Chapter 10 part 2 requested by Starlight3743.
As Barry walked into the lab carrying a bleeding Barry, Caitlyn looked like she might strangle the weak, injured man.
"What did you do Barry?" Caitlyn shouted.
"What happened?" Dr. Wells asked as he came into the room. "Take him to the medical room. It's through there." He pointed down the hall and headed that direction himself.
Eddie and Iris followed. Eddie set Barry down on the patient bed and Caitlyn got to work.
"The wound is already starting to heal around the bullet so I'm going to have to reopen it. It's going to hurt." Caitlyn warned.
"Can't you give him a pain killer or a sedative." Iris practically screamed.
"No, for the same reason he eats four times as much as a normal person and is healing around a bullet from a very recent wound. Please let me concentrate."
Iris began to cry as she saw Barry in pain from the operation. She couldn't stand to watch but held his hand through it anyway. He was well enough to go home within an hour and Iris made him stay in his old room in her house, so she could make sure he was okay even if she had been assured he was fine multiple times by his doctors.
~Just realized my line breaks don't show up~
Barry walked into STAR Labs the next day with Eddie and Iris in tow. He had called ahead to explain that he would be bringing them to Dr. Wells and needless to say, Barry was not on the nice list today.*
"Your punishment is two hours on the treadmill, you and Caitlyn will be playing Monopoly instead of Operation, clue against Eddie, and Scrabble against Iris." Cisco said as they all walked in.
"That's a punishment?" Iris asked. "Well, I guess I understand the treadmill part."
"All at once, Iris." Barry deadpanned.
"What?" Eddie asked.
"I have to play chess against Dr. Wells, ping pong against Cisco, Monopoly against Caitlyn, Scrabble against Iris, and Clue against you, and I have to do it all at once to test how quickly I can switch between tasks. The treadmill is the easy part of my days off." He explained to Eddie and Iris. Then he turned to Caitlyn. "What does he want me to start with?"
Caitlyn gestured to the room with the treadmill without looking at Barry, she was as mad as him as Dr. Wells was. She went to monitor speed and vitals while Barry got on the treadmill.
"This is fun. We basically increase the speed of my treadmill until he flies off of it." Cisco said with more enthusiasm than Iris thought reasonable when her best friend was about to be thrown off a treadmill at intense speeds.
"I keep telling him to let us know when it's getting too hard, but he never lets us know, so he flies off either when he gets distracted or it gets too fast. Usually it's the first one." Caitlyn clarified. "Okay Barry, I'm starting it at 100mph." Caitlyn said into the mic. Then she typed the number into the computer and Barry started running. She quickly but steadily increased the speed to 750mph. "Twenty more mph and he will break the sound barrier." Caitlyn told his stunned friends.
"How fast have you seen him go?" Iris asked.
"I've seen him reach about 800, but he usually gets distracted by this point. You've seen him go faster than I have though."
"I have?" Iris said in surprise.
"When he was fighting Tony he had to go about 837mph. He had to get a straight shot from 5.3 miles away to reach that speed."
"What's he at now?" Eddie asked in amazement, staring at the awkward scientist turned superhero.
Caitlyn had set the program to increase the speed by 1mph every two minutes. She looked down to see how high it had gotten while they had been talking.
"Doctor Wells get in here now!" Caitlyn shouted into the intercom.
"Is he ok?" Iris asked getting increasingly worried at her best friend as Caitlyn watched him with wide eyes not telling them how fast Barry was going.
"What is it Caitlyn?" Doctor Wells said as he rolled into the room.
"Look." She said simply.
Dr. Wells turned to look at Eddie and Iris. "Well he's putting on an impressive show for you. He's reaching records speeds. Currently he's at 982mph. Cisco what have you built the treadmill to withstand?"
"Not anything over a thousand. I will change that after ping pong."
"Get him off, Caitlyn."
"Barry, time's up. I'm going to slow you dow-" Caitlyn spoke into the microphone, unfortunately for Barry that was enough of a distraction to send him flying.
"I broke something!" Barry called as if it was completely normal, which according to Cisco it was.
"I think he broke a lot of somethings." Caitlyn murmured under her breath. "Eddie, can you help me carry him to the medical room. Cisco dropped him last time."
"Yeah, of course." Eddie headed to the treadmill room and scooped Barry up.
Iris turned to Cisco. "You dropped Barry."
"Please don't hurt me."
Barry was not thrilled by having to lie down for four hours waiting to heal from three broken ribs and a shattered femur with Iris hovering over him, but now he was up and ready for his multitasking exercises.
"Are you ready Mr. Allen?" Dr. Wells asked when all five games were set up. "You already broke your record speed for your friends, so I expect you to do better than usual despite the extra games."
"I'll do my best. Your serve Cisco."
And Barry was off he was doing well in ping pong and then ran over to get a seven letter word right off the bat in Scrabble. He made his move in chess and ran back to ping pong where he got a point after two hits. He went to play his least favorite game, Monopoly- a really weird punishment considering he had never told anyone he didn't like the game- and memorized his cards in clue before volleying a few times with Cisco. Then he ran to chess with Dr. Wells. The cycle went on for nearly an hour. By the end Barry had won everything except chess at least once.
"One of these days I need to play chess with you without the other games. I'm not sure I could beat you even then." Barry commented.
"Maybe someday, Mr. Allen."
"Ok."
"Go home, and maybe try to keep your secret a secret, Barry." Dr. Wells said with a cool stare. "Be careful."
"So that's how you've been spending your days off." Eddie said as the trio walked out of the lab.
"Days off, mornings, nights, and breaks, except for Saturday morn-" Barry knew he had made a big mistake by adding that last part.
"And on Saturday nights you do what, exactly?" Iris said with a deadly calm voice.
"Uh, that's when ItrainwiththeArrowandhisteam."**
"What was that?" Eddie asked.
"I train with the Arrow and his team."
"And you got after me for putting myself in danger?" Barry just couldn't stop digging a hole for himself.
"He hasn't threatened to kill me since I first found out who he was, and he was only mad because he wasn't the one that told me." Crap he did it again.
"Why was he not the one to tell you?" Eddie asked. How deep did they want him to dig?
"He was dying, his partner kidnapped me from the train station, and his IT girl asked me to save his life, and I saw him without his hood. Please stop asking me questions." Barry was nervous and he had a feeling he would have worse punishments than Monopoly for everything he had said today.
*Just in case nobody got that, Tom Cavenaugh played Santa Claus on the movie Snow, I couldn't resist. It's on Netflix, watch it. He says snowflakes as a curse word several times and I keep picturing Dr. Wells saying that and it kills me.
**Headcanon
