Time is of the Essence

Caitlin was still in surgery. I was pacing around in the hospital. She wasn't healing well in S.T.A.R Labs so we had to bring her to Saint Andrews.
The doctor came out, "Doctor!" I slowly ran to him.
"Ms. Snow had broken glass stabbed with her body. I stopped her internal bleeding. We had to take the glass out of her body."
"Is she okay?" Cisco asked
"She's heavily sedated, it's best if only one of go in."
"You go." Cisco said sullenly.
"Thanks." I said. I walked in and Caitlin was sleeping. The bruises were reduced to minor cuts on her face.
She breathed in, slowly opening her eyes. "Barry?"
"Shhh. Caity. You shouldn't be talking you just can out."
She nodded a little bit. "God Caity you're a beauty to stare at."
She blushed. I kissed her on her forehead, "go to sleep, My princess." I said. The princess part just blurted out. Even though that I confessed my love to her, I think that she doesn't remember, and that scared me.
Scared me that she doesn't have the feelings I have for her. Maybe she doesn't, maybe she still loves Ronnie.
God. Caity is beautiful.
I got up and paced. I was trying to think how to to tell her how I feel. It was like chains pulled me toward her, they get tighter and tighter every time I see her. My heart is about to burst.
Dammit! I told her once! Why is it so difficult again. I paced faster.
My phone vibrated. "Barry!" It was Joe. "Get down to the Convention Center. There was an there's going to be a assassination attempt."
"How do you know?"
"One of my men won't respond."
"Right."I hung up and I quickly looked at Caitlin. I won't be far I thought about her. I quickly put on the Flash Suit and Ran out of the hospital and ran at least 250 miles per hour to the end of town. "Cisco?"
"Joe told me too, I'm patching you with Joe."
"Barry."
"I'm a block away, where was your guy stationed at?"
"He's a sniper, south east, it's the new Wayne Tech Skyscraper that's almost done, he's on the 16th floor. I know I'm being paranoid but can you check it out just in case?"
"Okay." I looked building and up. Half the building was covered with tarps and glass. There was a sign of what the sign that what the skyscraper was going to look like. "Okay, I got this. I got this." my heart was beating, "Oh god."


"Barry what are going to do?" Cisco said in me ear. "Barry?"
I started to run fast, I stepped on the wall and felt the wind on my face going down. "Wa-Whoo! Yeah!" I started to count the stories, 1,2,3,4, I enjoyed the great blowing wind on my face. for once I felt like I was flying. 10,11.


"Barry?" Cisco kept asking me. I didn't answer I had to concentrate, I have to keep my velocity. Fast, I broke the glass window and I fell onto the floor. I rolled and a pile of scrap metal stopped me. I got up and walked to the window feeling the hard wind blowing, I saw the whole Convention Center. "Hello?" I yelled then I turned, and saw a body. I bent down and tried to hear a heart beat, but I couldn't. Then there was a bruising on the man's neck like he was choked he was trying to fight it. "Damn it." I switched on my communicator, "Cisco, the sniper's dead. Somebody choked him."
"I told you he'll come. But no one listened."
"We need him out of the way to get our target. Plus you got what you needed."
"Who are you?" I turned around.
"Get out of the way Kid, or get killed." There was this man with a black and orange mask. He had this Australian accent, he was hold a sniper rifle in his right hand pointed up and a katana in the other. He punched me so hard that I couldn't breathe. I haven't felt those punches since Tony Woodward.
"Cisco can you see this?"
"Running Facial recognition now."
Next to him was a Japanese little girl at least ten years old. Crossing her arms, she was wearing a mask, she was adorable. "A.R.G.U.S., this is Father Time He's here what do we do? She waited.
A.R.G.U.S.? How's a little girl like her get in League with a corrupt government agency?
"No? That's the First." She seemed surprised. And unfolded her arms.
Slade pointed the sniper rifle at me.
"Okay. Then."
She ran in front of Slade and showed the picture of a scrawny kid, he barely looked sixteen, before he pulled a trigger "No Slade he's the mission. Kill him. Not The Flash."
"Go get a Clearer shot. I'll take care of the Flash."
"You sure Mockingbird's doesn't want to kill him?"
"Go." She walked in front of him as this Slade person Left. She Cracked her knuckles. And jumped toward me. She was fast. I almost didn't see her coming at me.
Almost.
She punched through the metal wall. "You're a Metahuman?"
"Not quite." She said. She cracked her neck, and ran fast toward me and her hand barely touched me, if I hadn't moved.
Then a guy, buff, his hair pushed back, black, with gel, he was wearing a green and black body skin suit, with a utility straps the went over his body, connecting his belt. He punched the girl, before she even got to hit me.
"If you want to Live come with me." His voice was husky, and tired.
"Who the hell are you?" I ask brashly
"Doesn't matter right now, all the matters is that you can't let Deathstroke Kill Hiro Okamura."
"Who?"
"The Target!"
"Hiro Okamura!" Cisco Yelled in my ear.
"I'm guessing you know him?"
"Only by reputation!" He yelled in excitement. "He's only sixteen, and mechanical genius! Physics, Genetics, robotics weapons technology, biochemistry, computer programming and cybernetics!"
"I get it he's smart." I said getting irritated.
"Not just smart, he's gonna change the world." The man I front of me said. "He invents things and he's too smart for ARGUS, and ARGUS doesn't like that."
"So you're here to stop ARGUS?" I said "what's your gain?"
"That doesn't matter." He said. "Shh, he can hear us a mile a away."
"How can trust you?" I asked looking at him serious.
He pulled his gun out, and I retracted my body and he pulled the trigger at the little girl. "There, see? She's not dead for now. She can heal."
Slade pulled his katana, and threw it straight at me, I quickly dodged it by pulling my chest backward. Then he dropped his rifle and stared into space. Trying to find us. My heart was pounding. How did Oliver beat this guy? And who was this Guy next to me? We were hiding behind a dumpster filled of scrap metal.
"Calm down." He said, "I can hear your heart beating."
Deathstroke turned his eye to me. "Shit."
"Do always curse like that?"
"I never notice."
"Huh."
"Who are you?" I asked. He stood up and he stood up and started to shoot. Deathstroke's body recoiled as the bullets hit his body, but he just kept going forward. 2, then 8 bullet hit his body, and finally the man's guns finally ran out. Shit.
"Okay, Flash, I need you to get the sniper rifle, and shoot Deathstroke."
"What! I'm not killing him."
He mumbled something I couldn't hear.
"I'm not going to kill him."
"You have to, or he'll kill us." The man said "it's kill or be killed." He yelled in my face,
I looked at the sniper rifle behind Deathstroke,
"Okay here's the deal, I'll distract Slade, while you shoot."
"But this close the bullet might go through him."
"Not these bullets, Amanda Waller has particular bullets when it comes to assassinations." He got up and took out a bow staff.
Slade grabbed the guy by the neck and just threw him down on the floor. "Now Flash!"
I ran fast, and stopped, and pointed the gun at Slade. I turned off the safety, and shot. Slade's body flew across the room, and his blood covered his whole back. "He's not dead, but the bullet counteracts the Mirakuru in his system so it will take him a few days to fully recover." His fists tightened he wanted to kill him.
My "friend" looked out the window and saw a kid walk into the center, alive. He smiled
S.T.A.R. LABS------------>
"Okay I saved your life now tell me who you are."
"Actually it was my plan that saved both our asses." He smiled. "Look Barry,"
I hesitated "You know who I am?"
"It's one to know one." He sat down on Cisco's chair, swirled around.
I stopped him. "You're going to tell me who you are before I'm going to--"
"What?" He lifted his eyebrows, stubbornly, "kill me? Barry Allen doesn't kill." He smiled stubbornly "and I didn't do anything wrong, so you can't put me in the thing little prison you have down stairs." He started to laugh. "Fine, if you take off you mask I'll tell you everything you wanna know."
I did cautiously. "There."
"Okay Deal's a Deal."
His name is Agent Dick Grayson, He's from a organization called Spyral.
"What's Spyral?"
"I can't tell you that."
"This is ridiculous. What can you tell me then?"
"Look Barry, I'm on your side. Okay, I'm not a mole or anything. You gotta trust me."
HOSPITAL------------------------>
I told Dick to Stay in the lobby.
I quickly went back to the hospital to see if Caitlin woke up. I changed fast in the bathroom before anyone could see me.
"You're kidding me?" Cisco laughed "he's a Spy."
I went into Caitlin's room and nothing has changed, she was asleep, I went close to her and shuffled her hair under her ear. "You don't know how much I want to kiss you right now or even to hold you."
I lightly touched her face, her pale face. I just wanted to kiss her. But my heart was just goddamn scared.

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