They stand there, frozen.

Mick is heading the pirates and after a few seconds Snart makes his way to the front of their group.

"What are you doing Mick?" He demanded in order to finally break the silence.

"Getting us home," Mick replied automatically. "Are you in?" He questioned his partner and suddenly all eyes, Legends and pirates alike, fell to Snart as he took another few steps until he was almost standing between the two groups, but not quite.

He drew his gun, confirming Kendra's fears that this was going to end in a fight no matter what.

"Nick," She whispered without taking her eyes off her ice wielding teammate. "Run." She ordered and he whirled his head back around, as if to question her, but that was the exact moment that Snart fired his gun on Mick.

"Run!" She shouted this time, practically shoving her son along with her as they all scrambled for cover from Mick's heat gun and the various pirate weapons.

The pirates followed right after them and it wasn't long before all four members of the team were engaged in various battles at different places in the cramped corridor of the Waverider. Kendra took down as many as she could, probably more thugs than she had ever taken down single handedly, while being painfully aware that Nick wasn't far from her and doing his best to dodge the blasts from the guns that came his way. That boiled her blood even more, that the pirates were shooting at him. The fact that it was her son they were shooting at was more than enough to fuel her rage, but the fact alone that they were actually shooting at a child was the icing on the cake. She was furious, and when she heard a scream of pain and saw her little boy go down that was the last straw. Her sight went red and her wings came out, and suddenly she had a much better understanding of what it must be like for Sara when the bloodlust takes over. She was only snapped out of her haze when Ray appeared before her, the sight of Nick's limp body in his arms enough to bring her back to reality.

"Nick," she said, her voice coated in worry as she retracted her wings and took him. Between Ray and herself the floor was now littered with unconscious time pirates, not a single one was still standing.

"We need to get him to the med bay," Ray declared and Kendra nodded, her mind finally beginning to function somewhat close to properly again.

"I'll go; you make sure someone has Rory contained." She said and while Ray looked as though he wanted to argue he nodded rushed off towards the engine room, while Kendra raced with Nick in her arms as fast as she could.

"Gideon!" She practically screamed the moment that she reached her destination.

"Yes Ms. Saunders?" The AI replied as if nothing were wrong.

"Nick was shot!" She shouted back, almost angry at the computer's inability to understand or feel things such as pain and worry.

There was a moment of quiet after she laid her son onto the medical chair and secured one of the monitor bracelets around his wrist for good measure.

"It appears that Nicholas has been shot by a stun blaster, effectively rendering him unconscious. He should wake up within the hour." Gideon finally declared and at the words Kendra let out a breath of relief.

Thinking about it she wasn't really all that surprised to hear that the pirates hadn't been firing with deadly weapons. After all pirates chase bounties, and no team has a bigger one hanging over their heads than the Legends do. Now that being said she still looked sadly down at Nick's sleeping form, wondering not for the first time if she had really made the right call by allowing him to stay. She'd had Gideon look up his records not long after he came on board, to make sure that she hadn't robbed him of a great life.

She hadn't.

He had been placed in the foster care system at the age of four and since then he had traveled to and from eight different homes. She had noticed that the rate at which he stayed in the homes grew shorter and shorter with each one, and predicted that it was due to his firm belief in "the eagle lady" that this pattern occurred. Gideon wasn't able to predict what might have happened to him had he not been allowed to remain on the Waverider, as history had begun to set with him removed from his place in it, but Kendra doubted things would've gotten much better.

Suddenly, she was pulled from her thoughts when the sound of racing footsteps coming from the hallway made their way to her ears. She looked up in alarm, ready to grab the nearest needle and jab it into the neck of anyone who dare come near her and her little boy. But her worry was for not, as it was Ray who came skidding to a stop in the doorway with a look of pure concern across his face.

"Is he alright?" He asked and Kendra nodded,

"Yeah," she answered, "Yeah he's fine."

"Good," Ray said and for a moment the two of them remained doing nothing but staring at each other. "Uh..." He finally broke the silence; "Rip and the others are back, he wants us all in the library." He informed her and she nodded before sparing a glance over at Nick. "I can tell him you're busy-" he continued when she did this but Kendra shook her head and interrupted his words.

"No," she said firmly, "He'll be fine." She didn't know if she was reassuring Ray or herself or maybe both of them, probably the last one. But she didn't need to ask why Rip wanted them all to report to the library now that he, Jax, and Stein were back. She knew the reason; the team had a traitor to deal with.


The decision about what to do with Rory turned out to take considerably less time than Kendra had thought it would. They briefly considered bringing him back to 2016 and keeping him permanently in the brig but it was quickly realized that neither option was safe. It was then that Snart declared he would handle it, and there was no arguing with him. Rip touched the Waverider down deep in a forest where it was highly unlikely that anyone would ever find the body, and Snart dragged Rory's unconscious form off to do what he claimed needed to be done.

Ray accompanied Kendra back to the med bay after they landed, both of them quiet as they walked and mentally replayed the conversation from the library.

"Do you think he's going to do it?" Kendra finally asked and Ray sighed at her question.

"I don't know," he admitted. "I mean, I don't know much about either of them but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they've known each other most of their lives. And I am a genius so…" He trailed off and Kendra found herself laughing despite the situation.

Ray smiled at her; glad he was able to make her laugh after everything that had transpired today. They were quiet again, though in a much more comfortable sort of silence, as they continued on their way to the med bay.

"So, um," Ray nervously began when they were drawing ever closer to their destination. "Nick's going to be ok?" He asked despite already knowing the answer.
"Yeah," Kendra replied, "Thank you," she quickly continued just as they reached the doorway of their destination. "For grabbing him after he went down, all I did was get angry and-" she began to mumble but Ray interrupted her, knowing where her words were going.

"Hey," he said sternly, stopping her words and earning her attention. "You were protecting him, who knows what could've happened if you didn't?" He asked and Kendra nodded as his word resonated with her. That was something that she loved about Ray, the way that he always saw the good in everything. She opened her mouth to tell him as much, but that was when the sound of a tired groan coming from the open door of the med bay distracted her.

Turning around she saw Nick twisting in his chair as his eyes opened and she rushed to his side without a second thought, Ray right on her heels.

"Hey, it's ok. You're alright." Kendra assured him while crouching down in order to be equal height with him. He appeared to still be scared but she couldn't blame him for that of course, he had been shot with a blaster after all.

"Where are the pirates?" He asked, sitting up only to be gently pushed back down by his mother.

"Their gone, we're safe." She promised him, her hand still on his shoulder as he took a minute to process everything that had happened.

"How did they find us?" He asked and the question nearly broke Kendra's heart, she didn't know to even begin explaining to him what had happened.

But fortunately, or unfortunately maybe, she didn't have to. Someone else had apparently heard the question and the knock on the open door alerted her, Ray, and Nick to the visitor's presence.

Standing in the doorway was none other than Snart.

He looked different than he normally did, and although Kendra and Ray probably should've expected as much it still threw them both for a loop. His eyes were clear but the lines on his face made it apparent that he had been crying. He wasn't lounging against the wall like normal either, but instead was standing just off of the wall with his hands shoved into his pockets. He looked almost nervous, which was a word that no Legend ever believed could be used to describe Leonard-cool under pressure-Snart. Yet right now it seemed to be the only appropriate one.

An exchange of glances between the three adults confirmed that he had taken care of Mick as he promised he would.

"Can I come in?" He asked, how un-Snart like he was acting was almost unnerving, but after what had just happened seeing his usual demeanor just might have been worse.

Kendra nodded at his request and he did the same in thanks before he strode in slowly and approached Nick's chair. Nick, starting to get the feeling that something wasn't right, moved to sit up but stopped when Snart held out a hand and signaled him to do so. The thief crouched down and took Kendra's spot next to the boy's face, wringing his hands together for a minute as he tried to think of how one could possibly explain a team member's betrayal to a child.

"Are you alright Nick?" He finally asked and Nick nodded in response but said nothing. "Good," He mused to himself before taking a breath and then finally looking the boy in the eyes. "I'm glad you're ok, and I'm sorry you got hurt-"

"It's not your fault," Nick interrupted and Leonard nodded in acknowledgment of his words, though he wasn't too inclined to believe them.

"Not directly," he half-agreed, "But… do you remember how Mick and I used to be bad guys?" He asked and behind him Kendra's brows knitted together in confusion while Ray's eyes went slightly wider than usual; neither of them had ever heard Snart refer to his criminal activities in a past tense.

"Hm-hm," Nick murmured with a nod of his head, unlike his mother and her friend he didn't find anything about the statement even the least bit odd.

"Well I was wrong," Snart bluntly continued and now Nick looked confused.

"What do you mean?" He asked,

"I mean," Snart sighed, "That Mick still wants to be a bad guy, and we had a fight about it. He decided to stop talking to me and, being stubborn, I stopped talking to him. After part of the team went to check out the other ship today Mick decided to team up with the pirates, so that he could keep being a bad guy. Maybe if I had talked to him he wouldn't have done that, and then you and Sara wouldn't have gotten hurt. So I'm sorry."

"Sara?" Ray asked but the look Snart sent him over his shoulder prompted him not to ask anything further, clearly the possibly reformed crook felt bad enough about it already.

"Mom said the pirates are gone," Nick, now sitting up on the chair, brought Leonard's attention back to him. "Did Mick go with them?" He asked and Len sighed.

"Yeah," he admitted, "He went with the pirates."

Nick looked to be very upset by the answer, not that anyone could blame him. What he had been told about Mick's past was that he used to be a thief before Rip recruited him, the same as Snart. To Nick's still innocent mind everyone on the team was a hero, and not even the two convicted felons had ever had the heart to tell him that wasn't exactly the case. So to hear of Mick's betrayal was especially hard for Nick to process because ultimately he felt as though he had been lied to. Because of this, Kendra was expecting him to deny Snart's claim, or demand an explanation as to why Mick would do something like this. What she wasn't expecting was for him to slide his way off the chair so that he could stand directly in front of Snart, or for him to wrap his arms around the larger man's shoulders in a hug.

Clearly Snart hadn't been expecting this either, considering he all but froze up in the boy's embrace before returning it. But he eventually did return it and once he released Nick he straightened up without a word, leaving the med bay with a very confused Kendra and Ray watching his retreating backside.

Kendra looked back at Nick, who was currently fiddling with the bracelet that she had clamped around his wrist, and smiled. She never would've considered Snart a changed man, and maybe he isn't just yet, but maybe she wasn't the only one that Nick was having a positive effect on.