Chapter Two

The Storme

"Well if it isn't the Queen of Darkness!" Barry said with a smile as he came inside the lab. I rolled my eyes, putting a french fry in my mouth,"Hush up loser," I said with a smile.

"Is that some of the stuff you need to analyze from the crime scene?" I asked Barry, pointing to the bag. Barry nodded and started doing his lab work.

I plopped onto on of the chairs that were free, "Oh hey, I wanted to ask you earlier at the crime scene, but I never saw you—do you want to come with me and Iris to STAR Labs for the Particle Accelerator? If I get this done in time?" Barry asked.

I widened my eyes, shot out of my chair and frantically nodded, "Of course I would love to go! It has been my dream to at least see Harrison Wells, not from a computer screen, but in person!" I gave Barry a hug, then let go and twirled around.

"Barry, you are the greatest!"

"Well... Can't lie about that..."

I laughed and sat back down, when I saw a person come in. She was dark skinned, her hair was perfectly tucked in place, and just by seeing her face, I knew Barry had a crush on her.

"Okay! I am ready to see this atom smasher-" she looked to find a word, "smashing..." Then she looked towards me, "Oh! I forgot, dad told me that you started having a partner today..." she stuck out her hand, "Iris West."

I smiled and shook her hand, "Leilah Storme," I grinned. She gave a smile back, "There was a shooting today," Barry piped up. We both paid attention to him, "Your dad's needs me to process of some evidence, that means I don't even know if we'll be able to make it to STAR Labs or not..."

I pouted, standing up and getting another french fry and eating it. "But seeing this thing turn on is like, your dream! Your sad little nerdy dream..." Iris exasperated. I raised my hand, "Um-it's my sad little nerdy dream too!" I said. She smiled and took one of my fries and ate it,"Besides, I cancelled a date for this..." she commented

"Hey! Hands off the fries~!" I joked. Iris looked at Barry, "Yeah? Maybe you wanna be rewording your sentence once ya look at him~" She said pointing to Barry, who was sipping from my coke.

I snatched the cup away from him, "Ugh, so rude!" I teased. Barry rolled his eyes. "Anyways, I am stress eating over my dissertation! We started selling cronuts at Jitters, I ate two!" she sighed.

I nodded, dissertation work was stressful. I almost permanently deleted mine, I thought the world was over. Luckily, Felicity was able to retrieve it in it's perfect condition.

"If I don't graduate soon, I'm gonna be more muffin top than woman." Iris said. Barry chuckled, "You look amazing, Iris..." he said. I knew he meant it. From the way he looked at her, yeah. He really did mean it... Iris rolled her eyes.

She looked at the science magazine on Barry's desk, "What is so important about this Particle Accelerator anyway?" she asked. My mouth dropped, "She did not..." I stated. Barry had these eyes, like he was a little kid who just got candy, and was making a speech about how much he wanted to thank his mother.

"Harrison Wells' work in quantum theory is light years ahead of anything they are doing at STAR!" he told her.

"You're doing that thing, where you're not speaking english..."

I chuckled and walked over to the board, grabbing a marker, "Okay. Imagine that..." I drew a small black dot on the board, and pointed at it, "that dot is everything! The human has ever learned until this day." I said.

"Does that include twerking?" I laughed.

Barry took the marker from me and drew a huge circle around it, "THAT is everything we could learn from the particle accelerator! It's a whole new way of looking at physics!"

Scratch out the thing I said about the eyes being child eyes.

They're just crazy eyes.

"It will literally change the way we think about everything!" he exclaimed. Both Iris and I put our hands on his shoulders, "You gotta get yourself a girlfriend..." we said in unison. We looked at each other, and then giggled, 'Seriously though. I may be a nerd, but even I'm scared of how much you know..."

"Ah leave him alone. He's working..." Detective West walked in, "Hi dad..." Iris said. Something beeped. "You're test thingy is done!" I remarked, walking to the couch and plopping on it, putting my feet on a table in front of me.

"I think the Mardon brothers are hiding on a farm." Barry announced. "The fecal matter I found on the street was cow manure, which contains traces of oxytracycline." Iris and Joe looked confused, "It's an antibiotic." I stepped in.

"There are only four farms in the area that still use it in their feed." Barry grabbed a paper from his desk and handed it to Joe, "Bet you'll find a pretty sweet Shelby parked at one of them!" he remarked.

Iris smiled, "Dad, seeing as Barry solved your poop problem, how about letting him and Leilah go to STAR Labs?" she asked. Joe sighed, "Fine. Go." Iris squealed and Barry took his jacket, while I grabbed my fries.

"Joe, thank you!"

I'm in STAR Labs.

Holy jesus.

You don't understand how much I'm freaking out.

Fun fact, I was apart of the MIT class of 09 and then got my masters, studying a variety of different sciences. My top two jobs was to be a forensics assistant or to work at STAR Labs.

It's unfortunate that I'm not working here and I have to work for the police.

I walked in next to Barry and Barry was next to Iris. "So Barry, how was your trip?" Iris asked. "Did you find proof of the impossible in Starling City, or did you just make my dad mad for no reason?"

Barry chuckled, "Actually, while I was away, I had a chance to think about... relationships..."

Oh god, here we go... Let's hope she doesn't misunderstand...

"And... how I'm not in one... and you're not in one either..."

So, so smooth Barry Allen. Way to be subtle.

"And you're my best friend Iris..." Barry stated. "Aw, you're mine too! Why else would I be here? I know what you're gonna say Barry." Iris told him. "I'm not sure you do..." Barry replied.

"Even though we grew up in the same house together, and we're kind of brother and sister, because we're not brother and sister, things can get... weird and awkward to talk to me about girls! But I just want you to know that it shouldn't be awkward. There is nothing more that I want for you than to meet the right person that totally loves and adores you for the amazing person you are!"

Aaaaaaaaannndddd... she misunderstood...

"You took the words right out of my mouth..." Barry said. "aw, aren't you glad I know you so well?" Iris asked.

Barry sighed and I patted his shoulder, he looked over to me and he gave me a sad smile.

Finally, Dr. Harrison Wells walked onto the stage.

My heart stopped, holy shit. I see him. This is unreal!

"Thank you! My name is Harrison Wells. And tonight, the future begins. The work my team and I do here will change our understanding of Physics! It will bring about advancements in power, advancements in medicine. And that future will be faster than you think!" we all cheered, but that's when the protests got louder and the NO STAR LABS signs got higher.

Somebody took Iris's bag! "No! My bag! That has my dissertation in it!" Iris freaked out. Barry ran after the mugger. Oh god, this is not gonna end up well.

I ran after him.

But, thankfully, when I caught up with Barry, there was a police officer who was holding a gun to the mugger's face.

I was holding Barry's chin up as he held a tissue to his bleeding nose, "God, how the hell could you be so reckless?! That's my job, not yours Barry!" I scolded. Barry sighed, "I was just trying to—" "Help retrieve a laptop bag for the love of your life?" I asked.

Iris finally joined us, looking at the good looking police officer. "Who is that guy, and what is he so proud of? So, he caught a mugger," She asked. "He's a transfer from keystone! He started a few weeks ago, Eddie Thawne."

"Ohhh! So that's detective pretty boy!" Iris and I said in unison. Barry raised an eyebrow at us, "There's been talk around the station..." I replied. "That's what my dad calls him..." Iris confirmed.

"Says he actually keeps score on who he arrests..." I replied. "He is pretty though..." Iris said. I sighed and got up, "I have to go, I have to get to the lab early tomorrow..."

I was running through the rain, I should have brought an umbrella. My phone vibrated, I pulled it out. STAR Labs' Particle Accelerator failed. Something went wrong. My eyes widened.

The storm got worse, it was thundering now. I squatted down on the floor, covering my ears and closing my eyes tightly shut. "It's not here... It's not here! You won't get hurt!" I told myself. I wish I could hide. I wish everything went dark. I was I could be in the darkness where no one could find me.

And the next thing you know... Something went through my body, like a bolt of electricity. And, I black out.

9 Months Later...

"cant read my- can't read my, no he can't read my poker face!" I heard. Ugh, Lady Gaga. Not the biggest fan of her...

My eyes shot open and I sat up in the hospital bed. Only, it wasn't a hospital bed. And I wasn't in a hospital. I looked around, and there was a guy with long hair, and a girl with red-ish brown hair. "Whoa! Where am I?!" I asked, "STAR Labs!" The guy said.

I stood up, and looked at a camera, I could see my upper body, since I was pretty short. 5"3. I was wearing a black sports bra and some really nice sweatpants. But my build was a lot better than the last time, almost like I had been training with Oliver again.

I heard beeping, and gasping. I turned around, Barry! "Oh, my god!" the guy said.

"Where am I?!" Barry frantically asked. "He's up!" The girl informed. I rolled my eyes.

No shit Sherlock.

The girl started flashing the eye flashlight in his face, calling out words that none of us listened to.

I went by Barry's side, and tried calming him down, "Woah, woah, hey... Dude, calm down... You're at Star Labs!" I told him. Barry looked at me, "Leilah?" he asked. Then his eyes shifted down from my face to the sports bra. I rolled my eyes, "Hey, eyes up here." I said, pulling his face up to my face.

"Who are you?" Barry asked the guy and the girl in a low voice. "I'm Cisco Ramone, that's Caitlin." Caitlin gave him a glare, he rolled his eyes, "Dr. Snow..." Cisco corrected.

Caitlin held up a cup, "I need you to urinate in this." she stated. Cisco took the cup away, "Not right this second!" he said. "Wait, what-what is happening?! What is going on?!" Barry question. "Yeah, we both have no idea what is going on! You can at least fill us in on that!" I said.

"You both were struck by lightning, guys!" Cisco said. I looked at Barry's stomach on the screen.

Umm... since when did he have those marvelous— Wait. Am I seriously saying that?

"Lighting... gave me.. abs?" he asked.

I zoned out. I was struck by lightning? How am I still alive. How long was I out?

"Nine months..." someone said as if they were reading my mind. I turned around to see Harrison Wells.

The Harrison Wells.

Lord have mercy on my soul...

"Welcome back Mr. Allen, Ms. Storme... We have a lot to discuss..." he said.

Caitlin gave me and Barry a STAR Labs sweatshirt to put on, and Dr. Wells gestures to come follow him. "It's hard to believe we're here..." Barry started. I nodded in agreement, "I've always wanted to meet you face to face..." I remarked.

"Well you two certainly went to great lengths to do it... STAR Labs has not been operational since FEMA categorized us as a class 4 hazardous location..." Dr. Wells said. He kept going, "17 people died that night, many more were injured... including myself amongst them..."

Barry and I looked below ourselves and saw the damage done to STAR, "Geez... What happened?" Barry gasped. "Nine months ago, the particle accelerator went online exactly as planned. For 45 minutes I had achieved my life's dream, and then... then there was an anomaly...

"The electron volts became unmeasurable, the ring under us popped, energy from that detonation came into the sky, and that—in turn— created a storm cloud..."

"That made a lighting bolt, that struck us..." I finished. Dr. Wells nodded, "That's right... I was recovering myself, when I heard about the two of you. Coincidentally, you both were in hospital rooms near each other, so I was able to observe you both. For Barry, the hospital was undergoing unexplainable power outages whenever you were going into cardiac arrest—which was, actually, a misdiagnosis. Because you see, you weren't actually flat lining, Barry. Your heart was beating so fast that the EKG couldn't register it...

"Now, I'm not the most popular person these days, but Detective West and his daughter accepted for me to bring you here, where we were able to stabilize you. And Leilah, we were able to get permission from your older brother, who ended up coming all the way from Gotham to Central City in a matter of 4 hours..." Harrison finally finished.

"Iris?" Barry and I asked at the same time. I stopped myself, "Wait, Lucas came to Central City?!" Harrison nodded, "Yes, Iris and Lucas came to see you quite often..." Dr. Wells confirmed. "She talks a lot..." Caitlin said, handing Harrison his drink. "Also," Cisco interrupted. "She's hot..."
"And Lucas isn't that bad looking either..." Caitlin said, not looking up from her computer.

"We have to go..." I said, dragging Barry by the arm. "What? No, we still have to run some more tests!" Caitlin objected. "Look, we feel fine, isn't that right Leilah?" Barry said, looking towards me. I nodded, "Thank you, so much for saving our lives..." I said, before walking out.

Then I saw Barry turning back, "what are you doing?!" I hissed. Barry gave me his index finger, signalling to hold n, "Oh, can we keep the sweatshirts?" he asked.

Ugh, idiot.

"Yeah, keep the sweatshirts..." Harrison replied.

Well, it's time to see my brother.

A/N : And that's that! I wrote this a bit longer, I didn't realize how short my first chapter was until I actually read it. The episode chapters are gonna be a lot longer, probably averaging in this size of content. I'll probably be splitting the episodes in each of 3 parts. Very excited to see how Leilah gets her powers and stuff!

So, I have an idea of what her meta power is gonna be, but I'm still thinking, so if you have any suggestions, go ahead and tell me! AH! And if you're wondering what Leilah looks like, the person i "casted" was Emily Rudd. Also, any outfits Leilah wears is on my bio in a Polyvore set, and her apartment is there too!

So that's it! Bye guys! Love ya all! The Quxxn wishes you goodbye my dear subjects! Mwah~!