Chapter 28
It was just after midnight when Caitlin found her way back into S.T.A.R labs, she and everyone else had left around nine O'clock and Barry had said he would be right behind her, but he never came home. At first she thought he had gone to Cisco's or maybe Joe's, but after she couldn't get to sleep she had checked both places and found that he wasn't there, so that is why she found herself in S.T.A.R labs watching Barry continue to work on the museum, he didn't even seem to notice her, maybe that is because he was so tired. No one else would notice this but Caitlin did, his super speed was just a little slower and the way his body moved was not the smooth flash of light that it normally was. She knew what happened, he pushed himself and he lost track of time, she understands why he did it, but she also knew that for his own good he needed sleep, so she was going to make sure he got it.
"Barry!" Caitlin yelled at the yellow flash of light that was streaming all across the room, but she didn't get any response, she wasn't sure if he had not heard her or he was ignoring her. If it was the latter she knew how to deal with that. She noticed that the streak slowed down, just a little when it came to a large tool chest on her right hand side, so she put on her best annoyed face and stepped in front of the tool chest and tried again. "Barry!", this time he came to a stop. He was trying to hide just how tired he was but everything from the way he was just a little bit unsteady on his feet, to his eyes blinking repeatedly as if they were sensitive to the light, to the fact that he was clearly trying to hold back a yawn, gave away the fact that he was dead on his feat.
"Hey Caitlin, what are you doing here?" Barry asked trying his best to sound and look innocent, this just caused Caitlin to become frustrated with the speedster standing in front of her and it poured out into her response.
"Barry, could we please not play this game tonight, or this morning, given what time it is?!" Caitlin said with a huff.
"What game?" Barry asked and this just caused Caitlin to become even more annoyed and to place her hands on her hips as she spoke.
"The one where you get so caught up in something you forget that with your unique metabolism you need eat and sleep regularly. I understand that you forgot, but once I get here you know why I am here and then you pretend not to, and I have to argue with you before you will come home and eat and sleep so you don't fall over tomorrow, could we please just skip that game?" Caitlin said and she was sounding more then a little peeved with Barry.
"Alright, I'm sorry. I'll come home." Barry agreed as he looked at her a little puzzled. "Honestly I was so focus on finishing this." Barry motioned to the mostly finished museum with his right hand. "So that I could help Joe, that I lost track of time." He then put his arm around Caitlin and they began to walk towards the door. He then added on a more concerned note. "Are you okay, are we okay?"
"Yeah, I think." Caitlin said with a yawn and she was too tired to really be thinking about what she was saying, because if she had been she wouldn't have put it like that, in words that caused Barry to turn around and look her in the eyes with a very concerned look on his face.
"What do you mean you think?" He asked and there was a bit of panic in his voice as he said the last word. This caused Caitlin to mentally slap herself, she was way too tired to have this conversation but now she had no choice or she knew Barry would never go to sleep.
"Sorry, I put that wrong." She said and she could tell right away Barry wasn't believing her. "Look I am just really tired, I mean you try spending all day filling out forms for the patent office for one of Cisco's inventions, does he even think about how many parts there are in them before he designs them and just how much hard paperwork that creates? It's not fun!" Caitlin insisted as she threw her hands up in the air and this got a chuckle from Barry.
"Sorry, I didn't think of that when I came up with my plan." Barry said as he held the door for Caitlin and they stepped out into the humid early July air. Then he added. "Just as long as you are sure there is nothing wrong with us."
"Yeah, we are fine." Caitlin half lied because they were mostly fine and she was too tired and the humid weather had just left her in no mood to be able to handle telling Barry that because of some stupid trick her mind was playing on her she had managed to make herself a little unsure of their relationship. He loved her and she loved him, and for tonight that was fine, they could talk about what she really wanted to, some other time. At that moment she just wanted to get home.
"Okay, love you." Barry said as he planted a light kiss on her lips.
"Love you too." Caitlin replied and then Barry picked her up and Flashed them both back to their apartment.
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"Barry, I need to talk to you before you go." Barry heard the voice of Iris call out behind him as he was making his way down to the basement of S.T.A.R labs and to the breach between his Earth and Earth 2. He had his Flash suit on but he pulled down the hood as he turned to face Iris and she looked both worried and frustrated.
"Hey, what's up?" He asked Iris with a smile, and he hated to admit it but Caitlin had been right, he felt much better this morning and about his impending trip now that he had gotten some food into himself and he had gotten his eight hours of shut eye.
"Cisco had his machines make Wally a suit." Iris stated with an angry sigh as she came to a stop and stood in front of Barry.
"Oh, boy." Barry said as he ran his right hand through his hair, he knew where this conversation was going.
"Yeah, and you and I both know now he will want to go out and play hero the first chance he gets, but he is not ready yet." Iris said and her eyes were filled with fear as she added. "Plus if Savitar comes back while you are gone, we both know Wally will be no match for him."
"Yeah, I couldn't even do anything against him." Barry admitted in a hushed tone as he thought back to his encounter with the evil Speedster and the fact that he would have been dead without Caitlin's help. He didn't agree with Iris about holding Wally back from using his speed, because he had no right to talk, but at the same time he had to agree that Wally going up against that monster was one of the worst ideas he had ever heard in his life. He only hoped Savitar would stay away while he was on Earth 2 and that by the next time he showed up, he and his team would have come up with some plan to take him down, because Barry wasn't sure that even his speed would get the job done this time.
"Exactly, and we both know Wally, he will just charge in headfirst at whatever Savitar is, and I can't lose him like that, Dad can't lose him like that!" Iris insisted and she was sounding just a little panicked.
"Look." Barry said calmly, trying to stay in control of his own fears and sense of panic when it came to Savitar. "The odds of Savitar showing up while I am gone for the day are really slim, he hasn't been seen by anyone since that night." He saw this was doing very little to reassure Iris so he added. "Still I will have a talk with Wally, and tell him not to take on Savitar."
"Thank you." Iris said releasing a breath.
"No problem, I am just as scared as you are and I agree, Wally going against Savitar is not a good idea." Barry said with concern in his voice as he and Iris resumed their walk to the basement.
"I still may kill Cisco for making him that suit!" Iris mumbled.
"Just promise me you will wait until after he has helped H.R finish up the museum, I heard he needs his help on those holograms Cisco hates before it will be ready to go." Barry said with a smile trying to lighten the mood.
"I can't promise anything." Iris said as they parted ways as they entered the basement and found everyone but H.R there, including Cisco who seemed to be making some last minute adjustments to the Speed Cannon. Barry saw Wally off to his right and made his was over to the other Speedster, he thought he had come up with a rather clever way of getting Wally to back off the whole hero thing while he was gone, with out making Wally feel like he was being held back from doing what was right, if it worked Barry would be extremely pleased with himself for coming up with it on the fly.
"Hey Wally, can I talk to you?" Barry asked calling Wally over to a corner of the basement where no one else could hear what they were talking about it.
"Sure." Wally said and once they were in the corner with their backs to everyone else Wally began to talk excitedly. "Did you hear, I have a suit now, don't worry I will keep things under control until you get back."
"Yeah, that is what I wanted to talk to you about." Barry said with his voice just above whisper. "Look Wally right now Adder is a huge threat, so I need you to help H.R complete the museum so it is ready to go in two days and we don't have to delay the opening."
"Gotcha." Wally replied with a nod. Barry then added more gravely.
"Also Savitar is another massive threat, and he seems to have something personally against me, and I think he may come after Caitlin, Iris, or even Joe to get to me." Barry said as he let a look of concern pass over his face and Wally responded with a look of understanding on his own face. "So if he does come back while I am gone I need you to promise me something."
"What is it?" Wally asked.
"I need you to promise me that if he does come back you will get them all to safety, just grab them all and run. I need to know that they, including Caitlin will be safe, and the only way I can know that is if they are as far away from him as they can get, I am counting on you not to fight him, but to do something more important and get the women I love to safety, can you do that?" Barry asked gravely.
Wally clearly didn't like the idea of running, but he seemed to understand Barry's concern so he nodded and added. "You can count on me, Barry. Savitar will not get near Caitlin or any of the rest of them as long as I am here."
"Great that is exactly what I needed to hear." Barry said as he turned back around to face the room.
"Then once you get back we can start training to double team that Savitar thing." Wally said and he was sounding excited again and Barry didn't like the sound of it but the problem as it had stood had been dealt with so he wasn't going to get into an argument with Wally over something like that, not when the rest of the talk had gone so well.
"Yeah." Was all Barry said as he walked away and made his way over to Caitlin.
"Hey, are you sure you don't want to come with me instead of staying here and letting Psi mess with your mind?" Barry asked Caitlin softly and Caitlin could tell he was only half joking.
"For the last time I am sure it will be fine, I don't think she wants to hurt us." Caitlin said as she put her arms around Barry's neck.
"Yeah, just me." Barry noted grimly.
"Well maybe if we show her that we trust her then she will stop being angry with you." Caitlin smiled optimistically, but Barry seemed to see right through the forced smile and know she was only saying this to try and make him feel better.
"I'm serious, I agree with what you said yesterday, I don't like the idea of you letting her poke around inside your head." Barry said gravely and this caused Caitlin to look up into his eyes and her voice left little doubt that she understood the gravity of the situation.
"Okay, truth be told I don't like it either, but I like the idea of not knowing what is going on inside my own head even less." Caitlin explained and then added on a more emotional note. "I want us to have a future together, and we can't have that if I can't trust my own mind."
"Is that how we ended up completely turned around when it comes to Psi, and why you are doing this, because you think I don't trust you?" Barry asked with alarm and then added. "Caitlin I trust you, and we have this under control."
"No, I am doing this because I don't trust me, and we don't have it under control." Caitlin replied forcefully.
"We have made sure nothing bad happens every time you have an attack." Barry protested, he was now voicing every argument he had been too tired to voice earlier that morning when Caitlin first told him of her plan. He may have wanted to help and even win over Psi, but that was a long way from being okay with her looking around and maybe even playing games with Caitlin's brain.
"See we are treating the symptoms but ignoring the underlying cause." Caitlin said as she removed her hands and switched to doctor mode. "I can't live with not even knowing what that is, I can't live with having to plug into a wall every night, and I really can't live with the idea that if I lose control for a minute I could end up hurting you. I know this is a risk, but I have to take it and I need you to understand and support me." Caitlin's eyes took on a pleading look as she said this last part and this more then anything else caused Barry to cave.
"I get it, you have to do something, just please don't take any chances." Barry said with a sigh.
"Well I will be doing this in a room where Adder can see and hear everything. This whole place is now giving me the creeps, I am glad we don't have any cameras in here at least." Caitlin said with a shutter and this caused the full gravity of their situation to really hit home for the couple.
"Adder will be gone soon, I hope." Barry said as he tried to sound reassuring.
"I hope so too, because I don't know how much longer I can live like this." Caitlin said. "I mean this place is the only place we are safe because it is a dead zone for cellphones and there are no cameras, I am sick of being spied on all the time." Caitlin agreed, sounding more and more upset as she voiced the full size of pickle they were in, out loud for both of them to hear for the first time.
"The speed cannon is ready to go!" Cisco called out from across the room.
"Thanks." Barry said as he turned his head to face his friend he then pulled his mask over his face and returned his attention to Caitlin. "There is one more thing, if Savitar shows up while I am gone I need you to promise me you will run and get as far away from him as you can." Barry stated gravely.
"But then he could be waiting for you here when you come back, and there will be no way to warn you!" Caitlin protested.
"Look, I need to know you will be safe, so please, Promise me you will do this." Barry pleaded.
"Alright, I promise." Caitlin agreed as she looked down at the floor.
"This will all be over soon, I promise." Barry said as he planted a kiss on her cheek and then added. "I love you." as Caitlin looked up into his eyes, he then then dashed off at super speed and into the breach, his next stop was Earth 2.
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No matter how many times you do it there is no getting used to the feeling of traveling to another Earth. First there is getting there, the feeling is akin to running in a wind tunnel going full blast that is filled with water, while the only things you can see and hear are pictures from a TV that someone else is very quickly channel surfing on. Then when you get to the other Earth it tends to feel like you are playing Candy Land, on the board from Risk, with game piece from Monopoly. You know everything there, but they just don't seem to belong together and it leaves you feeling completely lost and confused and unsure if you should even try playing the game at all at this point.
The Flash found himself in the basement of Earth 2's S.T.A.R Labs and he took in the surroundings and it was then that he noticed that he had a bit of a problem, a large see through door with a metal frame, that was placed at the entrance to the room was closed and upon closer inspection The Flash found that it was locked. At first this didn't seem to be a problem to him as he tried to phase through it, but all three times he tried it, this just would not work. It was then that the Flash figured out that the transparent material that the door was made of must have been an improved version of the glass Zoom had once used to imprison him, it was no doubt a new safety feature Wells had installed to control the comings and goings of Meta-Humans between the two Earths and under any other conditions the Flash may have approved or at least found it clever, but at the moment it was standing between him and part of the solution to his problems, so all he felt was frustration and anger, and it was in this spirit that he began pounding on the glass and yelling, hoping someone would hear him and let him get on with the job in hand.
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"So what exactly do you want me to do?" Psi asked guardedly as she stepped inside the medbay with Cisco and Caitlin.
"You don't have to worry, Barry isn't here." Caitlin said pointedly and she was reminded of why she hadn't liked the older women when they had first met the previous day.
"Oh, where did your husband go?" Psi inquired.
"Not that it's any of your business but it is far away and he will not be back any time soon, so you don't have to worry." Caitlin answered and she was trying not to let her anger show, after all hadn't she just been telling Barry that they needed to earn this women's trust so they could help her? Yet every time she was in the same room with Psi she felt her anger rise, she just couldn't understand what kind of a person would have a problem with Barry or attack him the way this women had.
"So I can be long gone before he gets back, good." Psi responded and she seemed to relax a bit, but she was still looking around the room like a cat full of nervous energy waiting for the chance to run if she heard or saw something she didn't like, and Caitlin was once again forced to wonder what this women had been through that left her in this condition.
"Yes, if that is what you want." Caitlin answered and she found herself gritting her teeth.
"Alright, don't worry it is only your husband I have a problem with and I promised I wouldn't attack him, so you have nothing to fear from me, Caitlin." Psi stated and it was in a tone that Caitlin guessed was as close to being friendly as she ever got.
"Well if you have a problem with him, you have a problem with me." Caitlin stated and at that moment she could have slapped Psi. How could the women not understand that she and Barry were a package deal and that you didn't get one without the other? She had after all read Barry's mind at least, so she should have seen that in Barry's mind, that is if that was the way Barry still felt about them.
"Okay, no need to get all hostile we are all on the same team." Cisco said with a forced smile as he stepped inbetween the two women and he then turned his attention and his smile to Psi. "So I see you are wearing a new hoodie, and it is red, that looks like the same shade of red I use for The Flash's costume. I like it."
"It's just something I happen to own." Psi stated dismissively, this however did not deter Cisco who continued to try and make small talk.
"I see, well if you ever want someone to make you a real costume, in any colour, I'm your man." Cisco said making his smile wider.
"I don't need help from you, and I don't want it." Psi said, and she was looking annoyed.
"I know you don't need it, but we are going to be working together and I just thought I would offer, I can think of a few better ways to conceal you identity than a hoodie and gloves." This drew an angry glare for Psi and Cisco quickly added. "Not that there is anything wrong with what you have on now, it is great. It's just most women would like some options or something to wear besides hoodies and gloves."
"Well I am not most women." Psi stated firmly.
"Okay, you are your own women, I can respect that." Cisco said backing off. "Still if you ever change your mind the offer still stands."
Caitlin then watched with surprise as Psi stepped around Cisco and made her way over to her, and she didn't seem to be angry at all, on her guard?, Yes, but not angry. "So do I take it this place is now bugged and we can not talk about certain things freely?" Psi asked almost pleasantly.
"Yeah." Caitlin confirmed with a confused nod of her head and then she added. "That isn't why we asked you to come today."
"Why did you ask me to come then?" Psi inquired.
"We need you to read our minds." Cisco explained excitedly.
"I don't get it, yesterday you couldn't stand the idea of me touching your minds, let alone reading them, and today you want me to read them, what changed?" Psi asked and the way she said it was brusque, but again to Caitlin's surprise it wasn't really angry at all.
"Well Caitlin was the one with the problem, you can read my mind any time." Cisco flirted and this got nothing but annoyed looks, so he quickly moved on. "Both Caitlin and I are worried about why we are acting the way we are now that we have these gifts, and we are both hearing voices in our heads, so we would like your help in figuring out what is going on in them, because we don't want to risk more incidences like we had in the past." Cisco explained.
"Really?" Psi asked and there was a look of disbelief on her face that Caitlin couldn't quite think of an explanation for.
"Really." Caitlin answered firmly and this seemed to cause Psi to relax.
"Okay, I will help you." She said with a look of understanding on her face as she turned her attention to Caitlin and looked at her. "Still you are going to have to let me read your mind for this to work, I will try not to read your personal thoughts but if I am going to understand why you are hearing voices, then you will have to let me read thoughts you may not be comfortable with other people knowing, passing thoughts that you would normally never act on, are you okay with that?" Psi asked.
"Yes, if it helps solve this problem." Caitlin answered and she didn't let any of her private reservations show on her face.
"Alright, but you know I will have to read your minds while you are using your gifts, right?" Psi asked as she looked from Caitlin to Cisco.
"Yeah, we understand." Cisco answered.
"I understand, I don't like taking the risk, but at least it is in a controlled setting this time." Caitlin responded after giving her options a few moments of thought.
"Okay, then which one of you wants to go first?" Psi asked.
"I'll go." Caitlin piped up before Cisco could say anything and she removed the cuffs from around her wrists. "I seem to have better to control of my Gifts." She explained as she used Cisco's code word for their powers. "So there is less danger with me, and if you find out what is going on in my mind then maybe you will not have to take the chance with Cisco."
"Are you sure?" Cisco asked as Caitlin sat down on the bed and tried to prepare herself for Killer Frost to try and take over her mind.
"Not really, but it's too late to do anything about it now." Caitlin said nervously.
Psi then pushed past Cisco so she was the one standing in front of the bed, and when she spoke it was in an oddly soothing tone of voice that Caitlin didn't think the women was capable of having. "Okay, Caitlin I want you to lay back and close your eyes and just relax and let whatever is going to happen happen, I think that is the way it will work best."
"Okay." Caitlin said as she followed the instructions and already she could feel and hear Killer Frost trying to claw her way out of the little cage in the back of her mind into which Caitlin had stuffed her alter ego. "I can feel her, I am fighting her but I am not sure how long I can hold out." Caitlin reported and then as a white mist started to come off of her she fought back with everything that was in her, using every positive thought she could come up with and she found herself holding her own against the serial killer her own mind seemed to want her to become. "Are you getting anything?" Caitlin asked Psi desperately.
"Yeah, I am getting something." Psi reported and she was sounding a little overwhelmed herself. "It's like nothing I have ever felt before, I am not sure what this i..." then she broke off and opened her own eyes. She then pointed to a tray with two small dime sized objects in it. "Cisco grab those and put them on Caitlin's temples, and the turn the monitor around so she can see it, I want to see if she agrees with me about this." Psi ordered and Cisco was in too much of a state of shock to argue and he just did as instructed with out a word and when he had he then took a look at the monitor just as Caitlin opened her eyes to see for herself.
"Is that what I think it is?" Caitlin asked shocked and then cried out in pain as her eyes started to turn blue. "This is my body now!" The voice of Killer Frost called out, but before she could do anything to everyone's shock Psi had replace the cuffs on Caitlin's wrists, as she did so she was quick and firm but careful not to harm Caitlin.
"What the hell was that?!" Cisco demanded as he took a step backward from the bed, and his face was turning pale.
"I felt two people in her head, if I am right somehow the psychic energy that made up the personalities of two Meta-Humans somehow made it into your own and Caitlin's brains." Psi explained and yet she didn't sound like she was panicking at all.
"Yes, that is what I saw on the brain scan." Caitlin agreed as she gasped for air and sat up on the bed, ripping the monitors off of her temples and then stood up off of the bed. "I saw two distinct sets of brainwaves that almost looked the same but not quite."
"Guys I think we should go to the basement to finish this conversation." Cisco advised as he came to his wits, and the two women nodded their agreement.
A few moments later they were in the basement and Cisco continued to talk. "I don't know about you, but I am freaking out thinking of someone else being inside my head." Cisco said to Caitlin.
"Yeah, this isn't multiple personality disorder, this is something new and I have never heard of a case of this before us." Caitlin agreed as she became more and more worried.
"Try not to worry, I know you can beat this." Psi stated firmly and her voice sounded as if she had no doubts about this and she was just stating a fact, like the sky being blue.
"How do you know that?" Caitlin demanded as her panic rose. "If you hadn't put the cuffs on me I would have killed you both."
"No, you would have gotten it under control before that happened." Psi stated calmly and when Caitlin still didn't look convinced she continued. "I saw that in your mind, you are stronger then you think Caitlin and you can beat this, there is no choice if the future you want is ever going to happen, so you will, and I know you will not let Killer Frost harm another person."
"Okay, even if I believed you how did Killer Frost end up in my head?" Caitlin asked as she started to calm down a little.
"I don't have the answer to that." Psi said as a look of what could be shame seemed to pass over her face.
"I think I do." Cisco spoke up. "At least I have a crazy theory. Caitlin and I started to develop powers around the same time, then we both went to Earth 2 where we were present at the deaths of our evil twins who had mastered their powers. What if the fact that they were Metas combined with the different vibrations of Earth 2 caused their brains waves, or psychic energy, or whatever it is Psi reads to make their way into our brains when they died their violent deaths."
"Cisco that's crazy." Caitlin stated.
"No, it not." Psi said thoughtfully. "I don't know everything about my powers or how they work, but I do know that when I read people's minds I feel myself riding a wave of something that they are transmitting into their minds, like a radio wave of some kind. Maybe the waves moved to your minds."
"See." Cisco said pointing at Psi. "The hot Psychic lady agrees with me." This drew disapproving looks from both Caitlin and Psi, and then he began to muse quietly. "Energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only change form. The changed form had to go somewhere, and that somewhere was our own brains."
"If this is true then how are Cisco and I ever supposed to get free of this?" Caitlin asked glumly.
"Well if you fight it off long enough the energy should burn off and you should be back to normal, or at least there should be so little of it left that you shouldn't have any trouble controlling yourself." Psi answered and again Caitlin was shocked by just how calm the older women was about all this, still she was not the one with another person in her head, so maybe that made it easy for her to remain calm and collected.
"So if we just fight them off every time, we will win in the end?" Caitlin asked with a weak smile.
"I am not saying it will be easy for you, but I know you can do it." Psi answered and again there was no doubt in her voice.
"Okay, so we can do this." Cisco said as he took in a breath.
"Okay." Caitlin agreed weakly, not sure if she believed in herself as much as Psi did, but the women seemed to have seen something in Caitlin's brain that convinced her that she could beat this thing, so Caitlin choose to hold on to that hopeful thought. She then turned to Psi. "Thank you for helping us and getting those cuffs on me, I know you didn't want to."
"I have told you before, I would help you two any time." Psi stated as if it was nothing.
"But still not Barry?" Caitlin asked.
"Sorry, I will keep my word to Mister Queen but that is all." Psi said coldly and this drew shocked looks from both Caitlin and Cisco until Cisco then smiled and spoke.
"Of course, you would, you read his mind yesterday."
"No, I would never read the mind of Mr. Queen." Psi said and this caused Caitlin to wonder about several things. First what was this relationship she seemed to have with Oliver who despite being several year younger than her she seemed to refer to as Mister Queen when she wasn't calling him the Green Arrow, and why didn't Oliver tell them who this women was and why he had revealed himself to her. Still Caitlin didn't have long to muse on these thoughts because at that moment a panicked looking Iris West came running down the stairs.
"Quick you guys have to come up here and see what is on the news." Iris said and Cisco and Caitlin both dashed after the reporter and out of the basement, but Psi seemed to take the chance to quietly slip away. When they made it to The Cortex Iris pulled a video up on the monitor. "This was just on channel five." She explained and hit the play button on the media player application. A news anchor with slick black hair then appeared on screen and delivered the following statement.
"Tonight tune into channel five action news where we have received footage and documents that not only will expose the so called hero of Central City, The Flash, revealing who he really is, but we also will expose the fact that he may have been responsible for the Meta-Human attacks that nearly destroyed the city a few months ago, and why he is covering up the identity of a new killer Meta-Human who attacked one of Central City's finest citizens a few days ago. All of this and more on action news at five."
"Oh no." Caitlin gasped out as she felt herself sink to the floor as her legs gave out on her. Then as if that was not trouble enough the Meta-Human alert apps started going off.
"That can't be good." Cisco said as he was the only one in the room who could bring himself to look up at the screens. "There has been a break out at Iron Heights prison." Cisco reported.
"Who?" Caitlin asked as Iris was helping her back up onto her shaky legs.
Then they were all knocked to the ground as the whole building shook with a deafening sound and Caitlin could feel and hear what sounded like an earthquake. She crawled over to Cisco, to try and get his help, she knew what they needed to do, they needed to open a portal and get Barry at once, but she found Cisco had been knock out by the fall to the concrete floor and she couldn't wake him. Her worst fears had come to pass she and Barry were about to be exposed on the news, they were being attacked by an angry Meta, she could feel Killer Frost in the back of her mind trying to take over despite the cuffs, and she was completely cut off from Barry. Caitlin hadn't felt this helpless since Zoom had told her Barry was dead.
Well I hope you liked this chapter. Sorry I have been away for so long, but I was dealing with an attack of depression, the good news is that I am over it now, so you don't need to worry. The bad news is that because of a job placement thing I am doing tomorrow I will not get another chapter up until Tuesday, so sorry about that.
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Last updated on 10/15/2018
