Bittersweet Love

2. Cold As Death

Everyone rejoiced at the return of Killer Frost while Carla stood on a side watching her daughter. Barry saw this and went to Carla.

"Hey Carla, everything is okay right? W-With Frost, and Caitlin, there is nothing to be worried about, right?" He asked

"Yes, everything is fine." Carla bit her lip, not making eye contact with him.

'She is lying.' Barry thought to himself.

"Well thank you so much for healing her. It really means a lot to me." He appreciated. "A-and the team." Barry quickly adds making it less awkward. He smiled at him and began to walk away.

"Hey Barry," Carla spoke catching his attention. "Can I stay here with you guys, for a few days? I just want to make sure that my daughter is okay, I mean if that is okay with you."

"Y-yeah, you can stay here as long as you want."

"Thank you!"

Barry walks to Frost and stood in front of her while everyone else got busy with their work.

"Hey, how have you been doing?" He asks her rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"You know, same old me, nothing new." She said plainly. "Look I am really tired, I just want to rest for some time, maybe we can talk later." She moved away and sat on her table staring at the screens.

"Okay." Barry whispers to himself looking at her.

The next few days, Frost was real quiet, she would only talk if anyone asked her something. She wasn't the same at all. She was...cold.

The meta-human activity had decreased drastically giving the team plenty of time to do whatever they wanted to, though Barry and Joe were busy with normal cases at CCPD. Iris was either at CCPN or The Citizen while Cisco, Frost and Ralph were at STAR labs working on their own mini inventions.

"Okay this is a delicate process, pass me the screwdriver." Cisco says extending the a hand towards Ralph.

"Really? Does this look like a screwdriver to you?" Cisco raised an eyebrow.

"Do I look like a mechanic to you?" Ralph replied with the same tone.

Cisco rolled his eyes grabbing the tool by himself while Ralph looked towards Frost sitting across the cortex typing something on the computer. He saw Carla come in and sat next to her whispering something to her and Frost smiled sadly. Ralph's nose twitched looking at them.

"Hey, doesn't something seem wrong between Carla and Frosty?" He asks Cisco.

"No not really, why?" Cisco concentrates on his project.

"Because my nose, smells a mystery." Ralph announces as his nose twitches again.

"Hey keep your voice down, if she is hears you, she is going to give you a real frost bite!" Cisco remarks.

A gush of wind blew into the cortex diverting everyone's attention. He smiled widely looking at everyone.

"Any meta-human activity today?" Barry asks hoping for another answer today.

"Nah man, still gotta keep Flash on standby." Cisco replies.

Barry groans in frustration.

Ralph still doesn't feel right about Carla and Frost so he decides to investigate. He moves towards Frost to start his investigation.

"Hey what's wrong with Ralph?" Barry walks towards Cisco eyeing Ralph.

"I don't know, he thinks Carla and Frost are trying to hide something. No action his making his brain cray-cray." Cisco joked.

"I told you I am fine! How many times do I have to tell you that?! I already had enough questioning okay?!" Frost yelled moving towards Ralph as he stepped back quickly.

Barry and Cisco snapped their heads in her direction shocked to see what was going on.

Hers hands released the cold mist into the air, threatening and violent. She raised her hands ignoring the yelling of Carla trying to stop her. She didn't. Her hands moved to his neck holding him as the cold mist seeped through his skin as he gasped to breathe. The cold closing his windpipe. Barry ran towards her putting the dampening handcuffs on her and pushed her away from Ralph. He quickly grabbed him and vibrated him to generate heat back into his body as he coughed vigorously when he felt the oxygen entering back into is lungs.

"What is wrong with you?!" Barry gasped as he snapped his head at her...looking at her in disbelief.

Frost looked at her hands, trying to comprehend what she just did, look at Ralph breathing heavily and Barry rubbing his back to ease his breathing. She stumbled back shocked of her actions before running out of the cortex.

"C- Frost!" Barry yelled after her as she ran out.

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"What is wrong with her? Why is she behaving like that?" Cisco asks Carla.

"The treatment that we had to give her had some s-side affects." She hesitated.

"Side affects?! That what you are going with? She almost killed Ralph!" Barry yelled in frustration. "Look Carla, I know that you and Frost are not telling us the whole truth, but you better come out soon." Anger visible in his eyes.

"Well maybe you should've focused more on other people in your life than only your wife." Carla taunted while grabbing her jacket.

"W-What do you mean?" Barry frowned.

Carla scoffs and left the building.

"Like mother like daughter." Cisco mumbled.

"The is something definitely wrong. Frost tried to kill me. I was her life coach! Okay maybe I was not great, but still." Ralph said sitting on the bed in the med bay, trying to put the pieces together of what just happened.

"Guys, it's been 2 weeks since Frost has returned." Barry pointed out. "Why hasn't Caitlin showed up yet?" He frowned looking at both of the guys.

The three of them stared at each other, looking for answers.

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