"OK, Blondie. It's my turn to return the favor."
"Go away, Mick."
She's stayed in her room since Mick led Snart away. She's turned away Amaya, who wanted to spar, and Jax, who'd manufactured some ridiculous and transparent (and sweet) reason to check up on her.
Mick, who has some foolproof way of charming Gideon she has not yet figured out, simply walks in. He ignores her response, just sits down on the desk chair and watches her for a bit. She continues to play with her rings...including the one he'd given her after Snart's "death."
"You told Snart to go talk to me, way back when I was in the brig here," he says finally. "He listened. Now I'm telling you. Go talk to him."
"And that worked out so well for Snart the last time?"
Mick snorts and shakes his head. "That was me. He knew nothing else would get through. You...he won't hurt you. That's really sort of the whole point."
She turns her head to look at him. "What do you mean?"
"He didn't start remembering the team until he fought you that one time, in '69 Central City."
She remembers. Until then, while she'd seen him as part of the Legion (the kick-in-the-stomach shock of the first time is a sensation that will stay with her forever), he'd kept his distance, focusing on the others. She'd chalked it up to coincidence.
In '69, though, somehow the battle had shifted and thrown them up against each other. He'd actually fired on her, but the blast went wide. She'd managed to close the space between them, adrenaline warring with heartbreak, and disarmed him, though he'd snatched his gun back up when the Legion members had fled.
She sits up. Mick nods at the look on her face. "He says he started remembering...things...after that. He wouldn't say which things..." He gives her a look she meets mildly. "...but the memories trickled back until he thinks they're mostly complete. There's still a gap between the Oculus and when Thawne found him in Central City. He's not sure how he got there, for one thing."
She's silent, spinning the silver ring around her finger. He sighs.
"Look. I did worse things as Chronos; I burned you. Even when he didn't remember, Snart couldn't even bring himself to aim at you—you and I both know he's a damned good shot and he was closer to you in '69 than I was on the Waverider that day. And you forgave me. You wanted me back on the Waverider."
"You were brainwashed."
"A little. Mostly, I was just damned mad." He stands up, spreads his hands. "Look. I don't know what there is with you two. But it was you who started to snap him out of it and it's because of you he's here on this ship. So go talk to him. Please, Sara."
Mick Rory never says "please." Never.
"OK."
"Thank you, Blondie."
