~~~~~~~~~~~Harrison~~~~~~~~~~~
Barry had quickly gotten up out of the bed Cisco and Caitlin made him sit on, and, in a flash, was there holding his sister's face trying to get her to focus on him. Harrison saw Kendra lock her eyes on Barry's and struggled to stay focused as her body was stuck in a mental battle of either trying to transform or trying to remain in its human state.
Cisco and Caitlin were franticly looking at the computers and their tablets, trying to find ways to slow hormone production down. Even with his calm demeanor, Harrison was feeling the anxiety that everyone else was feeling from the chaos.
'There is no way we can accomplish anything like this.' He sighed, taking off his glasses and pinching the bridge of his nose, trying to calm his own mind down from the infectious anxiety.
"Everyone, quiet down." He commanded from his wheelchair putting his glasses back on. Everyone, besides Kendra, who was still trying to focus on Barry, looked to him for direction.
Harrison wheeled over to the Allens, taking note that Kendra's form was now shaking and her nails had become thick and black and were growing right before Harrison's eyes. He looked over to Barry with a look in his eyes that said 'follow my lead', to which the boy nodded.
Harrison put a hand on Kendra's trembling arm, and felt an annoyingly pleasing warmth spread through him as he did so. He ignored the feeling and started gently rubbing her arm, trying to almost have a slow pattern in the way he was massaging. He looked back at Barry to make sure he was doing the same. He also noticed, Kendra's breathing almost was becoming in sync with the brushing of her arm.
"Kendra," Harrison said in a soft, yet authoritative voice, "You can control this. But to do that, you can't keep being at war with yourself." To that, bright gold eyes met his blue ones, and he felt as though he would melt under the heat the stare brought him.
"He's right Kendra," Barry continued, thankfully releasing Harrison from the pressure of those amazing golden eyes, as she shifted to look at her brother. "Remember that crazy therapist that Joe brought us to, and we hated him? Remember what he taught us to do when we felt like we had no control?"
Slowly the trembling stopped and Kendra nodded at her brother. Harrison stepped back as the two siblings continued on, listing of things that they could control to one another. Turning, Harrison looked back around to see the monitors Kendra was connected to.
"You can practically see her taking control." Caitlin muttered.
Harrison hummed at that as he continued to watch the scans start to normalize. He turned back again to face the siblings. Kendra's nails had gone back to normal. She now had a small smile as Barry chatted with her. Harrison smiled at how quickly she was starting to learn to control the beast.
Caitlin and Cisco were now talking amongst themselves of how, if given the right triggers and if she is also able to calm herself down, she could control tranformations.
"That would be so cool, can you imagine?! Being a giant wolf, fighting crime?" Cisco exclaimed.
"No one is fighting crime!" Caitlin shouted. "There is no telling how dangerous these transformations are for her body, or if she has complete control of it! And what happens if somehow she cant change back Cisco? Are you really willing to risk some poor girl's life because you want her and Barry to be superheros?"
As she finished, she stormed out angrily, leaving the whole room, including the Allen siblings, in quiet shock.
"Well Cisco," Harrison turned to face him, "no one has made her that mad since..."
"Ronnie, yeah. I know. I'll go talk to her." Cisco said, handing Harrison the tablet with all of Barry's information on it.
As Cisco ran out to chat with Caitlin, Harrison turned back to the siblings and smiled.
"Great work Miss Allen," Harrison said, almost chuckling at the look of distaste that crossed her face at the name "Sorry, Kendra. You did a great job regaining control. This really helps give us an insight into how we can better help you."
The smile she gave him didnt reach her eyes, something that made Harrison feel a form of concern about, but again he pushed it to the side.
"Ronnie was Caitlin's fiance right? Hes the one that died the night of the explosion?" Barry questioned, causing some shock to appear on Kendra's face.
Harrison felt guilty about Ronnie. Of course, he would do it again if it meant the Allens would be who they are meant to become, but that didnt mean that he didnt feel bad that Ronnie became a sacrifice.
"Yes, he is... missed." He said solemnly. He paused for a second out of respect to Ronnie before looking to Barry and instructing him, "Well Mr Allen, let's go find out what is causing these dizzy spells, shall we?"
Barry nodded, and Harrison turned to head out the door. Before he could make it to the door his eyes narrowed in calculation as he heard Kendra whisper to Barry.
"Barry, I dont want these powers."
~~~~~~~~~~~~Kendra~~~~~~~~~~~
She had grabbed her brother's arm, and looked deeply into his brown eyes. He looked back at her as if he couldn't understand how she wasnt excited. Yes, right now she was able to control it better, but what happens if next time Barry wasn't there? What if it was like Caitlin said? What if she got stuck? What if she hurt someone?
Barry sighed, as if he could hear all of her panicked thoughts, and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"We will figure this out sis." He said giving her a small smile. "I promise."
Kendra could tell though, Barry was going to try to convince her to keep the powers. He had always been amazed by the impossible, while Kendra loved the predictable.
So she pretended to smile back at her brother as they walked to the room with the "Ciscoed" treadmill. While she watched as Barry went flying into a wall of boxes, she barely noticed. Even when hypoglycemia had caused him to need 40 bags of fluids, she was still lost in her thoughts about the canine inside of her.
Finally, when Barry came to, there was talk of tacos, and how much Barry would need to eat. Kendra couldn't help but zone out as she focused on her powers. Did she want them? Should she keep them? Could she even get rid of them? Her thoughts stopped immediately though, when she heard a voice.
"For Mexican, I recommend Tito's. On Bruckner Avenue. Best... Kendra?" Her foster Father paused for a second, preparing what sounded like was going to be a scolding. "You're awake?" He now said with tears in his eyes.
Kendra, with her own, happy tears nodded and rushed over to Joe for a hug.
"How long have you been up?"
"She has been awake for about 7 hours now." Harrison chimed in assisting the girl who was once more, overwhelmed with emotion.
"And you haven't come to see me?" Joe asked with hurt in his voice, as he pulled Kendra back to look in her tear filled eyes, he saw the exact reason she hadn't come to see him just yet. Golden eyes that were filled with tears. Joe gasped with shock as Kendra hurriedly stepped back from him.
"I-i-i'm sorry Joe, I was going to but," Kendra started, beginning to shake. She felt a hand take hers and give it a squeeze. She looked over to see Barry, looking at her with a small smile, to help her calm down.
"It seems as though Kendra was affected by the blast as well Detective." Harrison finished for her. "We needed to run some tests before she was to see anyone. Especially since we dont know the full capability of her powers yet."
"So her eyes changed color, I dont think that warrants a house arrest to S.T.A.R. labs." Joe looked to the wheelchair bound man angrily.
"Joe, its more than that." Barry chimed in. "She can turn into-"
"A monster." Kendra interrupted stepping up again, her voice now sure, as she looked to her foster father.
"What do you mean?" Joe said, worry coating his words.
Kendra shook Barry's hand out of hers and he took it as a cue to back up. Kendra, trying to show Joe what she had become, allowed the fear and anger to rage within her and build up. This transformation, she felt no pain, and she assumed it was because she was no longer trying to fight the beast. She let it win.
She heard increased heart rates from everyone in the room as she became the wolf. Well, everyone except for Harrison, who looked to be giving her a sad, yet proud, smile.
Joe had backed himself up against a wall as a giant wolf, now stood in his daughter's place. She could hear his breathing become more rapid, she watched every muscle he had twitch with the desire to run. As Kendra noticed that, she felt the beast start to get excited for a chase. But she quickly shoved that thought away.
"Surprise." Kendra's voice echoed in everyone's mind. Barry chuckled a little bit as Joe jumped at hearing the voice.
"H-h-how, what, I dont understand." Was all Joe managed to spit out.
Barry and Harrison were there to start explaining everything to Joe. About how when the wolf crashed into Kendra it made must have affected her on a molecular level. How it was similar to Barry. What they were running tests on. Pretty much everything about Kendra's new life was being divulged to Joe.
As they were talking, Kendra felt a tap on her fur covered leg, and looked down to see Cisco motioning for her to go to his lab area. Confused, Kendra followed him out, leaving the men to continue with their discussion. As Kendra reached the lab, she noticed that Cisco was a bit red in the cheeks, and wasnt making direct eye contact.
"I made something for you while we were waiting for Barry to wake up. It's just a prototype but it figured..." Cisco paused as he got even redder. Knowing he wouldn't be able to finish what he was saying, Cisco turned to pull out an all black suit. It looked to be made of a spandex material, that also seemed to have some form of webbing mixed in.
Cisco set it on the lab table as he explained, "the webbing in it has been coded with by looking at your DNA. The goal is that it should morph along with you if you do change. It definitely not finished product. But I figured it's better than nothing."
"Thank you Cisco" Kendra's voice rang out to him "That really means a lot"
Cisco smiled and nodded happily "Anyways. Um... I just let you test thay out." He said awkwardly, again as he started shuffling out of the room.
Kendra sighed, knowing that she would never be able to live "the incident" down. But nevertheless, once Cisco had left, Kendra started humming the song that had helped her calm down the first time, and sure enough, she turned back into her human form.
She opened her eyes once she felt the cool air of the lab hit her body. Thankfully, the blinds had been drawn this time and she was able to put on the suit that Cisco left her. He also left her a new star labs sweater to put on. The suit made it look like she was wearing leggings, so she really didnt have a need for new pants as well.
Once changed, Kendra walked back out to where everyone was standing and came upon a very heated conversation.
"If you wanted what was best for Barry, you'd try to talk him out of this lunacy, instead of encouraging him to go out there and risk his life." Joe angrily said towards Dr Wells.
"You saw a man control the weather. What are the police going to do against someone like that?" Barry questioned back, "Since the accelerator explosion we suspect there may be more like him. I mean, just look at Kendra and me!"
"And you're going to do what? Catch them? Are you insane?" Joe started. Barry started shifting uncomfortably in his spot, knowing the lecture that would come.
"You think, that because you can run real fast, and that your sister can change into a wolf, that you both are invincible? You're not! You're both kids. My kids." Joe finished, looking pointedly at Harrison now.
Kendra had walked into the room, behind Caitlyn, with her arms crossed over her chest trying to keep calm during this debate.
"We aren't your kids, Joe." Barry retaliated, "And you're not our father. Our father, is sitting in Iron Heights. Wrongfully convicted. You were wrong about him, and you're wrong about this!"
Joe looked more and more hurt with each word Barry spoke.
"I may not be able to help him, but if I can save someone from a burning building, or stop some armed thieves, I'm going to do it. And you can't stop me. So dont try."
Kendra saw the tears in her foster fathers eyes, "You all think you're so smart. But you dont know what you dont know. And I hope, that you're clever enough to figure it out before somebody gets killed." Joe finished pointing at Barry, and with that he left, not looking at anyone as he left.
When he was gone, everyone was sitting in sad silence after being reprimanded by Joe. The only thing thay broke the silence was Kendra's barefooted footsteps marching closer to her brother. The moment she reached him, she slapped his face so hard that he flew off of the bed he had leaned back on. Everyone looked at Kendra's body shaking with anger, standing over top of her brother. But only Barry could see the yellow eyes glaring angrily at him