barry's p.o.v
I must've had one heck of a fever cause Iris actually laid down with me until I fell asleep and when I did fall asleep it was like a dream come true, Iris ran her fingers through my soaked hair and she kept whispering "everything's going to be okay", you bet everything's okay I got Iris to sleep next to me… maybe being sick isn't so bad after all...
suddenly my stomach did a back flip, I opened my eyes when I felt it too.
"Iris I think I'm going to hurl." I looked at her and saw that her eyes had become wide, she handed me the trash can and soothingly rubbed my back, after I was done she laid me back down and pulled me into her arms, her warmth kept me warm considering I was feeling like I had been locked in an icebox or a meat locker.
Ok, scratch that being sick sucks like hell.
But being here in Iris's arms made me feel somewhat better and that was the thing that put me to sleep, knowing that I'm safe, at home, in the girl of my dreams arm's.
My eyes became heavy and I fell into an abyss of blackness.
Iris's P.O.V
There's one thing that I never knew about Barry, it's that he looks so young while he sleeps, seriously when I looked at him I thought it wasn't him for a second.
I wasn't going to tell Barry this but he has a fever of a hundred and three degrees, that's when I began to consider breaking Barry's promise because of how much I was worrying about him, I've been worrying about him ever since I saw him this morning, he ran into his door and said "Sorry did I hurt you?" Then after he said that he got into a conversation with it, yeah that's when I knew he was sick, but I didn't think he was this bad and by that I mean, he's cautioning the team that Zoom is going to kill everyone he's ever loved..and Barry's saying all these things in his sleep. Zoom's been dead for a month now.
Poor poor Barry… I thought as my dad knocked on the door.
"How's he doing?" Dad whispers as he lean's on the frame of the door.
"Not too great, he's got a high fever and he threw up once, but unfortunately I think there's more to come." I frowned at my own words when I spoke them, just the thought of Barry hunched over a trash can for hours make's me cringe. Barry's the flash, this shouldn't happen to him, it's unfair! He's a hero so why is he being punished, I thought to myself as my Dad brought me back to reality.
"Hey, Iris *snaps fingers* you there."
"Yeah sorry, what?"
"I'm going to call star labs to see if they can help you just stay with Barry ok?" As soon as the words came out of his mouth, my heart felt like it was about to explode when my dad said this, I refuse to break Barry's promise even if I have to start acting like Barry himself, I'll only break Barry's promise if things get out of hand and right now I've got everything under control, I'll honestly call star labs if that happens .
"NO, it's okay dad I'll call them, you just go get some sleep it's late okay?"
My dad just stops and looks at me like I'm hiding something from him, which I am.
"Alright… I will," He whispers as he slowly walks out of the room.
After my dad left I turned back to Barry and ran my hand through his damp hair, knowing that it would help Barry fall asleep because it always does.
Barry's p.o.v
When I came to, I saw that Iris was eating cereal while watching TV and she did this while wrapping one arm around me, wow she must have some sort of super power that I haven't heard of either that or it's just talents.
I was still admiring her when she whispered this, "Good morning Barry, how are you feeling?"
"Crappy, hey Iris how long have I been out."
"Uh let's see you took a nap around noon time yesterday and it's 10:00 now so uh... you've been asleep for 17 hours, jeez did you sleep well-sleeping beauty?" Iris says as she gives me a playful look.
"No I'm still tired, it's like my body is shutting down or something like that, I don't know, and the core of my stomach hurts a lot." I lean my head back into her chest for support, the pain is killing me, suddenly I feel her fingers run through my hair it felt nice and relaxing but nothing was soothing my pain.
"Here why don't you put a pillow on your stomach, I'm thinking that if it can help me it should help you." She says as she hands me the pillow, yeah its worth a try, though I highly doubt that it will help.
So, unfortunately, the pillow didn't work, I tried to take medicine but I ended up throwing it up instead, it sucked because now we figured out that I can't eat anything or else I'll throw it up, I had to learn this the hard way.
Iris's p.o.v
We tried to feed Barry but it didn't go too well, at first we gave him medicine but he said that it just made the pain worse and that made him throw up, then we tried to feed him breakfast (toast with Gatorade to see if that would help) but nope he threw that up too, so Barry was in the bathroom for about an hour, and I couldn't do a damn thing to help him, it was like whatever in the name of hell that he contracted just didn't want to go away.
My worst nightmare had come true, seeing Barry hunched over the toilet was not a pleasant sight, for me it was heartbreaking
finally after what seemed like ages, Barry finally stopped throwing up.
"Barry, are you done?" I ask in a gentle tone, as I continually rub Barry's back.
"Y-yeah." He says as he tries to stand up but fail's, I grab him before he can hit the ground, put his arm around my neck so I can support his weight back to the bedroom.
When we get there I lay him down in bed, but I can't get him to lie down straight because of the pain in his stomach.
I got into bed with him and pulled the covers over us after I did that I pulled Barry closer to me and as soon as he got close I could feel the heat radiating off his body and I could also suddenly feel wetness on my shirt, I looked down and found Barry crying.
"Does your stomach still hurt Barry?"
"Y-yes"
"Oh, Bear.." I whisper as my heart sinks.
For the rest of the day I tried to make Barry as comfortable as I could, I put on the TV to see if that could take his mind off the pain, I rubbed his stomach if he asked me too and sometimes I did it without his permission, I rubbed his back, and I ran my fingers through his hair, sometimes these things worked but the rest of the time they didn't and by the time night time rolled around, I think Barry was pretty much exhausted from the day he's had.
Well so was I so when Barry had fallen asleep I had passed out as well.
When I woke up I felt that a weight had been lifted off of my chest, I looked down and realized the weight was Barry, and Barry was gone. I started to panic uncontrollably after checking all the rooms in the house and then I suddenly see the note on my night stand it read's: "Hey iris its Barry, S.T.A.R labs called saying that there was a robbery and there saying that a metahuman did it so I went to go help out, I'll be back as soon as possible.
With love, Barry."
My heart rate sped up, Barry is sick he should be resting not pushing himself, oh my Dad is going to kill me, come on Barry really you better come back.
Little did I know that Barry wouldn't be coming back home.
Barry's P.O.V
I felt a little-embarrassed crying in front of iris last night but I couldn't help, the pain was so bad that I thought a bomb went off in my stomach. But it didn't matter now because I was on my way to fight a meta-human, word from star labs is that this guy can inflict pain on others so I got to go round him up. I was a little worried that my powers would make me feel even worse than I already feel but I was too concerned for other people's safety than my own well being, so as expected I ran to the crime scene without hesitation.
When I arrived, I saw that the meta was just leaving with a bag a jewels, I ran around him so he wouldn't be able to actually see me just yet and then I grabbed the bag of jewel's from his hand, I returned them back to their shelves I ran back to him before he could even blink. I did all of that with a blistering headache, sort of amazed I'm still standing.
"Well look who it is, Hey Flasher!" The meta says as he waves jokingly, FLASHER… why does that name sound awfully familiar?
"Hey I got a question for you, is being able to inflict pain on others fun cause I would've thought that it wouldn't be, I'm guessing there's some horrible back story that leads to all of this? Right? " Now I'm just stalling because I'm trying not to get hurt, my health is already dampened I don't need to be dead sooner than expected.
"Aye, it's real fun, when you have the power I have, it's all about playing with the big boys!"
"Another question, why haven't you hurt me yet?"
"BARRY!" Cisco and Caitlin both scream into my ear when I asked him why he hasn't hurt me yet, all the screaming was making my head spin.
"Because flash when I look into your eye's, the only thing I see is pain, and I don't inflict pain on people unless they hurt me, so it's your choice, you hurt me I'll hurt you, but if you just handcuff me and bring me to Iron Heights specifically then you can go free and unharmed."
"Jeez you act like you run the place, but you don't, oh and just cause you've mentioned iron heights, I'll let you rot in the pipeline just cause I'm nice!" I whisper in his ear to irritate him, he can't do anything now because I've already handcuffed him, oh thank god he didn't hurt me, I can finally go back to resting in my bed…
I can tell that this guy is pissed and it probably wasn't a smart idea to be a wise ass when this guy can cause massive pain, damn was I stupid.
"BIG MISTAKE FLASHER!" The man says as I struggle to bring him outside to where the cops are so I can tell them the change in plans but when I finally got him outside, I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye coming from the meta. Suddenly I felt different, not sick, but angry. Then I realized why it was because Zoom and the Reverse Flash are standing in front of me, they weren't normal, though, they looked more broken and defeated then normal.
"Go get em' Flash!" The meta whispers evilly, as I run over to them I feel the anger overtake but it wasn't like that time with that metahuman who could control my actions with anger, this time, it just felt normal and I mean normal as in how anger would usually make me feel.
I hadn't even thought about what I was doing It just happened, I look down and the image of the Reverse Flash and Zoom dead quickly fade's, reality finally shows itself. But I don't have time to look at it because the meta is trying to run, I grab him and speed to star labs, I had to tell them what happened, they won't believe their ears when they hear what I did!
I run the meta into a cell down in the pipeline and then I run to tell the team what I did.
But when I arrived they didn't look happy, they looked scared… I thought they would be happy that I killed Zoom and Reverse Flash again! Except I never killed the Reverse Flash so this would be a first.
"Barry...w-what have you d-done..." Caitlin says as she looks at me with a horrific look plastered on her face.
"What do you-" I was going to finish my sentence but I felt the sharpest pain in my back, so sharp that I fell unconscious.