Crossfire

Chapter 12

    "How did you figure it out?" Kaitlin asks.

    "We were at the banquet and some gunmen arrived but when one of them went to shoot her the bullet just stopped before it could hit her." Barry explains.

    "That's awesome! You need a cool name." Cisco decides, walking out of the room.

    "We should run some tests, Amanda." Kaitlin says.

    "Are any of these tests harmful to babies by any chance?" I whisper to her.

    "Are you pregnant?" She whispers back. I nod and she sighs.

    "Let's just focus on figuring out why, Mr. Allen keeps passing out." Dr. Wells says, saving me from this situation. Cisco leads Barry over to a huge treadmill.

    "Are you sure about this, Cisco?" Barry asks.

    "Most home treadmills have a maximum speed of about twelve miles per hour. This one, has been Cisco'd. Trust me, it can handle your speed." Cisco tells him. He starts running and they keep checking his vitals until they realize that it's the glucose levels that are wrong.

    "Barry, we think we know why you keep-" Dr. Wells was cut off by Barry passing out.

    "Oh my gosh, are you okay?" I ask running over to him, but he's out cold.

    "Guys, he's out cold!" I call out. Cisco and Kaitlin drag him to the hospital bed and hook him up to a lot of IVs.

    "Cisco, you keep watch over his vitals. Amanda, come with me." Kaitlin says, quickly. She brings me over to another room where she has an ultrasound machine set up next to another hospital bed.

    "Wait, I need to do something before we start." I tell her. Under my breath I mutter the incantation and all of a sudden, the illusion is gone and my baby bump is visible.

    "Come lay on the table and pull up your shirt." She says, quietly. I do as she says and she puts the cold gel on my stomach. Taking the device, she moves it over my stomach and I look at the image on the screen.

    "Twins. Are they his?" She asks, out of nowhere.

    "No, they're not Barry's kids. I only met him a few days ago. Don't tell anyone but when we're around Iris, we act really close and everything to get her jealous." I say, quietly.

    "Why would you do something like that for someone you barely know?" She asks, curiously.

    "Have you ever been in love?" I question her.

    "Yes, I have." She confirms.

    "Well, I'm very much in love with the father of these babies. Barry is in love with Iris but she's too blinded by Eddie to see that. I'm helping him because I think everybody deserves to be happy." I tell her. She smiles for the first time since I met her and hands me a tissue to wipe off the gel.

    "So, you're babies are doing good. I'll give you my number for if you ever need a doctor to go to." She says, handing me a card with a phone number on it.

    "Thanks." I say, putting the number in my phone before putting the illusion back up.

    "Let's go check on Barry." She says, leaving the room. I follow her and just as we arrive, Barry groans and sits up.

    "I passed out again, didn't I?" He asks.

    "Total metabolic failure brought on by acute hypoglycemia." Kaitlin tells him in science language.

    "I'm not eating enough. So, an IV bag and I'm good to go." Barry states. Cisco laughs and turns Barry to where the IVs were hanging.

    "Try fourty." Dr. Wells speaks up.

    "We're going to need to fashion you a new diet based on your metabolic changes." Kaitlin informs him. This is where I just tuned them out. I snapped out of it when I realized that Barry was gone and so was the red suit with the lightning bolt. After awhile, he showed up slightly beaten up and with a cut on his face. Kaitlin immediately pulled out her first aid kit.

    "I'm sorry if it hurts but the abrasions are already red, they're healing." She explains.

    "Yeah, well, I got my ass handed to me." He says, wincing again.

    "You got blood on my suit." Cisco whines.

    "I think some of it belongs to the other guy, another not-so-friendly metahuman." I state.

    "Danton Black. He's a biogenesis that works on therapy to cloning, growing new organs to replace failing ones." Dr. Wells informs us.

    "I saw Black create duplicates from his own body." Barry says.

    "That's pretty ironic, the guy specialized in cloning and now he can make copies of himself." Cisco mutters.

    "He experimented on himself." I deduce.

    Barry starts to leave but Kaitlin stops him.

    "Where are you going?" She asks.

    "Joe was right, I'm not cut out for this. I'm in way over my head, yeah I'm fats but I am no warrior. I could barely fight one meta human, let alone six." He says, depressingly.

    "I'll help. I may not have Barry's speed, but I can't be touched and I know how to fight." I volunteer. Barry stares at me as if trying to figure out my motive along with the other two guys, but Kaitlin just looks at me worried.

    "As your doctor, I'm going to have to say that you are not allowed to put yourself in this kind of danger." Kaitlin announces.