DC Legends of Tomorrow: The Glitch: Glitching Through Time

Ch 25: A Ray of Clarity

"Alright, since there's nothing we can do yet everyone should just go relax, keep your minds occupied and try to stay calm. If anything starts to hurt or someone suddenly collapses to the floor...just tell Gideon and we should be able to save your younger self and avoid your immanent demise. " Rip told the crew before walking off into his study needing time to himself to at least think. Yet again his team's lives were in danger because of him and this time there was nothing he could do about it except to wait. He hated waiting. It was one of the reasons he even became a time master. So he could take out the middle man, the awful period of waiting, and he could just go off adventuring. Now, yet again he seemed to be stuck at the mercy of it. 

Once everyone started filing out of the room going their separate ways Clarity immediately walked over to her comfy corner and sunk down in it. She closed her eyes resting her head back against the wall. Why? Why hadn't she focused on the ship? It was all her fault. Even Gideon, had proved to be useless in locating the pilgrim, but she had co-created Gideon with Barry. Since she was the only creator present on this ship then didn't that mean that she was to blame for Gideon's failure as well as her own?

If she had just been focusing on the Pilgrim's ship and knew what it felt like then they wouldn't be in this mess. She would have been able to track the Pilgrim and the lives of her friends wouldn't be in danger. All her powers, all her control over them and she couldn't even do this one simple thing. It should have been easy. Like tracking Snart and Rory's gun, or feeling the waverider the second she had woke up on that rooftop. She was so useless. The pilgrim may as well just wipe her out.

"Hey...is there room for two in that corner of yours?" Ray questioned startling Clarity from her negative thoughts.

She opened her eyes and looked up at him. His kind brown eyes meeting her abnormal blue ones. She forced her lips to quirk upwards into a smile, but it wasn't as big or as bright as it usually was.

"Yeah sure..." Clarity said shifting over to the right patting the spot on her left for Ray to sit before retracting her hand. Ray settled in on her left side smiling back at her. A silence soon followed after Ray sat down both looking away from each other. He decided to break it before it became unbearable.

"You know it's not your fault we couldn't find the pilgrim right?" Ray asked turning his head to look at her. Her smile widened just a bit, and that was all it took for the facade to crumble. Clarity's smile disappeared all together replacing itself with a frown. She looked down at her lap where her hands laid. She played with her lightning trying to distract herself a bit from the guilt she felt. The electricity whirring around from fingertip to fingertip against each of her palms.

"I...I know that" Clarity said her voice soft, fragile.

"Really? Cause to me it looks like you're kind of blaming yourself" Ray observed. Clarity sighed her powers stopping as she turned her head to look at him.

"Maybe I am. If I had just paid more attention to her ship instead of her gun-"

"Then I might not have been able to find Rory fast enough, and there's a chance Sara wouldn't have gotten to her younger self in time either." Ray cut her off.

"Ray...I could've done better. I should've done more. Now, we have nothing and the rest of us have to wait to get taken out by the Pilgrim all because I couldn't find her. So, please remind me how is this not my fault?" Clarity questioned.

"Because an artificial intelligence couldn't even find her, you're only human, Clarity. You can't do everything and save the day all the time. " Ray told her.

"Yeah, an AI that I created" Clarity muttered.

"What?" Ray asked eyebrows drawing together in confusion and surprise. Okay, he never saw that coming.