[ Despite how long he has been working for this, how many hours he has spent taking readings, studying them, developing tech, training his powers, searching for a way out - when he opens the first breach, Cisco can't quite believe it. He can't believe that he's broken through and found a way home.
Of course, he doesn't leave right away. That wouldn't be good science, and there is also no way he is going to break the promises that he had made to the people he met and came to care about during his captivity. So he runs tests. Opening more breaches. Closing them. Going through and coming back, honing his skills, making sure it's safe, that he knows what he's doing. It takes longer than he would have expected, mastering the trick of choosing which universe his breaches lead to. There is a subtlety in the movements of molecules, in the particular feel of the dimensional energy. He's glad, during those weeks, that he didn't tell anyone besides Harry about that first breach. As impatient as he's feeling, he knows that there are others who would be losing their minds with it.
But finally, finally, when he feels ready, he makes a post to the network, announcing it. The evacuation is not as quick or as orderly as he might have liked (tensions run high over who gets to leave first, and he almost sends Tali to the wrong version of her reality, which would have been bad, but he figures it out in time. He has a backpack full of tiny personal affects - artifacts that he's collected from anyone willing, so that he can use them for a focal point to vibe, to check that everyone has gotten where they need to go, that they are safe and happy.
Eventually, there's only a few people left. One of them is Arya. Cisco has already talked to her about the... situation. Her universe is the only one that still eludes him. In a way, Cisco isn't surprised by that. It's the most radically different from his own amongst them. He has tried a thousand times and more, but the energy is oddly slippery - he can't seem to get a hold of it, can't manipulate it.
Which leaves them in a bit of a pickle. Her sister and then later her brother had both vanished, gone back home the way that people sometimes do. That left only Arya, on her own. They've talked about her coming to Cisco's world with him, about how much better it would be there for her. But he knows how hard it is for her, being separated from the last remnants of her family. Knows it is possible they will get brought back. So he invites her to the ice cream parlor - the place where he had first brought up the idea of her coming to Central City - and then asks her: ]
So. What do you want to do? [ The choice will have to be hers, in the end. But Cisco lays out the options as he sees them, hoping it will make the difficult decision a little easier: ] We could stay here and I can keep trying to open a breach to Westeros. We could... stay and wait to see if. If Sansa and Jon come back. Or... you can come to Central City, with me, and I can keep trying to make contact from there.
[ Notable is the fact that none of these options involve him leaving her alone. He's not going to abandon her, one way or another. That's non-negotiable. ]
[ There's not much in Arya's room right now, just a cot filched from S.T.A.R. Labs, a small chest of drawers, and a lamp. To Arya, the room doesn't feel bare at all -- it feels luxuriously spacious, a far cry from the rocks she's slept on and the cellar's she's slept in.
Which is why she's taken by surprise when Eddie suggests that she decorates it. Isn't the lamp enough? The lamp is pretty fascinating. Arya's spent a decent chunk of time turning it off and on when no-one's looking. It's better than candles. ]
See?
[ Arya demonstrates the lamp's power to Eddie, who probably just never realized how cool it was. ]
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Of course, he doesn't leave right away. That wouldn't be good science, and there is also no way he is going to break the promises that he had made to the people he met and came to care about during his captivity. So he runs tests. Opening more breaches. Closing them. Going through and coming back, honing his skills, making sure it's safe, that he knows what he's doing. It takes longer than he would have expected, mastering the trick of choosing which universe his breaches lead to. There is a subtlety in the movements of molecules, in the particular feel of the dimensional energy. He's glad, during those weeks, that he didn't tell anyone besides Harry about that first breach. As impatient as he's feeling, he knows that there are others who would be losing their minds with it.
But finally, finally, when he feels ready, he makes a post to the network, announcing it. The evacuation is not as quick or as orderly as he might have liked (tensions run high over who gets to leave first, and he almost sends Tali to the wrong version of her reality, which would have been bad, but he figures it out in time. He has a backpack full of tiny personal affects - artifacts that he's collected from anyone willing, so that he can use them for a focal point to vibe, to check that everyone has gotten where they need to go, that they are safe and happy.
Eventually, there's only a few people left. One of them is Arya. Cisco has already talked to her about the... situation. Her universe is the only one that still eludes him. In a way, Cisco isn't surprised by that. It's the most radically different from his own amongst them. He has tried a thousand times and more, but the energy is oddly slippery - he can't seem to get a hold of it, can't manipulate it.
Which leaves them in a bit of a pickle. Her sister and then later her brother had both vanished, gone back home the way that people sometimes do. That left only Arya, on her own. They've talked about her coming to Cisco's world with him, about how much better it would be there for her. But he knows how hard it is for her, being separated from the last remnants of her family. Knows it is possible they will get brought back. So he invites her to the ice cream parlor - the place where he had first brought up the idea of her coming to Central City - and then asks her: ]
So. What do you want to do? [ The choice will have to be hers, in the end. But Cisco lays out the options as he sees them, hoping it will make the difficult decision a little easier: ] We could stay here and I can keep trying to open a breach to Westeros. We could... stay and wait to see if. If Sansa and Jon come back. Or... you can come to Central City, with me, and I can keep trying to make contact from there.
[ Notable is the fact that none of these options involve him leaving her alone. He's not going to abandon her, one way or another. That's non-negotiable. ]
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eddie; home improvement: stark edition
Which is why she's taken by surprise when Eddie suggests that she decorates it. Isn't the lamp enough? The lamp is pretty fascinating. Arya's spent a decent chunk of time turning it off and on when no-one's looking. It's better than candles. ]
See?
[ Arya demonstrates the lamp's power to Eddie, who probably just never realized how cool it was. ]
I've got this. It's plenty of decoration.