I'm back with chapter two! I hope you enjoy!
Sara and Leonard stayed at Quentin Lance's house for a few hours. Leonard mostly sat and listened to the Lance sisters catch up as they all ate lunch.
"So how's your team?" Laurel asked. She and Leonard were sitting on two adjacent couches. Sara had seated herself on the floor with her back up against Leonard's legs. "Did they all make it home okay?"
"Yeah, they did. By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Ray shows up in the Arrowcave soon. He seemed pretty eager to rejoin the team.
"Good." Laurel nodded. "We're still trying to figure out how to bring Darhk down. We could use his help. Yours too."
"I'd love to, but Len and I are going to Central City. I think I'm done with vigilante work." Sara answered, shrugging. "For now at least."
Laurel raised her eyebrows. "Wow. I never thought this day would come. The White Canary is hanging up her sword."
"Knifes," Sara corrected, smiling impishly.
"Fine, hanging up her knifes," Laurel sighed in exasperation. She then turned to Leonard. "How about you? My father may not have recognized you, but I've seen your files at the DA's office. Are you going back to your life of crime?"
"I wouldn't count on it." Leonard said, "And I wouldn't count on finding those files either. Our captain owed me a favor for helping him with the mission and he cleared them for me."
Laurel looked between Leonard's smirk and Sara's gleeful smile before she finally said, "You know, you two together is making more and more sense to me the more I see you."
Leonard and Sara left soon after that, knowing that the drive to Central City would be a long one.
Leonard and his sister had been living in their childhood home when Rip Hunter had shown up. Leonard figured that Lisa had remained there in his absence, so that's where he and Sara went.
It was late when they arrived - past midnight, but the flickering lights of the TV behind a curtain showed that Lisa was still awake.
Leonard opened the front door and led Sara inside.
The house was a disaster. Beer bottles and soda cans littered the floor, a week's worth of mostly eaten meals covered every hard surface, clothing was strewn across furniture, and miscellaneous objects of all natures was scattered across every other free space. Sara knew that Leonard and his neat-freak tendencies were fighting the urge to start cleaning up the mess.
When they entered the house, Lisa Snart was standing at the kitchen counter, pouring popcorn into a big bowl that would inevitably never make it into the dishwasher.
Lisa looked remarkably like Leonard, Sara thought. They had the same faces, the same blue eyes, the same gaze that seemed to drill deep down into your mind.
"Hey Lenny." she said, shaking a few remaining kernels into the bowl. "Where've you been."
Leonard quickly crossed the room and wrapped his sister in a hug. Lisa's confusion showed, but she reciprocated the hug anyway.
"Why are you being weird?" Lisa asked. She pulled away from her brother, searching his face quizzically. She looked up and saw Sara standing by the front door. "Who's this? It's not like you to bring girls home."
"Sara," Leonard began, ignoring Sara's smirk at Lisa's comment. "this is my sister Lisa. Lisa, meet Sara, my wife."
"What are you talking about, Lenny?" Lisa narrowed her eyes suspiciously at her brother. "Your wife? You've been gone a week-and-a-half and you-"
"Try three-and-a-half years." Leonard interrupted.
"Three-and-a-half…what are you talking about?"
It took two hours to explain the mission to Lisa, who, after understanding the basic concept, wanted to then be told every tiny detail. Leonard was the one to talk for the most part; Sara cut in only to add details and to correct him occasionally. Lisa particularly enjoyed hearing about the team's complete inability to kill one person, despite there being nine opposing him.
"Couldn't you have just gone back in time and killed him as a baby? Or kept him from being conceived entirely?" Lisa had asked.
"Time wants to happen," Leonard had responded, repeating a testament he'd heard from Rip Hunter many times. "There's not much you can do to stop it; it'll find a way."
"I thought you destroyed that Oculus thing. Wasn't that the thing that was like a magnet; it pulled the timeline into place? Once it stopped working, couldn't you have gone back and done it then?"
"She's got a point, Len." Sara said, raising an eyebrow.
Len just rolled his eyes and continued telling the story.
"So, you saved the world," Lisa said once Leonard had finished. There wasn't even an inch of gratitude on her face, "You left your baby sister all alone to play hero."
"Well it's not like you realized I was gone."
"Doesn't matter. You knew you'd be gone for a long time and you still didn't tell me."
"You would have wanted to come and we couldn't have let that happen, now could we?"
"That doesn't make it any better. Something could have happened to you! You could have just never come back and I'd have to wonder for the rest of my life where the hell you were."
"But that didn't happen. I'm right here."
Lisa rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Len. Anyway, you left something out of your story." She tipped her head towards Sara.
"Some things just happen." Leonard replied.
"No, I'm not letting you off that easy. You can't just show up and tell me that you're married! What's next, you're going to tell me you have a kid or something?"
Leonard and Sara exchanged a look, both reminded of their future daughter Rory's brief stint on the Waverider so many years ago.
"Look," Leonard leaned forward, knowing that his sister would not give up until she was given a sufficient answer, "I was part of a team on the mission. You get close to your teammates, whether you want to or not."
"But you didn't marry your entire team."
"No, I married Sara." Leonard agreed, his eyes glinting mischievously.
At that point, Lisa took to Sara and looked her up and down. Leonard held his breath. He wasn't aware until just now of how much he wanted his sister and his wife to get along. They were the two most important people to him, and he knew that his life would get a hell of a lot harder if they didn't like each other.
"What'd he do to you to make you fall for him?" Lisa smirked.
Sara shrugged, "He didn't have to do anything. I guess it just sort of happened. I'm just as broken as he is, but whenever I'm around him, I don't feel it anymore."
"He makes you feel whole again." Lisa nodded in agreement.
"Not exactly. Not whole, but like it doesn't matter how insane I am. When I'm around him I don't mind being broken."
Both Lisa and Leonard smiled at Sara's words.
"Well okay then." Lisa said. "You guys are happy together, and that's all that matters."
I hope you liked this! I'll be back in a few days with chapter 3.