[ omg cisco. if you're going to say something like that, make sure it's to yourself. or at least to anyone else who is not the father of the girl in question. a man who happens to have basically zero chill ]
"Just consider" a version of this event where you didn't come to me first, and I found out on my own. Or better, yet, from someone else.
[ he actually types 'it's just you' though he deletes it before he sends it. it's not true in the least, you see. he likes cisco, actually. he's actually just getting irritated with this conversation and would like it to stop.
not that 'it's just you' is likely to end the conversation, unfortunately ]
Why would it because you're you? My answer will always be no whether you're you or someone else.
[He pauses and just....stares at that text when it comes in. And the next one, casting it off like it was a joke.
But Cisco frowns at it as he considers that...maybe it's not. Not really. Jesse and the lab were all he had back home, after losing his wife. That kind of tragedy makes things...hard. So much harder than they used to be. Makes it hard to find the good and the joy in life again. He knows that now, in a visceral and personal way.And...maybe the circumstance they met under weren't great, but...even Harry admitted, at least once, that he'd come to care about Team Flash.
So...maybe it really isn't much of a lie at all.
It's several minutes before he actually replies again, and he isn't really sure about it when he sends it. But it's too late to cancel it when the doubt creeps up anyway.]
[ he does care about team flash, it's true. he meant it when he said it and his feelings haven't changed. they helped him to save jesse, the last truly good thing he feels like he has in this life. after losing his wife, he couldn't lose their daughter too. he's not sure what he'd do if that happened. he'd imagined it (as much as he would have preferred not to) as though to prepare himself for the possibility, but he never really settled on what would happen to him, what he would do.
they helped him save jesse even when they had their reservations about him, ever after his doppelganger wronged them all in some way. he may not often say such things, but that means something to him. and unlike the cisco and caitlin from his world, they're good people. and unlike the barry allen from his world, they're heroes.
harry spends a long while looking at cisco's text, considering how to respond and whether or not he even wants to bother. truth be told, he puts the phone down and gets back to what he was doing. it's probably a good twenty minutes or more before he sighs and grabs the phone again ]
[He's here to talk, if Harry wants to. But he won't push beyond that, because he knows how rocky that kind of thing is with him. He fully expects him to blow him off, and he's okay with it if he does.]
[ and he really doesn't when he sends that texts. he puts the phone down again, ready to leave it at that and end the conversation there. that would be the end of this asking jesse out business (only for now, most likely) and the turn that this conversation took.
and yet ]
Coming here hasn't been so bad. It's the reason for the trip that I don't like.
[ basically, even if he wishes he hadn't made the trip in the first place (since that would have meant his daughter wasn't kidnapped), he's glad that he did ]
[ it's the phone. it makes it a little easier to say things he would otherwise keep to himself, things that he wouldn't really bother to say aloud. typing the words out, getting to edit every little thing he says before he says it, getting to take the extra time to decide whether or not he actually wants to send the message before he sends it... texting isn't exactly an ideal form of communication but it definitely has its upsides ]
Except if the circumstances had been any different, I wouldn't have had any need to come to this Earth.
[He won't bother pointing out the fact that they could have still, somehow, ended up on Earth-2 at some point for some reason. The multiverse was out there, and he was connected to all of it and he was bound to figure out the other aspects of his powers eventually...
None of the maybes and possibilities mattered, because things still happened the way they did.]
[ things still happened the way they did, that's true. that is, until barry decides to run back in time and change the course of events.
besides, the multiverse is vast. who's to say they ever would have crossed paths. and honestly, that thought actually bothers him more than he will ever admit ]
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"Just consider" a version of this event where you didn't come to me first, and I found out on my own. Or better, yet, from someone else.
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.....OKAY FAIR POINT
But like
is that still a hard no, or like...???
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Yes, that is a no. And it will always be. My opinion on you asking my daughter out on a date will never change.
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OR
is it because I'm me?
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not that 'it's just you' is likely to end the conversation, unfortunately ]
Why would it because you're you? My answer will always be no whether you're you or someone else.
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More than like. The general Dad Says No Always thing.
I don't know!
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But you know. You get the idea.
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I'm pretty sure not talking like a complete moron doesn't make a person boring.
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What was the last fun thing you did?
And how long ago was it?
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Not!
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But Cisco frowns at it as he considers that...maybe it's not. Not really. Jesse and the lab were all he had back home, after losing his wife. That kind of tragedy makes things...hard. So much harder than they used to be. Makes it hard to find the good and the joy in life again. He knows that now, in a visceral and personal way.And...maybe the circumstance they met under weren't great, but...even Harry admitted, at least once, that he'd come to care about Team Flash.
So...maybe it really isn't much of a lie at all.
It's several minutes before he actually replies again, and he isn't really sure about it when he sends it. But it's too late to cancel it when the doubt creeps up anyway.]
All teasing aside...
is that...true, Harry?
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they helped him save jesse even when they had their reservations about him, ever after his doppelganger wronged them all in some way. he may not often say such things, but that means something to him. and unlike the cisco and caitlin from his world, they're good people. and unlike the barry allen from his world, they're heroes.
harry spends a long while looking at cisco's text, considering how to respond and whether or not he even wants to bother. truth be told, he puts the phone down and gets back to what he was doing. it's probably a good twenty minutes or more before he sighs and grabs the phone again ]
Yes and no.
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[He's here to talk, if Harry wants to. But he won't push beyond that, because he knows how rocky that kind of thing is with him. He fully expects him to blow him off, and he's okay with it if he does.]
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[ and he really doesn't when he sends that texts. he puts the phone down again, ready to leave it at that and end the conversation there. that would be the end of this asking jesse out business (only for now, most likely) and the turn that this conversation took.
and yet ]
Coming here hasn't been so bad. It's the reason for the trip that I don't like.
[ basically, even if he wishes he hadn't made the trip in the first place (since that would have meant his daughter wasn't kidnapped), he's glad that he did ]
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He doesn't expect it to go off again, and definitely not for it to be Harry again when it does.]
I wish we met under better circumstances, too.
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Except if the circumstances had been any different, I wouldn't have had any need to come to this Earth.
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But still.
[He won't bother pointing out the fact that they could have still, somehow, ended up on Earth-2 at some point for some reason. The multiverse was out there, and he was connected to all of it and he was bound to figure out the other aspects of his powers eventually...
None of the maybes and possibilities mattered, because things still happened the way they did.]
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besides, the multiverse is vast. who's to say they ever would have crossed paths. and honestly, that thought actually bothers him more than he will ever admit ]
'But still'. I suppose you're right.