Cisco: A Fictional Narrative

''Yes man, it's me, you got it!'' Cisco was smiling from ear to ear. ''You're with me?'' Barry shut his eyes tight in answer, swallowing hard like he was fighting nausea, causing his friend to get closer, raising his eyebrows with concern. ''Barry, what's wrong? Do you want me to call for help?'' Cisco was ready to bolt and go search for Caitlin himself, forgetting for a moment that there were people looking at their every moves that he could call in a second. Barry must’ve sensed the boy was about to leave because he grabbed Cisco’s arm. The engineer could feel the tremors in the boy' body, in his voice. ''No wait...Was Joe really there earlier? Is he alive?'' ''Yeah, Barry, he is, so is Iris. We're all fine. Killer Frost's …show more content…
Slowly but surely, as he took in all the information, the confusion turned into resignation, like he already knew the answer to the next question. ''What about my parents?'' ''They're...they're dead Barry. Reverse and Zoom killed them.'' Cisco answered, uncomfortably. Cisco closely waited for the reaction as Barry simply nodded, sitting up in the bed, wincing against the pain caused by moving around, before shaking his head. His thoughts were conflicting with one another. When his voice came back it was a little stronger than before, even though the pain could still be heard in it. ''But, but...I don't get it. I came back, the house was empty, Joe emptied it after she died. I thought I failed to come back.'' ''Barry, Iris is fine, they had a little roof leaking problem, that’s why the room was so clean.’’ Barry closed his eyes and nod, before taking a breath deep enough to make himself shake all …show more content…
But I couldn’t bring myself to kill Frost, I didn't know why, I just couldn't.... I convinced Vibe and Joe to trap her, not kill her and …we did. After months of tracking her, we finally had her within her grasp, we had her on her knees and we had her chance to stop this madness. But I…I…'' The speedster stopped talking, sniffing. From his point of view, Joe could see the tears falling freely and shared an understanding look with his daughter who moved her hand forward, desperate to do anything to comfort Barry. She stopped when he continued talking with a tearful voice: ''One second, just one second of hesitation, it all it took for Killer Frost to get free and jump on us. She killed all our whole unit, she killed Vibe, she threw her ice through Joe and killed him….she jumped on me before I could react. I thought for sure I was going to die…'' Caitlin bit her lips, looking away from the speedster, hating to hear about the stuff the other her did to all the people she cared about, shiver running down her back. ‘’I should’ve ended this, I couldn’t even explain why we needed her alive, everybody died because of me.’’ By the time he ended his sentence, Barry could barely speak between the