"Barry? Son? You okay? Woah there. Careful. How you feelin'?"

He blinks and tilts his head in confusion. "Um... who's Barry?"

"Oh no. Damn, not again! Caitlin!"

He jerks back but finds himself unable to move back any further due to his hand being attached to an IV line. "Where the hell am I? Who are you people? Who am I?"

"Barry, calm down! We're your friends! Your family! Don't you remember me? Cisco? A.K.A. your BFF?"

"My what?"

"Caitlin! There's something seriously wrong!"

The bed next to him rattles. "Ugh, shut up. Some of us want to sleep..."

"Kara? Hey, you're awake. Talk to me."

"Whoever you are, I'm not Kara so leave me alone."

"Why the hell don't they remember who they are?"

"What the hell's going on?"

"Oliver!"

"Uhh, you talking to me?"

"Okay, yeah, this is bad."

He can't help it. He bursts out laughing.

"Oh no, Cait! He's hysterical! See, I knew we weren't ready! We should've waited for Harry's calculations!"

"Just shut up for one second, Cisco. Barry, you okay? It's me, Iris, your sister."

He can't stop laughing, tears oozing out of his eyes. He looks to his side to look at his fellow bed-ridden mates. "Sorry, guys. I just couldn't."

"Dammit, Barry, I was already in character," Kara complains as she kicks the covers off.

"What the hell?" Cisco says.

"I wanna be mad at you but I'm actually impressed," Oliver tells him. "You didn't even last two minutes."

"Okay no. That ain't right. That's just cruel!" Cisco interrupts. "We thought something went really wrong. Who put you up to this?" Cisco scans the three of them and decides he's the culprit. "It was you, wasn't it?" Cisco looks at Oliver and Kara accusatorily. "Barry put you up to this, didn't he?"

Kara giggles. "It was Ollie, actually."

The room is stunned. He feels like laughing again.

"Huh. The Green Arrow has a sense of humor?" Iris teases.

He shrugs. "Apparently. I had to have one as the Flash. People were getting confused as to why the Flash was lacking comebacks," he answers nonchalantly.

"Comebacks. Out of all the things, they notice the lack of comebacks."

"Hey, it's your fault for making up puns in dire situations!"

"That's how you make them not-so-dire!"

"Okay yeah, they're back all right," Winn says. He glances at his watch and walks out of the med bay. "Welp, I'm out. I'm supposed to be meeting Clark in an hour so..." Winn quickly approaches him and lightly punches at his shoulder. "Man, I'll miss playing Halo with you! You'll have to come to our Earth at least once a week! You still owe me a rematch!"

"Hey! I play video games too!" Kara says loudly, lightly glaring at her best friend.

"Flappy Bird doesn't count!"

"Okay, out," Caitlin orders everyone sternly. "These three may act all fine, but I'm not convinced. Rest more. Your bodies went through a brief refractory period and I want to make sure you're all completely good so you won't get any ill effects when you go back to your superhero-ing."

"Thanks, Cait," he says, genuinely thankful for her. He'd long be dead without her medical expertise.

She beams at him and nods, exiting with the others following suit.

"Hey," Joe says, pointing at him. "You need anything, I'm here, okay?"

He smiles. "I know, Joe."

The three of them are then left alone in silence.

He breaks it.

"Are we actually gonna rest?"

Kara grins at both of them. "Nope! Let's push our beds together! Alex just left me this deck of cards. Wanna play?"

"Can't we just cuddle?" He lightly complains. "Or sneak out and have our first real date in months?"

"Play first, then cuddle, then we sneak out," Oliver compromises for them.

Kara shakes her head. "Play first, sneak out, then cuddle so least we can cuddle and kiss throughout the night!"

He doesn't admit that he likes that plan very much. "Ugh fine, but you're moving my bed."

AN: this is finally done! (and very freaking horribly written. i tried.)

thank you again, and feel free to leave a review. they either build me up as a writer or give me butterflies.