In A Blink ? Barry Allen/The Flash

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Natalie couldn't help but giggle as Cisco began to have a fangirl moment. "Stop that. You stop that right now," he said right before he burst into laughs. "I love you. I mean, I love the way that you beat up criminals," he finished when he regained his composure.

"I don't think you should mention that to Barry. He may get a tad jealous. But I would like to say thank you for being one badass woman who proves that we don't need men to hide behind," Natalie said smiling in appraisal. Cisco cocked his head to the side, "Wait, why are you telling us this?"

To answer his question, Laurel began to dig around in her purse and pulled out something Natalie thought looked similar to one of those things you stick on your car vent to make it smell better. "I need some technical expertise. I've been using my sister's sonic device and I was hoping you could help..modify it." Cisco gingerly took it out of her hands and flipped it over. Natalie could practically see the wheels spinning in his head as he formed ideas.

Before anymore could be said, there was a knock at the door. "Hey kids, we should probably get back to the hotel," Joe said as he popped his head into the room, "Captain Lance is gonna take us to the accident site tomorrow."

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Natalie stood in the middle of the road, holding her phone up to the sky trying to get a signal. "Not even one bar," the brunette told Joe as she walked back to him, Cisco, and Lance. Barry had texted her last night saying there was a meta on the loose back home, who can change his appearance into any person he touched. The worst part, the meta changed himself into Eddie and shot two cops so Eddie was now under arrest. Helping Cisco carry a device further into the accident site, the two friends followed the two cops.

"What is that.. a metal detector?" Lance asked as he took a sip of his coffee. Natalie looked at Cisco to answer, given she didn't know what it was either, "Essentially, only instead of listening for metal objects I'm listening for anything that emits an abnormal sound." Cisco trudged past the two cops, pulling Natalie along as they walked off the road, holding the detecting part of the device towards the ground. Cisco set the device down as he helped Natalie climb over the concrete barrier and put on the headphones as he and Natalie swept the device across the dirt floor.

Not having gone too far, it didn't take that long for Cisco to pull off the headphones and call out to Joe. The two cops jogged towards the younger ones in response. "I think we got something. Tachyons. Little bits of time travel," Natalie heard Cisco mumble as he pointed towards the area the device signified. Before anything else could be said, the coffee from Lance's started to float up, causing everyone to look at it in surprise, more to Lance than to the other three.

"So what know, Cisco?" Natalie asked as she stared at the ground.

Her long-haired friend shrugged his shoulders, "Dig?"

After lugging out two shovels from the van they drove there in, Cisco and Natalie went to work on digging, given that they didn't want to put any physical stress on the two older men. The two worked for a few minutes while the two cops watched them. "What exactly are you looking for?" Lance asked.

Natalie propped up her shovel and leaned on it, wiping the sweat off of her forehead, "To be honest, Captain, I'm asking myself the same question." She continued to dig, admitting silently to herself that she was surprised the Captain wasn't asking about what happened to his coffee.

"Wait, Nat, Cisco, stop digging," Joe said as he took tentative steps close to the two, careful to not cause the free dirt to fall back in the hole. Lance stumbled after him, curious to see what he saw. The four gathered in a circle around the whole as Joe pulled out a napkin and began to wipe away at the dirt. After a few swipes, what Natalie originally thought was a rock was revealed to be something completely different.