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Watching Mick sleep in a kitchen chair, Leo covered him with a blanket, taking the almost empty beer from his hand and throwing it in the trash.
"You know I won't thank you, right?"
Leo smiled, turning around.
"Captain Rip Hunter, right?" was his kind reply, checking the man quickly.
It seemed like Mick wasn't the only one she'd dumped in recent months.
"That's me." The minor confirmed, nodding, leaning against the wall with his right shoulder. "And you're the otherworldly version of him."
All it took was the man's hurt tone and the, well, obvious to know who he was talking about.
Leo nodded.
"Leonard Snart from Earth X but they call me Leo. Delighted."
Hunter snorted.
"Len hated being called that."
"Leo?"
"Yeah." Hunter confirmed and only then did Leo notice him playing with a ring on his pinky finger when talking about Leo's double.
Interesting.
"And so?"
"Bad connotations, bad memories." Was the only answer he received and that he would receive.
Leo let it go, he respected the privacy of others.
"You knew him well." he stated to which Hunter snorted but nodded to which Leo pointed to the ring on his hand with a shake of his head. "You were very close."
Rip looked at the ring with a small wistful smile.
"We were, although neither of us expected it," the younger of the two admitted. "It happened without us realizing it, without expecting it."
"Isn't it always like that?" Leo smiled kindly when the young man looked at him.
"Yes, I guess so."
After that they both remained silent but it was a comfortable one that Rip broke.
"I'll go to...that..."
"Very good." Leo nodded making Rip do the same.
"Good. Gideon, let the team know we're leaving."
"On it, captain."
And Rip went off to steer the ship.
Leo looked at Mick and sighed.
What a job awaited him with these two.