skinny love | barry allen

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"Zoom wants Doctor Light to send him your new emblem." Caitlin repeated Barry's words that morning, holding a mug of coffee.

"Yes, we need it for bait." Barry modded his head once, "If we can get Doctor Light to take my emblem, throw it through the breach, then Zoom will come to collect my body, and we can trap him."

"But," I slyly spoke, running a hand through my straightened hair, "It's so cool-"

Cisco crosses his arms, "You know it took a lot of work to make that emblem, right?"

Caitlin speaks, "This is the woman who was willing to kill Linda in order to escape Zoom, but- now she's willing to help us catch him?"

"She knows it's the only way." Barry exhaled.

"Before I left Earth-2, I worked on a serum to dampen Zoom's speed." Harry walked over to us, "All we would need is for Ramon to develop a weapon to deliver it."

"Oh, great, that could be this year's cold gun." Caitlin clearly didn't like this, "Maybe another criminal can get it, and then we'd have Sergeant Slow."

"I would never let that happen." Cisco denied, shaking his head, "Sergeant Slow is a terrible name."

"Are we forgetting how much more powerful than Barry Zoom seems to be?" Caitlin kept spitting out reasons, "I mean, if Barry can catch bullets, what's to say Zoom can't catch whatever you shoot at him?"

"Hit him when it least expects it," I shrug, "Surprise-"

"The element of surprise." Harry points at me, adding onto my guess, "All we would do is rig a projectile to fire as Zoom crosses into the breach, he can't stop what he can't see coming."

I point back at him, "Good idea-"

Harry looks at me, "Thanks."

Caitlin huffs, "Joe, voice of reason here?"

"We need a plan." Joe lightly shrugged, "That's as good as any- as long as he can deliver."

"Don't underestimate me, Detective." Harry replies then walks away, back to where he was working.

"Oh, Patty needs us back at the station-" Barry held up his vibrating phone, then left the cortex, "I'll meet you there, all right?"

Joe looked at us, gesturing his head for us to step out into the hall with him.

"Are you just forgetting everything Jay told us and supporting Wells now?-" Caitlin asked when Cisco, her and I joined Joe in the hallway.

"Oh, no, I don't trust Wells at all- I just want to see what he's up to." Joe quickly said, "I figure we give him some rope, he'll hang himself."

"Yeah, I'm totally with you." Cisco nodded, his arms crossed, "I think he's hiding something-"

"Well, maybe it's not as bad as we think?" I questioned quietly, wanting to give Harry a chance even though I had my own suspicions, "Maybe Zoom did something to him-"

"Look, my hunch after interrogating suspects all these years, something's not right with this dude." Joe said, then looks at Cisco, "Barry told me about this thing you can do?"

I immediately smile, "Vibing-"

"Oh, God, just relax." Cisco put a hand on my arm to calm down my excitement that had sprung.

Joe questions, "Can you do it with Wells?"

Cisco exhales. "I can try."

-

My fingers tapped against the keyboard of my laptop as I typed, hearing Linda's voice next to my desk, "Hey-"

I looked up, "Oh, hi-"