Believe in the Impossible ϟ The Flash

Chapter 16: The Death of Hecate

The three of us laughed as the little monkey grabbed at Buster Keaton's nose causing him to stumble and knock down a guy, "I just love that little monkey."

"Oh, Buster Keaton. That guy was a genius," Cisco said as Wells and I agreed with him. "I can't believe you two have never seen this movie."

"Must have been before our time," Wells answered as I laughed.

I grabbed a bit of popcorn out of Cisco's bowl as he said, "I gotta make you a must-see movie list, pronto."

"Please do," Wells urged him as we stared at the screen. "While I am more than happy to spend an evening watching old movies with you, Cisco, do you not have your brother's dinner to attend?" I shot Cisco a look.

"You never told me you had a brother!" I threw a piece of popcorn at him.

"Yeah," Cisco sounded annoyed at the mention of his family. "I was gonna ask you, Rose, to come with me, but then I got a much better idea."

"Which was?"

"To not go at all," Cisco replied, looking pointedly at the screen.

Wells wasn't about to let this go, "Oh. Things are not any better with your family?"

"You're missing the movie," Cisco pointed us to the screen. Wells and I hushed up till Cisco spoke only seconds later with his voice still sounding pissed off. "Okay, you know what, I'm gonna be honest with. Things have actually been pretty fantastic...since I stopped seeing them so much."

"Brother that bad?" I said as I tossed another piece of popcorn into my mouth. Cisco shook his head.

"You have no idea," he told me. The alarm on the computer chimed. Cisco handed me his bowl and wheeled himself over to the computer. "Silent alarm has been tripped at the Central City Morgue."

"Why the hell would any want to rob a morgue?" I asked as I got up to change. I handed Cisco back his bowl before I began to tie up my hair.

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"Hey there Flash," I greeted when Barry sped into the room. The room was extremely dark considering it there was still a body being worked on the table. Cisco asked what we were seeing as we explored the room.
"A dead body," Barry told him as he got to the other side of the table, looking down at the ground. Curious, I went to stand by Barry's side. I looked down to see the coroner's body on the floor. Cisco asked him to be more specific, seeing as we were in a morgue.

"It's the coroner," I told him. "He's dead."

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Police sirens blared as Barry and I arrived to the scene. As we came in Barry ran into the Captain, spilling Singh's coffee. It went everywhere, landing on Singh, Barry, and me. I wiped my mouth where it had landed.

"Allen, my fiancé just bought me this!" Singh yelled at Barry as he mumbled an apology. As Singh left I called back to him. Singh came back to me as I set down my bags and dug through my purse. I handed him a baby wipe from its small container.

"Dab your coat with this before you take it to the cleaner," I told him. "Rob shouldn't notice a thing." Singh thanked me before pointing me back over to Barry and Joe. I nodded and went to work. Barry was kneeling down by the coroner's body, showing Joe the ice we had found there earlier. Most of what we had found had melted by the time we got here after changing.

"Rose," Barry asked as he set the piece of ice back down on the ground. "Show him the bruises." I nodded as I slipped on my gloves and pulled up the coroner's shirt. There was as much purple and blue as there was white skin.