[One really amazing and awesome thing about the two of them being so much alike is that Cisco just...gets that she isn't used to this, and wouldn't have normally been so open with that sort of emotional upheaval. So, he doesn't press about it, instead he brushes past it and moves the conversation back around to something more solid.

She gives him a weak smile when he explains he wasn't trying to freak her out-- not like that, at least.]

I know you weren't. I knew it would be bad, I just...I wasn't ready for that. [She pauses and stares down at her hands in her lap.] I told you before, I-- I've lost a lot of people and, I dunno. Eventually, it's just like...how much can you take? How much does one person have to lose before it's enough? [Her voice drops a little softer.] And you and Eddie are important to me. I don't want bad things to happen to you.

[She glances over when he goes quiet and reorganizes his own thoughts. She scoffs a little, a little amused, a little hollow.] Yeah, that would've been good to lead with. [She nudges his shoulder with her own, but she gets serious again as she says:]

But I know that doesn't just make everything bounce back into place, either. I spent a lot of time thinking Josh was dead and getting him back was...the most amazing thing, but...it didn't erase what I'd felt before and it didn't stop me from living a period of my life thinking he was just gone. [She frowns a little and shakes her head, looking to Cisco for confirmation on the rest of her thoughts because, hey, that's your area of expertise, broski.] Maybe that's different, though...when it's literally rewritten? Except for you, I guess.