We walk in the door to Joe's house and I sigh happily. It's been a week since Dawn woke up; she healed fast thanks to that miracle drug. When I told her that her new foster parent was Joe she almost started to cry.

"So I think Joe said that you can have Iris's old room. It's on the bottom floor," I say as we walk in. Dawn is carrying the small bag of all her clothes. She walks a few feet away from me then stumbles. I speed over to her and catch her before she hits the ground.

"Sorry," she says. "I'm still having trouble with my feet."

"Hey don't be sorry. You were kinda in a coma last week." She sets her bag down on the stairs. I walk into the living room and sit on the leather couch. I exhale letting myself sink back into the cushion. Dawn sits next to me and does the same.

"You hungry?" I ask. She turns her head towards me, giving me an almost annoyed expression.

"Always," she answers as if I should just know that. And I do, but I thought it would be polite to ask anyways. I'm about to ask what she wants but I know the answer to that too. As soon as she blinks I run; out the door, down the street, passed the speeding cars which look like they are going in slow motion. I feel the wind whipping past my face as my make my way down the freeway. Miles and miles fly by until I reach coast city's most famous pizza place. I leave twenty bucks in the cash register and grab a pizza off the counter. Then with out a moment's hesitation I race back to the house. I set the pizza down on the medium sized coffee table and turn on the TV.

"Yes!" Dawn says, a smile planted wide across her face. Then she hesitates and narrows her eyes at me. "Are there onions on it?"

I laugh at her sheepish tone. "Of course."

She smiles and we open the box and start to eat. Around her third piece of pizza Dawn sighs.

"What?" I ask.

"I have to go back to school tomorrow," she says.

"So? You already know everything that the teachers tell you. It should be super easy." She groans and leans back in the couch.

"That's the problem, Barry. It's so boring. When I'm at STAR Labs I'm always learning new things. When I'm at school I learn nothing that I don't already know."

"Wait you actually learn things at the lab? I thought you knew everything," I say stunned. Well I know she doesn't know everything, but she knows more than me.

"I don't know everything. Cisco is always teaching me about certain tech and Caitlin teaches me stuff I don't know about being a doctor; at school I learn what a cell is. Frankly it's a little insulting." I laugh. Then I realize she is twiddling her thumbs like she does when she is thinking. I arc my head in her direction and raise my eyebrows. She looks up at me with her eyes and her face is a mask of obscurity.

"So what is really the matter?" I ask. She looks down at her hands.

"Mass," she mumbles quietly. I try to keep a straight face but I can't help the small chuckle that falls between my lips. Dawn smiles and laughs as well.

"I'm being serious, Dawn. What's going on." She sighs throws her head back.

"I'm pretty smart. Second smartest in the world actually," she says. I nod, knowingly. "Well, the reason I am so smart is because I have remembered everything since I was a child.

"I remember walking home in the dark, upset." Her hands start to shake. I put my hand on her shoulder but she waves it off. I can't tell if she is upset with me or if recalling the events just makes her upset. She continues to talk.

"Then I saw the headlights and-"

My phone rings interrupting Dawn's story. I hate to answer it but it's Cisco.

The text reads:

Emergency, get here now.

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I tell Dawn to stay behind but she refuses again. We dash to STAR Labs and into the cortex. There we see the scene. Cisco, Caitlin, and Jesse are standing on one side of the room looking frightened and on the other side of the room stands an old enemy of mine and his sister.

"Leonard Snart." I say with a hint of malice in my voice.

"Barry Allen" He says in his cold voice. He is one of the only villains that actually know my secret identity. I look over at Lisa, his sister. She looks different than she did the last time I saw her; she is pale and her eyes are a bit glassy.

"Wait," says Dawn, taking a step forward. I look back at Cisco and Caitlin who haven't said a word and they look just as stunned at Dawn's outburst as I am. The smile on Dawn's face was a little disquieting. This guy is a murderer and a thief and she is delighted to meet him? "Leonard Snart? As in Captain Cold, Leonard Snart?"

"Always happy to meet a fan," he says in his slow voice. "And you must be Dawn, Barry's foster sister."

"How do you know her?" I ask defensively, pulling Dawn towards me. I spot Snart's cold gun in his hand give Dawn a cautious look. I am still curios why he is here.

"I heard about that bus that squashed her like a pancake. How did she heal so fast anyways?" he says with a smirk. His comment makes my temper rise to about one hundred and I run at him full speed. I am almost to him when I feel a force of cold push me back and on to the ground. The cold seeps into my skin, stabbing my side. I let out a small cry.

"What do you want Cold?" I ask trying to swallow the pain that increases with every second.

"You see, Lisa over here has a rare lung cancer that has spread basically everywhere in her body. Mercury labs has a cure for her type of cancer but they won't release it to the public. Ever. So my original plan was to steal it. But then I realized that even I can't break into a facility with that much security and that the only way to get the cure that will save my sister's life is to get in and out without anyone seeing me. The only person that can do that is you, Flash."

"I am not stealing for you!" I shout. My side is still burning and it's getting hard to breath. Dawn comes to my side and kneels down so she is eye level with me.

"Barry, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reason. Look at her; she is dying." Dawn seems so genuine that I almost agree with her then.

"Why should she be entitled to have a cure when someone else could?"

"Why was I?" Dawn has a point. We gave her a cure that we won't give anyone else.

"That's different," I say. "The speed cure we gave you is too dangerous to give anyone else."

"If that was me," Dawn says pointing to Lisa, "And you knew there was a cure, would you steal it to save my life?"

"Yes but-" Dawn cuts me off.

"No buts." Then she lowers her voice down to a whisper. "Snart is watching his family die. You know better than anyone that no one should have to go through that." I nod.

"We'll do it," Dawn says to Snart.

"I'll get the med room ready," Caitlin says hesitantly. Then Snart walks over to his sister and grabs her shoulders.

"I'll be back soon. They are going to take care of you okay?" Lisa nods and her brother kisses her forehead then leaves. Cisco leads Lisa into the other room. I groan at the pain in my side and Dawn comes back over to me with a towel. She starts to scrape the ice off my shirt that bores into my skin.

"I didn't know that Snart could show affection," I say, jokingly. She gives me a cold glare.

"What?" I ask.

"I cannot believe that you weren't going to help her!" Her anger and disappointment towards me is palpable.

"He is a murderer!"

"He is a person!" Her tone is so scary that I forget about the pain in my side for a moment. Suddenly I feel a surge of guilt roll over me like a freight car. Snart might be a bad person on the outside but on the inside he is just like me or Dawn; he is a person with a soul. I look through the glass wall and into the other room where Lisa is sitting on a bed, coughing. Then I remember the feeling of helplessness I had when Dawn was dying. I wont let anyone else feel like that, not even Leonard Snart.

Dawn removes the last of the ice from my skin and helps me up, then I limp over to a chair with Dawn's help and sit. I lift my shirt on one side to reveal a large spot of bruised flesh. I look up to see Dawn's pitiful face. "I'm sorry," she says. I don't know what she means at first but then my thoughts are interrupted when my side burns to the point where my head starts to spin. I look down and see that Dawn has pressed an extremely hot towel against my frigid skin. I try biting my lips to keep from screaming but it doesn't work. You know when you jump into a really cold pool and then jump into a hot tub and your feet sting so bad that you feel like getting out? Well imagine that but a million times worse. Blurry spots appear in my vision right before she takes the hot towel off. The relief is almost instant and I sigh gratefully.

"Ow," I say in between breaths. I lean my head against Dawn's shoulder.

"Sorry, your cells were dead. I had to jump start your mitochondria. Caitlin should still take a look at you though." I nod.

"She's busy," I say side tracked by my thoughts.

"I know. Are you okay? I mean besides your frozen skin."

"No."

"Talk to me," Dawn says, pulling a chair so she is sitting in front of me. I don't feel like arguing so I just spill out all my problems at once.

"It's just that I can't deal with all the stress of being The Flash anymore. There are so many people who need saving and I can't get to them all. And now I might have to do something really bad but I can't help it because it might be the right thing to do but then again it might not be the right thing to do and ugh, I just don't know how to deal with it." My words come out fast and stringy. I don't know what I expect Dawn's reaction to be like but when I look up she is just nodding her head.

"Have you ever been to Southern California?" She asks. What?

"The reason I ask is because last year I was put in a foster home right on the beach. Nice people, lots of money. Well anyways, everyday I would look over the ocean and see this island. Catalina Island. Now it wasn't very far away, it was probably two or three hours from the harbor by my house. I always wanted to go there but there isn't an airport on the island so the only way to get there is by a boat. Now that's not that big of a deal except the day my foster family decided to go out was a very stormy day; lots of waves. About a little over half way there it started to get super windy and the waves were getting huge. I thought that we were all going to die, but then after our boat went over the last wave, I saw a yellow sun and a bright blue sky. And right under that sky was a beautiful island full of color.

"The point is, what you are feeling right now? This decision? It's just a massive wave in a sea of perils. After you overcome all the waves, there is a beautiful island waiting for you. And trust me, you will get through the waves."

I give Dawn in the biggest hug known to mankind. "You're right," I say. "You are too smart for school."