Short on Time

Chapter 105

"Guys, this better be good," Barry said as we walked in with the twins strapped in a stroller.

"Yeah, we've got an after Thanksgiving tradition called sleeping," I said and Barry made a face. "Actually sleeping since the twins are difficult."

"Anyhow, what's going on?"

"It's good," Cisco said. "Trust us. Detective."

"Well, it occurred to me that if you, Monsieur and Madam Allen, you want to spend this holiday with your family," Sherloque said. "Well, perhaps your meta-killer does as well. So I had Monsieur Cisco hack into the CCTV footage of the hospital and this what we got."

"Ever since Grace arrived, only one man has come to visit her," Cisco said. "Every day. Including tonight."

"Team Flash, I give you Orlin Dwyer, also known as," Sherloque began.

"Cicada," Barry concluded.

~*~

"Orlin Dwyer," Ralph said. "Near as we can tell, he grew up in the Midwest. In and out of juvie, pretty much fell off the map, and then popped up in Central City a few years ago."

"Part-time employee of Szrek Chemicals for the last two years," Sherloque said. "Foreman says he keeps to himself, pretty much a loner, gave a fake address. Did take custody of his niece."

"Grace Gibbons," Ralph said.

"After her parents were unfortunately murdered by a meta-human, now-"

"So now we know why Dwyer hates metas," Cisco said.

"Once he got his powers, he started targeting them," Ralph said.

"Powers he got the night of the Enlightenment, as we all know, and he was struck by a shard from the STAR Labs satellite explosion," Sherloque said.

"Which was also the same night that Grace went into a coma," Ralph said.

"Where Dwyer visits her every day, every night, for the last three weeks."

"So he's there now," Barry said.

"Yeah."

"Oui."

"Then let's go get him."

I rolled my eyes, "that brilliant, honey."

"How are you going to do that? Look, as always, I respect your spirit, Barry Allen, but as long as Cicada has his dagger to dampen your powers, there's no stopping him," Sherloque said.

"So, let's destroy his dagger," Iris said.

"How are we gonna do that unless we have some kind of power-dampening dagger power dampener hidden away in storage?" Ralph asked.

"We don't, but if we did we'd come up with a much better way of saying that," Cisco said.

I shook my head as the men started arguing about names, "really?"

"Guys," Nora said. "What if we could make one?"

"Make one what?" Barry asked.

"What if we can make a weapon more powerful than his weapon? Cicada can control his dagger, so what we would need would be something more powerful than his connection to it," Nora asked.

"Wait, like... Like some kind of super-charged magnet?" Ralph asked.

"Exactly."

"I don't know if we have anything strong enough for that," I said.