𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞.

"𝘞𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘪𝘱𝘻𝘪𝘨, 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘉𝘢𝘺." I hear Gideon announce as I then make my way to the control room to have explanations on what's going on.

"Pieces of the dagger have apparently broken off and are, as we speak, en route to her heart." Rip explains to us as we are all standing or sitting in front of him. Well for the rest of the team, I'm sitting just behind on the steps.

"Can't we just time jump into the future where they got the stuff that can fix her?" Jax asks him, trying to find a solution.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐱, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡." I state the obvious, plus Gideon told us a time jump could worsen her state.

"Kendra wouldn't survive the time jump anyway." Snart says next, putting on words what I was just thinking as Rip gives us looks. I just shrug as Leonard gives me a glance before telling Rip "We pay attention."

"To sum up, Carter Hall is dead, the girlfriend's not too far behind, Vandal Savage is sitting pretty in 1975, which we're all now stuck in." Mick 'sums up' and I agree it sounds bad.

"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦." I say sarcastically massaging my temples, I'm starting to think all of this was a really bad idea.

"That how the plan supposed to work, Rip?" Mick asks with sarcasm.

"Obviously not, but the mission is simple. We stop Vandal Savage here in the past and we save the future." Yeah...we already heard that one.

"Simple don't mean easy, Captain." Snart assures Rip.

"Oh, I never said it was. The benefit of being a Time Master is that the length and breadth of history gives one.... perspective."

"𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬?....𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫?.....𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞." I mumble to myself but they heard me.

"I've seen darker days." Rips starts as he probably agrees a bit with what I said. "I've seen men of steel die and dark knights fall, and even then I accomplished my mission no matter what." He tells us referencing to Carter as a way to not give up.

"𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞." I state getting up, but not giving more details as I earned some curious looks from the team.

"Gideon, what is our status?"

"𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥. 𝘜𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰--" Gideon gets cut off by Jax.

"Wait, Jumpship?"

"It's a small expeditionary vessel at the belly of the Waverider....you're a mechanic! You have a look at it." Rip answers him with confidence, but Jax doesn't seem as sure of his capacities as him.

"Uh....auto mechanic.Uh.....spaceship." He point to him and then to the all Waverider to prove his point. Rip only gives him a 'So?' look and Jax finally agrees.
"Okay, if you've got a set of wrenches, I'll see what I can do."

"What about the rest of us? Do we just sit?" Mick jumps in.

"Capital idea, Mr. Rory. You're not nearly as thick as most people say." Rip tells him as I snort trying to hide my smile as he leaves.

"Thick....does that mean stupid?" Mick asks as my arms are crossed when I walk towards him.

"𝐍𝐨𝐨𝐨𝐨𝐨...." I say but it's clear I meant yes. I pass behind him and tell him above his shoulder. ".....𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐛." I finish with a grin on my face as he growls before I trot towards my room with a chuckle leaving behind me a pissed off Mick and smiles on Snart and Sarah's faces.

∙ ∙ ∙

After about half an hour passed I went back to talk to Rip. With everything going on I didn't get the time to ask him about what Savage told me, and as so many questions came floating back in my head I needed answers.

"Miss Croft, what can I do for you?" He acknowledges me as I'm standing at his doorway.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩..."

"That I do, indeed."

"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬." I tell him with the determination to leave this room with answers this time. He drops the object he had in hand and sighs already tired and annoyed, but I'm not giving up. He gets up and turns to me...

"Lara-"

"𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡!....𝐑𝐢𝐩 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐝..." I whisper the last part with teary eyes as he sighs again.

"Gideon." He calls as she makes appears a picture on a screen. A couple holding each other and smiling at the camera. I keeps staring at the picture as Rip keeps talking.
"Richard and Amelia Croft....your parents." He says and I glace at him.

"𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭...𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞....𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲? 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞? 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞?" He only shrugs.

"Guess those real people's researches have been found and inspired them."

"𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡....𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭?" I ask and he tilt his head."...𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞." I guess and he nods.

"Mostly yes. But Richard was also studying everything related to surnaturel and myths, legends. Savage wasn't the only big mystery of his career."

"𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦....."

"Costed him his life." He tells me sadly as I try not to cry for my next question.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫?"

"I don't know. After your father's death I've been looking for her help but couldn't find her. I lost hope of finding her alive after two years of dead ends everytime I had a lead."

I was gonna ask more but Sarah came in asking to talk to Rip. I said it was okay making my way outside but Rip called me so I turned around. He advanced towards me before handing me the same picture of my parents slightly folded that was in the pocket of his jacket.

"I'm sorry I wasn't able to save them." He tells me trustfully as I nod at him, not finding the courage to speak as I finally leave.

∙ ∙ ∙

It was only 15 minutes after Rip's revelations that my room was in a total mess, with papers, files, articles of everything I could find on the Croft family. The most I got was related to the video game but eventually Gideon find me some real informations. So let's say I've got like 25% of concrete.......and 75% of.....'maybe'. Since it's inspired it was probably change to fit the game and the producers' ideas more then reality.
I was sat on the floor against the bed with my legs crossed, papers in hand when a knock on my open door made me look up.

"That's it? You're officially nuts?" Snart asks me with a small smirk as I chuckle but quickly get my serious face back and look my papers again as he gets in.

"So what's all this?" He asks me as he sits by my side.

"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥...𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐦𝐡...𝐈 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠." I tell him as he nod before I hand him the picture. "𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤."

"Your parents?"

"𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡." I whisper smiling looking at the picture as we pause both looking at it.

"Y'all have good genes. No wander you're so hot." He breaks the silence as I roll my eyes and slap his arm.

"𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐩." I tell him as he let's out a small laugh.

"But seriously what did Rip tell you? Did you got any answers?"

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡?" I ask him with a small smile cause it wasn't rude I was just curious.

"Call it morbid curiosity." He shrugs as I shake my head. But I do answer him a few seconds later.

"𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞......𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭......𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨..."

"I'm sorry."

"𝐌𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨." I tell him with a small smile before going back to my researches.

"Did you see that?"

"𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭?" I ask him confused before he flips the picture around and shows me the back. ".....𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥?" I tell myself before taking the picture and getting up as I hurried away towards the bridge with Leonard hot on my heels.

∙ ∙ ∙

"I'm going with you to that bank." We slightly hear Sarah say as we enter the room.

"Somebody say bank?" Leonard chips in like a dog would about a squirrel.

"Your services aren't required, Mr. Snart. This is purely reconnaissance." Rip tells him before Mick buts in on the over side of the room.

"We know how to case banks. We're practically bankers." Mick says as I try to contain my snort.

"'Cept we take the money out." Leonard precise as I try not to smile to much......this guys.

"Yes, and when I need someone to steal something, you'll be the first to know, I assure you." Rip answer them but Mick gets defensive and gets in his face.

"Listen, Englishman. I'm getting bored being stuck on this tin can. And when I get bored, I make bad decisions." He warns him but Snart quickly separates them and ease the tension.

"Now, now, now, we're all on the same side here. My hot-headed friend and I just want to be helpful. That's all."

"Dully noted." Rip tells him before heading out as Sarah passes me I try to stop him for a second.

"𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭-"

"Yes I know. And I promise we will talk more about it Miss Croft, but later." He tells me before leaving as I just let out a big sigh of annoyance and defeat before also leaving the room.

∙ ∙ ∙

As I was walking back to my room I met Stein who was making his way out of the MedBay but he asked me to go check up on Jax as he was busy with Kendra, I thought why not, it will get my mind off everything, at least for a few minutes.

"𝐇𝐞𝐲. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?" I greet Jax as I get in the Jumpship.

"Hi. Great actually I'm almost done."

"𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭." I tell him with a friendly smile.

"Sounds like him." He jokes as I laugh with him.

"Ha! Nice ride!" I turn around from my sit on the right from the conductor seats as I hear Mick get in, followed by Leonard. What are they up to again, I sigh to myself as I give a suspicious look to Snart as he only shrugs innocently at me.

"Yeah, it can hit a Mach 3 in a walk. Pretty cool." Jax says enthousiastically.

"How'd you know so much about it?" Snart asks sounding interested.

"Little thing called an instruction manual."

"Did you read the part about how to fly this thing?".....and here we go.

"Maybe...why?"

"𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐭....𝐰𝐡𝐲?" I ask him playfully narrowing my eyes at him as he's sat in front of me, sending me a challenging glare as I only raise my brow at him.

"We're gonna take a little sojourn to Central City. There's a priceless jewel that needs to be freed from captivity." He tells Jax.

"𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞?"

"You want me to help you steal something?"

"𝐍𝐨 𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧." I sarcastically says, cause we all know it comes back to same thing.

"Nah, man. I'll pass."

"Not exactly asking, Jax." Snart pushes, and I know he'll get what he wants at this point.

"Wow. Carter is dead, Kendra is this close to joining him, and Vandal Savage is still alive and out there doing God knows what, and all you can think about is stealing some diamond?" Jax asks him in disbelief.

"It's an emerald." Snart corrects him unapologetically as I subconsciously hold the pendant of my necklace as Jax asks him " Is there anything you think about other than yourself?" before Snart glances my way as our eyes met. I let out the breath I didn't know I was holding as Snart answers him glancing back at him.

"Yes. Money." I only smile at that before getting up.

"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬." I tell them before Mick puts himself in front of the door blocking my way and I tilt my head in confusion.

"𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐤." I tell him in annoyance.

"So you can prevent the others of our little escape? Who do you take me for?" Snart says getting up behind me so I turn around to face him.

" 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨." I shrug crossing my arms.

"You mean with that phone?" He tells me holding my cellphone, as I check the back pockets of my jeans before looking back at him as he winks. I make a move to try to take it back taking a step closer but he only gets his arm away so I can't reach my phone. I sigh in defeat glaring at him crossing my arms again.

"Now, don't pout, it's unattractive." He taunts me.

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝, 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮?" I narrow my eyes at him but he just ignores me.

"Don't look at me like that, it's not your first kidnapping, you're use to it by now." He rolls his eyes before looking back at Jax as I only throw my arms up in the air in defeat and annoyance. "Alright, let's go."

"Nah. I'm not helping you guys steal anything." Jax gets up challenging them. "So if you want to shoot me, then shoot me." He says as Mick quickly got up as he heard the first 'shoot', but Snart is quick to stop as I also protest.

"𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐤!"

"Can I shoot him?"

"𝐍𝐨!"

"You got a pair on you, kid. I respect that."

"So no shooting..." Mick realise in small disappointment as Leonard nods him to stand down.

"Look, you don't have to help us steal anything. We just need to get to Central City. We'll be there and back before anyone know we're even gone." Leonard tells Jax to reassure him.

"Man, even if I wanted to help, and I'm not saying that I do, this thing got a security lockout. We need an access key." Jax explains as Leonard hand him a plug from his pocket.

"You can't tell me you don't wanna see what this baby can do." He raises his eyebrows at him gesturing to the Jumpship as Jax smiles in agreement. "Alright kids put your seatbelts on." He then tells us as we all then sit.

"𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧."

"Sure, whatever you want."

"𝐆𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞." I tell her not taking my eyes from Leonard as he sends me a glare but I only fake sweet smile at him.