Frozen Flashpoint

Chapter 28: Acceptance

Summary: S.T.A.R. Labs is tense. Marlize's discovery brings awful consequences. And what is DeVoe planning?!

Caitlin was in her lab working on analyzing ways to disable the enhancing drug that DeVoe would try to use.

Lyra was sitting next to her and looking through some data herself. Caitlin felt a little bad that her daughter was doing it just to spend some time with her.

The last couple of days were tense. There was an apprehensive atmosphere between everyone since her confrontation with Marlize DeVoe.

All of them thought it was a mistake, especially Harry who was angry at her for the amount of information she shared with Marlize, which probably DeVoe now knew as well.

Barry of course tried to ease her mind and calm everyone down, but even Cisco was doubtful anything good would come out of that conversation. Actually, he looked like he was getting ready for the worst news every day now.

And if Harry was right and Marlize did tell DeVoe everything, it won't take him long to get his hands on the rest of the information like who Lyra is, and that could cause a lot of trouble. If her daughter is hurt because she chose to trust the wrong person, Caitlin will never be able to forgive herself.

So Caitlin spent most of the past two days in her lab, working to distract herself. She was so focused on her work that she almost missed the notification coming from her phone.

Caitlin turned on the screen to see a number she didn't recognize and wasn't saved on her device. Opening the message warily, she saw it was a location. Before she could question it, her phone began ringing, drawing even Lyra's attention to it.

Caitlin frowned and answered the call on speakerphone so Lyra could hear it too and run to tell Barry if needed. Caitlin used her most professional voice to ask, "Hello?"

For a long moment, all Caitlin could hear was heavy breathing. She was about to hang up when a familiar voice called out, "Ca...Cai...Caitlin."

Caitlin's eyes were wide, and she asked quickly, "Marlize, is that you?"

Instead, the answer she got back was words spoken between heavy pants, "H...Help. C...Cl...Clifford... Poison."

Caitlin's heart skipped a beat. DeVoe poisoned his wife?! Lyra didn't mention anything about that!

Turning her head toward the future teen, she too seemed to be in shock. Quickly putting that aside, Caitlin pulled up the location again and was about to tell Lyra to get Barry so he could run over and save Marlize, but instead she was greeted by a blue and orange streak of lightning leaving the room.

Caitlin began pulling out her poisoning kit when Lyra in a flash of lightning returned with Marlize DeVoe in her arms.

The woman looked pale and cold, she was shaking, and there was blood dripping down her nose.

Caitlin pointed toward the bed in the corner of the room and said in a firm voice, "On the bed."

Lyra was quick to obey and laid the shaking woman on the bed. Caitlin was at her side within a moment and injected her with an agent that would stall the poison. She switched syringes to draw some of Marlize's blood for analysis.

She was just about to look into the microscope after letting the computer start its own analysis when another streak of lightning, this one orange, entered the room.

Barry stopped and looked at Caitlin frantically. "Cait, are you okay?"

Caitlin was confused for a moment until she finally noticed the alarms sounding around the lab. She had such tunnel vision to save Marlize that her mind completely blocked out the high-pitched sound of the alarm.