"And I swear, it hasn't been the same without you Bar" Iris rambled in both rapid sign language and speech as she and Barry walked to the cafe for some coffee. Barry smiled as she talked, keeping his eyes on her fast moving hands. Iris was basically as fluent as he was in ASL so it was easy to follow everything she told him without Barry having to guess. People assumed that since he had a cochlear he could hear everything perfectly normal, except that wasn't the case. He could hear a variation of things in different ways, depending on the volume. For him he enjoyed ASL better than speech, as it was easier for him to follow.

"So I should tell you" Iris continued and it was obvious from her facial expressions alone that she had been dying to tell Barry about this "Remember Eddie? Detective Pretty Boy as Dad called him, still does by the way. Well...a few months ago, we started dating" she told Barry, waiting for a response from him. But Barry hadn't seen the last part of what she had said as he had looked towards the moving cars on the street. Except, something was off. They were moving in slow motion, and so was everything else.

"Barry? Barry!" Iris called waving a hand in front of his eyes. Barry blinked and looked at her, then at their surroundings. Everything was moving at a normal pace. "You ok?" She asked worriedly, wondering if Barry should even be out this early after waking up from a coma.

"Yeah, I just spaced out for a second" Barry replied, sure he must've imagined all that.

"Maybe we should go back to Star Labs?" Iris asked, looking fairly concerned.

"No, it's fine. I'm fine. Maybe we could stop by the precinct? Show all the officers I'm still alive?" Barry asked, moving his hands swiftly as he spoke and then smiled for good measure although he felt a bit off.

"Yeah I'm sure Singh would love to see you" Iris signed as she took Barry's hand and together they made their way to the police department.

It was a surprise for the precinct to see the young CSI walking through the front doors, as almost everyone there had remembered seeing him being taken out by stretcher over nine months ago, after the lighting incident.

"Barry" Captain Singh said, remembering the sign name for the kid that Joe had taught him. "Welcome back".

"Thanks" Barry said as a few other officers came over to give him a high five or a hug.

"That was a long nap you took there, Baby Face" said one detective. "You still look twelve" Everyone laughed and after Iris caught him up in ASL with the words he missed, so did he. He could understand speech if someone said it loud and clear, but with many people talking at once and that was too much. But then something caught his eye. A man who was sitting, handcuffed in a chair was reaching for a gun in an officer's holster, but Barry saw it again at a slowed pace. Quickly without thinking he rushed forward and moved the gun out of the way. Suddenly everything around him was back to normal, and he saw the criminal getting shoved down and then taken out of the room.

Barry looked around, confused of what just happened. He tapped Iris's shoulder. And told her in he needed some air. He went out through the back exit, breathing heavily. Everything appeared to be fine, nothing looked out of the ordinary. Then he felt a vibration. At first Barry thought it was his phone as he removed it from his pocket and picked it up, but one look at it told him that wasn't the case. His phone wasn't vibrating, but his hand was.

"What's happening to me?" Barry muttered, taking a step back from where he was. But suddenly he wasn't in the back exit of the precinct anymore, instead he was a block away. "What the hell?". He wondered if he was actually losing it now, if maybe the coma messed him up somehow, because he didn't remember walking this far, all he did was take a step back...unless.

Barry looked towards the empty street in front of him and then went into what he thought would be a slow jog, yet it was anything but.

He was speeding down the street as such a fast pace that he wind itself couldn't keep up with him. Of course, that's when he crashed into a dumpster and everything went black.

He awoke to someone slapping his face. Iris stood crouched over him with an extremely worried look on her face. "Bar!" She said as she helped him sit up.

"What happened?" Barry asked, his hands signing in sluggish movements. He looked at his surroundings, he was in the alleyway for the back exit of the precinct. It was as if he hadn't moved.

"Well you said you needed some fresh air, but then you were gone for a while. I came out here to check on you and you were unconscious. I called Caitlin and Cisco" She added.

"What? Come on I'm fine!" Barry protested though with his signing and facial expressions he didn't seem convincing in the slightest.

"I knew you shouldn't be on your feet so soon" Iris said as a white van baring the Star Labs logo pulled up in front of them with a smiling Cisco in the passenger seat and a concerned looking Caitlin coming out to help.

Not even ten minutes later all four of them were sitting in the cortex of the lab, Barry with a needle in his arm as Caitlin took a blood test from him.

"Ok everything looks normal...except your glucose levels. Barry have you been eating? I know your stomach might not be used to solid foods after so long" Caitlin asked as Iris stood next to her signing with fluent ASL. But Barry was barely paying attention. He kept thinking of what had just happened, or at least what he thought had happened. Being able to run at such speeds...he couldn't have imagined it.

"Barry?" Iris asked him with a tap on his shoulder. He looked up at the three standing in front of him wondering how to explain.

"Listen, something happened" Barry began awkwardly. "This is going to sound crazy" and he told them all about the speed, the air rushing by him, being a block away in a split second. When he finished Iris, Cisco, and Caitlin were giving him strange looks. "But I mean, you must have imagined it, Bar" Iris said.

Barry shook his head. "I didn't, I meant at least I think I didn't.

At that moment Cisco and Caitlin both turned around, obviously talking to each other probably discussing if the lighting had drove him insane. He hated when people did that, knowing he couldn't hear and turning around so Barry couldn't read their lips. It also didn't help that they kept their voices so low that there was no chance of Barry catching a word.

"Guys!" Barry said rather loudly with his voice. The two turned back around. "Come on, don't do that" he said. Caitlin and Cisco both looked embarrassed. "Look, I'm not crazy, it happened and I swear if could just prove it, I-" Barry stopped. All three of his friends were once again looking at him strangely, except this time it was shock written all of over their faces. They were staring not at his face, but at his entire body. And sure enough when Barry looked down he was vibrating once again. He lifted a hand in front of his eyes and that's when red lighting sparked around him,

"Cool" Cisco said in awe, as if all his comic book dreams had just came true.