{Everybody needs love and there is more than one kind

[myheadisaprison]

PSL with scarletspeedster1 + vivifier + snowandfrost

2. He's ninety percent amazing leader, father, and teacher, and ten percent unforgivable douche. These are the men I look up to in my life. Literally, what is wrong with me? [Cisco/Savitar]

Creature comfort, make it painless [Cisco/Savitar]

Injuries [Barry/Savitar]

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[snowandfrost]

She doesn't get that far before he catches up with her. Caitlin stops when she feels Cisco's fingers in hers and looks at him. Wordlessly, she immediately moves toward him for a tight hug. She isn't denying her past as Killer Frost. It's still a very fresh wound for her, something that she thinks about all the time, even though she and Frost have gotten to a better understanding of each other.

[thisismadfreaky]

He doesn't mind that she doesn't have the words for any of this right now. He pulls her tightly against his chest, holding her until she remembers how to think, speak, breathe, whichever comes first.

[snowandfrost]

Don't pay attention to wet spots where her face is, Cisco. Caitlin can try to do that breathing thing but it's a little hard when everything hurts.

"...I wish I could have gone Killer Frost on him."

But she knows it would've been difficult for Cisco and Barry to have seen it. Especially Barry, who seems to only see the good in Savitar.

[thisismadfreaky]

He doesn't mind the tears soaking his shirt, all that really matters is that she knows he doesn't judge her for what she did--or things she said--back then.

"You might get to, yet." Look, Cisco is t his biggest fan, and he isn't as trusting as Barry is. He doesn't trust the guy.

[snowandfrost]

She lets out a choked sob sound that sounds like a gurgly kind of laughter that's muffled by him. Caitlin has been doing better with expressing her emotions rather than keeping it inside or even making it seem like she was the only one going through it quietly.

"I had to get out of there before I could."

[thisismadfreaky]

"It's okay," he says, sliding his hands to rest on her shoulders and pushing her back gently, just enough that he can look at her face. One hand moves from her shoulder to tilt her chin up, thumb brushing across her cheek to catch a stray tear. "That you want to do that. And that you had to walk out."He gives her a small smile that he hopes is comforting.

[snowandfrost]

She gives him a small smile, touched at how he was wiping at her tears. Cisco's presence is always calming and comforting. She hugs him again then lets go. Caitlin straightens again and tries to wipe at her face to seem a little bit more put together.

"I'm a mess. Why did I think that he might be different this time around?"

[thisismadfreaky]

He returns the hug and smiles a little at the question. "Because you want to believe the best in people." Caitlin and Barry both are that way-- Cisco is a little more inclined to initial suspicion that might later evolve into hope.

[snowandfrost]

She gives a small smile and sighs.

"What are we going to do? As soon as we go back there, he's just going to making you and I upset again."

[thisismadfreaky]

He shrugs, a little uncertain and a little uneasy about the whole thing himself. He doesn't buy it, or believe that the guy is capable of change, or redemption. But he thinks he gets why Barry needs to believe it.

"For now...I think we just gotta put up with it, at least for a little while...for Barry's sake." He takes in a shaky breath and lets it out. "For better or worse-- and it's obviously pretty 'worse'-- Savitar is a part of Barry. That...bitterness, that darkness....it's in him, too. And I think that's all he sees when he looks at him. Savitar is a physical representation of everything Barry refuses to admit lives in him-- and he has to believe that that he can be redeemed, because it's him, too."

He rolls his lips together and shrugs again. It's a lot of assuming, but Cisco likes to think, despite the distance that had been created between them, he knows Barry pretty freaking well.

[snowandfrost]

It makes a lot of sense. For Savitar to be that bitter and dark representation of Barry.

"We need to be able to not let him get under our skin so much."

Which was going to be difficult. Savitar took away something that was so near and dear to both of their hearts. He took HR. Killed him, thinking he killed Iris, without a second thought. He pushed and pushed and pushed Killer Frost closer and closer to the edge, to the point where it was nearly impossible to get Caitlin back.

[thisismadfreaky]

"Easier said than done," he admits with a facial shrug, "But..." He reaches for her hand and threads their fingers together. "we can do it. Together, okay?" there's a small hint of a smile as he squeezes her hand gently in his own.

[snowandfrost]

How did he always know how to make her feel better? Caitlin squeezes back and falls into step with him.

"Yeah. We can do it together."

They've faced nearly everything else together, they could face this.