Part 20

Caitlin watched as Barry and Joe brought her father into the med lab. She kept her face neutral. She was not going to let this man back into her life until she was sure that he was back to the man she remembered. Not that she was happy with him. He had used her as a test subject.

"Caity, it's good to see you." Said Thomas

"Don't talk to me. I am still angry about what you did to me."

"Honey, I didn't want to you to suffer through that illness like I was."

"You have no idea what I went through! Because of what you did to me. I ended up hurting my friends. The people that I consider my family. I may share your DNA but the moment you chose to use me for your experiment I stopped being your daughter."

"Cait, sweetheart you need to stay calm." Said Barry wrapping his arms around her.

Caitlin relaxed into her husband's arms. She knew that he was right. It still surprised her after all this time how much he loves her.

"Let's give this a try. Alex, you are ready with the tranquilizer gun if it doesn't work?" asked Carla

"Yes."

"Mr. Ramon, after I inject him remove the meta cuffs." Said Carla

"Right." Mumbled Cisco

"If you try to hurt anyone here, especially this lovely young lady, I will shoot you." Said Joe

Thomas Snow nodded his head. He could see that each of these people he had met recently who had come into his daughter's life in the years he was gone loved her and would do anything to protect her. Carla injected the serum into her husband and Cisco removed the cuffs. Thomas changed to Icicle but soon melted back into Thomas. They waited an hour and tested to see if it really worked. Caitlin had the blood sample under a microscope looking for any signs of cryogenic powers.

"Caitlin do you see anything?" asked Carla

"I don't think so. Take a look mom."

Carla took her daughter's place looking through the microscope then turned to Caitlin and nodded.

"It looks like it worked."

"Yeah."

"Caitlin, I should have stopped him from doing this to you."

"Mom, I forgave you for that a while ago."

"I know. But you will have to make a decision about Thomas. Are you going to let him back into your life? Into your children's lives?"

"I don't know. I have to think about it."

"I understand and so does he. May I ask what you are working on?"

"Uh sure. Speedsters like Barry have accelerated healing abilities. So do I actually, though it is much faster when Frost takes over. But even when she doesn't a cut that requires stitches that takes most people up to two weeks to heal, for me even without Frost taking over only takes about two or three days. Most of the time I just let Frost have control until most injuries are healed. But I came up with this idea that I can use stem cells from both Barry and myself and develop a treatment that could heal paralysis."

"You would need someone wiljling to be experimented on."

"I have someone who is willing to be my test subject."

"That hanker who works with Batman?"

"Barbara was the closest thing I had to a friend in college. She is only two years older than me so she understood being younger than most of the college students. Mr. Wayne is going to give me funding to see if I can get results by artificially recreating the properties of the cells."

"If you are willing to accept my help I may have a few ideas on how to do it. Of course your name alone would go on the research, unless you choose to name me as your research assistant."

"Mom, you are willing to do that?"

"Honey, this whole thing is your idea. Personally if you take my help I would leave my name completely. Caitlin, this is something I never would have come up with. Besides I doubt I could ever get a meta with the regenerative capabilities to let me study their cells. I will not ask you too."

"Thanks mom."

Barry stood outside the bio lab watching Caitlin with her mom smiling.

"You love my daughter don't you?" asked Thomas

"I never would have married her if I didn't." said Barry

"I wish I could have been there to see it."

"I'm sure she would have wanted you there. But only if you were the man she remembered from when she was a little girl. Not the one that she knows you really were."

"Mr. Allen, I wish I had done things differently. But I was not going to let Caity suffer from that disease like I did."

"Dr. Snow, when I first met Caitlin she was cold emotionally. She was grieving a man she had planned to marry. But under that cold I could still see this warm hearted woman. The first time I saw her smile nearly made me melt. But it took her turning into Killer Frost for me to realize how I truly felt about her. She had moments before it finally happened. She stabbed me in the leg with an ice dagger. She even gave me the 'kiss of death' trying to pull all my body heat from me. Cisco was able to knock her out before she killed. We locked her in one of those cells downstairs. Everyone else had basically given up on bringing her back. But a friend of ours needed her. So I went down there and talked to her. I challenged her to kill me and truly become Killer Frost. I told her that if she really wanted to be a villain she had to kill me. That villains always kill their friends."

"She couldn't do it obviously."

"No she couldn't because under all that cold was still the kind warm loving woman that once told me not to expect her to patch me up every time I hurt myself doing something reckless. But still ended up doing it anyway. Even when Frost finally took complete control a few months later after she nearly died she couldn't kill anyone. In fact when the enemy she joined was going to kill Cisco she saved his life."

"How did she get to where she is now? Able to get along with Frost?"

"She had help from some very special friends. One of them is telepathic. He was able to help Cait break down the wall between her and Frost. Once they could "talk" they made peace."

"I hope she and I can make peace one day."

"Cait can be stubborn when she wants to. But I will not help you. It is between you and her."

"I know."