falke [sara lance] ✔

chapter 8

"Icarus." Callie mumbled, memories coming back to her. She had tried to forget a lot of the things that had happened in that Earth but this one was suddenly sticking out to her.

"What?" Felicity asked as she was concerned her friend really had lost the plot.

"She flew too close to the sun," Callie said, a little louder and with a lot more confidence. She was no longer pacing and she had moved to stand next to Alex so that she could see the screen.

"Can you track it?"

"Well, I once caught a deranged serial killer off his face cream, so..." Felicity started but trialed off as she realised they were all squinting at her. "No joke."

//.//

"How do you do it?" Mick asked, his face beside Caitlin's as she tried to work on helping to track down the evil version of Kara. She rolled her eyes as she looked at him before going back to typing on her computer.

"Do what, Rory?"

"Bring the other you out of you," the man scoffed, watching her intently as he tried to process just what he had witnessed earlier. He had never known the girl to possess powers before and it was intriguing him.

"You don't want to know." Caitlin told him, trying to make the man drop the subject and leave them all to work alone in peace. She could see out of the corner of her eye that Mick was beginning to also annoy Alex and Felicity too. Sighing, she decided just answering him might make the torture end sooner. "It happens when I am scared or angry."

"So if I were to, um," Mick started before slapping the table beside her, "boo!"

"Nice try." Caitlin muttered as the three woman all looked at him in disbelief and disapproval. Sulking away, the man bumped into Callie as she moved to enter the room. Stepping to the side as he growled at her, the girl decided that it wasn't even worth questioning.

"Hey! You wanted to see me?" She addressed Alex. The red-head blinked for a second before her eyes lit up with realisation and she remembered why she had asked the assassin to come and visit them in the labs.

Felicity sat up too, reaching over and plucking a tablet from the table next to them. Motioning for Callie to take a seat on the medical bed, she passed the tablet over to the girl while Alex explained what was happening on the screen.

"So after everything that's happened to you in the past, we obviously thought it was best to run some medical tests to make sure there's no like poison or anything in your blood," Alex began and Callie nodded, already getting a bad feeling in her stomach about what they were going to tell her.

"There's traces of a hallucinogenic drug called Dextromethorphan in your system," Cailtin joined in but Callie cut them all off.

"DXM? Yeah, I've heard of it. In the old days it was used in the League for its dissociative hallucinogenic effects, but I don't understand why it would be in my system," Callie explained, shocking them all that she actually knew what they were talking about.

"It's commonly found in the average person from having used things like cough medicine or flu treatment but since I think it's safe to assume that's something that you weren't taking in Earth-X I think something else is causing it. Also the sheer volume present in your bloodstream isn't right," Alex continued, pointing out the comparison of an average person's DXM reading versus Callie's.

"When was the last time you had any medical treatment that wasn't from here?"

There was a pause as Callie closed her eyes, thinking back to everything that had happened in Earth-X. There were simply too many occasions of her ending up unconscious after one of her training lessons with the evil version of Oliver for her to really narrow it down to one situation. After noticing her hesitation, the three women instantly realised that something had been done to Callie when she was in that world.