It's Finally Movie Night!

[goodviberations]

This is it, guys. Finally, finally they're going to have the movie night they've been talking about for months. It's been a rough few weeks on most of them, and Cisco is determined to cheer everyone up. He'd stumbled across a 40s movie theatre- the kind that would have shown nickelodeons back in the day- and decided that it was the perfect venue for them. Plenty of room for everyone to spread out, and they could set up a snack table in front of the small stage beneath the screen.

Party time, here they come.

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Trapped!

[chosenbylightning]

Clearly the Speedsters are up to something. A few swift rushes of wind and Frost, Oliver, Cisco and Mick will find themselves alone in the theater with the doors locked.

Hanging on the main door they will find a note.

'Guys -
This is for your own good. Figure things out. We'll be back in two hours.'

[goodviberations]

Cisco is the first one to realize something's wrong. He looks away from the screen- had he started with a Bruce Lee movie because he knows Mick loves ninja movies? Maybe- only to notice that almost all of his friends are gone.

Mick is still a seat away, shoveling popcorn into his mouth at a frankly alarming rate. Caitlin- and she is Caitlin again. How weird- is in the row behind him, looking confused. And Oliver is in the corner, looking like a mopey teen. But that's it. Everyone else is gone.

For a split second, he worries. Had something happened? Had the others needed to rush out to deal with some crisis? He pushes to his feet, making his way to the aisle to attempt to get out to the lobby. But the doors won't budge.

Which is when he sees the note, written in his best friend's handwriting.

"I'm gonna kill him."

[bringstheheat]

"Quiet!" They're getting to the best part and Mick seems to be the only one who cares.

A frown as he turns and notices that they're down a few people and Cisco and the Doc are staring at the door like it's somehow personally betrayed them.

With a grumble he stops the movie and stomps over to the door. "What's the problem?"

[goodviberations]

Cisco runs a hand through his hair. He really doesn't want to tell Mick what's going on, because then he'll have to explain why it's going on.

He can admit that he'd started to hope a little bit. After the whole thing with the book and Mick trusting him to know he'd written it. Barry and Caitlin had been so sure that Prince Zien was supposed to be him, and they hadn't even known they were right about the author.

"Barry and the others locked us in," he explains. And he's got a feeling that the power dampeners he helped Harry build for Caitlin apply to all of them.

[bringstheheat]

Mick squints at the note because of course his damn glasses are back at the apartment. "For your own good? What the hell's he talking about?"

Shrug. "So, just blast the damn doors and get us out."

[goodviberations]

"I can't," he says. He's not gonna explain the 'for your own good' part. Not if he can help it. "They used dampeners. None of us have our powers. It was supposed to just be for Caitlin and Oliver, but apparently Harry double-crossed me."

Oops, did he just admit that he'd planned on trapping Caitlin and Oliver in here?

[bringstheheat]

Mick takes his arm and leads Cisco away from the other two because he's pretty sure Robin Hood and or Frosty will have his ass if they find out he's in on whatever went down.

"You wanna run that by me again?"

[goodviberations]

"Okay. So I told you they were being stupid, right? So Harry asked me to help out with some dampeners so we could lock them in here without her going Frost on us. Except apparently he lied to me and also keyed it in to disable our powers."

There is gonna be hell to pay, Harry. Just you wait.

[bringstheheat]

Mick shifts his eyes to where Robin Hood and Frosty were getting.. cozy with each other. It doesn't exactly take a genius to put two and two together at this point and he turns his attention back to Cisco.

"And there's a reason he keyed it to our powers why?"

[goodviberations]

Oh man. Caitlin and Oliver broke a lot sooner than he anticipated. And something about the expression on Mick's face tells him the man isn't quite as oblivious to the situation as he's pretending.

He's gonna have to come clean, isn't he? He's gonna have to tell Mick about his feelings.

"Because...because they knew I would try to run."

[bringstheheat]

Hey he's no genius like Cisco or the Doc but he's not as completely dense as he sometimes puts on.

Nope. That's not something akin to hope fluttering in his chest. Because it isn't.

"Run from what? Me?"

[goodviberations]

Cisco rubs the back of his neck, nervous and embarrassed. But this has been a long time coming. He owes Mick the truth.

"From what they want me to tell you," he corrects.

[bringstheheat]

Mick is a patient man when he chooses and he watches Cisco, his expression carefully neutral. Kid hasn't been afraid of him yet, even when he'd spontaneously burst into flames, so why is he so nervous now?

"Tell me what?" he prompts after a long silence.

[snowandfrost]

Frost would if she was there. Caitlin sits there, shocked that she's there when Frost immediately goes away. She gets up and looks around, not finding Barry or Savitar, or anyone other than herself, Cisco, Mick, and Oliver. She walks over to where the note is hanging by the main door and reads it over.

Her eyes widen when she realizes that the dampener she worked on for Cisco had to have had a duplicate that was able to dampen her powers--

Oh no.

[havingprecision]

Oliver had caught the speedsters leaving, but hadn't thought much of it. Barry always did have a short attention span so maybe he'd gone off after more food.

Only he didn't come back. Neither did Savitar.

He's on his feet, moving to read the note.

Oh he's gonna shoot Barry twice for this little stunt. "There has to be another way out."

[snowandfrost]

She nods and begins to look around.

“They even took Pilot.”

[havingprecision]

None of the dragons are left. It's just the four of them and Mick and Cisco are engrossed in their own conversation.

"Can I talk to you?"

[snowandfrost]

She looks at him. She knows she has to and Caitlin nods.

"I...should have talked to you before. But...Oliver, what was the last thing that happened with Team Arrow and Team Flash before you came here?" she asks.

[havingprecision]

"Sara had just been murdered. Laurel brought her back to the Foundry." A faint, if strained smile. "Lyla had her baby."

"I know most of you are from further ahead in what will be my future. But I can't remember what has happened to me yet."

[snowandfrost]

And Sara had just left.

"Oh, Oliver."

Caitlin steps forward and puts her arms around his shoulders, hugging him tightly. That means that he would have been from the same time they were dealing with Zoom.

"I'm sorry," she whispers, "I wanted to talk but I just...got so afraid every time because I didn't want to hurt you or hurt Felicity. I thought you'd...be better off without me."

[havingprecision]

All of the tension just melts out of Oliver when she wraps her arms around him and he smiles as he returns the embrace. "I'm better with you here, Caitlin. I don't know what my future holds here or back home, but right now I know I'm better with you here."

"With me."

[snowandfrost]

It feels good to have his arms around her and Caitlin lets herself feel it, feel the warmth of the archer and the solid presence of him. She pulls back a little and looks at him as he says that he's better with her here with him. Confusion colors her features for a moment.

"Better? Who says you're not better just as you are? I always thought that you were improving yourself but you're not a bad person just as you are."

[havingprecision]

He feels so much better with her in his arms, warm and wonderful and his fingers card through her hair gently. "Maybe not bad," he allows. "But I keep trying for better."

"Better is easier with you, Cait."

[snowandfrost]

She relaxes in his arms and it shows.

"Not a lot of things are easy with me, Oliver." But he knows, doesn't he? He knows about Killer Frost, about being on Team Flash. "You realize you get two for the price of one, right?" But Felicity. "What about Felicity?"

[havingprecision]

"Nothing worth fighting for is ever easy," he answers easily. "Frost and I talked earlier. I'm more than okay with two for one."

"Felicity.. she's my friend. She will always be my friend, but from what I remember, it wasn't going to work out. I don't want to be beholden to a future I don't remember, a future that might not be the same if we ever do find a way home."

His hand cups her cheek. "I would much rather figure out that future with you, Caitlin Snow."