Summary - Leonard Snart returns. The same cold-hearted bastard that was destroyed by the Oculus. And he has many questions to answer. All asked by one person in particular. Captain Canary, inspired by the mid-season finale promo and, of course, Snart's death. Takes place in Season 2 and is a possible sequel to 'The Things I Didn't Do'.
Yeah I know. I did say that I was gonna go on hiatus for a little bit. But I'm in a good head space right now to write this. I just wanted to get this out before the midseason finale of Legends of Tomorrow comes out because then it will muck up how I'm writing this.
I'm not sure if anyone else has thought about Snart's 'death' this way yet. But yeah, with all the big changes and everything that occurred the crossover episodes (which were epic by the way), I found a new idea about Snart.
It can be loosely tied to 'The Things I Didn't Do', but I suppose you can read this on it's own. It will reference that little two-shot though.
I don't own Legends of Tomorrow. (If I did, Captain Canary would've found a way back to each other by now and the crossover episodes would've ended up a bit differently haha)
Enjoy!
"Leonard Snart. Robber of ATM's. And more than just a criminal."
"Uh-huh, and you expect Nate and I to believe that last one?"
Sara perks up before Mick can answer, "He sacrificed his life for ours. I think that qualifies as being more than a criminal."
"So you're telling us that he used to be a good guy? And part of this team?!"
The team are divided. They stare at the prison cell on the video where Leonard Snart rests against the wall near the edge of the cell.
This could be him - the same Leonard Snart that destroyed the Oculus. Or it could be the one from 2013 - the criminal before the Particle Accelerator explosion.
Mick, Sara, and Ray stand on one side of the room, the side that believe that their Snart is inside that man in the cell. Professor Stein, Amaya and Nate stand on the other side of team room, the side that believe that Snart isn't the same man that he was. Well, that was what Stein believed. Nate just knew he is a criminal and Amaya didn't like him simply because he works with the same man who killed Rex Tyler.
Jax instead sits on one of the mechanical seats, enjoying the show before him. He's chosen neither side. He wants to believe Sara and Mick especially, but he knows he can't.
It isn't possible.
Mick looks dead into the eyes of Amaya's, "He always has been apart of this team. Evil or not, he still has a home here if he chooses it."
Amaya's ready to grab Mick by the throat. But she doesn't, mainly because of Nate grabbing her arm before she could even begin her walk over to him, "If he is the same man you knew before his death!"
Now Sara was ready to grab somebody's neck, "He is!"
"Where's the proof?!" Amaya asks angrily.
"He keeps hesitating to fight us every time he comes up against us!" Ray argues, standing in the middle of Mick and Sara.
"So you call nearly killing Nate 'hesitating'?" Stein asks the other brainiac in the room.
"Snart could've killed him, but he didn't. Instead he let him go with a broken leg-"
Nate stops Sara before she can finish, "And nearly left me for dead in the freezing cold shell he froze me into!"
Jax stands up, "Look, why don't we just chill out for a moment? Ya know, just calm-"
"Calm's not in my vocabulary," Mick growls, shoving the younger half of Firestorm back into his seat.
Amaya sighs and rubs her forehead, "Gideon, can you search through his memory one last time?"
Gideon's been forced to scan Snart ever since he ended up on the Waverider a couple of hours ago. If she's angry that she has to do another scan on the crook, she doesn't let it slip in her voice. Instead she does what's told and breaks the news once again.
"Nothing in Snart's memory suggests that he is the man Rip Hunter chose back in 2016-"
"How many times has she repeated that now?" Ray asks, closing his eyes and shaking his head.
Sara turns away and looks ready to scream. She wants to believe so badly that Snart has been playing a game all this time, like he always did. Maybe he had no choice. Maybe…
Ever since he turned up that night a few months ago, Sara's believed that that crook was out there...somewhere. She hoped for some sort of miracle to occur - for Snart to appear outta nowhere and be the same guy he was before his death.
But she began losing hope.
"However."
Sara turns back around quickly as Mick looks up at the roof.
"Numerous flashes in his mind from the last twenty minutes suggest that he maybe seeing things relating back to a previous life."
"The last twenty minutes?" Jax asks.
"Gideon…?" Nate trails off.
"If my calculations are right, the Leonard Snart we have hostage maybe the same the one that was supposedly killed by the Oculus. But, since we have no proof that he could be that same person, a more logical answer would be that he is the 2013 Leonard Snart and he is getting flashes of a previous life, which is-"
"The life he had AFTER joining us," Stein finishes.
"That makes no sense Gideon," Mick pipes up.
"Oh? And how so?" Amaya sneers in question.
"Because that bastard has mentioned multiple times that he knows of Barry being the Flash...among other things," The man nicknamed Heatwave answers, muttering the last part.
"Yeah, knows OF Barry," Nate says, taking a few steps forward, "That doesn't mean that he KNOWS Barry."
"Well then there's only one way to knowing what he does and doesn't know." The team turn to find Sara halfway down the hallway.
"Sara! Are you crazy?!" Jax asks.
"He might hurt you...or kill you!" Stein tells.
The White Canary turns back around and walks back into the room, "Look, seven months ago, give or take, all the team was taken hostage by Vandal Savage-"
"Vandal Savage?" Amaya questions curiously.
"Oh, he's-" Ray goes to explain, but the look on Sara's face shuts him up immediately.
"-Except for Snart and I. He sensed that something was going on and hid us in a hidden room that no one else knew apart from him and Rip. After everything that happened, he had no faith that the rest of you were okay and he wanted us to leave. I told him that he couldn't and he threatened to shoot me with his cold gun...and I told him to shoot me. He didn't. If I present him that same opportunity…"
"That may tell us what he exactly knows or remembers," Ray deduces.
"How exactly?" Nate asks, but Sara's already gone before anyone realises.
"Snart and Sara had this 'thing' going the whole time he was on this ship," Mick tells Citizen Steel and Vixen.
"Sara was one of the hardest hit by his death. Though I suppose it didn't help that about a week later she found out that her sister was killed by Darhk," Ray explains the rest.
"Your point?" Amaya didn't believe a word.
"Sara wasn't just any person to Snart. He really cared about her. Even if he denied it nearly every chance he got," Mick hummed.
"If he really is our Snart, he won't lay a single finger on her. And then I don't know how, but she'll figure out whatever's going on with the crook," Jax adds, looking at the video recording.
The crook walks back and forth in the cell, rolling his eyes and sighing dramatically.
He's bored out of his damn mind. He's got nothing to do. Without the cold gun that he stole off this ship a few months ago, he's got nothing to throw at the cell keeping him from escaping.
He doesn't really want to escape as such. Something about this feels normal. Not being in the cell exactly, but more so being on the ship. The feeling is...familiar.
He searches through the cell and at the walls, knowing that the Legends are watching his movements. He spots a small device in the corner of the room near the roof. The man nicknamed Captain Cold smirks and holds his hands up.
Cocking his head to the side, he asks, "Now that you've got me, whatcha gonna do with me?"
Before he can say another word, something black flashes in his mind and he falls to his knees, holding his head.
He sees himself with those Legends on a rooftop with a man in light brown trench coat. He feels himself walking around the back of the man.
"Hero ain't on my résumé."
Snart's thrown forward in the vision as it changes. Now he's sitting at the cargo area of the Waverider with the nerd playing with his suit, the pyro-maniac fixing something up with his heat gun, and the assassin who's just sitting in the corner.
The...beautiful assassin.
Wait, what?
The nerd has said something about being insignificant in Trench Coat's (who he's decided the call the man who had apparently 'grouped' them together) future, to which the assassin replies this was their chance to change their own future.
"If we have the power to change the world, don't you think we have the power to change our own fate?"
Snart's lost control of his own movements, being controlled by whoever this person's body he's in. He's inspired by the woman's words.
"For better or for worse."
The nerd looks up at her, "That's a very good point."
That's all Leonard hears before he's thrown back into the cell. Panicked, he looks around the cell and finally feels that he's 'back.'
But he still doesn't feel the same.
He's had these flashes during the last fortnight. First it was a man in a red suit who could run really fast. And it wasn't normal - not to his standards anyway. Then the cold gun came into view, like it meant something special. But to him, it was just a simple weapon. And then he remembered a fight with the man in the red suit, but he wasn't fighting alone. He was fighting with Mick against the speedster.
What the hell is going on?
It's like he should know what those flashes mean to him. It's a bad thing he doesn't - he doesn't know what they mean and it's frustrating to know that he may never get to know what those mean.
The doors slide open and in comes the same assassin who was just in his flashes only seconds ago.
"You and your friends have visited me the last two hours. You care about me or something?" He asks with a grin.
Is he flirting with her?
Sara hopes so for some reason.
"I don't."
"Lies," The crook shoots back.
"You wish."
Silence invades the room as she stands in front the cell doors, leaning back on the wall. One foot against the wall, arms crossed. Snart mirrors her image.
She smirks. He smirks right back.
"You like to play copycat or something?" She breaks the silence.
Cocking his head to the side, which is one of his favourite moves, he replies excitedly, "Love a good game of copycat. You throw any move at me and I'll do it."
"Mmmm, probably not all of them."
"Oh? You have no idea the moves I can pull."
She rubs her forehead at an image she wants to be gone in her mind. Through the gap between her fingers, she can see he's following suit.
"So, you wanna tell me why I'm locked in here?" He asks after they cross their arms once more.
"Mmmmm, that's quite a good question. Unfortunately for you, I don't have the answers for everything."
Snart gets straight to the point, "Look I know that I'm apparently the same man you knew in 2016. The one who...sacrificed himself to save this team."
"You did."
"No, I didn't."
"Yes, you did," Sara argues, walking up to the cell doors, "You stopped Mick from destroying himself as well as the Oculus. You did something good Snart. Why can't you accept that?"
He walks up to the cell to confront her. But he's forced to clench his eyes shut as flashes of Mick and him working together with their cold and heat guns invades into his mind. This time, they continue...and it's like there's no end.
The team watches in the main room as Snart grimaces in sudden pain.
"Gideon? What's happening to him?" Ray asks with a concerned tone.
"Mr Snart is experiencing another flash of his previous life."
"Do you know what he can see?" Nate questions.
"He's seen many things, Dr Heywood. The flashes jump before I can get a proper reading on them. It's hard to exactly trace on what he has been seeing but based on the latest flash jumps, I've seen flashes of Mr Rory."
Mick laughs, "So the bastard still thinks of me often?"
Amaya shakes her head, "More like being forced to think about you."
Heatwave's face turns sour at her and decides to stay quiet. For the meantime anyway.
Captain Cold's eyes snap open, seeing Sara looking concerned. She looks ready to open the cell and grab him. But he knows she won't do it. She can't.
"No, I didn't," Snart growls, recalling the early conversation. He rests his arms against the doors in an attempt to use his height as a way to show her that he could overpower her, "I'm not the same man you knew. Not that guy who works with a team...with trust...who are filled with care."
"Yes you are. I know you are...deep down inside. We just have to find him-"
"No!" He yells, slamming his fist on the door, "I am not him. I have never been him and I never will be him. So stop searching for him!"
Sara blinks back tears and moves away from the door, raising her arms up, "Al-All right. I...I was just wondering what the future...might hold for me...and you…"
Snart looks at her dead in the eye. Is she expecting some reaction out of him or something?
"And me and you."
Another flash of darkness as he crumbles to his knees once more.
He finds him looking at the same assassin. But this time he's leaning against the bed. And he's the one saying those words.
"Maybe it's being on this ship traveling through time. I started to wonder what the future might hold for me...and you...and me and you."
Sara moves closer to his face and looks at him in the eye, "You wanna steal a kiss from me Leonard? You better be one hell of a thief?"
She slips off the bed and walks away.
His mind flashes again, this time he's back in cargo of the Waverider. Sara's looking down at him.
"And what about your feelings?"
"About you?"
She grins and corrects him, "About Mick."
He's pulled back to the cell, finding himself on the ground and leaning up against the door. Sara's followed him down, sitting on her knees.
"You are in there, aren't you." She whispers. It's not a question.
Leonard closes his eyes, "One of the first things I could remember was Darhk...and Thawne telling me that they had to get rid of certain memories in order for things to work."
"Memories of a past life?"
"They later mentioned something about rescuing me from this explosion."
"The Oculus," Sara realises.
"He was able to grab me and speed me out of there before it happened. And then before you know it, I was strapped down to this chair and they...well I actually don't remember anymore than that."
"So, you know some things. But you haven't let them know."
"I wasn't sure what would happen if I revealed what I knew to them. Merlyn might've shot me with an arrow, Darhk could've used his so-called magic to harm me and Thawne would've stabbed me like he does with everyone he kills."
"He's the only one that I don't have some history with on your so-called team."
"The Speedster?" Snart asks curiously.
"In 2016, Damien kills my sister Laurel. A couple of years ago, Malcolm killed me by drugging Oliver Queen's sister. And then of course, I knew you anyway from a...previous time to you." Sara wipes away a small tear that's fallen to her cheek.
Leonard puts his hand on the door, "We shared something...whoever I was."
"It was something that I had never felt since my death. It was something that meant a lot to me." Her small hand meets his larger one on the other side of the glass.
Everything comes back. Feelings, memories, the whole damn lot comes back so suddenly, it's painful. The last thing he hears is Sara calling his name before he's screaming as he remembers everything.
"I can't imagine any kind of future where I'm a hero."
"Or mine," Says a man who's been with him for a long time. Mick Rory.
"I know it's difficult for you to fathom, but where...when I'm from, the year 2166, you and everyone on this roof aren't just considered heroes... You're legends," Trench Coat explains to them. Rip Hunter.
Snart's thrown forward again. This time he's standing with Mick and one of the fire boys - Jax Jefferson.
"Didn't Rip say something about not messing with the timeline?" Mick asks.
Jax tries to reason with him somewhat, "You could accidentally blink yourself out of existence. You're screwing with history here, man."
Snart's too focused on what he wants to do to care, "Yeah, well, history screwed with me first."
He attempts to figure out what he's up to. History screwed with him first? What does that mean? When he's thrown forward slightly and is now face-to-face with a little boy, that's when he realises.
"Don't ever let anyone hurt you. Ever. Not here-" Snart points to his head before pointing to his younger self's heart "-And especially not here. No matter what, you always have to look out for yourself."
He continues to be thrown forward as quotes and scenes from him and others invade his mind. And it looks like there's no end.
Sara's scared by what's happening as he continues to groan in pain. She's had enough. She stands, slams the button to the door open and runs to Snart's side.
"Leonard!" She shakes him in an attempt for whatever's happening to stop.
"Where was my backup, Captain?" He questions Rip Hunter, "Half the team is gone because of you."
"Only, if I'd have sent the other half in to save them, they'd be captured too...Savage would have both halves of Firestorm, a dead Kendra on top of a dead Carter, everything he wants...So before you pull that trigger, ask yourself: what would you have done?" Rip explains.
"You never leave one of your own behind," Snart says.
"Come on, I'm the crook, you're the assassin…" He says to Sara when they discuss Rip's plan on killing Stein if things don't work out.
And later on, when Sara gets her chance, there's only one person to stop her, "Sara, don't do it."
"I don't have a choice. It's the only way to save Star City, the future," Sara argues.
"That's how a killer thinks. And that's not you anymore."
And he's able to stop her.
Things take a dark turn when Mick and Snart reach a disagreement about their future. It's like Snart himself had changed.
He wants to stay with this team. Because he's grown to care about them. Especially one in particular.
Mick threatens to harm him if he ever knocked him out. And that's when Snart knew that things have changed. Mick's changed. He's changed.
And as the flashes continue, he next sees himself with Sara inside a very cold room. Hmmm, much like his personality.
"What's it like? Dying?" He asks, "I imagine you've got a unique perspective."
Sara thinks for a small moment, "You know, it's funny. I mean, you'd expect it to be terrifying, just panic and fear."
"What'd you feel?"
"I guess lonely," Sara eventually decides, "Yeah. Like everybody I loved was a million miles away."
The two escape in the end, but Mick suddenly turns up...with the enemy
"What are you doing, Mick?" Snart asks.
"Getting us home," Mick answers, "Are you in?"
Snart walks until he decides he doesn't want to. He's in the middle of two things. He could choose to stay with the team who's changed him. Or he could go back to the way things were.
"Yeah...time to choose a side, I guess." He looks at Ray, Kendra and Sara. He looks back at Mick, raising his cold gun, "Chosen." He shoots at Mick, the fight beginning.
"Bastard!" Mick yells at him.
After the fighting is all done, Snart takes Mick outside to talk.
"Team? You and I were a team! What happened to you?"
"People change, Mick!"
"You think you're some kind of hero, but deep down you're still the same punk kid I saved in juvie...You want to kill me? Kill me. Only one of us is walking out of here alive.
"You're right."
If only he killed him.
Being taken hostage, Mick as Chronos, threatening to bring harm to his sister. He escapes by using the cold gun on himself, destroying his hand. But with Gideon's technology, he's able to get the hand back.
They bring him back to the Waverider to try and bring him back to the way he was. Sara eventually gets through to Snart, telling him to stop 'being an ass' and 'go deal with it'. So he does.
With a cage match.
Nobody really wins, but it brings Mick back...in some way.
The next thing he remembers is when he talks to Cassandra Savage, telling her that her father is not the man she thought he was. He gets through to her in somehow. And to him, that's a win.
"What makes you think that I'd believe anything you tell me?"
"Because seeing is believing. Gideon, show her the footage. Kasnia, November 3, 2147"
She watches the video...and refuses to believe it, "This isn't true. You're a liar."
"Correct," Snart agrees, "But not about this."
His cold gun is raised in anger. At Sara.
He's come to realise that in almost every vision he's had, this...beautiful assassin seems to find her way into them. She meant a great deal to him, he realises. There's something about her that he likes. A lot.
"Don't do that," she tells him, "Don't act like you're that same cold-hearted bastard that I first met. I remember Russia. And you were the one who told me not to kill Stein."
"Yeah, because you seem to have a problem with being a killer. I, however, don't."
"Prove it. Shoot me."
He doesn't get the chance because the phone rings. But he feels that even if the phone didn't ring, he still wouldn't have done it.
The scene changes and suddenly he's hitting Mick with his cold gun once again, but this time, he's leaving the gun with the unconscious man as he holds some stick down on some device.
The word Oculus jumps to his mind.
Sara runs up behind him, takes a look at the unconscious form of Mick and then looks up at him.
"Get him outta here!" He yells.
"No," Sara answers quickly.
"Just do it," He tells her, knowing that she knows that this is it.
Goodbye.
She walks up to him, gives him a look, grabs his arm and kisses him. It lingers for at least five seconds, but he doesn't want it to end. He doesn't believe that he's managed to steal a kiss from her after all.
She pulls away and he looks at her in surprise before she disappears from view to take Mick away.
Never to see her again.
Men surround him from all sorts of directions. One of them looks at him in horror, "No. Shut it down!" When Snart doesn't respond, the man screams, "SHUT IT DOWN!"
"There are no strings on me," Snart simply tells him.
The device gets ready to destroy itself, but before the explosion occurs, he feels himself being taken away by something yellow.
Another speedster?
He finds himself in a dark room, strapped to a chair. He looks around and finds nothing.
'Well, I had no idea that death would be so...restricting."
Footsteps make their way into his ears and suddenly, a figure in a yellow suit fills his vision.
"Leonard Snart...I was expecting to be saving a man in flight tech, but you'll do I suppose."
"I'll do for what?" He sneers.
"We have a mission for you, Mr Snart," Another man says as he appears, wearing a black suit.
"I never trust a man in a black suit," Snart comments.
"Too bad," The man says as he walks up close to him.
"Look…"
"Darhk. Damien Darhk."
"Damien…" The name feels horrible when he says it. He doesn't trust, "I'm afraid I can't help you with whatever it is you are doing. I'm already committed to another mission."
"Oh Mr Snart," Damien chuckles, "The next time we talk...you won't even remember what that mission was." He looks up behind Snart, "Switch it."
Electricity courses through his body. He throws his head up in pain, screaming. Things he knew start to disappear. From the Waverider, his team, The Flash...everything fades away from his mind. Except for one person.
"Sara!" He screams.
He wants to remember her. He can't lose her. He clenches his eyes shut as she appears in his mind. He keeps it there, fighting to keep her in his mind for as long as possible. The image is being pulled away from him slowly.
"Sara...Sara no," He whispers.
And then her image is gone...and so are the memories. Then:
Why is he thinking about Sara…? Who is this Sara...?
Finally, the name slips away from him and he can't remember anything.
The electricity goes away. Why was he being electrocuted in the first place?
Three men stand in front of him. One is wearing a yellow suit, another is wearing a black suit and the other one has a bow and some arrows sitting behind him.
"Mr Leonard Snart," The man in the middle with the black suit says.
"Who wants to know?" Snart sneers.
"I'm Damien Darhk. This is Eobard Thawne, or the Reverse-Flash." Damien points to the man in the yellow suit before pointing to the one with the bow and arrows, "And that's Malcolm Merlyn." The man with the power of magic grins and rubs his hands together, "We have a little mission for you if you're willing to accept it."
Snart cocks his head to the side, clenching the armrests on the chair he's realised his strapped to, "Depends...what's in it for me?"
Leonard Snart stills in Sara arms. The girl who's been balling her eyes out while that man has been groaning and screaming in pain as his memories return - not that she knows that yet.
"L-Leonard?" She whispers, stroking his face lightly.
He doesn't answer.
"What happened?" Mick's the first one who asks after watching Sara and Leonard on the video feed.
"Mr Snart has received more visions from his past. He is the same man from 2016."
Amaya and Nate's jaws drop, Ray stands still in shock, Jax rubs his forehead and the Professor looks away.
Mick looks at the feed, watching Sara cry helplessly. Something the assassin never does. And he knows that if she does, it's because something, or someone, means a lot to her.
"Gideon, prepare the medical room. Ray and I will go and get Snart," Mick decides before thinking,
'That's if Sara will let us."
I know it's bad, but I NEEDED to get something like this out there. I just don't know why, but I had the mind to do this. It's been bugging me for days! Now that I've done it, perhaps it'll leave me alone.
It took me 19 pages on Google Docs so I hope it's good.
I'm not sure whether I want to continue this. If I get a lot of support then maybe I will. If I don't, well...we'll see.
Reviews are welcomed, so is criticism. Follows/favourites mean a lot. Please let me know of any spelling errors or mistakes regarding the show.
Thanks for reading!