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I ran into Star Labs as fast as I could that night, moving as fast as my feet could carry me, the heels of my boots hitting the ground hard as I ran right into the cortex, and up the few steps into the room where Barry was sat, his head snapping up at the sound of my footsteps. Wally's cocoon was laid on the bed, Caitlin looking over the test results and Joe standing next to Wally. Everyone else was scattered around the room also.

I skid to a stop, the intense worry for Barry's well being that was in my chest reliving lightly when I saw him, my hand grabbing his face, one resting on his shoulder, my voice quiet, my eyes filled with concern, "Hi- hey- are you okay? I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner, I got stuck at ccpd taking care of things for Joe and-"

"Hey-" Barry holds my wrists, weakly smiling up at me, "I'm fine."

We eventually moved into the room Wally was in, and saw his condition, that wasn't changing. Barry had informed us that the man that was practically the God of Speed, was called Savitar. The real man we were all up against.

I felt complete sympathy for Iris and Joe, knowing there was no way in hell I could ever imagine how this felt like. Eventually, Joe had left and returned completely confused, informing us that Caitlin had told him that Wally was out of his cocoon and awake, when Wally's condition hadn't changed.

We had soon found out that Caitlin had taken Julian Albert hostage, and now we were trying to locate her. I let my hair down, putting the hair tie on my wrist before readjusting my bomber jacket, crossing my arms, as we all stood in the cortex.

"So, they don't know why she took Julian?" Joe asked.

"No, but more importantly, they don't even know that's it's Caitlin yet. So we need to find her, before they do." Barry spoke.

"Savitar. Now what about this Savitar-" HR starts to speak up.

"Let's find Caitlin, then we can worry about Savitar." Barry told him, pulling me into his side.

"You know what guys, I agree with Barry. Lets find Caitlin." HR repeated.

"Okay, you're right. Then we find Caitlin. But then what?" Iris asks, wanting to create some sort of plan before we initiate anything.

Barry lightly shrugs, "I don't know. I mean she's not thinking straight."

"She's becoming Killer Frost. It's just like in the vibe." Cisco spoke up.

Barry shook his head, already denying, not wanting to accept it, "We didn't know that yet."

"Her mother said the more that she uses her powers, the faster she was gonna go." Cisco argues.

"Saving Barry from Savitar must have put her over the edge." I sigh in realization, crossing my arms.

Barry questions, "How do we find her?"

"I don't know." Cisco admits, "I tried to ping her cell and then Julian's, but she must have ditched both."

"Ahem," HR clears his throat, "If I may proffer a notion."

"Oh great, more suggestions from the genius over here." The sentence rolled of Cisco's tongue sarcastically, referring to how HR wasn't a scientist whatsoever and had been just repeating everything we had all been saying since he got here. He was instead a novelist, and the face of what everyone that the science cane from, but instead was from a close friend that didn't want to show. HR had come over here as some sort of opportunity to start over, with a new life, and write about his adventures here in his novel.

"You don't call the genius, the genius calls you. Question: How did you catch your Captain Cold? I've been reading about him in your files, seems like a wily fellow, slow talker. But his MO- strikingly similar to our dear friend Caitlin's." HR puts out a very valid point.

"Wait- that could work." I spoke up, looking at Cisco, "We could use the way we found Captain Cold- in this situation."

"What? No. We tracked him using the satellite to scan for ultraviolet cold signatures-" Cisco slowly goes quiet as he realized that he could use this, as he immediately starts typing away on his computer.

I walk by him, as does Barry. Cisco speaks up, "No, nothing near the precinct."

"Wait, what's that?" Barry looks closer at the screen as Cisco pulls it up.

"Frozen food warehouse." Iris read.

"There she is." Cisco pulled up the surveillance feed, "I'm going to isolate the feed so no one else can see it."

"All right, figure out what she's making Julian do, I'm going-" Barry quickly says, starting to turn and walk towards his suit.

I catch his wrist, stopping him. "Wait-"

He halts, his head snapping back towards me; impatient. "What?"

"Let me come." I ask. His mouth opens, as he was already ready to start denying. I beat him speaking, going on, "Please. CCPD has already sent out a SWAT team to look for her- just in case they get her location because of Julian's smart ass- I need to be there. I can handle them, while you handle Caitlin."

"Zee-" Barry starts, but I cut him off, practically begging, "."

He lets out a sigh in defeat, rushing, grabbing his suit, putting it on, placing a comm in my ear, scooping me into his arms and running to where the location was, setting me down to where we were guarding Julian, Caitlin's eyes going back to normal as do her hands.

"Stop." Barry told her, Julian's eyes wide as he sees me.

"Get out of here." Caitlin's eyes are wide as she looks at the two of us.

I shook my head, "You know we can't."

"Detective? What are you doing here?" Julian questions me, "You work with The Flash?"

"As a matter of fact-" I roll my eyes, looking back at him, "Now, I'd shut it if you don't want her to freeze you to death." I turn and look back at Caitlin, as she turns her back towards us.

"What're you doing? Take her out. Take her out." Julian's breathing was uneven.

"You don't want to do this." Barry spoke out softly to Caitlin, "You don't want to hurt anybody."

"She's willing to hurt someone. Knock her out." Julian continued, my hand balling into a fist at my side, swinging back and punching him right in the face without me turning around. The sound of him falling sounded the room, and then his silence. I had knocked him out.

"Caitlin." Barry called her name out softly once more, continuing to try and get through to her.

"Leave me alone." Caitlin demanded.

"What're you doing?" Barry asks, knowing that this wasn't like her at all.

"I have to find Alchemy." Caitlin told us, her eyes wide, her entire body in alert.

"We will find him- all together. All right?" Barry assures her.

"No, you don't understand. I don't want to lock him up." Caitlin raised her voice lightly at us.

"Then why do you want to find Alchemy? All on your own? What do you plan on doing?" I question, stepping closer to her, my voice as soft as Barry's.

"I need him to help me." Caitlin admits, her tone loud.

"Help you what?" Barry asked.

"!" She raised her voice, my eyes widening slowly, complete remorse filling in me, as I felt the most sympathy for her.