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I wake with a groan. Rolling onto my side, I open my eyes and rub them a few times to try to get rid of the sleep. I pull myself out of bed and glance at the small clock in the corner of the room. The time reads 6.30am. My shift at Jitters starts at 7 so I quickly get ready, making sure to hide my backpack and blankets away in the STAR Labs sweaters crate. If anyone comes down here while I'm at work, I don't want them to see any evidence of me staying here. I'm about to leave when a sharp pain stabs my stomach, similar to the one I had before it feels as though my insides are on fire. I grasp my stomach and sit down on the floor before I can fall over and injure myself. My vision flashes white and my body starts to convulse against my own will. I squeeze shut my eyes as convulsion gets worse before it vanishes as quickly as It came. I lie there panting for a second. I think I am getting seizures but I'm not sure as to why. Maybe it is a side effect of not being in the speedforce? I stand up and look over to the clock to see it reads 6.50. I quickly phase though the wall, deciding to skip breakfast at the last second. I can just get something to eat while I'm at Jitters. As an employee, I get 50% off everything there which makes it cheaper than running to big belly burger.
I arrive at jitters 10 minutes early giving me time to get myself some breakfast consisting of cronuts, muffins and a large coffee to kick start my brain for the day. I finish eating and quickly head into the breakroom to get on my apron.
As I am tying it on, Sasha walks in, dark circles under her eyes and her hair a mess.
"I forgot to set my alarm and didn't have time to get ready," she explains.
"Well then it is lucky you will be in the kitchen the whole day where no one will see you," I reply with a grin on my face.
"That's what I told my mum when I left the house," she agrees.
"how old are you?" I ask her, suddenly curious.
"I'm 17, in my senior year of high school," she explains.
"I'm 16 but I never went to school, I was homeschooled." I tell her.
We chat for a bit more when I hear the sound of the bell ringing, announcing a customer. I jump up from my chair and run to the front desk to see Caitlin, Cisco and Barry standing there. They must all know each other.
"Hi there, what can I get you today?" I ask them with a friendly smile on my face. Barry seems to recognise me from yesterday and smiles at me.
"we'll have the same as yesterday." Cisco says.
"so, one decaf coffee, one iced tea, one Killer Frost and three Flashes." they stare at me in amazement and I shrug.
"I have a good memory."
I tell them how much it will cost and Barry hands me the cash which I put in the register.
I quickly make all the drinks and pass it to them, a line of people coming for their morning coffees already forming. I give them a brief smile as they walk away before turning my attention to the next customer, an old woman in her 60s.
"hello, how can I hel.." I start but she interrupts me.
"I'll have the double ristretto venti half-soy nonfat decaf organic chocolate brownie iced vanilla double-shot gingerbread frappuccino, extra hot with foam, whipped cream upside down double blended, one sweet'n low and one nutrasweet, and Ice. And make it snappy." I sigh as I get to making her ridiculously long order, it is going to be a very long day.
I finally get home after a super long day at work. I quickly run to the crate of STAR Labs and take out my blankets and backpack,setting them down on the floor before I close the lid. As I walk over to the blankets to set them up, I get a sudden jerk of pain in my stomach,worse than anything I have ever gotten before. I feel my legs collapse underneath me and I hit my head against the crate as I fall, then everything goes black.
I slowly wake up. I groan as my head starts to pound. I bring my hand slowly up to it and probe around the back slowly when I feel something sticky and wet. I pull my hand away and bring it up to my face to see it covered in bright red blood. I shakily put my hands under myself in an attempt to stand up. I finally manage to hobble to my feet, leaning against a crate for some support. I take a shaky breath, happy that today is my day off, I wouldn't have been able to go into work looking like this. I have to try to find the STAR Labs med bay. With the Flash and Kid Flash using this as their base i'm sure they come back with all sorts of injuries. The only issue is, I feel like if I use my speed, I will instantly black out. I guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way. Sneaking around while walking with a bleeding head. It'll be easy.
It is not easy sneaking around without speed with a bleeding head. I have to constantly hide against walls and run, at a human speed, behind doorways all while keeping one hand cupped against the back of my head so that drops of blood don't leave a trail on the ground. The bleeding has mostly stopped by now and only a few drops still fall.
I finally find what appears to be a med bay which I is, very luckily empty. I open and close a few draws until I find one that appears to be holding bandages, gauze, medical tape and some butterfly bandages. I take out one of everything as well as a small mirror for me to inspect the back of my head. It appears to be a pretty narrow cut that probably needs stitches but I don't know how to do that so I opt for using a few butterfly bandages instead. I quickly apply 2 before deciding it is good enough. I'm packing away everything I was using when all of a sudden I hear a voice behind me.
"Hey, what are you doing in here?"
I quickly whip around to see Caitlin and Cisco standing by the computers a few meters away from me. With no other choice I decide to use my speed to make a run for it. Running as fast as I can while everything around me is frozen, I run out the door and towards the nearest wall to phase through. Because they saw me, they will probably be on high alert and search all the rooms. Including the storage room. My only option is to leave the building and come back tonight when they have all already left. As I run down the hallway however, my vision starts to blur and everything spins. I try to shake it away but end up puking l over the floor. Before I can do anything else, I fall to the ground, unconscious.
I wake to the sound of muffled voices arguing. I slowly open my eyes and blink rapidly in the harsh light.
"... Needs medical attention," I hear Caitlin argue with someone.
"We can't let her out till Barry gets here, she could be evil like all the other speedsters we've faced," Cisco says.
"She's just a kid!"
"So? Kids can be bad guys as well. Just wait a few more minutes for Barry to get here."
My eyes adjust to the light and I find myself in some sort of cell with padded blue walls. The front wall however, is made of some sort of glass allowing me to see out and the people on the other side of the glass, such as Caitlin and Cisco, to see in. I slowly sit up, my conscious state not noticed by Caitlin and Cisco as they argue. I sit up against the back wall and feel the back of my head to feel the butterfly bandages I put on both fell off, causing my head to start slowly bleeding again. All this blood loss can't be very good for me, I think as my vision starts to swim. I try to vibrate my hand but it doesn't work. This must be a power dampening cell meaning my speed healing won't kick in.
I hear a sudden gust of wind as Barry and Wally both appear in their suits.
"Guys, were you too busy arguing to see she's awake?" Barry says.
Caitlin and Cisco both turn their heads towards my cell, finally noticing me awake.
"Oh, she must have just woken up or something," Cisco tries to cover up.
"So why did you send me an sos? Is she a meta?" Barry asks.
"We found her after she broke into STAR Labs. And guess what? She's a speedster," Cisco says.
"So how did you manage to catch her?" Wally asks, speaking for the first time. Caitlin and Cisco both look at each other.
"Well, she uh, she kind of just collapsed when she was running away," Caitlin answers. They all stare at me for a second before Barry's eyes move to the small puddle of blood forming on the ground from my head wound.
"She's bleeding, we should take her to the med bay," Barry says.
"But she's a speedster! She will just run away the moment we open the cell." Cisco cries out. I laugh inside at the thought. I can barely stand up right now, let alone run. Barry looks deep in thought for a second.
"Why don't we use metahuman cuffs? We can open the door and I can run in, cuffing her before she can run away," Barry says. They all agree with his plan and Wally runs off, appearing a few seconds later with a pair of cuffs in hand. Barry takes them and tells Cisco to open the door. The second the door is open big enough for Barry to slip through, he runs in and places the cuffs on my wrists. He then leads me out of the cell and runs me back to the med bay. I take a seat on the bed as we wait for Caitlin and Cisco to catch up.
“Aren’t you the girl that works at Jitters?” Barry asks me. I nod.
“And, you’re a speedster?” He asks. I nod again. He tilts his head as he looks at me.
“Have I seen you before? I mean before I bumped into you and before Jitters.” He looks at me in thought for another second before Caitlin and Cisco finally arrive.
“Okey dokey, let's take a look at that cut on the back of your head,” Caitlin says, pulling on some latex gloves. She gently moves some of my hair away and cleans the cut with some water.
“This needs to be stitched. How did you get it?” She asks me while getting out a needle and thread from one of the drawers.
“I banged my head on a table,” I mumble, not wanting to tell them about the seizures yet or they will probably run a bunch of tests on me.
“Is that why you were in the med bay when we found you?” Cisco asks.
“Yes,” I reply. Caitlin starts to put in the first stitch and I wince as I feel the needle pass under my skin.
“Why did you come to STAR Labs? you could have gone to a hospital. How did you even get in here without setting off the alarms? Even The Flash can’t run fast enough to fool the alarms.” Cisco questions. I shrug and wince again as the needle passes through again.
“All done.” Caitlin declares, putting the needle and left over thread away. Cisco is still staring at me suspiciously.
“Who is she?” Joe asks as he walks into the room. Eyes immediately drawn to my cuffed wrists, he moves his hand to his gun which rests by his belt. I keep my eyes glued to his hand which is by his gun as Cisco explains the situation.
“We found her in sneaking around the med bay earlier and when she tried to run away she fainted so we locked her in the pipeline while she was out waiting for the Flash and Kid Flash to arrive and when they did the Flash said we should check out the head wound she had which we just did,” Cisco explains in one breath.
“Uh hu, but why does she have metahuman cuffs on?” Joe asks, staring at me suspiciously as if I might attack him.
“She’s a speedster,” Caitlin tells him. Joe’s eyes widen a fraction, his hand never straying from the gun at his side.
“I’ll take her back to her cell,” Cisco says. Grabbing my arm gently and leading me out of the room.
“Do you think she’s a bad guy?” Joe asks Caitlin as Cisco leads me out of the room.
“I don’t know.”
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I also spilt this chapter in two because it was super long. Hope you enjoyed. ;)
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