7

We both turned to Zoom. "Let her go," Barry said.

Zoom smirked. "What if I don't?"

"I'll kill you," I growled.

He snorted. "Doubtful."

I took a step forward but Barry grabbed my arm. "Night Flash, if you go after him now, he'll kill her," Barry hissed.

"But..."

"Wait." He looked at Zoom. "Why do you need her powers when you are faster than us both?"

"Not really," I muttered.

"Shut up," he shot back.

"Her power will help me melt or freeze people. Which will make my job easier," Zoom said.

"So why did you want Cisco dead?" I asked confused.

"What?" Barry said shocked.

"He wants Cisco dead. That was what he wanted me to do."

Barry glared at Zoom. "I change my mind. Night Flahs, you can kill him."

"I was going to do that anyway," I muttered.

"Yeah, but now I won't stop you."

"I would have frozen you if you had tried."

"You two argue a lot," Mom said frowning.

I smiled. "Well, we are friends who still have something important to discuss."

"Later," Barry added.

I glared. "Yeah, but that conversation will happen."

He glared right back. "Yeah, it will."

Zoom groaned and let my mom go. "This is tiring." He left.

"Wow, we hadn't needed to fight him," I said.

"This time," Barry retorted.

"Aw, are you mad that we have to have that conversation now?"

"Not in front of y...Mrs. Pole."

"Fine, I'll take her home." I grabbed her and zipped off.

"How did you know where I live?" She asked as I dropped her off at the house far away from Central City.

"I know Tina. She told me," I replied. "I have to leave now, please be careful." I zipped back to Central City. I took off my suit when I got to the lab and was glad to be in normal clothes.

"Tina," Cisco said.

I looked at him. "Hmm?"

"Thank you for not doing what Zoom said."

I snorted. "You are my family now. I'm not stupid and I never planned to do what he wanted me to."

He smiled. "Good."

"Where's Barry?"

"Um, I was told not to tell you."

I glare at the ceiling. "He's trying to get out of talking. Just tell me."

"Training room."

"Thank you." I walked in that direction. I found him punching a punching bag. I glared at him. "Trying to get out of talking?"

"I told Cisco not to tell you," he grumbled punching the bag.

"Well, you can't blame him. He is scared of me."

"What do you want?"

"You said you cared about me. Does that me you...love me?"

He punched the punching bag again. "Figure that out yourself."

"I already did! I just want to see if I'm right."

He glanced at me. "I'm not going to tell you."

"Oh? And why is that?"

He punched the bag hard enough that sand started falling. "Tina, I shouldn't even have said what I did. Please just stop."

"You said you knew we had to talk about this!"

"Well, I've had some time to think and I don't want to talk about it."

"You know what? Screw you!" I stormed out of the room and went straight to where everyone else was. "I'm going to murder Barry!" I announced.

Caitlyn frowned. "What did he do?"

"Oh, many things. But it's the fact that he said he cared about me and won't talk about it that's making me want to kill him."

Cisco sighed. "That might be my fault."

I whirled. "What?"

He shrank. "Well, I might have said that being Flash was kind of a full-time job and he might not have time for a girlfriend."

"What! Cisco! I'm a flash too!"

"I know that but I just thought that since you're new here maybe you should have time before someone tries to date you."

I looked at Caitlyn. "I've decided to kill Cisco too. Want to help?"

"I'm thinking about it," she replied.

"Hey! I was just saying what I thought was right!" Cisco said quickly as we both started walking towards him.

"Well, you were wrong!" I yelled.

"Tina, I'm sorry. But are you really ready for a relationship?"

I glared. "As a matter of fact, yes." Then I froze. I just admitted I loved Barry. "But now thanks to you Barry doesn't want to be in a relationship at all."

Iris walked in. "Oh, hey, Tina. Why do you look like you want to kill Cisco?"

"He made it so Barry doesn't want to be in a relationship with anyone! So Caitlyn and I are going to kill Cisco."

"I see." She smiled. "I'll let my dad know so he can arrest you nicely."

I stopped and glared at her. "Seriously? Did you just say that?"

"Tina, you don't really want to kill him or you would have done it when Zoom asked you to."

I frowned. "Did Barry tell you?"

"Yes. I was here when he told Cisco."

"Oh, so you eavesdropped."

She shrugged. "If that's how you want to put it."

"Guys, Zoom is attacking again," Cisco said.

I whirled. "Fine, but this conversation is so not over." I put my suit on and zipped away. It wasn't long until Barry was behind me. I glanced at him but said nothing. We stopped in front of Zoom.

He glared at us. "I just got here."

"So did we," I replied.

He smiled suddenly. "Are you deciding to let have your powers? I'll leave Central City if you do."

I gulped. "Uh, I doubt that you will."

"Nope, this place is a little small so I'm going to leave. After you give me what I want."

"She'll die if we do that," Barry said.

"As if you care," I muttered.

He glared. "You know I do."

"Do I? Hmm, nope, can't say that I do. Of course, you listen to Cisco's advice when it doesn't qualify for us."

"Can we talk about this when we aren't facing Zoom?"

"Talk about it? I believe you didn't want to talk about when we were supposed to."

"Tina!"

"You did." I turned to Zoom. "Do you swear you'll leave?"

"Tina! You aren't doing this!" Barry said.

I looked at him. "You don't make my choices for me." Then I looked back at Zoom. "Do you?"

"I do," Zoom said.

"You can't trust him!" Barry said.

I looked at Barry, "I can trust him more than I can trust you," I snapped.

Barry turned to look at me in the eye. "Tina, I can't lose you."

I looked away. "You have no choice now." I closed my eyes. "You can have my power but you have to leave after you get it."

"Deal," Zoom said. He brought out a knife. "I think this will work out for a perfect death."

Barry moved but I froze him in place. "Don't watch this, Barry," I said softly. Then nodded at Zoom. "Do it."