AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is an alternate universe Flash story. I got the idea for this story while reading a story where Caitlin and Barry met and dated before the particle accelerator exploded. And then when I was watching season 3, I was struck with the idea of Caitlin developing her powers and remaining good. So I decided to combine the two ideas. In this story Caitlin and Barry meet and date before the particle accelerator explosion, and then while Barry is in coma, Caitlin gets her powers and learns to control them, becoming a superhero. Her superhero costume will be the same as her Killer Frost outfit in season 3, only she will wear a light-blue frosted mask to cover her face. All for purposes of this story, she will have the ability to change her skin tone back and forth, meaning when she's using her powers fully, she will be pale-skinned with blue-eyes and white hair, while the rest of the time her skin tone, hair, and eyes will be normal.

Just to be clear, Barry will still become The Flash. It's just that Caitlin would already be a superhero herself for about four to five months before he wakes up, and has been known to the public for about two months. Then instead of becoming the main hero himself, Caitlin will start off as the main hero with The Flash becoming her partner when he wakes up. Also this will not be a straight up rewrite of the series. Some events of the show will still be included, but a lot of things will be completely rewritten. I'll also be including characters from all three seasons of the show as well as some from Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow.

The major thing you need to know is that there have been three different versions of Harrison Wells in the show, one for each season. (Well four if you count the original Earth-1 Harrison Wells who appeared in a flashback episode in season 1.) For clarity's sake, I have decided that the main Harrison Wells will be the Earth-2 version. He will also have a twin brother named Henry who goes by the nickname HR, who as you guessed will be the Earth-19 version. He will be in charge of advertising and public relations at STAR Labs. Eobard Thawne, who was disguised as Wells in Season 1, will retain his real face and go by the alias of Samuel Rosen and will be Harrison's business partner.

I don't think they ever mentioned who Jesse's mother was, so I'm going to make it Tess Morgan, who was the real Earth-1 Harrison Wells' wife before the both of them were murdered by the Reverse-Flash. Also for those readers who don't watch Legends of Tomorrow, Lily Stein is Professor Stein's daughter. She only appeared briefly on The Flash in the Invasion crossover.

Finally I got the name of this story from Write-To-You's Ice Master story where Caitlin, Barry, and Cisco discuss superhero names for Caitlin. prankprincess23 originally came up with the name.

Central City- 2012

Barry Allen wandered around the bar feeling nervous. Bar hopping wasn't really his thing, but he had promised his father that he would try to get out more and meet new people, so he decided to check out the new bar called Scientific Method.

It was a new bar that had opened up only a week ago, and was designed specifically to cater to the scientists. A lot of world-renowned scientists were flocking to the city, to meet with Doctors Harrison Wells and Tess Morgan-Wells about the particle accelerator they were building. If it worked as predicted, it would provide limitless, safe, clean energy for all of Central City. People were speculating that if all went well, there would be a particle accelerator in every major city in the world within ten to fifteen years, and that had sent STAR Labs stocks skyrocketing.

But what really interested the scientists, was the potential for knowledge to be uncovered. The knowledge gained from the particle accelerator had the potential to propel the human race forward by centuries. They could gain untold knowledge about the laws of physics. But Barry pushed that out of his mind for now. The particle accelerator wasn't due to be completed for another six months to a year, so instead Barry focused on the bar around him. He had promised his father he would try to make new friends, so he would.

Ever since his mother was killed and his father went to prison, Barry had been a loner. Everyone at school knew what had happened, and having no one believe him when he said that his father didn't kill his mother was hard. The only people he was close to these days, were Joe West, his adoptive father and Iris West, his adoptive sister-slash-girl who he had a crush on since forever. But both were out of the country right now.

Joe was off somewhere in Europe, unreachable, as he was undercover helping some foreign police force. Barry didn't have all the details, but he was pursuing a criminal that he had caught in Central City a decade ago, but was extradited to France, because he killed the children of several prominent French politicians including the daughter of the French president. Then there was an earthquake near the prison, and he managed to escape and was once again killing the children of European politicians. He had no idea when Joe would be back. And Iris was also overseas having qualified for an overseas exchange program for her final year in college.

But Barry quickly pushed those thoughts out of his mind and instead tried to focus on the here and now. He was here to try and make some new friends, the only problem was he was so out of practice he didn't have any idea how. He was so caught up in his thoughts, he nearly bumped into someone. The person, who was a woman, barely dodged out of the way in time, though it did cause her to spill her drink on the floor.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Barry said. "Are you OK?"

"I'm fine." the woman said.

Barry noticed the woman was about 5'7, had chestnut brown hair and was very pretty.

"I'm so sorry." Barry said again. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

"It's OK." the woman said. "No harm done."

"Still let me buy you another drink." Barry said.

"Sure." the woman replied. "I'm Caitlin Snow, by the way."

"Barry Allan." he introduced himself, as the two head back to the bar. After Barry ordered Caitlin another drink, he turned back to her. "So do you come here often?"

"Do I come here often?" Caitlin asked, half-amused, half-annoyed. "Really could you come up with a lamer pick-up line? The bar only opened a week ago."

"No, no." Barry said. "I wasn't trying a lame pick-up line. The truth is I'm not the most socially adept person and I don't have that many friends."

At this the woman laughed again. "I'm not either." Caitlin says. "I was never very popular in school. I was referred to as the know-it-all girl. The one who always got straight As and perfect scores on every test. I actually graduated high school at 14."

"Wow!" Barry said. "That's really impressive."

"Thank you." Caitlin replied. "Graduating high school so young, meant I had several doctorates by the time I turned 20."

"I was a bit of a nerd in high school too." Barry said. "I suppose if I really wanted to, I could have graduated high school early. But my parents wanted me to try and have a normal life as far as possible. They wanted me to try to hang around people my own age and make friends, but that didn't really work out." Barry avoided mentioning that, by parents he meant his father who was in prison, and his adoptive father who had taken him in after his own father went to prison. His father had vehemently reminded him that the first thing you did when meeting a new person was not tell them that your father was in prison for murdering your mother.

"Well I didn't make friends that easily, either." Caitlin said. "It wasn't until I started working at STAR Labs, that I made my first real friends. I actually met two other people there who had also graduated high school that young."

"You work at STAR Labs?" Barry asked. "What do you do there?"

"I'm a bio-engineer." Caitlin replied. "I work on developing cures and medicines for diseases. I'm also a trained neuro-surgeon."

"So do you know Dr. Wells?" Barry asked.

"Yes." Caitlin replied. "In fact he was the one who personally recruited me after I graduated college. He said he saw my potential and offered me a position right away. In the three years I've been there, I've been promoted several times and am now only one step away from heading my own team. In fact I just submitted an idea for a new project. If all goes well I may have my own team within the next month."

"That's really impressive." Barry says.

"So what do you do?" Caitlin asks.

"My job isn't nearly as interesting." Barry replies. "I'm a crime scene investigator for CCPD."

"Well that sounds interesting." Caitlin says. "Do you catch many bad guys?"

"Some." Barry says. "The police do most of the legwork. But my analyzing the clues left at the scenes give them new leads. My adoptive father is actually a police officer."

"So is that why you decided to become a CSI?" Caitlin asks. "To help him."

"Not exactly." Barry says. "It's kind of a long and depressing story. One I don't really want to go into."

"OK." Caitlin says. "So tell me about what you do at work."

"Well, I analyze crime scenes." Barry says. "Which you probably figured out from the job description. I look for DNA samples, fingerprints, and any other evidence that can lead to finding out who committed crimes. Just last week, using evidence I gathered off a victim, I was able to locate the area where a serial killer was hiding. The police was able to find and arrest him because of that."

"Wait, do you mean Toby Housin?" Caitlin asks.

"Yes." Barry says.

"I read about his capture in the paper." Caitlin said. "He's been murdering business men all over the country. He eluded the police in 22 states. You must be really good to manage to find him."

"I just got lucky." Barry says, then turns away, uneasy.

"What's wrong?" Caitlin asks. "You're not used to people praising you?"

"Not really." Barry says. "I work in for the police and am one of the most science-oriented people there. Sometimes while finding evidence, I go into long-winded technical explanations that no one really follows."

"I know the feeling." Caitlin says. "I don't have that problem at work for the most part, but sometimes when I go into detailed explanations about the projects I'm working on for HR, he gets a bit annoyed. He tells me I need to make it simpler for the general public to understand."

"HR?" Barry asks.

"Henry Wells." Caitlin says. "He goes by the nickname of HR."

"Oh right, Harrison Wells' twin brother." Barry says. "He's the head of marketing at STAR Labs, right?"

"Right." Caitlin says. "Well he's always telling the scientists to try to remember to speak more plainly when explaining our projects to non-scientists. The truth is with so many geniuses working at STAR LABS, it's easy to forget sometimes that not everyone holds multiple doctorates and can't follow us when we go into long-winded scientific explanations."

"Yeah I need to try and remember that too." Barry says. "At least most of your coworkers are scientists and will understand what you say, but I work mainly with cops who get real annoyed with me when going into 'long-winded scientific explanations'."

At this Caitlin laughs. "Well since you're acquainted with so many non-scientists, what do they think of the particle accelerator?" she asks. "There are mixed reports on the news shows I watch, so what do the people you work with think of it?"

"Well, a lot of the officers are excited about it, and if all the talk about it providing unlimited clean energy is true and that every major city in the world would want to build one then it would bring a lot of revenue to our city, as Central City would be the hub of this new venture like Dr. Wells and Dr. Morgan have repeatedly stated their intention to keep Central City of this new venture." Barry says. "But they're also concerned."

"About what?" Caitlin asks.

"Well, it is a new technology." Barry says. "And with that, there are some who fear that something could go wrong and cause a catastrophe. Even if it doesn't, I'm sure you're aware that there have already been some major protests outside STAR Labs. They're small for now, but they'll probably really intensify when the accelerator gets closer to coming online. That leads to the increased chance of violence. And the protests may not stop even after it goes online, with people fearing that even though it was working so far, something still could go horribly wrong."

"I know." Caitlin says. "All the employees at the lab have had meetings with security about the potential for violence."

Then Caitlin pauses for a moment. "But still we're at a bar, we're supposed to be having fun." Caitlin says, taking a sip of her drink. "The truth is, I haven't had a night out in ages. A few of my friends from work practically forced me to come here. They told me to come out, relax, forget about work, drink, and maybe pick up a handsome guy to have meaningless sex with."

At this Barry starts to choke on the sip of the drink he had taken.

"Um, I didn't mean you." Caitlin says, blushing bright red. "Not that I don't think that you're handsome. You definitely are. I mean if I was going to pick a handsome guy to have sex with you would definitely top the list... OK, I have had way too much to drink."

Barry quickly finishes his drink as he tries to push the thoughts that she had put in his head out of his mind. While Barry wasn't a virgin, he had had limited success with the members of the opposite sex and his longest relationship had lasted only three weeks.

"Can we just forget about that last part of the conversation and start over?" Caitlin asks.

"Sure." Barry says, trying to come up with a safer topic. "So tell me about what it was like going to college at fourteen?"

"Well, my birthday is in September, so I was only 14 for a couple of days." Caitlin says, recovering from the embarrassment of what she had just said. "I suppose the distinction doesn't matter that much, but when I actually was 14-15, it seemed like a bigger deal. But anyway, college wasn't as bad as high school. It was an ivy league school, and I was the youngest one there. Most of the students were impressed that I had managed to get there so young. I even made a couple of friends. I wasn't allowed to any of the parties, though, so that sucked. But occasionally a couple of the women I dormed with took me out to suitable places to party."

With that Caitlin and Barry spent the next couple of hours talking about their college experiences.

Both Barry and Caitlin had a couple more drinks to relax them. Caitlin having already had a few before meeting Barry, was a bit tipsy upon standing up. "Wo. Now I know I definitely had too many." she said.

"Are you OK?" Barry asks.

"I need to go to the bathroom." Caitlin says. "Watch my purse for me."

"Sure thing." Barry says just before she walks off.

A few minutes later, Caitlin returned and looked at her watch. "Crap, it's already past midnight. It's a good thing tomorrow or actually today is Sunday, so I don't have to go to work."

"I already ordered a taxi." Barry says. "Apparently the bar here gives you the option to order one while paying your bill as a means to discourage drunk driving. If you don't live in the opposite direction of my place, we could share it."

Caitlin looks around and sees her co-workers in the distance. "No, I see my friends over there." Caitlin says. "We brought a designated driver, so we'll be fine."

"Well, that's good." Barry replies, then gets up to leave. "It's been nice meeting you."

"It's been nice meeting you too." Caitlin says, then hands Barry a piece of paper. "This is my phone number. If you want to hang out again sometime give me a call."

"Sure, maybe I will." Barry says, and puts the piece of paper in his pocket. He then turns to leave and it was only after he had gotten in the taxi that he realized he had spent the entire night talking to a beautiful young woman without making a fool of himself and that she had actually given him her phone number.

After Caitlin said goodbye to Barry, she turned back to her friends Cisco Ramon, Lily Stein, and Tess Morgan-Wells. "Hey guys." Caitlin says. "Where were you guys? You decide to ditch me?"

"Who ditched who?" Cisco asks, teasing.

"Yeah." Lily says, smiling. "I didn't notice you looking at us at all as you talked that hottie."

At this Caitlin blushes a bit. "Come on, it's not like that." Caitlin says. "It's just that we clicked a bit."

"I think you clicked more than a bit." her boss, Tess teases. "You were talking to him for over three hours. And I also saw you slipping him a piece of paper. I assume it was your phone number."

"Oh you gave him your phone number?" Lily says. "If I were you, I'd have just taken him home. But a phone number is the next best option."

At this Caitlin blushes. "OK, so he is handsome." Caitlin says. "But I'm just not the-meet-a-guy and take-him-home-girl. I tried that once and it was a huge disaster. Besides I haven't seen you pick up any guys."

"True, but I do go on dates occasionally." Lily says. "Your last date was what a year and a half ago?"

"I've just been busy with work." Caitlin defends.

"Honey, we've all been busy with work." Tess says. "Don't use that as an excuse. My husband and I managed to build a successful multi-billion dollar tech company from scratch and still manage to find time to have and raise a daughter. We had far more work than you, and still didn't miss a single one of Jesse's school plays or softball games."

"Alright! Alright." Caitlin says, throwing her hands up in surrender. "I get you. I'll try to make more time for fun in the future."

"Yeah." Lily says, with a glint in her eye. "And maybe you'll get to have another chance with Mr. tall, dark, and handsome."

"He was pretty handsome." Caitlin says, considering. "And I found talking to him to be easy. Who knows maybe he does have boyfriend potential."

"OK, that's enough." Cisco says, throwing up his hands. "How did you rope me into coming into your girl's night out, anyway?"

"You didn't get roped in." Tess says. "You overheard us saying we needed a designated driver and you volunteered."

"Oh right." Cisco says.

"Hey don't look so down." Caitlin says. "We'll make it up to you? You're always saying you wanted to host a movie marathon? How about next week the three of us come to your apartment and you can show us some movies?"

"Sure thing." Cisco says, cheering up. "I have the perfect movie picked up. And who knows maybe you can invite that guy you met as well."

"Don't you start too." Caitlin warns him.

At this Tess laughs. "I can also invite Jesse and HR." she says.

"What about your husband?" Caitlin asks. "When is he due back in town?"

"Not for another two weeks." Tess says. "This is the longest we've been apart since we've been married. But the European press tour is vital. I wanted to go with him but one of us has to say here at all times to deal with the particle accelerator construction."

"That's brutal." Caitlin says.

"Well, Harry promised to take me on a long second honeymoon once the accelerator is online and it has been running for two weeks." Tess says.

"Yeah, but that won't be until sometime next year." Caitlin replies.

"I know." Tess says. "But other than our Christmas trip to Vermont, when everyone has off, we can't really afford to take any time off. One of the downsides of being the boss."

With that the group from STAR Labs heads off, unaware of the figure who had been watching them.

"Sorry Tess, but you'll never make it to your second honeymoon." the mystery figure says as he watches them leave. "You should enjoy Christmas with your family, because it will be your last."