

"No, you wouldn't want that, man. I mean, really, here?" Cisco butted in. "No, man, no. Nope. I'm not letting you." he shook his head as he rolled his eyes and let out another whine. "The place's clean. The coffee shop is just a coffee shop."

"All right," Caitlin ran her hands and fingers smoothly over her feature before getting out of the car.

"What was that for?" Cisco asked when he was out of the car too.

"I'm a lady about to walk into a coffee shop. I have to make sure that I look presentable." she retorted, earning a small chuckle from the end of the line.

"Whatever you say, lady." Cisco raised his hand in defeat only to cast her a horrific look in attempt to apologize. "Man, no, I'm sorry, that came out wrong. Saying it like that out lout made you…"

"Cisco, stop." Caitlin help up her hand in front of him in a manner of talk to my hand, swung open the door and stepped into the coffee shop. "Tell Barry immediately when you get vibe on the metahuman, or if your app goes off here." she looked around. "I'll get us our orders, you go on and get us some place to sit." she told him.

"Ooh, thank you. Can you get me something with foam?"

"I think the only thing without foams here are espressos, Cisco, but yeah, sure, whatever you say." Caitlin smiled and walked over to the counter, leaving Cisco alone in the middle of ridiculously spacious coffee house to find seats.

Granted that Jitters was a more popular place to get coffee, this place was pretty empty, however nicely decorated it was. Cisco was scanning the room for empty seats when his eyes caught on something very familiar. It was like he was not even trying when his feet dragged him over to the very table for four. "Hi." he greeted, startling the other person. "I'm sorry." he apologized quickly. How come I am always this dorky around girls that I find attractive?

"Oh, hi. No, no, no. It's okay. My mind was—somewhere else." she said.

"It's nice to see a familiar face in here. Are these seats empty?" he asked.

"Oh yeah, they are. Please, have a seat." she replied as she gathered her things from the table to make room for the new company. "Aren't you getting orders?" she asked him when she saw nothing with him.

"I'm here with a friend, she's getting our orders." he explained. "Oh man, did that just sound like I was on a date and I ditched her to go talk to another girl?" he asked nervously and that laugh he had not heard for a while came again.

"Yeah, yeah, it did." she said. "You are quite lucky I am in a good mood today and you're a familiar face, normally that'll come out as plain creepy." she told him.

"Seriously, though, I think my friend is mad at me because I accidentally implied that she's an old lady and doesn't want to talk to me for a while, so she sent me to find us seats." he explained, well, more like stuttered nervously.

"Ouch." a low chuckle got out from her. "So, let me take a stab and say, this is your first time here and you didn't like it?"

He raised his eyebrows at her.

"Well, unless your friend who is coming over here is usually irrational, which I can tell that she is not, then it must've been you whining her ears off that ticked her," she shot him a gleeful look as she smiled to greet Caitlin, "Hi, I'm Rhen, and you must be Cisco's friend."

Caitlin shot Cisco an impressed look before settling on a seat opposite him. "I'm Caitlin Snow. Cisco's colleague and friend, to be accurate."

"I told you, you ticked her off." she shook her head in amusement.

"It was accidental!" he exclaimed in defense.

"Then, apologize." she said in mock defense.

"Okay, you're right, I'm sorry. Caitlin, I'm sorry for the lady comment came out the wrong way and I'm sorry for being a big man-baby you have to babysit." Cisco said.

Caitlin was beyond astonished now seeing Cisco, who pretty much have not so much regrets in his life apologized to her and it was not his mother or grandmother who had made him do so. What was pretty surprising was he was not doing it begrudgingly, sure, his apologize lacked sincerity, but it was not forced either. Who was this girl?

"Rhen used to pair up with my brother in their recitals." Cisco explained.

"Still is." she corrected him. "We met backstage after the recitals last week. Actually, that wasn't the first time we met, the first time we met was at Jitters. I have a part time job there." she added to Caitlin. "So, you're working at STAR Labs, right?" she asked, in which Caitlin shot Cisco a questioning look.

"My brother told her most of the things that I do." Cisco started to blush.

"Most? Your brother tells me everything. He actually couldn't shut up about you." she quipped and Cisco's blush deepened.

"Have you been in a—" Caitlin's question was being cut off by Rhen's quick reply.

"Oh, no. That never happened. That bridge was burned before the bridge was even built."

"He got very drunk one night and he called her Cisco, admitting his pride in me because he thought her hair was like mine that night." Cisco explained.

"It seems like your brother does not despises you as much as you think he does, Cisco." Caitlin commented. She was about to make further fun of Cisco when his the alert came out of the sudden and then died out.

"What was that?" Rhen asked.

"That, is our cue to get back to work." Cisco smiled apologetically as he grabbed his coffee and got up.

"Nice meeting you, Rhen." Caitlin smiled and she was replied by a departing wave and walked to catch up with Cisco. "Barry, did you get anything?" she asked to the lurking speedster.

"Yeah, I do, but I'm not sure if you're gonna like it." he said.

"What did you get?"

"Cisco, I'm gonna need you vibe on that place. For confirmation." Barry said with a hint of urgency in his tone.

"But I don't even know if—"

"Cisco, now!" if previous request had staggered Cisco, well this time it sure had Cisco ran for his life back to the place, grabbing the handle of the entrance door desperately for his power to work, and when it did, he could not believe what he saw.

"I could really use your help back at STAR Labs, there's this thing we have coming up and we really could use your help, so, if you please," he blurted after all the steps he has taken slowly to muster up his courage and arranged his words like Caitlin would.

"Oh, is it urgent?"

"Yes, it is." he replied half excitedly, half nervously.

"Okay, well, lead the way."

"Barry, we're bringing her in. Wait for us at STAR Labs." Caitlin said as soon as she saw Cisco made his way over the car with Rhen. "Barry?" she contemplated the pros and cons of exposure of something delicate by bringing this apparently metahuman into STAR Labs without a properly thought-out plan.

"Yeah?"

"Nevermind." Perhaps worrying is not the best thing right now.

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A/N: Comments and criticism are most welcomed. I apologize for any confusion and errors made, and sorry Iris was not in this chapter (although I'd like to focus on Snowest friendship). Prompts are most welcomed too.