[ It's just the steam from the warm water, Cisco tells himself, that makes him suddenly feel hot all over when Eddie groans like that. Only the steam and nothing else - definitely not going to let himself think about any other noises Eddie has ever made when he was very happy about being touched. No way. Not... gonna think about that. ]
Wait, she had a real list?
[ Privately, Cisco thinks Oliver isn't a bad choice for a list like that. Or, he thinks he would have thought so, before he'd interacted with him much. Between working with him a few times when Barry was around, and going over to Starling to redesign the Arrow cave and make new costumes for Oliver and his whole team, Cisco's gotten to know him a bit better. Now, he knows what a hot fucking disastrous mess it would be, and some of the shine has worn off. Sure, Oliver's gorgeous, and physically very much Cisco's type, but he's also an emotional trainwreck and incapable of having even a modicum of chill about anything, ever. Not a trait to be desired, in a sex partner, if you ask him. ]
Yep. Which I totally called, by the way. Well... mostly. He was on the short list for sure.
[ Eddie really is testing him with those groans; this time, Cisco can't help it. His hands pause, just for a moment, when Eddie makes that sound. He draws his bottom lip between his teeth, but there's no good way to say "quit it, that's kinda hot and it's distracting me" without immediately making things an 11/10 on the awkward scale. So instead he just tells himself to suck it up, and goes back to washing Eddie's hair. And it's pure altruism and platonic care that makes him repeat what he'd done to elicit that second groan, switching to a more deliberate scalp massage, pressing a bit harder around the base of Eddie's skull, working in small and hypnotic little circles. ]
I mean, you know about the whole castaway for years thing. We're not exactly buds, and it's not like he talks about it much, but... I get the strong sense that it wasn't all coconut trees and building signal fires. Pretty sure he actually spent a lot of that time with some really bad people getting tortured or whatever and came back with heaps of PTSD, intense archery skills, and not the greatest emotional support network. Which is a real bad combo for just about anybody.
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Wait, she had a real list?
[ Privately, Cisco thinks Oliver isn't a bad choice for a list like that. Or, he thinks he would have thought so, before he'd interacted with him much. Between working with him a few times when Barry was around, and going over to Starling to redesign the Arrow cave and make new costumes for Oliver and his whole team, Cisco's gotten to know him a bit better. Now, he knows what a hot fucking disastrous mess it would be, and some of the shine has worn off. Sure, Oliver's gorgeous, and physically very much Cisco's type, but he's also an emotional trainwreck and incapable of having even a modicum of chill about anything, ever. Not a trait to be desired, in a sex partner, if you ask him. ]
Yep. Which I totally called, by the way. Well... mostly. He was on the short list for sure.
[ Eddie really is testing him with those groans; this time, Cisco can't help it. His hands pause, just for a moment, when Eddie makes that sound. He draws his bottom lip between his teeth, but there's no good way to say "quit it, that's kinda hot and it's distracting me" without immediately making things an 11/10 on the awkward scale. So instead he just tells himself to suck it up, and goes back to washing Eddie's hair. And it's pure altruism and platonic care that makes him repeat what he'd done to elicit that second groan, switching to a more deliberate scalp massage, pressing a bit harder around the base of Eddie's skull, working in small and hypnotic little circles. ]
I mean, you know about the whole castaway for years thing. We're not exactly buds, and it's not like he talks about it much, but... I get the strong sense that it wasn't all coconut trees and building signal fires. Pretty sure he actually spent a lot of that time with some really bad people getting tortured or whatever and came back with heaps of PTSD, intense archery skills, and not the greatest emotional support network. Which is a real bad combo for just about anybody.