Chapter 2
Astrid led Cisco to the Warriors bar. "It's just so cool that I can drink now!" She said excitedly as she looked at the drinks menu. "I'll have..."
"Two cokes, minus the alcohol!" Cisco ordered of the bartender.
"What? No!" she told him. Nonetheless, she took her drink and the two of them went to find a table.
"Why would you do that?" she snapped at him.
"Because you're not in your right mind," he replied.
"I am too... I'm just having fun! You used to be all for having fun... what changed? Since when did you become so serious?" she pestered.
"We grew up. I still have fun... and you do too. But right now we need to focus on getting you better!"
"I'm not sick, Cisco."
"No, but... You are in a way... It's like that movie Freaky Friday. You are currently in the mind of your childhood self." Cisco tried to explain in a way that she would understand.
"Oh my god, really?" Astrid asked him, grasping the concept... "Does that mean I have a kid? Oh god no!"
"No, Astrid, you don't! ... that's not where I was going... but... " Cisco replied.
"Wow, I must be boring... screw that! So, why are we sitting in a bar if you're not going to let me drink?" she asked him.
"Beats me!" he replied.
"Well, I need to use the restroom... so I will be back in a minute." She said with a smile.
"Sure," he replied. She left and he sat down staring at his own drink, hoping that this selective amnesia would not last. Soon enough, he looked at the time. She had been ten minutes. He decided to call her.
"Astrid, where are you?" he asked her, knowing that she had pulled one of her old tricks, and slipped out.
"Sorry, Cis. Can't hear you. I'll call you back, later." Astrid said as she hung up on him.
Cisco breached back to STAR Labs to inform the rest of the group of what had happened.
"You lost her?" Harry snapped.
"You don't get it! She used her old 'I'm going to the bathroom' excuse! What did you expect me to do? Follow her in?" Cisco snapped back.
"She is an unstable telepathic meta-human who has lost her mind and insists on having fun... You're the one who always claims to know her the best... and now Amunet has escaped from prison... and if Barry's news is correct, she is hiring metas to work for her... So, you tell me what you should have done!" Harry snapped back
"You guys! Can we just stop arguing?" Barry asked them, "I will do a scan throughout Central City, starting with Astrid's house. Frost can go meet up with Amunet to ensure that she hasn't found Astrid... and that she won't find her. We can't lose our heads!"
"Barry's right. I'll keep an eye on Amunet! Astrid will be fine!" Frost said as she had taken over Caitlin's body. Frost and Barry left without another word.
Cisco sighed, "I'll run through the surveillance footage of Central City... see what I can come up with!"
"Good start!" Harry said, as he walked back towards his office and closed the door, hoping that DR Fate would make an appearance. Unfortunately, he didn't.
"Still no sign of her." Barry replied as he returned back to STAR labs a few hours later, where he found Cisco willing himself to get a vibe of where she was.
"Still no luck, here either." Cisco said. He was concerned for her as it was getting late, "Her mirror-verse self, did say once that she could make herself undetectable... I'm wondering if that's what she has done, because she didn't want to be found."
Suddenly, Cisco's phone began to ring. He looked at Barry, absolutely surprised as to who it was.
"Oliver, hey!" Cisco said answering the phone.
"Cisco, what is going on with Astrid, right now?" Oliver asked on the other end.
"That... is a long story... how much time do you have?"
"Not enough, I'm afraid... She sent out an alert... apparently she is throwing, in her words 'a wild party' at her house. I can't make it, as I have a crisis here in Star City... but, she doesn't really sound like Astrid."
Cisco finished his call. "She's holding a party at her house!" Cisco said to Barry.
They both laughed at the irony. "Okay, let's go get her." Barry said, as the two of them made their way to her place.
When they arrived at her house, they were met with the sight of drunk party goers and loud music. Leonard Snart and Mick Rory were standing by her front door.
"She invited the two of you?" Barry asked them, "I didn't think that she knew you in high school!"
"She didn't know us, but she knew Sara..." Leonard said, "...and ever since we all did that mission together in Detroit, we've all sort of been banding together with other missions..."
"The princess asked Sara to attend her party," Mick grumbled, "...Sara asked for our help to deal with her."
"So, Sara knows what's going on with Astrid?" Cisco asked them.
"I'm not so sure... she knows that the heiress is a little out of sorts," Snart replied.
"Okay," Barry replied, "You can stay... provided you don't steal anything..."
"We won't!" Leonard replied. "Sara and Astrid are inside, just so you know."
"Thanks." Barry and Cisco both replied.
They managed to make their way into the dining room where they found Astrid heavily drinking and dancing on the dining table, surrounded by a large crowd of people.
Sara was trying to talk her into coming down.
"Astrid, you're going to hurt yourself... you need to come down, right now!" Sara called to her.
"Woo! Sara, you should be up here with me! Come on, girl!" Astrid said with a grin as she drank down the entire contents of her beer and tried to pull Sara up on to the table with her, moving her hips at the same time.
Sara was tempted to go up and dance, but just as she was about to, Cisco and Barry arrived.
"Astrid Sutherland... get that butt of yours down here, right now!" Cisco yelled at her.
"Uh oh! Busted! Would you come up and dance with me, Cisco? You know you want to..." Astrid said with a grin, he grabbed a hold of her and took her down off the table. She gave him a big hug. "I missed you, my sweet Cisco!" she said nuzzling into him.
"She's drunk!" Sara had to yell out due to the loud music, "So, what's going on here? And why is Astrid acting and looking like she did in high school?"
"She's suffering from amnesia!" Barry called out. But Sara couldn't hear him. Barry ran and turned off the music, then demanded that everyone leave immediately. Which frustrated the guests, but they left all the same.
"So, I was saying..." Barry said, now that he could hear himself speak, "Astrid awoke from a coma and she is suffering from some sort of selective amnesia. Caitlin believes that its her minds way of protecting herself from the hard truths that she has had to deal with over the past few years."
"Does she still have her powers?" Sara asked.
"I sure do," Astrid said letting go of Cisco. "I know that Sara has been... Wow, travelling through time... man, that is so cool! Just as I know that Barry is annoyed at me and that... Oh no... you're annoyed at me too, Cisco."
"Travelling through time?" Cisco asked Sara, but then he refocused his attention on to Astrid. "I'm not annoyed... just concerned."
She stared at him intently, "Okay... I am a little annoyed." He told her, "Barry and I should be protecting Central City, but instead we have to run around looking after you and being concerned about where you are and what you're doing at every given moment."
"Well, don't bother then!" Astrid snapped back at him. She stormed up the steps with him close behind, trying to calm her down.
"I should probably clean this place up." Barry said, looking around at the messy house.
"Here, let me help." Sara replied, but just as she picked up a cup, Barry had already finished cleaning up the entire house and had a plastic bag ready for Sara to put the cup into. She placed the empty cup into the bag.
Astrid entered her bedroom, just as Cisco followed in behind her. "Of course I'm going to look after you, as much as you annoy me." He told her.
"Yeah... because, that's all I am... just a chore to you, Cisco Ramon! You said yourself that you should be protecting Central City, so go and do it!" She snapped at him.
"Is that what you think?" he asked her, "girl, you clearly don't listen to anything do you? You're so stubborn, and you're so bossy and you know how I feel about you... Even though you've lost your memories, I know that you still know how I feel about you."
Astrid pouted. "You're right, I know how you feel about me. I always have, I've just ignored it. Just as I've always ignored how I feel about you... And I know that now, you and I are together at this point in our life and that's why you're annoyed at me. You feel that being with me, right now, in my room would be taking advantage of me... but, it wouldn't be. So, my bed's right there... let's go! Let's have some fun, my sweet Cisco!"
Cisco stared at her bed, he hadn't realized that they were standing in her room until then. He didn't say anything.
She came up and kissed him, "Maybe, I should buy that Princess Leia slave outfit..." she said to him in a hushed whisper as she continued to kiss him.
"Man, I need a gold medal for will power..." he said under his breath, he held her back by her shoulders. "Sara!" he called out, loudly. "Can you come here, please?"
Sara and Barry arrived and looked at them. "Sara... it's your job to babysit... and don't let her out of your sight for a minute!" Cisco said, as he stormed out of the room in a huff. Barry followed close behind him.
Astrid went to follow, but Sara held her back. "Those guys think that I have nothing better to do than to babysit!" Sara said under her breath, just in time for Leonard and Mick to arrive.
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