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[ Well, shit. ]

none of that's your fault.
she was going to find out one way or another.
better to just tell her than to hide it and for her to find out some awful way.

[ None of which changes the fact that Lup is angry (rightfully so), or makes the situation any better for anyone involved. ]

i know it's still messed up
i'm just saying YOU didn't mess it up

i had to make a fucking decision and of course i chose lup, i always will but i dunno if she's ever gonna forgive lucretia or if luce is ever gonna forgive me for fucking this up

i don't know. you guys have been through a lot together, right?
maybe they just need a little time.

and look i know it's not my business but lucretia better not give you any shit for being honest about what was done to you
she just better not.

[ Cisco confines himself to just saying that, and leaving it there. Taako's upset because he made Lup mad at Lucretia, probably not a good idea to pile on by also acting too mad at Lucretia. But, well, Cisco's feeling just a little bit protective. ]

its like

i feel shitty for her cause it was just us and we were cool and now lup is here and its not cool and im always gonna choose lup but thats gotta suck, right? to be the third person

[Taako isn't great at his own feelings, but he's perceptive when it comes to other people's.]

yeah.
but i feel like if you're gonna be the third person, being third person to two people who are as close as you and lup is like, the best of possibilities
it's not personal. lucretia's gotta know that.

i'm sure things'll be cool again.
you're all here now and alive and remember all of each other, and everything else is just backstory, right?

[ Pretty optimistic take, there, Cisco. ]

or the worst cause there's never any fucking chance of coming first

its not backstory

none of this has happened for them yet. if id kept my mouth shut we couldve kept pretending i was from some future cycle and everything was chill

yeah, maybe.

but that wouldn't be fair to you, would it? keeping all that in?
i've talked to both of them and they're both pretty sharp, and also they both know you super well. you wouldn't've been able to keep it going indefinitely.

ugh

[That's it, that's the text.

Which roughly translates to Taako knowing that Cisco is right but admitting it would take too many words.]

im realy drunk

i lost track of how many shots after the tenth

more than ten shots is officially too many.

[ If it were someone else he'd ask the obvious question, but he's got a feeling that 'are you okay' is gonna seem like a complicated one to Taako for a few reasons, so he substitutes: ]

you need anything?

nah im good for at least 5 more

i need a second house where i can go when shit is weird at the apartment

[That's not something Cisco can help with, unfortunately.]

please don't give yourself alcohol poisoning, taako.

[ Cisco knows that saying that may just make Taako even more determined to prove him wrong, but... he doesn't know what else TO say. ]

shit, man, i didn't even think about that.
that's gotta be one tense ambiance over there.

its cool were cool

it suuuuucks. i know i could crash at eddies or whatever but then he'd do that thing he does where hes like nice and concerned and gentle and shit and i cant do that right now

what's that?
i think... yep, just got a vision!
a real certified metahuman vision, of future taako tomorrow morning, muttering to himself about "I only wish that past Taako had had a glass or two of water along with his shots. And maybe like a slice of bread or something."

[ He's pretty sure Taako is not in the mood to be amused, but it's Cisco's best coping technique. He might not get why having Eddie fuss over him and be gentle to him would be a bad option, but he is not going to pry open that particular can of worms tonight. ]

dude, you know i'd offer to let you crash at my place if my place were not also, in fact, eddie's place.
if it's really that bad maybe you can crash with bryn or clark or something?

or we can devise a cunning and overcomplicated plan to trap lucretia and lup in a room together and we don't let them out until they've talked it out and hugged.

Edited 2017-07-17 10:09 (UTC)

im turning this napkin into a lsice of bread if i diethats on you

[The vision thing was kind of funny though.]

i know that might seem liek the worlds greatest idea but lup and anger are not good combos, at all, ever.

hey how fuckingn weird is it living with a dude yuve got a crush on?

[Great subject change. Nailed it.]

please don't give yourself non-alcohol poisoning either taako

so, if that's true you must know some ways to help her deal with it, right?
what've you done before when she got really mad?

[ God... why this. Cisco had been just fine (concerned, but fine) talking about Taako's problems, but now he pauses to pinch the bridge of his nose between texts. ]

okay listen
like i know you're hammered and might not even remember this later but listen
for the like official record.
you asked if i had a thing for anybody here, and i said no but if i HAD TO pick someone, he was the closest to qualifying
that's like telling somebody they have to pick between drinking a whole jar of hot sauce, eating an entire jar of pickles, or eating a jar full of bugs.
like just because you choose the pickles over the other two doesn't mean you're a fucking pickle fiend.

Edited 2017-07-17 10:21 (UTC)

shit

[and then another text, a few seconds later:]

sorry

[ OH NO THIS IS NOT WHAT HE WANTED AT ALL. ]

it's okay, dude, don't sweat it
i mean it's true but i'm giving you a hard time.
you can still make the pickle joke if you want, that shit is wide open

[He's too drunk and emotional for this. Also things have been kinda weird with Eddie but he doesn't... know how to talk about that.]

the pickle joke is too easy to make

[ Cisco has officially gone from worried to Worried, now. ]

you're right. low-hanging fruit tbh.

[ He doesn't know how to make this better so his solution is to just keep saying words. ]

the less ranty answer is it's been good living there
the communal housing was the fucking worst
i had a stupid nightmare and screamed a lot and it was a disaster
he found out i was sleeping in my lab and wouldn't let it go until i agreed to take the attic and stop living like a hobo

[ Cisco doesn't actually know how much of that Taako already knows, whether Eddie had relayed any of that info or not. It's kind of an embarrassing story, and not one he would tell almost anyone, but... it's Taako. Who's drunk and being too quiet and whose own housing situation is kind of not ideal at the moment. ]

he's a good guy like that

[Which comes back to Taako not being sure about the whole relationship thing because he doesn't feel like he's a good enough person.]

communal housing did suck, for sure. i couldnt wait to get outta there but i didnt wanna live alone either, you know?

[He's never been a fan of that.]

yep.

[ He's not at all surprised, that Taako hadn't wanted to live on his own. He seems like a guy who really wouldn't do well living alone. ]

i get that.
my plan had been to save up enough to get a place on my own because i figured it was alone or room with some weird strangers
but there was a third option after all

if id known i wouldve

well no i wouldnt have invited you to live iwth us but not cause of you its just like ellie doesnt do great with strangers

it's cool.
you didn't know cuz that's how i wanted it.
and look i'm glad i am where i am now, it worked out great, but i was handling it, y'know?

obviously ellie's the priority
she's just a kid, and it's her place, and like i just said living with strangers is the w o r s t
it's good she's got you looking out for her.

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