Chapter 9: Ice and Lightning

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Caitlin Snow finds herself smiling as she exits the bathroom, sliding down into the bed beside the Scarlet Speedster, snuggling up against him and leaning her head on his shoulder. How could she not smile when she was around him? Barry strokes her hair softly, pressing a kiss onto her temple as Caitlin closed her eyes and basked in the comfort and simplicity of their life right now. Her hair has gone back to being frizzy, having dried up after the shower. She feels tired, and wants to fall asleep against him. Barry spreads his covers over themselves, tugging her in carefully. It feels warm and safe like a cocoon, his body a steady source of warmth.

She finds herself enfolded in his arms, his breath gentle and warm against her neck, his heartbeat steady in sync with hers. She smiles as she draws lazy circles across his chest with her finger, until he whispers something in the comfortable silence that makes her perk up with confusion. "Make a pie."

"What?" Caitlin questions, raising her head to look up at him, and she sees a soft smile across his face.

"That night we went to that Karaoke Bar and you got drunk, you asked what can't I do right after we sang together. I cannot make a pie like you can to save my life."

"I can't believe you remember that!" Caitlin laughed, a blush making it's way on her cheeks as she recalls that night. "But thank you for the compliment, I take pride in my baking exploits Mister Allen." He arched an eyebrow in return, making her giggle and break her semi-serious voice. After a few moments of laughing she leaned in a pressed a tender kiss against Barry's lips. He brought his hand up, gently brushing the nape of her neck as they shared yet another breathtaking moment, one they would never forget

Caitlin pulled back after a few moments and smiled at him, they didn't have many small moments just between themselves but the ones they did have, she would always cherish. She snuggled up to the speedster once again, resting her head on his chest and reveling in the comfort of it all. "I love you Caitlin Snow." He whispers and she sinks into a dreamless slumber at the comfort of his words.

...

Caitlin awoke the next morning to the smell of bacon wafting throughout the apartment. She rubbed her eyes free of their blurriness and stood up, heading to the kitchen. She walked up behind Barry, snaking her arms around his waist and holding him tightly as he cracks an egg. "Good morning beautiful." He whispers and she blushes madly, no matter how many times he might compliment her or say he loves her, the feeling never changes. It always gives her that feelings that a whole zoo is rampaging in her stomach.

"Good morning handsome." She replies, stealing a peice of bacon from the plate and munching on it, silently laughing as Barry shakes his head. She detaches from him and heads into the bathroom.

Ten minutes pass and Barry furrows his eyebrows in confusion as he watches an omelette very slowly sizzle in a pan, realizing that he's in flashtime, only he didn't activate it. He turns off the stove and walks through the apartment warily, not wanting this to be another villainous speedster lurking in the shadows waiting to attack.

He turns into the hallway, looking down to the bathroom where the door is slightly ajar and moving very slowly. He continues forward until he is face to face with the obstacle. He pushes it open eyes widening as he sees Caitlin is in flashtime as well, but he didn't bring her in so how is she moving freely?

He moves over to her, only to see streaks of lightning run across her figure and across her eyes. He helps her off the ground, hugging her tightly. Caitlin jumps as flashtime comes to a halt and the toothbrush she dropped finally hits the ground in real time. "Barry what's going on?" She questioned, raising her hands as an icy mist began emitting from them, bringing the temperature of the room way down. "What is happening to me?"

"I don't know, but we need to get to Star Labs to run some tests." He told her. "We'll figure this out." He reassured, cupping her face gently. She nodded before entrapping him in another tight hug.

...

"So..." Caitlin started nervously, playing with her sweatshirts sleeves as Barry held the tablet with the results in his hands and Cisco stood in the corner of the room. She took a deep breath, hoping that it wasn't anything terrible.

"Somehow, I transferred some of my speed to you." He revealed, taking a seat next to her on the medical bed. "And since speed and cold are opposites, your body is fighting a war inside of itself. We need to get the residual speedforce out of your system or else-" He left the words in the air.

"I could die." She finished grimly for him making him close his eyes, he didn't want to think of that possibility. "How do we fix this?" She questioned and Barry seemed to be trapped in his thoughts for a moment before he began speeding around Star Labs, blowing loose papers everywhere and giving Caitlin goosebumps from the cold air. "Barry?"

"Tada!" Barry said, stopping next to Caitlin with a proud smile as they looked over the new Cosmic Treadmill that stood next to the old one. "You'll need to run at superspeed and the machine will drain the speed from your system and transfer it to me." He explained and she took in the information fully. "Are you ready?" Barry asked, and she nodded. He clicked on the machine and moved onto the old Cosmic Treadmill as she stepped onto the newly built one. As Caitlin's speed picked up more and more, the speedforce exited her body, transferring to the scarlet speedster.

Barry quickly turned off the machines and grabbed Caitlin before the speed of the treadmill could through her into the wall like it had done to him so many times. "So?" Barry questioned Cisco.

"Her vitals seemed to be back to normal, but I'll need to take a blood test to be a hundred percent sure that we've fixed the problem." They waited anxiously for the results for half an hour, sighing heavily in relief as Cisco revealed that all the speedforce was gone from her system.

The three friends hugged each other tightly for a moment before disconnecting. In a flash of lighning Joe, Cecile and Ralph found themselves inside the cortex of Star Labs much to their confusion. "I need to show you guys something." Barry said, beginning moving his hands back and forth, eliciting a strange glare from everyone until they saw the lightning begin to spark from his hands.
  
"Oh my god." He hears Joe whisper as he lets the lightning flow from his hands. Eventually it takes the shape of his daughter as it did the other night and he smiles as he sees her wave, hitching her shoulders in the air in a shy manner. "How is this even possible?" Joe questioned as he waved back at the girl on shock.

"Because of her. She convinced the speedforce to give me this power so I could talk fo any speedsters that had come and gone before me, so I could learn from them and find new ways to control and use my powers." Barry explained. "I learned how to use it for the first time a few days ago."

"Hey guys." Nora spoke softly. "Its good to see all of you, I hope you're going okay."

"How is it in the speedforce?" Cisco said in awe.

"Alright?" The woman made of lightning said unsurely. "Theres a few grumps in here, but theres a few good apples too that crack some jokes that are way too cheesy, but its nice." She smirked, then the lighning began to flicker, signifying they only had a few more moments left. "I miss you guys andI love you all!" She called as her voice became increasingly harder to hear until eventually the lighting crawled back into Barry's hands, leaving team flash in silence and shock.

                            -EARTH-TWO-

Harrison Wells shut the door to his home, slipping off his shoes and tossing his keys onto the counter before he checked the watch on his wrist. "Dammit." He muttered to himself as he saw it was well past midnight. He had promised Jessie that he would be home in time to help her study for her finals next week. He made his way down the hall, flicking the lights off in his daughters room after he saw that she had fallen alseep studying for her finals by herself. Scolding himself he joined his wife in the bedroom and hung his coat up in the closet. He then flopped onto the bed with a tired sigh.

His wife Tess Morgan frowned at her husband as she set her book on the nightstand. "Are you alright?" She questioned.

"We had a few setbacks with Victor's surgery, but we managed to save him, albeit at the loss of most of his human body." Harrison sighed, hating to know what's it's going to be like when that kid wakes up as a Cyborg. "He's going to wake up ninety percent robot. Tess, his normal teenage life is over."

"Hey, you saved a life with your technology, you did good." Tess assured. "You did what you could, and I'm sure Silas is grateful." Harrison smiled at her and she ran her hand through his hair soothingly. "Now come on, it's late and you've had a long day, you need to rest. " As the words left her mouth, a large portal opened up in their bedroom, a storm of red lighning emerging from it and striking Harrison.

Tess leaped from the bed as the portal closed and her husband laid completely still on the floor. "Harrison!" She screamed. She jumped when his eyes shot open, revealing crimson orbs. His body vibrated for a moment, stopping when she reached out for his hand. 

Her eyes never left the man as he rose to his feet, red lightning flickering all across his body. He looked ar his hands for a moment before he set his attention on her. "Harrison Wells is gone." The demonic voice said with a smirk before he flashed away, leaving Tess in horror and shock.

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