Caitlin stepped into a bar, full of drunk bikers. She approached the bartender and ordered a drink. Clutching her drink in hand she eyed the patrons. They were all at least a foot taller than her.
"Hey, missy! I think you're in the wrong place." A gruff looking man approached her and smiled down at her.
"No, I think I'm in the right place, and before you do, I'm warning you to not lay a hand on me. I'm simply here for the drinks." She told him sweetly.
The man laughed at her. "You? You're warning me?" his friends laughed with him, which made Caitlin finish her drink quickly. She placed her empty glass back down on the bar and spoke again. "Yes! I am warning you." She said again.
The man shoved her shoulder back. She shook her head softly and said "I did warn you." She raised her hands and shot ice projectiles throughout the bar, crippling most of the patrons, even some who were not with the man. The man who had tried to intimidate her had been shot backwards to the ground. He pulled out a gun and aimed it at her. Caitlin flung another cold blast at him and the gun was frozen stiff in his hand. He could not move his entire arm.
"I warned you…" she cooed at the man. She skipped her way out of the bar, in a childlike fashion and as she did, she continued to shoot ice bolts all around the bar, unaffected by the damage that she had caused.
Cisco stood frozen in his tracks. "Cisco? Cisco? Is everything ok?" Barry asked him.
"I think I know where Caitlin is." Cisco said softly, trying to make sense of everything that he had just seen. "Where?" Barry asked.
"Don't ask me how I know. I think I just saw her leaving some biker bar on Northpoint…" Cisco told his friend. He realized by the end of the sentence that Barry had already left.
Barry did not need to look far, until he found Caitlin leaving the location that Cisco had mentioned. The sun was setting and she looked as if she was dressed for a night out. Black leather and very skimpy. He wanted to ask her about her drastic change in fashion, but he remembered what his friends had said about Caitlin being an entirely different person.
"Caitlin!" he called out to her. He was in his red suit, so he was a little annoyed when Caitlin called him by name.
"Barry… the dynamic duo sent you to come and save me… Didn't they?" Caitlin asked him sweetly.
"Caitlin, what are you doing? It's not too late to come with me. Ronnie is in an induced coma and he needs you by his side." Barry told her.
This news threw her off guard, but it wasn't enough to win her over. "While the good girl Caitlin would be bawling right now, I'm actually quite relieved." She told him.
She stepped towards Barry slowly, until she was inches away from his face. "This could be good for us, Barry. You with your speed… me with my, newfound self… We could run this world, you and I."
Barry stared at her, wondering what she was getting at. "You, know Barry. When you run, it generates a lot of heat…" she whispered softly to him, "Right now, I am feeling… so cold!"
Before he could react, she kissed him, making him freeze on the spot. A wave of frost that ran from his mouth to his feet trapped him in place, giving her enough time to escape, before he could generate enough heat to free himself.
When he finally came to, she was long gone. "Cisco, I lost her." He communicated via his earpiece, "I'm on my way back.
"I can't believe you lost her. How did that happen?" Cisco asked Barry when he arrived, back to Sutherland Labs. "You're the fastest man alive but you couldn't catch her. What happened?"
Barry didn't want to admit the trickery that their friend had used on him. "She just outsmarted me, that's all. She knew that I was faster than her, so she froze me on the spot. Besides, how did you know where she was? That was more than just some intuitive coincidence."
"Barry…" Cisco said, unsure of himself. "…I saw where she was in my mind. I saw this image of her and of the chaos she had caused… All we need now is for CCPD to tell us about the frozen mess that she left in that bar and I will know that something is wrong with me."
"Wrong with you? Cisco. If you are seeing visions of crimes as they are happening, that will help us to stop the crime in this city. I can be there before the police arrive and arrest the criminals. How long has this been happening?" Barry questioned him, somewhat excited about the idea.
"Since the meteor shower. Every now and then I have been receiving visions of things that were happening or that ended up happening. But lately I've been getting them a lot more often. You're the first person I have told. I thought that I was going crazy. But I guess it's just a relief that I'm not." Cisco told him, relieved to have gotten his secret out in the open.
"I suppose we can always try to use it to find out where Caitlin is now." Barry told him. "Do you think that it would work if you touched something that belonged to her, like those psychics do?"
"It can't hurt…" Cisco shrugged. "Can you pass me her pen off her desk? You know that one that she doesn't let any of us use?" Barry retrieved the pen off the desk and handed it to Cisco, though, unfortunately, no visions came.
Astrid and Oliver were seated at the best table at Amarasia Oasis, while the staff were delighted to wait on them. "Have you got your speech ready for tomorrow's ceremony?" Oliver asked her.
Astrid barely heard a word that he had said. Her mind was on her friends.
"I'm sorry, what?" she asked him.
"Astrid, is everything ok? You have barely said a word since I got into town." Oliver told her.
She knew that she couldn't lie to him. She wiped away a tear that had emerged from her eye, careful not to make a mess of her eye makeup.
"I think I might need to cancel tomorrow's ceremony." She told him.
"What? Why? Is everything ok? What is going on?" Oliver held her hands over the table and she bit at her bottom lip.
"Astrid… I have been looking for you everywhere…" A familiar voice sounded over the numerous voices of the restaurant's patrons. Oliver and Astrid both looked up to see Caitlin walking over to them. She was still as pale as a ghost. Astrid gasped. Both she and Oliver stood up.
Oliver who was confused by Astrid's response stood in between the two girls defensively.
"Well if it isn't her protector… Sterling City's vigilante." Caitlin hissed at Oliver Queen.
"Caitlin, I think you are mistaken…" he told her in a whisper. They were fortunate that the other patrons had not heard what she had called him.
Astrid slipped her bracelet off her wrist and placed it in her purse. An overwhelming wave of thoughts from the restaurant's patrons swept into her mind. But she was able to sift them through them all and hear Caitlin's thoughts, distinctly.
Her powers had tainted them. There was a whirlwind of emotions, but unlike what had happened to Robert Sutherland, her friend was not possessed. This was Caitlin's new self and it was as if she were a mere child, only looking to have fun in the world around her.
Caitlin continued to stare at Oliver with pure mocking hatred. "I suggest you let me speak with my friend, Arrow or there will a large price to pay." She threatened him.
Oliver looked over at Astrid. He knew that she could defend herself but he would continue to stand by in case she needed him. He stood beside her and placed his hands in his pocket, subtly as he sent an emergency alert to Barry.
"Astrid, you're not wearing your bracelet," Caitlin told her friend. "With your telepathic abilities, you and I could get out of here and have some fun… What do you say?"
"Caitlin, you hurt Cisco! Ronnie and Dr Stein are both fighting for their lives, and you want us to go out and have some fun? What is wrong with you?" Astrid demanded an answer softly to not cause a scene.
Caitlin noticed her friend's desire to not cause a scene and decided to use that to her advantage. "There is nothing wrong with me! I am feeling better than ever. I assure you. But if you won't join me, because you are my friend. That is your last mistake, Astrid Sutherland." Caitlin turned on her heels and stormed out of the restaurant. Fortunately, she did not cause any destruction this time round.
Astrid probed her mind again, before she was entirely out of reach. Her friend was still in there. There was a brief glimmer of the Caitlin she knew, regretting all the destruction that she was doing. There was still hope.
Caitlin left the restaurant and headed out into the street. A tear trickled down her cheek. What was she doing? Had she really hurt Cisco? Who was this girl that she was becoming and why couldn't she control herself? The love of her life was in a coma and what was she doing? Playing the villain. She hated herself at that moment.
She looked around her. She was standing in the busy street at nighttime, dressed in black leather. She blinked for a brief moment and when her eyes opened again she was no longer standing in the same place. She was tied up to a chair, somewhere else.
Had Barry found her and brought her back to Sutherland Labs? No. She was in an abandoned warehouse with very dim lighting. In the shadows she saw the silhouette of someone, who looked strangely familiar.
"Dr Caitlin Snow." The man said as he walked towards her. He was now standing inches away from her. At that moment she knew why he seemed familiar. "Detective Eddie Thawne!" she gasped.
