Turn A Blind Eye (Barry Allen/Oliver Queen)

Recovery Effort

-One Week Later-

Caitlin rubbed small circles on Barry's back as he gripped the sides of the chair he sat in. A few minutes later and he would be asleep, his eyes being operated on to hopefully revert the damage that had been done. Everyone was hoping that the recovery would take less time because of his body able to heal faster; but nothing was for certain.

"You'll be okay." Caitlin tried to reassure, herself and Barry. "I'll be watching the whole thing from behind the one way glass."

Barry tried to smile, but his upset and scared expression was evident. He was scared for good reason, there were a number of things that could go wrong.

Within five minutes, five doctors had arrived, all non-smiling, curt and almost unresponsive to questions asked. Barry had a gas mask over his face, the gas knocking him out. Caitlin started to bite on her fingernails as she watched through the one way glass, Cisco paced behind them, and Dr Wells watched on intently.

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Nearly five hours later, Barry stirred. His head was hurting, where his eyes were, they burned. Even in his brain, it felt like there was some kind of very slow burning fire. He wanted it to stop, no matter what the cost.

"Aaaahhhh!!" He screamed out, a sudden ingulf of air hurting him. What was his body reacting to?

"Barry?" Caitlin's voice sounded faded, as she repeated his voice, over and over. The burning intensified, spreading throughout his body. He couldn't feel Cisco or Caitlin touch his arms. Cisco tried to shake Barry to the disdain of Dr Wells wishes.

"His body must be reacting to something from the surgery." Dr Wells examined one of the computer screens nearby, used to monitor progress on any situation they had. "Must be the formula."

"Can we counteract it?" Cisco asked, and Dr Wells nodded.

"We can, the doctors had left a kind of antidote." Dr Wells rolled away from the screen, turning and rolling to a nearby table. "Inject this into him, it should reverse the damage."

Caitlin quickly stabbed the needle into just above Barry's collar bone. The liquid poured out, as Barry body's quivered and shook. He was reacting worse than anyone thought, and his speed healing wasn't helping.

Maybe the solution was being sped up through his body because of his speed healing.

"What now?" Cisco asked, looking intently at his friend.

"We wait." Dr Wells replied.

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"Can you hear me?" Caitlin's voice rang through Barry's ears. He would easily admit that he loved the sound of Caitlin's voice.

"Cat," Barry whispered, his voice strained and almost inaudible. Why was his throat parched and like it was burning.

Oh, that's right! Barry remembered burning of some kind all through his body. The burning had gone, or at least subsided greatly.

"Try to stay down. Your eyes are healing fast!" Barry smiled, then felt a tingling sensation around his eyes. He touched it, feeling gauze pads under his touch.

"They're there to help your eyes, don't touch!" Barry removed his hand, and placed it behind him. Slowly, Barry began to sit up, his head felt like it was spinning, like he was tipping over and would fall off of the bed. Caitlin held onto him, was Barry tipping over?

"Where's Ollie?" Barry asked, his thoughts drifting to his friend.

"Sweetie, he left over a week ago, remember?"

"No," Barry began to shake, feeling coldness come over him. "I want him here!"

"I can call him," Caitlin hurried around, searching frantically for her phone. She fumbled with getting to his contact. "Here, it's ringing."

"Hello," the voice on the other end asked. Oliver sounded tired.

"Oliver?" Barry croaked, his throat hiring again. "The surgery apparently was successful."

"And when can I be over to have you see me?" Oliver asked quickly. Barry was stunned momentarily.

"Uh, maybe next week?" It came out as a question, and Oliver laugh on the other end of the line.

"Well, maybe I'll be over then."

Caitlin watched intently as Barry hung up the phone, blurting out, "Well," to her friend.

"I think he's jumping over here next week." Barry stated. Caitlin squealed in excitement, she saw Barry's face light at up the out of character girliness.

A.N. A short chapter, and I was stumped as to how I was going to write this chapter. But, think you guys will like this. I hope you did. Also, taking a suggestion I got, Oliie will be finding something out soon. Anyways, more suggestions wanted (and needed) but mostly just wanting you all to enjoy it.