Turn A Blind Eye (Barry Allen/Oliver Queen)

Out Of The Coma

He took a deep breath in, his lungs intaking well needed "fresh" air at their own will. Half a moment later, Barry sat up in the hospital crib; his hands intinctivly moving to the rails, gripping them tightly. The young man (or maybe someone from their late teens?) turned around from the computer he was working at across from the former sleeping form, surprise written all over his face.

"Where am I?" Barry asked, his head moving around to no avail. There was pitch black darkness around him.

"S.T.A.R. Labs, Mr Allen; you're awake," it wasn't the young Cisco that spoke, but leader of S.T.A.R Labs, Doctor Harrison Wells. He moved quietly for a man being confined into a wheelchair. Barry's knuckles began to turn white, his hold gripping the rails tightly as hyperventilation began to kick in.

"Are my eyes closed?" He asked, panic filling his voice.

"No," Cisco spoke carefully, glancing over to Dr Wells and then staring back at Barry. "What do you see?"

"Nothing," his eyes had to glued shut, or something. "I see nothing!"

"Could this be from the lightning?" Cisco asked in a whisper.

"I can hear you," Barry stated, his voice a little more relaxed. His breathing had settled somewhat to.

Dr Wells wheeled over to Barry, pulling a chat from the end of the bed on his way over.

"Barry, do you know what has happened?" Barry shook his head from side to side. "Nine months ago, you were struck by a bolt of energy, lightning, that came from our lab. We took you back here to monitor your progress. Maybe with proper analysis we can try to restore your eyesight." Wells trailed off, talking more to himself about Barry's condition than to anyone else.

"I've been out for nine months?"

"Yeah, dude," Cisco smiled and nodded, then sobered when he saw Barry stare at him, dumbfounded. "Yeah, it was pretty intense. We were starting to think you might never wake up."

Barry had been helped as much as he could, before Cisco and Wells walked him through the halls. Barry could smell the stench of some kind of mould and feel the wetness on the walls as they strolled through the underground hallways. He honestly thought that they were walking into an underground cave.

"This is where you'll be spending the majority of your time, our main lab." Barry knew whatever artificial light was used in the colder room was bright, he could see lightness that replaced the dark, light when he would look up in the direction of the sun with closed eyes as a child.

"He's awake!" A female voice this time. And she actually sounded more happy, than surprised. "It's good to finally see you awake, Barry."

"This, Barry, is Caitlin Snow, she's our light here at S.T.A.R. Labs. She was also the one to monitor your egress throughout the time you were in your coma." Barry smiled, hopefully in her direction. The echo in the room didn't help with trying to hone in on a person's location when someone couldn't see.

"Your eyes," Catlin stepped over to Barry, getting a closer look. "Your eyes are blue, but they're hazed over. What's going on here?" The last question was directed at Wells.

"Barry has lost his sight. I'm assuming it was lost when he was struck by the lightning." Catlin was curious, countless studies didn't show any signs of any senses being affected. No tastebuds gone, eardrums undamaged, smell receptors were intact. His retenas were scanned through his eyelids, no never a being affected or any tissue gone. She had been through to look out for side effects.

"Well then, welcome to our HQ." She didn't smile at Barry, no point when he couldn't see and something was either wrong with her calculations and findings or something else happened while Barry was under.

A.N. Well, hopefully this turned out better than what I thought. Don't worry, I'll make sure Barry won't be blind forever, you'll see, it's imperative to the character development. Also, I haven't seen the pilot episode of the Flash, but I've seen several other episodes up from that (I think in Australia episode five premieres tomorrow night). Oh, and don't think our Ollie won't show up, he'll come around very soon. I hope you all like this, because it's something new to this pairing, not that a lot of people were shipping them until Arrow and Flash both aired. I'll try to be more done, and I'm not totally sure how long this will go on for.