Cisco felt it the instant everything shifted. Expected it, even, but that didn't make it any less jarring when it happened. Any ounce of something like okay was sucked from the room and instead the air was thick and tense and Cisco was reminded not of the guy with a heart and a lost love that had been sitting on his couch a week ago, but the one that called himself a God and looked at Cisco like he was nothing, back on E-2. The difference is stark and it's almost odd to think the two were even the same person at all.
"I'm not lying. Jesus, you think I would do that to you? About this? About him?" The incredulity reflected in both his face and his voice were over the top, but he couldn't fathom making a joke out of something like this. "It was silver, had a...maybe Celtic design on it, green inlay behind it." He shakes his head, "I only saw it for like half a second before he tucked it away again. Paco, I wouldn't lieabout this! Please, you have to stop being paranoid long enough to believe me. We can find him, you can still save him like you promised."
Seeing Hartley, any Hartley, in the state he was in was enough to wreck Cisco. He can't begin to picture what this means, how it translates to Paco. The one person in the entire world he loved more than anything, who he'd thought was dead, never was. And best Cisco could gather from the way Hart refused to believe him either, he'd thought Paco was gone, too. There's no universe where that's okay to him, and if there's a chance he can fix it, he's going to.
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"I'm not lying. Jesus, you think I would do that to you? About this? About him?" The incredulity reflected in both his face and his voice were over the top, but he couldn't fathom making a joke out of something like this. "It was silver, had a...maybe Celtic design on it, green inlay behind it." He shakes his head, "I only saw it for like half a second before he tucked it away again. Paco, I wouldn't lie about this! Please, you have to stop being paranoid long enough to believe me. We can find him, you can still save him like you promised."
Seeing Hartley, any Hartley, in the state he was in was enough to wreck Cisco. He can't begin to picture what this means, how it translates to Paco. The one person in the entire world he loved more than anything, who he'd thought was dead, never was. And best Cisco could gather from the way Hart refused to believe him either, he'd thought Paco was gone, too. There's no universe where that's okay to him, and if there's a chance he can fix it, he's going to.