++++++ Sorry I've been away from this fic for so long. I totally got distracted like a cat with something shiny.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

I do not own ++++++

Thirty-Five

When I arrived at STAR Labs the following morning Starla and Scarlet were nowhere in sight but in their place was a certain red head having a staring contest with Caitlin and Cisco. She sat there with her arms crossed and the perfect resting bitch face happening and a can of Red Bull in one hand, periodically sipping it.

"Tessa!" I screamed.

Immediately Tessa Morgan sat the can down, a grin plastered over her face and she came to hug me. "God would you look at you! It's like seeing a baby bird leaving the nest!"

"Do you know her?" Caitlin demanded to know. "She broke in to the lab! I don't know how things operate in Starling City but we cannot have anyone and everyone breaking into the lab. Not with everything that's at stake."

I coughed to clear my throat. "Sorry guys, Caitlin, Cisco, this is Tessa Morgan. Tess, this is Doctor Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramone. They work with Doctor Harrison Wells."

Tessa frowned, a funny hmph sound coming from her throat. "Well, nice to meet you all. And doc, please, keep your panties on. I'm here to see Charlie. I had a hand in teaching her so I want to know how my student is."

I laughed. "I'm okay, Tessa."

"Do not call me doc," Caitlin seethed.

"Are you a hero as well?" Cisco blurted out.

"No I am not," Tessa answered. She turned to her left just as Barry flashed into the room. "Hello, Bartholomew," she spoke.

"Tessa!" Barry grinned. "Hey what are you doing here? How's the wife?"

"Visiting," Tessa answered. "And Laurel is good. She's away this week at some legal conference so I'm slumming it in Central. Never been before so I thought what the heck, you know?"

"We're going to see you on the weekend," I objected. "You didn't have to come." This weekend was Felicity and Oliver's engagement party at the manor. I was actually supposed to be picking up Leonard's suit this afternoon."

"Please," Tessa laughed, "everyone's coming to Central to see these meta-human's-it's my turn."

"We were supposed to meet two girls here," Barry frowned, "they didn't come?"

"You mean the two blondes?" Cisco asked. "The youngest one did. She said she had to sneak out. Her sister didn't want to come."

"She with Wells?" Barry inquired.

Caitlin nodded. "Yes. We were coming to grab something for Doctor Wells when I found her in here. Security footage is gone."

Tessa chuckled as she followed me and Barry from the control room to what was Doctor Well's office. "Nice set up," she grinned, "bit too much like look at me. I think I prefer the Arrowcave."

"So you work with the Arrow?" Cisco asked her.

"You could say that," Tessa shrugged.

"Ah, there you are," Wells spoke up, hearing footsteps. He was sitting with Scarlet and the two were talking, he was taking notes and had obviously taken some blood. "I only asked you to grab-" he stopped talking when he saw everyone. "We have another guest? I might as well hand a sign on the front gate that says everyone is welcome."

"Doctor Wells, this is Tessa Morgan, Tess this is Doctor Harrison Wells and Scarlet Lee," Barry grinned, introducing the two. "She's a friend from Starling."

Scarlet looked at Tessa and she suddenly screamed. "No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! That's not possible!" Her nose started to bleed and her eyes were as big as a saucer.

"Miss Lee, what is it?" Well's asked her. He proceeded to check her pupils and faced Tessa. "Miss Lee?"

Tessa walked over to Scarlet. "Telepath's," she muttered. She knelt down in front of the girl and held up her hand. "I'm going to count to three, Scarlet and when I get to the three, you're going to stop and tell me what you see." She lifted Scarlet's chin up. "One. Two. Three." Tess clicked her fingers and Scarlet's eyes grew wide. "What do you see?"

"A man," Scarlet answered, "in a suit. Lucifer. The Prince of Hell. A marriage. A fight. Two sisters. One on Earth, the Bride of Lucifer. The Queen of Hell. The other in Heaven. Angels burning brightly…a baby-Anora-"

Tessa placed her hand on Scarlet's head and started speaking in a language I'd never heard before. Seconds later, her hand glowed and Scarlet fell back and soon soft snores started escaping her.

"What was that?" Caitlin gasped.

Tessa got to her feet. "It was magic, Doctor Snow. Plain and simple."

Caitlin scoffed. "Magic. Yeah-magic."

"Yes, magic," Barry and I repeated.

"So?" Tessa frowned. "Lunch? I'm starving."

"I have to get back to work," Barry answered. "When I got the 911 code I thought something bad was happening." He ruffled up my hair and took off.

"Did Starla say why she didn't want to try this?" I asked Cisco.

Cisco shook his head. "No. Not a word."

"And Scarlet said her sister didn't know that she was coming?" I asked. "Tessa after lunch can we swing by a friend's place?"

Tessa nodded. "I like meeting new people."

We got some Subway on the way to the Lee household, eating it in the taxi on the way as we went. No one was home when we arrived there, we had a look but Starla wasn't there. So we headed back to my place where we just mucked around for a while before going to pick up my dress and Leonard's suit.

When we got back we sat down to have a few drinks and I finally asked Tessa the question I'd been dying to ask her all day. "So you have a baby?" I asked her.

Tessa frowned. "I do. She'd be three now. Laurel isn't at a conference, she's working on getting Anora back. I just couldn't be around if it failed, Charlie. But that's not really what we need to focus on."

"What is?" I inquired.

"There's something wrong with Harrison Wells," Tessa warned me. "I can't place it but everything about that man is just wrong."

I nodded, agreeing with her. Harrison Wells has always felt funky to me-from the first moment I'd met him, he oozed funkiness. "I already picked up on that funkiness, Tess. But thank you."

"Just be careful," Tessa warned me as my phone rang.

"Go for Allen," I answered.

"Charlie it's Barry, you need to get to STAR Labs now," Barry told me. "I'm at Mercury Labs processing a crime scene. There's been a break in at the lab. The security footage…well it was another speedster that did it. He wasn't alone. There was a woman with white hair with him."

"I'll be there," I told him. I bit my lip as I hung up the phone. "The Reverse Flash."

"What's a Reverse Flash?" Tessa frowned.

"The man that killed our mother," I answered, "he's working with Rose Wilson. Suki's sister." I put my phone in my pocket. Coming?" I asked her.

Tessa shook her head. "Sorry. Laurel asked me to call her."

I nodded. "I'll be home late, just treat this place like your own." I grabbed my bag and headed out. Things were getting serious.

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