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franciscoramon) wrote2017-04-06 09:14 pm
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franciscoramon) wrote2017-04-06 09:14 pm
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it's ok to be glad. trust me, that's just the tip of the evil iceberg.
barry's dad is alright. dr. wells left behind a confession so he's out of prison finally, but he was in there for fifteen years, you know? he missed out on raising his kid and lost all his old friends and his career. that's not the kinda thing you walk off in a day.
[ Cisco makes a mental note, when he knows Kara a bit better, to buy her a mug that says 'over the hill' or some other such joke. ]
those are some badass alises. what made you decide to be a hero? i mean, did you have a big moment or was it just kind of a gradual thing?
[ Probably a good thing they're having this conversation by text, because Cisco goes a bit red in the face at that compliment. ]
she sounds really great. they both do.
[ There's really non non-awkward way to say "I'm sorry your family is dead", is there? ]
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That's awful! :( I'm sure he'll bounce back though, with Barry's help and yours, and Caitlin's. You guys make a great team. I wish I'd had the chance to help my aunt out with that. My mom put her in prison (it's a LONG story) aboard Fort Roz; our version of a maximum security penitentiary. Out in the Phantom Zone, like I was. When I ended up on Earth, somehow it came with me.
She died last year. And I regret not being able to reach her.
( Kara pauses, deciding to forge ahead, since she's already kind of overshared already with the Astra stuff. )
Thanks! My adoptive dad tried telling me the world only needs my cousin. But my sister was on a plane that was going to crash, and he was taking care of something else. So I stepped up to the plate. Once I did, it kind of was impossible to step back.
( Well, she means that admiration wholeheartedly. His skill blows her away. )
Thank you.
( Not really, no. What he's said hits the right note, and she's smiling on her end. )
Did you know Taako recc'd you as someone to geek out with? Which I'd love to, btw. Anytime.
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[ Privately, Cisco thinks he'd be happy to put off the day he goes over the rest of it. It's one thing, giving Kara enough information so that she realizes just what a piece of work Dr. Wells was. But he'd carefully steered clear of almost anything that actually involved himself. For now, he'd like to get to know her, for her to get to know him. To see him as the fun tech guy, not the 'mildly fucked up in the head because he got betrayed and murdered' guy. ]
so... wait, your planet's prison was in the same part of space where time doesn't pass? so the prisoners were just sentenced for, what, eternity? or did they let them go after a while and the idea was they could serve their time and then get back to their lives without interruption?
[ Because if it's the former rather than the latter... yikes. ]
oh no, i'm really sorry to hear that.
[ There's a whole mess more questions Cisco wants to ask here - why her aunt was in prison, why it was her mother specifically who sent her there, how Kara had found out her aunt didn't die along with her homeworld, how she'd passed away. But for now, he thinks, he's poked at enough scars of hers. Maybe on that day when they get those drinks, he'll get nosy. ]
well, if you ask me (and you didn't but...) two superheroes is twice as good as one.
[ The news that Taako was saying good things about him makes Cisco feel flustered, and pleased, and a little tongue-tied (or whatever the texting equivalent might be). ]
i did not know that. like at all. wow.
but i'm absolutely down for geeking out, too. any time, any place.
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( Off-world style. And for the moment, she's just dandy letting the topic of Wells go. Especially because who he's talking about clearly can't be the H.R. fellow she'd met before the invasion. getting to know each other is much preferable to wondering which dimension they'd gone to to find H.R. )
Not all, no. The term depended on the crime, but my mother saw things more black and white than I've been called out on for. Fort Rozz crashed with me, how is a complicated story unto itself, but for a while I had to deal with the prisoners. They hated me because my mother sentenced them all.
One man from Starhaven told me once how one of his wives got sick after a bad storm season. He couldn't afford to look after her on his own, so he got into interplanetary drug smuggling. He was caught, and my mother gave him eighteen years out there.
Anyone who killed people were banished for life.
( Yikes, indeed. )
Thanks.
( She'd almost spilled that bit about Astra and Non just now, but the change of topic is a more pleasant one, and she seizes upon it desperately to banish the sadness threatening to overcome her. )
The more the merrier, I think. It's nice to work with a team, others like or sort of like me. That was sweet of you to say btw. ♥
( Awwwww this is actually kind of cute. )
Well I mean he's not wrong! Even if I hadn't known you before, it's plenty obvious that you're the go-to guy around here for geeking out.
How's tomorrow sound, then?
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that sounds like a hell of an action movie. maybe less fun in real life tho. like almost definitely less fun.
i guess eighteen years isn't terrible. not like criminal justice is perfect on earth either.
so have you got a team? i mean, apart from your cousin, and you said he lives in a different city... you're not superheroing all on your own?
[ It's not that he doubts her abilities, but he doesn't doubt Barry's, either. It's not safe to do what they do without some friends around as backup. And what's more, it's too lonely to imagine. Hell, even Oliver "taking antisocial to new levels" Queen has a team. ]
i do wear my geekery pretty loud and proud, it's true.
tomorrow sounds perfect.