Episode 27 - Flash Fanfiction - 16 Again

Chapter 2

Astrid led Cisco to the Warriors bar. "It's just so cool that I can drink now!" She said excitedly as she looked at the drinks menu. "I'll have..."

"Two cokes, minus the alcohol!" Cisco ordered of the bartender.

"What? No!" she told him. Nonetheless, she took her drink and the two of them went to find a table.
"Why would you do that?" she snapped at him.

"Because you're not in your right mind," he replied.

"I am too... I'm just having fun! You used to be all for having fun... what changed? Since when did you become so serious?" she pestered.

"We grew up. I still have fun... and you do too. But right now we need to focus on getting you better!"

"I'm not sick, Cisco."

"No, but... You are in a way... It's like that movie Freaky Friday. You are currently in the mind of your childhood self." Cisco tried to explain in a way that she would understand.

"Oh my god, really?" Astrid asked him, grasping the concept... "Does that mean I have a kid? Oh god no!"

"No, Astrid, you don't! ... that's not where I was going... but... " Cisco replied.

"Wow, I must be boring... screw that! So, why are we sitting in a bar if you're not going to let me drink?" she asked him.

"Beats me!" he replied.

"Well, I need to use the restroom... so I will be back in a minute." She said with a smile.

"Sure," he replied. She left and he sat down staring at his own drink, hoping that this selective amnesia would not last. Soon enough, he looked at the time. She had been ten minutes. He decided to call her.

"Astrid, where are you?" he asked her, knowing that she had pulled one of her old tricks, and slipped out.

"Sorry, Cis. Can't hear you. I'll call you back, later." Astrid said as she hung up on him.

Cisco breached back to STAR Labs to inform the rest of the group of what had happened.

"You lost her?" Harry snapped.

"You don't get it! She used her old 'I'm going to the bathroom' excuse! What did you expect me to do? Follow her in?" Cisco snapped back.

"She is an unstable telepathic meta-human who has lost her mind and insists on having fun... You're the one who always claims to know her the best... and now Amunet has escaped from prison... and if Barry's news is correct, she is hiring metas to work for her... So, you tell me what you should have done!" Harry snapped back

"You guys! Can we just stop arguing?" Barry asked them, "I will do a scan throughout Central City, starting with Astrid's house. Frost can go meet up with Amunet to ensure that she hasn't found Astrid... and that she won't find her. We can't lose our heads!"

"Barry's right. I'll keep an eye on Amunet! Astrid will be fine!" Frost said as she had taken over Caitlin's body. Frost and Barry left without another word.

Cisco sighed, "I'll run through the surveillance footage of Central City... see what I can come up with!"

"Good start!" Harry said, as he walked back towards his office and closed the door, hoping that DR Fate would make an appearance. Unfortunately, he didn't.

"Still no sign of her." Barry replied as he returned back to STAR labs a few hours later, where he found Cisco willing himself to get a vibe of where she was.

"Still no luck, here either." Cisco said. He was concerned for her as it was getting late, "Her mirror-verse self, did say once that she could make herself undetectable... I'm wondering if that's what she has done, because she didn't want to be found."