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It was a lovely evening. Just earlier, I had a simple breakfast with Harrison back home, like we normally do. Today, instead of going to the hospital, I had the gun training with Joe just by the outsides of the city.
"Stand still, grip the gun tightly. Let your arm connect with your weapon, feel it being part of you. Now fire." Just like Joe told me to, I pulled the trigger, the bullet hitting only inches away from the original target but breaking the bottle. "Not bad."
"I have the best trainer." I said with a smile as he walked to change the bottle. "And I like this gun, it's not so heavy and easy to use."
"That's why I picked it up for you." He, then, walked back to me. "Okay, this time, try to hit the centre. You were not so far but it's better to hit the target."
"Piece of cake." Taking position, I took a deep breath and was about to fire but Joe's phone went off. "We said no distractions."
"Sorry, it's from the CCPD." He walked few meters away, giving me space to fire. Once again, I took position and this time, I aimed directly at the target. "Great, you're now in charge of that gum being on your drawer and only used when needed. Speaking of, there was a robbery at Cunningham and Sampere. I think we could use your help."
"Me? Why?"
"Why don't we go and find out?"
We gathered the things from the field and made our way to the bank. It was a total mess and the people in there looked rather nervous or worried. Not far from us, Barry came in as well. "Maybe I should see the people, ask them what happened."
"Be careful." Joe reminded before I made my way to one man, his face was of shock.
"Looks like you got it pretty bad." I said while sitting next to him. "I'm Dr. Allen, you mind if I ask what happened?"
"I was here to put some money on my account, everything was normal until this man came in and his eyes were glowing red, it's like if he got inside my mind and I had this killer thoughts. I don't remember what happened after, just that this one lady pointed a gun at me and the box of pennies was in front of me, the bullet hitting it."
"Do you think you could describe the man?"
"He, um, he had this crazy shades. Probably mid-40s. His hair was short, to the side and black, pointy nose, not so tall, slim. He was wearing a turtleneck with a trench coat and was carrying some type of bag."
"Okay, thanks." I gave him a smile and got up, Eddie walking to me with a blonde woman.
"She says she felt anger all of sudden." He said and I looked at the woman, she looked really worried.
"I'm not a killer, I don't even know how to fire a gun. You have to believe me, it was never my intention to do it."
"Can you describe me what happened?" She nodded and proceeded to tell me a story like the other man. "Thanks, Eddie, you can take her." Eddie nodded and I walked to both Barry and Joe. "Looks like a case we need to look into deeper than the CCPD knows."
"What did you get?" Joe asked.
"None of this people could control their actions. My bet? This man who walks into the bank somehow controlled this people into convincing them to kill each other while he could steal the money."
"Any idea how he looks?" Barry asked this time.
"Medium height, black hair to the side, pointy noise, mid-40s, and his eyes can turn red. That's what one of the witnesses told me."
"Sound something you two should be looking at STAR Labs."
"Actually, I want to take the affected to the hospital, do a scan to the brain and have a more precise idea of what could've happen."
"Fine, you do that as we go back to the station."
Joe ordered some of the officers around to send the civilians to the hospital. They were quite few, so it took a little longer than I thought. With the whole scans done, I drove back to STAR Labs to examine them.
"I got the copies of the scans I did on the people of the bank. You might want to see this." I handed Caitlin the USB as she connected it to the monitors, extending the image to us.
"Well, look at this, the emotion centres of the brain are still showing signs of being overwhelmed." Harrison said.
"Particularly the area that control executive functions." Cait said.
"The part of our brain that stops us from doing whatever bad things comes into our minds." I added.
"How do you think the meta does this?" Barry asked.
"That's the half a million dollar question."
"Hey, if you guys figure it out, just give me a call, okay?" Barry said while looking at his phone.
"Is the Flash off to another rooftop rendezvous with Iris?" Cait asked.
"No." Barry said and without him noticing, I took his phone.
"Jitters tonight?" I asked with half a smirk. "Not so fast, Flash."
"Okay, fine, yeah, but she probably just wants to ask me…I mean, you know, him…about Meta human stuff for her blog." Barry said while getting his phone back.
"Do you want some advice?" Cait asked.
"No matter what I say, I'm getting the advice, right?"
"Don't get involved. As The Flash or yourself. You don't want to be the one to blame for their breakup."
"Okay, I hear you." He then changed into his outfit and proceeded to leave.
With Barry gone, I excused myself to get a Big Belly Burger, since I was starting to feel hungry. Hearing where I was heading to, Harrison didn't doubt to come along.
"I really think you have an obsession with Big Belly Burger." I told him in a mocking way.
"Can't help it, they are delicious." He stopped at the line for the drive-thru, two cars in front of us. "How did your gun training went?"
"Still got my good aiming." I said rather proudly. "And I like my new gun; small, simple, easy to hold." While talking, I looked outside of Harrison's window to the car that just pulled out of the drive-thru. My eyes met a pair of blue eyes, those blue eyes I once fell for. Our eyes met for a brief moment before he eventually had to move out of the way.
"Danielle?" I hear Harrison call for me. Blinking couple of times, I sat back in my place, looking at the back of the car in front of us. "What happened?"
"Nothing, nothing." I assured him with a smile, but I could tell he was not satisfied with my answer, though he said no other word as it was our turn to order.
I was silent while we waited for our food. My mind kept focusing on those eyes. It was him, it had to be him, or why else would he look back at me with the same expression I had, right? I rubbed my temple and Harrison noticed something was off, but he said nothing about it while handing me the bag.
"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked after taking a bite of her burger and taking off to the driveway.
"Don't worry, babe, I'm fine." I reached out to pull his hand holding his burger, taking a bite of it before he could.
"Hey, hands to yourself." He said with a small frown.
"I'm sorry, it looked very delicious." I leaned over and kissed his cheek, bringing a small smile to his face.
The road back was a little slower since we were finishing our dinner. When we arrived, I noticed Joe's police car parked outside, which I found weird. Harrison looked at me, but I just shrugged while getting out of the car. He got in his wheelchair while we walked inside together.
"Detective, to what do we owe the pleasure?" Harrison asked when we spotted Joe just outside the elevator.
"There's a matter we need to talk about." Both men looked at me, I just rolled my eyes.
"If you need me, I'll be at the Cortex." I walked away from them and into the Cortex, where Barry was with Caitlin. "What are you guys doing?"
"We found the meta-human, he controlled a police officer." Barry told me.
"The officer said he saw a red light coming out of his eyes before feeling his anger." Caitlin said and I frowned a little.
"That's what one of the witnesses at the bank said happened as well." I looked from them to the room in front where I saw a blonde woman. "Why is she here?"
"Felicity is here because she is investigating some boomerang." Barry explained and I sighed heavily.
"Danielle! Come and check this out." Cisco said while peeking his head out of the door. Hesitatingly, I walked to him and Felicity.
"Danielle."
"Felicity."
"Whoa, we don't need drama here, okay?" He told us both and I couldn't help but roll my eyes. "Check this out, it is a masterpiece." Cisco said while holding the boomerang up.
"Do they really come back to you?" I asked in curiosity. He had a big grin on his face as he holds the boomerang in place and throws it, but his aim was not steady and the boomerang begins to fly around like crazy. Caitlin began to scream as it was close to her, I just had to place a hand on my mouth to stop me from laughing, the boomerang finally landing on a wall with Barry and Joe coming to the scene.
"That's my bad, that's on me." He said and I just chuckled.
…
With the name of the meta-human and still the boomerang case going around, my weekend off the hospital felt like a normal working day. Before going to STAR Labs, I got a message from Barry telling me to stop by Jitters.
"Danielle, unusual for you to be here." Iris was the one to receive me, I could notice something in her face.
"Why? Barry asked me to come here." I said rather confused.
"That's because I asked him for a favour." Someone said behind me, and I knew perfectly fine who it was. Iris gave me a nervous smile before walking away and I turned around. "Hello, Danielle."
"Hey, Oliver." I tried my best to smile, but I was not comfortable with this.
"Can I get you anything?"
"You know, I would love to stay and chat but there's stuff I need to do at the hospital and—"
"Barry told me you have a weekend off." I closed my eyes and sighed. "Please."
"Fine. A coffee will do fine."
"Extra sugar, right?" He asked and I nodded, gaining a smile from him. I sat down at a near empty table on the window. He came back with two cups, handing me one. "How you've been?"
"Busy with a lot of work but I've been fine. What about you?"
"Can't really complain. Still looking out for the city at night." He took a sip and I looked down at my mug. "I'm sorry for never contacting you again but things were starting to become complicated and I didn't want to risk your life. It was better if I didn't have any contact with you." He paused for a second, leaning over the table. "All that show with Fred and Felicity keeping the photo, it was all on me."
I looked up to him, a slight frown forming on my forehead. "What do you mean?"
"I needed an excuse to be away from you. I contacted Fred with Felicity's help." Now it was all clear. "I'm sorry, Danielle, I really am."
"You could've just tell me, Oliver. You have any idea of how much I suffered because of that photo? All this time I hated Felicity because I thought she wanted you all for herself and wanted to get rid of me, now you're telling me this? She was my best friend, the person I trusted the most."
"Don't you think it hurt me? Danielle, you were the first woman I ever loved. This job is not easy and I wanted you safe, alive. Felicity had a bad time as well, but your life means a lot." While he was talking, he placed both of his hands on top of mines. "I'm not asking for your apology, but I wanted for you to know the truth now that you're involved in the same business."
"I spent weeks crying myself to sleep. I wouldn't eat, go out, even got to the point where I wanted to quit my job." I retrieved my hands from his. "You're right, I can't forgive you but I hope you have a good life, Oliver Queen." Once said that, I got up from the seat and walked out of the shop.
I felt devastated, like an elephant had just walked through me. Barry was going to listen to me, and he was going to suffer for doing what he did. I drove to STAR Labs but there was no sign of him there. The only place I thought he could be was the CCPD, but before I could drive away, there was a knock on my window.
"Going somewhere?" Harrison asked as I opened the door and got out.
"To find my brother, I need to talk to him."
"He is with The Arrow." The way of saying the name made it obvious there was something bothering him.
"What's the problem?"
"You know who the Arrow is, Danielle." Both his arms trapped my body against the car.
"Why would I know his identity?" I tried to sound calm.
"You know Felicity and she works for him, that can't be a coincidence." I noticed his right eyebrow twitching, he really was upset. "When were you planning on telling me that Oliver Queen is The Arrow?"
"I—"
"You saw him, didn't you? That's why you were so nervous the other day, because you saw him and then had a coffee together."
"Yes, yes I saw him the other day and we had a coffee. But that's no reason for you to act the way you are acting. What I had with Oliver Queen is in the past now and it will stay there."
"I have every reason to act this way." I stopped for a minute to take his words, and then, held my chin up.
"Thanks for making it clear how little trust you have on me." I pushed him away from me, opened the door of my car and drove to the CCPD, where I thought I could get lucky on finding Barry.
"What could possibly bring you here?" Joe asked while I walked to his desk.
"Looking for Barry, you seen him around?"
"I was just on the phone with Caitlin. Barry lost Bivolo and she says that there was something weird going on with him."
"Sounds to me that he looked into the man's red eyes." I concluded. "Great, I was stepping out of this case and now this."
"Stepping out? Why were you doing such thing? Don't tell me this is about Felicity."
"What else?" Just as I finished talking, we heard some shouting coming from the stairs. Barry and Captain Singh were having some sort of misunderstanding. "Oh, no." Joe was the one to separate the both but soon got into an argument with him as well, Barry even pushing him away. "What is your problem?"
"My problem is all of you, stepping into my life like you could do everything better." His tone was different, he was angry.
"Barry, did you look into Bivolo's eyes?"
"So what if I did? Nothing happened, there was no effect." He sounded a little calmer. I looked over at Joe, but Barry then frowned and walked away from us.
"His eyes, they turned red when he pushed me." Joe told me while we watched him go.
"You need to warn STAR Labs team." I said with a heavy sigh.
"What, you're not coming?"
"I had a…misunderstanding with Harrison and it's better for me to stay out. You'll be there so Barry will be fine."
"If he does anything to you, let me know." He kissed my forehead before heading out.
…
It was weird being home alone, or for the matter, being home knowing Harrison was probably still upset. I was not really sure why he so upset or not trusting me with Oliver being around.
With the night just starting, I decided to watch a movie. I always enjoyed horror movies and being alone was not going to stop me from watching one to focus my mind on something. This movie was one of my favorites, so I put on my PJs, made some popcorn, and served some wine.
The movie was just coming to the end when the front door open. I sighed, I was not really in the mood to have another fight or have to deal with Harrison if he was still upset. I didn't move from the couch, I was too comfortable with my eyes stick to the TV. My feet were suddenly lifted up and I looked over at Harrison, who was sitting down on the other end of the couch.
"I'm sorry for what happened earlier. I love you and knowing you were out with Mr. Queen made me upset." I sat down, placing the glass of wine on the table before facing him.
"You are the man that I love, the one I would give my life for, the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. You shouldn't feel jealous of someone like Oliver, he's nothing to me." He smiled a little before leaning to place his lips on mines. "I love you, Harrison."
"Glad to know the feeling is mutual, my love." We remained on the couch watching another movie until we were sleepy enough to move to the bed and sleep the night away.
Hello, everyone! I know it's been long since I uploaded a chapter but I was busy, but here it is! First fight, but even Wells gets a little jealous. I'm sorry this is not a really big chapters, but I was having the rush to finish it already to continue with the he next and finally the Christmas one (yes, I'm quite excited for that one).
I hope everyone is enjoying it! Please, review if you can. x
