A/N: Okay, I am SO SORRY THIS IS LATE! This week was finals week at my school so I've been stressing out and trying not to die, but I finally took all of them. So, I immediately sat down and worked on this.
Thou heardest it from her own mouth. Verily, it was her fault. She doth not posses true dedication to her writing projects.
Okay, that is a straight up lie. I'm really sorry this is late. Please don't kill me!
It is too late. I hath already called for the stake and torch.

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"Okay, there is no way Savitar is a future version of Barry," Iris insisted. "Savitar clearly wants to kill me. Why would Barry do that?"

"Don't ask me," I said crossing my arms. "I don't know why Barry would want to kill you. Maybe you broke his favorite mug or something and he never got over it." For some reason, Barry looked over at Joe accusingly as I said that. "But when I'm back on my earth, chilling on the beach with a blue Coke in my hand and you text me saying that - shocker! - Savitar actually is a future version of Barry, I will definitely say 'I told you so'."

Barry, who had yet to say anything, finally spoke up. "What did he mean?"

My eyes darted to the left. "What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean."

"You mean the thing - actually, I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore. Too many 'means', am I right?"

"Fine," Barry growled. Obviously I had tested his patience, which is something I excel at. "What was Savitar talking about when he said you caused us more danger than he ever could in his prison?" Julian, who obviously didn't remember anything that came out of his mouth, widened his eyes slightly upon hearing that.

"Um," I stuck my hands in my pockets, "I have no idea."

Joe scoffed. "Liar."

I sighed and muttered, "Vlákas. Green Bean was right. I should've told you earlier."

"Told us what?" Iris asked softly.

"That the mini-accelerator explosion made everyone's powers go haywire." I paused for a moment. "Including mine."

HR shrugged. "So, what does that mean? Every time you go to the beach the waves get bigger or something?"

I shook my head. "No, it means every time I get startled or angry, I'm much more liable to make a hurricane instead a few waves. The first time Jason and I tried to spar after the explosion, we both ended up getting so frustrated that he caused a huge thunderstorm, complete with lightning, and I created a little earthquake. And by little, I mean approximately a seven on the Richter scale!"

Julian narrowed his eyes and leaned forward. "Then why would you come here?"

"Because I needed to be away from the world where I'm hunted down every time I set foot outside of Camp Half-Blood! Can you imagine? 'Oh look, there's Percy Jackson! Let's go kill him! Oh, wait. We can't now, because he summoned a hurricane that killed us and half the population of Rhode Island!' At least here I can relax a little more. Or, at least, that's what I thought."

Barry rubbed the bridge of his nose tiredly. "Why didn't you tell us this?"

I shrugged half-heartedly. "Um, I didn't feel like it?"

Everyone sighed exasperatedly, but my not-so-explanatory explanation seemed to satisfy them for the time being.

"What did he mean about the stone, though?" Cisco finally wondered after a few minutes. "I mean, we got rid of it, right? Over and done with."

Iris frowned. "Well, I guess there could be a second stone, or something. Maybe the stone we had was only a piece of the whole thing."

"The acolytes might know something," Joe suggested, "like that Craig guy."

I burst out laughing. "You're telling me this guy has acolytes? What do they do, carry candles and perform Gregorian chants as Savitar waltzes along behind them?"

Not for the first time that day, I was ignored. Cisco immediately started tapping away on the nearest computer. "His car's GPS says he's somewhere near Mount Buccelato."

Barry walked briskly to Cisco's side, examining the computer screen. "Buccelato? That's miles away from here. What would he be doing out there?"

"You know, there is a way you could find out," I suggested not-so-subtly. Barry just stared at me for a moment, so I elaborated. "Was I not clear? I thought I was. I meant you should use your speed-"

"Yeah, we got it, Percy," HR reassured me. "BA was just leaving." And, true to HR's word, Barry sped off in a burst of lightning.

"He did remember to get his suit, right?" I checked.

"Yes, Percy," Barry's voice answered from the computer's speaker. "I remembered the suit."

I shrugged, although he couldn't tell. "Just making sure."

Cisco leaned down as he spoke into the comns. "Okay, talk to us. What do you see?"

"Some serious Temple of Doom stuff." There was a pause. Then, Barry's tone changed to one full of dread. "They have a box."

"Well, someone call the police!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands in the air. "They have a box, which is a highly dangerous object."

He let out an exasperated sigh. "That's not what I-"

Barry had to stop talking so we could hear what was going on on his end. Apparently, the so-called "acolytes" were doing some kind of ritual. "God of Speed," one of them cried, "soon your enemies will fall and you will rise once more on Earth!"

"It looks exactly like the one that held the stone," Barry said.

Joe sighed. "You were right, Bear."

I frowned. "What exactly are you gonna do?"

"I'm gonna go see what's in it."

"Maybe that's not the best-" I started. But Barry cut me off by flashing forward and (presumably) grabbing the box.

"What exactly are you guys doing out here?" Barry asked in a singsong voice.

The other guy, who I assumed was one of the acolytes, replied, "Worshipping his greatness." Personally, I thought he sounded like a self-righteous idiot, but everyone else was muttering stuff like, "Poor brainwashed guy." I guess my opinion wasn't very popular.

There was a shuffling noise, which I assumed was Barry taking the aforementioned box. "Let's see how far he gets without this."

The self-righteous dude chuckled softly. "He's ten steps ahead of you. There's no stopping Savitar. If I were you," he laughed again, "I'd move up the wedding."

That was the wrong thing to say. We all knew it. Even though we couldn't see what was happening, it was pretty easy to tell that Barry was mad now. Really mad. It kinda felt like dramatic music was supposed to be playing.

But, he did finally bring the box back. Cisco immediately whisked it away to run some tests on it, but came back pretty soon. Apparently, their machines worked really fast.

"So far, not so good," Cisco sighed. "It's the same as last time."

"Are we sure this isn't the same box?" Iris asked.

"It can't be," Barry assured her. "I threw it into the Speed Force."

"Yeah, but you said the explosion threw you into the future. What if it did something to the box too, you know?"

"Woah woah woah woah," I made a timeout gesture with my hands. "You went to the future? Awesome. Were there flying cars yet?"

Barry rolled his eyes. "It was only five months into the future."

"Oh." I paused. "So that's a yes, then?"

Julian stood from his examination of the box. "I hate to say it, Barry, but, after all my years of research, I've never heard or come across another box or Stone. I think this is it."

"If that's true, we need to consider the possibility that Savitar has that Stone," Joe said.

Cisco grabbed the box again. "I'm gonna check for radioactive isotopes or gravimetric force residue, 'cause if it's the same as last time, we're in big trouble." He left and Caitlin followed.

Iris sighed. "I'm gonna head back out. The rest of you should too."

Joe and Julian followed her out, but Barry plopped into a swivel chair.

"You do have a job, correct?" I asked.

Barry looked at me like I was speaking Greek, which I guess wasn't totally impossible. "What?"

"Don't you have a job? You realize you haven't actually gone in to work since I got here."

"It's a weekend," he protested weakly.

I blinked at him exasperatedly. "It's a Wednesday. Time passes at the same rate on our earths, remember?" I sat in the other swivel chair. "So, what? You feel like sitting around and brooding?"

"Yes," he mumbled into his hands.

There was a beat of silence before he spoke again. "Listen, I'm sorry about earlier."

"Oh," I said innocently, "you mean the part where you accused me of being an inexperienced kid who didn't know what he was doing?"

He glared at me, but there was no real malice behind it. "Yes. It wasn't true and even if it was, I shouldn't have said anything. I guess," he sighed, "I'm just so...so focused on saving Iris that I just feel like I don't have time to think about anything else."

I crossed one leg over the other, shifting in my chair. "Trust me, there is always time to think of something else. Food, for example."

"Can you really think about food when your family's in imminent danger?"

"Well, no," I admitted. "But that's kind of my point, even though I haven't actually said anything that would give you any clue as to what my point was. Iris isn't really in imminent danger, right? I mean, you have five months. Why not take the time to enjoy them?"

"Because Iris's life is more important than an English paper. It's not something I can just forget about up until the last minute and then stay up all night doing."

"Oh, so you've done that too, huh?"

"Uh, no."

I laughed softly. "Liar."

We sat in comfortable silence until my phone rang.

As I tapped my foot to the rhythm of CCR, I checked the caller ID and froze. "Schist."

"Excuse me?"

"It's Annabeth," I explained. "I had to hang up on her last time. I meant to call her back, but like, totally forgot." Barry stood to leave. "Where are you going?" I demanded.

"I'm not getting in the middle of this."

"You can't leave me with her!"

"I have a job to get to, remember? Besides, it's just a phone call."

"You have no idea how intimidating her voice is!" I called after him. I cursed again and then slowly answered the phone. "Hi, honey."

"DON'T YOU 'HONEY' ME, PERSEUS JACKSON!" I held the phone away from my ear as she continued her tirade of insults.

"Love you too," I finally said after she calmed down a little bit.

"What's going on over there?" she demanded.

"Well, we have the cats contained, for now, but we haven't figured out how to kill them yet."

"Are you serious? All those scientists and scholars and they can't figure this one out?"

I frowned. "Well, did you?"

"Of course," she answered. "You have to kill them using natural causes. Unfortunately, stabbing them with Celestial bronze doesn't count as natural causes."

I took a deep, calming breath. "You mean to say, that this entire time, we've been driving ourselves up a wall trying to figure out how to get rid of them, and the whole time, we could've just squished them or something."

"Um, yeah."

"Alright, that's it. Those little suckers are going down the drain."

"Wait, Percy," she commanded. I stopped. "Have you asked him yet?"

"No. I will soon, I promise."

"Okay. Things are getting…" she sighed, "out of hand over here."

"I'll ask him as soon as I can," I promised. "I love you."

"Love you too."

I hung up and marched down in the direction of the Pipeline. As I did, I heard voices.

"No way," Cisco insisted. "I'm not gonna vibe you there so you can watch your sister die."

"Okay, Chesco, Chesco, this is to help Wallace. To help him see what happens so he knows what to do in the moment."

I turned and started walking in the voices' direction, the cats forgotten.

"Come on, Cisco, please," Wally's voice begged. "If Savitar's coming back and I'm the only one that can save Iris, I have to do everything I can to make sure that happens."

By this time, I had reached the room they were in. As I leaned against the doorframe, I asked, "Are you sure you want that?"

Wally turned to regard me. "Yes," he said like I was the idiot in this situation. "If it'll help me save my sister, yes."

I shook my head. "I don't think you understand. Once you see someone you love die, even if it's just in a dream or a vision, it haunts you. You'll never be able to forget it, even if she lives."

"I have to see it," Wally insisted.

Cisco closed his eyes and sighed, resigning himself. "Okay. If you have to see it, come on down, be my guest." He brushed past me in the doorway and I turned to follow him, HR and Wally close behind.

Soon, we were back down in the room where we talked to Savitar. "HR, you know how to work this thing, right?"

"I know how to work this, yeah," he agreed readily. I watched him skeptically, eyebrows raised.

"Anything goes wrong, you get Caitlin down here stat," Cisco continued.

"I know what I'm doing," he insisted. "I saw what you did. All I gotta do is...this!" He jabbed one of the buttons, but nothing happened.

"The other button," Cisco said flatly as HR said, "It's the other button."

HR pushed the correct button and Cisco and Wally's eyes closed. Even though they looked like they were asleep, they were talking, which was really creepy.

"Little bit of a lighter touch next time, HR!" Cisco called. I guess he had forgotten we standing right next to him.

"Copy that, lighter touch," HR nodded.

"This way," Cisco said.

I leaned in HR's direction, not sure if they could hear me or not. "So, do you guys just do stuff like this all the time?"

"Yeah," he responded.

"You guys are weird," I decided. "Then again, I doubt we'd be friends if you weren't."

"This is it," Cisco sighed.

"Okay…" Wally drawled. "So, that's the distance I need to cover. There were a few beats of silence where it got kind of awkward. I thought they had fallen asleep for real this time until Wally suddenly yelled, "NO!"

I jumped. "Gods, don't do that!"

"Iris?" Wally muttered quietly, sounding like his heart was breaking into pieces.

I frowned. "What exactly are they watching?" HR raised an eyebrow. "I mean, of course I know it's Iris's death, but… How does she die?"

"I'm not exactly sure," HR replied. "I just know it has something to do with Savitar."

"Come on," Cisco finally said softly. HR pushed the button again and they came out of it, both looking kind of freaked out and out of breath.

"What'd you see?" HR asked as soon as they were out. "Was it good? Did that help?"

"Yeah," Wally nodded. "Yeah. It helped a lot."

I cocked my head. His tone was purely venomous. "What happened?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Wally denied.

I tossed his denial aside. "Minotaur dung. I haven't heard anyone sound that mad since Piper was chasing after the Stolls for doing her makeup in the middle of the night."

"What, did they do it badly or something?" Cisco asked.

"No, they did it well. That was the problem. So, Wally, what happened?"

Wally shook his head. "Not now. I need to find Barry."