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You ever get a call from the dude who's gonna be your serious long-term boyfriend once you get outta this place and take him to your house for a fucking emotionally fraught chat. Except you forget you're kinda high on party drugs until he touches you?

Cause ya boy Taako has

[ Oh, shit. It's finally happened. Kravtiz is here, and all hell is officially breaking lose. At least, Cisco thinks, with a twinge of guilt, it hadn't happened while Taako was still with Rin - though the recentness of his departure can't be helping matters. ]

can't say that's ever happened no
so he showed up?
and you guys talked?
WHILE YOU WERE HIGH?!

High and fresh outta the shower in nothing but a towel cause I'm a fucking idiot 😩😩😩

He offered to give me time but I didn't want him to leave, you know? Not after last time

[Things he hasn't talked to anyone but Lup about: hologram Kravitz.]

holy shit dude
that's a fucking world class emergency right there
you've got the worst luck of anybody i ever met

[ Cisco, making a not unreasonable leap in logic, considering he hadn't heard about hologram Kravitz but had heard about Rin, is just assuming that that was what Taako meant by last time. ]

i don't blame you
how'd it go?
did you explain to him about the canisters?

I've never wanted to die more than I did in that fucking moment

[He's being dramatic but he's sure Cisco understands that]

I told him about a lotta shit, including that. I guess it went well? We're gonna like try this whole thing

Edited (gently changes some things) 2018-03-05 12:16 (UTC)

[ Cisco does, indeed, understand that. He also understands Taako's tendency towards understatement, and that despite the 'I guess' and equivocation, it sounds like things had gone about as well as they possibly could, despite the adverse circumstances. ]

damn
that's impressive, taako
i mean having a serious relationship talk about timelines and shit is hard even in the best circumstances
and you pulled it off you were nearly naked and high????
that's fuckin skillful my dude.

are you guys gonna take things slow
do you have plans yet
when do i get to meet him???

I mean I kinda had a trial run plus like I absolutely did kinda suggest we bang but Kravitz turned that down

[IE: Kravitz was mostly the sensible one.]

Slow is pretty much the only plan right now. You can meet him whenever? He's got the spare room here cause I couldn't make him suffer communal housing, not for a guy who's spent fuck knows how many centuries alone. Just come on over sometime if going out for lunch or whatever feels too formal?

[Taako isn't sure. When he wanted to shove Rin at everyone he just threw a fucking dinner party, but that feels excessive when things are sort of.... tentative with Kravtiz.]

a trial run?

[ He's not sure what that first part means, but he can't really blame Taako for suggesting they just have sex. Honestly it's probably what Cisco would have done, too, in the same situation. ]

oh snap
i mean totally the right call, community housing sucks
you couldn't make him put up with that
but 0 to living together is a big leap

i'll show up super casual one of these days
like oh hey just happened to stop by, you must be kravtiz
i hear you're the grim reaper and dating my bff and stuff
make any good vases lately?

[It takes him a second to realize he didn't actually like... tell... Cisco..]

You heard about that fucked up hologram thing right? There was one of Kravitz

[IT WAS FINE]

He's living with the lot of us, if it was just me it'd be kinda different, you know?

[That wold definitely be U-haul lesbian levels of moving too fast and Taako's not about that life.]

Fuck yes. Please give him shit about his pottery

yeah i know about that
iris showed up. eddie's ex, you know
told me all this stuff about back home

[ It had been way harder than Cisco would've anticipated. He can't imagine how much worse it must have been, if Taako had thought Kravitz was here, and then it turned out only to be a fake... ]

shit
that's so messed up

yeah i get you
you've got more of a sitcom situation going on there
i can almost hear the laugh track now
and the quirky theme music

i will for sure
i figure there's no point lying about the whole...
'hey i kinda peeped your first date in a vision this one time sorry about that'

[ Cisco's kind of a bad liar, if nothing else. ]

what if he doesn't like me?

[ Whoops, where did that even come from? ]

You know I still think we should kill whoever was responsible

[It's a valid plan. Thor talked him out of it but he still wants to. It's so fucked up.]

I get you, but hey you don't gotta tell him about your powers, yeah? We can say it was during that memory share bullshit

And you're both charming nerds it'll be fine

[Cisco please]

or at least throw their ass in jail where they can't meddle like that again

[ Cisco's pretty sure Taako's joking about the killing but also maybe he isn't. If he'd thought he had Kravitz back and then realized it was a trick, though, Cisco can see how that would be really infuriating, and hurtful. ]

no, it's cool
i'm really trying to do this whole owning it thing
like don't get it twisted i'm not gonna run around telling random strangers in the street but
kravitz isn't a random stranger
you trust him, so i trust him
besides the rest of you know and it'd only be a matter of time before magnus made a joke about it and the whole thing came out anyway

if you say so.

Killing em sounds more fair, telling someone they aren't real fucking sucks

[It was pretty rough.]

Cisco, my dude, my man, do not make me get sappy up in here cause I spent like twenty minutes making out with a cute dude and then twenty minutes napping on him so if you're gonna get sappiness it's gonna be now and then we'll both regret it

He'll like you, I cannot imagine anything you could do that would make him think you're a dick

shit
that sounds awful

[ Cisco feels a twinge of worry, that Taako had gone through something harrowing like that and not mentioned it to him, but he realizes that's just the way his friend is. Taako's someone who retreats, sometimes, when he's hurt or vulnerable. And with all that happening so soon after Rin... well Cisco can understand why Taako kept it to himself. So he drops the whole killing/no killing argument for some other time. Better to focus on the present. ]

you really think i would ever regret talking to you at peak sappiness???
um have you even MET me dude?????
also: that sounds perfect tbh
an ideal 40 minutes right there

[ Making out is all well and good, but Taako napping on him - well Cisco was definitely right about the trust thing. Especially since he knows sleep is sort of different, for elves. He wonders if Kravitz needs sleep, either, considering he's some kind of undead... entity. He's definitely going to need to ask the nitty gritty details, but that can wait. ]

so he's from further along the timeline than you?
did they set him up with a job here?
tell me everything

I mean I'd have to add you to the list of people I gotta kill so that no one knows I can get sappy

A year after the Hunger attacked and we kicked its ass, about the same as Barry and he's working for the perimeter guard doing some shit? I think not having bird mom around is gonna take some getting used to for him but he's an adaptable dude

well we can't have that

bird mom???
i've got no idea what you're talking about dude

but if he's in the guard i'll make sure he gets the best armor and tech and shit
👍🏽

you gonna take him to any of the raves?

The Raven Queen, sorry lol. Lup started calling her that and it's kinda stuck, she's the goddess that Kravitz works for

I'm gonna point out he's dead and a skeleton, I dunno if armor is really necessary for the dude but he might be into cool tech

I dunno, shit like that might be a bit much when we're trying to be chill

oh yeah sure
goddess of death, bird mom
same difference
(that's sarcasm)

bones can get broken
it might be unconventional armor sure but that doesn't mean he doesn't need ANYTHING
and you know i can do cool tech to order

(i'm guessing every conceivable variation on the whole 'boning' joke has already been made huh?
no point even trying to break new ground there?)

fair tbh
they're a lot to handle for ME and i've almost been here a year

Lup works for her now btw, Barold too. It was the compromise for them being, you know, aberrations against nature

Pretty sure they're fake bones? Like when you get him down to the basics he's a ball of light, everything else is a construct 🤔 Can't believe I'm dating a ball of light

[That's honestly kind of weird? It's different than Lup and Barry, who have lich forms that resemble something elf and human shaped, respectively, but Kravitz is just a spirit.]

I am for sure taking him to the kink expo, gotta see how hard I can make him blush

sounds like a win/win for everyone involved
i sure wouldn't wanna be somebody on the raven queen's shitlist i'll tell you that
cuz that's quite the dream team

it IS super weird you're dating a ball of light
but if you think about it
we're all just constructs made of elements and filled with energy
kravitz is just a little more in control of that process than most of us are.

oh no is he a blusher?
is he shy?
go easy on him taako
you know how weird some of that shit gets...

Not a single one of those idiots has a shred of common sense they're gonna be a disaster

[He roasts because he loves them.]

You know, darling, sometimes I forget how much of a fucking nerd you are but you always remind me

[He roasts because he loves Cisco.]

I mean I wrapped him up in tentacles when we first met and he still agreed to a date so I'm pretty sure he can handle it

[Once more: roasting out of love.]

but that probably makes them perfect for the job
doesn't it?

and i may well be a nerd but at least i never led with tentacles
that's a strictly fifth date kind of development thanks
and before you even THINK of saying anything let me be clear: I AM KIDDING
i have not nor will i ever tentacle a dude, thanks.

I dunno if the Raven Queen is into everything being on fire but I guess she let Kravitz go on a date with one of his bounties kinda technically so she isn't too big on rules

[the goddess of the natural order isn't too big on rules. sure]

I'm screenshotting those first two sentences and sending them to everyone

are you 100% sure she knows about it?
gods aren't omniscient are they?
otherwise there would be no need for bounty hunters in the first place

this, taako
this is why i have trust issues

I have no idea on her omniscient status but I mean the bounty hunters are there cause gods cannot just fucking pop into the material plane and fuck with shit, there are rules about that I think. I also cannot imagine Kravitz lying to her

[He's pretty sure? Istus implied as much and it explains why there are clerics and paladins, for gods to work through.]

😘😘😘

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