[It's easy to see how difficult this is for Cisco - he can see how he struggles with it, how he holds himself a little stiff, his shoulders tense and slightly hunched, the muscles in his arms and down his back tight. Everything about his posture suggests he's trying not to give in to the flight part of fight or flight.

But Cisco sighs and then he starts talking, a little hesitant. He avoids eye contact, but he speaks, he explains what it is that has him looking so tired and sleeping on a busted couch in his lab. The more he talks, the more Eddie feels sick for him, at the thought of going through that. The idea of Cisco falling into one of those dreams, screaming and crying in his sleep, with no one able to wake him up, makes him feel a little desolate inside.

So he stays still, his hand going slack after Cisco pulls the food from his hand and starts setting it up. His brows furrow as Cisco explains that he doesn't want anyone to know he ha powers, and that he's been sleeping here so no one sees if he has those nightmares. To avoid being looked at differently. But it's the way Cisco says he can't bring himself to go back there that really cinches it.]

I have a room in the attic of the apartment I'm renting, if you want to stay there.

[He blurts it out, his eyes a little wide, and then he steps forward, looking intently at Cisco's face.]

I mean, you'd have to deal with living with Yuri, who's kind of an obnoxious teenager, but he has a cat that's a great cuddler and it would be quiet and private, and if you chipped in for rent and stuff, I'd totally be wiling to make extra food for you too...