Prompt from I'm Iam. Iris gets powers at the same time as Barry, she doesn't discover he is the Flash, she becomes a Flash with him.

"Bear, it's been nine months. I need you to wake up. Please Barry, I need to talk to you and have you talk back. So much has been changing, and I can't lose you, Bear." Iris laid her head on her best friend's chest, just so she could hear his heartbeat, well maybe not just. There was something else she wanted to say to him, but it was something she wanted him to really hear again. He hadn't had a chance to respond the last time she said it.

She held one of his hands and thought she felt his thumb rub against the back of her hand, but this wasn't the first time she had thought that. Wishful thinking, she thought. Until she felt a hand on her back.

"Iris, are you ok? What's going on?" He noticed that his chest was wet, and she rose from his chest and looked him in the eye. He sat up.

"You're awake!" Barry looked confused as Iris hugged him tightly.

"I didn't sleep in that long." Barry laughed, ignorantly.

"Nine months." Iris said into his shoulder.

"What are you talking about, Iris?" Barry was starting to worry.

"You've been in a coma for nine months, Barry." He fell into a shocked silence at her words.

"Please say something, Bear." Iris pleaded.

"How long have you been here?"

"Today, just about a half hour. I come whenever I can." Barry looked at her, and she found herself unable to stop talking. "I've spent most nights here. You've been asleep for nine months I needed to be with yo-"

"Iris, what else is going on?" Iris pulled away from him.

"Iris, you're early." A woman said as she walked in. "Oh!" She exclaimed when she saw Barry standing up. "Dr. Wells, come here. Alright, Barry, I need to run some tests on you."

"Barry, this is Caitlyn-Dr. Snow. I'm Cisco." A friendly looking guy said as a man who Barry automatically knew was Dr. Harrison Wells, his idol, came in in a wheelchair.

Caitlyn went a little crazy with how many tests she ran on him, and Iris was silent for the majority of the time they were in the room. Dr. Snow came back into the room. Holding a chart.

"We were right. He's like you, Iris." She showed Iris something on her tablet.

Barry watched as Iris's face went from shock to happiness to relief.

"What does she mean by I'm like you?" Barry looked over at Iris expecting to get a clearer answer form her than Caitlyn.

"Come on!" Iris grabbed his hand and pulled Barry out of the room he had so far been confined to.

She told him to sit in a chair facing a window facing a window to a room housing a very odd looking treadmill. Iris stepped on the treadmill and all Barry could see after that was a blur that had to be his best friend. She flew off the back of the treadmill, and Barry reached her in less than a second after she collided with the wall. She was holding her arm painfully.

"See you are like me." Iris laughed. "Calm down I heal quickly. I'll be fine within a few hours. You want to play with the new toy don't you?"

"No, I want to get Caitlyn in here to take a look at that arm." Barry turned to do just that, but Caitlyn walked in without needing to be called.

"I'll get Iris bandaged up. You should get on the treadmill so Cisco and Dr. Wells can see how fast you really are. It's safe enough, you'll heal as quickly as Iris."

Barry had to admit, that treadmill was insanely fun. Cisco said he got close to 800 miles per hour in the two minutes he was in there. Barry couldn't really believe that, but at the same time he had felt how fast he was going. Iris walked out of the medical area with a cast on her arm.

"So, how did this happen?" Barry asked Iris as they left to go tell Joe he was awake.

"Well, I don't really understand the science of it, but the particle accelerator exploded it created a storm, that created a lightning bolt, that struck you when we were talking in your lab. You pushed me toward the door when, I guess, you sensed something was going to happen. I got a few burns from being near it, but it actually struck you. You'd probably be dead if you didn't have super healing."

"What were we talking about?" Barry asked. "You look like you're worried that I don't remember."

"Uh, I . . ." She knew that if she didn't do it now, she would never work up the courage to do it again. "ItoldyouIlovedyou."

"Come again?" Barry laughed.

"I went to your lab to tell you I love you, and then-" Barry but her off by kissing her. "I like that reaction more than the last one."

"I've loved you for years, and wanted to kiss you just as long. How did I react last time?" Barry was still out of breath from the kiss.

"You went into a coma." Her laugh was partially caused by relief and partially the look on Barry's face.

They reached the police station. "Hold on, I have an idea. Don't tell your Dad that I'm awake, just pretend like I'm still in the coma." Iris looked at him suspiciously, but she agreed to it anyway.

Barry ran up to the main CSI lab at super speed, making sure to slow down when no one was around to see him. He asked one of his coworkers that was working a case with Joe if he could deliver the newest batch of evidence and surprise Joe. The other CSI said that it would be alright as long as he was allowed to see Joe's reaction.

Barry walked downstairs holding the evidence file so that it mostly covered his face. His fellow CSI walked a few feet behind him.

"So sorry I'm late Joe. I kind of slept in." Barry said coming up behind Joe and Iris.

Joe immediately turned around and looked at his kid. "I missed you so much, son. Even if you did just give me a heart attack."

"Sorry." Barry laughed.

"I'm glad you're back, Bear."