Short on Time

Chapter 114

"What did we do?" I asked Barry as he walked in, I had Henry balanced on my hip and Esther was carrying around herself. 

"What-" Barry began, but stopped. 

"Okay, people, think!" Nora said. 

"We haven't seen Cicada since the rooftop fight, which means the only way to track him down is to figure out who his next meta-human target's gonna be," Esther said, and baby Esther looked just as intense as her older self. 

"I knew having a sister in the FBI would come in handy," Nora said. "Have we double checked every bank robbery, every lab break-in?" 

"Yes, yes!" Caitlin, Sherloque, and Cisco said. 

"We have looked at all of that, all right? And all the criminals that are in custody are simply mere mortals," Sherloque said. 

"What about the ones on the street?" Esther asked, and baby Esther starred everyone down. 

"Frost says that no new metas have shown up since Norvock went into witsec," Caitlin said. 

"Are the satellites tracking for dark matter or meta-gene bursts or Element X?" Nora asked. 

"Yes, yes, and yes," Cisco said. "They're scanning for everything. 

"Congratulations, you raised a menace," Iris told us. 

"Your daughter, so energetic," Sherloque said. 

"This is pretty impressive," Barry said. 

"This is scary," I said and Henry seemed to agree. 

"I taught her a thing or two," Esther admitted. 

"Um, I know with the cure working, we're all ready to put Cicada to rest, but I'm sure he'll resurface soon," Barry said. 

"And then you're going to give him the chance to take the meta-human cure?" Nora asked. 

"Yes, exactly," Barry said. "Even Dwyer deserves a choice, we just got to convince him to do the right thing."

"Are you ready?" Nora asked. "This is gonna be one of the biggest challenges of your career as a hero. Do you know what you're going to say?"

"Oh, yeah you know, yeah," Barry said. "I've-I've got some loose thoughts."

"Oh, great," Esther said. 

"Well, that instills all of us with confidence, right?" I asked hopefully. 

"Loose thoughts?" Nora asked. "What are you going to say?" 

"Hey, most bloodthirsty enemy!" Esther said sarcastically. "Stop."

"Guys, it worked for Marlize," Barry said. 

"Maybe not so much for Savitar," I reminded Barry. 

"But I will figure out what to say to him, all right?" Barry said firmly. "I got this."

"I know you do, Dad," Nora said sweetly. "Which is why we need to try everything to try and find him. Okay? Maybe we should go on patrol?" 

"Patrol, you say? What this is, World War II?" Sherloque asked. 

"Oh, wow," Cisco said. "Wow, this is crazy."

"There is something nuts going on at Jitters," Iris said suddenly. 

"Do you think it's a meta-human?" Nora asked. 

"Probably," Esther said dully. 

"You should," I began and Henry made a zipping noise.