[It's all abruptly complicated in his head, the feelings about waking up after being shot, waking up after being stabbed, seeing Taako instead of Iris and all the baggage that comes with that. And everything hurts. Eddie is silent for a few moments, holding Cisco's hand and wondering when everything is going to stop hurting so much. He's so tired of hurting, he just wants everything to go back to normal.
And then Cisco says 'your thing with Taako's different' and Eddie's eyes flick open. At first, it seems natural, he almost brushes it off - of course his thing with Taako's different. Taako's a guy. He doesn't expect to be proposing to him anytime soon. They don't live together. But a moment later, it clicks that those things are probably not what Cisco was talking about.]
What do you mean by different?
[His voice is soft, and he looks up at Cisco's face. And of course he heard the rest of it. That Cisco thinks he is supposed to be alive, that Cisco doesn't want him to die, that Cisco doesn't want him to think or talk like that. But there's too much emotional impact there to respond to right away. He can't focus on it, he can't think about it. It's going to take a few moments before he can put the gratitude and fear and disbelief and gut-wrenching emptiness, and something else he can't identify into words that he can communicate to Cisco.]
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And then Cisco says 'your thing with Taako's different' and Eddie's eyes flick open. At first, it seems natural, he almost brushes it off - of course his thing with Taako's different. Taako's a guy. He doesn't expect to be proposing to him anytime soon. They don't live together. But a moment later, it clicks that those things are probably not what Cisco was talking about.]
What do you mean by different?
[His voice is soft, and he looks up at Cisco's face. And of course he heard the rest of it. That Cisco thinks he is supposed to be alive, that Cisco doesn't want him to die, that Cisco doesn't want him to think or talk like that. But there's too much emotional impact there to respond to right away. He can't focus on it, he can't think about it. It's going to take a few moments before he can put the gratitude and fear and disbelief and gut-wrenching emptiness, and something else he can't identify into words that he can communicate to Cisco.]