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Nine months later, S.T.A.R. Labs

"What are you doing?"

"He likes this song."

Barry slowly opened his eyes to hear Lady Gaga's Poker Face as in front of him was a Latino man eating chips and a brunette woman.

"How could you possibly know that?" The woman demanded.

"I checked his Facebook page. I mean, he can hear everything, right?" The man said.

"Auditory functions are the last sensory faculties to degenerate." The woman said.

The young man approached his phone as Barry came to, shooting up from the bed as he gasped.

"Where am I?" Barry demanded.

"He's up." The woman said as Barry's heart monitor started to beep like Christmas tree.

"Dr. Wells, get down to the Cortex, like, right now." The Latino man called out over the radio.

The woman shined a flashlight on Barry's eyes. "Pulse 120, pupils equally reactive to light. Look at me."

"Hey, hey, whoa, whoa, relax." The man tried to assure him, holding Barry by his arms. "Everything's OK, man, you're at S.T.A.R. Labs."

"S.T.A.R. Labs? Who are you?" Barry demanded.

"I'm Cisco Ramon. She's Caitlin. Dr. Snow." They introduced themselves.

"I need you to urinate in this." Caitlin showed Barry a plastic cup.

"Not this second." Cisco intervened, snatching the cups from Caitlin's hands.

"What… what is happening?" Barry demanded, confused. "What is going on?"

"You were struck by lightning, dude." Cisco explained as Barry turned around to face the camera on the monitor, confused by his physique.

"What? Lightning… gave me abs?" Barry asked.

"Your muscles should be atrophied but instead they're in a chronic and unexplained state of cellular regeneration." Caitlin explained, holding Barry by his arms.

"Come here. Have a seat." Cisco said as he held Barry, who sat down. "You were in a coma."

"For how long?" Barry asked.

"Nine months."

Barry turned around and saw a man around 50 years old on a wheelchair with glasses that he recognized.

"Welcome back, Mr. Allen. We have a lot to discuss." Dr. Harrison Wells said.

"It's hard to believe I'm here." Barry said, walking down the corridor with Wells, who was on his wheelchair. "I have always wanted to meet you face to face."

"Yeah? Well, you certainly went to great lengths to do it." Wells deadpanned as he accompanied Barry to the now destroyed particle accelerator. "S.T.A.R. Labs has not been operational since FEMA categorized us as a Class 4 hazardous location. Seventeen people died that night. Many more were injured. Myself amongst them."

"Jeez. What happened?" Barry wondered.

"Nine months ago, the particle accelerator went online exactly as planned. For 45 minutes, I had achieved my life's dream." Wells explained. "And then... Then there was an anomaly. The electron volts became unmeasurable, the ring under us popped. Energy from that detonation was thrown into the sky and that, in turn, seeded a storm cloud..."

"…that created a lightning bolt that struck me." Barry deduced.

"That's right." Wells confirmed. "I was recovering myself, when I heard about you. The hospital was undergoing unexplainable power outages every time you were going into cardiac arrest, which was actually a misdiagnosis because, you see, you weren't flatlining, Barry. Your heartbeat was moving too fast for the EKG to register it.

Now, I'm not the most popular person in town these days, but Detective West and his daughter gave me permission to bring you here, where we were able to stabilize you."

"Iris?" Barry asked.

"Iris, yes." Wells nodded. "She came to see you quite often."

"She talks a lot." Caitlin said as she was handing Wells a can of soda.

"Also, she's hot." Cisco added.

"I need to go." Barry said, about to leave.

"No, you can't." Caitlin protested.

"No, no. No, Caitlin's right." Wells agreed. "No, now that you're awake, we need to do more tests. You're still going through changes. There's so much that we don't know."

"I'm fine. Really, I feel normal." Barry said. "Thank you for saving my life."

He left as they all stared.

"Really?" Caitlin asked incredulously as Wells sighed.

After a moment, Barry returned in a bit awkward manner. "Can I keep the sweatshirt?"

"Yeah, keep the sweatshirt." Wells said.

"OK." Barry said as he left.

CCPD

Patty was doing paperwork at her desk before she noticed a hand touching her papers as she glanced up and stared in disbelief.

"Hi." Barry smiled.

"Oh, my God…" Patty breathed out as she got up slowly and then touched Barry's face, just to be sure she was not imagining it as her eyes got wet. "Is it you?"

"It's me, Patty." Barry said.

Patty laughed as she hugged him tightly and he returned the hug. "Oh, God, I can't believe this!"

A moment later, Joe and Iris saw him, staring in shock.

"Barry?" Iris gasped.

"Barr…" Joe trailed off as Barry turned to them.

"Hi, Joe. Iris." Barry said. Both Wests laughed as they hugged Barry too, alongside some other officers later.

"Oh, you scared the hell out of us, kid." Joe said.

"Yeah, that was quite the nap you took there, baby face, and you still look twelve." Another officer joked.

"Why didn't S.T.A.R. Labs call us?" Iris demanded.

"I just woke up." Barry explained.

"Should you even be on your feet?" Iris demanded.

"I'm… I'm OK." Barry assured them.

"We watched you die, Barry." Iris said. "You kept dying. Your heart kept stopping."

"It's still beating." Barry said but then for a moment, everything was going in slow motion as Barry looked around before he saw Singh staring in disbelief.

"Allen?" Singh whispered, not believing his own eyes before chuckling as he hugged Barry. "Welcome back, kiddo."

"Barry, you sure you're fine?" Patty asked.

"Yeah." Barry nodded.

"Detective West, we've got a 5-15 in progress at Gold City Bank, two dead." One of the officers said. "Storm's really picking up on the south side. I'd grab your rain gear."

"I'm sorry, Barry. I gotta run." Joe said, as he picked up his jacket.

"Do you need my help?" Barry asked.

"No, you take it easy. There'll be plenty for you to do once you settle in." Joe said as he and Eddie left.

"Hey, Allen. Glad to see you." Eddie told Barry.

"Thanks, Eddie." Barry said.

"Hey, Iris." Eddie said as he turned to her.

"Detective, you should go. My dad doesn't like to be kept waiting." Iris said.

"Glad you're back." Eddie said, patting Barry before he saw the memorial photo of Joe's late partner Chyre.

"The night of the explosion, Clyde Mardon shot and killed Chyre." Iris explained.

"Both of them died, when the particle accelerator went off. Their plane crashed." Patty explained. "Good riddance." She said as Barry knew how angry she still was over Mark Mardon murdering her father.

One of the detectives called out for Iris as Patty turned to Barry. "I'm glad you're back." She turned around as Barry saw a criminal, who had just been arrested, trying to take an officer's gun. As if everything was going in slow motion, Barry slammed him to the desk and disarmed him before getting back as a gust of wind blew the papers away.

"Did you feel that?" Patty wondered.

"Feel what?" Barry asked.

"Strange. It was as if a gust of wind passed by." Patty mused as Barry stared, confused. "Are you OK, Barry?"

"I… I just need some air. I'll see you later, OK?" Barry said and Patty nodded, giving him a confused look as he left outside.

"OK…" Patty said.

Barry went into an alley as he saw his hand vibrate. "What's happening to me?"

Barry tried to leave but he suddenly moved at superspeed few feet away as he stopped himself. Barry turned around but in a second he crashed into a cruiser as he smashed the rear window. Barry got up and panted out before he sped away, screaming as he was running at incredibly abnormal speed before he crashed into a pile of bags of laundry in a laundry van.

"Awesome." Barry said.

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