A/N: I know this is a rewrite of The Edge of a Dream & a Nightmare, but I think that it needed a massive rewrite because I thought that it needed to be written better. This takes place before Season 4.

The face-claim to Marianne is Kaya Scodelario.

The face-claim to Asher is Tanner Stine.

The face-claim to Jake is Ashton Moio.

"Knocked off my feet, the earth moved beneath,
The edge of a dream and a nightmare."

Red - Out From Under

Chapter 1: Introducing Marianne Strife

Cisco thought he was going to have a good day when he walked in The Scoop, a new ice cream shop that had opened up, but he turned out to be wrong. He went to the counter where the teenage girl was standing. She had black hair in two little braids and when he approached the counter, the teen girl smiled widely at him. She was wearing a pink polo shirt with her name-tag on it. She wore a studded wristband on her right wrist.

"Good afternoon, Cisco," the teen greeted. "How may I help you?"

Cisco looked at the menu and gave her what he wanted.

"This will be on the house," the girl said.

Cisco looked at her name tag, to see that her name was Marianne Strife. Confused, he asked, "What?"

"It's going to be on the house," Marianne said as she went to get Cisco's ice cream. "After all, it's not everyday a hero walks in."

Cisco chuckled nervously, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Marianne laughed, "I'm just messing with you." She looked serious, "Don't worry too much. You're going to get your friends back."

Cisco was now a little suspicious, "What do you mean by 'get my friends back'?"

Marianne looked at him, "You look like the type of person who lost someone. My dad had that look after his best friend went missing. She was found safe, though."

Cisco nodded not believing her, "Right. Is there an aura around me or something? A neon sign saying so?" His voice was a bit sharp than what was warranted but he was worried. What exactly did Marianne know? And how did she know this? This was way to specific for a 'lucky guess'.

Marianne played with her ring, which was silver and had crescent moons and stars stamped on it. It looked like the crescent moon and stars were in a pattern, starting from the crescent moon and three stars, one big, then small, and big again, followed by the crescent moon. There was a blue topaz put in between the small and big star.

She looked like she was debating something and she shook her head. "I've been told that I can sometimes read people very well."

Cisco eyed the teen suspiciously, not believing her for even a second. He nodded anyway, "Right."

Marianne smiled again and held out the cup of ice cream to Cisco. "Well, here's your ice cream."

Cisco grabbed it and felt his fingers brush against the ring that Marianne was wearing.

Suddenly he was pulled into a vision.

He was standing in a church, along with Marianne, who looked around. There was a line of Nazis holding rifles standing at what looked to be the entrance of the church.

"Nazis?" asked Marianne, looking at the swarm and up to the woman that was floating in midair above the Nazis.

"I know, right?" replied Cisco, gaping at the sight before him. He turned to look at Marianne, noticing that she was wearing a pink, pleated skirt. The vision shifted and there was a samurai walking through what looked like a four part alley.

"Is…is that a samurai?" Marianne asked. She squinted at the samurai. "Samurai Jack?"

"I think you're too young to remember that," Cisco said.

"Never underestimate the power of the internet," Marianne said. "And never underestimate your nostalgic dad. Or revivals of the show. Or Blu-ray."

The vision ended, causing the two to stumble backwards.

Cisco looked at Marianne bewildered, but for some reason Marianne didn't seem to be surprised over what she had had happened. Instead she was the one who seemed a little curious.

"What did you see?" Marianne asked, sounding giddy over it.

Cisco was a little bit confused over how Marianne seemed to take it. He looked at Marianne and shrugged. "What did you see?"

Marianne shrugged and the bell over the door went off. Marianne looked over and smiled once more. She looked at Cisco, "Have a nice day."

Cisco nodded, a little wary now. "You too." Who was this girl? What was this girl? He left The Scoop, thinking over the interaction and feeling unsettled. He just realized that he didn't even tell that girl his name, which was even more weird. But the good thing was that he had her name. All he had to do was look into her a little.

That was how he found himself looking into Marianne's Facebook. He didn't really learn much about her, other than that Marianne's eighteenth birthday was on November, that she was adopted by a single-parent, who turned out to be her dad, and she was in a 'complicated relationship' with a boy named Asher Thorne which started three months ago, even though they've been dating for six months.

Cisco wasn't sure how 'complicated' a teenage romance could even get.

He also saw that she made predictions on who would win in sports, all of which turned out to be true, which was a little unnerving, but it could've been lucky guesses, although in his opinion it was a little to lucky. He also saw that Marianne seemed to be a lover of space themed stuff, posting pictures of night skies, galaxy prints, and all that stuff.

He also saw that despite the complicated relationship between Asher and Marianne, it didn't seem all that complicated, especially over their interactions in the comments. He figured that maybe off of Facebook, it was. There was also a boy named Jake Alexander that seemed like good friends with Marianne and Asher, being included in pictures of Asher and Marianne. It was interesting to note that Marianne always wore punk looking clothes while the two boys wore all black or dark colored clothes.

Cisco noticed that Marianne was always in between Asher, the dark haired boy with shoulder-length hair, and Jake, the black haired boy with shaggy-looking hair. Apparently Jake had dyed his hair red again three months prior. In some pictures Marianne would be pressed up against Asher, front-to-front and in others Marianne would be pressed up against Jake front-to-front, as well.

Cisco was positive that he wouldn't let his girlfriend, if he had one, be pressed up against Barry like that, even if he and Barry were good friends.

He scrolled through the pictures, sometimes there weren't pictures of Marianne pressing up against either boy, but the three of them were always standing close together. In the recent pictures, he noticed how Jake had started wearing a black-and-blue studded wristband.

Cisco had scrolled through some older pictures of Asher and Marianne who had shared pictures together, without Jake, that Asher wore a black-and-red studded wristband while Marianne wore a studded wristband that was purple-and-black. There were some pictures of Jake and Asher together, where Jake didn't wear a wristband. Cisco wondered why Jake decided to suddenly get one.

He saw that there were multiple pictures of a young Marianne doing things with her dad, like fishing, or being at Disneyland, or even hanging out at a mall together. There were some of her as a baby. There were also pictures with random quotes on it, like one that said, "It's okay if you don't like me. Not everyone has good taste" and the other, "It's all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth, then it just becomes a soap opera." There was one that even said, "Monogamy is overrated."

He stopped on a picture of Asher kissing a surprised looking Jake on the cheek and decided that it was time to leave the photo album. He went back to scrolling through her updates. He stopped on a message that said:"'I'd burn the world for you and I.' - Let Go by Hollywood Undead."

He kept scrolling and stopped on a picture of a hole in a wall with the message: "So which one of you boys is man enough to tell my dad you put another hole in our wall?"

Cisco almost snorted at that. He scrolled and stopped on a picture of a galaxy themed curtain that looked burnt. There was a message: "If you ever feel stupid, be glad that you weren't the one that accidentally caught your curtains on fire."

Cisco admittedly chuckled at that.

"Why are you stalking some teenage girl's Facebook?" Wally asked.

Cisco jumped and sort of flailed around, before looking up at Wally. He stuttered, "I-I'm not stalking her. What gave you that idea?"

"I watched you scroll through her Facebook for five minutes," Wally said, smiling like he found it funny.

"Five minutes? Couldn't you have done something better with those minutes than watch me?" asked Cisco.

"I was just wondering why you were stalking her Facebook, though," Wally said.

"I meet her at that new ice cream place and she knew my name somehow," Cisco said.

Wally shrugged, "Not enough reason to stalk her Facebook."

Cisco continued, "She knew that Barry and Caitlin are gone. She said 'don't worry, you're going to get your friends back.' How would she know that our friends are gone?"

Wally crossed his arms, "Okay. That is a little weird."

Cisco looked at Wally and continued, "I accidentally touched her ring and I had two Vibes. And after that was done, she didn't even think it was terrifying or freaky that she was pulled into it. She asked me what I saw, sounding happy about it. And she knows that I'm the Vibe. If she knows that, what else does she know about us?"

Wally stopped smiling and was now frowning. "Okay, that is a little weird."

"Yeah," Cisco said. "So, I'm just looking to see if she might be a future enemy."

"You want me to go check her out?" Wally asked.

Cisco looked at him, "I think you should rephrase that. She's seventeen." He looked at Marianne's relationship status again. "And she has a boyfriend, too."

"Says the one that's stalking her Facebook," countered Wally.

"For a good reason," Cisco said.

Iris walked in at the moment and looked at them. "Who's stalking a Facebook?"

"Cisco," said Wally quickly.

Iris looked at Cisco, "Why?"

"I'm just trying to make sure that we won't have a future enemy on our hands," Cisco said.

"He got unnerved by a seventeen-year-old girl," Wally said to Iris.

Iris momentarily cracked a grin, before frowning again, "Really?" Cisco recounted what he had told Wally, making Iris falter momentarily. Iris blinked, "Well, stop stalking her Facebook. It's weird."

Cisco logged out and pocketed his phone, deciding that he'll finish looking through it later.

A/N: I promise the next chapter will be longer.