EUDIO: IC INBOX

[harrisonwells]

"This is Dr. Harrison Wells. Leave a message. A relevant message."

text | voice | video | network un: starlabs

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[malingerer]

If we’re talking about the same speedster … black suit, blue lightning … all macabre and ego. I did more than see him; he owes me a new foyer.

[ this said flatly, maybe intentionally without compassion for harrison’s staggered surprise. maybe it’s intended to be soothing, in its own way, clinical and businesslike. or maybe the circumstances have an inherent irony to them that eobard can’t help but distance himself from, with the cynical amusement of someone who doesn’t have more to fear than their own death.

that doesn’t change the fact that in another life, at another time, he may have said i’m glad you’re safe. ]

Harrison. I’d like to check on Jesse.

[harrisonwells]

[The description is certainly accurate enough to paint a vivid picture of Zoom, light and darkness sparking on the backs of Harrison's eyelids. He owes Eobard a new foyer? For a moment, the phrasing makes no sense, and then he realizes that means Zoom...well, he didn't attack Eobard. But he didn't threaten and run either.

Somehow his hand has covered his eyes, and his voice is still raw.]

Jesse. Yes. Find her, please, make sure she's safe. Do whatever you need to to keep her safe.

[malingerer]

[ it’s not asking for permission, except for where it is. ]

Understood.

[ there’s a pause. he wants to say more, maybe even words that could soothe. he thinks about the dozens of times caitlin and barry and cisco faced danger, threats always more mundane than himself but still very real; he knows the things he thought then, the realm of sordid things he would’ve done to keep them safe, even if back then it only felt like delaying the inevitable. even if he hadn’t known how to love them, really, not in any way that mattered, these people who seemed at first relics of a time long gone and then later became his enemies. ]

Tell Barry.

[ barry, who’d still do anything to protect his friends. barry, who isn’t fast enough. barry, who can do anything, eobard thinks, truly.

the line cuts. ]