"I'm not trying to do what I did on the outside, you know? Not that my heart was ever in it." Barry shrugged, it wasn't. He had to meet drug dealers on the street and buy from them so that people might recognise him in prison, it was part of his cover and he'd taken some, under control circumstances, just so he could bluff better when he was in here. He didn't like it much. He didn't get the appeal. "So what kind of thing are you in for? ... Can I ask that or is it rude?"
It seemed very difficult to believe that someone who thought these people wanted to cuddle him and who couldn't even talk to anyone without earning a punch actually had done anything criminal on the outside, but whatever. Stranger things had happened. So Leonard shrugged. "You probably shouldn't just ask anyone, but you're talking to me, so you get to ask. Thievery, robbery, cons. That's my game."
"I did a little bit of robbery. For money. I wasn't very good at it. I shut down the mains switch but they had a back up and one thing led to another and--" He'd been arrested breaking into a mansion, part of his cover and all, he didn't really try but it had been an interesting procedure to say the least. He clearly didn't have skills like Leonard Snart did. "Are you and Mick in for the same reason?"
"It's mostly a matter of experience. I started early." Leonard leaned back against the bookshelf and shook his head. "Not really, just partly. Mick hits a few boxes that I don't and vice versa. He only counts as accomplice for the heist we pulled, but he has battery and assault to add to that list, so we're even."
"You two sound like proper criminals. What do they call it? Career criminals? I guess this kind of thing is just a complication to you." Barry didn't get how anyone could live like this but apparently they could and it seemed pointless to argue with him other his own chosen lifestyle. "I was never very good at that. I don't have the sort of drive. Also I always feared this place, you know? Good deterrent."
"I'm a crook, yes. But I've also just been worse places than here." Like home. "Compared to that, this is vacation time. Besides, I usually don't stay all that long." Leonard was smirking, as if it was just a joke. Hey, he'd not admit to having an actual prison break plan to a near stranger, but he could definitely joke about it, everyone did. "But you're a good kid, Barry. Mick and I never finished high school and all I've ever done is be a crook."
"I'm not that good of a kid if I ended up here, am I?" Barry shrugged, not sure what else to say. Yes, he'd finished high school and college but that didn't make him any better or any smarter than Leonard. That was for certain. "I just hope when I get out of here, I have a chance to do better." And maybe he'll get out of here with some good info or they'd probably never get him out.
"You're definitely a good kid. Good kids end up here all the time. They just don't stay good. That's why you're my project. I'll just have to keep you from the wrong influences. Read a book instead." Leonard winked and opened his own book back up, finding where he'd left of.
"So you're going to keep me good? Away from drugs, whores and violence? Well, can't really protest." Barry laughed and got up, taking a book of his own from the shelf and doing exactly as he was told. He sat down and read the book. Like a good boy.
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