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istoleyoursnacks · 3 years ago

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Brunch Time!

I’m posting this on a Saturday night, but it doesn’t matter! Any day is great for brunch, but Sunday brunch is the best, right? Whether you're making the yummy foodies to wake up both yourself and your family (or just yourself like me!), Or if you happen to treat yourself by going out for an omelette, a skillet, or even eggs and pancakes! But a good homemade breakfast/brunch hash is a great way to get everyone out of bed and around the table!

I have a basic hash recipe for you that involves a heaping cup of love. For first time cookers, it's a great thing to get under your belt, and once you feel you've mastered the few ingredients in your pan, you can start adding things, taking them out, and really play around with hash. My hashes are almost never the same (unless I'm being kinda lazy or sick. Sometimes even just the base hash is good enough). You can find it below, as well as a variant or two! Please note that with this hash, I do not use pre-shredded potatoes. I chunk mine into bite-sized pieces!

So, for the very basic hash, I typically use:

1 russet potato OR a couple of handfuls of the small potatoes that come in the one pound bag to equal a russet. Make sure to clean your potato. No need for the extra helping of dirt. Peeling it is optional, but I typically don’t.

Part of an onion OR one shallot. A shallot is a more subtle onion that doesn’t have that sharp taste, and definitely won’t make you cry when you cut into it!

Peppers. Depending on what you want in there, I at least start with a green bell. You can add as many as you want after. I throw in part of a green and part of a red for color.

Butter! They say to use olive oil to be healthier, but let’s face it: butter-fried potatoes are the BEST. Vegan friends can use a hot-temperature oil like canola.

Mushrooms. You can get them pre-sliced, or you can get button ones to slice yourself. Either way, use the stems! They’re edible!

Some kind of meat. This is optional, especially for the vegan/vegetarian friends, but I love a meat in with my hash. You can use leftover steak from the night before, ham steak, bacon, pancetta (which is an italian-style cured bacon/ham. It may be more expensive, and if you can’t tolerate a lot of salt like me, give it an extra rinse in your strainer before adding), etc.

Note here that if I say just butter, you can assume I’m saying butter/oil. :)

So! Here is how I make my hash to make sure it’s cooked all the way! Crunchy potatoes that are underdone are... well, you won’t make the same mistake twice. It has a distinctive crunch. I’ve heard that people used to eat potatoes raw once, but a: I don’t know if that’s actually true, and b: I was very young when I heard this. But anyway! Melt your butter (if you’re making it for two, use 1 Tbsp, use 2 for four people, etc) over med-high heat (my stove is electric, so if you have numbers, I use between 6 and 7. Get that pan nice and hot!). While the butter melts, chunk up your potato(es) to bite sized pieces or smaller if you want, then add to the pan when you start hearing a nice sizzle from the butter/oil. Give the potatoes a nice stir to coat with the butter, then let it be for a minute or two while you slice and dice the onion. If you plan to use pancetta, add it with your potatoes. It needs time to render. If not, then just wait with your meat until the end. Add your onions, then give that pan a stir. Then slice and dice some peppers, then add to your pan. By this time, you should be a: smelling wonderful things from your pan, and b: start to see a nice light brown from your potatoes! Toss in those mushrooms next, then let it sit for a few minutes, stirring occasionally. Let them turn a nice brown, then add your meat that isn’t pancetta or bacon. Give it a nice warm up, and get some fry marks on there if you really want to.

Ta da! You can serve it with a nice egg on top (I fry mine over easy to let the yolk run in there), put some cheese on if you like, crank some pepper, and make some toast!

That was the basic hash! Below are a couple of nice variants! Also, don’t be afraid to experiment with different spices. I give you some tools to help you, but I also encourage experimentation! That definitely doesn’t mean put dried basil on your tongue and see what it tastes like, or trying a teaspoon of vanilla (spoiler alert: vanilla extract is gross). But use this and then try new things/ spice combinations.

Mexican hash:

Add a poblano pepper to your pepper mix, use chorizo, tomatoes, add some chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, and then (if you really want to get fancy!) some pinto, black, or light red kidney beans! Top it off with some hot sauce, salsa, sour cream, and cilantro (but only if you like it!). If you don’t have those specific spices, taco seasoning will work as well. I personally don’t use the pre-made stuff cause it has so much salt in it. If you use chorizo, add it right away with your potatoes, and use a half amount of butter. Chorizo will release an oil when you cook it down, so it will mingle with the butter nicely and you won’t end up with a greasy mess. (hint: use your toast to help mop up that lovely oil on your plate! ;) )

Mediterranean hash:

Add some greens in there! I like using spinach to get juuuuust to the part where its wilting, but kale works here too. Use garbanzo beans (chickpeas), olives, maybe some dill or za’atar seasoning (you can find this blend in the spice aisle of your grocery store. It’s a blend of sumac, oregano, thyme, and sometimes marjoram. If you can, give it a whiff at the store. It’s a very lovely smell.) Tomatoes would go well in here too. Top with feta cheese!

If you make something else and love it, share it with me! I’d love to hear about what you came up with! Also thank you very much for letting me share these with you. Happy brunching!

-Snacks

#foodies!#how to #breakfast hash #snacks' guide to food

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sparrowjaywrites · 6 years ago

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In My Head

(Soulmate AU: You hear your soulmates thoughts but can’t tell them your name or what you look like.)

(Gender Neutral Reader X Cisco Ramon)

You’d heard him since your twelfth birthday, your soulmate. People could begin to hear them at any point in their lives as long as both soulmates where over the age of five. No one really understood how it worked or why some people started hearing soulmates on their fifth birthday and some didn’t hear them until they were in their nineties. The only thing anyone knew for sure outside the age requirements is if one could hear their soulmate, their soulmate could hear them. Oh and of course there where the rules.

Soulmates rules where considered to be as real and unbreakable as the laws of physics, or as unbreakable as they had been before Meta Humans had started running around. Rule One: One could not tell their soulmates their name. Rule Two: One could not tell their soulmate their age. Rule Three: One could not describe themselves to their soulmate. Rule Four: One could not tell their soulmate their location (Discussing future locations could work but no dates or times). Rule Five: One could not block out their soulmate.

The rules where not the only things making finding ones soulmate hard; people could of course fall in love with people who weren’t their soulmate whether they could hear them or not. It wasn’t uncommon for people to wake up one day able to hear their soulmates only to find their soulmates where happily married and soulmate or not they were not willing to leave their marriage or their kids. Many people who ended on the unhappy side of these situations would end up taking their own lives within the year. This had prompted the invention of a device that could severe a soulmate connection; this severance could end very badly and had been banned in most countries, but some desperate people still found a way when needed.

You had begun hearing your soulmate at twelve; you’d nicknamed him Westley after learning his obsession with the movie Princess Bride. In response he’d tried to nickname you Buttercup, that hadn’t ended well. After a few weeks of arguing he’d come up with the nickname Starlight, he would never tell you why.

Westley was an interesting guy, way too smart for his own good sometimes, hilarious, obsessed with pop culture, sassy as all hell, and very good at reading people, even when they were simply a voice in his head. His favorite color is purple although that does tend to change weekly, his favorite Pokémon is Bulbasaur, and he really likes superheroes.

You had decided not long after meeting him in your head the first time that you would find him someday. Of course the particle accelerator blowing up had put a damper on that for a while. When ones soulmate died the other wouldn’t know it, they would simply stop responding to them.

When the particle accelerator had blown up, you had been thrown through a window by the dark matter blast, your injuries resulting in a yearlong coma. When you had woken up it had taken a few weeks for the connection to reactivate and Westley had flipped out. He’d thought you had died. You hadn’t told him why you had been in a coma for so long not wanting him to know you were a Meta human, scared of what he’d think.

You’d woken up a Meta human nearly five years ago now, and had yet to meet Westley in person. He’d dated on and off during that time, hesitantly but excitedly telling you about his current relationship as he always had in high school. You had also dated of course but not as recently. At nearly thirty you just wanted to meet Westley in real life, you had fallen in love with him years ago, although you’d never tell him that. He was your closest friend, for obvious reasons.

‘Morning, Starlight, what are you up too today?’ You smile shaking your head as you slip a strand of (H/C) hair behind your ear.

‘Coffee at the shop, while I work on my book.’ You respond sipping your medium flash with vanilla bean creamer.

‘I’m getting coffee right now, maybe this is the day we’ll meet?’ Westley responds excitedly.

‘Of course, you’ll trip and spill coffee on me like in all the cliché fanfictions your always telling me to read on Tumblr.’ You snicker.

‘What makes you think I’ll be the one spilling the coffee? Who says it wouldn’t be the other way around?”

‘Because for one, I’m sitting down, and two even if I was walking I’m more coordinated then you.’

‘Are not! You trip over everything!’

‘Exactly and your still a bigger klutz, that’s my point.’

‘Well I never.’ He huffs mockingly laughing lightly. You snicker smiling at the laugh. The day passed as usual you spent your morning at Jitters working on your book interrupted every twenty minutes or so by Westley making a joke or asking you something. Your afternoon was spent working on tech for your company, (Y/L/N) Technologies.

‘I just looked at the sky and thought of you, my Starlight.’ You let out a small snort at the pickup line you’d heard a million times before.

‘I like the line and all Westley, but you need new ones.’

‘As you wish.’ You let out another laugh causing people to glance at your; you bow your head with a blush.

‘Shut up, you’re making people stare at me.’

‘Oh am I?’ That mischievous tone is one you know well, and it spells trouble. ‘Hmm maybe I should just look up something to read to you then?’

‘Don’t you…’

‘Here we go, the five times Luke walked in on Han and Leia and he one time they walked in on him, this will be a most interesting read wouldn’t you say, Starlight?’

‘Westley, I swear to god!’ You groan your face a bright red as you wish for the line to move faster or for your obnoxious soulmate to shut the fuck up.

‘Luke was bored, he wanted to go for a ride in the Falcon, but Han was not where to be found. Oh well he would just go for his ride and Han would never need to know… as he entered the Falcon he found something a strange, a random black boot sat in the doorway as if thrown there. Shrugging he steps inside more clothing were spread down the hall leading to the cockpit… oh double meaning!’ Westley reads dramatically clearly getting a huge kick out of your annoyance and protests.

“A large flash to go with vanilla bean creamer please.” You order doing your best to keep a straight face.”

‘Luke’s eyes widened as he froze in place, in the captain’s chair was his twin sister, in far less clothing then he’d ever seen before, on top of her was his best friend in a similar state of dress. “Oh, Han, yes!” Luke quickly turned on his heel running for his life wishing he hadn’t seen that!’

‘Westley that’s gross, knock it off!’

‘It is pretty badly written, I’m sure you could write it better!’ Westley laughs.

‘Would you shut up, you damn idi…’ Your train of thought is derailed as a dagger spins past your face lodging in the counter in front of you. It glowed with a golden orange. You spin around in time to see a person in a black coat with a hood and mask standing in the doorway as people start screaming around you. The person holds out a black clad hand the dagger spinning from the counter into it.

You take a step back; dropping your coffee clenching your fist silver sparks crackle around it for half a second before suddenly failing. Why weren’t your powers working?

‘Starlight?’ Before you can answer the dagger is spinning towards you, just before it can hit you’re tackled to the ground by a dark skinned woman with long black hair.

“Are you okay?” The woman asks quickly.

“Y… yeah, I think so.” You nod moving to your feet, pulling your gun from your ankle holder as you do, the dagger spins back across the coffee shop into the monstrous Meta’s hand.

“It’s time for you to die.” The Meta says stalking towards them. You drag the woman who saved you to the side as the dagger spins towards them again. You raise your gun.

“Back off.” The Meta throws the dagger again, you open fire, one bullet bounces off the dagger sending it off course, the Meta quickly dodges the other.

“Are you a Meta human?” The woman from before asks you. “She’s after Meta’s that’s the new Cicada.” You blink at her looking back at the woman firing two more rounds that miss, embedding in the now empty of patrons shop walls.

“Yes, I am.” You admit.

“Leave them alone.” A vibrating voice joins the madness as a red steak appears in front of them, less than a foot away stood the Flash. Westley would be having a field day right now if he where there, he loved Meta Heroes.

“Good, I can kill you too.” A purple blur suddenly shows and the next thing you know you are being set down in what looks like a lab of some type. Computer monitors surround you. The woman from the shop quickly rushes over to a computer talking to the Flash through a headpiece. Moments later XS and the Flash are standing in front of you.

“Are you okay?” Flash asks gently taking your gun from your hands. You blink still processing where you are.

“Um… I… uh,” You run a hand through the back of your (H/L) hair nervously, when did your hands start shaking? “I think so… where am I?”

“This is Star Labs; we brought you here to get away from Cicada.” The woman speaks up. You slowly nod.

“Okay… why the hell is this Cicada after me in the first place?”

“She wants all Meta humans dead.” XS explains.

“How would she even know I’m a Meta? No one and I mean literally no one knew but me before tonight.” You protest crossing your arms.

“The dagger she was using has the power to block powers, it glows when near a Meta human, you probably were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Flash explains. You nod frowning.

“Then what the hell am I supposed to do?”

“We’ve gotten most of the Meta’s out of the city and into hiding?” A woman with long brown hair says entering the room followed by a man who you were pretty positive was Harrison Wells, which made no sense as he’d been dead for four years, a tall dark skinned man, the DA, Elongated Man, and Vibe… who was another person you thought was dead.

“I can’t just up and disappear.” You protest looking around at the super heroes in front of you.

“Protective custody is your best shot.” The man suggests stepping forwards and showing you his badge, Detective Joseph West, the DA’s husband and the head of the Meta task force at the CCPD, you’d met him once after the particle accelerator had blown up.

“If this lady is after Meta’s then why haven’t all of you left?” You challenge motioning to the Meta heroes.

“Because we’re trying to stop Cicada and this is our home.” Elongated Man says.

“Exactly, this is your home. Central City is my home; I’m not going to run away because some new psycho with a thing for leather and hypocrisy wants me dead.”

“If you don’t go you’ll die. We can’t protect you all the time.” Flash argues.

“I can protect myself.” You shake your head.

“Your powers won’t work around Cicada.” The DA speaks up.

“I wasn’t referring to my powers, and if powers don’t work against them, then I’m on an even playing field as all of you.”

“We’re not going to be able to convince you are we?” Flash sighs shoulders slumping a bit.

“Nope.” Flash shares a look with the woman from Jitters and XS two blurs disappearing down the hall, followed by everyone but Detective West. The two of you stand there awkwardly for a few minutes before the group enters again.

“I’m Iris, this is Caitlin and Sherloque.” The woman from Jitters introduces herself motioning to the brown haired lady and the Harrison Wells look alike. “That’s Cecille,” She motions to the DA. “And I’m sure you know who the different heroes are?”

“I do.”

“What’s your name?” Flash asks.

“(Y/F/N) (Y/L/N), most people call me (Y/N/N).” You introduce yourself smirking when she sees the Flash’s eyes widen.

“The CEO and founder of (Y/L/N) Tech?” You nod with a snort.

“Yup.”

“Oh…” XS says eyes wide, looking surprised. A few people look at her questioningly; she shakes her head at them with the universal gesture for later.

“What are your powers?” Detective West asks.

“Do I have immunity for anything I say here?” You ask narrowing your eyes at him. “I’m not a criminal but I’d rather not regret this little meeting later?”

“Of course.” Cecille speaks up, smiling at you.

“Any of you heard of the vigilante people are calling Starlight?”

“Yeah.” Iris nods.

“You’re looking at them.” You gesture to yourself.

“But you look nothing like them?” Elongated Man says shocked. You snort. You push a few buttons on your watch; thin strands of metal quickly cover your body from your watch, your belt and your glasses. A simple black suit covers you, silver specks shimmering throughout. Metal wraps around your glasses turning them more into a mask. You clench your fists then open them, shimmering silver sparks quickly spread over the suit making the effect look like a shimmering night sky full of stars, your hair floats up a bit turning a shimmering silver, your (Y/E/C) eyes quickly turning a soft silver. “Whoa…”

“That’s amazing.” Flash laughs. XS is grinning now looking beyond excited.

“Okay, that’s cool.” Detective West says pointing at you.

“That’s wicked.” Vibe laughs grinning; he’d been silent so far looking at you as if trying to figure something out. Your eyes snap to him. You knew why he’d been staring at you now… his voice you recognized it… you’d heard it every day since you were twelve.

“Well since we know your identity it’s only fair.” Flash shrugs looking at the others who nod. He removes his mask, and holds a hand out to you, his brown hair now free from the rubber. “Barry Allen.” You look at his hand having to drag your eyes away from Vibe. You shake his hand.

“Nice to meet you.”

“This is Nora, Ralph, and Cisco.” Barry motions in order to XS, Elongated Man, and Vibe. You look Vibe over without his glasses, he was cute, Hispanic, with flowing black hair, a kind smile. You deactivate your suit, letting your powers subside, your hair and eyes quickly changing back to normal.

“Well, (Y/N/N) if you won’t leave we’ll have to figure something out.” Barry says smiling at you.

“You could join team Flash?” Nora speaks up stepping forward smiling hopefully at Barry. “You’d make a great addition!” You raise an eyebrow.

“Nora, a word please?” Iris speaks up. The two step out Barry following.

“So, Starlight? I see where you get the name.” Cisco approaches you as the rest of the group follow Nora seemingly to join the conversation you can hear getting heated in the hallway.

“I had the nickname long before I became a Meta.” You eye him up and down. “But I think you figured that out… Westley?” Cisco breaks into a grin.

“I thought I recognized your voice.”

“I recognized yours as soon as you spoke.” You laugh. “But to be sure.” You hold your hand out to him. Cisco takes your hand hesitantly. A slight jolt shots up your arm.

‘So Westley, my name is (Y/F/N)… holy shit, it is you!’ You think to him slowly grinning as you realize the rules were gone. When a person first made physical contact with their soulmate after their connection was made the rules would break allowing them to talk more freely from then on.

‘I can’t believe it’s really you…’ Cisco thinks back grinning just as widely. “It’s wonderful to finally meet you, Starlight. I’m Francisco Ramon, I’m your soulmate.” Cisco says out load.

“It’s wonderful to meet you too, Cisco.”

~~~

AN: And that’s the end of Part One? I may do a few more parts?

#cisco ramon #cisco ramon x reader #reader x cisco ramon #reader insert #The Flash #Soulmate #soulmate au #gender neutral reader

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sparrowjaywrites · 6 years ago

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In My Head

(Soulmate AU: You hear your soulmates thoughts but can’t tell them your name or what you look like.)

(OFC X Cisco Ramon)

I’d heard him since my twelfth birthday, my soulmate. People could begin to hear them at any point in their lives as long as both soulmates where over the age of five. No one really understood how it worked or why some people started hearing soulmates on their fifth birthday and some didn’t hear them until they were in their nineties. The only thing anyone knew for sure outside the age requirements is if one could hear their soulmate, their soulmate could hear them. Oh and of course there where the rules.

Kat had begun hearing her soulmate at twelve; she’d nicknamed him Westley after learning his obsession with the movie Princess Bride. In response he’d tried to nickname her Buttercup, that hadn’t ended well. After a few weeks of arguing he’d come up with the nickname Starlight, he would never tell her why.

Kat had decided not long after meeting him in her head the first time that she would find him someday. Of course the particle accelerator blowing up had put a damper on that for a while. When ones soulmate died the other wouldn’t know it, they would simply stop responding to you.

When the particle accelerator had blown up, Kat had been thrown through a window by the dark matter blast, her injuries resulting in a yearlong coma. When she had woken up it had taken a few weeks for the connection to reactivate and Westley had flipped out. He’d thought she had died. Kat hadn’t told him why she had been in a coma for so long not wanting him to know she was a Meta human, scared of what he’d think.

She’d woken up a Meta human nearly five years ago now, and had yet to meet Westley in person. He’d dated on and off during that time, hesitantly but excitedly telling her about his current relationship as he always had in high school. Kat had also dated of course but not as recently. At nearly thirty she just wanted to meet Westley in real life, she had fallen in love with him years ago, although she’d never tell him that. He was her closest friend, for obvious reasons.

‘Morning, Starlight, what are you up too today?’ Kat smiles shaking her head as she slips a strand of brown hair behind her ear.

‘Coffee at the shop, while I work on my book.’ She responds sipping her medium flash with vanilla bean creamer.

‘I’m getting coffee right now, maybe this is the day we’ll meet?’ Westley responds excitedly.

‘Of course, you’ll trip and spill coffee on me like in all the cliché fanfictions your always telling me to read on Tumblr.’ Kat snickers.

‘What makes you think I’ll be the one spilling the coffee? Who says it wouldn’t be the other way around?”

‘Because for one, I’m sitting down, and two even if I was walking I’m more coordinated then you.’

‘Are not! You trip over everything!’

‘Exactly and your still a bigger klutz, that’s my point.’

‘Well I never.’ He huffs mockingly laughing lightly. Kat snickers smiling at the laugh. The day passed as usual she spent her morning at Jitters working on her book interrupted every twenty minutes or so by Westley making a joke or asking her something. Her afternoon was spent working on tech for her company, Sparrow Technologies.

‘I just looked at the sky and thought of you, my Starlight.’ Kat lets out a small snort at the pickup line she’d heard a million times before.

‘I like the line and all Westley, but you need new ones.’

‘As you wish.’ Kat lets out another laugh causing people to glance at her; she bows her head with a blush.

‘Shut up, you’re making people stare at me.’

‘Oh am I?’ That mischievous tone is one Kat knows well, and it spells trouble. ‘Hmm maybe I should just look up something to read to you then?’

‘Don’t you…’

‘Here we go, the five times Luke walked in on Han and Leia and he one time they walked in on him, this will be a most interesting read wouldn’t you say, Starlight?’

‘Westley, I swear to god!’ Kat groans her face a bright red as she wishes for the line to move faster or for her obnoxious soulmate to shut the fuck up.

‘Luke was bored, he wanted to go for a ride in the Falcon, but Han was not where to be found. Oh well he would just go for his ride and Han would never need to know… as he entered the Falcon he found something a strange, a random black boot sat in the doorway as if thrown there. Shrugging he steps inside more clothing where spread down the hall leading to the cockpit… oh double meaning!’ Westley reads dramatically clearly getting a huge kick out of her annoyance and protests.

“A large flash to go with vanilla bean creamer please.” Kat orders doing her best to keep a straight face.”

‘Westley that’s gross, knock it off!’

‘It is pretty badly written, I’m sure you could write it better!’ Westley laughs.

‘Would you shut up, you damn idi…’ Kat’s train of thought is derailed as a dagger spins past her face lodging in the counter in front of her. It glowed with a golden orange. Kat spins around in time to see a person in a black coat with a hood and mask standing in the doorway as people start screaming around her. The person holds out a black clad hand the dagger spinning from the counter into it.

Kat takes a step back; she drops her coffee clenching her fist silver sparks crackle around it for half a second before suddenly failing. Why weren’t her powers working?

‘Starlight?’ Before she can answer the dagger is spinning towards her, just before it can hit she is tackled to the ground by a dark skinned woman with long black hair.

“Are you okay?” The woman asks quickly.

“Y… yeah, I think so.” Kat nods moving to her feet, pulling her gun from her ankle holder as she does, the dagger spins back across the coffee shop into the monstrous Meta’s hand.

“It’s time for you to die.” The Meta says stalking towards them. Kat drags the woman who saved her to the side as the dagger spins towards them again. She raises her gun.

“Back off.” The Meta throws the dagger again, Kat opens fire, one bullet bounces off the dagger sending it off course, the Meta quickly dodges the other.

“Are you a Meta human?” The woman from before asks Kat. “She’s after Meta’s that’s the new Cicada.” Kat blinks at her looking back at the woman firing two more rounds that miss, embedding in the now empty of patrons shop walls.

“Yes, I am.” Kat admits.

“Good, I can kill you too.” A purple blur suddenly shows and the next thing Kat knows she is being set down in what looks like a lab of some type. Computer monitors surround her. The woman from the shop quickly rushes over to a computer talking to the Flash through a headpiece. Moments later XS and the Flash are standing in front of her.

“Are you okay?” Flash asks gently taking her gun from her hands. Kat blinks still processing where she is.

“Um… I… uh,” Kat runs a hand through the back of her short hair nervously, when did her hands start shaking? “I think so… where am I?”

“This is Star Labs; we brought you here to get away from Cicada.” The woman speaks up. Kat slowly nods.

“Okay… why the hell is this Cicada after me in the first place?”

“She wants all Meta humans dead.” XS explains.

“How would she even know I’m a Meta? No one and I mean literally no one knew but me before tonight.” Kat protests crossing her arms.

“The dagger she was using has the power to block powers, it glows when near a Meta human, you probably where just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Flash explains. Kat nods frowning.

“Then what the hell am I supposed to do?”

“We’ve gotten most of the Meta’s out of the city and into hiding?” A woman with long brown hair says entering the room followed by a man who Kat was pretty positive was Harrison Wells, which made no sense as he’d been dead for four years, a tall dark skinned man, the DA, Elongated Man, and Vibe… who was another person Kat thought was dead.

“I can’t just up and disappear.” Kat protests looking around at the super heroes in front of her.

“Protective custody is your best shot.” The man suggests stepping forwards and showing her his badge, Detective Joseph West, the DA’s husband and the head of the Meta task force at the CCPD, she’d met him once after the particle accelerator had blown up.

“If this lady is after Meta’s then why haven’t all of you left?” Kat challenges motioning to the Meta heroes.

“Because we’re trying to stop Cicada and this is out home.” Elongated Man says.

“Exactly, this is your home. Central City is my home; I’m not going to run away because some new psycho with a thing for leather and hypocrisy wants me dead.”

“If you don’t go you’ll die. We can’t protect you all the time.” Flash argues.

“I can protect myself.” Kat shakes her head.

“Your powers won’t work around Cicada.” The DA speaks up.

“I wasn’t referring to my powers, and if powers don’t work against them, then I’m on an even playing field as all of you.”

“We’re not going to be able to convince you are we?” Flash sighs shoulders slumping a bit.

“Nope.” Flash shares a look with the woman from Jitters and XS two blurs disappearing down the hall, followed by everyone but Detective West. The two stand there awkwardly for a few minutes before the group enters again.

“I do.”

“What’s your name?” Flash asks.

“Katrina Sparrow, most people call me Kat.” Kat introduces herself smirking when she sees the Flash’s eyes widen.

“The CEO and founder of Sparrow Tech?” She nods with a snort.

“Yup.”

“Oh…” XS says eyes wide, looking surprised. A few people look at her questioningly; she shakes her head at them with the universal gesture for later.

“What are your powers?” Detective West asks.

“Do I have immunity for anything I say here?” Kat clarifies narrowing her eyes at him. “I’m not a criminal but I’d rather not regret this little meeting later?”

“Of course.” Cecille speaks up, smiling at her.

“Any of you heard of the vigilante people are calling Starlight?”

“Yeah.” Iris nods.

“You’re looking at her.” Kat gestures to herself.

“But you look nothing like her?” Elongated Man says shocked. Kat snorts. She pushes a few buttons on her watch; thin strands of metal quickly cover her body from her watch, her belt and her glasses. A simple black suit covers her, silver specks shimmering throughout. Metal wraps around her glasses turning them more into a mask. She clenches her fists then opens them, shimmering silver sparks quickly spread over the suit making the effect look like a shimmering night sky full of stars, her hair floats up a bit turning shimmering silver, her brown eyes quickly turning a soft silver. “Whoa…”

“That’s amazing.” Flash laughs. XS is grinning now looking beyond excited.

“Okay, that’s cool.” Detective West says pointing at her.

“That’s wicked.” Vibe laughs grinning; he’d been silent so far looking at her as if trying to figure something out. Kat’s eyes snap to him. She knew why he’d been staring at her now… his voice she recognized it… she’d heard it every day since she was twelve.

“Well since we know your identity it’s only fair.” Flash shrugs looking at the others who nod. He removes his mask, and holds a hand out to her, his brown hair now free from the rubber. “Barry Allen.” Kat looks at his hand having to drag her eyes away from Vibe. She shakes his hand.

“Nice to meet you.”

“This is Nora, Ralph, and Cisco.” Barry motions in order to XS, Elongated Man, and Vibe. Kat looks Vibe over without his glasses, he was cute, Hispanic, with flowing black hair, a kind smile. Kat deactivates her suit, letting her powers subside her hair and eyes quickly changing back to normal.

“Well, Kat if you won’t leave we’ll have to figure something out.” Barry says smiling at her.

“You could join team Flash?” Nora speaks up stepping forward smiling hopefully at Barry. “You’d make a great addition!” Kat raises an eyebrow.

“Nora, a word please?” Iris speaks up. The two step out Barry following.

“So, Starlight? I see where you get the name.” Cisco approaches Kat as the rest of the group follow Nora seemingly to join the conversation Kat can hear getting heated in the hallway.

“I had the nickname long before I became a Meta.” Kat eyes him up and down. “But I think you’d figured that out… Westley?” Cisco breaks into a grin.

“I thought I recognized your voice.”

“I recognized yours as soon as you spoke.” Kat laughs. “But to be sure.” She holds her hand out to him. Cisco takes her hand hesitantly. A slight jolt shots up Kat’s arm.

‘So Westley, my name is Kat… holy shit, it is you!’ Kat thinks to him slowly grinning as she realizes the rules were gone. When a person first made physical contact with their soulmate after their connection was made the rules would break allowing them to talk more freely from then on.

“It’s wonderful to meet you too, Cisco.”

~~~

AN: And that’s the end of Part One? I may do a few more parts?

#cisco ramon #cisco #Cisco Ramon x OC #flash fanfiction #The Flash #Soulmate #soulmate au #Original Character #Francisco Ramon #flash imagine

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