Chapter 4

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Everyone was still looking at the amnesiac Barry who was worried he had been too loud with his 'drums'. "No babe, you weren't being too loud." Linda quickly assured him and earning a smile from her soon to be guy again. She just needed him to have his marbles back first in order to get the conversation going and preferably without Iris' possible intervention of it.

"Hey long haired boy." He suddenly called out to Cisco.

"Yeah man?"

"You ever join that lab thingy you were tellin' me about?"

That drew some confused looks from the others as Cisco's brain registered for him on why this older looking Barry seemed so familiar to him in an entirely different way! "I totally did, thanks for helping me with making that decision bro." This guy had been instrumental in helping him make the decision to take the offer STAR Labs had made him.

Barry gave him a cheesy grin and a thumb's up and went back to his drumming while Cisco explained what had just happened. "But how can he remember that when his brain isn't working all that great anymore?" Asked Linda, beating Iris to it in the process.

"Even with what we do know about the human brain, it can still do things that are surprising for us. Seeing Cisco may have just triggered for a memory to flare up in his brain at this point rather then earlier on." Supplied Caitlin with a theory that Stein and Felicity nodded in agreement with.

For Joe and Iris, this also brought a memory of a time when this version of Barry had shown up at just the right time to help them out with an issue each of the two were having. Joe when his wife died had wound up getting some words of encouragement from his surrogate son that helped him to get his life going again, especially since Iris still needed him quite a bit. For Iris, his being around at the time had helped her when she was worried about Barry during his time in a coma and his words had helped her to some extent believe that he would indeed wake up again.

"So what do we do now?" Asked Oliver after several minutes of slight silence thanks to the drumming of Barry's.

"Can we get those little drinks with those umbrella thingies on em?" Asked the amnesiac with hope in his eyes and getting smiles from the girls at his hopefulness.

Caitlin hated to deny him that but she really didn't think that kind of thing would be a good idea for the time being. "No Barry, maybe another time okay?" And she'd keep to her word on that too even if he didn't remember it later.

"Aww okay." He responded and actually pouted too!

"Since there's no Meta Human that we know of who could possibly heal him, maybe electric shock is our best bet?"

The suggestion got Ronnie more than one glare but he held up his hands in defense. "What? I'm just saying is all that this is probably our best bet regarding him."

The group hated to admit it, but he had a point since there wasn't really anything out there that would be able to restore him to normal. "Why would you want to shock yourself?" Barry asked confusedly.

"He was talking about shocking you babe."

Turning to Linda with a shocked expression on his face, he asked her why that was. "To help get you back to normal of course." Even if she did rather like this more hilarious version of him but she and the others needed their Barry back more than they did this version. Which was kind of sad when she thought about it cause it meant they were kind of killing someone in a way.

"But I am normal!"

"You are an amnesiac who can't even remember what he did ten minutes ago!" Supplied Stein, thinking it would win him the argument before it could get any bigger.

Barry shrugged at him. "Good point but I don't wanna be shocked! That stuff could hurt!"

"But think about it Bear! If you do this you could get your memories back and you wouldn't have trouble remembering things! And you wouldn't have to be alone!" Iris told him, hoping it would work on him.

"But it could kill him!" Joe protested unhappily and Iris hated to admit it but her father could be right about that and it scared her.

The amnesiac Speedster pointed a finger at the Detective. "See! He gets it! Rainbows and cookies for him!"

He was going to say more but then he crumpled to the ground in a heap with Oliver Queen standing behind him, much to everyone else's shock since they had been a little focused on what to do for their friend. "What? He would have kept arguing against it when we could be doing something for him." He told the group as a means of defending his actions.

Cisco sighed. "Right, Caitlin, Ronnie, Professor Stein, and I will start on something that can help him out." Felicity understood why she had been left out of that since that sort of thing was beyond her.

Oliver nodded at the engineer. "Right, we'll keep an eye on him in the meantime." And with that, the four got to work while the archer laid his friend out on a table with some assistance from the others and hoped that whatever the four came up with would be a success as his friend didn't deserve to be in a situation like this.

Author's Notes: And here we go! Will whatever the four come up with work to help restore Barry? Will Linda get her man back? Or will Iris keep it from happening? Find out next time on that same LycoX channel!