[ It doesn't happen very often, that something moves Cisco so much that he is struck speechless. But this is one of those moments. He walks slowly closer to Eddie, like he is being drawn by some force, but he doesn't say anything. He lets Eddie take his hand, squeezes back just a little. He can't seem to stop smiling.

And Eddie is filling in that silence, speaking quickly, explaining how it had been for him. It is a faint pang of guilt, when he realizes how confused Eddie must have been, that unsticks Cisco's voice. ]

I should've warned you. I- I kept going by the places they were selling them and I tried to ignore the whole thing but I got curious and so I bought one. I wasn't gonna take it but then I was like... it was gonna drive me nuts if I didn't know.

[ Of course, he has no idea how the potion works, whether the magic is actually effective or whether it reacts in some ways to hormones or chemicals in the system, the kind that get released when you see someone you care about. Maybe it's a heart-rate thing. There are so many ways this whole thing could be a scam.

But Cisco doesn't care about them right now. He just wants to believe in this. Wants to be happy that when he'd walked into Eddie's room the whole world had blossomed back into color, and looks brighter now than ever before. ]

Eddie...

[ But he can't think of how to finish that sentence. He just shakes his head, laughing a little at how overwhelmed and inarticulate he is, and smiling so much that his face hurts. ]