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Two months that passed slower than usual. Two months since Danielle was kidnapped by Eiling and just like the tests showed, injected her with serums. Everything went by normal, or so they thought. With the incident, Joe was more aware that Dr. Wells was not the good one and that his secret was a very dark one. He began investigating him more and more to the point where Barry began to believe in Joe's theory.
As everyone else was minding their business with the new threat in the city involving an old Central City villain called The Trickster, Danielle's eyes slowly began to open. She looked around and was glad to wake up to a familiar place. Her hands reached to rub her eyes, what happened? Her body felt normal. She moved her hands down to her stomach and she couldn't believe the small bump she felt. Her baby was alive and growing.
Carefully, she moved to sit on the edge of the bed and that's when she noticed the hospital robe she was wearing. A small alarm began to beep and she saw Caitlin running from the hallway to the Cortex and finally to her, a big smile on her face upon seeing Danielle.
"You're finally awake. How are you feeling?" Caitlin walked to retrieve her medical instruments as Danielle stretched.
"Fine. How long was I out?"
"Two months." Caitlin told her while walking back and stopped when she took a good look at Danielle.
"Two months?!" Danielle couldn't believe it, then she noticed the look of Cait's face. "What?"
"There's, um, something different in your eyes." Caitlin grabbed her cellphone and handed it to Danielle with the camera open and that's when she saw it; her eyes were no longer green, they were a shade of bright violet. "I'll get Dr. Wells."
As Caitlin walked to retrieve Wells, Danielle couldn't stop looking at her eyes. They were…beautiful but not normal. As Caitlin then looked for Cisco and contacted Barry, Harrison hurried his wheelchair to the nursery.
"Danielle." He called and her attention was now on him. She placed the phone on the nightstand and got of the bed, hurrying to walk to him and sit on his lap to give him a hug that he returned. "I missed you."
"I feel like I've been out forever." She said while hiding her face on his neck. "Harrison, Eiling did something to me. My eyes, they changed." Danielle looked at him and he noticed what she was talking about.
"What's the last thing you remember?"
Danielle froze, the last thing she remembered was the man in yellow suit. "I—I think I must have been dreaming. Barry saved me, didn't he? He found me at that horrible place Eiling was holding me." Harrison shook his head in no and she swallowed. "The man in yellow, he was there." She said almost in a whisper. "The man in yellow saved me."
"Danielle!" Their conversation was interrupted by Cisco and Caitlin walking to them. Gladly, she accepted the hug from Cisco, who was happy, but worried, at the same time. "Whoa, your eyes."
"That's surely something we need to check into." Caitlin said but Danielle shook her head in no.
"I feel normal, really. Maybe it's just a small side effect, nothing to worry." Caitlin, as well as the other two men, knew they needed to check her completely. She tried to stop her but the minute her skin made contact with Danielle's, she took a step back.
Danielle had a blank face, she was pale. When Caitlin made contact with her, she had a flashback of what they went through for the time she was gone. Danielle saw the moment Barry told them about her, the meta-human they arrested, and all that happened to Ronnie and some Professor Stein.
"Danielle? Danielle?" Harrison asked, but she stared at the floor trying to process what just happened. "Give us a moment." He ordered to the other two and with worried faces, they walked out of the room. "My love, what's wrong?"
"I—"She wanted to speak but it was as if words couldn't describe what just happened.
"It's okay." He was about to walk to her but she backed away. "Danielle, everything is fine."
"No, no it's not." She finally said. "The moment Caitlin touched me, I—I had like a flashback of what happened while I was here. I saw Ronnie and something about Firestorm and this Shawna girl…" Danielle stopped, finally looking up at Harrison. "I was used by Eiling as a testing subject and now I'm some kind of meta-human?"
"Danielle, you need to calm down." Once again, he tried to get close to her but she refused it.
"I don't want that to happen again." By the time she said that, tears were coming down her cheeks. But Harrison didn't care and walked to embrace her in his arms. Though his hands rose her arms, nothing happened.
"Let Caitlin check you to know what's happening and see that everything is okay with the baby. Please?" Danielle nodded as Harrison dried her tears and placed a kiss on her forehead.
With Harrison back on his wheelchair, the both went to the room with the treadmill, where Caitlin and Cisco were waiting for them. Danielle explained the situation to them. Though Caitlin was not sure if this was something good, Cisco was excited for the kind of powers she could have or develop.
Caitlin placed some electrodes around her head and on her back. Cisco and Harrison were behind the monitors on the other side of the wall. "How are you? You know, with Ronnie back?" Danielle asked her friend as she finished placing the last one.
"He's safe and alive, I couldn't ask for something better." Caitlin told her with a smile. "Now let's see what's going on with you."
Danielle was calm at the moment as Caitlin walked to retrieve her tablet. She began doing the brain scans. Caitlin's tablet almost fell into the floor when the scans began to show some abnormally. She didn't say anything but hurried back to the two men.
"Dr. Wells, looks at this." Caitlin said while showing the scans to him. Of course Harrison recognize them, he has seen them before. "They are the similar scans to the ones we have of Grodd."
"Who's Grodd?" Danielle asked. Caitlin looked at Wells, but he sighed, taking his glasses off.
"He's the reason why Eiling and I don't get along when he wanted to create his enhanced soldiers." Harrison said while placing his glasses on and looking at Danielle through the glass. "Grodd is the gorilla Eiling was testing on."
Danielle frowned. "And what happened to him?"
"We don't know. After the particle accelerator exploded, he escaped." Caitlin told her.
"So this drugs or whatever he injected, they were tested on a gorilla before and no one knows what they do?"
"Well, we know you can see people's thoughts when you touch them." Cisco pointed out while placing a lollipop on his mouth.
"You said they were similar. What's the difference?"
"Your scans show more and stronger activity on your primary motor cortex." Caitlin said.
"So Eiling made a stronger serum? An improved one."
"It appears so."
Danielle felt anger. She didn't want to be some meta-human, she wanted to live her life like a normal person. This was all Eiling's fault. If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't be having this trouble. Danielle was going to get revenge, and if not, she was going to kill him.
Caitlin was going to head back inside with her to take the electrodes off when they noticed something odd happening. The chair not far away from where Danielle was began to lift up in the air and slowly began to get crushed. Cisco mumbled 'whoa' under his breath as the chair was completely rushed and it fell back to the floor and Danielle, with her body feeling exhausted, lay back on the bed.
He and Caitlin rushed into the room. Cisco walked to the chair to check it, there was no way of fixing it back. While Caitlin walked to Danielle, who had an exhausted look.
"Did I do that?" She asked.
"That was amazing!" Cisco said with both his hands on either side of his head. "Oh, this is getting better."
Harrison wheeled himself inside beside Danielle's bed. "You should rest. We don't know yet how much this will affect the baby, but we won't risk it."
Just as he finished saying that, footsteps walked to the room. Joe and Barry were back from their interview at Iron Heights with the Trickster guy. Barry was the first one to run into his sister, embracing her in his arms.
"I was so worried about you." As both sibling hugged, Harrison, Cisco, and Caitlin walked away to give them some time. "Don't ever do that to me."
"I'm sorry, brother, but everything happened so fast." Just as they broke apart, Joe walked to her to hug her.
"It's so good to have you back."
"It's good to be back." She told him with a small smile.
"Do you remember anything? The police got a call of someone spotting you near the city's limits." Danielle looked down on the ground. All she could think about was the sound of the Reverse Flash's voice before she started to lose consciousness.
"I just remember Eiling injecting me with some purple serum." Barry placed his hands on top of her.
Then, it happened again. Her mind filling with short moments when he saved Ronnie, when he traveled in time, his fight with the other Mardon brother, Snart back and Lisa with him, him going back to their old house with Joe as they looked at the hologram of their mother, and finally, earlier that day when he was looking at the new case of Harrison being the Reverse Flash.
"Are you out of your mind?" She asked with a rather upset tone of voice. "How can you think such thing of Harrison?"
"W-what are you talking about?" Barry asked confused, finally noticing the change of her eyes. "Danielle, why are your eyes a different color?"
Joe, being as confused as Barry, leaned to see what Barry was talking about. Sure they didn't noticed it at first but after she had experienced the visions, they appeared to be a stronger violet. "Hold on. You need to tell us what's happening to you, Dan."
Danielle looked at Joe, but sighed to calm herself down. "I assume you know the story of Eiling wanting to enhance his soldiers?" Both men nodded. "It appears he injected me with an improved serum, one that apparently has given me the ability to see through people's memories with a simple touch and just before you arrived, I lifted that chair and crushed it." She motioned to the crushed chair not so far away.
"You're telling us that you have mind powers?" Joe asked while crossing his arms.
"Wait, wait. This is crazy." Barry moved his hands through his hair. "So you just had visions of what I did while you were gone?"
"And I saw your new board at your Lab. I want you to explain it." Danielle said while getting up from the bed, standing right in front of Barry.
"I think," Joe started while separating both siblings. "You should rest first. You just woke up, I'm sure there will be more time to explain once we catch this new guy going around the city and bringing mayhem to the streets."
"Joe's right. This is a delicate subject and you should not get upset." Barry agreed and Danielle gave an annoyed sigh. She was feeling just fine but they insisted.
"Fine." Barry was the first one to hug her again, kissing her forehead.
"I'm glad you're fine." Both Barry and Joe walked away to leave the place.
Danielle walked back to the Cortex, no one was there. It was already late, so she figured Caitlin and Cisco were already home. But on the room where Caitlin would spend most of her time analyzing, she spotted Harrison.
"Didn't I tell you to rest?" He asked when she walked to the door.
"I feel fine, really. Not tired, nor sleepy, just fine. I was wondering if we can talk." Harrison turned his sight from the sample he was analyzing, a sample of her blood.
"You don't need to ask me." He motioned the seat next to him and she walked to it.
"I just…I don't know if I want to have this 'powers' that Eiling injected me. I don't want to be some kind of superhero like Barry, I want to be a normal Central City citizen with her loving family by her side."
"Danielle, you don't have to be like Barry. I promise you I will find a way to extract the serum off your body if that's what you want." Harrison assured her while grabbing her face on his hands and kissed her.
Memories. Memories filled Danielle's head once again. This time, memories of him with the yellow suit and even of the night of her mother's murder, all through his eyes. Danielle broke the kiss almost immediately, she felt a tear rolling down her cheek.
"You…you're the man in yellow suit." She said almost in a whisper while backing away.
"Danielle, what are you saying?" He acted as confused as she was, trying to grab her hand but she declined it.
"I saw it. You, you were wearing the suit, stabbing my mom, fighting Barry!" She stopped for a minute, her eyes filling with tears that slowly made their way down her cheek. "You saved me. I was not dreaming, I know what I heard."
Harrison's expression was no longer a confused, but there was now a smirk on his face. "Yes, I saved you. I have come so far just to have a man like Eiling take you away from me? No, my love, I was not going to let you die on his hands." He suddenly was no longer on his spot, but trapping Danielle against the wall.
"Why?"
"Because I love you, Danielle." His finger traced her chin, lifting it up so she was looking directly at him. "Don't be afraid, my love, I won't hurt you."
"You killed my mother." Her sadness slowly began turning into anger. "Why? Why did you killed her?"
"Why did I killed Nora Allen? Because I hate your brother." Danielle was confused, a headache was starting to form. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Eobard Thawne and I come from the 25th century. I am the Reverse Flash."
"I…I am so confused right now." She tried to get away but he didn't let her, keeping her against the wall. "Who are you?"
"Look at me, Danielle. Look at me and tell me if you see someone else but the man you been loving for the past year?" Danielle tried to ignore him, but it was nearly impossible. She felt betrayed.
"I'm not the villain here. I killed Nora Allen, but it was all Barry's fault. The Flash, I grew up detesting that name. I knew I had to travel into the past if I wanted to get rid of him, kill him while he was still just a boy. But his older self was there, saving himself. I had to cause something so big it would affect him, that's when I killed Nora. Then I saw you there, hiding from what was happening, so fragile and frighten. But you were never on my plans, oh no.
While being stuck in this time, I dedicated to not only pay attention to Barry but to you too. You were so full of hate toward your own brother, your father. I saw you turn from a frighten teen into the woman you are today."
There was a fast wind, Harrison ran into his office and came back with his gun at hand. "Now that you know the truth, it's your choice whether you let me live, or you kill me, right here, right now." After handing her the gun, he hold both his hands up in the air as Danielle looked at the gun, her hands shaking. She slowly raised the gun, pointing directly in between his eyes. "Do it. Finish this already. Avenge your mother." Danielle's heart was beating so fast, her fingers moving to the trigger. Just one pull and he would be dead. Just one pull and everything will end…
"I can't" She said while letting the gun fall into the floor.
"Of course you can't, because you love me just as much as I love you."
"You…you said your name was Eobard Thawne. Where is Harrison Wells?" Danielle's voice was weak, she was still in shock.
"Dead. You see, the night I was here to kill Barry, my speed disappeared. I couldn't go back to my time, I was trapped in here. The only way for me to get back was to speed things up, so I had to make the particle accelerator incident happen sooner. The only way of doing it was to turn into the real Harrison Wells and get rid of his girlfriend. So that's what I did."
One of her hands move to touch her baby bump. Looking at her action, Thawne crouched down with his hands on top of hers. "You and this baby are the most important people in my life. We can do great things together, my love. Your powers are valuable, no hero would be able to stop us." He got up once again, looking at her. "What do you say?"
Danielle looked at him. He was right, her powers were something that shouldn't be wasted and with him being fast, there was no way to stop them. "You killed my mother, sent my father to prison for something he is innocent, you want to kill my brother and you still ask me to pick your side?" There was a smirk on Danielle's face. "You are a real bastard."
"Maybe I am, yet you're still engaged to me." He moved closer to her, their lips almost touching.
"That's right. So now I suppose I keep this secret between the both of us." There was a 'mhm' mutter from him. "Only if you help me get revenge. I want Eiling to suffer. I don't want him dead because that would be too nice. I want him to suffer the way he made me suffer while doing his little experiment."
"For you, my love? Anything." Both of them smiled at each other and finally kissed.
Ohoho, you thought Danielle was going to turn to be a hero like her dear loving brother? Sorry to break it to you, folks, but she won't. At least not for now. Her powers will grow and she will be rather powerful. They are sort of Grodd's powers, like the scans can tell, but I will add more things she can do since the serum is not the same.
Anyway, just to make it clear, we are on the Tricksters episode, though they mention him I thought on clarifying. I really hope you like the idea of her not being exactly the hero, I have the idea of her being an anti-hero, sort of Catwoman in Batman. Sometimes on the side of the villains, sometimes on the side of the heroes.
Reviews and PMs are always welcomed, don't be shy to ask or to speak your mind on what you think. x
P.S. Welcome, new readers, I hope your stay is enjoyable. x
highlander348 & kindleflame5.- I hope this episode clears your questions. She can't help her brother yet because she needs to learn to control her powers nor she can go against him. Once again, at least not now, maybe in season two? Who knows?
ZoomFlash2631.- Well, there you go with her finding out haha. As for your idea; I can't guarantee it since I still need to finish this one. But I can consider it maybe for later. :-)