Episode 5 The Flash Fanfic

Chapter 6

"Astrid! Wake up!" Cisco whispered to his friend, who was currently passed out as the two were tied with cable ties to dining chairs. They were in someone's house. They just didn't know who it belonged to. Astrid awoke and had to think back to what had brought her here. She remembered the smoke. The man who had taken her hostage. She remembered passing out.

"Cisco, where are we?" she asked him with the same whispered tone.

"Well, well, well! Our guest is finally awake." Leonard Snart's voice broke in as he entered the room. "Let me introduce you both to my family home. Miss Sutherland... I would also like to reintroduce you to my partner in crime Mick Rory... Oh and you know her as your assistant... but she is in fact my sister, Lisa." Both Mick and Lisa followed him into the dining room.

"Jane?" Astrid asked puzzled, "but that is impossible. My team gave you a full investigation before they hired you."

"I forgot to mention, Miss Sutherland," Leonard told her, "that we are professionals at what we do... the forgery, the back stories... They were all a sham." Lisa glanced over at Cisco, a proud smile formed on her face as she looked at her weapon in her hand. She had fooled them both and she was proud of what she had done.

"Miss Sutherland. Do you remember when you and I first met? It was at that bank a little over a month ago and you were distracting me from our work? You fooled me, buying yourself some time for a team of officers to come in before, I revealed the identity of Central City's hero in red. You told me that you knew my sister... you even had me believe you by bringing up a minor detail. I would like to know just how you knew it." Snart asked her.

Astrid remained silent. She eyed the weapon in Lisa Snart's hands and it dawned on her, just who had created it. Though now wasn't the time to argue with her friend.

"How did you know it!" Snart demanded her again, loudly, making her jump to attention.
"How else would I know? Sutherland Labs is known for its research. I have friends who work for the police department. There is not a lot that I cannot find out."

"Excuse me if I'm not buying it. You were about to divulge a little information, that only a few people, namely me and my sister know. This information has never been documented in any report ever written about myself or Lisa." Leonard raised his weapon towards Cisco, "I will not ask you again. How did you get your information?"

Astrid probed into his mind. He wouldn't kill Cisco, he needed him. This meant that she was safe not revealing her secret. She refused to say anything.

"Congratulations, Miss Sutherland. You called my bluff." Leonard told her, this time he held the weapon in her direction. "Whatever your secrets may be, chances are your best friend here knows every one of them. Something tells me that, unlike you, he would be more than willing to talk." He shot a stream of ice hitting her left shoulder which was so cold and so painful that it made her scream out in pain.

"Astrid can read minds!" Cisco blurted out, making Leonard lower his weapon in surprise.
"He's lying!" Astrid called out in pain. She wanted to grab her arm but she could barely move it, let alone struggle. It was frozen stiff, and tied behind her.

"No... I know a lie when I hear one," Leonard told her, "that is no lie." He looked over at his accomplices, "Can we speak in the other room?" he asked them. The three of them left Cisco and Astrid alone in the dining room.

Astrid focused her thoughts on breathing through the sensation of her left arm. Her shoulder had gone numb. She couldn't move it and she hoped that it was not severely damaged.

"I'm sorry Astrid... I thought..." Cisco began.
"Don't worry. I understand." Astrid told him. "We just need to figure out what we are going to do. How we are going to get out of here." She was having problems breathing and she let out a few coughs to clear her throat. A clear side effect from the fire earlier.

"What do you have in mind?" Cisco asked her.
"Well they now know that I can read minds so that eliminates that option. That Mick guy set a fire to Sutherland Labs, that's how he caught me. It will only be a matter of time before Barry and the rest of CCPD find out that we are missing." Astrid told him in a calm whisper.

"He set fire to Sutherland Labs?" Cisco asked, shocked.
Astrid nodded, groaning as she felt a sharp sensation to her left arm. She still couldn't move it.
"So we have a change of plans..." Leonard Snart said as he and his accomplices entered the room again. He grinned directly at Astrid. She read his mind immediately and began to protest.

"You know, miss Sutherland, exactly what we have planned. And you also know that you cannot refuse." He told her. She knew that Lisa had done her work to find out everything about Astrid Sutherland and her friends. The one thing she didn't know was who the Flash really was. But what she did know is that Astrid Sutherland was the key to acquiring everything the three of them, (Snart, Mick and Lisa) could hope to achieve. 

Snart's plan was simple. Threaten to hurt Cisco, unless Astrid helped them to break into banks, corporations and other means to gain riches. Her mind reading ability and her status was their key to success.

"I can't help you! I can't do that!" Astrid blurted out.
Lisa smiled a malicious grin, walked up to Cisco and kissed him on the cheek. He shook his head to fight her off him. "Naww... Cisco! Don't you like me anymore?"

"You tricked me! You're a psycho!" he snapped at her.
She smiled down at him, unphased. "You gave my brother a nickname. How about giving me one..."

Cisco hated her with a vengeance at this moment. Though the temptation to create another witty name for a supervillain was just too hard to resist. He thought about the gun he had made her and her love for motor cycles. "Golden Glider..." he told her, pleased with himself.

"I love it!" she told him, jumping up and down and clapping her hands as if she were a child.
"Did I hear that correctly?" Snart asked Cisco, "You have a cute little pet name for me?"

Cisco refused to look at him, so Lisa replied instead. "Oh, he calls you Captain Cold! Brother."

"Captain Cold?" Snart repeated, nodding his head and hearing how it sounded. "Not something that I would have picked, but it does have its charm."

"Can we cut the crap?" growled Mick Rory. "We have things to do and I am eager to get out of town before we get caught again."

"You're right, Mick." Leonard said, looking at his friend, "But before we leave town with our newfound friends. I would like to take my new key and test it out. While I do, I would like to leave Cisco in your capable hands. If Astrid refuses to do her part... you will know what to do."

Mick Rory grinned, a devilish grin and let out a menacing gruff chuckle. Astrid saw the terror in his mind and it made her sick to her stomach. She knew that she had no choice but to participate in whatever crime that Leonard Snart had planned.

Lisa, who was still standing next to Cisco pleaded to stay behind to have some fun with Cisco and her new weapon. So Leonard approved.