No Memory

Erasure Here

Disclaimer: This came to me after wondering how things might go if Mick hadn't erased Ali and Lita's memories of him and Zari being there in their house.

Summary: In which Mick doesn't memory wipe Ali and Lita.

After Mick had abruptly stood up and made his leave, too stunned to even think about mind wiping Ali and Lita, Zari smiled apologetically at the two women. "Give him time, this was the last thing he was expecting. But he'll come around." Promised the woman with a wink.

"I don't know why he'd bother, never did before." Muttered a sullen Lita before getting up herself and storming off for her bedroom.

"She really hasn't been taking it too well since she found out about him." Sighed Ali heavily.

Wondering yet again if she should've handled things differently where her Daughter and Mick are concerned. Zari felt a little out of her depth in this sort of situation as she sat where she was and looking somewhat uncomfortable. "Being without her dad in her life couldn't have been that easy."

Ali looked at the other Woman and shook her head. "She always felt like an Outsider because he wasn't around like other Fathers were. And after she found out about him and his Rebecca Silver counterpart…" The mother didn't need to continue after that as Zari gave her a sad smile.

"Well… If she's willing to give him a chance once he gets his head out of his ass, I'm sure they'll have a great relationship."

"Thank you." Ali told her somewhat amusedly.

"You're welcome."

A few days later in normal time would see Mick showing up again after the latest situation had been handled and a lot of thinking had been done. Thinking that had been helped in part by Mona and while the idea of being a Father scared the absolute s**t out of the gruff man, Mick knew he wanted to be in Lita's life never the less. He even already had an idea that he'd just do the opposite of his father and go from there as he couldn't go wrong by doing that. As even with him keeping his old man from wiping out those villagers, Vietnam still screwed with him pretty badly. The whole thing still being something of a humbling experience for Mick as well. Hesitantly knocking on the door, Mick didn't have long to wait until the door was opened but it wasn't Ali who opened it but rather Lita instead, who instantly scowled at him. "If you're here to see Mom, she's at work right now."

"That's okay, I'm… I'm actually here to see you. Can I come in?" He asked in an uncharacteristically nervous fashion.

Lita stared at him for what felt like a long time in the man's point of view before she came outside and closed the door. "We can talk out here."

"That works too."

Things were uncomfortably silent between the two until Lita broke it. "So, you wanted to talk?" She asked and startling him a short time.

"Uhh… Yeah, yeah, I did, I do."

"Why? You haven't wanted to talk all these years, dad."

"I didn't know about you until recently, you know that, Kid." Reminded the Man.

"And even if I had… I would've kept away 'cause for the longest time I was not the kinda person who needed to be in your life. I don't think I'm much of a good Man even now but I'm, I'm not like I used to be." Mick told her bluntly.

Not seeing the need to hide and or sugarcoat things for her and she could see that and appreciate it since she wasn't the type to hide or sugarcoat things herself. "I'm honestly not sure what to do with that."

Her admission wasn't something Mick was surprised by at all. "I figured, Kid. Which is why I'm gonna give you my number in case you want to talk to me as I know enough to know that its a good idea to let you do this at your own pace. I'll even get a place of my own if that's what helps things between us."

"You don't have a place of your own right now?" Lita asked with a frown on her face, unable to help herself as she took the piece of paper that has his number on it from him.

Mick shrugged. "The work I do now tends to take me all over so its motel rooms and s**t like that." Somewhat lied the man.

"Oh."

"Yeah. Well… I'll uhh, I'll get out of your hair." The man told her softly and made his leave with her watching on in silence as many a thought went through her head.

Author's Notes: Hope folks enjoyed!