Secrets and anger...

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"Have you heard of color psychology?" Caitlin asked both Felicity and myself.

"The theory that changes in the color spectrum can affect emotion." Felicity and I answer autonomously.

"It is so nice to have more than one woman to talk to." Caitlin told us.

"I'll try to take that as a compliment." I crossed my arms over my chest.

"I was thinking that if Bivolo uses color to induce the temporary pyschosis, maybe we can use light and color to reverse it." Caitlin said, ignoring my comment.

"Miss Smoak," Wells' voice came from the door of the cortex. "A word, if you please?" He asked.


XXX

Once I heard Barry woosh in, I caught up with him and Felicity who was doing the same. "Hey." The two of us walked up behind Barry.

"Hey." He responded softly.

"How'd it go with Oliver?" She asked us, not getting the chance to do so before.

"You know, to be honest, not exactly the partnership I thought it would be." Barry answered her before I did.

"Oh," Felicity's voice dropped. "Did he really do the thing with the arrows?" She asked us.

"You knew about that?" Barry asked, frustrated that he got hit with an arrow.

"Woah, it is practically impossible to tell when Oliver's joking." She defended herself.

"Hey, we just got a ping from the facial recognition software on Bivolo, AKA Prism." Cisco told us from the cortex.

"Since when do we have facial recognition software?" I asked him.

"Happy Chanukah." Felicity walked into the cortex behind me, answering as she walked up to the monitor. 

"Where can I find him?" Barry asked, immediately knocked me out of this mission. 

"Traffic cameras just caught him entering a residence at 168 Jarvis."

"We should let the arrow know." Felicity recommended.

"I can handle this solo. I've done it before." Barry said, locking me out again.

"Barry, I think you should let the arrow and I-" He cut me off.

"I don't need his help. I don't need either of your help." He quickly grabbed his suit and sped away, not giving me time to counter.

"What was that about?" Felicity asked me confused.

"Barry found out I have a boyfriend today. Needless to say he's still pissed." I scoffed. "Even though he has no right to be. He's my little brother not my dad."


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"No signs of macular damage." Caitlin said as she studied Barry's eyes. "Your retina and cornea seem unaffected."

"I told you, I'm fine." Barry tried to reassure us.

"Well, you also said Bivolo whammied you, so..." My voice trailed off suggestively. 

"No desire to go all MMA on us?" Felicity added.

"No." He shook his head, "Yeah, I mean something weird happened with his eyes for a second."

"Weird thing?" Caitlin asked him.

"Yeah, everything went red."

"You were right." I told Caitlin who just nodded. 

"Okay, next thing you know Bivolo was gone." Barry got out of his seat in the med lab and walked into the cortex. "Look, obviously his powers didn't work on me, so..."

"It was stupid for you to go out there alone." Caitlin reprimanded him. "You take too many risks. As fast as you are, that's going to catch up with you."

"Caitlin," Barry turned around. "I'm not Ronnie. You gotta stop treating me like I am."

"You're right. You're not." Caitlin turned around and stormed out of the cortex.

"Idiot." I shook my head as I followed after Caitlin.


XXX

"Okay, I'll call you back later." Felicity said to Oliver who was on the other end of the phone. "That was the arrow." Felicity told me, Cisco, Caitlin, and Wells. "He says Barry is acting strangely."

"Strangely how?" Wells asked.

"He's been whammied." Joe walked into the cortex. "He was acting angry it was scary. And his eyes, they glowed."

"Let me guess, bright red." I finished for Joe.

"It's possible that his body is fighting off the effect, so it's hitting him slower." Caitlin turned to Wells for help. 

"When it comes to rage, that is not a good thing. The longer you suppress your emotions-"

"The bigger the explosion." I finished for Wells.

"Considering what he can do, how do we even stop him?" Joe asked.

"I'll try not to be offended by that, but it's going to take more than just me. I have the speed, but I need somebody with the anger." I told the group.

"Oh, a cold gun would come in real handy right now." Cisco pointed out, making me chuckle since the one he made was currently in my boyfriend's possession.

"Fortunately, Felicity knows someone with the anger." We all turned to her, knowing where Wells was going. "I think you better call back Oliver Queen." Felicity and my eyes widened, unsure to how Wells found out the arrow's secret identity. "We're gonna need the arrow's help."

"Let's just pretend that you didn't just out our friend's secret to Team Flash because he will not hesitate to kill you all." I told them. "Felicity, call him back. Tell him and John to meet us at S.T.A.R. Labs." Wells looked at me with pleading eyes. "We know his secret, he knows ours."

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