It'd been almost a week since Ari's last disappearance, but Cisco was still worried about his sister.
She was only sixteen, where could she be going that she always ends up injured? It wasn't good.
Just when he was starting to think she wasn't going to be disappearing anymore, she showed up to breakfast the next morning, forehead bleeding and the bandages of her wrist torn.
"Ari?" Cisco asked, quickly standing.
He caught his exhausted sister as she fell unconscious and quickly check her pulse. "Ari? Ari, wake up," he said, shaking her.
"Cisco, I'm fine. Just tired," she mumbled in her sleep.
"Your bleeding head is telling me otherwise. Ari, tell me where you've been going," he said, setting the girl in a chair and shaking her back awake.
"I can't," she mumbled, rubbing her eyes.
"Yes you can. I don't care the reasons. You need to tell me," Cisco said, holding his sister up as she started to doze off again.
"Can't," she mumbled as her sleepy eyes closed.
Cisco sighed, realizing he wasn't getting anywhere.
He picked his sister up bridal style and carried her to bed.
Once he made sure she was safe, he left for STAR Labs, needing to talk to Caitlyn and Barry.
"I don't know what to do! She keeps leaving in the middle of the night and when she comes back, she's always hurt!" he shouted, pacing as he ran his hands through his hair.
"Have you considered following her?" Barry asked.
Cisco shook his head. "Can't. The girl's got like a sixth sense."
Then the boys noticed Caitlyn had been oddly quiet during this conversation.
"Cait?" Cisco asked, turning to the red-haired girl.
"Hmm?" she asked, looking up. She hadn't been listening.
"Never mind," Cisco said.
Barry started to say something until Ari walked in, bandages fixed and head no long bleeding. She was also carrying a milkshake from Big Belly Burger.
"Hey guys," she said smiling.
"Hey, Ari," Barry said, eyeing the girl up and down.
"Hey! Want to go for a run?" she asked.
Despite the situation, Barry cracked a smile. Ari loved track and running, but she was never able to keep up with Barry no matter how hard she tried. His super speed made him too fast.
"Sure," he said and Ari grinned.
The two headed out and Cisco realized that maybe he should just let Ari do her thing. She's a smart girl, she would tell him if something was going on, right?
A/N: Hello people of the Flash fandom! This is my first Flash story on here, so please give me good and bad feedback. If you have any ideas on what I could do better, tell me in the comments! I know it's going kinda a slow so far, but this is only the second chapter ;) Hope you liked it!
