The whole world felt cold.
Snow fell lightly into the night.
Caitlin watched with a glazed fasination.
Confusion swirled around her like white, frozen flakes.
A numbness enveloped her.
She had always considered herself to be a kind person.
With a warm smile...
A good heart.
Not this.
Not this...insane dark personality.
It was not Caitlin.
Not the woman Ronnie knew when he was alive.
But losing Dr. Wells...and her husband twice within a year was too much for her to bear.
She talked with Felecity whom promptly told Oliver and Barry who tried to reason with the spiraling scientist.
She didn't care.
She still blamed him.
Blamed Barry Allen for the death of Ronnie Raymond.
The second half of Fire Storm.
Even Cisco tried to help.
It only put off the enevitable...
Pretty soon a warm smile was not so easy...
And her hatred of the scarlett speedster had not begun to thaw.
Ice gently crept out from underneath her feet.
Was Caitlin unusually angry?
Of course.
But she wasn't evil.
Her eyes were opened.
Opened to the fact Barry Allen was no hero.
He was a killer.
And she would play his game.
Take something in return.
The 15 year old she once called nephew:
Wallace Rudolph West.
The boy laid half-dead around here somewhere in the snow.
Slowly freezing his way into the speedster-version of the after life.
But still she felt nothing.
It was confusing...
And upsetting.
She wanted to save Wally.
A small part of her.
Doctor Caitlin Snow.
Glowing frosty blue eyes lingered on a park bench.
A bench that should have held her and Ronnie...
He was her only source of heat and comfort.
Everything else was ice.
Green Arrow, ARGUS, Cisco, Barry and whole Justice Society could all try and stop her.
She only wanted Ronnie...
The woman began to wander aimessly.
She remembered a time before The Flash 's betryal.
Before Wells.
Before The Particle Accelerator.
Where she was just a 26 year old year woman with no social life, good friends and a wonderful man.
Then that all changed.
A tree near by hardened in a thick layer of ice and split in two.
"Aunt C-C-Catie?"
Red turned platinum locks flipped over her shoulder and she turned to see a small African-American boy crawl his way through a blanket of snow.
A trail of blood smeared into it as far as the eye could see.
She did not reply.
But their eyes met.
Betrayal and confusion were deeply etched into both pairs.
Silence.
The freezing midnight wind cut Kid Flash to the bone.
He groaned in pain, slowly climbing to his feet.
A stubborn glint was now in his.
"You in a bad mood?" He weakly joked, "I promise there are better outlets."
He was hit with another bast.
The absolute zero tempeture burned a hole into his suit.
Wally cried out, swiftly falling to his knees.
She frowned.
Why wasn't he running?
Or at least trying to defend himself from her.
"Ggaahh! Hey I hear The Bahamas are nice this time of year!"
Another blast.
Wally simply writhed on the frozen ground.
"Nope!" He breathed staring upwards at the pitch black sky.
"I swear we AAHH-we really need to work on your comminication skills."
"Stop talking!" She commanded.
'Believe me it's for your own good...'
"Tada! See?" He exhaled, vision fading fast, "I knew you could do it. So proud..." Wally's eyes closed, chin slumping.
He had passed out.
Caitlin's powers still did their work on him.
Silence, "..Im sorry Wally."
End Chapter One