Yes It's True (Happy To Be Stuck With You) - a Killervibe quarantine ficlet

Chapter 1: Nothin' to Do, Nowhere to Go-oh

Entry for the Arrowverse Quarantine Fic Exchange, for Shanachie.

Chapter Summary: Imagine Caitlin and Cisco are teenagers in this modern virus world, dealing with quarantine and family drama and boredom...all over the world wide web. If they make it through at all, it'll only be by doing so together. Chapter title from "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones

Day 1

"This is seriously the worst thing ever." Cisco drawled, his head hanging upside down over the edge of his bed. The blood rushed to his head as he held the phone to his ear. Outside of his room, he could hear his aunts and uncles and parents fight with his younger cousins, his grandparents shouting over them, and he was pretty sure he could hear his brother's stupid clarinet too.

"It can't be that bad." His childhood best friend Caitlin sighed on the other end of the phone, in that sweet reassuring way she always had.

"No, I'm pretty sure this means the world's going to end sometime this year." Cisco sat up, rubbing his forehead. "Haven't you seen the memes all over facebook and tumblr? I found the one about there being plagues in 1820 and 1920 too especially foreboding."

"Cisco."

He shivered at the tone in her voice - that 'ok, Mr. Dramatic, let's just calm down' one. "What? The end times are seriously nigh, Caitlin. For some of us at least. I swear, if this virus doesn't kill me the boredom will. Or maybe I'll end up killing my whole family 'cuz they're so annoying."

She giggled. "How much sugar have you had today?"

"That's not relevant." He flopped back on the bed, his head missing the pillow entirely. "I'm serious here, I don't think I'm gonna make it through this quarantine thing. Not in this house, with these people. I never thought I would say this, but I really wish I could just go to school."

He heard her sigh and he scrunched his face, imagining those cute little lines that wrinkled on her forehead when she was upset about something.

"All we can hope for is that the doctors and scientists figure out something soon, or that the virus runs its course. Honestly, if people just stay in their houses and away from other people like they told us to, it shouldn't take that long." Caitlin said. "I'm pretty sure my mom has her entire staff working on this - it wouldn't surprise me if she found a solution before the CDC does."

"Yeah sooner would be better than later." Cisco winced at the sound of one of his little cousins screaming. Because of course just before this whole quarantine thing started, his aunt and uncle "temporarily" moved in with their three kids while his uncle recovered from a broken leg and couldn't work. Oh...and yeah, his grandparents lived with them too.

"Everything okay over there? Sounds, ah, kinda loud-ish." Caitlin said.

"Oh nothing, just one of my cousin Sofia's little girly fits. She does that a lot." Cisco reached his leg out, grunting as he struggled to reach the door. Finally, his feet hit wood and he kicked his door closed - not caring that it slam shut.

There was silence for a few moments before Caitlin answered. "Yikes - girl's got quite the set of pipes."

"Oh that's nothing, she's not even at her usual full set of crazy. Don't get me wrong, I love the little girl but damn... I swear, girl's only six and she's already crazier than her mother. Should be fun when she hits puberty. Hell, we'll probably still be stuck in this house when she does become a teenager."

"Let's hope not. If I'm trapped in this house by myself much longer I may go insane too." Caitlin huffed.

"What do you mean, by yourself?" Cisco froze.