first of all, this isn't against the truce. technically. i think.
what if i tried to vibe some of dr. evil's stuff when he's not around. we still don't know almost anything about him so extra info can't hurt. maybe i can find something to use as leverage.
p sure he still doesn't know my powers do anything except give me horrible flashbacks to dying in timelines you've reset, so it's not that dangerous.
[ Not completely convinced by that one, but he isn't skeptical enough to argue. There's still a noticeable pause as he reads the idea over, reads it over a second time; runs a hand over his face in indecision and then finally types out a reply. ]
if you do, make it look like an accident. he doesn't think you have any control over it, right? it can't look like a deliberate play.
[ Letting Dr. Wells find out that his powers can be harnessed and how to do so is pretty much #1 priority on Cisco's "DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN" list. ]
i'm not gonna do it if he's in the room anyway. that happened once already and it was enough creeping to last me, like, the rest of my life and then some.
[ Barry is probably the only person in the world Cisco would be this casual with, about this particular topic. He can only really talk about it if he makes it a joke, and he can only make it a joke because he knows that Barry gets it, 100%. ]
[ Oops. He hadn't told Barry about the movie theatre, but it wasn't like he'd been keeping it a secret deliberately. He just... hadn't brought it up. ]
i didn't use them, it's not like it was my choice.
creepsville's got a crappy sense of humor so it trapped me in the theatre with him while t2 was playing, which sucks because i used to love that movie, and basically the creepy atom bomb scene made me vibe that time vandal savage like, vaporized me and all of central city. and... he saw and he could tell what had happened.
[ The news about Cisco having to sit through a movie with Eobard is... disturbing, honestly, though it's a little derailed by the casual mention of being vaporized. Barry doesn't respond for a few long seconds, trying to come up with an adequate answer. ]
yeah, that. sorry.
[ If texts could be dry, that one would be. Hardly adequate, but he's assuming Cisco will get it. ]
[ Only Barry Allen could find a way to apologize for reversing time and saving him from dying not once, but twice. ]
sort of. like, i'd seen bits of it in nightmares, and i kind of figured out what must have happened, but that was the first time i remembered the whole thing.
[ Still sort of feels like his fault, but he appreciates the sentiment anyway. ]
that sucks, man.
[ That could sound flippant, but it's completely, depressingly earnest. Remembering something like that is bad enough; remembering it in front of Eobard is a thousand times worse, and Barry feels that, viscerally. ]
are you doing okay?
[ Adjusted definition of 'okay', here. He knows the honest answer has to be no. ]
[ It had been a thousand times worse. And Cisco doesn't want to lie and pretend that's not true - not to Barry, anyway. But there are a lot of ways of answering 'are you okay' that don't quite mean yes and don't quite mean no. ]
nothing i couldn't handle.
the important thing is even though he saw me vibe, he hasn't got any idea i can make it happen intentionally, or that i can see stuff that's not about me. so i'm gonna find a way to use that.
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[ But also basically all of their recent ideas have been terrible so this disclaimer is extra worrying?? ]
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what if i tried to vibe some of dr. evil's stuff when he's not around. we still don't know almost anything about him so extra info can't hurt. maybe i can find something to use as leverage.
p sure he still doesn't know my powers do anything except give me horrible flashbacks to dying in timelines you've reset, so it's not that dangerous.
[ Maybe. Hopefully. ]
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[ Not completely convinced by that one, but he isn't skeptical enough to argue. There's still a noticeable pause as he reads the idea over, reads it over a second time; runs a hand over his face in indecision and then finally types out a reply. ]
if you do, make it look like an accident. he doesn't think you have any control over it, right? it can't look like a deliberate play.
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[ Letting Dr. Wells find out that his powers can be harnessed and how to do so is pretty much #1 priority on Cisco's "DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN" list. ]
i'm not gonna do it if he's in the room anyway. that happened once already and it was enough creeping to last me, like, the rest of my life and then some.
[ Barry is probably the only person in the world Cisco would be this casual with, about this particular topic. He can only really talk about it if he makes it a joke, and he can only make it a joke because he knows that Barry gets it, 100%. ]
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[ Maybe he should be taking the casual approach as a hint to let it slide, but getting it also means caring way to much not to ask. ]
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i didn't use them, it's not like it was my choice.
creepsville's got a crappy sense of humor so it trapped me in the theatre with him while t2 was playing, which sucks because i used to love that movie, and basically the creepy atom bomb scene made me vibe that time vandal savage like, vaporized me and all of central city. and... he saw and he could tell what had happened.
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yeah, that. sorry.
[ If texts could be dry, that one would be. Hardly adequate, but he's assuming Cisco will get it. ]
was that the first time you saw it?
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[ Only Barry Allen could find a way to apologize for reversing time and saving him from dying not once, but twice. ]
sort of. like, i'd seen bits of it in nightmares, and i kind of figured out what must have happened, but that was the first time i remembered the whole thing.
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that sucks, man.
[ That could sound flippant, but it's completely, depressingly earnest. Remembering something like that is bad enough; remembering it in front of Eobard is a thousand times worse, and Barry feels that, viscerally. ]
are you doing okay?
[ Adjusted definition of 'okay', here. He knows the honest answer has to be no. ]
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nothing i couldn't handle.
the important thing is even though he saw me vibe, he hasn't got any idea i can make it happen intentionally, or that i can see stuff that's not about me. so i'm gonna find a way to use that.
i'll be careful. i promise.