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[vivifier]

"Didn't occur to me to have a third option, in case of a tie."

[snowandfrost]

True. She frowns at the board and sits back, suppressing another yawn.

"I'll nap here so I can keep an eye on you. And you don't speed off as soon as I nod off?" she asks.

[vivifier]

With those back injuries, he wouldn't get very far. "That's fair. Deal."

[snowandfrost]

She gets comfortable in the chair, curling her legs under herself and settling in before she looks at the board, then at him.

"I don't think I've had this much fun in a while." Definitely says a lot about her.

[vivifier]

Or about their lives. "Yeah? Maybe tomorrow, we can play something else then." Monopoly. Or something ridiculous like Slapwich.

[snowandfrost]

She yawns and nods, feeling her eyelids grow a little heavy.

"Yeah, maybe. I'll see what Cisco has hiding somewhere," she offers. Caitlin glances at the monitors once more, satisfied with what the results are. Nothing like pulling nearly 72 hours of heroing and patching people up to wear even Caitlin Snow out.

[vivifier]

"Go. Nap. I'll sleep too, I'm sure." It's not like he's not exhausted, and all those drugs? He probably will actually sleep through the night for once.

[snowandfrost]

Her eyes finally close and Caitlin dozes off in a dreamless sleep as her nights often are. She's a light sleeper as she always is whenever she is at the labs.

[vivifier]

It's probably a combination of the drugs, his injuries and all his concern and exhaustion, but he does manage to sleep through most of the night. At some point in the night, he's aware of someone coming to check on the both of them, but he's much too doped up to open his eyes to figure out who it was.

Joe, maybe?

[snowandfrost]

Joe, indeed. She wakes up as soon as she feels that presence. She gets up quietly and talks with him in the Cortex, rather than in medical.

Yes, that's Barry but not Barry. Yes, he's hurt. She gives the full run down of all of his injuries and adds in the fact that it would be at least a day or two before he's fully healed. Caitlin keeps glancing back at the prone form on the gurney, asking Joe what kind of life he would lead after all of this is over. Something to discuss later, when her patient fully heals. Satisfied that she's fine and that the other Barry is fine, Joe tells her to call him and the others when he's ready. That they'll help.

[vivifier]

He'll be glad to hear that, won't he?

As is it, it takes a while for him to wake back up. And when he does, he's more than a little groggy. Maybe the dose needs a bit of adjusting. His leg, however, is completely healed. So that's something he feels pretty positive about.

[snowandfrost]

She's already awake and with a cup of coffee, adjusting the dosage for him. Caitlin's taking notes of how progress. Fully healed leg; spine looks like it's almost there.

"Good morning," she greets him. There's a high calorie bar and water sitting next to his bed. Breakfast? "Once you're fully awake, we'll take a look at the burn and see how your eye is faring. After that, we'll see if we might be able to wheel you around for a little bit. And maybe, if you don't push it, we might be able to get you walking a little by the end of the day. How are you feeling?"

[vivifier]

"That'd be great." Even just moving around in a wheelchair sounds good at this point. "A little groggy, but it'll pass. The pain's better too."

[snowandfrost]

Caitlin glances at the protein bar that sits on the table next to him. She's had a few years to play with the taste of it. Nope, not doctoring until he eats breakfast.

[vivifier]

He looks at her, then at it. He better eat it then, hadn't he? One protein bar, unwrapped and being eaten. "New flavor?"

[snowandfrost]

“Blueberry muffin,” she replies as she checks over his vitals. Steady so far. Caitlin makes a couple of notes and steps out for a second before wheeling in the power chair that she had found in storage and parks it in the corner.

[vivifier]

He finishes the bar while she's gone, hoping that the chair she finds isn't going to end up being Welles'. "So what next?"

[snowandfrost]

Speed eating. Something she never thought she would get used to. She grabs a pair of grey gloves and sits down next to his bed.

"Now, we check on how the burn is healing up, how your eye is healing up, and how your spine is doing. On a scale of one to ten, how is your spine feeling?"

Caitlin gently starts to peel the gauze away from around his head, unwinding the bandage so that she could take a look at how quickly the skin is healing itself.

[vivifier]

The skin seems to be healing nicely enough. He'll probably never be completely free of scarring, but it's not too awful. The eye is pretty much the same as it was the night before. "I think maybe...about a five, maybe a six."

[snowandfrost]

"The scarring looks pretty deep," she murmurs, looking at it closely. "Not so much that it's irreparable. But you'll definitely have a defining feature to you. And if you're at a five, maybe a six, then we will need to keep you here for a little while longer. In bed, I mean."

She disposes the gloves and grabs the penlight, shining it into the bad eye, her lips twisting into a line.

"Can you focus on my finger with both eyes, please?" she asks, holding it in his line of vision. She drifts it to his left, his right, up, and down, watching the eye react to direction.

[vivifier]

"Scars give character, right?" Not character he's particularly happy about, mind you. But he can't really do anything about it. The idea of sticking around in bed more, though. That isn't doing anything to make him happier, judging by the face he makes. "Can't we try it anyway?"

The eye barely reacts, unfortunately. Slow reaction, slow movement.

[snowandfrost]

"And risk re-injuring your back?" she asks. Caitlin makes a few notes about his eye. "Looks like your eye isn't healing as quickly as I thought it would. It's possible that the damage you've sustained may have scarred the nerves and cones so much that it may take a lot longer to heal." Or not at all. But with speedsters, one isn't sure.

[vivifier]

"Can I at least have visitors?" Mostly to see if anyone even comes, really. He's been worried. That's a disappointed line face he's making there. "That'll make running harder, won't it? Peripheral vision and all that?"

[snowandfrost]

"And that is why you have friends like me, so I can make the toys!" bellowed Cisco as he enters medical.

Caitlin wanted to ease him in but alas, her best friend doesn't know the meaning of the word subtle. She warned all of them, at least: he's going to be pretty disoriented as a remnant, remembering Barry's life as his own, so he's going to need that friend network. Familiar faces to help him ease into a life. He's Barry. But not.

As it is, Cisco steals Caitlin's seat as soon as she gets up to dispose of her gloves. "How are you feeling, buddy?" he asks, chewing away at a twizzler.

[vivifier]

This? Will probably help a lot. For one thing, he perks up a bit at the sight of more people to visit. At Cisco, even. "I've been better, man." He hates this pain, these injuries. But he appreciates everything Cait's done to help him with it.