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Chapter 7: The Demon Speedster

"Zoom sent me here to kill you, and capture Hecate, but I didn't want to," Light told them. It was the morning after their fight in the train station. After telling the team what had happened to her, with plans to talk to her family that weekend, figuring out how to stop Zoom was a welcome distraction for Rose.

"But you were fine with killing Linda Park," Barry, dressed in his suit, reminded her.

"It was the best bad idea I could come up with. Leave her body for Zoom to find, he'd think I was dead, and I'd be free."

Rose, also in costume, asked, "And how was he supposed to find her body? What if he knew about her?"

"Just let me go. Let me disappear," her arms dropped to her sides, defeated.

"You would spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, never knowing when Zoom is coming." Barry told her.

"Okay," she replied, pushing herself off the wall she had been leaning against throughout their conversation. "And what's your great idea?"

"How were you supposed to contact him after you killed Barry and captured me? Speaking of which, how were you supposed to capture me." Rose questioned her, wondering what in the hell was her game plan for that part. Killing her and Barry would be one thing. But capturing either of them had proven itself not to be an easy task.

Light explained, "I was supposed to get something... something I could only get if he was dead and I had you... and then throw it through the breach as proof. I was supposed to knock you out and put this cuff I got from him on you."

"And then what?"

"Then he'd come for me. Confirm the kill and bring me home. I have no idea what he wanted with you though. Why do you want to know?" she asked them.

"Because we want to find him." Barry answered.

Light eerily looked like Linda when she was concerned, making Rose happy that she had never met her doppelganger, when she warned, "You really don't."

Barry continued, "He's gonna keep coming for us. He's gonna keep kidnapping people like you, forcing them to do what he wants. We have to stop him before more people die."

She shook her head. "You can't stop Zoom."

"Yes, we can. We will, but we need your help." Rose told her. Light looked down at the floor then back at them with an almost imperceptible nod. Now all they needed was a fool-proof plan.

"Zoom wants Doctor Light to send him your new emblem," Caitlin reiterated what Light had told them.

Rose spun around in Caitlin's seat as Barry confirmed, "Yes. We need it for bait. If we can get Doctor Light to take my emblem, throw it through the breach, then Zoom will come to collect my body, and we can trap him."

"You know it took a lot of work to make that emblem, right?" Cisco reminded him, looking from Barry then to Rose, as if daring her to offer her's up as well.

She rolled her eyes at him as Caitlin continued, "This is the woman who was willing to kill Linda in order to escape Zoom, but now she's willing to help us catch him?"

"She figures it's the only way," Rose told her.

"Before I left Earth-2," Harry interrupted, coming from the other room. "I worked on a serum to dampen Zoom's speed. All we would need is for Ramon to develop a weapon to deliver it."

Rose shook her head. "Thanks for mentioning that just now."

"Oh, great, that could be this year's cold gun. Maybe another criminal can get it, and then we'd have Sergeant Slow," Caitlin's voice rose as she spoke sarcastically.