In A Blink ? Barry Allen/The Flash

32.

"Please tell me that's not what I think it is," Cisco said as he took a step back. Lance took a closer look, "Yeah that is definitely a hand."

"Ooh see I thought it was a foot, but a hand is just as bad," Cisco remarked as he looked at the decomposed skeleton with disgust. Natalie and Lance both shot Cisco a look for his comment. Natalie gagged slightly, all of Joe's words earlier about a body being a shell completely floating away from her mind, "Um, Joe, I don't think we have to worry about stopping for dinner."

Joe continued to wipe away at the dirt and eventually revealed the head of the buried body. "I need to test it to be sure," Cisco said before running away towards the van. Natalie pursed her lips before running away as well, "And I think I'm going to go throw up."

Seeing his friend start to crouch over on the opposite side of the road, Cisco rushed to Natalie's side and pulled her hair back as she clutched her stomach and puked. Rubbing her back in comfort, Cisco slipped off the hair tie she had on her wrist and did the best he could to tie her hair into a low ponytail so that her hair wasn't in her face. When she was done, he left her side briefly to grab he a few napkins and a bottle of water. The two sat in the open trunk with their legs hanging off, after Natalie cleaned herself up, waiting for the two cops to get back to he car.

Natalie stared at the two as they conversed by the newly discovered body, "If wha- who we just found is Harrison Wells, then who is the person we've been working with?"

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The three visitors returned to the precinct to thank Captain Lance for his assistance and for Cisco to show Laurel his modifications on the sonic device. After they returned to their hotel room the night before, Natalie went straight to her room and binged watched season 4 of Teen Wolf, wanting to forget the image of the skeleton that seemed to have lodged itself into her mind. Cisco, having the same idea, worked all night on the device while Joe did the opposite, thinking through everything that had happened and formulated theories.

Pulling Laurel aside, Cisco revealed his modifications to Laurel, who looked quite happy with the result. "I think you should call it the Canary Cry," Cisco said, priding himself on yet another name.

Laurel nodded her head in approval, "I like it, thank you. And as promised," she said as she handed him an envelope. "You show this to anyone, besides Natalie because I know you're going to see it, I'll kill you." Cisco laughter died as he saw the expression on her face was serious.

"Hey Laurel, could you tell Oliver that we'd have to talk about me knowing his alter ego some other time? What we came here for, we found out some stuff that we have to get back to Starling urgently," Natalie asked.

Laurel smiled softly, "Of course."

"So..what is it?" Natalie asked as she looked at the folder in curiosity after Laurel had left. Cisco opened it and pulled out a photo of him and Laurel dressed as the Black Canary. "Seriously dude, you asked her for a picture? You could have told me first. Maybe I wanted one too," Natalie teased.

Cisco stuck his tongue out as the brunette playfully pouted and the two followed Joe down to the car where he body was locked and loaded in a connected trailer, much to Natalie's dismay. When the three got to S.T.A.R. Labs, they brought the body up to Barry's lab so that Cisco could test it without Dr. Wells knowing. With Natalie's help, though she struggled to keep the bile down at first, the tests were conducted as Joe called Barry to let him know.

After the shapeshifter of a metahuman was caught, Barry brought Caitlin into his lab, directing her to a screen that displayed the results. Caitlin stared at it blankly as he breath hitched in her throat, "This is impossible."

Cisco approached her cautiously and grabbed her hand in solace, "Caitlin, Natalie and I ran the test twice. It's a perfect match."

Caitlin walked towards the skeletal body that was laid out on a meta table, "If this is Dr. Wells, then who have we been working for this whole time?"

"That's the same question I asked right after I threw up," Natalie muttered as she crossed her arms and the group surrounded the body. Barry rubbed her back in comfort, "Dr. McGee said that after the accident, Harrison Wells became a completely different person."

"That's because he really is a different person," Natalie said out loud, finishing his thought.

Caitlin looked up from the body, tears forming in her eyes and she ran as best as she could in her heels to her cousin, throwing her arms around her and squeezing her tight. "I'm so sorry, Nattie. I'm so sorry."

"Shh, it's okay. And I'm sorry too, I knew how big of a shock this was and still I acted like a bitch," Natalie said into her older cousin's shoulder.

The three other men cracked a smile at the make-up before Joe left to go his own way and check up on a newly released Eddie. Cisco, Caitlin, Barry, and Natalie all left to go to S.T.A.R. Labs once they knew he was gone because Cisco said he wanted to run some more tests.

"Everything's going to change now isn't it?" Natalie heard Caitlin mutter from the driver's seat as she clenched the wheel.

"Yeah, let's just hope by the end of it we come out the other side."

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30 July, 2015

I would just like to thank astrnxmy for making the cover of this story. I love it so much!!

And thank you for the 9k+ reads!! That's amazing and I am so happy!! Posting a lot of chapters today because there probably won't be any next or after that as well. After this week, chapters will be up rather slowly as I am going to have to focus on school again.

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