P.S I am super sorry for this filler chapter, but I have to get the boring stuffs out of the way before we have more Cisco/Reyna time!
Also, thank you for reading my story!
" I haven't been completely honest with you, with any.. of you, actually. "
Reyna stood at the center of Star Labs, ostracized by the rest of the group. Cisco was the only one who had remained down with her, while Caitlin, Jay, Barry and Iris, and a new young man, had all scattered around the lab.
It was just a few hours ago that Reyna had single handedly saved the two hundred lives that were nearly lost because of a toxic meta human. Everyone in the room was curious as to how she had did it, and what was going on.
" So, when I was kidnapped by Zoom, I met my doppelgänger, but I didn't just see her, I had a conversation with her about my abilities, " Reyna paused, taking a deep breath in and glancing over to Cisco for reassurance. He nodded slowly at her, encouraging her to continue.
" She told me that I wasn't a meta human, that I was a God. That I was the reincarnation of the God named Apollo, " Reyna paused, not sure how to explain what was happening without sounding crazy.
" This isn't wise, Mila. "
Apollo's voice chimed in within her subconscious, and she paused from talking to everyone to listen.
" In nearly every instance where I have inhabited a vessel, the announcement of my existence has never gone well. I implore you Mila, keep me and you a private matter. "
" I'm telling them. "
The silence lasted almost a minute before Reyna began to speak allowed to herself, causing everyone in the room to look on with some curiosity and fear.
" No, you're overreacting. "
" Um, honey.. "
Cisco's quiet voice broke up her internal conversation, as her brilliant, analogously colored eyes flashed wide with concern, as she looked around and realized what was happening.
Reyna cleared her throat and quickly tucked her hair behind her ears before glancing over to Cisco and nodding.
" Something happened at the Gala, I'm not sure what triggered it, but I went somewhere and I-don't-know, I guess I met some-kind of super god that granted me access to Apollo. "
There was no pause after she spoke, as everyone shot questions, concerns and outrages at her at once, and Cisco was quick to bring up his hands to try and quell the curious crowd.
Reyna reluctantly pulled up a free hand, looking over to Cisco for a moment as she effortlessly let some of her energy trickle from her hand.
Cisco was taking everything in stride with her. Just before this meeting, she had bombarded him in a lab just adjacent to the main lobby within STAR Labs, trying to explain everything that had happened while not losing her sanity. She apologized over and over for not telling him ahead of time, but he quelled her anxiety and suggested that she tell everyone else.
So she did.
The normal light that seemed to trickle from her hands as a form of her own energy, now looked drastically different. Reyna's palm opened hesitantly, as a brilliantly strong light accompanied by a translucent, glowing light, began to seep into the air just above her hand.
The light blinded the room for a moment, until she abruptly closed her hand and let it rest at her side.
" So it's just, in there? "
Iris shot at Reyna in a calm, questioning tone, and Reyna reluctantly nodded.
Reyna took a deep breath, still contemplating on showing them in some way that he was real.
" I can try to show you how he's inside me. "
Reyna spoke the words before she had a chance to process them, and immediately realized how awful and sexual it sounded.
" Woah-woah-woah! Wait, he? "
Cisco interrupted Reyna, his eyes becoming more stern as he matched eyes with her. Immediately Reyna went to explain, but Caitlin was quick to interrupt the interrogation with new news.
" Reyna, It's Diggle, he needs you to come to Starling immediately. "
Caitlin's voice sounded frantic, and Reyna never lost eye contact with Cisco as Caitlin spoke. Looking at him affectionately, she smiled as he spoke.
" Always. "
Cisco's voice was just above a whisper, and Reyna couldn't help but grin at him. They never had a moment to just sit and talk, not lately at least.
" Fucking Oliver... "
Reyna spat in a friendly tone, now looking over to Caitlin who shook her head apprehensively.
" I don't think that's it, this time. "
Barry rushed her to Star City, dropping her off at the exact address that Diggle asked. After he dropped her off he went to grab Cisco at Reyna's request.
The complex that she was dropped off in front of was almost three stories high, and although it seemed very professional and kept up, it appeared abandoned.
Cisco and Barry were behind her within the minute, and it took Cisco a moment to adjust after moving so far, so fast. John Diggle and his Wife Lyla Michaels, both exited the building by a pair of sleek automatic opening doors, just in time for Cisco to get his legs.
" Reyna! Thank you for coming so quickly. "
Lyla's voice was kind and calm, and Diggle wasn't far behind, not hesitating to say hello and give her a brief hug.
Lyla invited everyone inside, where the doors that they had just entered from, were sealed.
Two armed guards guarded the door, as the five of them crossed a large, open lobby and entered an elevator.
" I'm guessing Oliver hasn't spoken to any of you in a while. "
Diggle's deep voice brought some concern to Cisco, Barry and Reyna, as Oliver was known to be a shut off when it came to sharing.
" There's a pretty evil dude in Starling right now, and some crazy stuff has gone down. Amanda Waller is dead, Reyna. "
The elevator doors opened and Reyna's body was unable to move from sheer shock. Amanda Waller, the evil, villainous dictator that owned and operated ARGUS was, dead?
" No way.. "
Reyna spoke in a unconvinced tone, still unable to accept any notion that, that hardass bitch would ever die.
" She was shot in the head, right in front of me. "
Lyla spoke, a small smirk trying to peak across her face as everyone exited the elevator.
The room they exited into was, by comparison to the building they had entered, vastly huge. There was clear glass separating different areas, and over a dozen people speaking on phones, working on gadgets or doing paperwork.
" This isn't the news we dragged you all the way here for. "
Lyla spoke again, leading Reyna, Cisco and Barry to another room that required her clearance to enter.
" I've been promoted to Amanda's position, Reyna, and I've come into some documents that you might want to see in person. "
It wasn't even a moment later that they entered a large room with filing paperwork and computers, and at a first glance, It looked like a storage area. The group filtered into the room, and Lyla flicked on the dull, flickering fluorescent light, helping shape the items in the room.
Reyna was still in the formal gown from the Gala, it had some deep maroon spots from her bleeding onto it, and a few tears. Cisco was in his same outfit as well, but his hair had fallen out from its pulled back position, and was at his shoulders. Reyna had stolen a few looks at him, not sure if he realized how handsome or professional he looked.
" I just, don't know.. Theres no way. "
Reyna's unsure voice trailed off, as she was still very unconvinced and unable to grasp the idea of Waller's death. She would let a child take a bullet before getting shot herself.
" Listen, everything's going to be okay. The blood lust she seemed to have after you is over, and your ties with ARGUS have been taken care of, Reyna you can live a normal life if you want now, this place isn't holding you back anymore. "
Lyla's words took a few moments to seek in, but Reyna only replied with a weak smile and a nod. All of this was so sudden and strange.
" So, why are we here? "
Barry had finally taken off his mask, and like both Cisco and Barry, he seemed confused.
" This, entire room. Is about you, Reyna. "
Lyla looked directly at Reyna, and she couldn't understand why there was a sudden pull at the pit of her stomach, but it was there, and it was growing by the minute. Her voice seemed to be lost the moment she opened up her mouth to speak, but Barry and Cisco were right there to help her out.
" What do you mean? "
Cisco's voice was slow and methodical, his eyes intensified in curiosity the longer Lyla took to answer.
" Every piece of paper, and every free space on the hard drives of these computers is dedicated to you in some way. To say that Waller had an obsession with you, well it would be an understatement. "
Cisco immediately picked up a small stack of papers next to him, flipping through them with a distrustful look to his face. It took him a few moments before he glanced back to Reyna and set the stack down, going through another before Lyla began to speak again.
" There's more.. "
Lyla's voice was interrupted by Diggle, so roughly cleared his throat before continuing.
" Amanada had your father killed, Reyna.. When you were eighteen, he had arranged for both you and your mother to leave the country. He was trying to flee from ARGUS. "
Reyna crossed her arms and softly bit her bottom lip, trying to comprehend everything he was saying without thinking she was crazy.
She blinked a few times and cleared her throat before speaking, " No, my father died from a heart attack. "
Lyla took in a deep breath of air and sighed before speaking, correcting Reyna, " Didn't you think it was strange that they cremated him, they got rid of the evidence and went immediately to recruit you. "
Reyna's arms fell to her sides and Barry placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her as Cisco seemed intent of going through every paper that was in the room.
" So when I faked my death? "
" Waller knew about it the whole time. She had ARGUS journal everything. She let you leave so you could manifest your powers. Which, by her standards, had begun a little late. "
Lyla's look of concern showed that she had no pleasure in telling Reyna any of this. That drudging up old wounds wasn't easy for anyone, and she could tell by the look on Reyna's face that she was more upset with herself than anything.
" My poor mother.. "
Reyna brought up a fleeting hand to her mouth, realizing that her mother had been alone for two years without her daughter, and that her husband had been killed so many years ago. She realized that she could of avoided all of this, but Waller had been intent to burn every bridge she had.
" You, I-mean-if-you, would ever want to Reyna, you can see her. "
Lyla crossed the gap between them, trying to comfort her in any way.
" There are, literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands of accounts of you and your family.. And all of them having to do with Apollo.. "
Cisco had finally stopped sifting through the papers, to which he'd barely even touched the surface. He looked back at everyone with a troubled look on his face, waiting for either Diggle or Lyla to pitch in.
" We're still going through the papers, but it appears that this one god, entity, we're not completely sure right now, has possessed people in your family going back generations. So far back that some of the paperwork we have seems, almost, biblical. "
Reyna could tell that she was being honest, and for a moment, it made sense.
Her father had told her stories as a child, about women changing into great monsters, but these monsters would protect people, and help everyone. The one story she could remember right now, was the one where the woman changed into the monster and helped a dying young boy, but right after the woman died, because she had given too much of herself to the young child.
Some of what her dollpeganger said, so many weeks ago, was beginning to make sense.
" If you don't mind, we're going to keep the documents and go through them. What ever we find, we'll get ahold of you right away. "
Lyla pleaded and Reyna agreed.
All of this was too much for two-thirty in the morning, anyway.
There would be more questions, more talks and more confusion, she was absolutely sure of it. But right now, she wanted to be home with Cisco, in a warm bed with the blinds closed and her phone turned off.
But the night was far from over.
Barry brought them back to the lab where someone else had decided to show up. Someone who Reyna had just met recently, Kendra Saunders. She was with a new stranger, a handsome man around her age.
Barry brought Reyna and Cisco back this time at the same time, the three of them flooding the downstairs lab within STAR Labs. Cisco and Reyna stumbled to a stop as papers flew into the air from the sudden rush of wind.
It took a moment, but once things calmed down, she introduced the gentlemen she was with.
" This is, Carter my boyfriend. "
Kendra spoke in an informal tone, glancing back to the man that was at her side, before pausing, as though something had struck her.
An immediately feeling of familiarity began to come over Reyna, something she definitely couldn't explain out loud, but the moment Reyna looked up and to Kendra, she realized that she was feeling the same thing too.
The two women shared an unsure look with one another for a moment before there was a sudden shock wave within the enclosed room.
Reyna and Kendra's body seemed to mimic one another, as they each brought up their hands, examining them as though it was the first time they had seen them. Reyna's body was covered in a blisteringly bright aura, as her iris's were replaced with a serene orange glow. Kendra's body was taken over by a golden aura, but her eyes were the color of burning sapphires.
Everyone in the room was paralyzed with shock, as the energy radiating from the two women caused a swirling, violent wind to rush around the room. Both Kendra and Reyna walked towards one another, meeting the other at the center of the room.
" At nimium diu amicus., Apollo.. "
Kendra spoke, but the voice that was coming from her mouth wasn't hers. The powerful voice seemed to take over the room, vibrating the walls and machines.
This familiar feeling that she had suddenly felt just moments ago, finally revealed itself. It was the feeling of Apollo pushing her into the backseat of her own subconscious and taking control. She was guessing, that Kendra was having the same experience.
The words were strange and something she had never heard before, but without reason, Reyna understood them clearly.
' It's been too long my friend, Apollo. '
" Nimium diu."
Which Reyna was sure meant, ' Far too long '. Apollo's voice violently vibrated Reyna's chest as he responded, causing her to feel a moment of intense pain.
Kendra and Reyna's bodies reached forwards as the two women embraced one another, holding each other for a moment.
The swirling of their auras was causing some electrical impulses to form in the ceiling above them, prompting the power to flicker and the room to randomly shake.
" Sive manserimus hic locum istum ut disperderes eum ne diutius emersit. "
Kendra's body spoke hollowly, as though the building being destroyed was some sort of inconvenience. Reyna heard the translations within her own mind, 'I fear this place will be destroyed if we stay emerged much longer.'
" Ut inveniam te cito. "
The last words that were spoken between the two were simple and sort, ' We will find you again soon. '
In an instant, as quick as things had changed, they went back to normal. The sliding bright auras that both Kendra and Reyna were enveloped in, were gone and the two woman were left holding one another. The break in the energy sent another hard wind to break through the room, and immediately, the power was fully back on.
Reyna and Kendra were left embracing one another, and with Kendra being almost a foot taller than her, Reyna was left were her face buried in Kendra's chest. The two of them pulled away from one another quickly, pausing before breaking away completely.
The ancient beings within them had been close, lost friends, and regardless of how much Reyna and Kendra didn't know one another, this whole thing had strangely made them closer.
They both finally broke their grasp on the other, trying not to laugh too loud as the room around them stayed silent, both still unsure of what had happened or what was going on.
