Cisco Ramone is the closest thing I have to a friend.

It's been a month since the Flash killed Zoom. I should have been alone all this time. Part of me wanted to be. But the people of S.T.A.R. Labs, as much as they hated Hunter Zolomon, can't bring themselves to turn me out entirely.

I think Harrison Wells might. He is the Harrison Wells of Earth-2, my earth, and the father of poor Jesse that Jay had kept in his lair.

I long to tell him how I had done what I could.

"I saved your daughter from being tortured!"

But I didn't help her escape.

At the end of the day, I didn't do what they did: kill him. Perhaps I can pretend it was just physically impossible. It wouldn't be a lie; Jay was just too fast.

Regardless, I don't need them to like me. Just help me.

Enter Cisco.

"Are you like Reverb?" I asked him, after about a week had passed. In that time, they'd set me up with food and had been checking my health and asking questions about Jay. But patience was already wearing thin. They had wanted me gone. And I wanted to leave.

I still do.

"Yeah. He's my evil dopple," Cisco said, tilting his chair back. "Why?"

"I need your help."

I felt small in the Cortext then. Everything was so bright compared to Zoom's lair, which had been my home for nearly two yeara before then.

"What with?" He furrowed one brow, watching me closely. I bit back any fear. I had stood up to Zoom before. This scrawny computer boy couldn't scare me.

"I want you to find me a new home."

"I have thirteen apartments In Central City and five in Starling that would be in your price range if you got a job at Jitters," he offered.

Someone was eager to get rid of me.

"Not on this earth," I said. "Another earth. I don't care which one. Just one with a Ja- Hunter lime mine."

"You have got to get over your bad-boy phase," he muttered, standing up. "Look, I'll see what I can do, but these Vibes kinda have a life of their own, ya hear me?"

I nodded.

Caitlin was quietly supportive. I can't even begin to imagine what she felt or was thinking. Abused and betrayed, lied to all the while. I know it's best to avoid her as much as possible. Regardless, she's always polite to me, if cold. I don't blame her in the least for it.

Barry is a bad liar. He doesn't like me, doesn't trust me, and wants me out of S.T.A.R. Labs. He makes his decisions through emotion, and his emotions dislike me greatly.

Wells tolerates me. He dislikes me and is plain about it, but never inhibits my ambitions. Whether he just wants me gone or whether he has a stroke of sympathy for me, I'm uncertain.

Cisco seems to judge me the least. He always works with me, searching through different earths mentally, describing each Jay to me in detail. I know he'll tire of it soon, but I need him to keep trying.

I need to be tolerated just a while longer. Then I can go home.