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A/N – sorry for the delay. I didn't realise it had been so long since I updated until I started getting messages asking when I was going to update. So I decided to look when I updated and was shocked to see it had been so long so I apologize for that. I really am failing at the moment but I am trying my best to get these out as fast as possible but I keep getting ideas for new stories that I have to play with and I forget to come back to these. Anyways I hope this chapter is worth the wait.


Bolting upright in bed, I groaned at the sharp pain shooting up the side of my torso as I checked the time on the clock beside the bed. Just after three thirty in the morning. Brushing my hair from my face, my skin covered in a thick layer of sweat I reminded myself it was just dream well more nightmare, it was just nightmare and it's not real. My world isn't ending; it hasn't completely crumbled around me. It's still standing and everything is fine so no need to panic I reassured myself. Tossing the sheets to the side, I sat climbed out of bed and headed towards the doors to get myself a bottle of water from the kitchen.

Spotting my pain medication on the kitchen counter I thought about taking a couple of pills to help with the pain in my side anything to stop the ache but as I reached for them my hand paused as I questioned if I really needed them or wanted them because they're there as a doctor I have seen how people have become addicted to things like that and I value my career more than pain killers. Swiping them off the counter I decided to deal with the pain on my own and headed back to the bedroom with my water, pausing by the guest bedroom on my way back to my bedroom seeing shining through the gaps around the door. Lightly knocking on the door, waiting to hear a response from Barry but hearing nothing, I quietly opened the door to see him propped up against the head board asleep, with a book in his hands reminding me how peaceful he looked while he's sleeping. Memories of all he mornings I would wake up before him and just watch him sleep, how his face would be completely relaxed and almost angelic, it makes me miss him even more.

Placing my water onto the nightstand, I stepped closer to the bed and tried to remove the book from his hands, finally able to do so by prying his fingers from his hold of the hardback book. Grabbing the book mark off the bed beside him, ignoring the shooting pain in my side again – telling myself it's all in my head. I closed the book and placed it onto the nightstand beside him. Barry stirred in his sleep, his green eyes slowly opening to look at me, a small smile appearing on his face before he looked around him.

"Cait what's wrong, is everything ok?" he asked panicked looked around the room once more, his emerald greens coming to settle on me again.

"Fine, I saw the light on and it doesn't matter – I didn't mean to wake you, go back to sleep" I smiled grabbing my water again. Why I thought coming in here in the first place was a good idea I don't know. We have already talked, I said what I wanted and Barry agreed I can't tell him something else now. Talk about mixed signals.

"It does matter, Cait what's wrong?" Barry took my hand in his, his thumb brushing over my knuckles.

"I wanted to talk but we've done so much of that lately but it can wait until breakfast"

"If you're here at almost four in the morning then there is a great chance that whatever you wanted to say can't wait, now come on get in and we can talk" Barry patted the bed beside him. Rounding the bed, I climbed into the bed beside him, lying down on my side that wasn't busted up from the crash to face him, watching as Barry rolling onto his side to face me, a toothy smile appearing on his face. "So what do you want to talk about? Boys, swap make up tips, shoes?"

"Stop it" I lighting pushed him, resisting the urge to roll my eyes at him.

"Isn't that what besties do?"

"I'm going into working tomorrow-"

"We'll see" Barry cut me off making me glare at him.

"Can I finish" I sighed. I know he's only trying to look after me and make sure I recover as quickly as possible and I love him for that and many other reasons but at the same time I'm not made out of glass. "I've decided to hand in my notice, I thought this job is what I wanted but it isn't. The crash made me realise a lot of things and one of them is that I'm trying to make the best out of this job when it is making me miserable. I like looking after patients, treating them and I don't get to do that often. It's mainly paperwork and I wanted to be out there with patients doing my job but that's not the main thing the crash made me realise" Grabbing the water from the nightstand I twisted the cap off and took a large mouthful, my throat suddenly becoming dry. I had all this planned in my mind. What I was going to say and now the time has come it abandons me and I have no idea what to say.

"So what are you going to do – job wise I mean?" Barry asked taking my long pause as a sign I has finished talking.

"I'm getting to that" I placed the water back onto the night stand. Take a moment to gather my thoughts. "I need to apologise to you because I keep giving you mixed signals and that isn't fair. I told you I only wanted to be your friend but I don't, I can't just be friends with you because you mean everything to me, you're my world but more importantly you're my home. When I thought I was going to die, my only thought was of you. Knowing I would never get to see you again. Leaving you was the biggest mistake of my life and I'll never be able to change what I did and I'll have to live with that. That look on your face as I drove away from you that day will haunt me for the rest of my life, I wanted to turn around and come back to you but we both know it wouldn't have been the same. I had to try and do this or else I would have retreated this but you will always be my biggest regret. I've lay in bed many nights wondering what you're doing, if I was still there what we would be doing. No doubt arguing over what movie to watch or what to have or dinner" I laughed to myself as the memory of how it was before flooded my mind. We could never decide on what to have for dinner to what to watch on TV or what movie.

"What are you trying to say Caitlin?" Barry asked and I knew from the use of my full name that he wanted to me to say it – he wanted the words to fall from my mouth.

"I've had the dream many times since I left Central City, what our future could have been like. Almost like a game show where they show the contestant what they could have won." Pausing I rolled onto my back to look at the ceiling. I don't know why I'm telling him this but now I've started talking I can't stop. It's as if I'm not going to get the chance to tell him any of this again so I need to tell hi it all now.

"What did our future look like?" feeling the bed beside my shift, Barry's hand slid into mine on the bed.

Wanting to turn my head to look at him, I stopped myself knowing if I did then I would probably lose my trail of thought and my mind would go blank again so instead I laced my fingers with his on top of the sheets and continued to look up at the ceiling.

"We were married, happily but you still annoyed me all the time." I told him which made us both laugh. We wouldn't have a relationship if Barry didn't annoy me. He annoyed me since day one; if he was to ever stop I don't think our lives would ever be the same. "We had this house with a big yard in a cute little neighbourhood not too far from your parents. We had kids – every dream would be different, a boy and a girl, two boys, two girls or sometimes we would have three kids and your mom would always be there being the doting grandmother just like she is mother and we had this cute little white dog"

"I have always wanted a dog" I could hear the smile in his voice without having to look.

"I know you have" I used to catch him looking up names online, at first I thought he was jumping the gun and looking at baby names and did panic a little thinking he wanted a baby right away until he started mentioning names like thunder then quickly realised he was looking at names for a dog and allowed myself to calm down a little.

"That future sounds nice, Dr Caitlin Allen – does have a nice ring to it"

"Mr Allen this is the twenty first century maybe you become Mr Bartholomew Snow, no one says I have to take your name, I could even hyphenate or keep my name " I informed him, realising we're starting a debate over a future that is only a dream.

"Point taken Dr Snow"

"Anyways what I'm trying to say is, I want to come back to Central City" I sighing I rolled back onto my side to face him. My hand remaining entwined with Barry's as I did so, mirroring my action Barry rolled onto his side to face me. A small smile tugging at the corners of his lips forcing small smile onto mine, one thing Barry has never failed to do – make me smile. "I not saying we have to but if you want too and only if you want too maybe we could try for that future because I miss you but more than that I love you and the crash made me realise that life is short and it can end at any time so you should grab every opportunity you can – so what do you say Mr Allen, do you want to try for that future?"


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