Part 16
Caitlin woke to warm arms wrapped abound her. The major down side of her powers was that she almost always was cold. But when Barry held her that cold went away. She gently shook her husband awake being care not to shove him off the narrow bed they were sharing.
"Five more minutes." Mummbled Barry into her hair.
"Barry wake up. I need to get up."
"I don't want you to leave this bed."
"We need to get up. We need to find out what Ollie and Laurel found out."
"We will get your mom back. I promise."
"I know. Sooner we can take Hunter down the sooner our children can come home to us."
"I know honey."
"Barry, as much as I hate to admit it. The only way Hunter will stop coming after me is if he is dead."
"Cait, we aren't killers."
"Both Oliver and Laurel have killed. Kara has too. She killed her Uncle."
"Kara had no choice. He would have killed her if she didn't. Oliver and Laurel are different. Star City is a dangerous place. The people they killed made it a little safer with them dead."
"Barry, Hunter is dangerous. He has already killed. He will not stop until he kills all of us. That drug he is going to force my mom to make. It is dangerous. It will give him super speed. But it will also kill him slowly. More he takes and more he uses the speed from it, the faster he will die. I was working on it to try and help you. But when I did my testing simulations and found out how dangerous it is I knew I couldn't give it to you. My mom was going to see if she could help fix it."
"Cait, I know you will never do anything to hurt me intentionally."
"I love you Barry. You put me back together when I felt broken."
"You should know by now that I will never abandon you. We have been best friends for too long for me to do that."
Caitlin kissed him. She had always felt safe with Barry.
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Jacquie had wheeled herself into the cortex and pulled out her sketch pad. She had done some really quick sketches the night before. There was one of each of the heroes in their suits. She opened to the one of "Frost" who she now knew was Caitlin. She pulled out her charcoal pencil and started to work on it some more. Out of all the heroes Frost was her favorite. She now knew why. Frost was the same woman that helped her regain what she loved the most. Her art work. She looked up when she heard Oliver and Laurel walk in. Barry and Caitlin had gotten up five minutes ago and went to get cleaned up. Oliver glanced at her sketch and nodded.
"That is really good. Caitlin doesn't let many pictures of herself in her Frost form get out." Said Oliver
"I know. I understand why now. I think David knew who Flash and Frost were. But he never said anything. I know he couldn't it wasn't his secret to tell." Said Jacquie
"You are speaking as if you know he is dead." Said Laurel
"He is isn't he?"
"Yeah he is. I'm sorry." Said Oliver
"It's not your fault. I was hoping that David would come out of this alive. But I knew more then likely he wouldn't."
"If you need me to I will make sure you have any help you need." Said Oliver
"You don't have to do that."
"I want to." Said Oliver
"I would take him up on that offer. Ollie doesn't make offers like that very often." Said Caitlin walking back in.
"Shut up Caity."
"Oh please you know I can freeze your ass off."
Jacquie raised an eyebrow at Laurel.
"Yeah I know they act like brother and sister at times. Even more so then Ollie does with his real sister. But Caitlin is right about the fact he doesn't make offers like that everyday." Said Laurel
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Joe and Eddie ducked under the crime scene tape and walked up to Julian Albert who was handling the crime scene.
"What do we got Julian?" asked Joe
"David Turner. He was dumped here. There is no visible cause of death. He does have broken ribs. My guess is they punctured a lung. Or he had internal bleeding. We won't know until the autopsy is done. But my guess he hasn't been dead more than twelve hours."
"Anything else we should know?" asked Eddie
"There was a note left with the body."
Julian handed over the note to the two detectives.
You won't stop me. I am going to make those that crossed me pay with their lives.
Joe exchanged a look with Eddie and then walked off to make a phone call.
"Shouldn't Allen and Caitlin and their family be put in protective custody?" asked Julian
"The kids have been sent to stay with a friend out of town. As for Barry and Caitlin. I believe The Flash and Frost and some of their friends are protecting them." Said Eddie
"Well that is a good thing."
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Iris West was walking to her car when she felt a gun pressed into her back. Then she felt a cold hand on her arm. She stayed calm until she heard his voice.
"You are going to pay for spreading lies about me bitch."
"They aren't lies. You beat and raped my friend just because she turned you down for a date."
"No one turns me down. I decide if I want a date with a girl. Caitlin, should have felt honored that I was the first one to fuck her."
Iris realized then that Hunter Zolomon was the worst kind of dangerous. He was also crazy.
"Are you going to kill me?"
"Not just yet. You are just the motivation that is needed to make sure Dr. Tannhouser does what I want her to. Though Caitlin's brats would be better."
"You will never lay a finger on those kids."
"Well you most likely will never have a brat of your own. You and Tannhouser are going to die when I no longer need you alive."
The next thing Iris knew was she was knocked out when Hunter pistol whipped her.
