Belén was too focused on her computer screen to notice the Jitters' barista drop off her second round of coffee. She was deep in reading on her doppelganger's profile. Harry had come through with his reports and for the last couple of days, it was all Belén did. She was making herself an expert on Datura — all over again.

She'd made it a complete mission to learn everything about her doppelganger's history. When she fought Datura with Zoom, all she did was focus on Datura's powers. This time, Belén was honing in on Datura's background; how she became Datura in the first place. So far, it was a pretty straightforwards story.

Datura started making her appearances as her metahuman identity only a week after Harry's Particle Accelerator went off. It took her only a couple of more weeks to figure out she could siphon powers because that's when she started displaying them in the open. Certain metahumans whose powers matched the ones she displayed were petty thieves who were barely getting the hang of their powers. They were easy kills.

Belén wondered if Poison Ivy had made any influence on Datura enough to begin making kills just for the heck of it. Datura had been a one-woman villain for a while before Poison Ivy came into the city. Being a much more experienced villain, Poison Ivy led Datura to grander schemes until Datura herself could make plans and execute them. This was all before Zoom started taking over and dragged the two women with him.

All in all, Belén couldn't pinpoint at what point did Datura began...to hear the voices. She couldn't figure out when her doppelganger started to "lose it" in a sense. It meant she couldn't calculate how much time she had before she succumbed to the voices.

"What are you so interested in?" Julian's voice startled her out of her reading. He stood beside her table holding a stack of files in his arms.

"Hi," she closed midway her laptop and greeted him with a kind smile.

"Good morning," he took a seat across her and put the files between them on the table. "Let's see, you asking me to bring you old cases of metahumans instead of your dear old boyfriend indicates there's some secrecy going on that Allen's not in on. I'm a little proud."

Belén rolled her eyes and completely shut her laptop's lid. "I did not call you in so that you could take jabs at my boyfriend. In a perfect world, you two would get along."

"In a perfect world, he wouldn't be here," Julian had no trouble retorting.

"Julian."

"Fine," the blonde huffed and focused on the main issue. "So why did you ask me to bring you this? It's against my rules, you know."

"I'm sorry, I'm not...I just want to look over some stuff for a report I'm doing. Don't worry, I won't take long with them," Belén assured him and took the folders into her bag.

"Are you alright?" Julian began to notice her weary ticks and the two cups of coffee already empty on the table.

"Yeah, I'm just tired." The excuse was so recited that Belén now said it without thinking. It was an instinct. She was sure it was getting on Barry's last nerve but he was too sweet to say anything. She wondered how long that would last.

"Well, what exactly are you looking for? Maybe I can help take some of the load off."

"Um…" Belén debated on the offer. She had yet to tell anyone except Caitlin what she was doing, but she trusted Julian in the end. They'd been friends forever and he did know a lot about metahumans. "Well, you remember Datura?"

"Evil psycho part of Zoom's group?"

"Yeah, that's the one," Belén swallowed hard. "Um, I'm just taking a lead on her since her powers were a unique set. She could siphon but I heard from an eye-witness that she seemed to assume different personalities every time she used a power." Julian nodded as he listened in, his eyes already doing the usual flicker to the side every time he began to think. "This whole personality disorder thing interests me. I want to know if there's a way to stop it." Belén reached for her coffee and took a small sip from it. She felt terrible for lying, but lately that's all she felt. She felt terrible leaving Iris on the job, she felt terrible for constantly lying to Barry, and most of all she felt terrible because she was letting the same thing happen to her again. She was losing control.

"To stop a personality disorder?" Julian raised his eyebrows at that. "That's a long, complicated medical process, Belén. Why the interest?"

"Because Poison Ivy said that Datura was a good person once—"

Julian scoffed, almost laughed at her too. "And you believed her? That woman was a criminal and her partner was one too. Wherever the Flash and the Azalea put Datura, I hope they keep her there."

"But I'm just saying—"

"No, you're done looking for all this nonsense," Julian patted a hand over her closed laptop. "Besides, who even said — who can clinically confirm — that Datura suffers from that?"

Belén bit on her bottom lip. That was a good question. So far, she had just assumed but this was metahuman business, after all. Assuming was the worst thing she could do, especially when it came to siphoners.

"Go get some sleep, it looks like you haven't done that in days," Julian said after a moment.

"Yeah, Barry says the same thing," Belén mumbled. He'd been on her case for her strange behavior, lack of sleep, and overall distance.

"Well, for once, Allen is right," Julian started getting out of his chair. "Those folders? You don't need them, Belén."

"I do," she softly countered. "Let me keep them for a couple of days. Please?"

Julian knew once she laid her big eyes on him he stood no chance. It was always the same story when they were younger. "Fine," he pointed a warning finger at her. "But you better take some rest."

"Promise," Belén raised a hand.

"See you around," Julian gave her a side hug and went on his way.

~ 0 ~

Barry and Joe had taken the video of Clariss' murder over to STAR Labs to get the others' opinion on the strange matter. The video was on a loop and no matter how many times they rewatched it, nothing made sense.

"Are you sure this is even real?" Iris asked after about the tenth time. For all they knew, it could've been edited.

"Forensic analysis indicates that the footage is genuine, no evidence of tampering," Barry confirmed. He understood her perspective. At first glance it seemed like a joke, but seeing the corpse made it all too real.

"And we're pretty sure this is Doctor Alchemy that did this?" asked Caitlin.

"The last thing Clariss said before he died," Joe nodded.

"Unless someone else killed him. Like a meta with telekinesis or cloaking abilities," Harry suggested. "We've got both on our Earth."

"So what do we do now?" Cisco asked on their next move.

"Our meta-human specialist at CCPD, Julian Albert, he prefers to work alone, but I got feelers out on his investigation. I'm gonna go there now and see if he dug up anything," Joe said and began to leave.

"I have to get back to work too, give me a ride?" Iris went after him and grabbed her purse along the way. "Oh, Barry," she stopped momentarily, "Do you know why Belén didn't show up to work today?"

"No," Barry frowned, just now hearing about it. When he woke up, Belén was nowhere to be seen in the apartment. He figured it was just another tactic of hers to avoid his questionings. He'd been asking her over and over what was bothering her - what was going in her life. He supposed he'd finally annoyed her to the point of driving her away. "She didn't show up?"

"No," Iris shook her head. "I covered for her and said she was sick."

Caitlin discreetly shifted herself away from them and pretended to work on her computer. She knew Belén was reading over Harry's reports and felt awful for not helping Belén despite wishing not to use her own powers. She, personally, did not want to know anything about Killer Frost from Earth 2.

"I'll see what's going on," Barry assured Iris and let the woman catch up with her father.

"Hey, is it okay if we train again?" Jesse walked over to him with a hopeful expression. She didn't want to waste any time that could help her.

Barry figured since he wouldn't be seeing Belén for the rest of the day, he could at least help someone in the group. "Yeah, sure. Let's go."

She beamed and sped out of the cortex to the speed lab first. Barry chuckled and followed.

Caitlin, Cisco, Wally and Harry all remained in the cortex and monitored from there. While everyone seemed awed with Jesse's superb progress, Harry was still reluctant to be as carefree as them.

"Damn, Jesse's almost as fast as Barry!" Wally exclaimed.

"Velocity's just under Mach 3. Heart rate, 100 BPMs. Her vitals are normal," Caitlin was happy to report.

"Yeah, no, we already know all that. Cisco, we need to test her reflexes. Can we test her reflexes?" Harry didn't exactly give Cisco the opportunity to answer any of his questions since he kept adding something new every second or so.

"Patience, Harry, patience. If anyone's gonna teach Jesse the ways of the Speed Force…" Cisco let him finish the thought.

"It's Barry '

"Thank you."

They continued to watch the two speedsters train until, somehow, Jesse tripped over her own feet after attempting to speed going up the ceiling. It wasn't her most proud moments but she was still greeted with congratulations for her continued progress.

"Maybe we should stay a little bit longer," Harry said once Jesse and Barry returned. If Jesse was going to pursue this vigilante business, then he wanted her to be as prepared as possible.

"Yeah, I guess so," Jesse agreed with a deflated sigh.

"It's gonna take some time to master your powers, Jesse. You'll get the hang of it," Caitlin assured her.

"Yeah, I know, thanks. Well…" Jesse turned her attention to Wally, "...since I will be here for a while, do you want to get out of here?"

"Where to?" Wally curiously asked but Jesse laughed.

"Does it matter?"

Wally agreed that it did not. They took each other's hands and got out of there as Jesse had said.

"N-no touching!" Harry's call was made in vain, much to the amusement of the others. "Not what I meant by staying longer!"

"Hey, Harry," Caitlin called the man's attention. "Are you really sure you have to leave?"

Seeing Jesse was not coming back anytime soon, Harry sat back down. "Just a lot I still have to fix on my Earth."

"Yeah, but you know it's more fun when you're here helping us fix stuff on our Earth," Cisco admitted.

"He is right," Barry leaned over the desk. "It hasn't been the same without you. The team doesn't feel complete without Harrison Wells."

Harry smiled. "Then change that. There's a whole multiverse of Harrison Wells out there at your fingertips. You want one? Let's go get one."

The others thought the idea was out of the blue but since Harry seemed to like the idea...they wondered if it could possibly be good.

~0~

Before being able to return home, Barry received a call from Veronica urging him to get to the precinct first. He came rushing in to find Joe and Veronica watching at a distance a dark-skinned man in a wheelchair and heavy injuries be interviewed by a fellow co-worker.

"What's going on?" Barry came to a stop beside the two detectives.

"We've got a new meta in town with a revenge plan against Snart," Joe took Barry back into the reception with Veronica. "Name's Scudder. He used to pull heists with Snart before the Particle Accelerator went off."

"Okay, so he's not part of Alchemy's…" Barry glanced back into the offices to see the interviewee.

"No, this one's all evil Dr. Wells' fault," Veronica bitterly said.

"Scudder's going after everyone in Snart's old crew to track him down," Joe explained the situation but there Barry gave a little wry smile.

"Yeah, Scudder's not gonna find him. Snart's gone." He was met with two blank stares in return. "Did I never tell you?"

"Tell us…?" Joe made a gesture of rolling his finger.

"Oliver told me that Snart left with some friends of ours on a... trip," Barry felt at this point it was best to leave any time travelling out of their lives.

"I don't even want to know," Joe shook his head then glanced at Veronica.

The woman raised her hands. "I wish I knew less."

"Bet you wish you hadn't poked your nose into this mess," Joe nudged her, almost laughing too.

Veronica wasn't amused and it showed on her flay face. "One of Snart's old crew is at Iron Heights. We'll go see if we can talk to her tomorrow morning, but we just wanted you and the others to be aware."

"Yeah, thanks," Barry nodded and was finally given the 'ok' to go home.

He entered the apartment and immediately spotted Belén's sleeping figure on the couch. Her laptop was sitting on the coffee table, closed, and with the charger cable threatening to pull it over the table. Barry walked over and carefully unplugged the charger from the computer and placed the cable beside the couch. He gazed at Belén, wondering what it was that kept her so busy and distant from everyone lately. He didn't want to wake her up for a new argument. There were only so many they could have without actual consequences. Still, Barry decided not to push it.

Carefully, he retrieved Belén's body from the couch and brought her into their bedroom. He laid her down on the bed and pulled a blanket over her. She must have been exceptionally tired because she didn't even move throughout all that.

Well, she has spent days without sleep, Barry reminded himself. And for that matter, he grabbed his pillow and a second blanket to take into the guest room. He didn't want to risk her waking up and finding him beside her, pushing her away even more.

So, he left.

~0~

"I am...Flicker Do you remember me?" A woman wearing an orange mask, dressed in a matching orange one suit with dark brown hair threw Belén across a foggy place. "After all, you did kill me and took my powers."

Belén sat upright, breathing hard from the blow she took. "That wasn't me. It was Datura!"

"And yet here you are, enjoying my powers," Flicker stalked towards Belén but before she could reach Belén, the foggy place darkened.

An Illuminating moon flashed up in a sky that had not been there two seconds ago. A feminine figure in a silver suit rose in the air. "You think you could ever dominate my powers? You're too weak!"

"Eclipsa…" Belén recognized the woman and gulped. "It wasn't me!" she tried to say but Eclipsa ignored her in favor of attacking.

Lunar beams shot from Eclipsa's hands and just narrowly missed Belén on the ground. She rolled to a stop on her back and looked up in time to see a third metahuman, Terra, rising on a rock structure.

This meta had nothing to say as it had already been done. She fired multiple rocks of all sizes towards Belén. She screamed as she dodged some of the rocks but ultimately there was one large rock she just could not escape. It came crashing down on her...

Belén gasped wide awake. Her quick-paced breathing was the only sound in her room after her livid nightmare. She couldn't decide if it was just a simple terrible nightmare or if it were the victims now stored in her head that were actually finding another way to torment her.

Flicker, Eclipsa and Terra were the three victims Datura had killed on Earth 2 and unfortunately for Belén, they were the three metahumans whose powers she'd accidentally gained from Datura.

Belén's hand instinctively went to the other side of the bed. Though she was upset Barry was nowhere to be seen, it turned into confusion because...she hadn't fallen asleep in her bed. She got up and walked out the room to find everything dark. Last time she remembered, she'd fallen asleep in the living room with everything turned on.

Barry was home.

Belén moved towards the guest room and found the speedster asleep in there. He didn't feel like he could sleep with me, she felt terrible again. Maybe Caitlin was right and she should just leave this alone. It was costing way too much for Belén.

But then what if you lose control completely? That was the trick question. She couldn't afford to leave her powers unused and thus uncontrolled. She was already susceptible to losing control since her original powers had acted the same way.

She inwardly sighed. There was nothing conclusive yet, but all she knew was that it was pushing Barry away from her and that was unacceptable. She closed the guest room door and went back to her own, though she doubted sleep would happen again that night.

~0~

Caitlin yawned behind her coffee mug while she watched Harry and Cisco tinker on metal device aiming straight ahead. "How sure are you that this will work?"

"Pretty sure," Harry whirled hid screwdriver.

"Okay, but how's this going to help us find another Harrison Wells?"

"You ever go fishing, Snow?"

"No."

"No, all right. When you go fishing, you use lures. Lures attract fish. Fish end up on your fishing pole. This satellite is our fishing pole, through which we're going to cast our very tempting bait out into the world's largest ocean."

"Okay, how?" Caitlin felt her lack of sleep was affecting her ability to understand simple things. She blamed it on her nightmares. It was why she agreed to come see this in person. She would much rather be awake than suffer nightmares starring Killer Frost. At least attempting to find yet another doppelganger of Harry's was more amusing.

"Cisco will open a breach, and this satellite will shoot a message embedded with a tachyon-enhanced laser out into the multiverse, and any Earth that is technologically advanced enough should be able to receive it," Harry spoke in a quickly ramble as he went around the satellite.

Cisco shot him a look before studying the clear board full of algorithms. "Okay, let's say this somehow works. Just 'cause they can solve a riddle doesn't mean they're a right fit for the team."

Harry stopped working to express his offence. "A riddle. Did you say riddle? How dare you, sir! This is not a riddle! This is a complex algorithmic cryptogram designed to test deductive reasoning, IQ, problem-solving skills, anything that our team will need to combat threats, meta-human or otherwise!"

Caitlin smiled after taking a sip of her coffee. "Okay, so you're just sending out an intergalactic IQ test to all of your doppelgangers in the multiverse."

"Not just a test. Think of it as an invitation," Harry corrected. "Think of it as an elaborate "help wanted" ad."

"Will it test their attitudes, too?" Cisco mumbled. "'Cause I'm not sure I can stomach another Wells with your bedside manner."

Harry smiled nonetheless. "I care for you too, you jack wagon. System is calibrated." He motioned Caitlin to step back then glanced at Cisco. "What are you waiting for?"

Cisco figured they were already doing crazy things anyways so he just went along with the plan. He helped Harry ignite the satellite then opened up a breech straight ahead. The satellite whirred in a red glow and a couple seconds shot right into the breach.

Caitlin waited for some sort of second reaction but nothing happened. "Was that…?"

"That's it," Harry read her thoughts and answered her. "Now we go get a Big Belly burger." He happily came down the steps and led the two out.

~0~

"Hey," Iris came into the cortex where Belén was working at the computers. She'd gotten the call from Belén to head over to STAR Labs that morning since there was apparently a new case to work on. "What are we doing?"

"Uh…" Belén would've explained the little she knew but heard the others coming in and opted to let them do the work.

Barry had taken the crime case to them so they could start thinking of a way to end it. Caitlin pulled up the profile pictures for the group to see.

"Good-looking guy," she remarked without thinking and earned herself rather odd looks from Barry, Cisco, and Harry.

"Mhm," Belén and Iris agreed without the same thinking as Caitlin. All three men redirected their stares at them next.

"Just because he's a criminal doesn't mean he stops looking good," Iris raised her hands in defense.

Barry still felt no less jealousy after seeing Belén smiling to herself. "He's more than just a criminal now. Apparently, he's a meta who can travel through mirrors."

"Oh, oh, I got this one!" Cisco snapped his fingers with excitement. "He's, uh—"

Harry beat him to the punch without even trying. "Mirror Master."

Cisco dropped his fingers and whirled around. "What the f—"

Harry smirked. "Boom!"

"That's good," Caitlin admitted, even though she had Cisco glaring at her too.

"Thank you, we had a Mirror Master on our Earth, Evan McCulloch," Harry explained. "Wasn't a meta, though. He had some kind of mirror gun that he used."

"How'd it work?" Barry asked.

"Must've had dimensional warping tech that changed everything into two dimensions."

"Well, Scudder is hell-bent on finding Snart, and he's going after anybody that worked with him in the past. Joe's interviewing one of 'em right now."

"Well," Caitlin began searching through the database of the precinct, "All of Snart's known associates are either presumed dead or gone AWOL, except for one." She pulled up a blonde woman's mugshot. "Rosalind Dillon. Says she has the ability to induce crippling vertigo."

Cisco once again snapped his fingers. "Oh, um, uh... She's, uh—" he jumped to a quicker end when he saw Harry opening his mouth—, "Top, like a top! She's The Top! That's her name!"

"Top. Amazing," Harry sarcastically said.

"What, you want to go?" Cisco opened his arms.

"Okay," Belén tried her best not to laugh. "So this woman — is she going to lead us to Scudder?"

"It all depends if Joe and Veronica can get answers out of her," Barry shrugged. He struggled to look at her and not feel awkward.

"Is there anyway we can start writing about this?" Iris asked after clearing her throat.

"You might want to wait at least until there's public witnesses," Barry replied. "I'll go see how that's going." He gave them a quick goodbye and headed out. After him, the others began to disperse as well.

"I'm sorry," Belén apologized to Iris when it was just them in the cortex. "I thought we could write about this together but I forgot about the witnesses…"

"Don't worry about it," Iris waved it off and reached for her purse on the floor beside her chair. "I'm just glad you managed to think about me and our job a little. You know," she turned her chair in Belén's direction, "You've been pretty off lately, so...thanks."

Belén took the jab with with a shake of her head. "I'm working on that, trust me."

"Hm, you might want to start close to home," Iris gave her a hug and left her to think about it.

~0~

Even though there had been no necessary gains from talking to Rosalind Dillon by Joe and Veronica, it had been wortwhile since Scudder made an unexpected visit.

"You're telling me that this guy escaped through a glass window?" Belén was sure that sounded ridiculous even after dealing with every possible metacase for the past three years.

Veronica gave a weak nod of her head, still shaken up about the matter herself. Sam Scudder had escaped with Rosalind Dillin right in front of her eyes through a window and no possible capture. "He grabbed her hand and then...they went into the window."

"There was no possible way of getting them," Joe shook his head.

"So, mirrors, windows. It sounds like he can travel through anything that has a reflective surface," Harry theorized.

"How exactly does he do that?" Caitlin wondered with no possible explanation for herself.

"He must be able to link Einstein-Rosen bridges to anything with high solar reflectance, right?"

"In English, please," Belén cast a hopeful glance at Cisco.

"He creates wormholes through reflections."

"That's a new one," Barry rubbed his face.

"Look, I can't pretend to understand or care about the science of it all, but we need to find Dillon and Scudder before something really bad happens," Joe pointed at them in warning to get working on a solution. "So I'm gonna go old-school at the precinct."

"And I will definitely help," Veronica turned with him. "That little smug look Scudder gave is one I'm gonna enjoy wiping off," she muttered as the two walked out.

There was a chorus of chiming phones in the room after a second or two. "Oh, my God, pings," Caitlin picked up her phone first.

"We got pings. Looks like some of your doppelgangers out there actually cracked your code, Harry," Cisco blinked with surprise. "That was fast."

"Let's go take a look," Caitlin said with some actual excitement and got up from her chair.

"What are you...what have I missed?" Belén made hand gestures to express her confusion.

"We're getting ourselves another Harry," Cisco shrugged and went after Caitlin and Harry.

"That still makes no sense," Belén put her hands on the desk and got up from her chair. "On another note, do you think we can use this for Iris' and my article yet?"

"Uh...I mean, probably not a good idea, just yet," Barry awkwardly responded. "Using your parents as your source…"

"Not a good idea, I see that now," she nodded and smiled only slightly. She met his shifting gaze and awkwardly cleared her throat. "Thanks for cleaning up my mess last night. And for taking me to our room."

"Yeah, no, that was...you just looked tired," Barry slowly started making his way to the desk. "I know you haven't been sleeping well for the last couple of days, so…"

"Yeah, I've had some...things to think about," Belén nodded. She absolutely hated the awkwardness between them, especially knowing it was all on her. "I'm sorry for...this-" she pointed between them, "-and being...my weird old self from the past."

Barry moved around the desk and took Belén's hand. He encased it with his own and genuinely looked at her. "Are you okay?"

Belén met his look and really thought about things and to what extent their consequences could lead to. She resolved now that there was no way in hell she could ever understand the position she was now in. She wasn't smart enough to comprehend the implications of her powers and Caitlin was in way over her head trying to solutionize her powers and Belén's. There was only one person left who could help both of them.

And if that was the truth, then there was no point in hiding everything from Barry.

"No," she finally answered. "But I guess you already knew that."

"Yeah…"

"I just...I have been trying to figure things out on my own, but - surprise - I am not smart enough."

"Bells—"

"To put it in another way: it's not my area of expertise."

"Let me help you, then," Barry of course offered and took Belén's other hand. He held them both together. "We do make one fantastic team, you know."

"Yeah, we do," she agreed. "But I just can't right now."

"But Belén—"

"Just give me until the end of the week," Belén quickly requested. "Give me until then to...to gather courage, and...just to find one last bit of information I need."

Barry stared at her for a couple of seconds, trying to deduce anything that could help him figure out what was bothering her. "Are you sure?"

She nodded her head. "Yes. I promise. At the end of the week, you can ask me anything you want and I will answer."

"Alright," Barry agreed without much of a choice. "But I have one condition."

"What?"

"You have to start getting proper rest. Sleep, Bells, please."

Belén chuckled and leaned on him. "Only if you sleep in the same room as me."

"I think we can work something out," Barry pretended to think about it but ultimately smiled with her. "Can I take you home?"

"Please do," Belén was eager to get home and finally have one decent night with her boyfriend.

Despite Belén's work still being in the living room, Barry paid no attention to it. He was keeping to his word and giving her until the end of the week. "You have a specific craving tonight?" he asked just as Belén let herself fall on the couch.

"Um...some donuts wouldn't come by bad…"

"Donuts? That's not dinner," Barry moved towards her.

She let her head lean back against the couch as she laughed. "Are you going to police me for having dessert before dinner?"

"It's very unhealthy," Barry took a seat beside her.

She snorted and laughed again. "You're one to talk Mr. five-pizzas-all-for-me." She draped her arms over his shoulders and gave her best smile. "Donuts? Glazed donuts, please?"

"That smile will forever make me do absolutely anything," Barry pretended to sigh so deeply.

"Aw, it's not like you don't have a hold on me either…"

"What!? Like what!?"

"You're charisma, your charm - eugh, I hate your smug charm," Belén playfully rolled her eyes.

"What cha—"

"Don't even try it," she put a finger over his lips, "Donuts?"

"Yeah, alright," Barry gave a light shrug of his shoulders.

Belén beamed and kissed him before sending him on his way. In about five minutes he'd returned with not one but five boxes of donuts in his arms.

At her face, Barry cleared his throat and said, "I may have gotten some for me…"

"You don't say?" she pretended to be surprised.

"Shut up," Barry handed her a box full of glazed donuts just for her.

She giggled and picked up her first donut. "So good," she hummed.

Barry watched her for a minute or so and felt like this was just a regular night between them with no metahuman problems and definitely no secrets hanging over them. He really wished it could become a normal thing for them again, but maybe that was his punishment too. He changed the timeline and now everything was different, including Belén. It wasn't on her - it was his fault.

"What?" Belén noticed his long stare and suddenly felt self conscious about being on her third donut already.

Barry leaned over and kissed her. It was a short kiss but a rekindling one nonetheless. "Sweet," he couldn't help himself to say.

"Stop," Belén grabbed him by his shirt and brought him back for more kissing. They had about five minutes of sweet romance before both their phones started ringing with alerts.

"What…?" Barry pulled himself off Belén with a deep scowl on his face. "Really?"

Belén chuckled at his reaction. "Nice to know I still got it."

"Always will," Barry mumbled as he got up to retrieve his phone from the coffee table. "There's a robbery at First National. Suspects match Scudder and Dillon's description. Ready?"

"Um…" Belén apologetically smiled, "You know that whole secret thing...until I figure it out, I don't think I should be out there. I'm a liability to you and Jesse."

Even though this only made Barry worry even more about her situation, he let it go just for the time being. "I'll be back."

"Mhm," she nodded, accepting a short kiss from him before he left.

~ 0 ~

There was a deep regret inside Belén of not accompanying Barry and Jesse. Here they were, the entire group in the speed lab, with Jesse hauling in the street structure mirror that now held Barry on the other side.

"What happened?" Iris couldn't get the facts straight, and much less make sense of how things...ended up this way.

No one was taking it worse than Jesse. She was removing her gloves with teary eyes full of guilt and frustration. "I don't know. I don't know, okay? I looked at Dillon, and I lost my balance."

"You said she induced vertigo and that's...that is just a creepy, yet powerful power," Belén said, glancing at Caitlin just to make sure she'd gotten it right.

The brunette in question agreed. "She just surprised you, Jesse. It could've happened to anyone."

"It doesn't really matter, does it?" Jesse didn't mean to snap. Her frustration was simply getting the best of her. "Because now Barry's trapped in there and it's because of me," she gestured to the speedster inside the mirror. Shaking her head, she left the room.

"I...I'll go talk to her," Wally offered and went right after her.

Barry pursed on the mirror wall and called to them, but no one understood a word he was saying.

"He's finally actually speaking Chinese…" Belén whispered with rapid blinking eyes.

"No, I think...it's mirror language," Cisco slowly began to realize.

"Mirrors show objects in reverse. Maybe that's what we're hearing here," Harry snapped his fingers.

"Only one way to find out!" Cisco exclaimed and hurried up to a stock of drawers.

"What are you looking for, Cisco?" Joe asked.

"You ever seen "Twin Peaks"? Of course not," Cisco answered himself and shook his head, "Why do I ask? This is an old back-masking trick they used for the Man from Another Place, where they record his audio backwards and then play it forwards." He brought back a small circular device to the mirror and stuck it on like a magnet.

"Like the Ozzy Osbourne records," Joe simplified it for his own sake.

"Sure, let's go with that," Cisco gave the device a little push, igniting it. "Okay, Barry, say something." Barry said something alright but it still made no sense. "Oops," Cisco realized he forgot to turn on one last part of the device. "Say it again?"

"Um, get me out of here?" Barry repeated himself, presumably.

"Now we can understand you," Cisco clapped his hands together.

"How do we get him out of there?" Iris asked the others.

"Barry, have you tried to phase out yet?" Caitlin inquired, beginning with the most logical option.

"Yes. It's not working," Barry planted both his hands on the mirror.

Harry paced shortly while he thought out loud. "If Scudder used this mirror as a wormhole, then these molecules are in a hyper state of flux, so all…"

"We need is something really cold to slow them down," Caitlin finished once she caught on.

"I can help with that!" Cisco exclaimed and hurriedly went along with Harry to begin on the task.

~0~

"Grandma and I bought the baby three different rattles! One's got a white unicorn and it's all pink! The second one's purple but it doesn't have a unicorn. And the third one's green with sparkles!" Axel finished his detailing of the presents he'd gotten with much enthusiasm that even though with the situation in STAR Labs, Belén and Barry couldn't feel completely down.

"That sounds good, Axel," Belén chuckled at her phone as the seven year old started digging through another bag of presumed-to-be presents for Nina's unborn child. "Axel—"

Axel dropped the bag and told his grandmother to give him her phone. He stuck his face just a little too close to the screen but, at Veronica's instruction, he backed the phone away. "Auntie Belén, when are we going to the park? You and Barry promised me…"

"I never promised…" Belén mumbled and shot Barry behind the mirror a suspicious look.

As much as the speedster tried to recall, he couldn't. It had to be a promise his other version in this new timeline made. "I...sorry," was all he could by this point.

"Axel, give Grandma the phone…" they heard Veronica on the other end say.

"Auntie Belén!" Axel exclaimed urgently, knowing his time was about to be cut short. "We're going to the park! Right?"

"Axel, give me—"

"You promised!"

"Axel, we'll do that next week, I swear," Barry managed to say just before Veronica took back her phone from the boy.

"I don't think you should make promises while you're stuck behind glass, Mr. Allen," Veronica smirked at them now.

"She's got you there," Belén shrugged at Barry.

"So, what are you doing to get yourself out of there?" Veronica inquired.

"We have Caitlin, Cisco and Harry working on it," Barry sighed. "So I'm just...stuck waiting."

"Well, I'm a bit preoccupied with Axel right now, but if there's anything I can do just give me a call."

"Thanks Mom," Belén ended the video chat and shifted on the floor to face Barry in the mirror. "I definitely wasn't expecting to talk to Axel right now. But, how's that for distraction?"

"He sounded like he really missed you," Barry noted. Axel had been delighted at getting a chance to use his grandmother's phone to show Belén everything he had gotten in the last week.

"Yeah, I feel terrible. But...I guess we now have a park date," Belén smiled. "Plus one."

"I look forwards to it," Belén honestly said. She'd been practically pushing her poor nephew away when he had no fault whatsoever about her situation. "But I think my Mom is right - we should first focus on getting you out of that thing. I am so getting these two freak metas back for this."

"I thought you said you didn't feel comfortable going out in the field yet?"

"After what they did to you and Jesse — I'm going." Belén made that clear for him, and hoped to God she would go through without a problem.

A short time later, Cisco and Harry came in with their cryogenic machine that would hopefully get Barry out. Caitlin walked in with the last bit of cable for them to connect the machine to the mirror. The machine did give an encouraging whir of life and send cracking ice at the mirror. It only encased half of the mirror, however.

"It's only negative 280 degrees Fahrenheit!" Harry groaned and tried to tinker with the machine again to give it more power. "We got to get it colder somehow!"

"I thought you guys said this thing could get him out of there," Joe remarked, doubt now seriously etching across his face.

"Okay-" Cisco clapped his hands together, "-this thing is a highly advanced molecular decelerator that's being powered by a cryo-engine, and we just kind of improvised it in the last 30 minutes, so let's just... just cut us some slack, please?"

"Then just try to phase out, Barry," Belén came closer and watched with hope as Barry planted his arms on the wall.

"I am!" he grunted. For some reason, he just couldn't do it.

An alarm went off, signaling a metahuman was up and about in the city. "Let me guess, Top and Mirror Master are back?" Belén frowned.

"Probably," Cisco said as he scanned his phone. "We're going to need to take a break for a moment, Barry," he held a finger at the speedster and hurried out.

"Hold on, Bar," Joe warned as he went after Cisco.

"I'll get them," Belén promised Barry, even though she had no idea what she was going to do.

Barry hung his head with a deep exhale. He never saw Caitlin's guilty face at him. The brunette bit her lip and looked out to see if anyone was still around then quickly hurried behind the mirror. She stared at her palms and focused on just the bit she needed to help Barry out. She barely gasped when she felt the prickly ice surface in her skin. The billowing smoke reached the mirror and further spread the ice around it.

Caitlin hoped it was enough to get Barry out.

~ 0 ~

"Central City Municipal Bank just got robbed," Cisco picked up on the computers.

"Let me guess by who," Jesse bitterly said.

"Guys…?" Barry's voice made them all turn in shock at his presence. Even he was looking confused of his escape.

Caitlin came stumbling in behind him and did her best to look normal. That did not work with Belén.

"How did you get out?" Joe blinked.

"I have no idea but it doesn't matter. Right now we need to stop Scudder and Dillon," Barry moved over to the map Cisco pulled up.

"Okay, so... so what do we do?" Jesse asked, more than ready to take the two metas on again but with more caution.

"I've got an idea," Barry was happy to report. "We're gonna use mirrors, an old trick, and an old friend."

~ 0 ~

Scudder and Rosalind fell right for the trap set by the team. The two arrived in an old abandoned carnival set. Lighted games and streamers illuminated the place, reflecting off the several mirrors set in a neat circle.

Captain Cold stood in the center of the mirrors, taunting Scudder to come forwards. It was no challenge angering Scudder and making him try to attack. He struck a punch forwards but found his hand went right through Snart. Even more, Snart whirled around shouting "bang!" with his cold gun before completely disappearing.

Scudder stumbled back a couple steps, confused. "What…?"

"Funny thing about holograms. They're just pale reflections of the real deal," Barry's voice made Scudder get on high alert since he was supposed to be stuck behind a mirror...forever. Barry took off speeding around the mirrors, confusing Scudder for the first couple of seconds.

In another part, Jesse Quick found Rosalind carelessly spinning a wheel. "Hello again," Jesse greeted.

"Jesse Quick," Rosalind gave one last final spin of the wheel. She grinned devilishly at Jesse. "Quick to run, quick to fall." Her eyes flashed lime green and once again put Jesse under the effects of her vertigo.

"Run, Jesse!" the speedster heard. She forgot about Rosalind and took off in a run.

Rosalind, confused searched for the second feminine voice. "Now who wants to play?"

The Azalea dropped in upside down, hanging from above with the help of her vines. "Peek-a-boo, bitch," she wiggled her fingers then blew out her poison.

Rosalind waved a hand in front of her nose then quickly covered it up. She flashed a glare at Belén then attempted to use her vertigo powers. Belén knew better than to keep staring, she turned over and landed in a squat. Rosalind took her chance kicked Belén on the side, smacking her to the ground.

'Get her back! Don't be weak!' the voices began just a second afterwards.

"No…" Belén groaned and held her head. She could feel a fiery power prick underneath her suit not built to withstand the new powers she held.

"You're not up to the standards this city puts you on," Rosalind sneered and moved towards Belén.

Jesse came up from behind after shaking off Rosalind's vertigo and spun around the blonde. She thrust Rosalind to the side and then sped up again to pick Rosalind up. Without hesitation, she punched Rosalind out cold.

"I learned fast," Jesse was proud to say but then heard the groans of Belén behind. "Azalea?" she hurried over to check on Belén. "Azalea? Are you - hey," she tried pulling Belén's hands from her head but all of a sudden Belén viciously growled and her eyes snapped open to reveal glimmering golden irises. Jesse gasped and immediately retreated.

'You weak girl. Flicker would have gotten her! Rise up!'

Belén pushed against the fiery feeling in her body, the same one trying to expel powers she just wasn't ready for. "I can't, I can't, I can't…" she told herself and repeated until it all...seemed to fade…

But Jesse would not forget.

~ 0 ~

Barry had tricked Scudder into following him to an aisle of mirrors. As Scudder jumped through each one, Barry shattered them to prevent any surprise return. Scudder finally reached a circle of mirrors, to which Barry completed it by adding three more.

"Well played, Flash," Scudder gave him his props before jumping into one mirror.

Barry didn't even move and instead chuckled when Scudder jumped back into the place he started. "I know, right? This is the, uh, Droste effect. I'm sure you've heard of it, right? It's an infinite reflective loop that even you can't escape. Good luck getting out." He sped the meta-dampener cuffs on Scudder and put an end to the fight.

~ 0 ~

"You sure you don't want to stick around to see your doppelganger?" Caitlin joked with Harry now that he and Jesse were going to return to Earth 2.

"Uh...I think I can do without," Harry said with utmost honesty. He was not interested in meeting another version of himself. "We don't have to go through all the tears again, do we, gang?" he asked once he took in all the sad stares of the group.

"Well, did I...did I cry last time you left?" Cisco sarcastically tilted his head in thought.

"I was talking about myself," Harry responded in his same tone.

"Oh, gotcha. Hey, listen. Don't worry about it, okay? There's only one Harry," Cisco promised him with a light smile and gave him a hug.

"Oh, I wanted to tell you," Harry whispered, "The molecular decelerator, it wasn't working."

"Okay, what does that mean?"

"It means that we did not get Barry out of that mirror. It wasn't us."

Cisco frowned. "Then who did it?"

"You tell me. See you later," Harry left it all up to Cisco.

To the side, Jesse was giving her goodbyes to the group.

"Earth-2's gonna have one hell of a speedster protecting it," Barry said proudly at his pupil, making the younger girl laugh.

"Well, I did learn from the best."

"If you ever need any help, you know how to get back."

"And just take care of yourself," Belén hugged Jesse and secretly whispered, "And I'm sorry about...you know…"

Jesse gave her a nod and said nothing about the sort. "Just...you take care too," she said since Barry was right there watching them. She didn't know what exactly she saw in Belén, but Belén left it clear that it was a secret and that she was going to get help.

"Oh, Allen?" Harry called to the speedster one he and Jesse were side by side. "While I'm gone, never, ever, no matter what—"

Jesse sped him and her into the breach Cisco opened up for them, leaving it a mystery as to what Harry would have said.

"Okay, so how's about we get that Harry doppelganger?" Caitlin asked Cisco, very much curious to see what new Harry they would be getting.

"You guys, I've never vibed across 18 dimensions before…" Cisco sucked in a breath and rubbed his hands together.

"Well if there's anyone who can do it, it's you," Belén chuckled at him.

Cisco agreed with a nod of his head. He rubbed his fingers then shook his entire body, creating amused smiles from his friends behind. He struck a hand forwards and opened up a new breach. It took a while for him to reach the required Earth. "Just a little bit longer…" he told the others before they started asking why it was taking a while. Usually his breaches were short and quick.

"Shouldn't we...be prepared?" Iris wondered, much to the group's confusion. "Cisco is reaching out to some new Earth. I just meant we should probably take precaution..."

"Someone's coming," Belén excitedly said as the breach gave a wriggle.

Indeed a figure jumped out of the breach, but right away there was something that told the group this was not one of Harry's doppelgangers.

First of all...she was a woman.

She had long blonde hair and green eyes.

She was scared.

And she was very familiar to one person in the group.

Barry walked a couple steps forwards, stunned and dumbfounded. His mouth opened and shut several times before he was able to spit the name out, a name he never thought he would use in his world. "Anais…?"

Earth 18's doppelganger of Barry's and Belén's adoptive daughter — whom Barry had met on Earth 38 — gazed at the group. She gulped. She locked eyes with Barry, giving the impression she too knew him despite being a completely different version of the woman Barry met on another earth.

"Anais—"

But then, just like that, Anais sped out of the room.

A/N:

Aaaaand we're finally getting into the good parts! If anyone's read the previous story or even my Supergirl fic, Anais is an alien hybrid who was adopted by our loveable dorks on Earth 38! Obviously this is not Earth 38 Anais so this'll make it interesting! That being said, it's quite clear there will be no H.R. in this story. I found that character utterly useless and was merely placed in the show to be decoy character who was murdered :)). Not in my book!

So Belén is OC #1 out of 3 total Arrowverse OC I now write! The second one is Graciela Haynez from my new Legends of Tomorrow fic too and the 3rd OC is Anais Mjorkland from my Supergirl fic! Feel free to check their stories out under my profile! They will, eventually, have some future crossovers!

As always, I have a tumblr account dedicated to my fanfic works! It's a place where anyone can comment about a story or even just talk to me! I often drop aesthetic work belonging to my stories too! Feel free to check it out, my URL is "saiilorstars"