Chapter 10.

Allie was out of the lab before Cisco and Caitlyn could stop her. She flashed uncontrollably to the Cedar Building and to the top. She only stopped by crashing into Cold.

"What the hell?" he was confused, trying to figure out what had brought him down.

Allie sprang up and checked on Barry. He was in pain and could hardly run.

"What… how… no…" Barry tried but she hushed him.

"Sarah?" Cold saw her face.

"Can you get to the lab?" she asked Barry.

"I love you." Barry managed.

"Get to the lab." She insisted.

He stroked her face. "I lov…"

"I know. I know. I love you too. Barry please…" she cried. He closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh.

Allie wailed, crying. She jumped at Cold and threw him off his feet but he got up quickly and aimed the gun at her.

"I didn't know you were involved with someone." Cold said as he took a few steps back. "Does he know about us?"

"Yes." She stood up and faced him head on. "I didn't know you were a psychopath."

He laughed. "Yeah I hide that well. I also didn't know that the running kid has a sidekick."

"I'm not his sidekick."

"No of course not. You don't have a cheesy outfit. Or a mask."

"Leonard what are you doing? Why are you doing this? You're dying." She changed the topic.

"What's life without a little risk, hey?" he repeated.

Allie stepped closer and he quickly shot two bullets. She yelled as it crashed into her hip and torso.

"Oops." He said. She crumbled to her knees and groaned at the pain. Her brain was working in overdrive and she shut the pain receptors of her mind. It felt strange.

"Right, Big oops." She stated sarcastically.

Cold came closer and kneeled in front of her. "I'm going to miss you, Sarah. We had some great times, you and I, right? The Doctor Patient stuff, the chats outside the hospital. The flirting… The kiss…" He stroked her face as she stared at him. She saw what he was thinking as he touched her and wasn't surprised when he crashed his lips into hers.

Instead of pulling away, Allie wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back.

He was surprised but delighted until he lost the ability to move. She let him slip to the ground and sat over him. She grabbed the cold gun and shot him in the shoulder. He screamed but couldn't move.

"How does that feel, you asshole?" she yelled as she threw his guns out of reach.

She climbed onto his lap and touched his face. He could not move, but he was aware of everything. He could feel her on top of him, the shot of ice burning into his shoulder and the cold ground underneath him but he could not make his body do anything.

"I just switched off your motor-functions." She whispered. "I didn't know I could do it until now."

She leaned in closer and watched his face. "You feel that?" she asked, as she sent messaged through to his brain. "That's your lungs stopping their highly necessary function."

She let go and he managed a deep desperate breath. She leaned in again and held his face; she smiled when pain washed over his face.

"What am I doing?" she said his question. "I'm turning the remainder of your blood cells into benign cancer cells. You're body will start to fight the cells like it's an alien invasion. Then your blood cells will be shredded and you'll be anemic. Oxygen won't get to your brain. Your muscles will die. Your lungs will no longer be able to move." She grinned. "And then your heart will stop."

She sat back and watched, as the pain got worse. She ripped open his shirt and placed her hand over his heart.

"This is how you made me feel." She said before squeezing her hand shut. He groaned and muttered as she instructed his heart to tighten.

He tried to move, he wanted to scream, and he was desperate for help. With a final moan, he breathed out his last breath. Allie felt his life slip away. His energy diminished. And suddenly guilt hit her like a sledgehammer as she came to her senses. She got off him and stumbled away, shocked and drained.

She grabbed every ounce of strength she had left, picked Barry up and struggled with him to the lab.

When she got there, she fell to the floor with Barry at her side. Caitlyn and Cisco carried Barry to a bed and Caitlyn tore open his suit as she started preparing to remove the bullet. The computers screeched as his heart stopped.

"We can't shock him, it will shut off the whole city's power." Caitlyn yelled.

"Get the bullet out." Allie yelled. "In any way possible."

Caitlyn shoved her hands into surgical gloves and threw on a surgical apron before quickly cutting into him. Cisco strolled between Caitlyn and Allie, not sure what to do or where to help. Allie sat up and tried to think but it felt like she was losing everything. As if her body had burnt through her abilities and they had become moot.

"Allie, how can I help you?" Cisco asked.

"I don't know." She mumbled, trying hard not to close her eyes. Cisco gave in and walked over to Allie to help her. The minute he touched her hand a shock went though both him and Allie and he passed out. Allie felt her body fill with Cisco's energy and she let go quickly. He was already in la-la land. She touched his face, checking his vitals but he was fine, just asleep.

Allie got up and raced over to Caitlyn and Barry. The bullet was out and Caitlyn went to work fixing the arteries. Allie checked Barry's vitals and her heart fell.

"He's going to die." Caitlyn said.