Author's Note: Here we will meet Harrison Wells, Cisco Ramone and Caitlin Snow. I love Cisco and Cait. Mixed feelings about Wells but hey. I own nothing.

6 Star Labs

Joe West nearly punched Harrison Wells in the face when he saw him sitting near Barry's bed but the power was out again and there were other people in the room and he didn't want to get arrested as it would keep him from visiting Barry. Barry who was not going into cardiac arrest despite the power being out. But the equipment she was surrounded with was new. Dr. Wells nodded at Joe.

"You must be Detective West your daughter was telling us all about you." Iris hugged her father as he practically snarled at Wells.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Iris tightened her grip on her father's hand.

"Dad listen to them they can help Barry." Joe paused at that and looked over at Dr. Wells as he began to explain things to him. It took quite a bit of convincing but eventually Joe agreed to let Dr. Wells and his associates take Barry to Star Labs. Caitlin and Cisco had loaded the still comatose Barry into the van and Cisco drove it carefully to the lab, Caitlin and Dr. Wells following in a wheelchair friendly car. Joe took Iris's hand.

"Sweetie, you should go home. Take a shower and a nap. I'll keep an eye on Barry. Eddie's covering my shift again. You need rest. I'll call you if anything changes." Iris rubbed her eyes and nodded.

"I'm going to get Barry's stuff from the precinct, she left her suitcase and her purse there. I'll take them back to her apartment." Joe nodded and hugged Iris. Iris got into her car and drove to the precinct. She slowly made her way up the stairs to Barry's lab. It had been cleaned up and put back together since the last time she'd been there Barry's suitcase still sat in the corner, only her purse had been moved, it now sat on top of the suitcase instead of the desk. Iris took them and carried them down the stairs. She tripped and someone caught her around the waist. She looked up into the face of her father's new partner, Eddie Thawne.

"You alright?" Iris nodded.

"Yes, thanks. I'm just picking up some of Barry's things. She didn't get the chance to take these home before…" Iris teared up and Eddie helped her over to a bench in the lobby.

"How's she doing?" Iris whipped away her tears and smiled up at him.

"A little better but she still won't wake up. But at least she shouldn't go back into cardiac arrest." Eddie smiled and asked what she meant. She explained what was happening and once she'd told him the whole story she felt a little better. She smiled at him.

"Thank you for taking my dad's shifts so we can both be with her." Eddie smiled at her.

"It's not a problem at all. I'm just glad I could help. I don't know her very well but she seems like a nice kid." Iris laughed slightly.

"She hates being called a kid. But she's one of the most amazing people I know." Iris whipped her eyes.

"I'd like to properly thank you for helping us out, maybe over coffee?" Eddie nodded and smiled.

"I'd like that. I get off at five." Iris smiled and stood. She took Barry's suitcase and purse to her car, Eddie escorted her out of the precinct. He opened the door for her and smiled. She drove to Barry's apartment and climbed the stairs to her one room studio apartment. It made tears build in her eyes everything was getting dusty. She borrowed Barry's shower like she sometimes did when Barry was still there and flopped down in a pair of borrowed pajamas to take a nap staring at the photo of the three of them Barry had hanging on her wall.

Cisco fiddled with the computer selecting a song on the playlist. He grinned as Lady GaGa's Pokerface began playing. Caitlin frowned at him. They'd been look after the comatose Barry Allen for nine months now with no sign of her waking up.

"What are you doing?" Cisco grinned unwrapping a lollipop and looking down at the girl on the bed in the middle of the cortex. She was pretty, dark brown hair, he had no idea what color her eyes were though as he'd never seen her awake.

"She likes this song." Caitlin frowned checking Barry's vitals.

"How could you possibly know that?" Cisco grinned and motioned over to the computer.

"I checked her Facebook page. I mean she can hear everything." Caitlin nodded slightly.

"Auditory functions are the last things to deteriorate." Both of them jumped as the girl who'd shown no signs of movement for the last nine months sat bolt upright gasping slightly as her eyes tried to focus. Caitlin rushed forward.

"She's up!" Cisco ran to the com system built into the computers.

"Dr. Wells you better get down to the cortex now!" Caitlin was doing her usual doctor thing and Cisco couldn't help but roll his eyes at her lack of bedside manner. Miss Allen was clearly confused and slightly upset. Cisco gently guided her back to the bed she'd jumped out of.

"It's ok. You're at Star Labs." Caitlin was still muttering medical mumbo jumbo under her breath as she shone a light into Barry's eyes.

"Star Labs? Who are you?" Cisco smiled, full and coherent sentences were always a good sign even if they were short.

"I'm Cisco Ramone, that's Caitlin. Dr. Snow." Caitlin held up a small plastic container.

"I need you to urinate in this." Cisco rolled his eyes at her.

"Not right now, give her a minute." Barry waved her arms and backed away from the pair seeming to only notice now that she was wearing a pair of sweatpants that weren't hers and a sports bra and nothing else.

"What happened!?" She wrapped her arms around herself as Cisco came a bit closer trying to look friendly.

"You were hit by lightning dude." Barry's eyes went wide and she looked around again catching sight of herself in a nearby monitor. Her eyebrows scrunched together in confusion.

"Lightning gave me abs?" Caitlin walked over to her carefully testing the muscles in her arms for any weakness.

"Your muscles should be atrophied but instead they are in a chronic and unexplained state of cellular regeneration." Cisco grabbed a sweater from one of the desks and handed it to her with a smile.

"See you've been in a coma." Barry's expression remained one of slightly sleep blurred confusion.

"For how long?" A voice echoed from the doorway and the trio turned to face him.

"Nine months. Welcome back Miss Allen." Barry stared.