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Five

Eight Months Later

Coming back home was like a dream come true. After eight months of training and fighting I was finally back home in Central City and I was glad to be here more than anything.

It was safe to say that I'd changed since joining Team Arrow, Starling City was well acquainted with Pisces. Felicity had picked the name after endless hours of brainstorming, once she discovered it was my actual star sign the name kind of stuck.

A couple of months ago, River and I had started drafting my return to Central City under the guise of working in her Central City branch of Bìnàn. I was going to be a mentor and help underprivileged kids and mentor kids with criminal records. River would be coming along in a few weeks to see how everything was going as well as bringing me my new suit.

Currently I was fighting crime as Pisces in a silvery-grey skin-tight body suit but it was a prototype of something being worked on by Wane Technologies, the new one was designed to be able to shift fluidly with my body…you see…I have this nifty trick where I can turn my whole body into water, even freeze it if I wanted to. It had happened by accident really but since then the ability to turn into water had helped more than once. Both mask and suit were made out of nano-bots that were coded to me and me alone, they'd absorb into my body when I turned into water and emerge when I became solid again.

When I stepped off the train, I took a taxi to my new apartment, curtesy of River. She was nice enough to be paying my bills and everything until I could get on my feet. I had my own freaking pool! River said it was to train in but…hello! My own freaking pool!

After I settled my cat, Lancelot, I dumped my bags in my new room and changed out of my travel clothes putting on a pair of jeans, boots and a shirt with Godzilla on it before heading to CC Jitters to find Iris. The whole train ride back home, I came up with every excuse in the book to explain to Joe as to why I'd left.

The only reason I was back was because Barry had woken up, I'd learnt about this after Oliver had left one night for a secret clandestine meeting. Barry had asked Oliver if he could look into finding me since Joe had no such luck. I would have come back sooner but with Team Arrow dealing with the murder of Sara Lance aka the Black Canary, it had to be now.

Felicity had suggested the truth.

I wasn't so sure.

I ordered a caramel latte with a slice of banana bread on the side and took a seat at the back of the coffee shop, waiting for my order. Newspapers are amazingly large to hide behind. I doubt Iris would have noticed me-I was a red head now-like a vibrant blood red-it had been Sara's idea. Hair dye was liquid-It had a certain percentage of water in it which I would manipulate to change colour at will. When I took the form of Pisces, my hair was a nice ice-pastel blue.

"Caramel latter, slice of banana bread?" Iris spoke, approaching me.

I groaned inwardly and put the paper down. "Hi, Iris."

Iris stared at me like I was a ghost. She put my food on the table and slumped down in front of me. "Oh my god! Where have you been?!"

"Around," I replied. "I heard that Barry was awake."

"You only came back because of Barry?" Iris almost shouted. "What about us? We're your family too! Dad is looking everywhere for you!"

I ran my hands through my hair. "Look-I just needed to get away for a while…dying sorta changes things Iris. I could have died and done nothing with my life besides a criminal rap sheet and a wasted IQ. It was because of STAR Labs that I died but Joe was fine handing my brother over to them?" I stopped myself and sat back. "I'm here now. I have a job and I'm not going anywhere…I just want to see my brother before I do anything else….how does he look?"

Iris sighed. "He looks like Barry. The same old Barry. They're running tests on him every few days to see if he's coping alright…I think he said he was going to be at STAR Labs this afternoon if you want to go and see him…maybe whilst you're there you should get checked out."

I frowned. "I've been looked at. It was one of the first things I did when I got out of Central. There's nothing wrong with me." Truthfully there wasn't. J'onn J'onzz said there was nothing wrong with me. I wrote my address down on a napkin. "Bring Joe for dinner around six."

Iris raised an eyebrow. "You can't even cook toast!" she objected.

"Excuse you!" I mock gasped. "I took cooking classes."

Iris laughed and shook her head. "I'll see what I can do." She reached over and hugged me tightly. "I can't promise you dad will react nicely but I for one, am glad to see you back in Central City. I missed you."

"I missed you too," I replied, hugging her tightly.

"Enjoy your coffee," Iris smiled.

"Better be good," I joked as she walked back to the counter.

XXX

For a secure lab, breaking it was just as easy a second time as it had been the first time. When the Mirakuru army of deranged psychopath Slade Wilson invaded Starling City, I'd returned home to have STAR Labs work on a cure.

It had worked.

I found my way to the central lab via the help of cleverly displayed signs-I only got lost twice. In all honesty it was the sound of arguing voices that told me where to go.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing."

The two arguing were a man and a woman.

"Who are you talking to?" the woman demanded to know.

"No one," he replied.

"Are you talking to Barry?"

Barry?

"Who?" he asked.

"Barry Allen!" she shouted. "Struck by lightning? Was in a coma for nine months? Woke up being able to run faster than the speed of sound? Ring a bell?"

Woah? Barry got abilities as well? I wondered. Hopefully that would make things a little bit easier for me.

"No," he lied.

There was a pause.

"Barry, it's Caitlin!" she shouted. "Get back to STAR Labs. Now!" A few seconds later there was a whooshing sound and a slight shaking before I heard the woman, Caitlin, start shouting again. "Have you both lost your minds? Who do you think you are?"

"Well, I'm the eyes and ears, and he's the feet," her partner replied in a chipper tone.

"This isn't funny!" she snapped. "You could have gotten yourself killed! You can't be running around the city like some supersonic fireman."

"Why not?" Oh my god it was good to hear Barry's voice again.

"Miss Allen?" questioned the not so familiar voice of Doctor Harrison Wells from behind me, making me jump. I almost took his head off. "I do admire your rather interesting entrance in my labs, I don't think you should be sneaking around here-do you?"

I shrugged. "Probably not."

"I think your brother would be happy to see you," Wells told me. "You can come in." He moved his wheelchair around me and entered his lab.

"Will you please say something?" Caitlin demanded.

"I think what Caitlin is saying, in her own spectacularly angry way, is that we are just beginning to understand what your body is capable of. Not to sound like a broke record, Mr Allen, I do caution restraint."

"Doctor Wells," Barry frowned, "I doubt restraint is how you got to be the man you are today-" he stopped mid-sentence when he realised that I was standing behind Wells. "Charlie?"

I folded my arms. "Care to explain all this? Faster than the speed of sound?"

Barry crossed the room in a sudden blur and hugged me tightly. "I was worried! You weren't there when I woke up. Joe told me-"

"I'm fine," I told him. "I've been in Starling with some friends. So, brother mine, explain to me what exactly is going on with you. Get out of that ridiculous outfit and come back to my place. I cook now-how weird is that?"

"Without killing anyone?" Barry joked.

I punched him softly in the arm. "Hey-not even funny!" I scribbled my address down on a piece of paper and handed it to my brother. "If you manage to beat me there, there's a spare key under the mat. Do not annoy Lancelot. Hopefully Iris and Joe will be coming."

"Who's Lancelot?" Barry asked me.

"My cat," I answered. "You may be faster than the speed of sound but he'll still try to eat you."

"Miss Allen?" Wells spoke. "My offer still stands to give you a full physical after what happened."

"Yeah, no," I replied. "See you soon, Barry." I stuck my hands in my pocket and walked off wondering how the hell I was going to tell Barry now.