What happened, exactly? [ she's found the post, but without context, it's not that easy to make sense of it. ] Something with the mirrors, I got that much.
I tried not to pry into the details. [ hey look he's trying to grow! ] Chronos targeted the Legends first, but he didn't kill us. He got what he wanted. Rip doesn't exactly have a spear-shaped reason to come after us right now.
I know this is hard to understand, but... I have a life here, Sara.
[ and it seems that he's not ashamed to plead to keep it intact. for better or worse. ]
Rip knows that retaliating against the team directly won't do as much as coming after the people we love from other worlds. People we don't get to return to back home.
[ he's desperate to keep his sarah safe. and while he and len have taken a year to become more than unwilling team mates, he'd have fought for this bonus time even a year ago. ]
[ it's not hard to understand, exactly, but -- it's something she hadn't really considered. she should have; she's already seen ray go native once before. he's good at that, at finding a way to fit where he is and making it somewhere he wants to be. ]
You come back from the dead here, that's what I've heard. Is the rumour that it's only five times?
[ but more importantly -- ] So we do fix him. How? [ if they can do the same thing here, maybe they'll spare themselves a lot of pain. maybe they'll spare rip a lot of pain, too. ]
I think I've heard that you can't go home anymore and that they take something from you.
[ ray sighs, and unseen, shakes his head. ]
I don't know. Whatever we do, it has to be something we'd never plan. Something that he wouldn't see coming, which, is probably everything at this point. Maybe magic?
Hey, before you go-- I wanted to apologize. I think I got kind of desensitized to people from home showing up. You deserved more than an infodump from one of the nerd twins.
I'm not sure I can answer that with any certainty, honestly. The longer I'm here the more I feel like very little happens on purpose. It feels sort of like a glitchy Vanishing Point, if that makes sense.
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[ there's no malice in his voice, but it's obviously something that marked ray in some way. of course it did; it affected everyone. ]
And we all paid for it.
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[ and it seems that he's not ashamed to plead to keep it intact. for better or worse. ]
Rip knows that retaliating against the team directly won't do as much as coming after the people we love from other worlds. People we don't get to return to back home.
[ he's desperate to keep his sarah safe. and while he and len have taken a year to become more than unwilling team mates, he'd have fought for this bonus time even a year ago. ]
Do you know about the five death rumor?
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You come back from the dead here, that's what I've heard. Is the rumour that it's only five times?
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[ maybe someday he'll stop putting his expectations on other people. and maybe pigs will discover space travel. ]
But honestly? I'm less worried about other people than I am him. If he hurts someone here and then goes home and comes back after you guys fix him...
[ ray's not sure he'll be able to forgive himself. #selfcentered much? ]
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[ but more importantly -- ] So we do fix him. How? [ if they can do the same thing here, maybe they'll spare themselves a lot of pain. maybe they'll spare rip a lot of pain, too. ]
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[ ray sighs, and unseen, shakes his head. ]
I don't know. Whatever we do, it has to be something we'd never plan. Something that he wouldn't see coming, which, is probably everything at this point. Maybe magic?
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[ none of them know magic, unless ray's learned some new skills in his time here. which means they need someone they can trust. ]
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[ because sara's beginning to get the impression that there may be a bit of a dissonance between them at the moment. ]
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[ yeahhh something like that. ]
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[ maybe she should do that, too. ]
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It's been a weird year. I've been back and forth a couple times.
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