Hellfire (The Flash - Book 2) [RE-UPLOAD]

Chapter 11 - Potential Energy

I was sitting outside a restaurant, wearing a white dress and black leather jacket, ready for a date.

Barry arrived in a flash with a bouquet of roses, which caught on fire due to the speed he'd been running. "Oh!"

I stood. "Oh my . . .

I took the bouquet and siphoned the flames, leaving the roses unharmed but smoking.

"Sorry," Barry said.

I laughed. "It's all good."

"I didn't realize roses were so flammable," Barry told me.

I chuckled. "Well, I guess it's a good thing I was here then, huh?"

"Those are for you, by the way," Barry smiled.

"Thank you," I smiled. "Thank God for proper fire safety management."

"Yes," Barry smiled. "I have spent most of my life feeling very unlucky."

"Yeah, and now?" I asked.

"Feels like I've been struck by lightning twice," Barry answered.

I smiled, biting my bottom lip. Barry and I looked at each other for moment before leaning in and kissing. I wrapped my arms around his neck, still holding the roses and Barry slid his hands around my waist.

We heard the rush of a speedster zooming past as the bouquet was ripped out of my hands.

Barry and I pulled away, looking around in confusion.

Zoom appeared behind me and wrapped the stems of the roses around my neck, strangling me.

My eyes wide as I struggled to breathe.

Hellfire flew closer from behind Barry and grabbed his head, burning him as she lifted him off the ground, hovering in the air.

Zoom's demonic voice spoke into my ear. "Everything you have will be ours."

Hellfire's hands burned brighter, making Barry cry out in pain before she let him go.

"No!" I screamed.

I tried to save him, but I was too late.

Barry laid on the ground, his face severely burned and his eyes stared at me, lifeless.

Zoom then released his grip of the roses and phased his clawed hand into my back, making me gasp in horror.

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I sat up in my bedroom, gasping awake from the nightmare. I realized that it just been a dream, breathing heavily.

Barry was lying next to me, he shifted and opened his eyes. "Hey, you okay?"

I looked at him. "Yeah." Barry sat up in concern. "Y-yeah. Sorry."

"It's okay," Barry wrapped his arm around me and we both laid down, I laid my head on his chest. "Just get some sleep."

I gazed off, still disturbed by the dream.

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The next day, everyone was gathered in the Cortex and Cisco was telling us about a metahuman in Central City he calls the Turtle.

"As some of you may know, I've been deeply embroiled in a secret, one-sided battle with an invisible enemy," Cisco told us.

"No," Caitlin said. "Not the Turtle again."