Chapter 3 is up. Things are going to get darker after this. Enjoy, or I hope you like it.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, the Teen Titans comics or any of the DC characters.

This story is loosely based on the arc The Terror of Trigon

"In other news, ravens have crowded cities everywhere. Starling City. Gotham. Metropolis. But it is our beloved Central City where the sightings increase," the reporter Linda Park explains as she is standing outside. The cameras zoom in on the black birds standing at the roof edges in neat rows as well as on the cables and street lights. There are a lot of them. "Scientist cannot explain what is causing the birds to behave so strangely, not even the infamous Dr. Harrison Wells who was thought to be dead a year ago..."

Cisco stirs in his couch, moaning and twitching his head sideways with beads of sweat forming on his brow. He's having the same nightmares again. Red skies. The sun vanishing from existence. Ravens and crows falling dead to the ground one by one like a raindrops. People shouting and running. Some dead on the floor with skin grey and hard as stone. Buildings of Central City are destroyed, including S.T.A.R. Labs. Where's Barry? Caitlin? Wally? Detective West? Harry? Jesse? Anyone?

"What is this?" The same question Cisco has been asking himself since the first time he's seen it.

"Help me." Cisco hears a young woman's voice. He turns around to find a nineteen-year-old girl with pale face and dressed in black, her face completely shrouded in darkness of a hood. He can't see her face. Her hands are covered in blood. Not her blood, he assumes. He has never seen her in the nightmares before.

"Who are you?" he asks.

"Kill me. Please?" she begs, her voice trembling in terror, "Before I hurt anyone else."

Cisco shakes his head. Kill her? No. He can't kill her. "No one has to die," he says, offering his hand for her to take, "I can help you."

She looks at Cisco's hand and slowly takes it in hers. "...Cisco," she says.

"Wait. How do you know my name?" he asks in confusion.

The girl just stares at him. She opens her mouth to answer and screams when she is dragged back into the shadows.

"No!" Cisco screams.

That's when he sits up from the couch, waking up from his nightmare at 3 a.m. like clockwork, breathing heavily. He turns off the TV and takes a look at his cellphone. Three missed calls from Caitlin and five unanswered text messages from Barry. He deletes Barry's messages though, quite sure he doesn't want to answer them.

He gets up from his couch and puts on his jacket before leaving his apartment.

S.T.A.R. Labs...

Cisco arrives at S.T.A.R. Labs just in time to find Caitlin, Harry and Wally at the control room. Barry and Kara aren't here.

"Captain Cold and Heatwave are at it again, I'm guessing," Cisco says as he enters the lab, getting a smack on the shoulder by Caitlin.

"What the heck, Cisco," she says almost irritably, "I called you almost ten times."

"Sorry," he apologizes as he yawns in exhaustion. "I was sleeping. I didn't think we would have three in the morning missions."

"Trust me, neither did I," Wally says before yawn. What's he doing here? Cisco wonders. Wally should be helping Barry and Kara stop Captain Cold and Heatwave. And it looks like Wally knows what he's thinking. "Oh I got my leg frozen by Captain Cold." He shows his leg casted. "He nearly shattered my leg. Lucky I vibrated out of there."

"Urgh, please don't ever say that, again," Caitlin says, knowing that the phrase sounds completely wrong and out of context, "Ever."

"Okay," Cisco takes off his beige leather jacket and sits down at his desk chair. "Give me the details."

Harry then informs him in his I don't give a shit tone. "Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold, and Mick Rory, aka. Heatwave, are robbing Central City National Bank. Heatwave set it on fire to distract them while they get away. Barry went after the thieves and Supergirl is trying to put the fire out."

"Why is Central City National Bank the most robbed?" Wally asks. It's the seventh time someone has been trying to rob Central City National Bank for three months. Only a few thieves have been able to get away with it.

"Because it's the biggest bank in the city," Caitlin explains, "Why do you think it has the word National in it?"

"This is why I switched to mattresses, people," Cisco says before speaking through the mini microphone, "Flash. Supergirl. Can you read me?"

"I'm a bit busy right now, Cisco!" Barry replies with a shout.

"What's your situation?" he asks.

"Well, I'm sort of trapped right now. And Snart and Rory are blasting their guns at me," Barry informs them. Everyone can hear them. "I'm at Keystone Ironworks!"

Cisco rolls his eyes. Caitlin pushes Cisco aside and takes control of the microphone. "Let me guess, you were led to a trap."

"Yep."

"What the hell, Barry?" Caitlin says.

Cisco then pushes her aside and takes the microphone back. "Kara, are you there? Flash needs your assistance right now."

"I'll be right there, Cisco..." a female voice speaks through the speakers.

"...Just as soon as I put out the fire," Kara mutters under her breath. She then starts flying around Central City National Bank in fast circles like some sort of tornado, the fire in the bank evaporating and disappearing in minutes, and Kara ending up coughing smoke, covered in soot and a bit dizzy from flying in circles. "Woo, that was accelerating. Fire's out. Okay, so where's Barry now?"

"Keystone Ironworks," Cisco informs her, "Sending you coordinates. Go get him pronto."

"Okay, you're the boss, boss," she says, imitating a stereotypical mafia accent before flying away from the bank, leaving the rest for the fire department and CCPD.

She flies off to the location Cisco indicated her. Keystone Ironworks. She has a Keystone Ironworks at National City on her Earth. It's a pity there's no National City here in Earth-1. At least there's Metropolis. She even wonders if there's a doppelgänger of her cousin here on Earth-1 if Metropolis exists. Of course, her cousin lived in Smallville. Is there a Smallville? Why am I thinking about this right now?

She makes it to Keystone Ironworks and flies through the windows, shattering them, and touchdowns to the ground once inside. She finds Barry hiding behind crates while the two criminals named Captain Cold and Heatwave are shooting their guns at them, one shooting fire and the other shooting a blueish white flame that lowers temperature instead of heating things up, something Cisco claims to be Absolute Zero or subzero cold. A warning for Kara to stay away from the gun's way if she didn't want to get her ass frozen. I really hope I can help Barry out of this one.

"Hey!" Kara calls out.

Captain Cold and Heatwave turns their heads to look at her, both of them are wearing goggles. She can only guess which is Captain Cold and Heatwave just by the way they're dressed. Captain Cold, blue hooded parka. Heatwave, brown jacket. Simple enough.

Captain Cold smirks. "Sidekick of yours, Flash?"

"Partner, actually!" Barry calls out, "Glad you made it!"

"You okay there, Flash?" Kara asks.

"Frostbite on my ankle keeping me from running but I'm good!" Barry shouts, giving her thumb's up.

"Heatwave, keep the Flash busy while I take care of the pretty doll in red and blue," Captain Cold says.

"Why don't you let me handle it?" Heatwave asks.

"Because you had your turn last time already," Captain Cold says before turning to Kara and blasting her with the cold gun. Supergirl quickly flies up in the air to avoid the blast. Captain Cold sees this and laughs in amazement. "Holy -! Wow! She flies! That's something you don't see every day."

Captain Cold resumes blasting the cold gun at her while Kara continues flying around the factory trying to avoid getting hit with the cold flame. Unfortunately, she gets hit in the arm with the blue flame and it becomes frozen surrounded by large layers of ice. Holy shit. Her arm is numb with cold. She can't even feel it. Cisco is right of the absolute zero thing. I hope my arm doesn't break, she thinks as she bashes her arm against a metal pillar and the layers of ice shatter, leaving her arm intact though still numb with cold.

"Wow, that's impressive," he says. He blasts again aiming at her leg this time. She breaks the ice (literally) without shattering her leg just by stomping against the floor.

"I can do this all day, you know," Kara says, "although I'll need a warm bath and hot chocolate after this," she says with a shiver. "I have never felt this cold since...ever. You must be Captain Cold. And your partner is Heatwave, right?"

"That's right. And you must be...?"

"Oh, I'm Supergirl," she introduces herself.

"The who now?"

"Oh, I'm new to Central City so obviously you wouldn't know who Supergirl is," Kara says, "Supergirl doesn't even exist on this Earth."

Before she knows it, Captain Cold is snatched from the spot in the blink of an eye as well as Heatwave and they're tied together with jumper cables.

Barry finally stops in front Kara, panting in exhaustion. Kara grits her teeth together and gives an awkward stare at his foot which is a bit dark, looking like a large burn.

"That's going to leave a mark," she says while looking at the leg still semi-frozen.

"I'll live," Barry says with a laugh.

"Do you deal with these two all the time?" she asks curiously, pointing at the two villains tied together.

"More than you think," Barry states, "Caitlin just informed me that CCPD are heading their way. They'll arrest Captain Cold and Heatwave again, and confiscate their weapons."

"Wait, again? Are you saying that they already escaped before?" she asks. Barry nods. "How many times exactly?"

"...15?"

"15 times. Are you kidding me?"

"The kid ain't smart, blondie!" Captain Cold calls out on her.

"Shut up, Cold!" Barry whines in annoyance.

Barry and Kara return to S.T.A.R. Labs after CCPD arrested Captain Cold and Heatwave, with Barry needing to heal his ankle from the frostbite Captain Cold gave him with the cold gun and with Kara needing a hot bath and a mug of hot chocolate, a big one and with marshmallows.

"Congratulations, guys," Harry says without smiling. "Captain Cold and Heatwave were detained from stealing Central City National Bank...again."

"Let's just hope CCPD keeps those two well locked up this time," Barry while high-fiving Wally and Jesse. He gives Caitlin a hug. Of course, when coming upon Cisco, he offers a handshake instead, knowing that Cisco is probably still angry at him. "Listen, we did a good job tonight," he says.

"Yeah, we did," Cisco says before taking his hand and shaking it briefly. He then heads over to his workplace without saying another word.

Barry watches him leave and lets out a deep sigh. "He's still not talking to me, is he?"

Caitlin puts a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Give him a bit more time, Barry. I'm sure he'll be fine."

"Doubt it," he says.

Kara raises her hand up. "Um, can I ask what Cisco's so mad about? Sorry, I've been for over three weeks and didn't get a newsfeed."

"Oh, um, Barry did a few adjustments to our timeline trying to fix it after he messed it up with Flashpoint Paradox but unfortunately," Caitlin explains, "Those adjustments made a few alterations to original timeline. For example. Me, I turned into Killer Frost. Right now I'm wearing this necklace to keep me from going psycho. Wally ends up becoming a speedster due to a psychopathic speedster named Savitar. Jesse is a speedster too. I don't know how that happened though -."

"The point is," Barry interrupts Caitlin from babbling any further. "In this timeline, Cisco's brother Dante dies in a car crash. He got impacted by a drunk driver. The only person I told about this was Caitlin. I did tell the others about the alternate timeline but didn't tell them about Dante, not even to Cisco -."

Caitlin interrupts Barry once more. "But then I got possessed by my evil half Killer Frost, nearly killed Julian Albert and blurted out to Cisco that Barry was the one who caused Dante's death by messing up with timeline and things went downhill from there. And now Cisco is mad at Barry for it. I'm wearing a necklace that's keeping my new powers suppressed and me from going psycho."

Kara actually noticed the glowing snowflake necklace Caitlin has around her neck. At first, she thought it's just for decoration or a fashion wear. Now she knows it's for something much more.

"I'm sorry to hear that," she says, "Is he going to be okay?" She's referring to Cisco.

"Well, I did refuse to go back in time to save his brother from the car crash to keep messing things up even more so I'll have to take it as a no," Barry states sadly.

There's a moment of awkward silence, most of them avoiding contact with one another. Everyone knows that Barry messed up big time and there's no way he can fix it without making things even worse. Cisco's mad. Wally and Jesse are speedsters (they don't see it as a bad thing though). Caitlin can go Psycho Elsa on them any given moment. And Iris could die in a few months, apparently get killed by Savitar. That's something Barry hasn't been able to tell Kara yet.

"Well, I'm going to take a shower," Kara says while patting off black dust from her sleeves, "It's going to take me hours to wash this off and I have a date tomorrow. Or today in the afternoon since this is tomorrow. What?"

"Ooh, a date," Jesse coos teasingly.

"Oh, well, it's not actually a date," Kara tries to explain, "We just made a bet against Central City Cougars and Metropolis Meteors. I mean, I placed a bet against Central City Cougars while he placed a bet against Metropolis Meteors. We're just meeting to finish the bet off. So it's not really a date."

"I'm betting in favour of Central City Cougars," Wally raises his hand up.

"You're on," Jesse laughs.

Harry simply rolls his eyes. "Oh boy, here we go."

"Anyways, did he like you?" Jesses asks.

"Looks like it," Kara says awkwardly.

"Was he cute?" Caitlin asks.

Kara nods her head and smiles. "Very. And he was very nice."

"Aww." Both Caitlin and Jesse coo in unison, much to Kara's embarrassment. It even makes her blush.

She laughs awkwardly. They better not like my mom back in my dimension. Last time she got a date for the prom, her mom and Alex wouldn't stop pestering her for a week, making sure she had her hair well-done and face nearly heavy with make-up, and wouldn't stop taking pictures of her and her date. She remembers that it was a red mermaid dress she wore for the prom. Of course, the prom ended up badly with Kara's date going to the hospital after she accidentally stepped on his foot, breaking three of his toes. Worst prom night ever. Having her first sex went badly too. She broke the noses of at least four partners trying to have sex since she would freak out. There's no telling what other disaster might happen if she went on an actual date with Leonard Snart. She doesn't even think it's a good idea to even mention his name to the others. It's not that she doesn't trust Barry and the others. She just doesn't know if Leonard can be trusted. She just met him. And there's no telling if it will go well or not.

"So, what's his name?" Caitlin asks. Kara knew that question would pop up sooner or later.

"Honestly, I think it's better not to mention his name yet," she says, "We just met and I don't know if it will go well or not."

"She's right, you know," Harry says while pushing back his glasses, "Why learn the name of some stranger if you'll meet only once?"

After that weird and awkward conversation, Kara heads for the showers to get the soot off her skin. The last thing she wants is to look like the chimneysweeps from Mary Poppins on her date. Of course, she comes across Cisco's workspace on her way and stops by. She sees him working on his visors.

"Are those yours?" she asks, making Cisco jump.

"Um, yeah, they're mine," Cisco says, "They're called Vibe Glasses. Harry made them for me. It helps access my vibes easier."

"How do you get them to work?" she asks.

"Well, they harness my brain waves to allow me to have clearer visions in the form of dreams. It also helps me focus on the dimension I want to travel through. Harry calibrated it to lock onto the right electromagnetic frequencies that are located in different dimensional planes," he explains but the says he abandoned the visor when they proved to be useless in other dimensions. He thinks that something might be wrong with them, possible a circuit. Now he's trying to find the problem with them and fix it.

Kara can tell that he's not in good mood right now. He looks a bit ticked off and tired. Knowing that he probably doesn't want to talk about his brother Dante, she switches to another question. "You look tired. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just...haven't been sleeping well these days," Cisco sighs but gives Kara a smile, "Nightmares. It happens."

Kara bites her lower lip and sighs as well. "Can I tell you something?...I had an aunt. Her name was Astra. She had a very warped idea of preventing the extinction of Kryptonians and humans by using the Myriad program to convert the people of Earth to her way like she wanted to do on Krypton. Despite all the bad things, I loved my aunt. Then she got killed by a Kryptonite blade. I was angry and wanted to find out who killed my aunt."

"I'm sorry to hear that," Cisco apologizes to her. Of course, she can tell by the look on his face that he doesn't know what Kryptonite is. Earth-1 probably doesn't have a Kryptonian they know about.

"Turns out that it was my sister Alex who killed my aunt," Kara blurts out. Cisco's eyes widen when she says that. "Alex is my foster sister and it hurt me finding out that she killed a blood relative of mine. The person I grew fond of most as a child. However, I couldn't be mad at Alex. She did it to save J'onn and J'onn took the blame so I'd be angry with him instead of her. She was afraid of losing me." She takes a breather so she won't start crying. Her aunt's death still hurts her to this day. "I had to choices. Either leave and never speak to Alex again or hug and forgive her. I chose the second option. Despite what she did without thinking how I would feel, I knew she did it to save someone she cared about. Me and J'onn." Figuring that Cisco can't see where she's going with this, she continues on. "Thinking of me as you and think of Barry as Alex."

"If your expecting me to forgive Barry for what happened to Dante...I don't know how to respond to that," Cisco tells her while putting down his work.

"Actually, that's your decision to make," Kara says, "Think about Barry then. Imagine your eleven years old and you hear a noise. You go downstairs and you see the Reverse Flash attacking the person you care about most. Instead of Barry's mom, imagine if it was Dante and you would have done anything to get him back, even if it means messing up the timeline to do so. Wouldn't you have done the same thing? Because if it were me with Alex or Aunt Astra, I would have done the same thing."

Cisco doesn't say anything but looks up at her, eyes watery and nose flared. Kara doesn't say anything else and leaves his workspace. Once she's away, she wipes away the tears that threatened to escape. Cisco does the same.

Kara returns to her hotel through the window, knowing well not be spotted in her Supergirl costume in the lobby. Once she removes her blue and red attire, she goes to takes a shower to wash off all the soot from the fire.

She takes a hot shower, the bathroom now filled with warm fog. After that encounter with Captain Cold, she rather have a hot shower than a cold one. Too bad there's no hot chocolate at this hour. She shampoos her hair for it too has soot and ash entangled in her blonde curls. It's coconut-scented. She lets out a satisfied sigh as water continues to rain down on her. Of course, she starts to smell something funny, something smelling like metal or iron. She opens her eyes and sees the water coming out of the showerhead has turned deep red. Her eyes widen. What the heck? She looks down at her. The puddle on the shower floor has turned into blood and now Kara is now bathed in it like Carrie White from Stephen King's novel.

Gasping in shock, Kara quickly gets out of the shower, grabs a towel and puts it around her naked body as she heads over to the sink to wash off the blood. However, when she turns on the nozzle, more blood pours out of the sink. What is this?

She suddenly begins to feel light-headed and she feels blood dripping down her nose. I'm bleeding.

She looks up at the cabinet mirror. Instead of see her reflection, she sees something truly terrifying and lets out a piercing scream.

Queens Consolidated, Starling City...

1:23 p.m.

"So it's your wedding anniversary today?" Oliver says as he and Slade are both working at the office. "Wow. I'm impressed. How long have you two been married?"

"Three years," Slade says with a smile.

"Three wonderful years." Felicity enters the office with two cups of coffee in her hands and sets them down, one for Oliver and one for Slade. She gives Slade a kiss on the cheek. "I'll be going home in a few minutes, hon. Need to get ready for tonight." Slade nods in agreement.

"Three wonderful years and yet you two fight every time we go on missions," Oliver chuckles. He still counts the many times Slade and Felicity argue in the Arrocave and during missions through the coms, which can get annoying sometimes.

"At least we make it up by screwing after getting home," Slade smirks. Felicity lightly hits him in the shoulder in response.

"Queens Consolidated doesn't need to hear that," she reminds him.

"It's merely a joke, love."

"No, Felicity is right, I do not need to hear this," Oliver says, making the pair laugh.

"I'll see you at home," Felicity says. She kisses Slade once more and leaves the office.

Oliver watches her leave Queens Consolidated. Then looks back at Slade. "She looks happy. I didn't think she'd be like this today, especially with -."

"We didn't go yesterday," Slade states with a sigh as he reads a few documents in hand about the percentage of the stocks in the company.

Oliver stares at Slade in surprise. "You didn't? Oh...wow. I didn't expect that. I just thought being the anniversary of her death and all -."

"We decided to skip it for today," Slade says, "Perhaps visit on Saturday."

"And by we, you mean you made the decision of not going to the cemetery yesterday," Oliver points out, stating that Slade made that decision on his own. Even if Felicity agreed to the decision, she was probably reluctant about it. "You know you can't do that again, right? She's going to kill you."

Slade chuckles but knows that Oliver is right. He can't do that to Felicity. She'll go Black Canary on him...again.

Slade remains working in the office for the next 20 minutes, knowing that he and Oliver are having a hard time trying to solve a situation where Stellmoor (the company once owned by Isabel Rochev before Slade snapped her neck at Oliver's trial). Stellmoor already has 30% of the stocks. Slade and Oliver are trying to find a way to keep that percentage from going up.

They suddenly hear a rumbling sound and the floor beneath them shakes a bit. Oliver looks at Slade strangely but presses the alarm under his desk either way, initiating an instant evacuation of Queens Consolidated. Ever since the Undertaking, many buildings were obligated to install an alarm button just in case of emergencies, like a second Undertaking. It's similar to the panic button but instead of being silent, it alerts everyone in the building.

Both of them know what they were thinking. What the hell was that?

That's when the windows in their office explode, bursting and shattering into a millions pieces and the two men fall back from their chairs at the force of the blast.

Slade slowly sits up from the floor, white noise filling his ears and glass scattered on the polished floor everywhere. The windows in Queens Consolidated are completely shattered. He sees people outside the office running and screaming even if he can't hear them. He's glad Felicity left before this happened. He sees Oliver sitting up, his face contorting into a painful expression and blood dripping from his head.

Slade looks out the shattered window of the office. A lot of the buildings are in the same state as Queens Consolidated and looks down to see cars in the same state as the buildings, with people coming out of them, crying, cursing and screaming. A car even crashed into a brick wall and caught on fire.

"What happened?" Oliver asks. as he watches the chaos down below in shock.

Slade, of course, didn't hear him. He remains staring in shock. Then he spots smoke about two mile away from where Queens Consolidated is.

"The explosion is coming from over there," Oliver points when he sees the smoke as well. "Must have been an explosion. A big one. Big enough to cause this kind of damage."

Before Oliver can figure it out, Slade already knew where the smoke is coming from. His eye widen as he grows worried. "Felicity." And makes a run out of the office.

By the time he returns to the loft, there's no loft to return to. The building where he and Felicity have been living is completely destroyed, nothing but rubble, ash and smoke everywhere. Fire trucks are surrounding the area, keeping people away as firemen are entering what's left of the building (which is nothing much) to dig out survivors. In Slade's perspective, no one could have survived in that building, especially if the explosion started there. Some of the neighboring buildings survived the blast with only soot and fire already put out before it could spread but the buildings too close to the one he was living in had suffered great damage.

Firemen are digging out dead bodies, black, dry and incinerated by the blast, some burnt beyond recognition.

People are screaming and crying.

"My husband was in there...!"

"How did this happen!?..."

"Did anyone call an ambulance...!"

A fireman carefully pulled out two smaller bodies, one taller than the other, and a woman with red hair starts screaming out in tears that the smaller one was her son. The taller one was the babysitter.

Ambulances are approaching the areas, ready to pick up the survivors of the neighboring buildings. There's no telling if those people will survive or not.

Of course, only one thing keeps popping up in Slade's anxious mind. Where's Felicity?

As he tries to get closer to the area, a female firefighter tries to push him back. "Sir, this area is too dangerous, you need to stay back."

"I'm looking for my wife," Slade tells her urgently.

Another body is pulled from the wreckage and placed on a stretcher to be taken away. It's burnt badly. However, that doesn't stop Slade from recognizing the now singed blonde stands and the tattered blue dress it's wearing.

Slade pushes the firewoman aside and runs to the firefighters carrying the body. "Sir, you need to stand back -."

"She's my wife!" Slade shouts at them angrily. The firemen quickly put the stretcher down and back away from him.

Slade takes the burnt body of his wife Felicity Smoak and embraces it close to his chest. Her face may be burned beyond recognition but he knew the dress she was wearing for work today, a blue zip-front dress. The only thing missing is her wedding ring and glasses.

"Sir, we need to take the body to the morgue -."

Slade shouts at the firemen to leave him alone and to stay away as he continues to sob over his wife's body.

Central City...

7:46 p.m.

(White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane)

Merry Macready made macaroni and cheese for both her and the girl that appeared in her house out of nowhere. She doesn't know the girl's name or where she comes from. The girl hasn't said a single word since she arrived. It's only been a week since she appeared and all Merry saw the girl do is eat, bathe, play with the cats and sleep on the couch with the television on. She has even been seen crying in her sleep. Nightmares probably. Of course, during those nightmares, Merry has seen the lights of her house flickering on and off, and the cabinet doors bursting open and slamming shut repeatedly. It only stopped when the girl wakes up from her sleep.

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small

The girl seems to enjoy the macaroni a lot. She eagerly serves herself another plate of the golden gooey goodness and digs in while Merry watches pitifully. It makes you wonder how long the poor girl has eaten anything? At first arriving, the girl ate more than three peanut butter sandwiches and now is serving a second plate of macaroni. Merry has the girl dressed in one of her old nightgowns and a dark grey sweater just in case she's cold.

And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all

"You seem to like it a lot," Merry says. The girl then slows down her chewing, probably realizing that she's eating too fast. "Is it your favourite?"

Hesitantly, the girl nods slowly. She continues eating macaroni without saying a word.

Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

"Do you have a name I can call you by?" Merry asks. The girl doesn't say anything, like always. The week has been completely silent and with so many unanswered questions. "Where are you from?...Where are your parents?...Do you have any parents?...Were you abused or kidnapped? Anything?" Again, no answer. "You have to tell me something. I mean, you did enter my home without permission and I welcomed you with open arms so the least you can do is tell me who you are."

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall

The girl slowly shakes her head, apparently saying no.

"Why not?" Merry asks.

Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call

The girl slowly puts down the fork and tilts her head back, exposing her neck and showing a light pink scar on the skin of her throat. The wound looks old. It's like her throat has been slashed or something. Once she straightens up, she opens her mouth and tries to speak, only for strained squeaks to come out.

Call Alice
When she was just small

"Someone hurt you? That's why you can't say anything?" Merry asks and the girl nods.

After a minute, Merry gets up from her seat and leaves the kitchen. After awhile, she returns with papers and a pen, and places it next to the girl's plate before sitting down at the opposite side of the table again. "Maybe you can write it."

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go

The girl quickly shakes her head, eyes wide, and pushes the paper and pen away.

"Why not?" Merry asks, already getting a bit impatient with this girl. She already thought of calling CCPD the moment the girl arrived but waited for awhile. Maybe this is the time to call them.

And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low

The girl then points a finger to her head, the hand taking shape of a gun, and makes a popping sound with her lips. She does the same thing while pointing at Merry, much to the old lady's shock and worry.

Go ask Alice

"You're being hunted?" Merry asks and the girl nods again. "Oh dear. I'm sorry, honey, but I'm going to have to call CCPD. They're the only ones that can help you."

I think she'll know

Merry stands up from the chair but the girl quickly waves her arms around and shakes her head quickly, telling her no. Merry stops and watches her grab a sheet of paper and the pen where she finally starts writing: C...A...L...L...F...E...L -.

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead

Before she can continue to write any further, Merry drops to the floor with a heavy thud. The girl looks up with a gasp and quickly walks around the table and finds Merry lying on the floor with her eyes open, a hole on the side of her head and blood pooling on the floor behind her head, dampening the grey hair. The girl whimpers, tears threatening to come out of her eyes. She turns to look out the window. It has a cracked hole on it. Beyond the window and the fence in the backyard, she sees a shadow shape hopping over the fence and heading to the kitchen.

And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head

Eyes wide, the girl makes a run for it, leaving the unfortunate body of Merry Macready and her cats behind. She bursts through the front door, running through the front yard, crosses the road and heads for the forest. She continues running blindly through the forest, not knowing where she's going or what she's doing, as long as she's far away from them as possible.

Remember what the dormouse said

Feed your head!

After a while of running, the girl is out of the forest and ends up stumbling into the middle of a deserted road, panting in exhaustion and looking around disoriented and not knowing where she is now. She gets up and looks behind her as she hears twigs snapping and bushes rustling. They're coming. They're coming for me.

Feed your -!

She suddenly sees bright lights quickly coming towards her and screeching noises can be heard. It's a car. The girl puts her hand up in front of her to shield herself from the impact. But either way, she gets hit and she flies back, landing and rolling onto the road before closing her eyes and instantly becoming unconscious.

Cisco moans as he straights up in his driver seat after the unexpected impact. He touches his head and looks at his hand to find a bit of blood on his fingertips. He hit his head with the steering wheel due to the impact. It was a forceful hit. He's lucky to be alive. What he hit on the road...not so much.

He blinks a couple of times before he's finally able to see clearly. His car is still on and functioning, minus the hood being bent up and one of the heads light off and broken off. But he is able to see clearly with the single headlight. A few feet ahead of the car, he sees a figure sprawled on the road. Cisco realizes he hit someone.

"Fuck!" he curses before scrambling out of the car and quickly runs over to the person he hit with his van. Oh God, I think I killed him...or her. "Hey! Are you okay!?"

He quickly walks over to what may be a dead body. When he gets closer, he realizes he hit a girl. Pale faced. Brown messy hair. Dressed in white and dark grey. But can't tell what age she is. She's probably 19 but her face is younger so he can't say what she is.

Cisco jumps with a startle when the girl moans. He sighs in relief. She's still alive. "Oh thank God." He then starts shaking her, trying to wake her up. "Hey. Hey. Wake up. Are you okay?"

She doesn't wake up though. He sees a lot of damage to the van but not much damage to the girl. No broken bones or gashes. He sees a scrape on her cheek and a cut on her head. Crap. Now what? There's only one thing he can do. Take her to a hospital.

"Okay, um..." Cisco immediately takes off his jacket and puts it over the girl to cover her from the cold before putting his arms around her. "I really don't know how to do this." He starts picking her up from the floor. However, he doesn't have much strength to carry a person like Barry does so Cisco half-dragged, half-carried the girl to his car. For someone who's skinny, she's a bit heavy. Cisco finally manages to reach the car. He opens the door to the backseat, carefully puts her inside and gently lays her down, keeping the jacket on her as a blanket. "I really am sorry about this. Hope you don't get mad when you wake up." He shuts the door and bolts to the driver's seat, the car still turned on. He turns the car around and drives away from the spot, unaware of two people hidden in the shadows of the forest watching the entire thing.

End of Chapter 3