causational: (morose)
Eddie Thawne ([personal profile] causational) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs 2018-03-06 06:33 am (UTC)

[Eddie's not entirely shocked when Cisco agrees with him, but he is a little pleasantly surprised. Barry, after all, had been Cisco's best friend, had always been in his corner, and so Eddie had always hesitated to complain about him to Cisco. It hadn't really out of fear that Cisco wouldn't support him or understand, not entirely - mostly, he had felt uncomfortable with the idea of badmouthing Cisco's friend to him. It put Cisco in an awkward place, emotionally, to be placed between his boyfriend and his best friend.

But Cisco doesn't look like he's caught between the two. He's admitting that Barry was wrong, that Barry didn't treat Iris like an adult, that Eddie was right to want to tell her the truth, that he was the one who was willing to be upfront. For some reason, just for a moment, Eddie's eyes well up with tears, because it's a little overwhelming to hear that, to hear someone who loves him and loved Barry say that he was right, that he'd done the right thing.

Then Cisco is saying if Barry loved Iris he would've been happy for them and tried to keep their relationship healthy and strong. Lifting a hand, Eddie scrubs at his eyes with the heel of it, swallowing hard.]


That's what I did, when...you know, when Barry and Iris were fighting because Barry refused to support her Flash blog? When we were working on the Tony Woodward case together, I tried to figure out what was going on, how to help them reconnect. She needed her best friend.

[Shaking his head, he exhales, rubs at his eyes again. The horns feel lighter, somehow, like they're getting hollow inside.]

It's really a stupid thing to dwell on. I just hang onto it because...it doesn't feel fair. And because I never got to tell her that I wanted to be honest with her.

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