Wanted Man | Leonard Snart

3. The escape

It had gone three hours since Snart and Mick left the building with me handcuffed in it. I crawled, leaning towards the wall so that I could get up on my feet. I walked to the door, it was unlocked. This was my chance to get out of here. I had to get out of here. Though I wondered why they kept me here. Was it because I saw Mick kill that man?
I don't know. All I know is that if I want to escape, this was the time for it.

I opened the door and looked around me. I had no idea where I was. I tried to find the front door but walked around in circles. What is this place?

Then I found it. I walked towards it and was just about to pull down the handle with my elbow as the door opened. In front of me, Mick looks me furiously in the eyes.

"Can I kill her?!" He shouts as I see Snart right behind him.
"You know what to do, Mick" Snart says as he walks in with no emotions on his face. Mick grabbes me from behind and I see Snart holding a camera and a computer. Mick had a really hard grip on me and because of that he was so strong, it hurt. Mick pushed me into an empty room as I saw Snart putting up the camera in front of us.

"What are you doing?" I asked, trying to get out of Mick's grip.
"You, shut up" Mick grunts and holds me back.
"We're just going to send the Flash a little message.." Snart mumbles.
"Was that all you did? Spending three hours finding a camera? And record something to someone that doesn't even care about your sorry asses?" I shouted and used all my strenght trying to get away from Mick, but it was pointless.
"Funny" Snart chuckles, turns around and gives me a smirk. "Pretty sure he will care when a woman's life is in danger." Then he turns around and Mick laughs in my ear.

Oh my God, this is why they held me here. I'm their hostage. If for whatever reason they want the Flash's attention and they don't get it.. They're going to kill me. And here I was, thinking that some part in Snart actually cared.

He turns the camera on and had hacked in so that the video is showed on every television in the city.

"Greetings, citizens of Central City. I'm Leonard Snart. But you can call me Cold..
I'm gonna make this very simple for everyone. That red streak you've been hearing whispers about.. The one mysteriously saving people these last few months..
Well surprise, he's real. Calles himself (chuckles) the Flash..
Porter and Main, tonight, sundown. Come out, come out wherever you are Flash. Show the whole world you're real." He looks at me. Then he says,
"or this woman dies."
He crashes the camera and walks towards me to put on duct tape over my mouth.

"I wish I had never met you" I whispered, he looked at me for a second, then he covered my mouth. Snart walked away and Mick put me on a chair and tied a rope around me. Then he whispers in my ear,
"You better pray the next people that come through that door is us."
I looked at him. Why would I pray for that?
"Oh, that's right.. There's a bomb beneath you. And you see this?" He points at some kind of a wire. "If anybody that walks in here doesn't know about this, then you go kaboom" he smirks. Then he grabs his flamethrower.
"You know that Snart is Captain Cold, but what am I?" He asks me as he stands up. I couldn't move and I couldn't talk. So that was a little ironic.
"I'm Heatwave. We didn't name ourselves you know. Our little friends at S.T.A.R Labs gave us these names-"
"Mick! Time to go" I hear Snart shout. Mick grunts and leaves. And into the room, Leonard walks in. He goes down on one knee right in front of me. I avoided eyecontact. He gently, caressed my cheek and make me felt like the first time I met him. Safe.
But that doesn't change the fact that he lied to me all this time. He used me. He's a criminal and he's going to let Mick kill me later. Or maybe he will do it himself.

Without realising it, my eyes watered up and tears fell down my cheeks. I looked him in the eyes and he looked into mine. I wanted to hate him so much, but I couldn't.

"Come on, Snart, we don't have time for you two lovebirds to be emotional now" Mick says outside, ready to go fight the Flash. Leonard rolled his eyes, then dried my tears with his thumb.
"I'm sorry" he whispered, and then he left.

Now I was all alone, tied up on a chair, and basically waiting for my own death.