.:10:.
Caitlin gave her hair a light toss as she walked into her bathroom, ready to start the day. There was so much that needed to be done now that Zoom was in the picture and there were breaches that were, apparently, opening up for him to get there.
If what Jay was saying was true, Caitlin reminded herself. She stared at her reflection, slowly moving a brush through her hair to knock out any tangles. It's not like we can completely trust him yet. Though there's no reason to believe anything he's said isn't true.
Caitlin continued to move her brush through her hair, and then stopped. Her hair was becoming tougher to move the brush through with each pass. Frowning, Caitlin reached up her hand and lightly touched her hair. It was almost rock solid, she started to freeze her hair as she brushed. "Ugh!" Caitlin stood up and walked over to her shower. Reaching in with one hand she flipped on the faucet before sticking her head underneath the warm water. Her hair loosened and fell around her face.
The mixture of warm water running over her hair and cold water leaving her body made goosebumps pop up on her arms. She had to get used to that, too. The constant change in temperatures around her. Her body always ran a little bit cold but it became more apparent when more warmth was added around her. And now that she had powers, it was really starting to make things harder.
And yet you still haven't told anyone but Harrison yet, Caitlin thought. At least now she could think about him without feeling sick about it. He had promised to help her, emphatically stating it was him and not Eobard that had done so, and he kept that promise. Every now and then he checked in on her abilities and made sure they weren't starting to overtake her in any way. Yet he gently pushed her to tell the others about it, unsure of why she was keeping it quiet. Because I don't want to be out on the field, I don't want to be different, I don't want this to distance me from people more than I already am.
In many ways she lived vicariously thought what Barry and Cadence could do. But she and Cisco were the eyes and ears, the back-end support of the team for a reason. It was where they worked and they worked well there. Plus, she was never much of a fighter, didn't really have the fighting spirit. So there wasn't much that she could do to help out on the field.
Caitlin continued to muse about her powers, watching as her fingertips—which actually looked more like her nail—glowed blue and swirled it through the air, watching as the cold air followed. She was startled out of her thoughts by a knock at the door and quickly went to answer it.
Opening the door, Caitlin noticed Cadence looking over her shoulder before turning back to her. "Hey!"
"Hey," Cadence replied. She held out a cup of iced coffee from Jitters that had Caitlin's name scribbled on it. "I seriously don't know how you can drink this stuff, it's freaking disgusting."
Caitlin took the cup and smiled her thanks. Then she took a sip. "It's not as bad as Iced Tea."
"That's my problem then, I don't even like Iced Tea." Cadence stepped forward and gave Caitlin a hug before entering her apartment. "It's too watered down and blegh! But my Zumba class was cancelled this morning and I stopped by Jitters."
"It was cancelled?" Caitlin closed the door behind her then sat down on her couch.
"A water pipe burst. I fixed it, but I didn't want to have to call everyone in again, so." Cadence sat on the arm of the couch. "And I hadn't come by your apartment in a while so I figured I'd see how your day was going so far."
Caitlin smiled over the rim of her cup. She knew that wasn't' entirely the truth. "Does your back still hurt?"
"Not as much as it did before but if I turn the wrong way it kills," Cadence said. She gently rubbed her lower back with the palm of her hand. A glow came from underneath her palm, letting Caitlin know she was using warmth to speed up her healing process. "I was just wondering if there was anything else you could give me."
"Unless you want a very strong narcotic, I don't think so," Caitlin said. She eyed Cadence warily. "And something tells me that CPS won't look on that too kindly." Cadence looked at her sharply. "You haven't mentioned anything about it in a while so I can't help but assume it's not a good thing."
"Well, they're now trying to figure out if I'm going to stay at the CCPD long enough for my employment history not to be an issue and why I'm consistently leaving from there." Cadence's eyebrows ticked upwards for a second. "I mean, if I could mention I'm Flare that'd make things one hundred times easier, at least give them an explanation. But on the other hand, since people forget about me anyway, that probably won't do anything." She crossed her arms. "Yes, I can be that bitter."
"Don't worry, I noticed that when we first met," Caitlin said. She patted Cadence on the leg. "You should've mentioned it when you gave me your age, star sign, and the rest of your dating profile."
"Well, I had to lower your defenses somehow. I don't know if you know, but you can be pretty cold to people you just meet. It almost turned me off."
Caitlin laughed and carefully set her drink on a coaster on her coffee table. "Let me get dressed and then we can head over to STAR Labs." Up until Cadence had arrived at her door she had forgotten that she asked her over to talk more about what had happened with Zoom. Barry wasn't available as he had passed out as soon as he was hit, but Cadence had been awake after she had been thrown and seen what happened afterwards.
She quickly dried her hair and put on her makeup. Then she got dressed and was putting on a pair of earrings when she walked back into the living room and found Cadence holding onto her drink, staring at it. Caitlin glanced at the contents inside and froze as much as the drink had. How could I be so stupid? She thought, watching as Cadence continued to look at it.
"I've seen some strange things before but I've never seen this," Cadence remarked, slowly turning the now completely frozen drink back and forth.
"Oh, that's very common," Caitlin explained. "With iced drinks. You see, when the temperature of the liquid becomes very cold, especially with the instances of many pieces of ice as we have here, a simple smack against a table or even by a fork causes immediate, spontaneous freeze. There has to be a nucleation point for the crystals to form so the chain reaction of a sudden shock, or my placing it very hard on the table, created a disturbance within its environment and caused a chain reaction of ice crystals to form."
Cadence looked at her, her face screwing up.
"It's called supercooling," Caitlin said helpfully.
"It's called you know way too much about a lot of stuff."
Caitlin laughed at Cadence's tease. She turned to get her purse off of the chair she had tossed it on, then whirled back around at a sudden, shrill, scream. She looked over to find Cadence quickly back away from the table, shaking out her hands. Caitlin followed her line of sight, watching as a spider scuttled across the table.
"Kill it! Kill it! Get it away from me!" Cadence cried.
"It's just a tiny spider." Caitlin cupped her hands around the tiny insect and walked over to the window. She pushed it open and carefully dropped the spider out onto the ledge. "I didn't know you were afraid of them."
"Of all bugs. They're just so gross and blegh!" Cadence pointed to the coffee table. "You're lucky I didn't turn that into a pile of ash."
"You're overreacting. Let's go."
Caitlin drove the two to STAR Labs and immediately went to her station. Cisco, who was watching a daytime talk show on his own computer, stuck out his hand and handed Caitlin a Pizza Pocket. Caitlin took it then gave him a disapproving glance.
"Cisco!"
"What? They're, like, the best things in the world, they're like crack," he mumbled, keeping his eyes on the screen in front of him. "Not that I know what crack tastes like, but you get my sentiments."
"And unless you want to pay me back for it, which individually would be five dollars by the way, stop eating my Pizza Pockets!" Caitlin snapped. She reached over and snatched the steaming food from Cisco's hand. She winced as her fingers burned and dropped the food onto her desk.
"Rude!" Cisco declared, still chewing his bite. "You don't just reach over a steal a man's source of sustenance. Especially when that sustenance is so addicting."
"Which makes it even weirder that they're yours, Cait," Cadence said. She stood across the floor of the Cortex, looking over her suit. "Considering you're the one who's so prim and proper in every other faction of your life."
A blush came to Caitlin's cheeks. "I'm not that bad." She sat up in her seat. "And anyway, they're a pretty good snack when you're busy or have a lot of studying to do." She noticed Cisco inching her way, holding his mouth open to take a bite from the pizza pocket in her hand. Caitlin pulled it out of his way and he fell to the floor.
"For real?" He asked, scrambling to his feet.
Caitlin laughed and popped the rest of the bite into her mouth. She dusted off her fingers and turned to her computer, opening the file she had started since the very first metahuman appeared in Central City. It was starting to become very comprehensive, almost like an encyclopedia for each one. Names, ages, locations, powers, strengths, weaknesses, previous criminal activity, backgrounds, everything she, Cisco, and Harrison could think of to add to the document.
Zoom was the latest entry and the most bare. There was nothing other than his name and the fact that he was a Speedster added on there.
Name: ?
Alias: Zoom
Background: ?
Power and Abilities: Speedster
Top Speed: ?
And there wasn't much to go on after that.
"So with Zoom, can you tell us what happened again?" Caitlin asked.
She typed as Cadence explained everything that had to do with hers and Barry's encounter with Zoom. How they had seen the bright bursts of light across the city before chasing after him, how he led them around the city in a massive game of cat and mouse, how he stopped them at the power plant. That part gave Caitlin pause. Being a speedster, it meant Zoom's power had to come from the speed force as well and that he had abilities with electricity and lightning.
From that point of view, whomever Zoom was probably meant he would be able to use it to his advantage in some way. Though his speed was certainly the biggest catalyst; he moved faster than Cadence could blink before he had thrown her into that pole. And fast enough that Barry had seen it all in slow motion before he was throw into the power lines.
"So Zoom must've been trying to overload his body with power then," Cisco said slowly. He tapped his chin. "You know, like supercharging a battery or overloading a transformer. Next thing you know…" he made an explosion sound with his mouth as he wiggled his fingers around.
"Exactly," Cadence explained. "Because as soon as Barry was out, Zoom ran around a few more times, throwing lightning at him. If what you're saying is true, Cisco, then he was definitely trying to get rid of him."
"Or maybe take his powers," Caitlin said slowly. "Like Jay said." She looked over at Cisco and found him already looking at her.
His eyes shifted and he quickly looked away, busying himself with his computer. She removed her fingers from her keyboard. Or at least tried to, finding her fingers were stuck. Startled, Caitlin looked down at her keyboard and saw a thin layer of frost over her keys. Wincing, Caitlin pulled her fingers away, trying to ignore the sting of her fingertips from the cold and stretch. She dropped her hands to her lap and started to rub them over each other, warming them back up.
"Do you really think we can trust Jay?" Cadence asked, taking Caitlin's attention to her. "I mean, we have him in the Pipeline for a reason."
"As much as we can trust Harrison," Caitlin pointed out.
The room suddenly became very quiet and Caitlin realized her mistake. She and Cadence might've trusted Harrison now that he was split apart from Eobard, but that didn't mean that Cisco and Barry were ready to do it. Cisco especially. Caitlin glanced at him to find him lost in thought.
Finally, he sat up in his seat. "Hey Cade?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead."
"Well, I've been thinking. About Dr. Wells." Caitlin twisted in her seat to watch Cisco, noticing his face was empty, despite speaking slowly. As if afraid he'd reveal too much if he did. "I was thinking…he said that Eobard had been in control of his body for a long time. Or at least mostly in control, that there were times where he managed to get back to the forefront." Cadence nodded. "But…something about that happening confuses me. Eobard went back in time to kill Barry's mother and he got trapped here. And shortly after that he attacked the real Dr. Wells and Tess so he could take over Harrison's body and make sure that the Particle Accelerator was built earlier than it was supposed to be."
"Yeah?" Cadence nodded for him to continue.
"So I've been thinking." Cisco licked his lips. "…How did you become a meta before Barry did? You said you got sick when you were eight and after being in the hospital you had your powers and that you remembered, before the ambulance got there, that Harrison injected you with something."
Cadence nodded again.
"Have you ever thought—"
"I've thought about it," she interrupted. "That that Harrison may have been Eobard."
"And?"
Caitlin perked up. She really wanted to know the answer to this, too. To figure out what it truly meant to be a metahuman. If she was one, she got her powers from being there when the Particle Accelerator blew. So did Barry, so did a lot of other people. But then there was Deathbolt, who had powers despite not being in Central City at the time. And Cadence had her powers before then, too.
If we can figure this out, maybe we can figure out a way to reverse them, too, Caitlin thought. Give those we've captured a normal life back, keep others from going down into the Pipeline. The thought of being put in one of those cells made a shier run down her spine.
Cadence waved a hand dismissively. "You said so yourself, he was around when Barry's mom died, when he was eleven. It couldn't have been him."
"But there's a chance…that if he went back in time before…he might've gone back in time to make you—"
"I don't want to know, Cisco!" Cadence interrupted. Her eyes squeezed shut for a moment, voice lowered to the faintest whisper as if divulging a scary, closely guarded secret. "I don't want to know what happened. I don't want to know if the man that I knew as my friend from the time I was born to when he left for Central City wasn't actually him. It hurt so badly to know that getting to know him again…it may not have even been him that I was getting to know."
Caitlin nodded to herself. She knew that feeling well.
"But to think he might know something about my future...enough for Eobard to go back and make me a meta before I was meant to be one, if I even was at all…I don't want to know."
"But—"
"And please don't ask him, Cisco. Don't ask him or Tess…don't ask me again. Because I don't want to think about it." Her face softened. "I know you want answers but I can't…I can't think about that."
Cisco nodded. "Yeah. I'm sorry for bringing it up."
"Don't worry about it, Cisco. I'm still going to share my winnings from trivia night with you." Cadence then smiled sweetly and rested her hands on her hips. "You guys are still coming tonight right? Proceeds go to the CCPD."
"And miss the chance to beat Captain Singh at pop culture trivia? I don't think so," Cisco declared. He blew on his fingers and buffed them against his chest. "I'm the master and everyone is going to bow down to my genius!" Caitlin cleared her throat. "I mean, our genius. Caitlin and I are going to dominate." He held up his hand and Caitlin high-fived him.
"Sure, sure." Cadence looked at her watch. "I have to get to work. So I'll see you guys later."
"Bye."
Cadence teleported out of the Cortex and Cisco turned back to his TV screen, turning up the volume. Caitlin leaned over to look. "Are you seriously watching The Real?"
"Hey, we're free to do whatever we want until Dr. Wells gets here for work. And I like to take my time to catch up on what my sistas are saying about what's going on in the world." Cisco lifted his feet and placed them on the counter, crossing them at the ankle. "And today they're giving DIY tips about shampoo so I need to listen." He flipped his long hair. "You can't expect me to have such luxurious hair without working at it."
Caitlin laughed and continued rubbing her hands together.
"Are you cold?" Cisco motioned for Caitlin to move her chair next to his. He put his arm around her shoulders.
"Yeah, just a little," Caitlin replied. "You know I always run a little cold."
"And we've all been meaning to talk to you about that," Cisco teased.
Barry pulled open the door to Jitters and was immediately bombarded by one of the biggest crowds he had ever seen there. It was definitely more crowded than the last time Jitters hosted the game. Barry smiled a little to himself, thinking about how that night had gone. Him and Felicity and Eddie and Iris. It had been more fun than he thought it would be, having to watch Eddie and Iris together. But he had Felicity there to even things out and he didn't feel as much like a dork when the more scientific questions came up.
And this time all of his friends were there. There weren't any secrets between them and they could sit back and have a good time. Plus, it was always good to see the older members of the Central City Police Force up in arms over games like this. Joe sat with Captain Singh, Officer Wiere, and Officer Anderson, all of whom joined the police force around the same time but taking different paths between them. Every now and then the four would get together after work for drinks.
Barry wasn't supposed to know that as Captain Singh liked to keep his private and personal lives separate. But it didn't seem to be so much of an issue now, especially as it was an event for the CCPD and the community. His boyfriend was at their table as well, laughing at something Joe was saying.
Barry caught Joe's eye and nodded before heading over to the table where his friends were sitting.
"Barry! Sit here!" Brady called, waving his hand towards the empty seat across from him, standing up on his own chair. He held a large Pixie-Stick tube in his hand, with a cup of soda in front of him.
Barry laughed as he sat down in the seat. "Looks like he got started on the sugar high early," he commented.
"They've even got bags of gummi sharks!" Conner added, holding up a large bag of candy. His lips and tongue were painted blue compared to Brady's purple.
"Sometimes I think they should call candy more addictive to drugs than drugs are," Cadence remarked with a laugh.
"Add Pizza Pockets to that list and I'll agree with you," Cisco said, causing Caitlin to elbow him in the side. The two shared a smile before laughing.
Barry glanced around the table. "I thought Iris was supposed to be coming," he said. A bell dinged over the door and Barry twisted around to find Iris walking through the door. She waved to Joe before heading to the table. "Speak of the devil," Barry said.
"We were just talking about you," Brady said. He abandoned his tube of pixie stick and opened a lollipop, jamming it into his mouth. Then he pulled it out and waved it towards her. "You're late!"
"I know, I had some things I needed to finish up at work," Iris said, sitting down in an empty seat. She put her purse to the ground. "Actually, I ran into my dad's new partner, Patty Spivot, on the way over. I invited her to play with us if you don't mind."
"Just as long as you don't mind that I invited Ryder, too," Cadence said.
"No. The more the merrier," Barry replied.
"I'm so glad you said that," Patty said as she moved to fill the last empty seat next to Barry while Ryder took the one on the other side of the table with Cisco and Caitlin. "Because I didn't want to just intrude or anything. But as long as it's okay I guess I can't miss out." She finally took a breath and smiled at Barry. "Hi."
"Hi, yourself," he replied with a smile of his own. Then he turned to Ryder and nodded. "Hey man, how's it going?"
"Not bad," Ryder replied with a nod of his own and a friendly smile. "Just working through each project that comes my way. Thankfully with the metas being around I'm not going to be out of a job for a while."
"I think we can safely say that a lot of us would be out of a job if the metahumans weren't around," Iris agreed. "Let's just hope that tonight they'll at least take a break to have some fun. We don't get it so often."
"I know what you mean," Patty agreed. "A police officer's job is never done. Even if it's something as small as writing up a traffic ticket, right?"
"Thankfully I don't have much experience in that, but I think I get the idea," Barry said.
He looked around the room, watching as it continued to fill up with people from the CCPD and their family and friends, all eager and excited to play. He snapped back to attention when he heard Ryder asked Brady, "So how was school today?"
Brady caught Barry's eye, widening for a second, before he said to Ryder, "It was okay," in a mumble.
"So what's this about a PTA back to school night thing?" Ryder asked Cadence, eyebrows lowering in confusion. Cadence gave a confused look at him as well. "I got a message on my machine to remind me about it."
"I didn't know there was one," Cadence replied.
Barry tried not to smile, despite feeling badly for the young boy who was obviously trying not to look either of his parents in the eye. Brady looked at him again and Barry made a cross motion against his chest. He still hadn't said anything and wouldn't unless Brady told him it was okay. Brady gave a grateful smile in response. Conner sat quietly as well, suddenly interested in the pile of sugar cookies he had on his plate.
"Um, I got a letter to bring home from school. I guess I forgot to give it to you. Sorry, mom."
"Hey, as long as I have someone to come suffer with me, I'm fine," Cadence said with a light roll of her eyes, making Ryder laugh. Barry frowned, suddenly feeling his stomach clench in annoyance.
He shifted in his seat, accidentally bumping into Patty, causing the two to burst out into apologies. They rapidly tried to talk over each other before laughing, realizing it wasn't going to end. Then Barry's eyebrows rose as he nodded towards Brady. "Oh, Patty, have you met Cade's son? This is Patty Spivot; she's working with Joe now."
"HI!" Patty greeted him with her ever present smile. "It's so nice to meet you."
"Hi," Brady said flatly in response, not bothering to muster up a smile.
Thankfully, the awkward response was passed over by the runners of the event, the front desk admins of the CCPD, went around collecting the names for the teams. Cisco and Caitlin were Trivia Newton John, which was Cisco's idea for his latest idea of what to watch at Cisco Cinema. Barry, Iris, and Patty were Are You Smarter Than a Third Grader? Because We Bought One! And Cadence and Ryder—with Brady and Conner saying they'd help—were Better Late Than Pregnant which Cadence coined much to the laughter of everyone.
Barry watched as she laughed at her own team name, glad to see that she was finally able to get over her past a bit more. And he was glad that she and Ryder were getting along if not for Brady's sake. But still, it really made him realize how much he had missed during the six months apart. All of a sudden, watching the two he felt like a third wheel.
Soon the game started and questions were bring thrown out left and right. Despite there being many other teams in the game, the teams at their table were taking on a lot of the points.
"What famous Bronze animal sculpture sits on Broadway near Wall Street in New York City?"
Iris slapped her hand out to reach the buzzer. "Charging Bull!" She blurted out then cheered and high-fived Barry and Patty when she got it right.
"How did you know that?" Conner asked.
"One time dad took us on a trip to New York," Iris started to explain. She caught Barry's eye and the two started to laugh. "And it's the only thing we really remember from the trip because he was trying to make it educational—"
"—But we kept pestering him to take us to the Rockefeller Center to go ice skating—" Barry interrupted.
"And by the time we were leaving dad got so mad and yelled, 'if there's anything you're going to remember from this trip, it's what this statue is'!"
Patty laughed along with the two. "Wow, it sounds like you two were a handful growing up," she remarked.
Barry placed a hand on his chest. "Me? Not so much. Iris was the troublemaker. She kept dragging me into everything."
"Oh, I beg to differ," Iris said. She tossed a cookie at him, where it bounced off his chest and landed on the table. They laughed as Brady scooped it up and added it to his pile of sweets.
"Coconut water is a sterile and has an idea ph level. It can be used in emergencies as a substitute for blood…?"
Patty and Caitlin both moved to ring their buzzers but Caitlin got to it first. She practically jolted out of her seat as she yelled, "Plasma!" Getting the right answer. She and Cisco cheered, with Cisco yelling 'that's my girl!' before high-fiving.
And the questions moved on and on, the point going around the room to many teams.
"The loudest sound that can be produced by a living animal is up to 188 decibels and detectable as far away as 530 miles. The sound is produced by…?"
Barry and Patty lunged for the buzzer and got it at the same time, saying, "The Blue Whale!" To get the point. Patty beamed at him. "And did you also know that their tongues can weigh as much as an elephant?"
"And that their hearts weigh as much as a car," Barry said.
"Boring," Conner declared. His statement immediately ruined the moment that was happening between Barry and Patty.
"I hate science," Brady added. He rolled his eyes and made a face, upper lip curling. Barry laughed, realizing it was the same face Cadence made to him in passing at the CCPD if Captain Singh was bagging on one of them. "Almost as much as I hate math."
"Oh, but science and math are really fun," Patty said. "There's so many cool things that can be done with science and math."
"Not as cool as the Green Arrow," Conner denied. He smirked at Brady who rolled his eyes in response before the two got into a play-shoving match.
"I hate it when people add a color in front of their names," Cisco remarked.
"Really? Because I thought you really liked the name Black Canary," Caitlin teased. He pointed a finger at her but didn't say anything in response.
"Which Los Angeles Clipper, the son of a Hall of Famer, won the 1996 NBA Slam Dunk Contest?"
Ryder reached out and nudged Cadence on the arm. "You know this one; it's your favorite team!"
Barry looked at her in surprise. Apart from the Central City team, the LA Clippers were his absolute favorite basketball team to watch. He and his dad never missed a game before he was sent to jail. Now that he's out, we can start doing that again, Barry realized.
It took him a second to figure out who it was, ironically, but Cadence beat him to the buzzer a second before he could. If he could use his powers he would've gotten it, he realized with a wry smile.
"John Barry?" Cadence asked, then beamed when she got it right.
"I had that," Barry protested.
Cadence's eyes shone teasingly. "You did not. But if it makes you feel better, keep thinking that."
Patty reached out and grasped his wrist. "It's okay; you'll get the next one." She squeezed it gently before replacing her hand to her lap. The night soon came to a close with Caitlin and Cisco beating out the other teams a by a few points, coming from Cisco's almost encyclopedia like knowledge of movies, TV, film, and books from the last thirty years combined with Caitlin's science and technology background.
"And as the winners I declare that we get bragging rights until the turn of the century," Cisco said in a regal voice.
"Just wait until next time. I'm sure my backlog of eighties films is bound to trump yours," Ryder said. He brushed his hair from his face. "Though, of course, it's a good excuse just to watch some John Hughes."
"Dude, read my brainwaves!"Cisco declared, giving him a high-five.
"Oh right, those are your favorite movies," Cadence said.
"Which is your favorite?" Cisco asked her.
She smirked at him. "I never said we actually watched them." Brady mimed sticking his finger down his throat and Cadence ruffled his hair, pushing his bangs into his eyes. He laughed and leaned out of the way, tossing a handful of candy at her.
Barry rested his elbows on the table and his chin atop his fists. He started to say something then looked over at the doors to Jitters as there was a sudden commotion. Screams started to fill the room. Barry quickly got to his feet and strained to see what was going on. He saw Joe raise his pistol and start to shoot at something, just as a web line shot out and struck Captain Singh in the center of the chest.
The web continued to roll around Captain Singh until his arms were pinned by his sides. Barry looked over at Cadence, who was already moving away from the table, handing Brady and Conner off to Ryder. She looked over at him and Barry nodded as they hurried to the back of Jitters.
"Did you see what it was?" Barry asked.
"Yeah, they were definitely spiders," Cadence said with a tremor to her voice. "Pretty big ones, too."
"They've got Captain Singh," Barry said.
"And we need to go, now!"
Cadence put her arm around Barry's shoulders and allowed herself to be picked up before Barry raced out of the coffee house.
A/N: Plots that I know I need to bring up again; Harrison and Tess, Brady and school, Mick and the Rogues, and more Zoom of course. All are coming. I promise. I've got the next couple of chapters planned out for it. For those wondering, the original plot that I'm working into this story has to do with Mick. You'll see more as it's expanded but if anyone is really curious just PM me here or on Twitter or something and I'll explain further. Not to mention other metas coming in starting off with Sand Demon from the show (after the meta-spiders) and others.
Please remember to review, I'm serious about my writing and my stories, and if you have anything to comment about, anything to mention, or anything to say, I would love to hear it and it motivates me to write more. I respond to every review I get even if it's anonymous.
Review Replies
DarkHelm145: Your questions about Harry will be answered, soon.
Ethan: Brady's suspension is going to be brought up again. It hasn't been too long since he was suspended and revealed it to Barry.
Yummers: I'll work to put in more romance for ya!
Spinquin142: Yes, Harry is starting to come into the story. I do have some things planned with him and Harrison so we'll see how that turns out. I think you are the only one who noticed. I have plenty more with Henry and Joe in terms of Barry as the story goes on.
PowerHero432: I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, I wanted to give Iris something more to do and that's when I got that idea. As for Linda, she actually didn't show up in the last two stories. At the time I hadn't seen her plot with Barry as something that would work with what I had going at the time. So I used a throwaway line of Barry having dated her while Cadence was out in Starling. Just goes along with some of the other things I change with the show as well as other changes that are coming up. And yeah, Meta-Spiders! I can't wait for you to see what goes on with them in the next chapter!
Cheers,
-Riles