Chapter 2
**Lana's POV**
"You wanted to see me sir?" I asked walking into the office.
"Yes, since Barry is back, finish what you're working on and take the rest of the day off. You've been taking most of his hours and I think that you deserve a break," he said.
"Thank you," I said hurriedly leaving, before he changed his mind or questioned me about my brother.
Any time there's a case that involves Lenny, usually I have to go to interrogation and answer questions with another detective present and it's usually Detective West. I walked back out everyone eyeing me, I sighed and went back up to the lab. As soon as cops and other personnel here learn my name they assume that I'm helping my brother. Now I'm not saying that I've never been on a heist, because I have right out of high school, and that's going to the grave with me, but I didn't like it.
"Anything bad?" Barry asked when I walked into the shared space.
"No, he gave me the rest of the day off, since I've been picking up your hours; gotta say I totally don't mind binging on a few documentaries and ice cream," I sighed laughing.
"Well I guess you won't get to hear the best part of my trip," he said.
"Fill me in, I have to finish this test first."
"I met Oliver Queen and the Arrow," he smirked.
"First you meet one of the sexiest men alive and you didn't take pictures. And second you met the Starling vigilante and you aren't full of holes. Barry, I must say I am disappointed and impressed all at the same time," I laughed.
Well my day of wasn't as easy as I'd liked it to have been. I wound up going to my storage unit and getting out all of my Christmas decorations. Len and Lise aren't much on Christmas since our father ruined that, but they celebrate it for me. I hate that my life is so much easier than theirs was, I can't help but feel like I should have had the same as them. They're protected me my whole life, so I could have the childhood that they never did and the only thing I make sure is that the monster stays in prison.
I sighed hanging the last snowflake ornament on the tree. I stepped back and smiled at my tree, it's a normal size fake tree. Len insists on getting me a real tree, but I like the fake tree, there's less maintenance involved. The tree is covered in white lights with white, blue and silver balls and snowflakes. Our joke on our tree is instead of having a star or angel at the top, it's instead some kind of jewelry, crown or something Lenny and Lise stole.
Barry had texted me earlier telling me that with the case he has this morning he doesn't know if we can go tonight. Honestly I'd be ok with that, the only reason I was going anyway was for Barry. We had known each other at CCU since we had most classes with each other. It wasn't until we started working together that I started to get to know Barry and realized just how great of a person he is.
It wasn't until later Barry texted me telling me that he and Iris were going, since he solved the Mardon robbery, wow I need to pay attention to what he's doing. I told him to go without me, I'm going to see if he actually asks Iris out, probably not, but I'm giving him the opportunity.
"Lanny, you still want to grab drinks?" I heard Lise yell coming in.
"Yeah, let me get ready," I said running off to my room. I didn't realize what time it was.
I ran into my room changing into a pair of black yoga pants and a navy thermal shirt. I came out of my room seeing Lise sitting at the island looking at one of my forensic magazines.
"I'm glad you went to school, I don't understand any of this," she said and I smiled. "I also have the perfect necklace for the top of the tree this year, I'll bring it tomorrow. I think Lenny is getting his in Metropolis."
"Then I shall decide when he comes back. Where are we going, that depends on what jacket I wear," I said going over to the hooks on the wall.
"I would say Saints, but Lenny and Mick are out of town, so let's not piss anyone off. There's that new club in town, I think it's called Vibe. They even have an outdoor area, so we can sit in the cold," she replied.
Us Snart siblings love the cold and always have. It doesn't matter if it was a snowball fight when we were younger, Lenny taking me sledding, Lise taking me to the ice rink with her. I grabbed my nicer navy coat and slipped on my Vans.
"Let's go," I smiled.
"So what do you want?" Lise asked as we looked at the drink menu.
"The bourbon cinder doesn't sound bad," I said sticking a piece of ice in my mouth.
We ordered dinner first, so I was still crunching on the cup of ice I had originally got. I was watching the TV seeing everything with the particle accelerator, reading the report sucks though. The waiter came around and took our drink order.
"So any new guys?" Lise asked.
"Not since yesterday sis," I smirked sticking another piece of piece in my mouth.
"Just checking brat," she smiled.
"Whatever you say train wreck. Damnit, where's jerk when we're calling each other names."
"Being a jerk," she laughed pulling her phone out.
I chuckled and pulled mine out sending Lenny a text. I heard a loud explosion and started looking around.
"What in the hell is that?" Lise asked pointing to a stream of light.
I turned my head seeing that the newscast on the particle accelerator was out.
"That's not good," I muttered a chill coming up my spine.
The light then surged out. I grabbed Lisa and pulled her under the table, before the world went black.
**Lisa's POV**
"That's not good," I heard Lanny say.
For her to say that, this really isn't. I felt her grab me a basically threw me under the table, I turned to grab her, but she fell unconscious.
"LANA!" I yelled crawling up to her.
I checked her pulse, it was strong as ever, but she is so cold and that's something weird even for her. I heard yells, screams and just chaos all around me. People were bleeding and hurt all around me and out on the street. I took a deep breath and got Lana in a chair, before calling 911, the line was busy. I looked at my baby sister, still knocked out and started thinking of things I could do.
"We're taking a group to the hospital, we can take her," a man said beside me.
"Ok," I agreed.
I helped him carry Lana through the empty club and out front to a van, we got Lana inside and I climbed in with her. I hugged my sister to me and tried to settle down. There is absolute chaos going on in the city and the freezing girl beside me kept pulling me out of my thoughts. I pulled off my leather coat and wrapped it around her.
I felt the vehicle lunge, so I knew we were moving, thank god. I pulled out my phone and dialed Len's number, it went straight to voicemail, I instantly called again.
"What now Lise?" he asked annoyed.
"You need to come home now, it's Lana something happened with that accelerator thing. She's unconscious we're on our way to the hospital now, Lenny she's so cold," I said and I could feel tears starting to form.
"I'm leaving now, I'll be at the hospital as soon as I get in town," he said and I nodded.
"Be careful," I said.
"I will, you be careful and give me updates on Snowflake," he said hanging up.
I wiped my eyes, before hugging Lana close to me. We Snart's aren't very lucky.
It took way longer to get to the hospital then normal, but that's too be expected. When we pulled up there were nurses helping us, Lana was instantly taken being in critical condition. I followed after her not letting her out of my sight. They wheeled her into a room and gave me paperwork to fill out. I luckily knew it all and it took no time, before I handed it back. I walked out in the hallway when they were changing and hooking her up to different machines.
"That's my son!" I heard someone yell from the room beside me.
"You can't be in here right now," another voice said followed by a door slam.
I looked over a recognized the Detective from Lana's work. Since I have no record sneaking Lana some lunch every now and then isn't really much trouble. He looked heartbroken and distressed, he looked over at me and his eyes widened, he knew who I was.
"Leonard or Lana?" he asked.
"Lana," I muttered quietly. "We were out and she knew something was wrong, she threw me under the table, before she was knocked out. Now she's so cold, ungodly cold, but her vitals are strong I just don't know."
"Barry my adopted son, he shares a lab with Lana. He was struck by lightning in their lab and now they're trying to stabilize him, he keeps flat lining."