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who: cisco + anyone!
what: catch-all, amnesia event
when: august
where: anywhere; if you want a starter, please hit me up!
warnings: discussion of murder, use of alcohol to cope, will add more as needed

i. pre-amnesia (august 5-10)

[ Cisco knows that he is probably opening himself up to a world of headaches and unnecessary trouble, but there have been plenty of new arrivals, and more and more he is noticing that people who show up from non-technologically advanced worlds simply have no support system to really teach them all the cool things they can do even with their phones, not to mention other machines and devices. So, one day when there's a lull between projects for the RPD and other emergency services, he goes to a print shop and has flyers made:

TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE SHOCK??? NEED LESSONS ON HOW TO USE YOUR PHONE, LAPTOP, OR OTHER ELECTRONIC GADGET??? STOP BY THE ADDRESS BELOW FOR A FREE INFORMAL LESSON!!!

Normally it's the kind of announcement he would make over the network, but what if someone is really struggling and can't even get on there? No, flyers seem like the way to go for this crowd. Cisco adds some fine print at the bottom, below the address for his workshop, but all it says is:

*NO HIDDEN AGENDA JUST A HELPFUL DUDE WANTING TO SHARE THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY, LESSONS ARE FREE BUT TRIBUTE PAID IN CANDY IS ALWAYS ACCEPTED]

ii. amnesia (august 12-19)

[ The changes in Cisco are not, at first, as obvious as they may be in other people. He remembers Riverview, and everyone he has met here, and all the details of his life in this place. He remembers his name, all the movies and video games that he loves, all the technical skills and scientific know-how necessary for his job. He even remembers most stuff about his own past - that he worked at S.T.A.R. Labs, that he's a member of Team Flash and friend to Barry Allen. That he is a metahuman, with various abilities tied to manipulating multidimensional energy.

The only thing that has been carved away from his memory is, in fact, Eobard Thawne. Cisco doesn't remember his mentor's betrayal, or being murdered, or the circumstances that surrounded him discovering his powers. All of the shame and dread he's been carrying about his powers, because of Eobard and the things he'd said and done, has just vanished. In addition, Cisco's trauma over that whole experience is, for the moment, covered over. To anyone who knows him even a little he will seem inexplicably younger. Quicker to smile and laugh, volumes more trusting, and also a lot more inclined to talk about some guy named Dr. Wells in a positive, even devoted manner.

Cisco will spend this week doing what he usually does - working at his workshop (still offering those lessons), trying out new restaurants, shopping for graphic tees and games and movies, exploring the safe parts of the city a little - but with an extra spring in his step. If you've wanted your character to find out about him being a metahuman, now would be a good time for it! ]

iii. post-amnesia (august 20-31)

[ The not-remembering? Had been good. But when that's done, and all of Cisco's memories are restored to him, the transition is... rough. Putting it mildly. Back when all of it had happened, there had been so much going on - one life-or-death situation after the other - that he hadn't had time to linger too much on how he was changing, being shaped into an older, sadder, more broken version of himself.

Now, though, there is no big crisis, no distraction to divert his attention. One minute he is the old, sunny Cisco - the one he still thinks of as the person he was supposed to be - and the next, it all comes rushing back. The contrast is stark, and it's kind of fucking him up a little. Or, rather, a lot.

He goes back to having nightmares almost as often as he did in those first weeks after his death, which means he isn't getting a whole lot of sleep, and it shows in the dark circles under his eyes. Cisco withdraws somewhat - not enough to worry that he's abandoning anyone, but he takes longer to answer texts, doesn't reach out to people first, doesn't go out and about in the evenings. He is quieter, with considerably more strain behind his smiles. He throws himself into his work, staying in his workshop long hours, sometimes falling asleep there, for a few fitful hours. When he can't work any more, he spends a little more time than he should in some nearby bars, drinking a little more than he ought to, trying not to think about the person he is now compared to the person he was the week before. ]

iv. misc

[ Come plot something! ]

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[It's nice to just be excited and free for a while, putting down the family issues to just let loose (in healthier ways than getting smashed and yell about pandas).

Lup listens as Cisco talks about the movies they're about to watch, and his hype is definitely getting hers up as well.]

Wait, so what three genres? Like... I know your world is kinda 'superheroes' and mine is 'fantasy' so I know what to expect when watching a superhero movie, y'know? [Logic.]

...also there's no fucking way Lup gets sick of popcorn, my dude. I even brought my special spice mix!

[She picks a little package out of her pocket.]

I found fuckin' powdered cheese, I love this place.

[ Cisco laughs at that categorization of their respective worlds, but... well, Lup's not wrong. Even in this case, she's being led astray slightly in her expectations. ]

See, but this isn't a superhero movie. And anyway, superheroes are a pretty new thing in my world. They've only been around for like, three years, max.

[ It would be easy to just say that superheroes had first started to be a real thing when Barry started operating as the Flash, but even Cisco has to admit that Oliver was doing some good, before that. Even if his brand of good sometimes edged a little bit too close to vigilantism and torture and murder and stuff Cisco is definitely not down with. ]

I'd say these movies are, uh, maybe halfway in between. There's some kinda fantasy stuff, but there's also car chases and explosions and gunfights. But there's also romance, and adventure, and history. Just wait and see.

[ They get to the theatre, and he hands over the tickets to a bored-looking teen (some things are really the same everywhere you go), and they walk into the movie theatre, with its loudly-patterned carpets and the sound of popcorn popping. Cisco leans in close to Lup and says, low under his breath: ]

Okay, so technically you're not supposed to bring food in from outside, but... well long story short I've got a lot of candy lying around in my lab right now so my bad is, like, FULL of candy. So we don't need to buy any more. Just don't tell anybody.

[She tries to take it all in, curious both about the movie and the fact that superheroes were only a thing in his world for a short time.

...right now was movie time, though, she'll ask about the other stuff later.]

You definitely had me at explosions, but the rest sounds great, too. I bet it's goo, you seem to have decent taste.

[The tickets go smoothly, and Lup leans in a bit when Cisco starts being all sneaky.]

Okay, first of all, why can't you bring food? Second of all, you don't think cha girl brought us drinks and shit, I can make yours all nice and invisible too.

[There's a wink, and she pats her hip slightly.]

What's with the candy lab, though?

The second one's definitely the weakest, but it's still not bad or anything.

[ Cisco is delighted by Lup's continued willingness to play along, and answers her questions as well as he can. ]

You're not supposed to bring food because they want you to buy theirs, only they charge about four times as much for everything, it's a total racket. And the lab candy is 'cause of the flyers, the ones I put up around town, saying I'd help people figure out phones and stuff if they came from worlds without advanced tech. I put a joke on them about the lessons being free but people could bring candy as tribute if they wanted, and now I'm like, actually drowning in candy. Everybody's brought some so far. And like... not just a chocolate bar or whatever. We're talking a bag with twenty chocolate bars. It's insane.

[ It's no real inconvenience, of course, but even more than that mountain of sweets, Cisco had been touched by the thoughtfulness of it. That even though he'd only mentioned candy in small print, as an optional little something nice, everyone had gone out of their way to bring some. It makes him feel all appreciated, and shit. ]

Wait, you mean you brought drinks or like... drinks?

[ Just how lit IS this movie marathon going to be? Because right now signs are pointing to VERY.

There is no line for the popcorn, so Cisco hurries to get them a huge tub of it, before the crowd appears. He'd arranged things so they would get here early, because no way was he going to let Lup get stuck in some shitty seats, on her first movie theatre experience. He does, indeed, let Lup make the candy invisible, and then the two of them head in to the large, darkened auditorium. ]

Before you go running to the front, we should probably sit at least halfway back, if not further. Otherwise it can kinda hurt your neck after a while, looking up.

Shit, my dude. Let me put a mental note to teach some people in something in exchange for candy, it would be great! [She shrugs a bit.] The movie theater idea of no candy suck, though. Guess they gotta earn their money, but that's what cheating is for!

[She sounds way too happy about that, following Cisco inside the dark room. She sees perfectly fine in the dark, even if the colors are muted, so Lup is quick to look for seats. Naturally she's eager for the front, but Cisco's warning makes her hesitate and scope out the seats a bit more while she talks about her drinks.]

I brought home-made lemonade, sorry to disappoint you. [She puts a hand down her bra and picks out a flask.] ...well, I have some fun stuff to spike it with, too. Just in case it's awful, but I trust your judgment.

[Glancing at the seats again, she chooses a few rows from the back and flops down with a grin.]

Awwwright, let's do this!

You could give magic lessons. I'm sure there's tons of people who'd like to know how to blow stuff up. [ Cisco knows how to blow stuff up just fine with science, but he knows he's in the majority with that. Then again... ] Actually on second thought maybe that's not such a great idea.

[ There might not be as many villains here as Cisco is used to back home, but making that kind of offer to the general population would have a high chance of drawing out any of the dangerous types that actually are around.

He drops down into the seat next to Lup's, putting his feet up on the unoccupied chair in front of him and letting out a happy sigh. There is something so comforting about a movie theatre. Not for Lup, he's sure, because they don't come with the same nostalgia, but it's never to late to start building those happy associations. ]

We can keep the drink spiking as a last resort.

[ Cisco watches as other people start to filter in gradually, filling in the seats here and there in little clusters. Is there anything else he's forgotten, anything he ought to mention...? ]

Oh, yeah! Okay, so, generally speaking you're gonna want to be sort of quiet during the movie. Like... we can talk, but we're gonna wanna whisper so we're not annoying the shit out of everybody else. And you know, the films are set on Earth and everything so if there's anything that doesn't make sense, just ask and I'll try to fill you in, how's that sound?

[ Just as he is finishing that little warning, the lights dim and the first of the trailers starts up. Cisco leans close and says (just to kind of model that whole quiet-talking thing) ]

So these are basically ads letting you know about other movies that haven't come out that you might like. Sometimes they're awesome but sometimes they can be really really corny.

I mean sure, but I'm not exactly great at teaching. All my shit is explosive, can you imagine newbies trying that stuff?

[Seeing him put up his feet like that she does the same, wiggling a bit to make herself comfortable and sort out the drinks and the popcorn nicely in their little space.]

Kinda cramped, my dude. A table would be good, you know?

[It was her only complaint so far, at least.

The mention of no talking makes Lup groan a bit, but then she gives him a little smirk before using Message to try to speak in his head.]

I got tricks for that. Fair warning, I'm a chatty gal and I like commenting on stuff. Taako usually throws a pillow at me when I babble too much.

[With that, the lights dim and her eyes refocus a bit, going from black-and-white darkvision back to color when the movie screen lights up the room instead.

Lup grins at Cisco again and is more than happy to see these ads. She's soon laughing at a particularly dumb-looking movie when the lights dim more and the actual movie starts.]

[ No matter how much he's exposed to it, Cisco thinks he's just never going to get properly used to magic. When Lup's voice sounds in his head rather than out loud, he whips his head around to look at her, understanding what is happening after a few seconds, gasping, and then beaming.

Deliberately, excitedly, he thinks: ]

Wait, can you hear me? Does it go both ways? Holy shit this is cool. It's like we've got our own private frequency. Suck on that, theatre people, with your no talking rule! And listen, I promise, you don't gotta worry about chatting too much. I've seen these movies bout a thousand times.

[ He isn't here to have some kind of uninterrupted watching experience for the films themselves, but to have a good time with Lup. This whole telepathic talking thing is going to make that much easier. Although... ]

If you can hear me, you can only hear the words I deliberately think, right? You can't just read my other thoughts? Or see inside my head or feel what I'm feeling or anything?

[Lup looks endlessly amused as Cisco stares at her like that. She leans in a bit to whisper, chuckling to herself.]

I'm sure you're having a seriously great conversation in your thoughts right now, but I can only hear your reply to my message. It's not telepathy.

[It was pretty cute, though. Instead she sends a question what tenure is, because damn the teacher is hot.]

[ Tenure, it turns out, is only one of the first things that Cisco ends up explaining to Lup as they watch. He hadn't really brought her here as some kind of educational exercise, but it turns out there is a whole lot more cultural and historical context needed for Indiana Jones to make sense than he'd remembered. And truth be told, it gets to be kind of fun. The two of them laugh and cheer at the car chases and action sequences; Cisco pulls up his knees onto his chair and hides his face, peeking out between his fingers, for the scenes in the snake-filled tomb; he gives brief, mostly-accurate, hilarious descriptions of everything from Christianity to Nazis; when it comes time for the infamous face-melting scene, the two of them cheer, clapping and whooping, not caring how much they annoy the others in the theatre.

And then finally, the credits start to roll, and Cisco hops to his feet, stretching and beaming. ]

So what was your favorite bit? Did you like it? It's so much better with the big screen, right?

[In the end it was a little confusing at times but REALLY AWESOME at other, so Lup is definitely amused by it all. Between action and whips and super amazing face-melting (and she tells him she's always wanted to do that), Lup is really curious about the details.

She loved learning new things, after all, and now the Earth place was getting more and more layers to it, no matter how fake movies were.

Then the movie is over and Lup applauds and cheers, standing up on slightly cramped legs and popping confetti Prestidigitation for fun.]

Fuck yes, homie, that was rad! Def the face melting but I loved the beginning with the rock... and the guy getting fucked up by the plane... and Indy just straight up shooting the dude when you thought it was gonna be a big fight.

[Okay so maybe the violent scenes might have been her faves, but it was overall a great movie.]

Edited 2017-08-31 16:49 (UTC)

[ It would be difficult not to be impacted by Lup's enthusiasm; when she casts that little spell to send confetti into the air during the end credits, Cisco laughs, swiping a hand through the air to keep flecks of it from landing on his face. There is something about the way she speaks when she is excited, and the way her face is when she laughs, that reminds Cisco so much of Taako. Not just because of the physical resemblance, but that makes it clear they have spent a lot of time together. Even for Cisco and Dante, things had been like that from time to time - little sayings the both of the had picked up from their parents, tiny tics and habits.

He walks with Lup out of the theatre, and it feels good to stretch his legs, to be moving as she recounts all of her favorite moments. Cisco definitely notices the trend, that they seem to be mainly over-the-top action moments, but when she mentions Indy just shooting the guy, he launches into a long explanation of how it had been written differently, as a long scene, but that Harrison Ford had been ill and just changed it.

There are things in the film that look different to him, now, than the last time he'd watched, and he brings a few of those up, too. As they're walking, he says: ]

You know, with your magic, I bet we could shoot one hell of a movie ourselves. I mean, if we wanted. I don't know the first thing about directing, but we got the special effects thing covered, and I bet we could find plenty of willing volunteers, if we wanted...

[She's laughing and talking animatedly about all the amazing parts of the movie, and it turns into a giggling fit when she hears about the change in script to the awesome gun scene.

...and then Cisco is mentioning making a movie themselves and she stops, eyes wide and excited.]

Fuck, you have the best ideas! We could do an adventure movie with a shitton of explosions and comedy!

[ It's so lovely, to spend time with someone who will not only not criticize his crazier ideas, but who seems only too happy to go along with them. Even if it involves plans to make a probably very dodgy independent action film. ]

Right!? Like, why haven't we already been doing this? Okay, so, we'd need a script... and obviously you gotta play the main part....

[ He has a thought, claps his hands together in excitement and turns so he's fully facing Lup. ]

Hey, we could always get Taako to play your nemesis. Have him be the evil twin and all. Wait, is that a thing they have in your world? Like the idea that there's a good twin and an evil twin? I don't even know where that idea comes from, actually. Never really wondered before...

[ But he shrugs it off, too excited about this idea he is brewing up to get too sidetracked by cultural tangents. ]

And you'll need a love interest or two, natch, and a loyal friend, maybe a mentor figure... Hmm... Lucretia seems like the kind of person who would take a lot of convincing to get her up in a project like this - am I right or wrong?

[ He's not saying it's impossible, though. ]

[She looks like she's about to jump up and down in excitement.]

Oh, oh, and we can have some pretty damn fun fights... or I could be the villain and he my sidekick and we'll come to ruin the day! Then you could be the hero!

[She laughs and shakes her head a bit.]

...pretty sure the evil twin thing is more a doppelganger issue than your actual twin, but who knows?

[Not all twins were as close as her and Taako, after all. Lup can't quite imagine being her brother's enemy or the other way around.]

Luce might like it! Plus she could help writing the script, she's amazing at that stuff.

[Double-handed writing, her bff is cool ok.]

You sure Taako's gonna be ok with just being a sidekick? I feel like you're setting yourself up to be upstaged here. Or at least an attempted upstaging.

[ They talk excitedly as they pace around in the lobby, weaving between other movie-goers and stretching their legs. ]

Is it? I feel like doppelganger is a whole other category. [ And then, because he's feeling happy and chatty and good, and he doesn't see why it really matters keeping it a secret, Cisco leans in and whispers: ] I've actually got an evil doppelganger out there somewhere in the multiverse. Taako met him, too. We were messing around with magic and some shit went sideways. Definitely not fun action movie material though. He seemed, like, super evil. Also he maybe kinda hit on me? It was deeply weird.

[ But Cisco knows that if he threw on a lot of eyeliner and really overdid it with the leather and weird hairdos, he could make a half-decent villain. As for being a hero, well. He could manage it for a little indie movie he and his friends were making for fun. Even if he's not a real hero, where it counts. ]

Oh, yeah, just let her do that, and then you and I can come in and add some sick stunts. Rad it up a little.

Oh, he's sure as fuck not upstaging me, we'd end up dueling for real. I think he'd get the most fun out of being the villain, though.

[Plus she doesn't want there to be any Wonderland evil twin elf feels.

As they walk around a bit, she keeps mentioning little ideas until Cisco tells her about that doppleganger thing. It takes Lup a moment, but then she's laughing a little.]

Man, I wish I could have seen that. Magic here seems kind of fucked up to be messing with, though, so I'm not surprised there was a weird effect. Did you get rid of him?

[She really wants to know more about the planes here, but everything seemed a lot more static, aside from the Ethereal Plane. No wonder the more powerful spells like Dimension Door and Contact Other Plane sucked.]

I'll ask her about it! Then we can just fucking blow shit up and do some heroic fights. Make it really fucking amazing, people will be at the edge of their seats!

Got it: equal screen-time for both of you or else, and villains are more fun. I can totes work with that. You get Lucretia on board and we could really have something here!

[ When Lup mentions magic being fucked up in this place, and then asks if they got rid of his doppelganger, Cisco considers. He'd half expected Lup to come back with something like oh, was that when you did that dream experiment, with my brother's magic and your powers? But apparently Taako hadn't mentioned their encounter with Reverb to her, or, in fact, any of the rest of it. Probably, Cisco thinks, because he'd been so desperate in his pleas with Taako to keep his powers a secret.

But that had been before Lup showed up, before Cisco had started to get to know her - even before he knew Taako all that well. It wasn't all that long ago, in days and weeks and months, but he realizes he's come a ways, since then. He's not happy with his powers, but he's no longer abjectly horrified at the thought of anyone knowing about them. Plus... this is Lup. She's not going to go around telling people, or treating him like a freak.

So Cisco deliberately directs their steps away from the other groups of people waiting for the next movie, to a quieter corner. He rubs at the back of his neck, words becoming more halting. ]

We got away from him, yeah. And, um, actually, the- the weirdness wasn't 'cause of the magic or this place it was... 'cause of me. Taako offered to use magic to try to help me figure out how to control, um, my powers. Which I have.

[ It is some relief, knowing that she comes from a world where there are seers and necromancers and druids all over the place, that Lup is a wizard herself and probably doesn't even realize (except through deduction, and the way he's talking about it) that anything about what he just said is a big deal. ]

Except I guess metahuman stuff and magic dooooon't mix well, so we just sort of got temporarily stuck in a part nightmare part vision trance or something and maybe sorta projected ourselves into another dimension for a bit.

[Taako told her a lot of things, and they shared eachother's experiences and thoughts whenever they could. He rarely, if ever, had any secrets from her - at least before the voidfish fucked him up. Now things were a bit different and it was harder for her to read him these days. The wall he had built was hard to breach even for her.

That didn't mean he always told her other people's secrets, though - unless it was about her, or important to know if she was gonna hang around them.

This was a personal thing from a friend, and also a thing that wasn't 'important' to know to hang out with Cisco - so he he had kept it to himself. He'd probably tell her if she had asked, but hey. Here they were.

Lup follows him to the quieter corner, a brow raised in slight confusion - then Cisco lays it all on her, and her expression softens a little bit before she grins and punches him on the arm. (Just barely light enough to not hurt.)]

Shit, my dude! You have powers? And they sent you on some kind of dimensional trip when mixed with magic?

[She's excited, now.]

That sounds pretty fucking cool.

[ Cisco gives a tiny affirmative shrug and laughs, and there's only a hint of uneasiness in it. Taako had been entirely blasé about his powers; Lup, it seems, is a bit more excited. He isn't quite sure how to deal with that. Then again, he hasn't really been sure how to deal with any of the various reactions he's gotten from people. Cisco thinks that maybe this will just always be a slightly awkward, slightly uncomfortable exchange, for him. But at the very least she isn't frightened, or disgusted. So he stops rubbing at the back of his neck and explains: ]

Yeah, uh, I do. Maybe don't go around telling anybody that, though.

[ He can't help another quick glance, even though there's no one near enough who could be hearing them, even if they wanted to listen in. But... old habits die hard, and Cisco is still adjusting to this whole telling-people-he's-a-meta thing. Lup looks so excited that he really doesn't want to rain on her parade, so Cisco is a little more generous than he might otherwise be, when he describes his powers. ]

I get visions. Sometimes when I'm asleep and sometimes when I'm awake. Of, like, the past, and the present, and sometimes the future, too, and other universes and timelines. There's other stuff I can do, in theory, but most of the time it... kinda sucks, actually. I still can't really control when it happens or what I see, so half the time I just end up reliving shitty things that happened to me or seeing stuff from other people's lives that I don't want to see and they don't want me to see and it's just a big old disaster.

[ Which is a nicer way of saying he has uncontrollable nightmare visions and hates them and if there were a button he could push to go back to being a regular human, he would hit it without a millisecond's hesitation. But that button doesn't exist. And it's never going to. DNA that has been changed can't be unchanged. How many times had he heard Caitlin telling Barry that, about other metas? Cisco is just... stuck like this. Forever. ]

I'm... working on being cool with it. Still a pretty new thing in my life.

[Powers are cool and in general magic is her thing to (secretly) nerd about with Barry.

Unlike a certain cleric, however, she can read the room - or in this case, movie hallway. her voice is a little softer when she replies.]

Cisco. Sweetcheeks. Buddy-boy. I know I might come off as a gossip gal, but I'm not in the business of betraying people's trust.

[Again, as long as it wasn't anything to do with her family or could affect it, there was no reason to share something that intimate.

Listening to him explaining his powers kind of makes her understand why it's a personal thing, too. It sounded a little like Divination, only more fucked up.]

That sounds tough. I'm glad Taako is trying to give you some pointers, at least? Even if it was a fucking disaster.

[Lup nudges him with an elbow.]

I'm guessing you've seen stuff about our reality?

[ He feels a strange kind of tightness in his chest, when Lup reassures him that she is trustworthy. He believes her, which is frightening, but also, good. ]

Taako did his best. And I kinda got the hang of it, near the end. Got us out of there anyway. All he had to do was scare the living daylights outta me. But it helped me kind of get a feel for what I ought to be doing. So it wasn't a total waste.

[ Cisco says that last part with a very dry twist of humor in his voice; it's funny, in retrospect. It had been very extremely not funny, at the time. That fear spell was no fucking joke, but it had done what they needed it to do, and all was well that ended well.

He sways a little when she elbows him like that, smiling faintly. It is impossible to stay worried or gloomy, when he's talking with Lup. ]

Yeah. Like I said, I can't really control what I see... but chances are if I'm near somebody, it's gonna be about them. So I've seen the voidfish, and the Hunger attacking, and Magnus and Merle and Taako having adventures, and things like that. That's, um. Kind of how Taako and I first got to be friends. I mean, he's a friendly guy, but you know. He puts up walls.

[ It's odd, speaking about Taako like this. As close as they are, as friends, Cisco doesn't discuss him much with people, precisely because he knows how much Taako likes keeping any sign of vulnerability hidden away. ]

Before you got here... he still didn't know what had happened to you, and all that. I had a vision of his future - of him hearing your voice. So I told him, and he knew you weren't totally gone after all, and that... hit him pretty hard.

[ Taako had made Cisco swear not to tell anyone about that, under pain of death, but Cisco's pretty sure that Lup doesn't apply. ]

It was pretty weird, meeting you and already knowing what your voice sounded like. I probably shoulda mentioned that, sooner. Sorry.

Edited 2017-09-24 00:14 (UTC)

[It's all really... weird. She doesn't have a better word to describe it. Not exactly bad in any way, just strange to know that someone else had seen their mess. Seen their lives.

Seen Taako after losing his memory.

Still, it's not as if she blames Cisco the slightest. Hell, it sounded like some really tough powers to have to deal with, and she bumps her hip to his.]

Wow.

[Real eloquent there, Lup.]

No wonder you guys are close. I mean, Taako has always been standoffish and stuff, but he's like a fucking fortress here.

[Despite the friends he has made. Fuck, he was even hard for her to get through, which was the first time for her in their long lives. Running off instead of coming to her first.]

...and don't you apologize for shit, my dude. It's fine. Means you know us pretty damn well, right? Plus... if it gave my brother some hope in this mess, I owe you.

Yep. Fort Taako, with all the drawbridges up and a big-ass moat.

[ Cisco says it with a sort of fond sadness; he knows why Taako is like that, and Cisco's dabbled in being a bit of a fortress, himself. At least in some ways - hesitant to trust, if not to care about people. There are some things between him and Taako that are polar opposite, but that paranoid instinct towards self-protection had been something Cisco could understand without needing an explanation. ]

I mean, I know about some stuff about you all, sure, but... I think I still prefer getting to know people the old fashioned way. Spying on other people's memories just makes me feel like a big damn creep. That's one of the reasons I'm learning how to use my powers - so I can at least decide whether or not I wanna get all up in someone else's private business.

[ When Lup says he might have given Taako some hope when he needed it, Cisco feels a warm, swelling sort of pride in his chest. At the time he'd just felt bad about making Taako cry, but now that Lup's here, now that things are different... he wonders if he had helped. And if he did... that's a good thing. Objectively good. Maybe if he could give people hope like that, his powers weren't all bad. ]

I really hope it did.

[ And the lights flash, then, indicating it's time to go in for the next movie. Cisco grins, says: ]

Temple of Doom time.

[ Then, partly because he doesn't want Lup worrying if it does come to it, and partly because he'd been open with her about his powers and it had gone so completely well, Cisco blurts: ]

So fair warning, I might ditch you for bits of this one. It's a long story but basically some of it's too gross for me so if I bail for a few minutes now and then, don't worry, it's all good and I'll be back.

Yeah, I can see how it could be a mess. Don't worry, though. We're cool, Taako likes you, everything's coming up Cisco.

[Lup gives him a little nudge as they start heading back into the cinema, just to empathize the point. Cisco had managed to push through to Taako in a whole new way, but was kind and sweet enough to make it work.

That's what friends were for.

Finding their seats, she hops down in hers and looks at her friend with a grin. She gives him a little snort as he tells her about having to bail now and then, and she ribs him good-naturedly about it.

In the end, she doesn't mind if he has to run of or not, though. Everyone had their own issues. Fuck, she had seen Bambi and now side-eyed venison.

All in all, it's a great movie night.

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i just saw that 'bad' instead of 'bag' typo in my last tag augh why

I typo all the time XD

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I am the slowest ;_;

you super duper are not the slowest, don't worry

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