My Arrow Reboot

Chapter 10

Caitlin entered the area Oliver and Laurel were in at the perfect moment, within seconds after they stopped kissing. "I have a result on your friend, Oliver". Laurel looked at Oliver with concern. "It isn't great. Vertigo". 

"Vertigo. Great" Oliver said.

"But Vertigo like I have never seen it before. Would you mind if I tested your blood?" Caitlin asked. 

"I guess not, but for what?" Oliver asked. 

"John needs  clean blood for a blood transfusion. I'm fresh out of his blood type and I've already tested Laurel's father" Caitlin said. 

"You do whatever you need to do" Oliver said. 

"If his blood isn't a match, test mine" Laurel said. 

"Absolutely, not" Caitlin said. "There is no way  I will be using the blood my pregnant patient who just came out of her coma. Speaking of which, once I complete the transfusion, I want to conduct an ultrasound and run some other tests". 

"The blood transfusion, how long is that going to take?" Oliver asked.

 "A few minutes" Caitlin said. "The sooner we do it, the better". 

After analyzing the blood Caitlin drew from Oliver, she determined that they were a match and went through with the transfusion. As she led Oliver back the area Laurel, she explained that John would need to rest for a while and she would check up on him. 

"Are you sure the both of you don't want to know the gender of your baby?" Caitlin asked. 

"Positive" Laurel said. "I was surprised with William and I want to be surprised again". 

Caitlin didn't say much during the process, but when she was finished she smiled. "If continues how it is going now, look forward to a healthy baby, you two". 

Oliver leaned over and kissed Laurel's forehead. "I'm gonna go back to my mom's trial, and then I will be back tonight" Oliver said to Caitlin. 

"Sorry, Oliver but you aren't going anywhere. You can't right after a blood transfusion, You are going to have to stay here"

"But-" Oliver said.

"If I could let you go, I would, Oliver. But I can't" Caitlin said and turned to leave. "You'll have to wait a few a hours". 

"Wait" Laurel said. "What about me? Now that I am up, I can go home?" 

"No, Laurel, while you were under, my boss and I found that our tests strongly implied that your encounter with the dollmaker, or more accurately what he put in your body, activated something some people in our field, call a meta-gene" Caitlin says. "That is what we feel was most likely causing your sick reaction" 

There was a long period silence and then Laurel said: "What does it say?"

"What does it-?" Caitlin began. Laurel cut her off.

"Every gene says something about you. Hair color, eye color, hitchhiker's thumb". 

"I wish I could give you that answer, but this gene has never actually been seen before, as far as I know. It's been a theory for a long time. According to the theory people with an active metahuman possess one or a few abilities; special abilities, it could be anything. I want to keep you here, to see if we trigger your ability, so it doesn't happen randomly. Since we don't know how it can affect you or other people" Caitlin explained.

"Okay" Laurel said, quietly, but clearly unhappy. 

"Are you sure?" Oliver said, lightly taking her hand.