impossible | barry allen

110

"Heartrate's 170 BPM, and there's no sign of dark matter in the amniotic fluid." Caitlin told us, after doing some tests on Cecile.

Joe exhales, "So the baby's not a meta?"

"Nope, it's a perfectly normal baby-" Caitlin pauses, not wanting to give out the gender.

Cecile sat up, looking up at her, "Girl. You were gonna say baby girl."

"I'm having another daughter?" Joe chokes out.

"I'm gonna have a sister?" Iris smiles.

"Well, I guess we can cancel the announcement party." Cecile shrugs lightly.

"Ha-ha-ha!" Cisco turns his chair, facing us, "Boy, girl, that's 50-50. Let's test your skills for real. What number am I thinking of?"

Cecile looks at him with a determined look, "Three 11. 25. Three again. Bulbasaur. What the hell is a Bulbasaur?"

Cisco chuckles, "That's so weird. Why would I be thinking about Pokemon at a time like this?"

"Yep, definitely a telepath." Iris nods.

"But how? If the baby is not a meta, then where did these powers come from?" Cecile asks, looking at Caitlin, "Nope, I wasn't on the bus." Cecile looks at Joe, "No, I was not abducted by aliens." Cecile looks at me, "No, Alchemy did not give me these powers-" Cecile looks Iris, "No, I didn't inherit a mystic totem from my grandma. Really, guys?" She looks at Cisco, "Why are you still thinking about Bulbasaurs?"

"He's the cutest one of all!" Cisco defends himself.

"Okay, my best hypothesis is this is actually triggered by your latest phase of pregnancies, and it's actually latent dark matter that's been in your brain since maybe the first particle accelerator explosion." Caitlin explains, "Think of it like gestational diabetes."

"But it's not. You can fix that with insulin." Joe exclaims.

"Right, but it's temporary." Caitlin stood up, "I mean, the symptoms should recede after childbirth.l

"Okay, we'll give you guys a minute." I nod towards them, before leaving the room with everyone else, moving into the cortex.

"Cecile's a telepath?" Harry asks, once Cisco mentions it to Harry in the cortex, "Well, that's way more important than getting Allen out of prison- not!"

"Sick burn, Hare." Ralph raises his fist up.

"Please don't encourage him." Caitlin shook her head at Ralph.

"As a former prisoner, I can tell you-" Harry starts.

Cisco stops him, "No, that was gorilla prison."

"Gorilla prison is worse." Harry said, "They throw their scat at you. I can tell you that Allen is sitting in his cell, suffering, while this guy, Devoe, continues his plan unabated."

"Harry, Cecile filed an appeal last week." Iris tried to get him to calm down.

"We have no new evidence, so that doesn't matter." Harry shot back.

"Harry's right, guys-" I sigh, then look up at him, "But- we don't exactly have any proof of his innocence. We've hit a wall."

"We have satellites on the Devoes." Caitlin looks at him.

"And they haven't made a move in weeks, so that doesn't matter!" Harry shot back once more.

"Well, Barry's in gen pop, so worst case, he can always phase out, or I can breach him out." Cisco suggests.