Episode 35 - Flash Fanfiction - Game On!

Chapter 3

Paco stood in the middle of the office in CCPD watching the bustle of officers at work. Still, no one could see him standing there. He noticed Captain Singh heading towards his office. 

It brought back many memories of his childhood; being brought here and watching the excitement of the police officers and uncle Barry at work as the Flash.

CCPD always had the Flash's back, which included Captain Singh.

Paco watched as Barry and Joe stormed into Captain Singh's office and closed the door behind them. He channeled his mind reading to overhear their conversation through the walls.

"Iris is missing!" Joe exclaimed. "We suspect that she has been taken!"

"Are you suspecting a non-meta-human?" Captain Singh asked.

"We're not sure." Barry replied, "We need to exhaust all our options. Astrid and the rest of the team are doing everything that they can do, but so far the most we've come up with is someone who has traveled back from time."

"A time traveler, Allen? How long has Iris been missing for?" Captain Singh asked.

"Since last night," Joe replied.

Captain Singh rested his hands together. "Joe, she needs to be considered missing for at least twenty-four hours before..."

"...Singh, I know protocol!" Joe yelled as he slammed his fist down on the desk, "...Hell, I have used that line a million times in this job! But, this is my daughter that we're talking about! You and I both know what is out there... The Flash and the rest of the team are doing everything that they can, all I ask is that you help us exhaust our options in the search for my daughter... what would you do, if you had a kid that went missing? I'm damn sure that you would stop at nothing to get them back!"

David Singh stared at Joe and said nothing for a brief moment. He was considering his options. "So tell me again when Iris went missing?" he asked. Barry and Joe both knew that that was his cue of leading the search at that minute.

Paco shook his head, David Singh had always been such a softie. He had a really tough exterior, but the man had a heart of gold.

"Hey, who are you? I don't think I've ever seen you before." A female officer asked him. He had realized that his slight lapse in emotion had distracted him from holding up his compulsion over the entire precinct. Someone had seen him.

Paco turned to see who had spoken to him. A blonde officer. "Oh, I'm just visiting... I'm just a relation of David Singh." Paco replied. As he noticed Joe and Barry leave the captain's office.

"Oh, I'm detective Spivot... Did you want me to accompany you to the Captain's office? I'm on my way there now."

"No... I have to go." Paco said abruptly, as he fled after Barry and Joe out of the precinct.

Patty entered Captain Singh's office. "I might have just met one of your relatives, Captain." She said as she entered the room.

"One of my relatives? What do you mean?" he asked her a little puzzled, "What did he look like?"

"Handsome, dark hair, dark eyes... roughly thirty years of age, he looked somewhat Hispanic and he had a really peculiar fashion sense... I didn't realize you had any relatives that..."

Captain Singh stared at her and stood up abruptly, "I don't! Where did he go?" he asked her. Patty pointed in the direction as they left the captain's office. "He hurried after Detective West and Barry... Why?" she asked him.

"I think we just found our kidnapper!" Captain Singh said, he brought his phone to his ear and immediately rang Barry.

"Kidnapper?" Patty asked him.

"Barry... I think you and Joe need to return, asap. I have a hunch about something. I think detective Spivot might have just seen the kidnapper."

Barry and Joe returned almost as quickly as they had left. Patty was already giving a description to the forensic artist, who printed out the picture and handed it to Barry.

"Have any of you ever seen this guy?" Captain Singh asked him.

"No, I've never seen him before," Joe said.

"Me neither. I can always run it through STAR Labs. Astrid knows a lot of people and she has a photographic memory, she would be our best bet." Barry said.

"While you do that, I can check over with the Picture News... It couldn't hurt asking around where she works." Joe replied.

Barry returned back to STAR Labs with the picture in hand to show the group.

"Astrid, have you ever seen this guy?" He asked as he showed her the picture of the man.

Astrid stared at the image, there was a familiarity to him that she couldn't register. Her memory was much more than photographic, since her second coma. She could pinpoint every memory as clear as day since the day that she had been born with every detail.

"No... He looks familiar... but... I don't know him." She said. "Cisco, Caitlin, Harry. Does this guy look familiar to any of you?"

Caitlin smiled and said, "He kind of looks like Cisco, just a bit."

"I think I would know if I had a cousin who looked like that. Has the man ever heard of a razor... he needs to shave." Cisco joked.

"I don't know. It kind of suits him." Caitlin replied.

"You guys..." Astrid interrupted. "Not the time... Harry, what about you? Have you ever seen him?"

Harry paused as he stared at the picture. It was certainly the same man as before, but he wondered if this was all part of the same game that he hadn't quite worked out yet. 

"No, Astrid. I've never seen him before." He lied. Astrid stared at him, she knew that he was lying, but she let it go, for the time being.