Frosty Arrow

Chapter 3

This chapter will focus solely on Laurel's trip to Central City, since nothing really changed with Oliver and Dig, though I haven't quite decided about Thea yet, though Felicity will not be going with Oliver. Also, in this story, season 2 of the Flash has already ended and Barry's dad has been killed, but he has not created Flashpoint yet.

"Laurel, it's good to see you." Cisco said.

"Thanks, I heard about Barry's dad. How's he holding up?" Laurel asked, since she understood how angry and desperate losing a family member could make a person, since after she'd watched Sara die in front of her, it had sent her down a dark path that she was still trying to find her way off of even now.

"He just wants to be alone right now. He actually put himself into one of the cells in the pipeline to keep himself from changing the timeline." Cisco said.

"Yeah, Ollie mentioned Barry can time travel." Laurel said.

"Yeah, but aside from that, he's coping." Cisco said.

"Maybe I can talk to him. After all, I was in a pretty bad place after my sister died. Maybe I can help snap him out of it." Laurel said and Cisco nodded, thinking it was worth a try, since he was getting worried about Barry.

"Hey Barry." Laurel said as she walked up to the cell Barry had put himself in.

"Laurel, what are you doing here?" Barry asked confused.

"Cisco and Caitlin are helping me with something, I'll tell you later, but for now, I'm more interested in helping you." Laurel said.

"Laurel, I don't trust myself not to change the timeline right now. I watched Zoom kill my father." Barry said.

"I watched Thea kill my sister. Granted the difference is that Thea had no idea what she was doing while Zoom was completely aware of his decision to kill your dad, but still, I know what it's like to hold a member of your family as they die in your arms. It sent me down a very dark path last year." Laurel said.

"It caused you to become the Black Canary." Barry said.

"Yeah, but before that, I made a lot of bad choices after Sara died, I kept it a secret from my dad, which led to him turning on Oliver and Roy being forced to take the fall as the Arrow for example. Trust me, I know what you're going through Barry. But you're a better person than I am. Zoom killed your dad to break you. I'm not saying you shouldn't take time to grieve and break down, but you should at least let other people in to build you back up." Laurel said.

"You say that like it's easy." Barry said.

"It's not, believe me. After Sara died, Oliver was there for me in every way he could be, but I pushed him away. I tried to deal with my grief on my own and I accidentally got Nyssa to kidnap Thea. Barry, the only way you'll truly be able to move forward with your life is to stop pushing people away. If you keep trying to deal with it alone, you're going to end up spending the rest of your life in this cell. Just a thought." Laurel said as she walked away and left Barry thinking.

Laurel was now sitting in the medbay of Star Labs as Caitlin prepared to run some tests on her.

"Okay, so after hearing what happened over the phone, I think it's clear that you have powers. The only question is if healing is all they are." Caitlin said.

"How would I even have powers, I wasn't in Central City during the particle accelerator explosion." Laurel said.

"Neither was Jake Simmons and yet he somehow became Deathbolt." Caitlin pointed out.

"Good point. But anyways, whatever this power is, I hope it can help me in the field. I've always felt like Team Arrow's weak link in the field, since Oliver and Thea both have League training and John had military training, all I have are boxing classes and a few weeks worth of lessons from Nyssa." Laurel said.

"And yet you were still quite the badass." Caitlin said.

"True." Laurel nodded as Caitlin pulled the needle out of her arm.

"Now, while we wait, I'm going to run this over you." Caitlin said, holding out a dark matter scanner.

"Why?" Laurel asked.

"To find out if there's any dark matter in your system." Caitlin said, but to their surprise, the scanner registered zero dark matter in her.

"Okay so there's no dark matter in your system, which means that your abilities are definitely the cause of something else." Caitlin said.

"But what?" Laurel asked as the computer beeped, signifying that it had found something.

"That's odd." Caitlin said as she took a look at the results.

"What's odd?" Laurel asked, since she had a law degree, not a doctorate.

"According to this, while there isn't any dark matter in your DNA, there is something else strange inside it." Caitlin said.

"Okay, but what is it?" Laurel asked, getting impatient.

"It looks like there's some sort of cryogenic anomaly in your DNA." Caitlin said.

"What does that mean?" Laurel asked.

"It means that your cells have some kind of freezing component in them." Caitlin said.

"Wait, so I could have ice powers?" Laurel asked.

"Ice and cold, but yeah." Caitlin said.

"How is that possible?" Laurel asked.

"I don't know, but we'll figure it out and we also need to figure out how these powers work so you can learn to control them." Caitlin said and Laurel nodded.

"Do you have any idea why my powers would let me heal like they did?" Laurel asked.

"My best guess is that it's similar to how ice helps heal injuries. Your powers cause your metabolic rate is somehow augmented to offset cold tissue destruction. In simple terms, it means that your body can heal quickly." Caitlin explained.

"Okay then." Laurel said, wondering how she'd even gotten these powers in the first place.

So, what do you guys think of Laurel's powers?