The Flash: Lost...

Chapter XXI

Joe kneels in front of Wenn and checks her pulse.
"She's alive Barry but we gotta get her to a hospital."

Barry's head flies up, "No, no hospital, she's... she's..."

"A Meta... I know Bar, she told me" Joe tells him
"We can't take her to a hospital, Joe."

"So what do you suggest we do?!" Joe asks him.
Barry carefully picks her up, "Call Cisco and Caitlin, I'm taking her to S.T.A.R. Labs."
And he blast out of there.
Joe sighs and calls Caitlin. Chances are she is probably still there.
"Caitlin, it's Joe..."
"I know," he hears on the other end, "They're already here."
"Okay, I'll be there soon." And ends the call.

At S.T.A.R. Labs Barry puts Wenn on the bed he himself occupied so many times.
"Please help her Caitlin." Barry pleads.
"What happened?!" She asks as she feverishly begins to work on her new patient.
"I... I don't know. I... think I blew up my apartment."

For a moment Caitlin blinks up at him, eyes wide. "You what?!"
"I think I blew up my apartment and, and she was there, oh god, what did I do?!"
He starts to pace.

"You didn't, it was Wells."
Joe walks in to the cortex, Cisco on his heels.
Caitlin's eyes turn wide, so do Barry's.
"No..." He whispers "No, no, no, he's just a figment of my imagination, it's not real!"
Joe walks over to Barry and sits him down on a chair.
He puts his hands on Barry's shoulders, "Bar... I don't know how but what I saw tonight? What I heard? HIS voice, coming from YOUR mouth!"

"Wha...what?!" Barry whispers, a hand scrubbing his forehead
"Wait, wait, wait, who and what are we talking about?" Cisco asks
"Wells" Joe answers
Cisco walks over to Barry and Joe.
"Okay, from the top, what happened."

Barry sighs and scrubs a hand over his face. "Ever since that day, the day I didn't save mom, and Eddie..." He can't bear that thought and swallows "and the singularity, I have been having nightmares."
Cisco nods, urging him to go on.
"You, Caitlin, Joe, Iris, everyone I love and care about gets killed by either Wells because I am not fast enough. Or because I didn't stop a Meta in time and you guys get caught in the cross fire.

During the day he pops up unexpected, I keep hearing him, inside my head. Taunting me..."

"...playing on your every insecurity, every doubt." Cisco finishes.
"Yes. Wenn said it was just a figment of my imagination, that I was so tired and...consumed by guilt over what happened that my mind was playing tricks on me."
"Sounds plausible" Cisco says.

"That's what she told me too, but what I saw tonight? Was scarier than that time you were whammied." Joe tells Barry
"So what exactly did happen tonight?" Barry asks 
"Wenn came to see me, to talk about you. She was... is worried about you. Then you called in a panic and we rushed over. When we came in you were ... You were emanating lightning, both yellow AND red and your eyes glowed red, like Wells'. And when you spoke Barry..." Joe shudders at the thought. "...You sounded just like him..."
Joe looks up at Barry, who looks horrified.
"So what are you saying? I was possessed by him? AM I possessed by him?!"

"I don't know, but it sure seemed like it." Joe continues

"Then Wenn ran over to you and did something that seemed to be working. The red lightning was fading and Wells was saying how he 'almost had you' and was telling her to stop. Wenn told me to get out of there and just as I did there was a discharge of energy and blew the whole place to smithereens. Wenn was on the floor unconscious and you didn't, well don't seem to have a clue what happened." Joe finishes.

Barry sits down. "I remember his voice popping up in my head. I wanted to sleep but I couldn't get him to stop. So I called Wenn, to work her magic."
Cisco raises an eyebrow.
"Not like that Cisco," Barry continues "I thought if I stood up to the voice that I could beat him, then it all went black."

"uhm, Barry?" A small voice comes from the adjoining room of the cortex, "A little help?"
Caitlin is standing next to Wenns bed. Every metal object that is near them is floating around them. Needles, scalpels, tweezers.
"Oh god I should have told you!" Barry rushes towards the edge of the room.
"She a Meta." Cisco states, "That's what you meant by 'magic'."
Barry nods as he stands in the doorway, contemplating how to handle this. He hadn't realized that her being unconscious would make her lose control over her powers. Sleep is one thing, she probably learned how to control it. But knocked out is another.

"What can she do?" Cisco comes up behind him
Barry carefully walks towards the bed.
"Sense and manipulate magnetic, kinetic and electric energy. She was working with one of the 5 biggest electro magnets in the world when the dark matter wave hit her."

"Cool!! She's like Magneto!!"
Barry takes her hand in his and whispers, "That's what she said..."
Cisco carefully manoeuvres himself over to Barry and puts his arm around him

"She gonna be okay, man"

Suddenly all the floating objects drop to the floor.
Caitlin comes up to the bed and checks her vitals.

"What did you do to her?"

"Nothing!" Barry quickly lets go of her hand and steps away from the bed, afraid he might have hurt her.
The objects slowly start to rise again.
"Of course!" Cisco says enthusiastically

"You balance each other! Positive and negative energy has to be in balance, so when you are in close proximity you either give or take what the other has to much or too little of."

Barry steps back towards the bed and takes her hand back in his.
The objects drop again.
Cisco looks up at Barry, wonder and enthusiasm all over his face.
He starts to walk back and forward. "This is awesome! Your powers are naturally linked!"

 "That's why I always felt so calm and serene when I was with her. And how she was able to take away my nightmares. She took away the negative force, basically..."

"...knocking out Wells." Cisco finished.

 "Okay, so whatever the hell she did earlier, probably knocked him out again, hopefully for a while. Bigger question is, how the hell did he get IN Barry." Joe asks

"That is the half a million dollar question." Cisco says.
"I have to get out of here!" Barry states. "I can't stay, I'm not strong enough, if he gets out, if he gets a hold of me he's gonna..."
"NO." Joe tells him sternly.
He grabs a chair, brings it over to Barry and plants him on it.
"You are not going anywhere. No more running Barry, no more doing this on your own. We are going to figure this out, together." Joe firmly tells him.

"Besides we need you to keep her from attracting every god damn metal object in the lab. So you are going to stay right here besides her. Might even keep Wells at bay for now."

Barry sighs, he knows Joe is right. He just can't bare to see anyone else get hurt at his hand.

 "Okay..." 

Barry turns his attention to girl on the bed. He brings her hand to his lips and kisses it.

 "Please come back to me..."