++++++ Sorry I should have got this chapter out last night but I've been busy reading Lady Midnight.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Thirty-Six

"Mummy, I'm thirsty."

My feet in my favourite little bunny slippers took me down the stairs, rubbing my eyes I called out for mum again. "Mummy?"

Sitting back at the computer control desk, I was practically alone in the dark. No one was at STAR Labs but me at the moment, I could have called Caitlin and Cisco but right now, being alone with my thoughts was the best thing for me.

My little eyes opened wide when I came into the foyer. "MUMMY! MUMMY!" I ran forward and slipped, hitting the hard wooden floor with a thud. She was lying on the ground, surrounded by so much blood.

Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around me…the man in the red suit picked me up and carefully cleared the blood off my face. "You shouldn't be down here Charlie," he spoke…

My eyes widened. "He said my name…" I whispered, thinking of the Flash from the future. I couldn't remember his touch but I knew that there was something else that he had said to me.

I pulled out my cell phone and scrolled through. I stopped at Suki's number for a moment but continued to scroll through looking for White Knight in my contacts. I pressed the call button and waited.

"Well hello Snow Princess," Leonard answered on the other end. "Need an itch scratched?"

Charlie sighed. "No. Not at the moment."

"What's the matter?" he asked. I could practically hear the frown in his voice.

"There was a break in at Mercury Labs a few hours ago," I told him.

"I didn't do it," Leonard cut me off.

I raised an eyebrow. "And I was in no way suggesting that you did. The man that broke in was the man that murdered my mother."

"So I'm assuming that you need to talk to someone?" he questioned.

"Yeah," I sighed. "You in town?"

"An hour or so away from Central," Leonard answered. "A roadside hotel called the Roadside Hotel. Room 18."

"See you soon," I smiled softly before I hung up the phone. I got up and made my way down to the garage to 'borrow' one of the STAR Labs cars.

I still had no bike.

I'm sure Well's wouldn't mind.

And if he did-who the fuck cares?

I tuned in the radio before I left and listened to the media and their interpretation of the break in at Mercury Labs. Some said it was another meta-human, others were saying it was the Flash gone rouge-interesting theories but none were what I was looking for at all.

I called Tessa to let her know I wouldn't be home that night just as I pulled into the parking lot.

The familiar smell of Greek food was what drew me to room 18. The room was empty but the I could hear the shower running. There was hot food on the counter so I helped myself to some pork soulvlaki and came over to the table.

"Boys and their toys," I snorted, looking over the parts of the Cold Gun scattered out on the table. What Well's would give to get this back again.

"Gonna steal my gun?" Leonard suddenly asked.

"Thought hadn't even occurred to me," I shrugged. I turned around and licked my lips seeing the water kind of beading across his skin. I twirled my finger around, running the water off his skin. "Bad idea waltzing around wearing a towel with a meta human who can control water."

Leonard shrugged. "You could say that I suppose."

"You could," I replied. Sitting down on the edge of the bed. "My mum was murdered by a guy who calls himself the Reverse Flash."

Leonard sat down beside me. "So the Flash has gone bad?"

I shook my head. "No, no. This guy wears a yellow suit. The only person I've told this is my best friend but lately I've been remembering this from the night my mother was murdered. There was a man in a yellow suit and a man in a red suit."

"That would make the Flash an old geezer," Leonard snorted.

I smiled, wondering what Barry would think of being called an old geezer. I sighed and lay back down on the bed. "I feel so comfortable around you-it's funny because you're such a freaking criminal."

Leonard didn't answer.

I turned my head to look at him and frowned. "Penny for your thoughts?" I questioned.

"So I've been thinking about what you said," Leonard told me.

I cocked an eyebrow. "Um-in case you haven't notice I have a gob on me. I talk, A LOT."

He smirked. "Well it wasn't just you but your loaded friend, River Harper."

"River is more the silent, strangle you with your own intestines type," I shrugged. "So what did you want to say?"

"That maybe I should give this dating thing a try," he confessed.

"Wait-you're asking me out?" I asked him. "Leonard Snart is asking me out? On a date?"

He stared me down in annoyance.

I shrugged. "I like to bask in the moment, Leonard. See what it feels like on my skin."

"Are you done?" Leonard asked me.

"I am," I answered. "And yes. I'll go out with you. We just may have to forgo the meet the parents part of the whole dating thing."

"My father is in prison," he replied. "But I do have a sister."

"You have a sister?" I asked him.

"Do you have an off switch?" Leonard inquired.

"If you find it tell my dad and my brother," I laughed. "They'd love to know."

He lay back beside me and cupped my face. "I'm not one for expressing his feelings, Charlie."

"I hadn't notice," I deadpanned.

"Shut up," he hissed, kissing me.

I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him so he was above me.

"Oh look," Leonard smirked, "that shut you up."

I would have stuck my tongue out at him but it was otherwise occupied.

My first meeting with the Revers Flash happened at work on Monday.

Barry was angry I had gone for the night but got over it quickly as he informed me of what had happened over night.

The Reverse Flash had tried to steal a tachyonic prototype-obviously i had no idea what he meant but no one had died which was a plus.

I was coming back from a meeting with my boss when I felt the charge in the air. Jess was behind me and almost slammed into me when I stopped in the middle of the corridor. Not a word had been spoken between me and him since he returned back from his parent's place. Not that I could blame him.

He'd been particularly hostile when I mentioned the word boyfriend to one of the other girls in the tea room that morning.

Again, not that I could blame him.

"Charlie!" Jess frowned. "Damnit, almost lost my coffee."

"You need to get out of the building," I warned him.

"What?" Jess snorted.

"Get out of the building!" I snapped. I looked around for a fire alarm or something to pull but stopped seeing the Reverse Flash at the end of the hallway.

"Charlotte Allen," he spoke.

I couldn't see his face, he was vibrating it and his vocal cords like Barry did. "What?" I asked him.

"Charlie what's going on?" Jess asked me.

"Jess you need to leave," I warned him.

"Not until you tell me what's going on," he snapped.

"Move!" I shouted, pushing him into Casey's office. I slammed the door shut and we backed away from the door.

"You are not using my office as a love nest," Casey hissed, getting up from her desk.

I pulled my jacket off just as the door exploded inwards. "You picked the wrong girl to mess with," I snapped. I slammed my hand down on my watch, my suit taking over my body. "You'll pay for murdering my mother," I warned him.

The yellow blur that was the Reverse Flash shot towards me and hit me head on. I felt my feet leave the floor and my body smash through the window of the seventeenth story of the building.

"CHARLIE!" Casey and Jess shouted.

It's funny, I've never been one for flying but for a second there I felt weightless just before my body hit the ground below…