Sara was curled up around his pillow when Snart returned from his shower. She was wearing a threadbare Starling City Rockets tee, and her stuffed shark was within reach. She was munching on a chocolate rabbit. His lips curled in a faint, involuntary smile. The first word that came to his mind was 'adorable,' but he didn't dare utter it; he knew her well enough to recognize her very particular methods of dealing with distress.

He climbed up beside her, and she promptly curled into his side, extending her rabbit in his general direction. He did smile then, before biting off a chocolate paw.

"So that was Alexa," Sara murmured.

"Yeah." He took another bite, then passed the treat back to her, gathering his thoughts while he chewed. "I told you once, it's the things I didn't do that keep me up at night. I…you know I've killed when I had to. I never tried to hide that. But I was never one for dropping bodies for no reason. It's sloppy. It's -"

"It's what your father did." She burrowed closer into his shoulder.

"Alexa…she got inside my head, distracted me. There were things I should have checked for myself, but she said she'd taken care of it, and didn't I trust her? All those security guards…they died because I was a sucker for a pretty face."

"Did you learn from it?"

"Hell, yeah. I learned to trust no one. I learned to figure all the angles, do all the research for myself. I, uh…may have some lingering problems with …trust issues," he added slyly.

Sara reached up and popped the last piece of chocolate bunny into his mouth. "Good thing you've got me to help you work through all that."

"Good thing," he agreed, with a low chuckle. "And you? Are you all right? Ava…"

"I did what I had to do to stay alive. I made my peace with that. If other people can't deal with it, that's on them, not me." She cuddled closer, nearly in his lap…not that he was complaining. "And hey, thanks for sticking up for me. You and the boys. That really…it meant a lot to me."

Snart turned his head slightly to press a kiss to her forehead. "If this little escapade taught us anything, it's that we all have things in our past that we'd rather forget. Like the man said, it's just part of being human."

Sara's eyelids were starting to flutter.

"Do you think you can sleep now?" Snart murmured.

"I dunno."

"Try. I'll be right here, if you need me."