HEX (The Flash FanFic)

CH: 9 ~~BARRY~~

I didn't want to leave Zoe alone that night but she requested to be alone so I left after our conversation. Everything she told me was still racing through my mind, I could barely sleep the rest of the night and when I tried to I got a phone call from Joe to tell me of two more victims. They had similar fatal injury to Thomas Hotta, Zoe met up with me at the scene and I could see she didn't sleep that night. We may have some luck because if the prep was responsible for all three murders then we may have the evidence to find him; the last victim managed to get DNA of the prep under her nailbuds. On the way back to the station I grabbed two coffees for the both of us again, Zoe was running the DNA and she arranged the photos on the bulletin board with Thomas Hotta's photos.  I stood near the monitor trying to identify the DNA from the third victim leaving Zoe to take care of the DNA under the victim's nailbuds. Captain Singh thinks it is a serial killer who is killing for the thrill while Zoe was scanning something underneath the microscope behind me. After our conversation last night about Parasite I agreed to help Zoe in any way I could even though she didn't want me to. I turned to see how she was doing, she moved her glasses from her face and on top of her head when she glanced over at me. 

"I think you want to see this..." she replied I moved over kneeling down a bit my arm brushed against her shirt and I looked into the scope. What I saw made my eyes go wide for a moment, I turned to look at her and she nodded at what I was thinking. 

"The DNA under the victim's nails matches the victim themselves? How is that possible?" I gasped looking at her as she moved away to her computer and began rapidly typing on the keyboard.

"I have no idea but these people had to be chosen specifically. I've run background checks on all of them; there jobs, personal lives they don't match. The only thing that could connect them is they have no living relatives around but how would the murderer know this? I doubt he would be stalking them for months, the pattern is too random." Zoe answered before I could speak my phone rang and when I pulled it out to see it was Cisco calling me.

"What's up Cisco?" I started putting the phone to my ear, I watched Zoe rubbed the back of her neck then lock eyes with me. "Yeah...Zoe and I are on it, text me the location."

"What's going on?" she asked I zipped over to my locker to grab my backpack with the Flash costume before returning my gaze to her.

"Cisco detected a powerful Metahuman terrorizing the city, Caitlin thinks he'll be vulnerable to your magic so you are coming to help me." I smiled looking down at my phone seeing the location that Cisco had texted me and I watched as Zoe nodded putting her glasses onto the desk in front of her. She pulled her hair free from the bun letting it drop to her shoulders, she closed her eyes and looked like she was chanting silently and I headed to my locker to grab my suit from in the backpack. I saw a flash of light behind me when I turned to see that Zoe was already in her costume, her hair had bluish purple highlights and black makeup covered her eyes instead of a mask. She and Oliver both shared that look that was until Oliver decided to dub a mask instead of scrubbing for hours to get that black makeup off and finding a reason why his face was so red afterwards. I tried so hard not to actually stare at Zoe but why must she chose a costume that showed off her chest? I guess maybe it was used for a distraction against the bad guys, they get all giggity then she would rip the information free from their brains with ease. I turned away from her taking my costume into my hands, I spun around using my superspeed shedding my clothes and replacing them with my costume. I saw papers fall to the floor causing me to groan a small bit but Zoe shook her head using her magic to place the papers back onto the desk next to me. "Let's go..." I watched Zoe hold out her hand for me, I looked down at her confused seeing her smirk.

"Did you expect to leave the station as the Flash without anyone noticing? Come on I'll get us there a lot quicker." she replied it made sense, if I sped out of here the entire station would notice that the Flash was around and I couldn't risk it. I took her hand with mine, she squeezed it tightly and I could feel my skin tingle watching the world around us fade into nothing. A few seconds later we appeared near an alleyway a few streets from the location of the Metahuman. We moved seeing the Metahuman emerge from the building he was in and saw both me and Zoe standing there waiting. He turned when I saw his face everything went wide and both my jaw and Zoe's literally dropped. "It can't be...isn't he supposed to be dead?"

"Thomas Hotta? He's alive?" I gasped before I could tell Cisco we both watched his limbs turn into nothing but liquid before shoving them at us like a tidal wave. We both dodged the blast separating the two of us on either side of the road we both looked at eachother then back at Hotta. 

"And he's a Metahuman." Zoe exclaimed standing up ready to fight him and I was ready to go too, he had a lot explaining to do starting with how the hell was he still alive?