Short on Time

Chapter 146

Esther

I walked into the room to see my dad telling the team what had happened. "They're just gone?" Nash asked. 

"What does that even mean, Mirrorverse?" Allegra asked. 

"Can we even get them back?" Cecile asked. "Oh, my God. We-we have to warn David's husband."

"I've been living with some copy of Kamilla while the real one's trapped somewhere?" Cisco asked.

"At least you didn't entrust the care, safety, and wellbeing of your baby siblings to someone who nearly killed your mom," I said lightly as I walked in.

"How long have you been standing there?" Cisco asked. 

"How's your mom?" Cecile asked.

"Nothing we can do right now," I told them. Dad looked at me with alarm, but I wasn't going to freak him out with what I found. "How are we gonna help the people who are trapped?" 

"Eva said they're safe for now," Dad said sullenly. 

"And you're taking her word for it?" Cisco asked. "For all we know, they're dead already."

"They're not, so just you don't even think about that," Allegra said. 

"We have to think about that," I said angrily. "What if creating Kamilla's duplicate actually killed the real Kamilla?"

"Exactly!" Cisco exclaimed. "Same thing with Singh, same thing with Iris."

"Dad?" I asked, but he was non-responsive. 

"Hello?" Cisco called out. 

"What do you want me to say?" Dad asked. 

"Anything, that we have a plan, that we'll get them back," Cisco said. 

"I don't have a plan, Cisco. Eva can move anywhere through any mirror in the universe in the blink of an eye," Dad said as he started shouting. "She's faster than I am, and somehow, I'm supposed to stop her and still hope to God that Iris and everybody else is still alive in a world that we don't even understand?"

"Hey, hey!" Cecile said as I wiped tears from my eyes. "You're both right, okay? You're both right. But we cannot fall apart. We need to work the problem, not tear each other down. So here's what I'm gonna do: I am gonna call David's husband, and I am gonna see if he has seen Singh's duplicate."

"I'll check the Bentley Building," Allegra said. "Mirror-Iris and Kamilla were alone there a lot. Maybe they left something behind."

"Good," Nash said. "You want company?"

"Maybe you should find something else to do," Allegra snapped. 

"You can come with me," Ralph said. "I'm gonna see if I can dig up any details on this Eva McCulloch."

"If the Mirrorverse is just another dimension, there might be a way to enter vibrationally," Cisco said. "Caitlin's still on the mend, so I can't ask her for help. And Ginger is unconscious in the hospital. I guess that means I'm doing this one on my own."

"I'm going to go and stay with mom," I told Dad and Cecile. "The doctor said he'd have something for us soon anyway."

~*~

"What the hell happened?" I demanded as I got in. 

"How's Ginger?" Dad asked.

"She's," I said and sighed. "They-they think she has preeclampsia."

"What?" Allegra asked in confusion. 

"It's something that can happen to pregnant women," I said. "It's high blood pressure, headaches, and causes damage to the liver and kidneys. Mom knew, but didn't tell anyone, because they were monitoring it, and with her meta abilities, she thought she'd be fine. But-"