Joe and Caitlin bolted into STAR Labs. Caitlin immediately hopped into one of the chairs and pulled up the tracker in Barry's suit.
"Uh, Cait?" Joe piped up nervously. Caitlin gazed up from the screen, and Joe pointed at the red suit in the mannequin, just feet away from them. "He's not wearing it, remember?"
"Dammit!" Caitlin pounded a fist down on the desk.
"Okay. Deep breaths." Joe took a seat by Caitlin, and once she seemed to calm down a bit, he continued. "I have an idea."
Caitlin nodded and met Joe's eyes.
"Do you know where Barry took Penny for their date last night?"
She sat there for a moment, furrowing her eyebrows. "Um, it starts with an M. Miller's diner? Mickey's?"
Joe snapped his fingers. "Milly's. That's right." He interjected. "Okay, pull up the security feed for…" Joe thought for a second. "Six-thirty would you say?"
"I'm not as proficient at this like Cisco is." The mention of his name made her wince.
"Caitlin." Joe said sternly.
"Yeah, I know." She returned her gaze to the screen, tapping away at the keys until eight video feeds popped up with different angles of the restaurant. It took a good minute or so before both Caitlin and Joe spotted Barry at a table with the blonde.
Caitlin gave a sad smile when she saw how happy he looked with this other girl that wasn't Iris.
"I need you to-" Joe started.
"...track their movements." She finished. "Here." Caitlin shoved her phone into Joe's hands after messing with the security feed some more with no luck.
His eyebrows furrowed, hinting that he didn't know what she wanted him to do with it.
Caitlin kept her focus on the screen and then spoke. "Call Felicity. I don't know how to hack into street feed, she'll have to walk me through it."
Joe nodded and swiped the phone's screen and then almost immediately after, shoved the phone in Caitlin's face for her to unlock it. Then he got straight away to scanning through her contacts, finding Felicity's, and then calling her.
He let out an annoyed huff when it went to voicemail, and then tried again. This time it rang two times before she answered.
"Hey, Caitlin."
"Hey." Joe mumbled before turning it on speaker phone and placing it down on the desk.
"Wow, you're voice has gotten deep." Felicity quipped, and a small snort could be heard.
"No time for games Felicity, we need you." Caitlin piped up.
"Everything okay?" Felicity asked, sensing the worry in Caitlin's tone.
"No. How do you hack into street cameras?"
"Um, can't you ask Cisco?"
"Felicity!" Caitlin snapped, coming off a little harsher than she intended. It seemed to deliver the right message, and Felicity immediately came back sounding a lot more serious.
"Okay, I need to know what for so I can be of more assistance."
Joe swiped a hand down his face and sighed. "Long story short, Barry, Cisco and Iris were kidnapped and we need to find him. I figured looking at the security footage and following his last steps before he was taken would help us narrow down where they might be."
"Oh. Wow. Okay, uhh, Cait, you could try running a facial recognition scan instead of individually going through each video."
"Great. How do I do that?"
"Grab the manual I left you. It's steps are far easier to follow than anything I could ramble about."
Caitlin slapped a hand to her face. "Duh. Alright Felicity, I really need to go."
"You better call me with updates. Stay safe."
"Thanks for the help. Bye."
Caitlin spun around in her chair to look at Joe, with a slightly amused face.
"Where's the manual?"
"Caitlin? You didn't think to ask?" Joe snapped. "Well, call her back!"
"Right." Caitlin nodded dumbly before picking it up and redialing Felicity's number.
It scared Iris that Barry was unconscious for so long. The only reassurance she had that he wasn't dead, was the soothing rise of his chest, and his slow, too slow, heartbeat. She did the best she could to keep him warm, but that became harder as she slowly got colder. They had been in this position for what felt like an hour now; Iris sat against the frosted metal wall, and Barry curled on the ground beside her, his head on her lap. Iris kept a strong arm wrapped around him.
Barry shuffled in his spot on the ground, letting out a weak whimper. It was the first time he moved since he fell unconscious on Iris chest. He looked even worse than before.
"Hey." Iris squeaked, her voice shivering from the cold. Barry lifted his chin to look at her, his gazed seemed fuzzy.
"Hi." Barry started coughing violently the second he let out just that one simple word. It seemed like a lot of simple things were hard for him to do now. Like breathing.
Iris couldn't do anything but squeeze him tighter.
"S-sorry.." He gasped, reaching for her hand.
"Barry."
"I can't.." He coughed again, and then gasped for more air. Barry might as well have been dead with how bad his condition was. Maybe it was his powers that kept Barry above water for so long. In fact, it was definitely his powers. Iris hated to think about it, but any normal person would be dead by now. "I can't feel.. anythi.. I'm scared.. I.. I don't wanna die." A single tear rolled down Barry's cheek.
"I know." Iris whispered, sliding down the wall so she could nestle her head in his neck. Trying to use your body heat to keep someone warm was a little difficult when you probably have no body heat left, and the person you are trying to warm was way past hypothermia, but something brought comfort out of it, and that helped.
Barry didn't seem to move when Iris did, he just stayed there, very still.
"Just keep your eyes open for me, you understand. I can't lose you." Iris whispered.
"I'm just..so..tired." It was true, Barry's eyelids felt like lead weights, fatigue was definitely a common symptom when your body was shutting down.
"Just keep talking, alright?"
Barry nodded. He tightened his fisted grip on Iris hand.
"How do you think.." Barry stopped.
"Barry?"
His head lulled to the side, and his eyes closed.
"Hey. Hey, hey! Wake up!" Iris tapped his cheek and lifted his chin slightly to look at him. "Barry!"
Barry slowly opened his eyes, only managing to get them half way open before they got too heavy.
"Don't do that to me. We are going to get out of here. Just hang on." Iris ran her fingers through his hair, and smiled slightly. "Remember when we had that sleepover when you came home from college for Thanksgiving?"
Barry nodded, a smile creeping at his lips. "I said we were.. too old for sleepovers, but you insis..ted"
"I wanted to spend as much time as I could with you before you went back. I only had the weekend." Iris argued.
Barry let out a soft chuckle that came out as more of a raspy cough. "That was so.. awkward for me."
"Why?" Iris felt her heart flutter, could this mean...
"I can't really remember.. I just know it was." His words slurred.
Iris couldn't help but wince every time Barry attempted to take in a breath. It seemed that no air was actually going in and he was mainly just making raspy noises.
"I need to breathe for you." Iris' words came sudden, but Barry only nodded. He fully understood that if he kept breathing this badly, it wouldn't be long before he was unconscious from hypoxia, that was, if the old didn't shut down his system first.
She leaned down and pinched his nose, tilted his chin back and sealed her lips around his, giving him two quick puffs of air.
"I'm sorry." There was the signature Barry apology. The one that made no sense because there was nothing to apologize about.
Iris pulled away from his lips after giving him another two breaths.
"What?"
"Not exactly how I pictured our first kiss." Barry smiled.
Iris' cheeks went beet red. What was she supposed to say to that?
She couldn't help herself. "What did you picture it being like?"
"I'm too sure.." He trailed off, seeming to find the door to be very interesting, and then his eyes widened.
Iris turned around to see what he had been so spooked about.
"Wow. I leave you alone in here for an hour, and you're already making out."
"He needs air you ass!" Iris snapped, unconsciously pulling Barry into a protective grasp.
"Yeah, you ass!" Barry started chuckling, as though what he said was the funniest thing ever.
"Bear? You alright?"
"If everyone has an ass, does that mean we're all an ass?"
Penny crossed her arms and smirked. "Wow, I guess you can say he's pretty much messed up."
Barry whipped his head to face Iris, a large smile stretched across his pale face. "I feel floaty!" Barry giggled again, he sounded drunk.
"Oh my God." Iris gasped.