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[goodviberations]

Who: Cisco and Savitar
What: A much-needed conversation
Where: The park


Cisco has been thinking about it for days. Mick had mentioned- off-hand in that way of his when he doesn't realize what he's saying is a bombshell- that Caitlin had patched up a speedster. One with scars.

It had taken a couple hours just to even process it. Savitar. Here. After everything he and Team Flash had done to stop the guy, he was still here. Still in their lives. For a day after that, he was angry. Furious, even. He'd threatened Cisco's friends; threatened everything that mattered to him. But the more he thought about it- really thought about it- the more the anger faded. He wasn't ready to forgive him for what he'd done, but he was level-headed enough to remember Savitar's motivations. The loneliness. The solitude. Freezing him out could start the whole process all over again. And that? Cisco isn't willing to risk it.

So after another day of psyching himself up, Cisco reaches out. He can't bring himself to video chat, so he sends him a text instead.

Savitar, I think we should talk. I'll be at the park this afternoon.

And then he spends about ten minutes panicking. What if the speedster decides to murder him? But he shoves that thought away. He needs to do this. For himself, if no other reason.

So he makes his way to the park, planting himself on a free bench to wait.

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[goodviberations]

Cisco actually has to think about it for a second. Why does he care? Is it because half the guy's face is the same as his best friend's? No, he doesn't think so. Savitar isn't Barry, and he knows it. So why care about Savitar at all?

Maybe because without the armor and the plotting and the speed, he's just a guy. A guy who had been alienated from his family. And damned if Cisco doesn't know what that's like.

Not that he'll say any of that, of course. He and Savitar aren't on a heart-to-heart basis yet.

"I'm a light sleeper."

[vivifier]

It's strange is all, he thinks. Cisco was his friend, and then suddenly Cisco wasn't for reasons that he hadn't even been able to comprehend at the time. He'd had family and then suddenly he'd lost everyone through various means. And he'd been in so much pain that he couldn't handle any of it. He barely even been able to keep himself alive.

And now here Cisco is, offering to help for...whatever reasons he has. And it's everything he'd ever wanted in the future he'd left behind and nothing he'd wanted in the timeline he'd just left. And again, he has no idea how to comprehend it.

So all he does is shrug. "Yeah. All right."

[goodviberations]

It's not exactly an enthusiastic response, but Cisco will take it. It's certainly better than them trying to kill each other.

"Cool. So let's start with decorations. Because this place is bleak."

[vivifier]

"It's not bleak. It's undecorated. It's not like I'm sitting in the dark like some millionaire who fights crime dressed like a bat."

Stop.

[goodviberations]

Cisco snorts at that.

"Gratuitous pop culture reference aside, tell me what decorations you won't immediately tear down."

[vivifier]

Oh God, a question he doesn't know the answer to. CURSES no. "...curtains?"

[goodviberations]

Cisco stares. And stares some more.

"You want me to get you curtains?" That's just so far outside his decorative comfort zone. But he can make it work. Baby steps.

[vivifier]

"No?" He doesn't know what Cisco even means when he says 'decor'. Look, he hasn't decorated an anything in how long?

[goodviberations]

"Nope. Too late," he decides. "You want curtains, you're getting curtains."

And damned if they won't be the most obnoxious curtains he can get his hands on. Given that at least part of this city is LA, they're pretty obnoxious.

[vivifier]

"...I don't imagine they're just going to be one solid color like black or blue." Ha ha. Oh, Savitar.

[goodviberations]

Cisco shakes his head.

"It's like you don't even know who you're talking to, dude."

[vivifier]

"Well. It has been a while."

[goodviberations]

"You'll get used to it again," he says, not missing a beat.

[vivifier]

"Yeah. Probably I will."

[goodviberations]

Cisco can't deny that it makes him happy to hear that. He refuses to consider it's Savitar just understanding that he won't be deterred.

"Good. So we're starting with curtains. I'll bring over some stuff to watch while we hang them."

It'll be almost like hanging out with a friend.

[vivifier]

"Okay. Yeah, that sounds fine." And it'll be the sheer nerves about this that gets him going to get that speedster alcohol, right? Right.