Part 18
Caitlin smiled as Barry woke up. He had passed out while running.
"Hey what happened?" asked Barry
"You passed out. Seems that you need to up your calories by a lot. Super speed causes you to burn more calories then you use to. By the calculations you need to take in like 10,000 calories a day."
"For real? Cait if I ate that much I will gain like 500 pounds!"
"No you won't. Your body has been changed on the molecular level. This speed you now have is always at work even when you aren't running. It makes you think faster and you could win any speed reading contest out there."
"Wow."
"Yeah Cisco went to get some pizza."
"So you do these calculations our own?"
"No it was Alex, Cisco and my mom mostly. I was spending my time taking care of you."
"Cait, you have spent seven months taking care of me."
"That is because I love you. Barry, until you came into my life I never let anyone know the real me besides my family. You changed me for the better. I never want to lose you."
"You won't I promise."
"Good."
Caitlin leaned over and gave him a kiss.
"Sorry for interrupting. But Cisco is back with the pizzas. I think he has about fifteen of them." Said Alex
"That is a lot." Said Barry
"Well fleet feet you need to eat a lot." Said Alex
"So I have been told."
"By the way welcome back to the land of the living. We were all worried about you."
"Well we should do a movie night some time soon. Tell Kara to bring the pot stickers."
"Yeah like she will really share her favorite food."
"Well I don't think that she could stop me from taking some from her now."
"Barry, you are not telling anyone about this. I mean besides your family. Joe and Iris should known. My family knows about my powers." Said Caitlin
Barry nodded. But he could also see that Alex was hiding something. But he knew not to push her.
"Alex, is everything ok?" asked Barry
"Of course. Though I really think that you can trust Kara with this." Said Alex
"It is nothing personal Alex. We just don't know her very well." Said Caitlin
"Right I understand. But I don't like keeping secrets from her." Said Alex
"Once we know Kara better we can talk about letting her in to our secrets." Said Barry
Alex nodded. She trusted both Barry and Caitlin, so maybe it would be ok to get Kara to tell them her secret. But that was going to be Kara's choice. Just like it was Barry and Caitlin's choice to tell Kara their secret about their powers. It was now fairly well known that Caitlin was the mysterious third child of the Queen family. Not that Alex blamed Caitlin for not sharing she was part of the Queen family.
Oliver smiled when Laurel came out of the changing area in back of their base. She had changed into a little black dress and heels. He was wearing a suit.
"Well Mr. Queen, you clean up rather nice." Said Laurel
"Yeah well I don't look anywhere near as good as you do on your worse day."
"You keep talking like that."
"Ready to head out?"
"Of course. So where are we going?"
"Well I happen to know that you love Antonio's. So I thought that we could go there."
"Sounds perfect."
Oliver kissed Laurel and they headed out. They arrived at the restaurant twenty minutes later. As they were shown to their table they could see that the other diners were staring at them.
"You know I forgot about all the attention that comes with dating you." Said Laurel
"It's not me they are looking at Laurel. They are looking at you. They are looking at you because you are the most beautiful woman in the room."
"You are still a charmer after all these years."
"Laurel, we have been together since I came home. I know that I had a fear of commitment when I got on that boat. But I am not any more. We can take things as slow or as fast as you want. But just know that I love you more than anyone I have ever met. Well except for maybe our daughter."
"Ollie, I have loved you and I want nothing more then to have a life with you. But I don't want us to be together just because of Amanda."
"Laurel, trust me I would want you even if you didn't have my daughter. I have no way to prove it. But the whole time I was gone all I wanted to do was get back here to you. We have known each other for a long time. But until I started dating you I was a different guy. I got in trouble dated more then one girl at the same time. But then you agreed to go out with me. That changed me. That and Caitlin told me that if I were to break your heart she would do unspeakable things to me."
"Was this before or after you came back from the dead?"
"After. Also after the particle accelerator explosion. She has powers as you know."
"So she will go Elsa on you."
"Elsa?"
"Guess I know what movie you will be watching with your daughter this weekend."
"What movie is it?"
"Frozen. It's a Disney movie. It's Mandy's favorite movie."
"Never heard of it."
"It only came out last year. Before you came home."
"Am I going to regret watching this movie?"
"Probably. There are two songs that Mandy love in it and both get annoying fast. The first being "Do you want to build a snowman?" Trust me never ask Caitlin that. She might stab you with an icicle."
"What is the other one?"
"It's called "Let it go." Caitlin really hates that one."
"Yeah I can see that even without hearing it. Caitlin when pissed off has a hard time letting anything go. You know that Tommy wanted to have sex with her after she turned eighteen. Even though she knows he will never force himself on her, she doesn't like being alone with him. Though now she will definitely have no problem stopping anyone from forcing themselves on her."
"Very true. She can be scary when her eyes glow that frosty blue."
"Yeah I know."
Oliver and Laurel spent the rest of the evening enjoying their time together first with dinner then dancing at the same restaurant. Oliver took Laurel home kissing her at the door. He planned to start looking for the perfect ring soon. He wanted nothing more than to make Laurel his wife and for them and Amanda to be a real family.
