A/N so there are now two OCs (Claudia and Jem) and to clear things up Chapter 1 takes place on the night of the Accelerator explosion and Chapter 2 takes place about ten months later between episodes 18 and 19 in the show. Also, what do you think of Claudia? Let me know in the comments. Huge thanks to Crazedtroll for reviewing.

So she did end up working with them, much to the annoyance of Jem, but his sister was a force to be reckoned with and she promised she would not do anything stupid.

Claudia was sat at the computer staring into space. Caitlin walked over and waved to get her attention.

"Can I ask you a question you don't have to answer?" asked Caitlin.

"Why does that always make me worried? Go on," she smiled.

"How do you know about metahumans?"

Claudia shifted in her chair. "Right, so. I was here on the night of the explosion. I survived, but there have been some…changes."

"Changes?" asked Cisco, who had heard their conversation and come to join them.

The young girl nodded. Gesturing to the tablet Caitlin's hands she asked, "may I?"

Caitlin handed it over hesitantly. Claudia passed it to Cisco and said "drop it." Cisco looked at her questioningly. "Trust me."

Obliging, he dropped it. It was only falling for a second before it stopped. Claudia had reached out a hand and it was suspended in mid-air.

"Provided it is falling at a terminal velocity and I would be able to hold it normally, I can cancel the force of gravity," she explained.

After a second Caitlin plucked it out of the air gingerly, holding it by the corner as if it was going to bite her.

"Awesome," gasped Cisco. "I have a name for her. Wait for it…the Wicked Witch, cos she can defy gravity!"

Barry stood outside S.T.A.R. labs with Claudia. He was in his Flash suit in case anything went wrong, and so he could communicate with the two scientists in the lab.

"Ready?" he asked Claudia.

"Yes," she replied, flexing her fingers. A black box dropped off the roof and as soon as it reached a terminal velocity she reached out with her mind and converted the kinetic energy into gravitational potential energy. She'd done it a thousand times before, but this time they were really going to test her. Quickly following were more boxes, and Claudia couldn't keep up. Eventually it was too much and the boxes dropped, leaving her gasping for breath.

"Good work," congratulated Barry. She gave him a feeble thumbs up.

Cisco spoke over the phone and Barry relayed the message to Claudia. "Now we know how much you can hold, we need to see what else you can do. Cisco is going to drop another box and this time we want you to freeze it and try to move it," he explained. Another box came down, stopped, and then nothing happened. She was clenching her fists and her knuckles turned white, but the box stayed still. Releasing it, she sighed.

"Last test now," promised Barry. "The box is going to come out sideways and I want you to stop it." The box shot out of the wall opposite them. It shuddered, but carried on moving.

Panting from the effort Claudia said, "I know I can do better. Let me try again!"

Barry shook his head. "That's enough for now."

They went back inside where Cisco high fived Claudia. "That was awesome!" he said. "We need to celebrate. Drinks on me?"

Barry had to get back to the CCPD and Caitlin wasn't feeling well.

"I'm not old enough to drink alcohol but I'll still come," offered Claudia. At the pub Cisco had a beer and Claudia ordered lemonade. "So how long had you been working for my uncle before…you know?" she asked, stirring her drink.

"About two years. Yeah, I started around a year before the explosion," he said.

"And you never thought to leave after what the Accelerator did to the city?"

"There was never any question of Caitlin and I leaving. We trusted Dr Wells, weird as it sounds now. But you must have some good stories to tell, being related to the elusive Harrison Wells?" he enquired.

Claudia smiled, "I wish, but I never actually met him. I saw him the night I was changed, but never spoke." She stared into her drink, "deaf people are good at reading body language, and when I found him later something seemed off. I followed him, and his house is made of glass so it was fairly easy to suss him out. First, I saw him take off his glasses. Now, Jem's prescription is fairly high and he only takes his off if he has to, so that struck me as strange. Then he got up, walked around and used superspeed with red lightning. All this got me thinking, so I got Jem to do some snooping – he has a few friends around – and here I am."

Cisco was impressed.

"And there's one more thing. My mom always told me that a few days after I was born Harrison and his wife gave me my middle name, but when she saw him a few years later he never even mentioned it, which she thought was weird given the circumstances."

"What is your middle name?" he asked.

"Tess."