Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Call Me Kara

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 40:

Kara Zor El woke up on the floor of her so called room of solitude, sofa cushion under her head and still wearing the black bodysuit from the night before. She noted the black body suit was torn in certain necessary places and her neck was very stiff. She slipped off her bracelet and her neck instantly felt better.

“Gotta love instant healing. Wow, fiancé left me alone once again in the morning without a word. Why doesn’t he just leave money on the nightstand… or yeah, I don’t really have a nightstand to put it on, do I?”

Standing up, she noticed that despite the bracelet being off, her legs were still quite sore and smiled remembering why. It was 6 AM and the lab was quiet. Kara checked her screen on the wall of the security feeds through S.T.A.R. and was happy the workers hadn’t arrived. She still needed to move the mannequins in her room, close off Ray’s workstation, which he insisted on repairing himself, and basically hide any evidence of superheroes operating out of this giant lair.

Checking her hidden wall closet, she was disappointed that she had no clothes to change into, remembering she had taken all her laundry home to wash.

“This is a dilemma. Maybe I can wear the suit. I wonder if the Volvo is here. If I drove home… no! No driving. I still need to pop that dent out. I wonder if Barry saw it? He has a change of clothes in his locker. And I am talking to myself. Oh crap, I need to get Charlie. He better not have any arrows in him.”

The blonde made her way to the makeshift locker room, not remembering the combination to Barry’s locker so snapping the lock off instead.

“I can’t believe Alex thought she could cut a padlock with a knife. What a dork.” Kara laughed to herself. “And I am still taking to myself. I don’t feel nauseous. Donuts would be really, really good right now.”

Kara texted Barry good morning, but received no reply after a few minutes. It didn’t matter. She felt fine today and was in the mood to yell at him later for being insensitive. Instead she texted Alex.

/Got laid last night. Red K uniform killed it, but now sadly unwearable. I’m getting another. How bout u?/

/I was a bad girl and got punished 🙂 /

Kara rolled her eyes and changed clothes, opting for a long button up shirt of Barry’s and a pair of his clean, she hoped, boxers. Figuring she had an hour before workers arrived, she strolled to the coffee pot and found she was not alone.

“Uh… Mom? I thought you were all working out of Palmer Tech?” Eliza took in the state of her daughter’s dress and hair.

“I… uh… I am, I mean I was, I am. Just your Dad needed some of his research notes from his safe…”

Kara froze and turned around, catching the second heartbeat in the room.

“Hey… look… its you. Dad… hows it going?”

“Kinda early to be at the lab, isn’t it? I know there isn’t a dress code here but you are taking it to the extreme, Kara.” he told her, frowning.

“I… spent the night here.”

“Alone? Did you and Barry have a fight? Do I need to talk to him? He isn’t allowed to fight with you. I covered that with him. It was number two on the list as a matter of fact.”

“No! No Barry was… here.”

Jeremiah took in her hair and dress and dreaded understanding sunk in. “Then… guess the whole waiting for the wedding thing is… yeah.”

“Yeah.” Kara sighed, not meeting his eyes.

“Okay then. We better get to Palmer Tech. I think Caitlin wanted you to keep the bracelet off today, let the little one get some sun rays. You may want to double check. Love you.”

Jeremiah walked off, seeming cool with everything.

“He took that well.” Kara whispered.

“Yeah… I think the sex hair shocked him. Alex has short hair so he is probably never going to have to deal with that. Just with you… he will probably grind his teeth later today but he is doing well. I couldn’t get a hold of you or Alex last night. Were the two of you together?”

“Yeah, definitely. I mean earlier, before I came back here. We were… bonding.”

“Bonding? Doing what? I mean its great, just the two of you. What did you do? See a movie?”

“Nah, mostly just hung out, talked, sister stuff. The usual.” Breaking into buildings was the usual. Kara had seen Alex do it enough times growing up and helped her once or twice with her vision. They made a good team, even if Alex spent most of her time annoyed that Kara threatened to rat her out if Alex wouldn’t let her come with.

“Thats good, so long as you are careful. Where is Charlie?”

“With Oliver.”

“Oh… oh okay… you may want to get your puppy. Oliver is a wonderful boy but he doesn’t strike me as an animal lover.”

“Yeah, first I need to find Barry. I woke up and he was gone.”

“He didn’t say good morning or tell you where he was going? Don’t let Jeremiah find out. That was number 16 on the list. He always has to tell you where he is going.”

“16? How long is the list?”

“Pretty extensive. Enough that your father put it on a spreadsheet and it also has a bar graph, detailing the severity of screw ups. See you later honey… you might want to find some clothes… and brush your hair.”

“Yeah, I will definitely do that.”

As Eliza left, Kara moved towards the control room, noting Barry’s suit was gone. She checked the monitor and found him, apparently standing in…

“Barry?” she asked, putting on the com.

“Hiiii Kara. How are you?”

“Not good. You didn’t leave my cash on the nightstand. If you are going to leave me in the morning you can at least wake me up. I’m your baby mama according to Cisco, not your call girl.”

“I’m really sorry. I just went out for a run, and you were sleeping so peacefully I didn’t want to wake you. I thought I would be back by now before you woke.”

“Okay… did you look at the Volvo this morning?”

“No… why?”

“No reason. Uh, do you realize you are in South America?”

“Yeah of course. How could I be in South America and not know I was here? That would be crazy.” he answered then tried to laugh but couldn’t sell it.

“Why are you in the Amazon Rainforest?”

“Thats… a good question. I just wanted to see how fast I could get here. It was pretty fast. Yeah… hey I need to check on the accuracy of the GPS while I am here, for calibration purposes only. Are you showing me to be in Brazil or Columbia or farther South?”

Kara sighed.

“You’re lost, aren’t you?”

“No! I’m just checking.”

“So where do you think you are?” she asked, enjoying the fastest man alive being lost.

“Uh… the Amazon Rainforest?”

“Try the Southern most tip in Bolivia. Head North.”

“Okay… I’m moving now.”

Barry took a quick run of three miles and stopped, thinking to himself that the humidity was killer. Still if Kid Flash didn’t mind the temperatures like Kara, it would be cool to bring her here. They could basically take her anywhere in less than an hour.

“Barry?”

“Yeah?”

“You moved farther South. The time to run from me was when you found out I was pregnant. Now you are kind of stuck with me. Could you turn around and come back please? We need to pick up Charlie and then breakfast before you go to work and I enjoy my vacation. But if you hurry we may have time to… back in my room?”

“I’m moving.” Barry told her quickly.

“Now you are going West. Turn right, no your other right. There you go, keep running. If you can make it in less than ten minutes you get a treat.”

Kara kicked back, watching her man move like a speed demon, zipping through trees and over rivers, not losing a bit of time. While she enjoyed her coffee, Cisco came strolling in.

“Hey, somebody got laid last night. Nice hair.” he greeted her.

“Thanks.” she replied, long since past blushing where Cisco was concerned.

“Whats Bar up to?”

“He ran to South America and got lost.”

“Again? Wait until he sees an anaconda. Those things scare the crap out of him.”

The two waited for the fastest man alive to unleash a girly squeal until he hit Mexico. Once he hit the relatively open plains he gained speed.

“Is something wrong with the readings?” Kara asked.

“No, I don’t think so. How in the hell is he going that fast?”

“Barry do you know how fast you are going?” Kara asked. Barry however, couldn’t hear her. Once he broke the Rainforest he ran, thinking of two things, sex and food. But this morning he felt a difference in the air. Instead of tapping into the Speed Force, pulling on it for power, he felt more whole, more… just more. He didn’t hear the com, he didn’t notice the sounds around him, the boom he was making and outrunning by ten seconds. He saw lights of all colors on both sides follow him and wrap around him. His legs stretched, his arms pumped and he felt everything. Every molecule, every atom, every grain of sand his boot touched.

“Barry slow down!” he heard Cisco shout from somewhere, but that didn’t matter. The sooner he got to Kara the better. He was in a tunnel, a slick hole in the universe and nothing could stop him. He felt his body become denser but still fluid. He knew his vibrations were off the chart and anything he touched in front of him he would move through or destroy. He hadn’t felt this good since Siberia but this was so much better.

At the lab, Kara and Cisco were freaking out. Barry was moving like a comet literally and would be here in under two minutes.

“Just relax, he is matching the vibrations of this universe. He isn’t going to skip off, not without a device harnessing the tachyons.” Cisco told himself and Kara, trying to convince both.

“He is going to burn up! He has never ran this fast before! You told me his time remnant burned up and wasn’t close to this speed! What is going on? Call Caitlin! What are his vitals? Barry slow down!”

“His vitals are good but don’t yell, I don’t think he can hear us. I’m not sure he can hear anything.”

“He has to slow down.” Kara whispered. “He just passed Mach 30 and is still climbing. This isn’t right.”

“Don’t worry, something is going on with him. I’m trying to pull up sat feed but it can’t keep up with him. He is almost here. Oh crap, he just passed Central City.”

Fifteen seconds later both of them and the whole city felt the sonic boom. Barry passed 30 miles away but the pressure wave was still felt, not breaking windows but setting off car alarms. Any seismographs would detect a tremor.

“Where is he going?” Kara whispered.

Barry had lost track of time and distance. He felt the Speed Force wrap around him in a way he had never felt before. The Flash had never felt more alive and in control while out of control at the same time. It was like harnessing chaos.

He found himself in a room.

“Hello Barry.”

Barry shook his head. He was not in his house this time, simply a room swirling in light and electricity, He knew was in the Speed Force that Iris and Cisco once pulled him out of.

“Mom?”

“Yes and no.”

He thought as much.

“What happened? Did I burn myself up? Please, I have to go back. Kara needs me.”

“You will go back. You haven’t left. You are still running. You have broken another barrier. Can you feel it?”

“Yes.” Barry told her and he could. He felt everything and nothing. He knew on a subconscious level that he was still running, still on Earth but he was more.

“I didn’t just tap into the Speed Force, did I?” he guessed.

“No, you are controlling it now. The time has come for you to embrace it. You can reach light speed Barry. You can circle the globe in seconds. You can go faster than the speed of light. You are almost there. It isn’t physical, it never has been with you. You can do it. You will hit infinite mass one day.”

“And then what?”

“Then you will have mastered speed itself. You will harness all the speed in the universe, become the fastest creature in the universe. You will break speed.”

“And I die? I become absorbed in the Speed Force? I can’t leave Kara and the baby.”

“No, you will not. Not if you have an anchor. She is your anchor. Your daughter will need you too, because whatever you do, whatever Kara does, I promise she will surpass the both of you. The ability to manipulate speed and gravity has always been unheard of. It has never happened. But thanks to you and her it will. You have to get there first so you can help your daughter.”

“How?”

“Keep running. Stop making yourself slower.” Nora told him.

“But I’m not. I’m working every day to become faster, stronger, invincible.”

“Yes, and when you can do this without Harrison Wells or Kara encouraging you, then you will have succeeded. You are going to alter reality Barry. What was once thought impossible will be possible. Since the universe came into existence we have been waiting for you.”

“Why me?” the man asked.

Nora Allen disappeared. In her place was Oliver Queen, his face hidden in the shadows of his hood.

“Because that bolt of lightning didn’t strike you Barry, it chose you.”

The vision faded as quickly as it came and Barry noted he was surrounded by ice. He had crossed the Bering Sea and was at the North Pole. He tried to turn and lost control, sliding for miles, hitting a glacier and instantly healing the cracked bones in his body. He realigned his own spine before he had time to register pain. Heading South again, he ran faster with only one goal. Get to Kara and their child. He had things to do, he seemed to remember a meta who murdered someone but his mind was racing, a million thoughts filtering through his mind. Equations, calculations, speed, mass, his daughter, her possible physiology. He understood, he knew how to keep Kara alive, no matter what, he knew his daughter could not be harmed, even in the womb. He could stop any sickness, provide life wherever he wanted to for a time. If he had this when Kara was shot, he wouldn’t have needed Caitlin to perform surgery. He felt like no force in this universe could stop him.

The Flash passed Canada in a minute, making his way across yet another border. His thoughts finally calmed when her voice broke through the com that survived inside his suit, a suit not held together by Cisco’s genius, no man made material could hold up to the speed he knew he was moving at. Nothing could. It was his power, not being tapped into but flowing through and around him. He understood what all the equations he and Harry had worked out, could not understand.

The key wasn’t breaking into the Speed Force, but becoming it.

“Barry, stop running now!” Kara voice cut through, panic, anger, worry, and the one that bothered him the most and made him slow, fear. He had seen and heard many emotions on Kara, but fear was not one he heard or saw often. Usually only when she was around the automatic doors at the Mall for some reason.

He slowed quickly, quicker than he would have thought, to the point he nearly vomited from the sudden change in motion. That would take some getting used to.

“Barry? Barry can you hear me?”

“Yeah… yeah Kara, I’m here.”

“What the hell are you doing?!” she screamed at him, making him wince from the sound through the com.

She wasn’t happy. He could understand from her point of view her worry. He could imagine what she was seeing. When his remnant stopped Zoom’s machine, his remnant burned up because he was tapping into the Speed Force and pulled more power than he was ready for. But now, now he was ready, now he wouldn’t pull, he would become.

“I didn’t mean to scare you. I just broke a barrier and had to ride it out.”

“Ride it out? Do you have a clue how fast you were going? It’s a miracle you didn’t burn up! This is getting ridiculous Bartholomew Henry Allen!”

Yeah, Kara was not happy.

“Dude, she just went full first name and thew the middle in for the kill. You better get back here.” Cisco told him with way to much humor in his voice.

“I’m on my way back. I won’t run that fast. No faster than Mach 10. You have to trust me Kara. I won’t leave you. I won’t, ever. I won’t leave either of you. I know you have been left in the past by a lot of people but not me. Not ever.”

“I believe you Barry, just come home.” she told him tiredly.

“Be there in five minutes.”

“Make it ten… please.”

Kara sat down, having been standing and pacing in front of the control station. Cisco sat, eyes wide, huge smile and still disbelieving of what he just saw. Zoom, Thawne, neither of them combined came close to what Barry just did. He could have destroyed them both with a touch.

“We need to call Caitlin.” Cisco whispered. Kara nodded her head and picked up her phone, then turned to Cisco.

“Tell the workers they have the day off. The lab is closed except to the four of us. Okay?”

Cisco nodded his head in agreement and moved to the front, prepared to turn away the contractors with a lame excuse, call Ray and let him know not to come in today, even though he owned the lab and try and figure out what the hell just happened.

Barry arrived eight minutes later, meeting Kara’s eyes with a sheepish grin. She was not amused, pointing to the medical bay instead. He walked there slowly, her right behind him. The man sat down on the familiar hospital bed he had spent many hours on over the course of his career as the Flash.

“Do I want to know how fast I was going?” he timidly asked.

“A couple days ago Barry. A couple days ago I lay right where you are, while you yelled at me for risking our child. I was reckless, stupid, any of this ring a bell? You pointed to our child on that monitor and dared to ask me if being a hero meant more than being a mother. Why don’t you answer the same damn question! Is being a hero more important than being a father? Is it?”

“Kara, I didn’t mean to. It just happened.”

“38,000 miles an hour! 38, 000 miles an hour does not just happen! It’s not like getting pulled over because you didn’t realize you were going ten miles an hour over the speed limit Barry! You passed escape velocity at Mach 33 and kept climbing! For ten seconds I watched you crush escape velocity and thought I lost you! At least when I did something reckless, it was to save our family, and not out for a morning jog!”

“Kara would you please calm down? How do you even know about escape velocity and…”

“Give it up, Barry. Kryptonians are naturally intelligent. Our brains can process information quicker than humans. You continually break the laws of physics. You really think just because I don’t care about science means I don’t know anything about it? I’ve actually learned quite a bit about physics since I fell in love with you. I’ve been waiting for the day when something takes you away from me. At first I thought it might be Iris or some mad bomber then I started realizing, hey he might just disintegrate one day! Slow down, damn it!”

“I can’t. I have to keep getting faster.” Barry told her.

“Why?!”

“Because of Doomsday!” Barry yelled, stunning Kara.

“Doomsday? Barry you killed that thing and even if you hadn’t, it’s in another universe. I don’t think we have to worry about it.”

“No, you don’t have to worry, but I do. You have to think about our family and our child and I have to think about the ways to protect the both of you. You can’t beat Doomsday. That creature was designed with one thing in mind, genetically engineered to kill you and if it was ever perfected, instant regeneration, then no one could stop it.”

“Yeah but…”

“Do you wonder why you don’t have a doppleganger on this Earth? I do. I wonder all the time. On your Earth, while you were at the DEO and I was at CatCo trying to figure out a way home, I searched for myself. I died in a car wreck when I was ten with my mother. Where are you here Kara? You aren’t.”

“Because Krypton is still there.” she whispered.

“You sure? What if it isn’t? The core was unstable probably in every universe, there is every chance it could have blown up here as well. What if you and your cousin’s pods didn’t make it? What if you are both stuck in the Phantom Zone right now or worse.”

“What could be worse than being stuck in the Phantom Zone?” the blonde asked, having a seat, not liking where Barry was going with this.

“What if one of you landed? Both of you? What if you were taken by some government before you knew what was going on? What if you were thrown in a dark cell and kept there, never being exposed to sunlight? What if Kryptonite had been dragged along wit your pods and made you weak? Alex, Jeremiah and Eliza Danvers. They were killed working on a top secret project overseas at a hush hush lab in an explosion. What would a family of three bioengineers be working on? One of those engineers we know could potentially have the ability to make something like that beast.”

“Jeremiah wouldn’t do it if…”

“KIller Frost, Reverb. Deathstorm. Black Siren, Earth 2 dopplegangers of people we love. Dopplegangers are living proof that the line between what makes us for the most part good people and what can push us over the edge is very thin. Who knows what the Danvers were working on, but I have to consider the possibility that somewhere out there, someone knows about aliens and may try to create something they believe can stop you. What if Non and his crew had won in one universe? What if they figure out inter dimensional travel and arrive here one day? What if your doppleganger and your cousin’s from another universe figure out how to get here and they aren’t as nice as you are? Can you fight them both Kara?”

“I would… would try.”

“And you would lose. Kara, something like Doomsday, there is only one thing that can defeat a creature like that. I have to hit him at light speed, reach infinite mass and strike him with the power of an exploding dwarf star. I have to turn him into nothing.”

“And destroy the Earth, possibly open up a black hole, rip the fabric of reality, all to protect us.”

“No, I can control it, Kara. Today I spoke to the…”

“Yeah?” she prompted.

“There is something I didn’t tell you about the time we were apart. I told you I gave my speed to Zoom but I never told you how I got it back.”

“You did. You said you recreated the… what didn’t you tell me?”

“When we recreated the particle accelerator explosion, I disintegrated.”

“You did what now?” Kara asked, having missed this part of the story and pretty sure she would have remembered it.

“I turned into, I went into the Speed Force. I spoke to it.”

“You spoke to the Speed Force? I’m sorry, I know I bragged a bit ago about my intelligence but I’m trying hard to understand this.”

“The Speed Force is sentient in a manner of speaking. While I was inside it, I had to deal with some things, come to peace with others. Cisco knew I was there and he and…”

“And?”

“Iris, pulled me back. I was given my speed back and Cisco and her pulled me back to this reality.”

“Iris pulled you back?” Kara asked, gritting her teeth. She would not be jealous. She would not be jealous.

“You know she has been like a sister to me…”

“That you wanted to screw since puberty. Kinda messed up analogy right now Barry. Let’s continue please?”

“Kara…”

“I’m not jealous. I have moved past that. On with the story.” she encouraged. She was past this. She was bigger than this.

“So when I was running today, something snapped, I don’t know what, but while I was running I spoke to the Speed Force, or I suppose it spoke to me.”

Kara nodded her head, understanding. Something didn’t feel right though. She needed to do something…

“Could you give me a second Barry?”

“Yeah.” he agreed quickly. Kara calmly walked over to an empty mannequin that had held the suit Barry was now wearing. Cisco walked in just as she knocked the mannequins head off and quickly turned to leave the room.

“Okay… I’m good now.” she told him, letting out a small breath and smiling.

“Are you sure? Because I am pretty sure you just kinda punched my head off my shoulders, symbolically.”

“On with the story Barry. What did your Speed Force friend tell you?”

“It appeared to me as my mother this time. It… she told me I had broken another barrier. She said I could one day break speed but today was different. In the past I could pull my power from the Speed Force. Today I felt at one with it. I wasn’t going to burn up. I can control it, I can and I will be able to direct it. I can become it and when I do, nothing can stop me from protecting you and our little girl.”

“Oh now you believe we are having a girl.” Kara muttered, looking at the floor but her hand absently rubbing her belly, trying to quell the fear rising inside her.

“The… my mom told me our daughter would surpass us both and we had to be ready to help her. I had to learn to control this force because one day it will be running through her on the ground and in the sky. If we can’t help her, who will?”

“I can’t help her if that is true. I can’t fly that fast Barry. I don’t have this mysterious Speed Force thing. I’m not a Jedi.”

Barry chuckled. “Thats the Force.”

“It was a joke, ass. I’m trying here but you are sounding like a lunatic and confirming all the worst fears I have for our child.”

“Don’t be afraid.”

“I can’t help her!”

“Yes you can. After you have her you are going to be faster, stronger.”

“How?”

“The baby soaks up solar energy from you. Have you ever considered what she could be giving you in return? Our child is going to do great things, Kara. She will be a hero, just like her mother.”

“And her father.” Kara added. “And hopefully be more sensitive about leaving without saying good bye. Barry, this scares me. All of it. I don’t want anything to happen to you. I don’t want to encourage our child to become some flying, super strong speedster. I don’t want that.”

“If she is anything like you, she won’t have a choice. She will do it on her own, with or without our help. I think it would be better with, don’t you?”

“Yeah, I guess.” Kara admitted, You really think you can control this?”

“Yeah, I do.”

“Barry, if I lose you… I can’t lose you.”

“You won’t. Unless you punch my head off like you destroyed my mannequin. Even then I am pretty sure I can heal.”

“Okay… I need some… air, and I need to get Charlie. Can you promise to let Caitlin look you over when she gets here?”

“Yeah, I can do that. Are you going to drive home, dressed like that?”

“No… can you run, not that fast and get me some clothes?”

Barry was back in a minute with his favorite pair of jeans she owned and a tee that was probably tighter than what Kara would normally wear but enjoyed the way he looked at her.

“Did you notice the dent in the rear of the car?” he asked, having spied the injury on the way out.

“Yeah, I backed into a pole trying to get out of parking garage. I’ll pop it back out. There will probably be more by the time I get back so I may as well wait until I’m home.”

Barry noticed the sad tone of her voice. Reaching out, he touched her cheek, hoping her eyes would meet his. When they did, he saw desperation and sadness and it hurt him deeply. Bringing her in the two held onto each other tightly.

“Kara, I swear to you, I will always protect the two of you and I will never leave you alone. I swear baby.”

“I know.” she sniffled.

“Do you?”

“I’m trying. I’m getting there. It’s just a lot to take. I thought you were going to disappear any second this morning.”

“I didn’t. I’m right here and I won’t make a habit of running that fast but I will have to practice at times. You understand?”

“Yes, and I will be there, next to Cisco watching the entire time, worrying.”

Kissing him on the cheek one last time, Kara put her car in reverse, slammed the brakes when it moved forward, double checked and actually had it in reverse this time, then left. Like Barry’s her mind was racing, thousands of thoughts at once but unlike Barry she was having a much more difficult time handling them.

Soon after Kara had left, Caitlin rushed into the lab. She took a look at a sheepish Barry who just shrugged his shoulders.

“I didn’t mean to.” he offered. Caitlin didn’t respond, instead walking to Cisco who pointed to a monitor. Caitlin’s pale face went paler.

“I know we should stop saying this around here but Barry, this isn’t possible.”

“Yeah, it is. I know how and I can go faster and no, I won’t burn up. Kara wants you to check me over for her own peace of mind but I can tell you I am fine.”

“You are fine?” she asked doubtfully.

“Yep. Fine as can be. Every atom, every molecule in my body is exactly where it is supposed to be. I need to get to work. It will be okay Caitlin, I promise.” Barry brought the woman into hug and kissed the top of her head, then walked away, leaving Caitlin gawking at Cisco who shrugged his shoulders.

“I don’t know what to tell you Dr. Snow. Do you believe in miracles?”

“I have for a long time Cisco. Sometimes I doubted everything but since I met Barry I have never not believed in miracles. Show me everything, especially his heart rates and respiratory rate at what speeds, oxygen absorption. Do I even want to know what kind of destruction he left in his path?”

“None.” Cisco smirked at her disbelieving face. “There was a pressure wave of course and a sonic boom, but the wave wasn’t near what it should have been. I’ve been having the satellite back track his path and its nothing like Siberia. Almost like all the electricity stayed inside him instead of vibrating out into the world. I can’t explain it, Caitlin. As much as I hate to admit it, we are going to need Harry.”

“I doubt even he can explain this Cisco but yeah, lets ask him.”

While the original Team Flash geniuses tried to figure out what was going on with the quarterback of the team, Alex sat at her desk, waiting for Joe to arrive so the two could get to Keystone.

“For real?” Captain Singh asked.

“What?” Alex noticed he had the plastic bag in his hand.

“You got up at 6 AM, decided to follow a hunch, went back to the victim’s apartment and found an appointment card with this guy’s name on it, wedged between sofa cushions.”

“Yep, even put it in a bag without touching it.”

“I’ve watched Barry since the day he got hired on, way before this Flash stuff. He was awkward, bumbling, always late, clumsy but one thing stood out about him. He knew his stuff. Kid is a brilliant forensic science. Not only brilliant but he combs a crime scene like no CSI I have ever known. Barry misses nothing. There is no way that he missed something like this between sofa cushions.”

“I understand why you would feel that way but in this instance wouldn’t you just rather go with it, than question it and perhaps delay a warrant being issued?”

“A warrant? She had an appointment. This gets you in to talk to the guy. He can of course hide behind confidentiality and top secret clauses all he wants and an appointment card isn’t opening up any of those doors. I doubt anything can. But by all means, travel to Keystone City and have a talk with Pendergast.”

“Thank you sir.” Alex figured he was right. She knew all about how government agencies worked and hid behind need to know status.

“But before you go I want you to find out how this meta, Pendergast or not, is killing people and how we can contain it.”

“Contain it?” she asked, doubtfully.

“Yeah, what we try to do before people like the Green Arrow or your girlfriend put an arrow through him, or a sword, or whatever you crazy kids are using now days. Allen says you are a brilliant scientist. Get to a lab and blind me with your brilliance.”

“Oh… but…”

“I’ll send Joe to talk to the guy. I doubt he is going to try anything in public or an office and despite what you Justice League heroes think, cops can take care of themselves. He has a gun and knows how to use it. Use your brain, Detective. Go to the Superflash Cave, go to Barry’s lab, go wherever you have to but take the zip locked bagged remains with you and tell me what is causing this. Call in Ramon and Snow, whatever, whoever, but we need to know two things. How it is being done and how to stop it, particularly if he touches someone, we need a way to save them. You with me Detective?”

“Yes sir.” Alex told him, giving up. She really wanted to be there when Pendergast was interrogated but understood what he was saying. She did need to work on the… dust.

“Relax Alex. You won’t miss anything.”Joe told her, walking up and setting a breakfast burrito on her desk. “I’ll ask to speak to him, he will say he knew her but can’t speak about anything in regards to her work with the clinic, hide behind confidentiality and that will be it. The key is how he looks when asked about her. I’ll let you know if its him or not. Been doing this a long time.”

“I don’t doubt you, Joe. I just…”

“Went through a lot of work to find this guy’s office, find her name in an appointment calendar or notebook, copied an appointment card in his handwriting, a skill I imagine you find useful and then exited, undetected. Yeah, but you got us an in and didn’t get busted. I guess Kara was with you?”

“She followed me. Just like when we were kids.”

“And her dog?” Joe guessed, smiling.

“And her little doggy too.”

“Okay, so go figure out how we are going to stop this guy. Don’t forget to brush up on reading him his rights when we do bust him. I’ve been meaning to ask you, in your last job, you were a fed of a sort. Pretended to be CIA or something?”

“FBI quite a bit.” Alex admitted, chewing her burrito.

“You never had to read anyone their rights?”

“Nope, I just posed as FBI to get information. When we took an alien down we just pretty much took it down.”

“Really? So the aliens didn’t have any rights?”

“What?” Alex asked, surprised.

“They didn’t have rights? You guys didn’t give them trials or anything?”

“No. I doubt a courtroom would hold them. These were some really dangerous creatures, Joe.”

“Strong, fast, weird powers?” Joe guessed.

Alex nodded her head. “Exactly. Not something a modern courthouse could hold.”

“So if your sister was suspected of a crime, she could be taken down at anytime by the DEO and held indefinitely, for life even, without trial on presumption of guilt, with no constitutional protections just because she was an alien who was strong, fast and had weird powers?”

Alex stopped chewing.

Joe patted her on the back. “I’m not trying to be an ass, Alex. Just think about it. Strong, fast, dangerous, everyone has rights, especially your sister, no matter where she is from, right? Metahumans are the same way. Sometimes they don’t leave us a choice but we always have to try to take them alive. Now do what the Captain ordered and use that brilliant mind of yours so we can figure out a way to stop this guy from killing anymore people. Its nice to have a partner to rely on instead of Cisco making sarcastic remarks about what an idiot I am. I’ll call you as soon as I am done talking to him.”

Joe walked off leaving Alex not hungry any longer. The thought of what had almost happened to her and J’onn, at what could have happened if Alex was never a member of the DEO, to Kara. What they did to her father threatening to take a young girl who had just lost her world. Kara was targeted for execution because she was an alien. She dumped what was left of her burrito and prepared herself to work.

“Guess I need to get to work. Find a dust buster and a microscope and get cracking.”

“Hey, S.T.A.R. doesn’t have any contractors today and Caitlin said a few of the electron microscopes and bio scanners are still intact. Want to head over there and we can figure this out?” Barry asked actually arriving on time to start the day. Alex noticed he seemed off too. His carefree face didn’t appear so carefree.

“Did you and Kara have an argument? Because you aren’t allowed to do that. I think that was number three on…”

“How do you know about the list?”

“Who do you think helped Dad write it? Everything okay?”

“Yeah, everything is going to be great. Lets get to work. Show me how you geniuses work. Poor idiot forensic scientists like me aren’t even reliable enough to look between sofa cushions and find appointment cards.” he told her with a wink. Alex relaxed. She would figure this out. Then she would find Kara and hug her.

While Barry and Alex played in S.T.A.R. all afternoon, Kara actually made her way back to work. Going through emails, checking with her PR team and updating herself on the progress of the programmers and hardware engineers, helped keep her mind off the worry she had this morning. She had thought of staying home, but after taking Charlie from a grumpy Oliver, and considering what to do today, the idea of sitting around did not appeal to her.

Ray walked around, catching her in the office, surprised to see her.

“Hey! I thought you weren’t coming back till after the wedding… and your dog is here.”

Charlie barked his hello.

“Hi Ray. Yeah I just wanted to check in, see what is going on. I think since stage 2 is coming up for tests in a few months you should start being seen on television more. O’Reilly wants you. What would you…”

“O’Reilly is a jerk who still owes me money. He will only want to talk about my kidnapping or who I am supporting in the election.”

“Okay, what about Good Morning America?”

“I hate getting up that early. What about Kimmel? That guy is a blast to hang out with.”

“I don’t really think he is going to want you on his show to talk about advanced medical technology. He will probably hound you about politics and throw out a few HIVE jokes in bad taste. Don’t get me wrong, I love his show but not really for us. Maybe you should reconsider the documentary.”

“No. I don’t want any cameras that we don’t have control of anywhere near our research.”

“Lets hire our own crew then. Hire a small film division, only ten or so. Document what we are doing and when Stage 3 is passed and we only have final government approvals to get through Discovery Channel can use it for their own documentary or we give one then. We can control the limits of what is released and what is proprietary.”

“Let me think about it. But no O’Reilly and no shows before 6 AM. You do not want to cover up what I say between the hours of 2 AM and 6 AM.”

“Got it.” Kara gave him, and looked back to her screen, absently patting Charlie who had taken up residence, laid out on top of her desk.

“Hey, you doing okay?” Ray asked, noting some of her usually cheerfulness was not present.

“What? Yeah, I’m fine… long night.” Kara told him, not feeling like rehashing this morning.

“So tell me about it.” he offered. Kara noted he wasn’t being sarcastic and wondered how bad she looked. Instead of begging off she found herself talking instead. Ten minutes later, Ray had taken it all in.

“Project Blue Skye huh? Sounds like we need to know what is going on behind those locked doors on the fourth floor.”

“Yeah but short of pulling the door open myself, I can’t think of a way in. Yeah, Barry could phase through but security cameras are going to pick up the lightning that follows him. Maybe. Actually he might slow down if he knows how to anymore, and be able to slip in and up pretty easy. Phasing through the doors wouldn’t be a problem.”

“Unless the change in vibrations or electrical impulses sets off an alarm wired into the door. Kara we are a great big team. You have to start delegating tasks. Do you have any real idea of how small I can get?”

“Please don’t bait me Ray.”

“I’m not! Seriously I entered Kendra’s blood stream before. I can go small, very, very small. I’ll slip in tonight and check the whole place out. No matter how tight the doors, there must be an AC vent or a for handle I can slip into. They can’t keep me out Kara. I will find out what is going on. I can also use my suit to upload the entire system and all the information they have on everything, relevant or not.”

“You would do that?” the woman asked, surprised.

“This woman was killed in a very bad way, by an obviously very dangerous person and both have links to a place that experiments behind very secure doors. Yeah, this is kind of what we do. The police and courts can fight for months to get warrants for information I can get us in five minutes. It won’t be admissible in court but the number one goal here is to contain this person first. Then we can worry about the how and why. It may not be Pendergast. It could be he is the next target and the killer has a relation to Gayle and Pendergast.”

“Yeah, I would really appreciate it Ray. Thanks. Sorry I tore up your suit by the way. That wasn’t part of the whole prank war, just a casualty of like actual war.”

“Are you kidding? It’s great. Most of Central City thinks you stopped the guy but a lot are beginning to think the Atom is a hot blonde and I am betting I get a toy deal out of this.”

“But… its not you.”

“It’s the suit that matters. The Atom is greater than Ray Palmer.”

“Okay, never mind then. Wow. You totally went third person. Anyway, thanks. I’ll come watch your back tonight.”

“Nope. You and your man need to spend a little time together. I got this. I can take Sara or Jax if things get hairy. Speaking of hairy, I’m not going to even try to keep your dog away but aren’t you afraid of him using the water bowl on your desk? He might knock it over and fry the laptop if you aren’t careful.” Ray remind her.

“Oh no, thats not his. He only drinks Dasini water out of his portable bowl in his bag. This is just tap water in a bowl. Its for… stuff.”

“Oliver has you slapping water, doesn’t he?”

Kara nodded her head. “Yeah, I’m supposed to see him in the basement in an hour for practice.”

“Fine, you have fun, let me know if there are any reasonable television shows you think I should do, look into the cost of a film division, a small film division, and we can go from there. You sure you are okay, right?”

Kara smiled at the man’s concern. “I’m good Ray. Hey also, thanks. For all this. I realize I’m kinda a mess and aren’t here half the time, but I really do appreciate all this. You’ve done a lot, providing jobs for my parents, helping us all out. I enjoy playing pranks with you but I do want you to know I appreciate it. Every time something bad goes down, I know you are going to be there with us, no matter what. That means a lot to me.”

“Anytime. Besides when you are here, you are very good at what you do. I’d rather have you here part time than some PR machine full-time scheduling me for photo shoots. I’ll let you know as soon as I leave the Center tonight.”

By Five PM, Joe had returned to S.T.A.R. with surprising news. Not only did he not get to speak to Pendergast, the man hadn’t been seen in the past two days or heard from. His superiors would not discuss the nature of his work and because of that were hesitant to report him missing, to discourage scrutiny. Apparently the legal team behind the Center was formulating an appropriate plan of action. Joe had checked Pendergast’s home in Keystone City and received no answer. By a stroke of luck the door lock was open and he could have sworn he heard a voice calling for help inside. At least that is what his report would indicate. Investigating, he was disappointed to find no one inside, nor did it appear anyone had been for days. No discriminating papers were in plain view. The mail in the mailbox had collected and three days of papers were in the newspaper bin.

Alex, Caitlin and Cisco stood around a microscope Alex was peering into and looking at the projection on the monitor. After trying to isolate recognizable DNA all afternoon from the remains of Gayle Marsh’s body, she thought she had finally found one cell cluster that had not completely degraded to nothing.

“Okay, this is it. It has to be, because I am done looking at dirt after this. Even cremated remains have more genetic material left over. I would take dead skin flakes at this point.”

“Now that is impressive.” Caitlin whispered. “Alex these readings, look at the damage to the cells. These cells are extremely old. Very, very old. Almost to the point of non existence. No wonder most of her is dust.”

“Yeah but why?” the woman asked, gently maneuvering the microscopic light needle barely touching the cells, hoping for any sort of readings. They had come close before but each time the material was destroyed at the slightest intrusion.

“Got it!” Alex practically yelled. Caitlin activated the white light wave hoping the least non invasive detection would give them what they need.

“Holy crap, that is amazing.” Cisco whispered. All three looked at the results as they popped up.

“Rapid degrading caused by an extraordinary amount of free radicals and cortisol released. Quite a bit of crystalline structures resembling sugar also.” Alex noted.

“So the victim died of an unhealthy lifestyle spread out over one hundred years all hitting her in a span of a few minutes. Her cells were attacked by free radicals and cortisol, possibly sugar and I am betting high potassium as well.” Caitlin agreed.

“So how do we stop it? Is it a weapon or can a meta do this?” Barry asked, walking back in with chips and sodas.

“I don’t think it can be stopped once it’s started Barry. Whoever or whatever is doing this can’t be a drug. A drug wouldn’t account for the wide spread attack to the system… if its a meta, either by touch or breath, maybe both, its cells are changing healthy tissue by flooding the body with everything that causes rapid aging in unheard of quantities.” Alex guessed. “Best bet, is don’t let him or her touch you. We don’t know if its Pendergast but if it is and its connected to this Psycho Center maybe this project Blue Skye, maybe that can give us some answers. But if you want a cure all that can stop this type of biological attack in minutes, I can’t even begin to think of one.”

Barry sighed, suspecting as much. A cure would be too easy. “Ray is going to look around tonight, find out everything they know about this project and what this Center knows. What I don’t get it what this would have to do with a group of people interested in psychics. I’ve looked all afternoon for cases in the US, in regards to instant aging and have found nothing. Pendergast wasn’t in Central City the night of the particle accelerator but Keystone isn’t far regardless. Still if he was a metahuman, it seems this would have popped up sooner. This is a pretty noticeable power, hard to hide.”

“What if he wasn’t metahuman? Or he was a latent like Jax?” Caitlin suggested. “Maybe we are looking at this wrong. Maybe it has something with what Marsh did to him? Maybe she attacked him and her attack triggered something inside him?”

“How would a mind reader attack someone?” Barry asked. Caitlin shrugged her shoulders.

“We are only guessing that was her only talent.”

“Regardless, whatever or whoever is out there is very deadly. Joe, no idea of any other place Pendergast might be?” Alex asked, her silent partner who had gotten very good at staying out of nerd talk.

“No other residences. No nearby relatives. 44 years old, never married, no siblings, parents dead. No life outside of work and his co workers won’t say anything about him, at least not to us. We can watch his house to see if he returns home.”

“So long as they understand not to approach him. If this guy gets near a person and the process starts there is no way to stop it. The body is going to…”

“Decay! Too slow Alex. Yeah totally. This guy, Decay. New bad guy, or girl I guess, if Pendergast is rotting away somewhere.” Cisco told the team with no room for argument.

“Okay, then… lets go home.” Barry suggested.

“Home? There is a very dangerous killer on the loose and you want to go home?” Alex asked.

“Yeah. There isn’t an algorithm that can track a meta who can decay flesh with a touch. Joe has police looking for Pendergast only as a potential witness and they won’t approach. He will let us know. We can’t come up with a cure because it would take a decade and probably still not work. A B.O.O.T. may work but we are going to have to try that firsthand and hope for the best. Right now, sitting here isn’t going to do any of us any good. Lets go home. When we get a lead on Pendergast we will find out more. Ray will let us know what he finds tonight and we can meet here in the morning and continue work. Unless anybody has a better idea?”

Barry looked at the four and all seemed to agree. It did seem strange to leave but he was right, with nothing else to go on, there was no reason to stay. Barry also wanted to be with Kara. He texted her, asking her out for the evening so that she could arrange baby sitting with her mother. Apparently when Kara was gone, Charlie stop at the door and barked hoping to call her back, according to Caitlin. It made hiding a dog in Kara’s absence rather difficult.

Meeting her at Eliza’s condo, he checked and was happy to see no more dents in the Volvo and she had actually popped the new one out. Kara let out a relieved smile, seeing him. She had texted him off and on all day but couldn’t shake the nerves she felt that morning.

“So where are we going?” she asked him, getting into the passenger seat gladly and rolling down the window.

“I’m in the mood for chili dogs. I’m thinking we head to Coney Dogs and see who can down the most in five minutes?”

“Uh… Barry, as good as that sounds, I haven’t really had any nausea today and if it does come back tonight, that is going to be ugly. Eliza thinks I should start eating healthier. That the baby is going to need better nutrients than I normally feed myself.”

“Probably right. Baked Salmon and a never ending salad bowl at Dockside?”

“Oh yes. I’ll probably go with a few lobster tails… or just whole lobsters. Want to catch a movie afterward?”

“The smell of buttered popcorn by the gallons in an enclosed movie theater going to bother you?”

Kara frowned, thinking of the smells.

“Nah, I’ll put on my bracelet when we are inside. I’ve had it off all day, so Kid Flash has probably gotten enough solar energy. Its dark regardless. I just need to keep my phone on so Ray can let us know when he is clear. He swore he had this and I have to trust him.”

“He does have it. Ray will find out everything about that place and they will never know he was there. The man figured out a way to shrink small enough to enter a blood stream. I think he can handle this.”

As the two began eating, Kara began relaxing. Being in his presence helped her. She reflected a lot today, slapped a lot of water, came close to hitting the target a few times. By target of course she meant anything not the roof or the side walls. Oliver was patient and didn’t press even though he knew something was bothering her.

“So any ideas on where you want to go for the honeymoon?” Barry asked her, catching her off guard.

‘Honeymoon? I figured you would want to stay here, get the house organized, keep protecting the city, stuff like that.”

“Yeah, no. We are going on a honeymoon Kara. We are taking time for ourselves. We have to. If we let this consume us, its going to become our life and I don’t want that. I want you and our child to be my life, not… everything else. It can be a part of our lives but we are going to have to make sure we focus on us.”

“Okay, you are right. But if we aren’t going to let it consume us then why are you being consumed by thoughts of every horrible thing that can go wrong and driving yourself to reckless speeds all because of some slim possibility you may have to disintegrate something one day.”

Barry dropped his head, but at least smiled.

“Point taken Zor El. So, Honeymoon? I probably need to start getting the arrangements made. Two weeks somewhere, anywhere, no one but me and you. The rest of the team can take care of the world, we take time for ourselves.”

“Anywhere?” Kara asked, beginning to get excited. She had been to many places in the world as Supergirl or at least flown over but never really been to many places for the purpose of vacation.

“Yep. Two weeks anywhere.” Barry agreed, thinking of any number of cruises or tropical beach resorts.

“I want to go to Orlando.”

“Orlando? Orlando Florida?”

Kara nodded furiously.

“You want to go to Disney World?” Barry figured, liking the idea.

“Not just Disney. Yeah, we could spend four days there but we could spend four or five days at Universal Studios resort, see the Harry Potter attraction, then there is Gatorland, I’ll be honest I love alligators and crocodiles. We can go to Kennedy Space Center and make fun of this planets sad attempts at space exploration. Oh and Sea World! I have always wanted to go to Sea World. But we could stay at Universal’s Islands of Adventure resort and maybe Animal Kingdom at Disney World. That way we could know what would be fun for the baby to see when she is old enough to enjoy it. What do you think?”

“I think that sounds like the most awesome Honeymoon ever. The temperatures in Florida should be good this time of year, not hot, but we aren’t going scuba diving or to a beach so yeah… I think it sounds amazing. I’ve never… I never thought of that but yeah we could have so much fun.” Barry said, almost talking to himself. “Do me a favor? Could you organize it? You have obviously done more research into this than I have. Figure out where we want to stay for how long, when we go to what parks, stuff like that? Make the reservations and book the plane… uh?”

“We are driving. I’m thinking we rent a convertible. It’s only a twelve hour drive.” Kara hoped, pretty sure it was closer to sixteen.

“Uh…”

“Barry?”

‘The longer we spend on the road is less time we have…”

“Barry?” she begged.

“Can I make a suggestion?”

“As long as it doesn’t involve flying in a plane.”

“What if… just hear me out, what if we asked Ray to borrow his jet? You have never been on a plane with your bracelet on, right? Didn’t you say the smells were one of the main things that bothered you? And the sounds as well? With the bracelet the smells and sounds won’t bother you. And if we are in Ray’s jet, alone, then maybe we can find some other ways to take your mind off of things. It will be a two hour flight at the most. If it still bothers you we drive back, or I will even run you back. We can take our suits so no clothes are burned and have our luggage delivered home.”

“Fine. That will work. But you better keep me very occupied on the fight there.” Kara gave in. She admitted to herself that joining the mile high club without actually having to hold Barry a mile high would be better.

After an hour of non stop eating the two decided on a movie to watch and to Kara’s relief the smells weren’t nearly as bad with her bracelet on.

“That movie sucked.” Barry whined.

“No it didn’t. He was hot.”

“Hot? What does that have to do with anything? These movies are ridiculous.”

“No, movies with cars that fires missles are ridiculous. Daniel Craig does a great job with these Bond movies.”

“The whole point of the Bond films was cool gadgets. Without the cool gadgets its not a Bond film.”

“Yes it is. It said so in the title. You didn’t like the fight scenes? They were awesome and you know it.”

“I admit the fight scenes were…” Barry stopped talking. Kara had slipped her bracelet off as soon as they exited the theater and now she was frozen in one spot. He recognized the look of concentration on her face. She was hearing something from a distance.

“Where?”

“Four blocks that way, take a right. Someone cried for help and is groaning. No sounds around, probably an alley.” she answered. Grabbing his suit from her purse and moving fast enough that those around only felt a blast of wind, Kara casually walked across the street and as soon as she was out from the crowd moved herself, running behind.

Barry arrived in seconds and was not sure what the hell he was looking at.

A man was standing over a body on the ground, his hand on the victims cheek, The man wore a torn suit that looked like it had seen better days but his skin was wrong.

“Hey! Step away from the man… or lady… person you are over. Remove your hand now!”

The man shaped creature did as instructed, turning to face Barry fully.

“Wow… you are ugly. I… wow. Fear the Walking Dead right here in Central City.”

The Flash stood twenty feet away from what appeared to be a man, more resembling a zombie who had just climbed out of a coffin judging by the state of its clothes. The skin was sallow, greyish, and sagging on its face. The longer it stared at Barry, the worse it looked, its features resembling those of a monster more than a human. Shaking its head, it reached out for the body on the ground once again.

“Barry?”

“Stay back Kara.”

“You too. He’s touching, I think it…”

“Yeah.” Barry agreed. Whatever this was, it was feeding off the life of the body on the ground.

Barry vibrated immediately, building static electricity and tossing a bolt of lightning into the creature. The monster broke contact and flew farther back into the alley. Barry moved to the body, to check for life, Kara at his side, ready to blast whatever that was, if it stood back up.

“Oh damn.” Barry whispered. The body on the ground was female, and had rapidly aged and worse was still aging.

“He was feeding off of her. He uses his powers or it takes him. I saw him start to look worse.” Kara noted. “He’s up.”

“Don’t go near him. I have to save her.”

“What are you going to do?”

Barry laid his hands on the woman’s shoulders and began vibrating, moving her along as well. Once her body was joined at a subatomic level with his, he felt it. He could see the healthy cells deteriorating. The cells attempted to join his but Barry fought, the same way he had managed to heal in a half second instead of hours, he took control of his cells and healed rapidly defeating the invaders not only from his body but into the victims, The Flash stayed calm and never stopped moving, in perfect sync with the victim. Despite the speed, despite Kara not being able to see him clearly because of how fast the two were vibrating, Barry knew everything that was going on.

“He’s running! I’m going to…”

“Let him go Kara.” Barry’s eery voice told her from severely vibrated vocal cords. Kara thought for a moment, looked at him, at the space the man had just been and her hand went to her stomach. They knew what to look for. He wouldn’t get far.

“I’m staying. Are you okay? Its not hurting you is it?”

Barry didn’t answer. He almost had this. Electricity built up around him, enough that Kara stepped back, but he held on. Finally it was gone. He knew not only were his cells healed but hers as well. The damage had been repaired. He had never done something like this but knew this morning that it was possible. If he could have had this when Kara was shot, he would have been able to disintegrate the bullets and healed the damage using the power of his regeneration. But he knew now. Now he was fast enough, not only to take life but to give it.

Barry stopped and nearly fell over, only for Kara to catch him. Opening his eyes, he saw a twenty something young woman, who appeared to have been out for a late night jog. Her eyes were wild, her face full of panic but she was alive. Alive and healthy.

“Good save Flash.” Kara let out with a breath, patting her man on the back and looking at where the man had run to.

“Call Joe and let him know what to look for.”

“What exactly should he look for?”

“An extra from Night of the Living Dead. Don’t let anyone approach him, just tell us where he is at. I might be able to save him, but I have to get a skin sample first. Oh and she might need a police officer to take her report. She is fine physically but this is probably going to give her some nightmares.”

“This is going to give me more nightmares.” Kara agreed and took out her phone to dial Joe think at least they got through dinner and a movie before work called. Barry was fine. That was what mattered. She would just keep telling herself that,over and over so she wouldn’t freak out, because a metahuman zombie that could kill with a touch was definitely freaking her out.

She couldn’t wait to get to Florida even if she did have to take a plane.