"Oh, don't let Rip fool you. He's just as much a misfit as the rest of us. Aren't you, Rip?" Snart didn't hide the smirk and Rip paid special attention to Matt so as to ignore Snart. He refused to dignify that comment with anything because it was a little more true than he'd like to admit. And they wondered why he'd kept his childhood a secret from them all.

"Someone who can put a leash on Mister Snart and his fellow loose canons, is more than welcome." Rip clasped his hands together in what was almost a clap, but not quite. "Right. Well, I'm needed on the bridge, lest the other loose canons decide to blow a hole in something historically important without their babysitter around."

Leonard waited for Rip to leave before he gave Murdock a critical glance. "That was too easy. I think he wanted me to ask you to join." Which, in hindsight, now it doesn't even feel like it was his idea to begin with. And if Rip wanted Matt around and wanted it to be Snart's idea, then that only meant one thing: Matt was a good influence on him. Damn.

"Fine, whatever. Gideon, let's get Matt a room."

"The Captain has already appointed one." Leonard just made a low, worried sound in the back of his throat. Definitely a bad sign.