Hhhhh! I'm so sorry! I've turned into one of those people that don't update for a month! I feel bad, and horrible…. I had writer's block, because fight scenes aren't my style, but I feel like I have to put some in, because this is the Justice League! What the nartz is wrong with me? Why is my writers block so mean, and blocky?

Wow, this is so not me. But you have to know my struggle! I's so hard, and boring, and I should want to write this, because it's CJ. Her story is coming to an end, by the way, which is probably why I don't want to write it! I want her to stay! But we have to see Cynthadore happen! Everyone deserves a Happy Ever After! And the readers, you deserve the ending of this story. So I'm finishing it!

Chapter 10

CJ was pretty much running to the teleporters. Mr. Terrific was there, and CJ briefly wondered if he wanted to be here, or at the party. He looked up, obviously bored with the monitors, at the sound of her footsteps.

His eyes narrowed in confusion. "Firebug, I thought you were-"

CJ stopped on one of the eight circles. She stared at him, sharing his confusion, waiting for him to finish his sentence. She didn't want to sound rude.

He glanced back at the monitors. "How did you get back up here?"

CJ blinked. "What do you mean? I've been here for over half an hour. You teleported me up."

He rubbed his face in confusion. "I swear I just teleported you down, about five minutes ago." He shook his head. "This job must be getting to me."

CJ was only confused for one more second. She let out a small squeal, stopping him from moving to the teleport controls. He looked up at her, waiting.

"Was she- Was I wearing different clothes?"

Mr. Terrific's eyes once again narrowed. "Yeah, I thought it was strange, but hey, women change their outfits all the time. I thought it was normal." He shook his head again.

That confirmed it. CJ couldn't have been teleported down, because five minutes ago she was with Flash. It only meant one thing. "She escaped."

Mr. Terrific met her gaze again. "Who escaped?"

CJ stepped off the circle and closer to him. The emotions stirred within her. Her heartbeat quickened, anxiety rushing through her veins. She flailed her hands in fright. "Caroline, my twin sister. She was locked in the quarantine room, because she's dangerous, her powers are out of control."

Mr. Terrific's eyes widened. "I heard about that, I just didn't think she would look exactly like you." He slapped his forehead. "I should have been paying attention. That's why you looked different- I mean her. Different clothes."

CJ gestured to the computer. "It doesn't matter. Inform the Justice League. Find out where she went. Do something."

He gave her one last concerned glance that said, are you okay? before he typed at the monitors for a moment. "She said she wanted to go home." He closed his eyes for a moment, and CJ saw the guilt in his expression. "She's at your apartment."

CJ gasped. "Ted." Without any debate she went back over to the circles. Ted was in danger. He could get hurt. This was what CJ was scared of. She didn't want to lose him, not before she could tell him. "Send me down."

There was no hesitation as Mr. Terrific typed away. Before he hit the button, he said, "I'll notify the League. Send you some backup." Then CJ was wrapped in the white light, her body seeming to be tugged all different way, and then the light disappeared to reveal her apartment.

The whole living room was frozen, and CJ immediately turned up her internal temperature so she was comfortable. It was instinct, now that the fire was part of her, like a sixth sense or one of her own limbs. There was ice coating most of the room and all the objects in it, but there was a pattern in it. The streaks all led to one place: the open window.

CJ only had enough time to be horrified before she remembered why she was here. She had to make sure Ted was safe.

She took a step towards the hall and almost fell from the slick floor. She caught herself, and began to shuffle to the hall, which was not covered in ice. The target of Caroline's was only the living room. "Ted!" She called out as she ran across the wood floor. She barged into his bedroom, and when she didn't find him in there, she next went to his study. She didn't think he would be in her room or the bathroom, but she checked them as well. He was not in the apartment.

Where else could he be? He either left before Caroline got here, or she took him.

CJ went into her room and found her cell phone. She checked the screen for any messages or missed calls, but had none. She threw her phone on her bed- literally threw it- in frustration. She ran out of her room and was about to leave the apartment when she stopped, once again seeing the patterns of the ice. Why would it all lead to the window? Why would Caroline freeze everything towards it?

CJ cautiously approached the window, avoiding falling on the ice, then inspected the windowsill. The ice was thicker here, and as she peered through it and looked at the window from outside, she noticed that the outside of the building was similar to the inside. All the ice led to the window. It was almost as if an ice ball exploded right inside the window. Was Caroline powerful enough now to control her ice, push it out of her body? And did she have Ted?

After one last look outside, CJ was about to turn when she saw it. There was ice, a trail of it, attached to the fire escape railing. CJ couldn't describe it as anything else other than a trail. It was smooth and flat, and went out into the city. CJ didn't understand how she hadn't seen it before. It was completely obvious.

With some struggle CJ shifted out onto the fire escape and took a closer look at the ice. It was melting in this weather, getting thinner and thinner, but still sturdy. She must have left only a few minutes ago.

CJ began melting it, too worried about Ted to even consider what the people under the ice would think. Where her hands touched the ice it melted, the steam coming off it rising up into her face. She didn't know why it was odd, but it smelt like boiling water.

Once the ice was too far for CJ to reach, she jumped off the railing and began to levitate, melting the ice as she followed it. Hopefully it would lead to her twin sister and Ted.

As she followed the ice, she wondered how it was staying in the air without breaking. The trail seemed to lead on forever. Perhaps if it had more time to melt it would have.

Finally, she caught up to Caroline, who had made a small platform attached to a building, about ten stories up. CJ gasped when she saw Ted. Caroline was holding onto his shirt, and Ted looked like he was trying to talk to her. He cringed, and Caroline grinned.

"Caroline!"

Her twin glanced over, then turned back to Ted. CJ was close enough now to hear what she said. "Look, she actually came." She turned back to CJ and glared. "You care more about him than you do for me," she growled out, shaking Ted, who almost slipped on the ice he was standing on.

"You can't possibly think that," CJ said, glancing down at the ice. From Caroline's boots cool mist could be seen, telling CJ that she was keeping the ice cold. Good, then they wouldn't fall. Ted's shoes were also getting cold, the ice sometimes forming on them, and he would lift his foot to kick it away.

"It's true. I can see it." She shook Ted again, this time towards the edge, and he lurched forward, eyes widening in fear. CJ instinctively got closer and was about to catch him if he fell when Caroline pulled him back onto the ice. Caroline rose her eyebrows, as if to say told you. "You'd die for him, wouldn't you?"

CJ glared, hating how Ted kept cringing at the cold, and that Caroline was enjoying this. But if she got closer, would Caroline drop him? CJ couldn't risk it. "You're right. I would. I won't let anyone hurt him, especially you."

Caroline laughed. "Oh, really?" Then she shoved him, releasing his shirt.

"No!" CJ yelled as Ted toppled over the edge, a shout of fear ringing throughout the air as he fell towards the streets below. CJ forgot about Caroline and dropped down after him. He was falling with his back to the ground, and CJ could see that he was staring at her in shock as the wind blew around him.

As CJ got closer, she released the fire and latched on to the front of his shirt. Ted's eyes widened more. "CJ, no!"

The only way to save him would be to fly, but she could hurt him if she did. She was thinking about putting herself under him, to soften his landing. If she did, he would have a better chance at living. But she couldn't risk it. A few burns was better than paralysis, right?

She took in a breath and caught fire, just ten feet off the ground. She stopped their descent, pulling him up until they were levitating, then waited for him to react and look to the ground. He righted himself, and she set him down on his feet.

The entire fall had only taken about five seconds.

Where CJ's hands had been, his shirt had caught fire. When they had been in the air, it hadn't been touching his skin, but now it was. CJ quickly took the warmth away just as he winced at the pain of fire to skin contact.

"Ted, I am so sorry," she said, touching his arm. He shook his head, swallowing a lump in his throat. "It's fine. I just- Don't ever do that again." He touched her hair, then whispered, "I thought you were going to die, too."

CJ glanced down at his shirt that was now open to his stomach because CJ had burnt off the buttons taking away strips of his shirt. "But, I saved you."

He shook his head again. "If we were ever in a situation where one of us could live, I'd want it to be you." CJ almost gasped. No, that's what she wanted. Wouldn't he want to live. You'd die for him, wouldn't you? The words rung throughout her head. Yes, she would. She would die for the ones she loved, and he must be thinking the same way.

Caroline laughs. "You know why I can control it now? Because I'm angry!"

"You know, Care, I didn't do this to you. The same thing happened to me."

"No. It didn't. You knew I was safe. You wanted to protect me." She paused. "But me? I was abandoned. I had no idea where you were. I didn't have a doctor to bond with. I had no one. And those people treated me like I was no one. Nothing."

"That's because you couldn't control it. You didn't want to. All you're thinking about is this. I wanted to control it. I didn't want to hurt anyone, and I did something about it."

"You're wrong!" Caroline lifted her arms out towards CJ in one quick movement. CJ felt like she saw this in slow motion. As her arms moved, CJ saw the ice begin to form, dancing across her skin. As her arms finally pointed to CJ, the ice scrambled down her arms, over her fingers, and into the air.

CJ instinctively put up a wall of fire, in the back of her brain calculating how wide it would be so she wouldn't hurt Ted, just as the bolt of ice sailed through the air. The sound that was made when ice and fire hit was a loud crack. It sounded like someone threw a large rock at a windshield, but the window didn't break, only crack. Only amplified so much more. A lot more.

At the same time, the ice melted, but it also froze a small piece of fire, before the heat around it melted that chunk as well. CJ stared at Caroline in shock, and the twin had the same look on her face. CJ's fire had never been tampered with. It was always her fire that destroyed things; nothing had ever destroyed her fire.

Pushing her surprise away, she glanced back at Ted. He looked fine, and far enough back so that he wasn't sweating from the heat CJ was creating. He looked like he didn't know what to do.

Caroline seemed to recover from her shock as well, because she sent another bolt of ice, this one larger. CJ's fire must not have been hot enough to melt ice on contact, because the bolt went through her fire and hit her in the stomach. The force of it sent CJ off her feet, falling to the ground. She hit the pavement, sending pain throughout her back and head, mixing in with the pain from the bolt. She felt like she was burning all over, with fire that could hurt her. A groan of pain escaped her lips.

The ice that hit her froze some of her stomach, just a small sliver, and was easily burnt away when her fire roared. She instinctively felt her stomach, and felt a small cut. Was she bleeding?

Then she saw Ted leaning over her from her position on the ground, his eyes frantic with worry, and the pain dulled. His hands were reached out to her, but he didn't touch her so that she wouldn't be hurt more. He did, however, finally gently touch her head, his fingers tangling in her hair. "CJ, are you alright?"

She was about to answer through the pain when she heard the tinkling of ice. She bolted upright into a somewhat sitting position and threw a blast of fire. She didn't think she'd have good aim, especially not with the pain ringing throughout her, but she must have put enough force into it because as the next bolt of ice came towards them, CJ's ball of fire hit it. The crack once again sounding throughout the air, but fortunately the ice disintegrated.

CJ stood, pushing Ted away so that he wasn't near her. He understood what she was doing. Once he was a safe distance away, she caught fire, and shoved some towards her sister. She didn't want to hurt her, but maybe if she made the air around her warm she would begin to freeze herself.

"I know what you're doing, Cynth. I told you, I can control it when I'm angry!" From beyond the fire, CJ saw small bolts of ice explode where Caroline must have been standing

CJ saw what her twin was about to do, and tried to put the fire completely around her, but Caroline backed away. She was free of the fire, so CJ let it die down, bringing it back to her body. Caroline began to ran and shot out ice in front of her on the ground. She jumped onto it and continued to put ice in front of her. As she did this, she slid on the ice, moving at a faster pace than running. Within a few seconds she had turned the corner.

CJ glanced back at Ted, who gave her a nod. "You have to stop her." She gave him a tight smile before she jumped into the air and followed. She flew a foot off the ground, following her sister's trail. The heat from her body melted the ice into water.

Around the corner was Memorial Park, with hundreds of people. They had scattered when Caroline had entered the park, but did so even more when CJ flew into it. It wasn't until then that CJ realized that there were civilians around. There had been some watching her exchange a minute ago, but she hadn't processed that they were there. Realizing this made her more determined to keep Caroline from possibly hurting more.

Caroline glanced back, her ice trail continuing to grow across the grass, and when she saw CJ, shot a bolt of ice her way. Since all the civilians had jumped away, she knew it was safe to make the fire hotter, hot enough to burn the ice and grass around her, and positioned herself just above the bolt. As she got closer to it, it passed under her and melted from the heat.

Caroline, seeing that her sister hadn't fallen, shot bolts off to the sides, and from the force of it pushed her to a faster speed. One of the bolts went up into a tree, freezing the branches, and another hit a statue right next to the trail Caroline was making.

CJ recognized this statue, having seen it earlier in the week. It was the Callahan man, the one who made Callahan Tower. Without thinking, she stopped, releasing all the fire. She reached her hand up to the ice that had formed up his leg, and brought enough heat to slowly melt the ice but not leave scorch marks on the metal. Where her hand touched the statue, the ice melted. She once again followed her sister's trail, melting the ice. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew she did it so that no one slipped and fell on it.

Once she followed Caroline, they ended up returning to the place Ted had fallen. He was still there, and Caroline was going straight for him. CJ sped up, forgetting about melting the ice, and flew over top of her. She barely made it, and stopped right in front of Caroline's path. Her twin stopped about five feet away, the ice still present, but she no longer moved.

With a smirk, she threw two bolts towards them, and CJ easily threw fire balls at them to melt them, but a small chunk of the fire froze, falling and making a clinking noise as it hit the pavement below.

Ted looked at Caroline. "You don't want to do this."

Caroline glared at Ted and began to walk towards them. "I do, actually. You certainly can't stop me."

"But we can."

If you didn't know: Guess who just showed up! Next chapter, here we come!