Episode 32 - Flash Fanfiction - Dracula

Chapter 2

Later that day, Cisco, Astrid and Caitlin were sitting in the cortex watching movies. They had just finished watching Bram Stoker's Dracula. "Man, I love that we get to watch movies for research!" Cisco said with a smile as he went to put another disk in the drive. "The next one, may he rest in peace is a comedy take on the Dracula movie..."

"Come on, Cisco." What about something a little more... I don't know... fun?" Caitlin said, a little bored.

"We could go with The Lost Boys?" Astrid said or "or that one with Bon Jovi?"

"I was thinking something a little more recent..." Caitlin added.

"Buffy!" Cisco and Astrid said in unison.

"Maybe I should go and check on blood samples... or do something... I should have gone with Barry to the morgue..." Caitlin said frustrated.

"Poking around with dead bodies?" Cisco asked her, "Where's the fun in that?"

"Morgues are actually a rather peaceful place to work..." Caitlin said with a smile.

"That's a dig, right?" Cisco said annoyed. "You seriously just tried to say that you would rather work in a quiet morgue with dead bodies than with me."

"Wouldn't we all?" Astrid joked. She was still holding the stake in her hands as if she had adopted it as her own.

"You girls are horrible!" Cisco said annoyed, noticing the stake, "Fine... Buffy the Vampire Slayer it is!"

Barry had accompanied Joe to Central City's morgue where they received a full explanation on the injuries that had been left on the bodies, as well as the questions in relation to the missing corpses from overnight. There were four fresh corpses currently laying on the slabs, all with two puncture marks to the neck and drained of blood.

Dr Jacobson, a female blonde doctor of about thirty something, went on to say, "I get that this all sounds crazy, it's exactly what I thought when I walked in here this morning to find the other two bodies missing, I thought that it had to be some kind of a joke... But, it is what it is."

"Do you mind if I take a look around?" Barry asked her.

"Go right ahead, maybe you'll find the fingerprints of who this sick prankster is." She answered.

Joe stood next to her and brought out the photographs of the previous bodies that had gone missing. "Did you happen to find anything different in the attacks between these bodies and those bodies on the slabs?" Joe asked her.

Barry focused on the body of a young woman of about his age. He examined the ligature marks to her throat and it literally made him feel like he was in a horror movie.

He was distracted by Joe calling out his name in a tone full of fear and confusion.

Barry turned around to see that one of the corpses, an older man of about forty was sitting up and feasting on DR Jacobson's neck. Neither he, nor Joe knew what to make of it.

He immediately got into action and grabbed a hold of the undead male, as Dr Jacobson's body fell to the floor. The man that Barry was fighting with, was in fact a vampire. He attempted to bite at Barry, his fangs were sharp, impressive and scary. "Er Joe... A little help?" Barry called out.

"Sure, son!" Joe said, breaking out of his shocked state. He pulled out his pistol and shot at the corpse. The bullet hit him in the side, but he didn't go down.

Barry managed to get the upper hand over the vampire. "I'm taking him to STAR Labs!" he cried out, as he left in an instant. Barry brought the vampire to STAR Labs and locked him in the pipeline. He returned to collect Joe and brought him to the cortex to debrief with the rest of the group back in the cortex.

"er... you guys... we have a vampire downstairs in the pipeline..." Barry said on his arrival.

"No way, man! I have to see!" Cisco replied excitedly.

"I'd be happy if that were something that I never saw again!" Joe said sternly.

"I'm sorry, what?" Astrid exclaimed. "Are you talking about an actual... vampire?" As she said the last word, she brought the stake up and made a motion as if to be staking one.

"I'm talking about a man who was originally dead on a slab in the morgue, who sat up and attacked DR Jacobson." Barry replied, still in shock.

"That is so cool!" Cisco said, "Did I say cool? I meant to say bad... that wasn't good that he attacked someone. Can we go see?" he was clearly very excited.

"A vampire?" Caitlin asked, "are you sure that he wasn't just playing dead to begin with? There's a lot of good actors!"

Joe and Barry stared at her. "He was dead. Very dead." Joe replied.

Caitlin and Astrid glanced at each other. "Okay, let's go... there has to be a rational explanation for this." Astrid said.

"Yep! That's a vampire!" Cisco pointed as they stared at the man locked in the cell of the pipeline. "He has the teeth and the blood all over his face and everything."

"Are you sure that they aren't fake fangs?" Caitlin asked, "Like the ones that you can buy at a costume store?"

"I would read his mind but I can't through the glass." Astrid said.

"And we're not letting him out." Barry added.

"Wise move, son." Joe replied, "I guess that I should inform the Captain about this."

"I really want to run some tests on Dracula in there." Caitlin said, still in awe.

"No, he's not Dracula." Cisco said, "He's just one of the many underlings that will lead us to the count. Which you would have learnt if you had paid attention to the movies... that's all I'm saying."

"I hate to say it... But I think he's right." Barry added.