[ He'd thought Eddie might take it badly, and he'd been right. Not because it reminded him of his own death - they've both gotten better at talking about that without letting it get to them too much. No, this is guilt, pure and simple. Cisco can almost see the puzzle pieces clicking together in Eddie's mind. Cisco knows Barry didn't mention the singularity to him at all, the last time he'd checked, and Cisco himself hadn't told him much. Only that it happened, that there had been some damage, some casualties. That Ronnie had been one of them.
Cisco watches as Eddie's breath goes strained and his eyes take on that distant, hollow look that Cisco hates. When Eddie first pulls away, Cisco lets him have his space. But then Eddie stands up and starts pacing, pulling at his hair, and that's when Cisco gets really alarmed. It's hitting him worse than he'd expected. ]
Hey, hey hey...
[ Cisco stands, too, gets right in Eddie's way, reaches up and stops him by gripping his shoulders. Eddie recoils from him at first, but Cisco doesn't let him. When Eddie is upset, he withdraws, retreats into himself, and Cisco isn't going to allow it. Not when he is right here. So he brings his hands up to cover Eddie's, to pull them out of his hair, as gently as he can, but as insistently as he needs to. Then Cisco hugs Eddie, pulls his head down to rest against Cisco's shoulder, cradles it there as he says: ]
Eddie- you. What you did, it saved our lives. Saved my life. If you hadn't stopped him, who knows how many more people Dr. Wells would have killed. And... and for all we know he would have done something on his own to upset the timeline enough to open up a singularity. He was so dead-set on getting home.
[ Cisco wants desperately to be able to tell Eddie that it wasn't his death that caused the singularity, or that the destruction hadn't been all that bad. But he can't lie to him. As painful as the truth is. After all, if they're working on finding a way of bringing him back home, he would find out the full extent of it sooner or later. ]
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Cisco watches as Eddie's breath goes strained and his eyes take on that distant, hollow look that Cisco hates. When Eddie first pulls away, Cisco lets him have his space. But then Eddie stands up and starts pacing, pulling at his hair, and that's when Cisco gets really alarmed. It's hitting him worse than he'd expected. ]
Hey, hey hey...
[ Cisco stands, too, gets right in Eddie's way, reaches up and stops him by gripping his shoulders. Eddie recoils from him at first, but Cisco doesn't let him. When Eddie is upset, he withdraws, retreats into himself, and Cisco isn't going to allow it. Not when he is right here. So he brings his hands up to cover Eddie's, to pull them out of his hair, as gently as he can, but as insistently as he needs to. Then Cisco hugs Eddie, pulls his head down to rest against Cisco's shoulder, cradles it there as he says: ]
Eddie- you. What you did, it saved our lives. Saved my life. If you hadn't stopped him, who knows how many more people Dr. Wells would have killed. And... and for all we know he would have done something on his own to upset the timeline enough to open up a singularity. He was so dead-set on getting home.
[ Cisco wants desperately to be able to tell Eddie that it wasn't his death that caused the singularity, or that the destruction hadn't been all that bad. But he can't lie to him. As painful as the truth is. After all, if they're working on finding a way of bringing him back home, he would find out the full extent of it sooner or later. ]