~ Jitters ~

Sophia and Ronnie are on a date catching up on what's happened while he was gone.

"Sounds like you've had some crazy times." Ronnie laughed with her.

"Yeah, we have... you sure have missed a lot." She said.

"But I'm here now and I'm never letting you go," He said and laced his hands with hers.

"I was thinking we could leave town. Start fresh somewhere and have a safe normal life." He suggests.

"Our lives are here. My job is here." She says.

"Yeah, hunting metahumans." He argues.

"There's more to it than that." She defends. "Plus My family is here and my friends are here I can't just leave them."

"Sophie, I'm not mad at anyone, okay. I know the accelerator explosion was an accident but that building took a year of our lives... I don't want it to take anymore I want you to be safe and staying at S.T.A.R. Labs isn't." He looks into her eyes pleading for her to see reason.

Sophia was about to say more when she notices faint red dots circling on Ronnie's chest.

"Ronnie, get down!" She warns.

He ducks pulling her down with him just as the fireworks of bullets start unloading.

"Get out of here!" Ronnie pleads, ushering her away from the chaos towards the exit.

"No! Not without you!" Sophia begs.

"I'm right behind you... GO!"

~ S.T.A.R. Labs ~

Barry screamed in excruciating pain.

"You need to hurry... Barry's wounds are starting to heal..."

Barry turned his head and winced in pain as Caitlin pulled another needle out of his chest.

"...with the fragments still under his skin." Wells finished instructing.

"It's like that time I stepped on a sea urchin." Cisco mused. Barry sent him a look. "Except much worse."

"Just don't pee on me." Barry groaned.

"You know that's a myth, right?"

She ripped another barb out and he screamed. Caitlin bit her lip to keep it from trembling and rested her fingers lightly on his forearm.

"I'm so stupid. Jason Rush, that grad student who was helping Professor Stein, do research, told me that he felt like he was being watched all the time. It was Eiling that was watching him!" Sophia said.

"This is not your fault. He still thinks you're the keys to the ultimate human weapon... both of you." Dr. Wells voices.

"Okay let's just finish this... I have to get back to Professor Stein's house. Eling's going to be after him too." Barry breathes as he inhales a deep breath.

"Stein's fine," Ronnie mutters.

"How do you know?" Cisco questions curiously.

"He's right there."

"Don't think Mr. Raymond and I are as distinctive as have hoped." Stein's voice echoed through the room.

By the time they were all out, the rest of the team had left, and Barry was reduced to a whimpering mess. Caitlin carefully placed the tin of barbs in a desk drawer and sat down on the bed next to him. "I'm sorry that hurt so much."

"I hate Eiling..." Barry winced as he shifted. "Hang on... I need to get into something more comfortable."

Lighting filled a second later, he was back on the bed, wincing and pulling his shirt down. She grabbed the hem and peered at his stomach, trying to gauge how fast the cuts were healing.

He kissed her lips softly. "Thank you. Even though it hurt like a bitch I still had you by my side to ease my pain."

"Always." She promises.

"We are quite the pair, Mr. Allen."

"Yes, we are Dr. Snow." He said twirling her around the room. "And soon too be Mrs. Allen."

"I can't wait," She said giggling.

~ Much Later ~

"No abnormal brain activity all vitals steady," Caitlin stated.

"You really think that somehow Ronnie could feel where they're keeping Stein?" Barry asked turning to Dr. Wells for answers.

"Ronnie got dizzy when the soldiers caught Stein and Stein developed Ronnie's obsession with pizza," Cisco concluded.

Barry nodded.

"I don't feel anything right now. I'm useless" Ronnie said frustrated.

"Hey... look at me. You are not useless, okay? You've got this... I believe in you." Sophia encouraged placing a hand on his bare chest.

"It's possible it's just some kind of residual connection. A temporary link to your time together." Dr. Wells added.

"Wait... I feel something." Sophia said and felt as Ronnie's chest rose up and down faster and more uneven.

"I... I'm cold." Ronnie breathed heavily.

Ronnie then screamed.

"You okay man we got you..." Cisco cooed as he held Ronnie down.

"What's happening to him his vitals are normal," Caitlin said looking at the monitors.

"Nothing's happening to him. It's happening to Professor Stein and Ronnie is feeling his pain. I was wrong their connection is not temporary it's stronger." Dr. Wells responded his voice strained.

"Water... water..." He coughed out.

Sophia watched as Cisco fumbled to hand him a glass. Immediately Ronnie grabbed the glass shattering it against the stainless steel table beside him, gripping a single shard in his hand. At the sound of the glass breaking, Caitlin and Cisco stepped back startled. Noticing what Ronnie was about to do, Sophia stepped forward, gripping at his arm, attempting to stop him from hurting himself.

"Ronnie NO!" She shouts struggling against his strength to get the glass out of his hand.

"Sophia, wait!" Barry said and gently pulled her back.

"He's cutting himself!" She cried out.

"I know. Let him." He whispered.

Nodding hesitantly she stepped back, watching on edge as Ronnie was curled covering his arm as he etched a word into his arm.

Where?

When he stopped Sophia spoke.
"Anything?"

"Nothing... nothing just cold... like a metal surface pressure on and on and off." He muttered sounding defeated.

"Tap...Tap.....Tap.....Tap...Tap...Tap. Tap. Tap."

"Morse code." Dr. Wells discovered.

"I got this," Cisco yelled stepping around the room to the computers.

"Same thing again."

"Tap...Tap.....Tap.....Tap...Tap...Tap. Tap. Tap."

"27" Cisco yelled.

"Army bases. They sometimes go by numbers like area 51." Barry signaled to Cisco.

Cisco's hands ran furiously across the keyboard, his mind and fingers narrowing down to a specific location.

"Facility no.27 located 300miles away. Shut down in 1961." He read aloud.

"That's where they're keeping, Stein," Barry called out and he went for his suit.

"Bet that's where they're keeping the aliens too," Cisco added.

As Barry went to leave, Sophia felt Ronnie shift under her hold.

"I'm coming with you." He said staggering out of bed.

"NO! You can't!" She shouted.

"He's connected to Stein. He has to go," Caitlin said.

"The world's different now. I thought we could get away... start a new life. A normal life together. But there is no normal life for us. You will always risk your life to try and help people. And I will always be the guy who'd run into the pipeline for you." Ronnie said.

"Here's the splicer. It was used to separate you once maybe it could be of use to keep you... you!" Cisco said interrupting them.

"Thanks." He sighed, offering him a final nod goodbye.

"Okay let's go," Ronnie called out to Barry.

Barry nodded, leaving the room to change into his suit. Ronnie looked at her before turning to leave. Sophia felt as his hands began to slip through her fingers.

"Wait!" Sophia called after him, curling her fingers around his hand dragging him to her. Her lips finding his. She wasn't going to make the same mistake. If this was their last time, Sophia needed to say goodbye like she hadn't been able to do the last time.

"Come back. All three of you." Sophia pleaded.

~ Stein Residence ~

Clarissa and Professor Stein were kind enough to have left Sophia and Ronnie some time by themselves to say goodbye.

"Where will you go? She whispered.

"Metropolis. Professor Stein has a friend there that could help us understand more about our abilities."

"It's okay. I understand. You have to go." She gave him a weak smile.

"I'm coming back. I promise, Sophie," Ronnie said and kisses her goodbye passionately.

"Ready Ronald," said Professor Stein.

"Please stop calling me that."

They stepped out to the front of the house. Ronnie turned on the splicer and they turned into Firestorm.

"We love you," Firestorm said and flew into the sky.