Caitlin's Heroic Figures: A Narrative Fiction

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Unsurprisingly, Joe went against his doctor and Caitlin’s advices by staying by Barry’s side and not take the rest his body wanted. The event of earlier terrified him a lot more than Joe was willing to admit.

Both Iris and Joe had been sitting on the hero’s bedside for hours, in a defining silence, observing any changes on the young man’s face. They agreed with Caitlin that it was probably best if there was as little people as possible in the room, people he knew for a long time, to make sure he would stay calm the next time he would awaken. They didn’t have to wait too long for Barry to show signs of waking up. His head slowly started moving from one side to another, his eyelids fluttering. Joe wasted no time grabbing the boy’s hand and
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The tests she did last night proved their speedster friend was finally on his way to recovery. The broken hand and wrist were completely healed, so were pretty much all of the superficial wounds, leaving no scars, no signs to prove that they ever happened. Even the shoulder’s stab wound was almost completely gone. Only his infected wound and heart problems were still keeping the CSI in bed, but both were slowly but surely on their way to be good as new.

The blood tests and the heart scan Caitlin did, first thing in the morning, showed lots of progression compare to the previous day and let’s not even compare with the test results of the first day Team Flash brought him back, it was a world of difference. There was barely any traces left of the drugs Barry’s been injected with, allowing the speed force to finally come back closer and closer to being at 100% again. And, while he still needed oxygen to compensate for his bad heart, the risk of coding again fell to
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On the first day, he was too busy going in and out of consciousness, sleeping off his injuries and fatigue, to note that it was always Caitlin, Iris, Joe and sometimes even Jay staying by his side. Everyone, except Cisco, was there, making sure there always was someone by his side to take care of all his needs and make sure he knew he wasn’t alone, he was safe. Barry got couple of glimpses and some very short exchange with his best friend from time to time, but there was no mistaking the lack of energy and the awkwardness of his interactions with

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