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It was a frigid Sunday right in the heart of winter, Caitlin and Frost were spending a day out on a frozen lake. The latter had wanted to learn how to ice skate and both sisters had wanted to spend a day together.
So that Sunday morning, they had headed out to a lake on the edge of Central City that had mostly frozen over where a company that rented out skates to people had set up.
Frost had a pair of rented skates on her feet while Caitlin had her own pair (which she had been surprised to find that still fit) on her own feet. The latter was already out on the ice, waiting for her sister to join her.
The white-haired lady was standing just on the edge of where the ice met the ground, she cautiously put one foot onto the ice, closely followed by the other. As soon as she did that, however, she went tumbling to the ground.
Once Frost was upright again and standing on the ice properly she muttered “I have ice powers and can’t even stand on the ice?”
“Everyone falls the first few times,” Caitlin reassured her. Before Frost could say anything, she told her “You’ll be skating well real soon,”
The next hour was spent with Caitlin teaching Frost how to skate and a few minutes of the brown-haired lady showing off a little.
By now, the one who didn't have ice powers had been getting a little chilly so she had skated off in the direction of the pop-up cafe to get them both a drink in their preferred temperature.
What Frost didn’t know was that she was standing on a patch of ice that was quite weak due to the slashes and grooves that Caitlin’s stunts had cut into the ice, and it was starting to crack under her feet.
A few minutes or so after Caitlin had left, Frost shifted her stance, she had been putting most of her weight on her left leg and it was starting to go numb. That was a very big mistake, the cryokinetic soon learnt.
The ice under her right leg was quite a lot weaker and as soon as she placed most of her weight on that side, a loud cracking sound was heard.
The next thing that Frost knew was that she was falling, plunging down into the freezing water. As she was a cryokinetic, the cold wasn’t a bother to her, but the fact that she was now in the water and didn’t know how to swim was .
Vaguely she heard her own voice calling her name but that wasn't possible, why would she be calling her own name?
Caitlin had been on her way back to Frost from the pop-up cafe with two drinks in her hands when she heard a man shout that a lady had fallen through the ice, and Frost was nowhere to be seen.
After she had handed the drinks to a random person, Caitlin raced towards the spot where she had left her sister.
There was a Frost-sized hole in the ice and Caitlin couldn’t see her in the water. So without losing a beat, she pulled off both her skates and dived into the water. As expected, the water under the ice was absolutely freezing but she couldn't let that affect her yet; she had to get Frost back up to the surface as her sister didn’t know how to swim.
Eventually, she caught sight of something silver just below her. Frost was so deep down. Eventually, Caitlin reached the silver-haired lady and began swimming rather frantically towards the surface.
After she broke the surface, Caitlin took a glorious but short-lived gasp of air. She had matters other than her own to attend to. Frost still wasn’t breathing .
So Caitlin hauled her sister out onto a more stable part of the ice and began to do two things: press the button on her comm link to alert Barry and start CPR on Frost.
The brown-haired lady had no conventional method of telling if she was losing Frost or not as the cryokinetic’s lips were constantly a cold blue hue.
Before she could get anymore worried (if that was even possible) a familiar orange lightning covered both her and Frost and she found them both back on land, Barry (dressed in his Flash uniform) standing a little ways away from them.
Now that they were back on solid ground and there was no ice that could possibly be hazardous by being melted by her powers, Caitlin could use her pyrokinetic powers to warm Frost back to her usual temperature (which wasn’t all that warm to start with but that’s not the point).
Two really frightening minutes later Frost sat up, coughing up a few small shards of ice.
“Hi,” Caitlin greeted.
“Hi yourself,” the white-haired lady shot back as her sister helped her stand up. “The next time we go ice-skating, don’t show off,” she warned, clearly already back to herself again.
“Alright,” Caitlin agreed, slightly shakily. “How about you learn how to swim first?” she returned, already knowing the answer Frost would give.
“That’ll be a no ,” Frost told her, same as always.
By then, Barry had somehow retrieved both their drinks from the random person Caitlin had handed them to and brought them to where they were before leaving, most likely going back to work.
So the two ladies picked up their drinks, a hot chocolate (that was lukewarm by now) for Caitlin and a chocolate milkshake for Frost, and headed back to their apartment.