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Mick Rory

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[old_school]

[This is not a conversation he wants to have, but it is one that needs to be had and Leonard will not shy away from it simply because it is hard.

There's a bucket of beer in ice on the desk - nothing harder tonight.]

Six months.
Six months until some cosmic act of fuckery decides to make us parents.

[beer_and_fire]

[Mick looks at the beer and for the first time in his life he ignores it. This conversation needs to be had sober. At least on his side]

We done it before...with Lisa. We can do it again.

[old_school]

[Did they really do that well with Lisa? She's as much a train wreck as they are, scarred and with all of the emotional baggage that comes with the last name Snart. Mick might refuse a beer but he's not going to. He needs something to do with his hands, walking the bottle cap across his fingers as he talks.]

We did it with Lise when we were no more than kids ourselves.
We're getting close to fifty Mick. The life we led.. [A shake of his head. A life of violence and lies and nothing remotely safe.]

[beer_and_fire]

[well she’s alive and never got caught so yeah maybe they did alright?

Was shit, but we’re still here. Still kickin ass and doin what we want.
[ he leans back in the chair and rubs his temple]

Diana said we could raise it. Her and me. You could be uncle Lenny. If ya wanted to be. Kid would never have to know unless ya wanted em too.

[old_school]

[One day in the future he and Nora will have a child of their own. Ben had been living proof of that before returning to his own time. Maybe by then he'll feel ready. Maybe by then he won't feel this deep-seated surge of panic.

Maybe by then he will have forgotten the ghost of his father tearing old wounds open and shaking him to his core.]

If that's what you want Mick.

[beer_and_fire]

Ain't about what I want, boss. I ain't the only one involved. All I can do is let ya know we're willing if that's how ya wanna do it.