The Flash Imagines

Emotions

Summary: You're a metahuman who can feel the emotions around you and you are determined to cheer up Barry up when he loses his ability to walk after Zoom pays him a visit.

Timeline: S2 Ep 7

Everyone, especially you, had told Barry over and over again that he was rushing into luring Zoom into this world with Linda pretending to be Dr. Light. Everyone who watched her go through the scene that she and Barry were supposed to play out knew that it was painfully obvious that it was faked.

But Barry was still adamant about following through with it. And, at first, it felt like Zoom saw through the act completely and chose not to even waste his time traveling between worlds but hours later he had returned and tortured Barry for practically the whole city to see. He had pretended to be confident through the fight, especially more towards the beginning, but you could feel he terror as time went on. He had underestimated Zoom and that really got the best of him. If that wasn't enough to be forced to watch your boyfriend be beaten almost to the point of death, hours later when he final awoke you all discovered that he couldn't feel his legs at all. He felt broken past the point of repair.

Barry's sadness and fear hung over him like a dark rain cloud. It was so strong, being that it was combined with both Cisco's and Caitlin's distress about the situation, it felt like your head was going to explode because of the headache that all of the emotions filling the room was causing you.

Being a meta-human wasn't always as fun as Barry made it out to be. Maybe it was because his power was much cooler than being able to feel everyone's emotions around you and even being able to influence them sometimes. (Though he was usually very reluctant, there were times he would bring you out into the field to have you calm down an angry meta. All of those times he always made sure that you were at a safe distance while he corralled the meta back to the lab's prison). His power didn't cause him pain like yours did—unless he was stupid enough to run into danger.

For instance, being around a joyful person made you feel light as air and a bit giggly at times even. Sadness gave you a headache—its degree of pain depended on how much sadness surrounds you and how distraught that person or people were. Anger made you feel like your body was on fire and there was absolutely no escape from the heat. Fear made your heart race and also seemed to heighten your senses to be on alert to everything around you. Different emotions caused you to feel many different things but nothing was worse than the varying types of sadness.

It felt suffocating to be sitting beside Barry since his emotions felt like they were strangling you. Though it probably wasn't very reassuring to anyone, you had to excuse yourself and wait in the hallways for almost fifteen minutes before you felt like yourself again. And, without being influenced to feel all the emotions around you, you were then forced to come to terms with how you were actually feeling on your own.

You were in no way smart enough to call yourself a scientist like the people gathered in the cortex but you would definitely consider yourself to have an above average intelligence. So it was clear that this was nothing like the time Farooq stole his powers and Barry eventually got them back. You weren't sure if this was something that Barry could recover from, with his regenerative cells and all, or if this was somethings irreparable. There hasn't yet been anything that Barry wasn't able to heal from but there was always a first for everything but you prayed that this wasn't that. He had to be alright.

You reentered the cortex almost half an hour after you stepped out only to be greeted with the suffocating air once again. Though it wasn't quite as bad as before, it still was very uncomfortable.

Cisco noticed your entrance and dashed over to you, wanting to tell you about his discovery. "Cait and I did some tests and he should be good in a few days, a week tops." He wasn't as distressed as he previously was which was a bit reassuring since Cisco was always a little ball of sunshine and, you believed, should never be sad. You had always opted to stay back with Cisco when you had the choice since he was basically a never ending source of happiness combined with a never ending stream of TV or movie references. Cisco is just a great person to be around and didn't bring you down with negative emotions, so it was good to know that he wasn't too upset anymore.