The next morning after I had taken a shower, braided my hair back, and slipped on a Star Labs Sweatshirt with my jeans- I walked out of the little room I had been given. A breeze of air, and a guy appears in front of me
"Coffee?" Barry asks, I nod and he hands me a latte, it had peppermint in it, and was super sweet.
"Thanks" I reply, and smiled at him. He offered coffee to Cisco and Caitlin- Dr. Wells was no where to be seen.
"hey Quinn- do you want to grab a bite to eat?" he asks, slightly flustered,
"sure" I reply, with that I started to walk toward the elevator. I turned around to see if he was following me, and next thing I know- Barry picked me up, and we were speeding down the flights of stairs, the wind making my hair snap.
"Barry- my hair!" I fake a surprised face- my faces was a mess, but I didn't really care.
"Oh, I'm so sorry- god, I keep screwing up" he tries to pat down my hair but it doesn't work, and ends up getting more messed up. After I tied my hair into a ponytail, we walked toward a cafe named Jitters.
"So, Quinn tell me about yourself" Barry says as we sat down, I got a sandwich thing, and Barry was on his 2nd cup of coffee.
"Well my dad was killed when I was 18, my mother went insane from drug use, my sister died of brain cancer a year ago- my freshman year of college, and my boyfriend was killed in a the collapse of a building when the particle accelerator malfunctioned. I went to Central City University for 2 years- graduated early, top of my class with a crime scene investigation major degree thing. I went of the grid 2 months ago, because I'm supposed to be dead." Barry's face frozen in between disbelief, and horror. I raise an eyebrow at him he stops staring, and looks down.
"Sorry" he mutters, and runs his head through his hair. I focus on my sandwich thing, and he takes a sip of coffee. An awkward silence covers our conversation like a wet blanket-
"so- you can run the sound of speed- doesn't that really screw with your metabolism and how often you have to eat?" I ask, finishing up my sandwich, and wishing for another,
"I just eat a lot- but Cisco made these carb, and protein bars for me, they work like a miracle" he smiles, and points at his coffee "I've already burned off the caffeine from this cup of coffee, and I can't get drunk" he frowns a little at the thought but he shakes it off with a little smile.
"I saw your powers, they were rad" he adds, and I feel myself flush this time.
"Oh I can't do much" I keep my eyes on the plate,
"Come on- everyone can do something special" he says, and pushes his coffee cup around.
"Alright then" I feel a surge of energy, and the cup Barry was pushing around floats.
"Woah" he says, and laughs- I move it around, and made it do a somersault- fortunately no one noticed. I let it hover once again, and Barry just goggles at it like a 5 year-old on Christmas day. I felt drained, but it seemed like this was the first time in a while that I had made someone happy- so I continued on. Barry, amazed by the floating up, looked up finally at me, and gasps
"your eyes!" he exclaims, I raise an eyebrow at him.
"what do you mean?" I ask, he takes out his phone and turns on the front camera- what I see almost takes my breath away. My eyes looked like distant galaxies- orange, reds, and yellows swirled in my iris. As, Barry leans over to get his phone back from me, his chest skims the forcefield I'd created around the cup. An electric shock hits me in the chest like a 4 ton truck, the cup crashes onto the table, and rolled onto the floor- both me and the cup hit the ground at the same time.
"Quinn! Oh god! Quinn?" Barry is shaking me, and checking my pulse. The lady at the cash register runs over, with a cell phone ready to call 911, I struggle to take in a breath. But just as quickly the electric shock hit me, it disappeared, and I sit up quickly with a gasp.
"Quinn, hey, what happened?" Barry comes into view, and I just shrug my shoulders. He helps me over to the couch, and tells the cashier lady that I was okay. He comes back with a serious, but worried look on his face.
"We're going back to STAR labs, Caitlin and Cisco are going to check this out" he takes my hand and walks me out of Jitters. ½ a block later we're speeding down roads, back to STAR labs
"Barry!" Cisco starts to say, but when I almost pass out on the ground again- Caitlin and Cisco dropped whatever they were doing and rushed toward me.
"What happened?" Caitlin asks as I sit down on the exam table for the 2nd time in a week.
"She created a force field, and made my cup float" Barry begins,
"And then Barry touched the force field, and it felt like I had gotten electrocuted." I add,
"can you show me the force field?" Cisco asks, and Caitlin takes a blood. I create the force field, but it sputters out after 5 seconds, I nearly pass out again. My heart beat monitor goes crazy, and Caitlin scolds Cisco
"we don't even know what's wrong yet, let's not kill her in the process of finding out!" she shoves Cisco and Barry out of the room, and they went off to do their thing.
"Okay, I'm going to hook you up to the computer, and I want you to make the force-field just in your palm or something- you feel up to it?" she asks, I nod, and she begins to hook me up to cords
"Caitlin, do you have any food?" I ask while I summoned the , she looks up from her computer
"Er, yeah, we have the Cisco bars" she clicks away, and then slaps her head "of course, your heart is freaking out because you aren't eating enough. Just like Barry!" She gets me a Cisco bar, and returns to clicking on the computer.
"your heart rate is a little too fast for my liking, but everything else is normal. Wait- your heartbeat is way too fast- it's like Barry's speed fast" she picks up her tablet, and walks over to me.
"Can I get you to run on the treadmill?" she asks, I nod, ripped the cords off of me, and followed after Caitlin eating my 3rd Cisco Bar.