| Code Name: Shadow | (DC's Legends of Tomorrow)

34: Memories

"So- how are you, Meg?" Kendra asked the redhead slowly, as if she couldn't be more painfully awkward. Margaret took a seat in front of the computer, shrugging her shoulders.

"Never better." Was her short, dry response.

Meg didn't know why she was being so dry and moody towards everyone all of a sudden- especially Kendra. All she did was fall in love, but that happened to be with the exact same guy Meg loved... only some weird time shit happened and they were left marooned in 1958 so they could fall in love.

Why must everything be so complicated. This team... This mission.. It was anything but ordinary, especially for Margaret.

"Okay- Meg.. We're friends. We have to talk about what happened."

"There's nothing to talk about."

The redhead looked up, matching the Hawk Woman's sincere expression with a cold one.

"Meg."

"How would we even talk about it anyway?" Meg asked, standing up to pace the room quickly, "You know exactly what happened."

Kendra offered a sympathetic look, but Meg turned her eyes away. She didn't need her pity, or apologies, excuses, anything. Not then, not ever. Not after what happened.

Sure, maybe Meg was acting a teeny bit irrational, but it was hard for her to think straight when something sudden and heartbreaking like that happened.... especially since Vandal Savage told Margaret it would end in disaster like it did. All she could think about what stuff she could have done differently that could have prevented her heart from being broken.

"It's more complicated than that, Meg." Kendra started as she tried to reason with the redhead, "We saw you die. Cronus shot you, and you collapsed. We thought all of you were dead, and we were left in 1958 forever."

Meg didn't make eye-contact with her. There was a part of her that wanted to scream and throw shadows around until everyone was dead, but the other half kept her hands shoved deep into her pockets- listening to what Kendra had to say.

"At first, Ray wouldn't let the 'truth' sink in. He kept on finding ways to get back to you. You didn't abandon him, Meg, he didn't look at it that way like we did. You two were separated. He built all this wacky time junk to try and find the ship... And after a few months it didn't work. That's when..."

"He started to lose hope."

"Yeah."

Blinking back tears, Meg turned her gaze to Kendra. The priestess offered a smile, but she couldn't bring herself to return it.

"One night.. Before the Pirates attacked us and Ray almost died... I had a nightmare. It might have been something that already happened, from my past, that I didn't quite remember. He came, and told me that the only way I'd know the truth... Is if I remember." Meg said slowly, as if that bit of information would help the situation. Well, in a way it would- but not in the way Meg thought. Her gaze shifted towards the screen, where Rip wanted them to be. However, the Forensic Anthropologist was sure he had other intentions for putting the two of them in the same room.

"So... You need to get your memories back?" Kendra asked, quirking a brow. Meg slowly nodded, turning on her heel to walk out of the room. She needed to go to the med bay.

"Gideon- I believe you have something you can do for me." She said shakily, sitting down on a bed, attaching an IV bracelet to her wrist. Getting her memories back was something Meg put off for the entire mission- but she needed to know. She needed to have control over herself in order to defeat Savage.