Hartley rolled his eyes. “Yeah, you think I wanted this?” Hartley gestured to his ears. “I was perfectly happy not being able to hear. And now I hear everything all at once and every single day it’s like my ears are slowly pushing a stake through my skull.” Hartley pursed his lips. “I can help you develop your skills, you know. No strings attached. My gloves work similarly to your extremities. The differences in timelines is a bit of a conundrum… Until recently, most studies on time travel and alternate timelines are based upon classical general relativity. Coming up with a quantum version of our current timeline to figure out the time evolution equations for density states in the presence of closed timelike curves shouldn’t be too hard.”
“I don’t think any of us wanted this, Hartley.” Cisco sighed, shoving his hands in his pockets so he wouldn’t let the powers get the best of him. “I don’t need someone else helping me, potentially getting hurt. I can’t risk it. I’m still too unstable, I can’t trust my own judgement. Hartley, you shouldn’t trust me.”
Cisco backup 