Flash of The Moment

Chapter 2

There isn't a beep this time so where am I?
"She should've woken up by now unless I calculated wrong which I didn't." I heard a female voice come from the darkness.
"Well it looks like you're wrong to me."came another voice but male this time.
"Shut it Cisco, I'm checking vitals and you're annoying me."replied the female voice. There was some movement and then THUD! And "aaghh" then a strangled noise came from somewhere on my right. My eyes then decided now was the time to fly open and I came face to face with really big brown eyes. I jumped up to an upright position and then tada my head hit the person and a sharp pain shot through my head.
"Ow,my head."came the female's voice.
"Well I guess she's awake now."came the voice from before. I turned my head to my right and there sat, this dude with shoulder length black/brown hair. He looked mixed and probably had some sort of Spanish roots. I'm guessing he's-
"Cisco, at your service" he said with a slight bow of the head. He was tangled in some wires and it looked like it would take him a while to get out of that. I turned back to the woman infront of me. She had some nice long brown hair that really framed her slightly oval shaped face. I could tell she was beautiful but at the moment she looked like she sucked on a lemon. She was clutching her head and her eyes were squinted while her mouth was in a full blown pout. Eventually she relaxed her face and introduced herself as Dr. Caitlin Snow.
"Well we would introduce you to our overseer here at Star Labs but he seems to be out. In the mean time, I need to check you for any abnormalities. You know, like your heart rate, sight, reflexes and such" she spoke quickly. Did she know I could do that stuff with my hands. I'm pretty sure that's abnormal.
"Uh." I tried to speak but it came out more like a croak. I just noticed I must've been out for a while. She eventually gave me water and I gulped it down greedily welcoming the soothing feel of the liquid running down my throat. I tried again and this time my voice came out.
"Um, do you know?" I asked softly.
"What do you mean if we know?" She asked.
" You mean that you're a meta human who can shoot fire out of your hands, which by the way is totally awesome!?!?"came Cisco's over excited voice from the floor still. I blushed. I was really uncomfortable talking about it because I really wanted to believe it wasnt real. I mean how could it. It made no sense. None at all.
"Uh, yes. What he said." I replied nodding my head to him.
"Oh, well yes we know, as you clearly just observed. In fact we are kinda responsible for it happening. Sorry." She said coming to stand infront of me to check my sight.
"What do you mean 'you're kinda responsible'??!" I asked sitting back.
"How to explain this??" She asked herself, putting her equipment on the desk next to the bed.
" I got this." Interrupted Cisco.
"Basically what happened was, we built this advanced particle accelerator but it malfunctioned on the night it was launched and it exploded sending out a bunch of radiation and some people just got hit with it and you happen to be one of them. Now there's a bunch of people running around Central City with special powers and we here are trying to get them under control because some are good and others are bad and then there's the ones like you that are confused and we have yet to figure out if you're good or bad." He said. Did he breathe anywhere in there?
"There are more like me." I whispered to myself.
"Yes in fact we have our own resident meta human. He's super fast and he works with us to find other metahumans like you and him. He tried to save you before you jumped but we don't know what happened. He should be here any sec-" but Dr.Snow never got to finish her sentence because in came a red blur so fast I almost missed it. It stopped moving and ended up by Cisco.
"What are you doing down there Cis."came a naturally adorable voice for a guy.
"I was just trying to wake up the new girl and tripped ok?"he replied, huffing when he tried to move another chord but ended up tangling himself more.
"Just hold a sec would you?"the still nameless dude said and as fast as he was there he wasn't. The blur returned and before I knew it Cisco was still on the floor but no longer entangled in the mess of wires. To say I was shocked would've been an understatement.
"How-how did. What just. What!!?" I stammered trying to make sense of what I just saw. By now the blur had stopped and in its place was probably the most attractive dude I've seen in this city and that's coming from a girl who lived in Italy. He had this generally light brown hair that seemed so fluffy and my hands itched to test and see if it was true. He was smiling at Cisco and let me tell you his smile was adorable. It was all toothy and the look of pure happiness was on his face. Then that cliche moment happened. I'm here sitting staring and openly ogling this specimen and he turns and recognizes my presence which is actually a plus seeing that in high school I got as much attention as the last slice of bread. His eyes widened and that gave a great view of those beauties. I couldn't describe which color they were. They looked green, yet a little hazel-ish and then there was still some blue there. It was beautiful. I sound like such a creep right now. He seemed to recognize me and his mouth dropped open.
"You're awake?" He asked.
That snapped me out of my creepy staring haze and I poked myself.
"Um I guess, yeah. How long was I out?"I replied.
"Well today would make 3 months 8 days 47 mins and 17,18,19,-" Dr. Snow started but Cisco jumped in "20 seconds!!".
"Must you always steal my thunder?" She asked turning to face him so he saw how annoyed she was. Barry and Cisco just laughed and I managed a little chuckle. Barry then stopped, shook his head a little and started to walk to towards me. My eyes automatically widened? Why is he coming over here?? I don't know him! You might be cute but I don't know you like that! My hands started to sweat and burn. Immediately everyone stopped what they were doing. My hands were shaking and I didn't know how to stop it. Dr. Snow came back into view. I forgot she was there.
"Hey, hey! Look at me. Calm down honey. We're not going to hurt you Angel. We are not going to hurt you." She said going to touch my shoulder. I lifted my hand and a fireball shot out . I hit her arm and it burned a hole through her sleeve . I gasped and threw my hand down on the bed. I didn't mean for that to happen. She shrieked and pulled at the sleeve in a failed attempt to remove it from her body. Cisco moved from by where he was standing to get the fire put out but couldn't move it. I started to shake my head as though that would help me clear my mind.
" I'm sorry." I choked out in between sobs. I was scaring people and myself and I don't know how to stop.
"You need to calm down. Listen to my voice and breathe in and out. In and out.In and out. In and out." Came a new voice but as I lifted my head and scanned the room, I couldn't find where the voice came from. Never the less I did as I was told and soon enough the fir was put out from  Dr. Snow's arm and the heat in my hands stopped. "I went to get Dr. Wells as fast as I could" came the blur's voice again. I still didn't know his name? Sheesh.
"I'm glad you did Barry, this could've gotten a lot worse if you had intervened." Replied the voice that got me to calm down earlier. I hadn't even noticed the guy leave. His name is Barry. Barry. That's cute. Well he is a cute guy so why not have a cute name too.. FOCUS Angel you almost killed someone. Right!
"Caitlin are you alright?"Cisco asked as he led her to a chair to sit for a bit.
"Provided I was just attacked by a fireball coming from her hand, I'm ok." She said sitting down.
"I'm so sorry." I said finally looking at her. Her left arm was red and the coat she wore was burnt in that area barely hanging on to her frame . I couldn't believe I did that. I was a monster.
"Ok in that case....that was AWESOME, I mean minus the whole getting attacked by fire thing." Cisco said managing to break the tense atmosphere. It was silent and then there was just laughter. A lot of laughter. My head snapped up to see Cisco laughing along with Barry and even Dr.Snow. Dr.Wells,however, was not laughing. He was watching me. I quickly diverted my eyes from his piercing gaze and watched the others laugh.
"Dr. Snow, I'm so sorry for that I don't know. I panicked and that happened it was totally a mistak-"
"It's fine Angel. I've seen and experienced worse. Much worse."She said after calming down.
"This is Dr. Wells. He is the head here at S.T.A.R Labs." Dr. Snow elaborated shifting into professional mode. The guy in the wheelchair moved it down the ramp towards my bed and I slowly leaned away from him. He gave me the creeps and I don't know why.
"I'm not going to bite and I definitely cant chase you if you run. That's why we have Barry here." He said chuckling at the end. I tried to smile but I'm pretty sure it came out as a grimace instead.
" Her abilities are greatly affected by her emotions right now because she's still coming to terms with them. She's in a state of emotional turmoil right now hence why her abilities are out of whack, so to speak. Once she comes into her own with her abilities she will be able to use them at will."Dr. Wells said as he turned and rolled over to the huge desk that Cisco was behind. Barry was stood at the door leaning on the frame listening to everything.
"This is so awesome. I am totally naming you and you'll have an awesome suit designed by yours truly" Cisco started to ramble.
"Um. What are you talking about?" I asked getting more confused by the second.
"Well you are gonna help Barry fight the evil meta humans right?" He asked, looking up from the board.
"Woah. Who said anything about fighting anyone or anything??"I asked returning to my freaked out state. "I can't fight!"
"You don't have to if you don't want to" Dr.Snow began but Dr. Wells interrupted.
"Of course she'll think about it. It is beneficial to the city."
"What!?I can't fight!!" I shrieked imagining me being killed in some freak meta human accident. I started hyperventilating.
"Um maybe it's best if I spoke to her."Barry piped up. " I mean I know this situation personally." Dr. Wells paused then nodded and left. Dr. Snow and Cisco left without another word. It was silent and I closed my eyes. I just couldn't deal with this right now. I just find out I can do this freaky stuff with my hands and that I was unconscious for 3 months and that I'm not the only one. Now they're telling me that I have to help Barry fight other people like me. The only fight I was in was back in Italy and that was different I was provoked and broke Giorgio's arm and that was when I was 14. I'm not trained, I'd die easily in hand to hand combat. They're expecting too much from me. I mean I can't even control myself now.
"Look. I know that this seems like a lot to take in right now and believe me I had the same experience. I was in a coma for 9 months after being hit by lightning," my brain clicked. That happened to me. So why do we have different abilities? "Are you hearing me Angel?"he asked snapping me from my thoughts.
"Uhh, yeah sure." I said hoping that he didn't realise I really wasn't listening.
"Yeah sure you were. I said I was struck by lightning,woke up 9 months later, and now I run around Central City saving people and fighting off psychopaths with abilities like me."he explained. I just sat there. I couldn't believe what they were asking of me.
"I know I can't force you to do it, but at least come with me to my day job. Just once, if after that you still don't want to try it out. I'll completely understand. It'll be the others you'll have a harder time explaining it to. Especially Cis, knowing him he's already got your "hero name" and is starting the designs on your suit." He said rising from his seat. "So you'll come?" He asked. It's just his day job. I guess it wouldn't hurt.
"Um I guess, since I'm being given a reason to get out of this bed. It wouldn't hurt." I explained as he headed for the door. He turned and smiled at me with that adorable smile and then left. Aye, get a grip girl. Tomorrow's gonna be a long day.