[ barry has no time to catch his breath. skidding into cisco's room, he at least shuts it behind himself before he comes into full view. the crackling electricity falls from him like water, and his shoes, the ones iris had gifted him, don't even smoke. ]

[ he approaches cisco, hands in his pockets, and sits beside him. he pulls them out and clasps them in his lap. ]

I wish I knew, Cisco. [ he shakes his head, shoulders lifting. for the person who's meant to have some of the answers, he doesn't have these ones. eobard thawne's his problem, as it's been made abundantly clear with his tunnel vision always leading him straight to barry. it's always eaten away inside of him how it's become everyone else's, too. ]

But he's not the Thawne you knew, or the one who knows you. He's before then — Thawne's time remnant doesn't know anything about what happens to him when it comes to you. [ he does know he "dies", which is barry's blabber mouth fault. he remembers what it had felt like to see thawne and be taken by surprise, and he suspects that disbelief and rage he'd been consumed with is similar to the despair and betrayal cisco's sifting through right now. ]

You've got power in this.