“Alright, I’ve come to the consensus that nearly, if not every human woman in this city is an odd combination of exceedingly attractive, but unnervingly strange….”
“Yeah, well.” Cisco laughed. “Got names to go with that description?”
Helena sighed again and looked down at her lap. “Listen. You’re… You’re really sweet. But all I have to say is my vigilante name and you’ll go running. I don’t want you to go running.”
“I’m just going to be frank with you, okay?” Cisco said, glancing over at the woman. “I’ll probably go running anyway. I don’t really like committment when it comes to relationships. Plus, your vigilante name can’t be all that bad.” He said with a small chuckle before letting his face go neutral once more.
Helena sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. “What do you want me to call you?” she asked. “And I thought you didn’t want a relationship. You said you were a lone wolf or whatever.”
“I don’t know. It just freaks me out a little that you called me that.” He sighed. Of all the nicknames to call him, and she chose Cisco? Weird. “I dunno what I want. I haven’t really been thinking straight lately, on account that I have quite a lot going on. But whatever this is, I don’t want it to just be a physical relationship.”
Helena blinked. “Because your name was too long and I didn’t want to say the whole thing. I think that’s what’s called a nickname. If you haven’t been called that before then that will be my special nickname for you,” she covered, still feeling incredibly uncomfortable. She didn’t like this. She didn’t like being on low ground with this man. “Listen, I’m just a really private person, okay? Information is too dangerous to give out for free. So I really can’t give you any details about my life.”
“Uhm, I don’t think so.” He said, sitting up straight. “Most people give nicknames after they’ve know each other for a while. We’ve barely known each other for a full 48 hours.” Cisco crossed his arms and stared ahead. “Information is dangerous to give out? Not if you’re trying to have a relationship with someone.”
Helena looked tense and quite uncomfortable as she stared at his fingers intertwining with hers. This was not the plan. “I really don’t want to talk about myself, Cisco.”
Cisco let go of the woman’s hand as she said the nickname he was given by his friends. “Wait, why’d you call me Cisco? I thought I told you my name was Franscisco?” He said, cocking his head to the side.
“I don’t want to talk about myself. You’re the one that had the bad day. You can’t have been thinking ‘I know what will make everything better! If I find out about what makes that one girl on the motorcycle click.’” She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair.
“I love learning more about people. What makes you tick, Helena?” He smiled, grabbing her hand and intertwining his fingers with hers
It took her like a few minutes to get inside of star lab even if Cisco was already there and not because it was far, it was mostly because she lost control there and she needed to be calm if she wanted to enter and talk to him so when she was inside, she just raised her voice “I’m not being stubborn, I said that I as fine!” She knew that Cisco of course would hear that.
Cisco kept quiet as he began to walk along the pipeline, the place he went when he needed to be alone. He heard Caitlin holler, and he sighed. He pulled his phone out and sent a quick text to his friend : “That’s what stubbornness is, you said you were fine when you obviously weren’t… Just let me be, I’ll call you once I’ve calmed down. Don’t come looking for me, please.”
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