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“Are you okay?” It was a stupid question, he already knew the answer, but he doesn’t know what else to say.
Iris didn’t look at him. “No.”
“I piggybacked the audio off the extrapolator,” Cisco said slowly, studying Iris for any kind of reaction, “I’m sorry.”
“I have to try again,” Iris said suddenly, surging out of her chair.
Cisco’s heart dropped, “ Iris -” he reached out, gently grabbing Iris’s wrist, she finally met his eyes- “he almost killed you.”
Iris stared at him, “We can’t just give up, Cisco.”
“We’re not ,” Cisco said, there were so many things he wanted to say, I can’t lose you too was at the top of the list, he hoped his eyes got that message across, “but if we’re going to take down Bloodwork and Dark Flash, we need to do it with a photon emitter .”
“You haven’t even tested that thing.”
“We have no time! Maybe you don’t remember but we actually have been preparing for this for weeks.”
Iris’s eyes flashed, “No, we’ve been preparing for The Flash to die saving this world. Not- not helping destroy it .”
“It doesn’t matter, we were gonna lose him anyway!” Cisco let go of Iris’s wrist and dropped her gaze. “This is the moment he prepared us for.”
The room suddenly felt suffocating and Cisco had to get out, his body moving on autopilot as he turned to leave the room.
Iris followed him out. “We still have four hours, that is two hundred and forty minutes that I am not letting Ramsey take a single one of those from me-” her voice got softer- “from us .”
Cisco stopped walking, staring down at the desk that he had ended up in front of.
“I am not giving up on Barry,” Iris said, her voice laced with desperation, “he’s our husband .”
“He was ,” Cisco said quietly, staring at the golden band on his ring finger, “he was our husband. And no one’s giving up on anybody because there is nothing left to give up on. Iris he’s gone . He was always gonna leave us. And whether or not the emitter works, it’s not gonna change that.”
His words hung in the air, clinging to the silence that took over the room.
“The emitter is almost ready,” Cisco said finally, picking up the device and moving away from the desk, “and when it is, I’m gonna use it on Bloodwork… and I’m gonna use it on Dark Flash.”
Iris didn’t follow him out of the room this time.