"Caitlin… I really, really, really need to apologize… I think I'm a little more grossed out, no offense Barry! so that adds to my punishment…" Astrid pleaded with Caitlin to accept her apology.
"Astrid, I get it. As torturous as it was for Cisco and I to see the two of you… like that… Neither one of you were in control. It was like Roy Bivolo all over again, but this woman… Aphrodite was a goddess… Remember she had control of all us tonight. But… I really need to ask… The two of you never… you know?" Caitlin asked them both.
"No way!" Barry said, his eyes wide. "and I'm just glad that we didn't… no offense, Astrid."
"None taken." Astrid said as she shuddered again at the thought. "I don't think I could ever forgive myself if Barry and I ever… ergh! Look, Caitlin I want to give the two of you something, as part of my apology. Every year I get a free trip to this resort for two people. It's part of why I was so angry with Cisco, who has clearly just left without so much as a goodbye… But, I want the two of you to go."
"I can't do that, Astrid." Caitlin said, "It's too much… Remember, you even paid for my honeymoon."
"Yes, you can!" Astrid said as she stood up and handed the tickets to Caitlin. "Besides they will expire if I don't go. And I'm not going to go just to see all those happy couples. My cynicism for this holiday might be gone… but, I still shouldn't have to feel sad tonight. So, I'm going home to eat some pizza and ice cream and get fat and watch Netflix… that's it! I'm set!" Astrid said with a smile.
"You're sure, Astrid?" Barry asked her.
"Go! Before I make you! And no scary Killer Frost business, please!" she joked as she walked with the two of them into the cortex. It was clear that Cisco had left. It broke her heart a little, but at least it made things easier for her to not have to face him.
"Okay, we're going!" Barry said with a smile as he took Caitlin and disappeared.
"That was a good thing that you did for them." Harry remarked.
"It was the least I could do. I felt so bad, and so gross for all that mess." Astrid said with a tired smile. "Do you have any plans for tonight?" she asked him.
"I do, actually. I'm actually meeting with someone... After I show Constantine, out, that is." Harry said with a smile.
"Wow. That's great… a word of advice… be nice! Women like nice!" she said as she made her way towards the elevator, she saw John Constantine. "It was nice to meet you… and thank you for your help, tonight." she said to him.
"Likewise, love." He replied. She waved to him and left.
"You hinted about her parenthood, didn't you?" Wells asked Constantine.
"I did, actually. I don't really give a shit if you disapprove. She deserves to know. Especially after what that goddess said about her."
"We will tell her all in due time. Right now, it's just too dangerous." Harry replied.
Astrid arrived home, placed her purse down and closed the door behind her, locking it. Something wasn't right. She performed a mind scan, but couldn't get a reading on anybody.
She wasn't going to call Barry to intervene, not after everything that the two of them had been through that day. She could smell fire, and someone was making noise upstairs. She picked up an empty crystal vase from her coffee table and stepped silently up the stairs. The smell of fire was faint, but it was still there and it was coming from in her room.
Her door was closed, but from the crack underneath, she could see a dim light and something moving. Someone was clearly in there. She held the vase above her head, ready to strike and placed her hand on the handle, opening it fast.
"I've caught you!" She yelled ready to strike the intruder on the head with her crystal vase.
She stopped as she saw the man covering his long dark hair. "Cisco?" she asked baffled. "What are you doing here? I thought that you went back to Gotham City…" she looked around, there were candles lit about her room. That would explain the smell of smoke. There was a movie ready to play on her television. 'the Princess Bride.'
There was pizza sitting on the bed and wine and glasses on the table.
"I wanted to surprise you after everything that happened today… and everything that has happened between us over the past few months… and then, I remembered that time in high school after Oliver broke up with you on Valentine's day, and you and I spent the whole time eating pizza and watching the Princess Bride… I even bought ice cream… but that's in the fridge… so it doesn't melt… You're not going to bash me over the head with that vase, are you?" he asked her, still shielding his head.
She remembered the vase, and lowered it, placing it on her bookshelf by the door. "No, I'm not going to hit you with it. But, you broke up with me, remember? And then you kissed my doppleganger a month ago… and then today… after everything that happened with Barry… and then you telling me how you felt… and then you kissed me… and… it's just so confusing…"
"…So, I shouldn't have done this for you? Besides… you should feel flattered with the whole dopple-ganger thing, because, she was technically, you… but that's going off topic. But, that's why I wanted to do all this… I wanted to make you feel better. This is just me, putting how I feel about you aside… I want you to be happy, even if we are just friends… or whatever we are… it is pretty confusing, hey?" He said, with a hopeful smile.
"Yeah… it is, but you really hurt me. I'm not sure if you're aware of just how much, you hurt me…" She said.
"Yeah, I know, I really do… and just knowing that I hurt you is literally the worst thing that I have ever done… ever… but then I figured that you were probably going to go home with movies, pizza and ice cream all alone, with your cynicism… So, I wanted to join you, to make a start on making it all up to you… and so we could end our crappy day together… Just like we used to."
"In my bedroom?" she asked, raising her eyebrows. "With wine?"
Cisco shrugged and went and sat on her bed. He picked up a slice of pizza, "Do you want a slice? Extra of everything? Just the way you like it…" he asked tempting her.
She followed him and laid on her stomach, beside the pizza box that was on her bed. "Sure… Just like old times, right?" she took a slice and went to take a bite.
"Right!" he said as he moved the box and laid beside her eating his own.
She smiled at him, "What's surprising is that I'm not actually feeling so cynical." She said.
"You're not? Wow!" he said with a laugh. "I just can't believe that you kissed Barry… seriously, the two of you were…" he looked as if he were making out with his pizza.
"Gross! Don't remind me!" she laughed, as she pushed him making him drop his pizza slice on the floor. He quickly scooped it back up, ready to take another bite, as she noticed something, "Hey, Cisco you did forget one thing…"
"What's that?" he asked her.
"The popcorn!" she told him. "Oh, right… how could I forget?" he asked, with a smile, as he got to his feet.
"Oh, and don't forget the twizzlers…" she added with a laugh.
"Alright… just don't press play while I'm not there." He said as he left the room.
"You better hurry up then!" she said as she grabbed the remote. "I'm pressing play in five... four... three... two... one..."
