Zero hour

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"How are you feeling?" Inquired Caitlin while walking back in the smallest medical room where Lily was sitting on the side of her bed with her legs dangling off the edge without touching the ground.

An impressively long and loud yawn was the first answer the doctor got, but it wasn't a surprising reaction considering how that poor girl looked like she was about to fall asleep again even after having been out for most of the night. It's had now been just over 48 hours since Jay brought Barry and Lily back and the Scarlet Speedster was still desperately clinging to life with everything he had. Speaking of Jay, the Crimson Comet was silently standing next to the girl's bed.

"Exhausted," simply answered Lily, stating the obvious. "I have a headache too, but nothing unusual. How's Barry?"

"Your glucose levels and most of your vitals are still pretty low, but none of them are in the danger zone," informed Caitlin while taping on her tablet and swiping from one page to another inside the medical report to double check the results at the same time she was telling them.

Once finishing that task, the doctor looked up straight at the young woman's eyes. Lily was a little pale, but she should recover entirely with a bit of rest. That was if the young speedster would be willing this time to take it easy and not push her powers, either one of them. There was no need for an extensive analysis of her abilities and a medical degree to figure out that healing people in her exhausted state could become dangerous and real fast. One thing for sure, it was impressive to see someone with two sets of abilities, even if it technically wasn't entirely a different power.

"How long did you have your powers?" Asked Caitlin before looking down once more at the numbers while waiting for an answer. The scientist needed to make sure she didn't miss a thing.

"A little over four years," admitted Olivia with her eyes looking at the ceiling for a short instant as she made the maths in her head. "I was helping my mom do the inventory in her medical clinic when a wave of Dark matter hit me," she recalled.

"How long did it take you to realize you could heal people up?" Caitlin questioned, letting go of her tablet and putting it on the desk.

Olivia winced as she answered, submerged by the old memories. "It wasn't that long after I got hit that I discovered what I could do. It was not that long after my older brother got badly hurt."

"What happened?" The doctor inquired almost instantly, before taking a moment to think. It probably wasn't nice memories, but her curiosity got the best of her

"He... he got shot during a bank robbery caused by a Metahuman, a couple of months later," recollected Lily as her fingernails unconsciously dug into the mattress under her.

"Ho-"

"He ended up paralysed, from the waist down."

"Lily, I'm so-" started to say Caitlin before realizing she had no idea where she was heading with that sentence. What was she supposed to add? That she was sorry for her brother and sorry for forcing the young lady to revive these memories? But she got cut short by Lily's hand that swiftly dismissed the issue and the building tension.

"It's okay. My brother's fine now. I remember wishing so badly I could help ease his pain and sorrows and that's when my hands started glowing the very first times, a few weeks after the incident," Lily continued with a bittersweet smile on her face. "It just took a few tries to understand how these abilities were functioning. He was the first person I helped after getting my powers."

Visibly relaxing, Caitlin smiled warmly and, switching from doctor to friend, approached the bed. "And what happened next? Did your brother?"

"As I said, it took me a while to get a hang on these powers, but I managed to heal his back." Proudly said the young speedster, straightening herself with proud.