[ He can tell that his faint reassurance had little effect, from the way Eddie closes his eyes, shuts himself off for the conversation for a moment. He's in pain, Cisco can tell, but it's an entirely different kind of pain than the one in his chest. It's not one the nurses are going to be able to help with. Which just leaves Cisco, and he doesn't know if it's one he can help with, either. But that doesn't mean he isn't gonna try. ]
I mean- I mean, I think you're not being fair to yourself, either. You've got every right to miss her. You were probably thinking you were back in Central City, right? And besides, your thing with Taako's different.
[ He introduces this last point as something Eddie already knows, as if he's just bringing up an established fact they're both aware of. Taako had told Cisco that he and Eddie were keeping things casual, and he assumes that's a firm understanding between them.
Cisco didn't expect Eddie to laugh at his request, but he didn't anticipate this, either. Eddie just sounds so... hopeless. Like this is something he's been holding in for a long time, this feeling like he ought to be dead. But Cisco is not having it. ]
No. Uh-uh, absolutely not. Don't you talk like that, don't think like that. I don't believe in signs, and anyway if- if it was a sign, it'd be a sign you're supposed to be alive. How many people do you know who've been shot, and then shot themselves, and been mauled by Godzilla's ugly nephew, and then gotten stabbed in the heart, and lived? It's... it's totally statistically improbable. Which means you're super duper supposed to be alive.
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I mean- I mean, I think you're not being fair to yourself, either. You've got every right to miss her. You were probably thinking you were back in Central City, right? And besides, your thing with Taako's different.
[ He introduces this last point as something Eddie already knows, as if he's just bringing up an established fact they're both aware of. Taako had told Cisco that he and Eddie were keeping things casual, and he assumes that's a firm understanding between them.
Cisco didn't expect Eddie to laugh at his request, but he didn't anticipate this, either. Eddie just sounds so... hopeless. Like this is something he's been holding in for a long time, this feeling like he ought to be dead. But Cisco is not having it. ]
No. Uh-uh, absolutely not. Don't you talk like that, don't think like that. I don't believe in signs, and anyway if- if it was a sign, it'd be a sign you're supposed to be alive. How many people do you know who've been shot, and then shot themselves, and been mauled by Godzilla's ugly nephew, and then gotten stabbed in the heart, and lived? It's... it's totally statistically improbable. Which means you're super duper supposed to be alive.