Aflame: The Flash (1)

8.1.0

8.1.0 nice mask

—REWRITTEN—

"Barry! Bank robbery in progress. At Cunningham and Sampere," Cisco says through the coms, making me stand up.

"I got this one!" Barry yells making me sit back down.

"Wait, that's where I bank," Cait says.

"Once, super thieves showed up, I went mattress," Cisco says. After Barry gets to Bank robbery and stops someone, Cisco turns to me. "So, I was thinking of a new name, for you."

"Sure. Whatcha got?" I ask.

"Phoenix," He says with a big smile on his face, spreading his hands in front of his face.

"Phoenix," I repeat with a smile. "I love it... Why?"

"Well you can come back from the dead in flames like a Phoenix," Cisco says. "Your powers all revolve around fire. Plus it's your main power."

"How do we even know what her main power is?" Cait asks.

"Well, the one that connects to your past or enhances a part of you is your main power," Cisco says.

"So my past is coming back from the dead?" I ask, confused.

"No. Your power is that no matter how many times someone has gotten to you, you've risen above them. Gotten back up, every time someone pushed you down," Cisco explains. "It's a gift."

"Or a curse," I say and they furrow their brows. "I've killed people. A lot of em'. All I've ever wanted to do, is be rid of everything. This is just another way, I get to die again and again and know that it's not gonna kill me. I have to die, knowing that everyone I killed didn't get a chance to come back, like I do."

Caitlin and Cisco stay quiet for a moment before Caitlin says, "It's gonna be okay."

I nod. "Thanks... It makes sense," I say about the curse and Cisco nods.

"That's what you do. All these years, you've repressed your feelings and not let it affect the people around you.you don't let it show but it's affecting you. You burn yourself. Your fire doesn't hurt anyone else unless you will it to. But you... even unwillingly It hurts. Your burning in flames... In- in pain.... Oh," Cisco says and then looks at me with sadly.

"Livvy," Caitlin says softly. "We're here for you. To talk. If you need it."

I give them a sad smile. "Thank you. I appreciate it."

I then look at the ground, playing with a thread from my jeans, thinking.

"You burn yourself. Your fire doesn't hurt anyone else unless you will it to. But you... It hurts. Your burning in flames. In pain."

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"Anger, hate, aggression," Dad says wheeling in.

"A Jedi craves not these things," Cisco says. We give him a look and he scoffs, "No one is feeling that quote?"

"Everyone in the bank went total savage for, like, five minutes," Barry says. "And then they were fine again."

"Anger can be a powerful emotion," Dad says. "If this meta-human can engender irrational feelings of anger in his victims, he can do a lot of damage."

"Detective West helped me get a copy of CAT scans the hospital did on everyone at the bank," Cait says. "Take a look." She then pulls up the scan on all of the computers in the Cortex.

"The emotion centers of the brains are still showing signs of being overwhelmed," I say. "Particularly the area that controls executive function."

"That's the part of the brain that stops people from doing whatever random and potentially destructive things that pops into their heads," Cait says.

"How do you think the meta does it to them?" Barry asks.

"That's the 1/2 million dollar question."

Barry's phone then rings and he says, "Hey if you guys figure it out, just give me a call okay?"

"Is the Flash of to see Iris again?" I ask, crossing my arms.

He looks at me and says, "No." me and Cait give him a look, tilting our heads in question and he says, "Yeah, but she probably wants to ask me- I mean, you know him, about meta-human stuff for her blog."

"Do you want some advice?" Cait asks.

"No matter what I say, I'm gonna get the advice right?"

"Don't get involved, as the Flash or yourself," Cait says.

"You don't want to be the one to blame for their break up," I add.

"Okay," He says and then speeds away.

Cisco suddenly finds something and tells me to suit up. While I'm doing that, he tells Barry about it. "-The police got a ping from the tracer hidden in the stolen cash. SWAT team's closing in on the 1600 block of Pass. Now stop ruining Iris's love life and go," Cisco says to him as I teleport to the place.

I meet Barry their and he nods in acknowledgment. We see someone shooting at the officers and we start getting them out of the way. The police officer comes Barry's way and is about to shoot them when he gets shot by an arrow. We look at the shooter and smile at our visitor. "Nice mask," he says and then climbs out of the building making our smiles widen.

Happy Halloween!