Find Your Light in The Darkness

Paralyzed

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Darkness.

An infinite swirl of pitch black darkness. 

Was the only thing that filled Barry’s dazed vision as his mind groggily forced his aching body to awaken, his fingers stirring weakly at his sides with each slow blink his gentle ocean blue eyes attempted to perform. Well, other than the feeling of intense soreness which was currently pressing roughly against his back, but the speedster had already mostly concluded that was more of an expected fact rather than an actual realization.

Getting bodied by a super-villain can sometimes do that to someone, though. At least, I think that’s what most people say, right? Or maybe I’m just the exception, I guess…

After several difficult seconds of painful pushing, Barry finally willed his exhausted eyes open, an action which he would momentarily come to regret due to the blindingly bright yellow ceiling light instantly shining down directly into his disorientated pupils. He moaned inaudibly under his breath as his head wobbled from side to side on his neck, though it could move very little from its initial position because of the heavily foamed brace Barry’s throbbing head was slowly beginning to realize was the only thing keeping it upright against the pillow barrier behind him.

Yeah, that type of thing isn’t really a good sign as to how bad I lost, especially considering it still hurts enough to need one, too…also, ow…

Though his ears were constantly ringing with a loud buzzing sound, he still heard the distinct sound of his two best friends’ nervous voices breaking through the enigmatically strong barrier which was trying so desperately to contain his mind to the suffocatingly senseless fuzziness of unconsciousness. A feeling which felt strangely more nature than actual consciousness for the speedster at the moment.

“Barry? Barry, can you hear me?” Asked Caitlin, her simple words repeated a few times (not that her patient was even slightly in the mindset to be counting how many at the moment) before her gentle whisper completely penetrated the wall blocking any and all noise that surrounded the man’s formerly resting body.

“Hey,” Barry replied, his singular weakly spoken word acting as the only indicator his friends needed to know he was alright.

Which was especially helpful because he doubted that he really had the energy to say anything more than that anyway.

Not that I couldn’t if I tried to… this way is just easier for all of us…

“You scared the crap out of us, man,” commented Cisco, half-jokingly, relief carrying the entirety of his voice as he and Caitlin smiled down appreciatively at their incoherent friend’s slowly blinking eyes.

He couldn’t quite make out the exact shapes of their familiar faces, only the vague colors of their casually-clothed navy blue and black outfits, respectively. Oh, and of course, the light-hearted smiles clearly showing on their teary-eyed faces, too. 

It’s honestly pretty nice to get to see them again…wait, can I miss something I didn’t even really know I’d lost in the first place? Nope, nevermind,  it doesn’t even matter as long as they’re here with me now…or I’m here with them again? Ugh…