HEX (The Flash FanFic)

CH: 11 ~~BARRY~~

My eyes slowly opened seeing I was back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin was talking to Cisco outside and I could see Zoe sitting in the chair next to me looking at Thomas Hotta's file carefully. She looked up at me seeing that I was awake, she slammed the file shut placing it onto the table next to her and leaned forward towards me. 

"Hey there speedy, how are you feeling?" she smiled I grabbed my head feeling completely light headed after whatever had happened to me.

"My chest feels like that one time I had a cigarette. What the hell happened?" I asked coughing feeling my voice was rough and dry hurting to actually speak.

"Try not to speak much, you sort of drowned..." she started forcing me to move up onto my elbows with shock then I felt her hand touch my bare chest pushing me back down. I saw I was connected to wires again, Caitlin was always monitoring me like this if I ended up really hurt during a fight. "It's okay relax there, I resuscitated you and took care of Hotta. He's locked in the Pipeline waiting to be interrogated once you are better."

"Thanks...wait you resuscitated me?" I asked my voice raspy when I saw her smile turning her head to both Cisco and Caitlin who were deep in conversation.

"Well if I didn't then you wouldn't be here speedy, besides I think you may rather me give you mouth to mouth then Caitlin who would probably be a lot rougher." she warned she wasn't wrong, Caitlin would probably have broken my sternum trying to bring me back saying it was to save me and to punish me from being stupid.

"Thanks Zo, so did you find out anything about Thomas Hotta? Like how he is still alive or even a Metahuman?" I asked sitting up but not moving much since my chest was still very sore including my lungs from the water being pushed out of them. I knew that they would heal in a bit but that didn't mean I could be sore.

"Well I called Joe asking him to check the morgue to see if our Thomas Hotta here was the same one we saw dead a few days ago. Get this; the body in the morgue is Thomas Hotta, the same Hotta we have locked down in the Pipeline." she exclaimed my eyes went wide seeing her nod at my expression, how the hell was that even possible?

"How is that even possible? We ran a background check on Hotta he had no siblings or even a twin for that matter." I started watching her nod then a thought popped into my head, I can't believe that I had completely forgotten something that could help this make sense. "Maybe he did the same thing Eobard Thawne did when he pretended to be Harrison Wells." I looked at Zoe who looked at me reminding me she wasn't around when the Reverse Flash was around.

"Cisco and Caitlin thought that as well; I ran his DNA while you were unconscious, it's him Bar. It's Thomas Hotta our murder victim but this Hotta has Dark Matter exposure in his DNA. I compared it with the DNA we had at CCPD they are an exact match with the exception of the Dark Matter in one." Zoe exclaimed I rubbed my face with my gloved hand when Caitlin and Cisco entered the room probably overhearing Zoe explaining what she found.

"Good to see you're okay Bar, you had us scared." Caitlin smiled she was always panicky over me even after I was struck by lightning she was always checking me medically everyday.

"I'm okay Cait really. Right now we need to figure out what the hell is going on and how Hotta is alive and dead." I answered swinging my legs over the bed and letting the wires attached to my chest drop to my lap and I stretched letting my sore body feel relieved. I saw Zoe move over towards me, she touched my shoulder with her hand and I looked up at her.

"Then let's go ask him." she smiled her costume reappeared onto her body, I zipped up my chest and pulled my mask over my face. Caitlin and Cisco stayed behind so they wouldn't compromise anything, Zoe was by my side and I opened the Pipeline. Hotta was sitting with his back against the wall and saw both of us looking at him.

"So Thomas Hotta, care to tell us how you are still alive when your body is lying in the morgue?" I asked my voice was disguised with the vibrations of my vocal cords and he looked at me like he was confused by everything I said.

"I have nothing to say to either one of you..." he smirked sending a shot of water at us but it bounced off the glass hitting him instead. He fell to the floor shaking off his attack where we shook our heads at him, I turned to see if Zoe got anything from his mind. She looked at me nodding a bit then I turned back to Hotta giving him a small grin. "Well no matter Hotta, we got the information we needed. Enjoy your stay in the Pipeline." Hotta's smile dropped from his face, I moved sealing the Pipeline door and we walked away from him. Once the doors shut completely Zoe returned to her normal clothes and I pulled off my mask looking at her, she looked like she was trying to figure out Hotta's thoughts.

"His thoughts are everywhere, he's not making much sense but I can tell he has no idea what we were talking about. He thinks that we are just pulling his leg, that there is no other Thomas Hotta here in Central City and it is just him." Zoe replied that was definitely strange, if this Thomas Hotta didn't believe us about him being dead then it meant he didn't kill him. Whoever killed the human Thomas Hotta is someone else, someone that this Hotta doesn't want us to know.