Chapter 2
Stubborn Silence

When Sara arrived in the lab, with two slices of pizza on a plate, she found Charlie seating on a chair, very bored looking and absolutely not listening to Danny, who was still talking:

"... and that's why my hamster is named Gary the 3rd."

"It's... bloody interesting," she replied with no enthusiasm whatsoever.

"Charlie. Out," Sara declared as she walked in.

"You won't have to tell me twice!"

She rushed out, leaving Sara alone with the kids.

"Alright, let's make a deal. You tell me who you are, what you want and especially why you were trying to get Nora Darhk out of her cell, and I give you pizza."

Danny perked up.

"God, yes, please, I'm so hungry!"

"Here, Danny."

The girl pulled a cereal bar out of her boot and with a deliberate look at Sara, she handed it to her younger friend.

"And mine comes free of any pieces of information."

"Thanks!"

He quickly unwrapped it, while Sara glared at the girl and tried to save her plan:

"You're sure you don't want pizza instead, Danny?"

"Actually, I'm lactose intolerant, and I think there's a lot of cheese on that pizza. I don't think I should eat it."

The girl smirked even more while Sara was trying, and failing, to stay calm.

"Listen, I'm trying to make things easy for you, but if you refuse to cooperate, I'll have to bring in the big guns."

"You don't have children, do you, Captain?" the girl asked.

Sara crossed her arms, determined not to answer.

"My mother told me she never knew how to handle children until she got me. You are not ready to handle us."

Sara thought for a second. From the very few things the girl had said, this was the most personal thing she'd said. It was a personal taunt, Sara realized it quickly.

"I don't know your name," she noted while walking around the cell facing the girl. "You've been calling Danny by his name a bunch of times, but he never called you by yours. Do I get a name?"

"Lena. It's the only thing you'll get out of me."

Sara smirked and turned around.

"That's what we'll see."


Sara came back a few minutes later, with Ava behind her and a pair of handcuffs.

"Danny, come with me please."

Danny hesitated, looking back at Lena in panic. She stood up and looked down at Danny.

"It's okay. Go with them. I'll see you soon, promise."

He nodded and approached the invisible field of the cell.

"You can walk through," Sara assured.

He took a deep breath and only let it out when he was on the other side of the barrier. Sara placed the handcuffs on him, which was a bit ridiculous because they fell off his wrists. She led him out of the lab with a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry. I just want to talk," she assured.

Ava stayed behind. She stood in front of Lena who was staring back at her. There was something so familiar about the look of defiance in the girl's face, so strange, Ava knew she'd seen that glint in her blue eyes before, even if she couldn't place it.

"I hope you know once we're done with Danny we'll know everything we need to know."

Lena smirked.

"Danny isn't stupid. He knows exactly what he can say."

"Let me guess. Nothing useful."

"Depends on what you consider useful. Nothing dangerous, I'd say."

Ava nodded and picked up a chair to bring it right in front of Lena. She sat down.

"Where are you taking him?"

"The galley. To give him more than just a cereal bar. You could eat too if you talked."

"I've been trained to resist torture. Not eating for a day is nothing. You guys will feed me eventually. You're the good guys, you don't starve your prisoners."

"It's so strange that you seem to know so much about us, but we don't know anything about you. We couldn't find you in our database and Gideon can't find you either."

"I'm not going to tell you anything. Not because I don't want to. I could just tell you everything in five minutes, and you'd know why you have to let us out, and why you have to let us borrow Nora. But I can't. And you know exactly why."

Ava nodded. Lena was extremely serious when she talked.

"Is there anyone I trust you could tell?"

Lena shook her head.

"No. There isn't."

"Then we seem to be stuck."

"I suppose we are."


After leaving the lab, Ava found Sara in the hallway leading to the galley.

"Any luck with Lena?" she asked.

Ava shook her head.

"She doesn't want to tell us anything to protect the space-time continuum."

"How ironic."

Sara crossed her arms.

"We'll leave her alone for now. Let her brew a little."

"Any luck with Danny?"

"No. I left him in the galley with Ray. They're talking about physics, I think. If he says anything important, Ray will tell us."

"Okay."

They began walking toward the bridge side by side.

"What did Nora say?"

"She's never seen either of them before, but if they come from the future, it doesn't surprise me."

"So we have two teenagers from the future, one of whom is a wizard and the other had a time courier and they know us, obviously."

Sara sighed. She really hoped it wasn't what she was starting to imagine it could be.

"I'll keep digging, see if I can find anything."

Ava yawned. Neither of them had had any sleep as a result of the teenagers' intervention.

"Maybe you should go home," Sara suggested. "Get some rest. I'll call you as soon as we know something."

"I can't. I have a report to write. I don't even know what I'm going to write."

Ava pouted, and Sara expertly kissed her pout away.

"Report can wait. Go to sleep. I'll take care of the rest."

Ava gave Sara's lips a peck.

"Thank you." Another peck. "You're the best."

"I know."

Ava kissed her one last time before opening a portal straight to her apartment.

"Call if anything happens."

"Promise."

Ava disappeared through the portal and Sara yawned. This was going to be a very long night.


In the lab, Lena was pacing nervously. She knew Danny had not spilled anything. They'd both been raised by time travelers, after all, they knew what they were doing. Plus, if he'd said anything, everyone would have rushed inside the lab to stare at her.

"Gideon?" she prompted.

"Yes, Miss Lance?"

"You haven't said anything about me to my parents yet."

It was more a statement than a question.

"Protecting the Legends from information concerning their future is one of my functions."

"Could you pass a message to Danny for me?"

"So that I can help you escape? I don't think so."

Lena smiled.

"It's so that Danny can escape. Get back to his mom, maybe get a chance to contact her. It's all."

"Miss Darhk has remained in the custody of the Time Bureau. I doubt Mister Palmer will be able to contact her without a time courier."

"Well, then there's nothing to fear. Just tell Danny to eat some cheese."

"I make no promise in passing this message along."

"Thank you, Gideon."


In the galley, Danny was seating alone, in the middle of the room. Ray had left for a second, just to get the plan to his newest prototype from his bedroom.

"Mister Palmer?" Gideon asked.

"Yes, Gideon?"

"Miss Lance reminds me to tell you that you have to eat some cheese."

Danny frowned. Had Lena forgotten he was lactose intolerant? The dots slowly connected in his brain.

"Thank you, Gideon!"

A few seconds later, Ray returned with a bunch of papers in his hand, and a bright smile on his face.

"Found them!"

He sat back in front of Danny and placed the paper on the table.

"They were scattered a bit everywhere, that's why it took me so long to find them!"

Danny smiled and asked:

"Hey, Ray, can I have some cheese?"

Ray seemed surprised by the request, but he smiled anyway:

"Oh, sure, buddy!"

He stood up and went to the food fabricator.

"What kind of cheese do you want?"

"Hum... Swiss cheese works better."

"Okay."

A minute later he returned with a plate full of cubes of cheese.

"Here you go."

"Thank you."

While Ray spread all of his pieces of paper on the table, Danny picked up one of the cheese cubes and began twirling it between his fingers, carving symbols with his thumbnail on the sides.

"See?" Ray declared, pointing to one of the papers. "I've tried recalibrating the pieces so they fold on impact, but now they're too weak. A single punch from Nate broke the last chest-plate."

Danny pondered over the schematics for a moment, the cube of cheese still dancing between his fingers.

"Oh, I see the problem. Change the core's place. One on the front, two auxiliaries on the shoulders, so you can put a second layer of titanium inlay."

Ray listened, completely enraptured.

"Oh! Yes! Yes, I think that could work!"

Danny smiled, pride feeling his chest. He frowned lightly, just for a second, not long enough for Ray to notice, before his smile returned. His cube was finally ready.

"Ray, I'll be right back, okay?"

"What?"

Danny put the cube between his teeth and bit lightly in it. In a flash, he turned into a small mouse. Ray was stunned for a minute, while the little black rodent jumped off the chair and hid inside the nearest ventilation shaft.

"Oh no!"

Ray ran up to the shaft, but it was too late.

"Oh no! Oh no no no no no!"

He ran out of the galley, trying to find where the shaft was leading to, but there were so many shafts and pipes he couldn't tell which one Danny had disappeared into.

"Sara!" Ray called out in panic.


Lena heard the sound of tiny feet scampering on metal above her. She stood up, and suddenly a little black ball of fur fell from the ceiling on the metal floor of the lab. The little cheese cube fell out its teeth, and Danny took his original form back. He stood up quickly.

"I didn't eat any this time!" he declared proudly.

"Good job! Now get me out of here, I know where we can find a time courier."

Danny picked up a tablet but didn't open the force field.

"No."

"No? What do you mean no?"

"I think we were supposed to be here. To come now."

"Why?"

"My dad is working on his new suit. And he told me he couldn't figure it out on his own. He had help. He never told me who but it was me!"

He looked up at the ceiling.

"Am I right, Gideon?"

"I believe Mister Palmer's calculations are correct. Should you reveal the truth the timeline will not be significantly affected."

"So I let you out, and we ask for help. Do you agree?"

Lena sighed.

"Deal. But I'm pretty sure we're going to be in even more trouble than before."

Danny rolled his eyes, and let Lena out of the cell.

"So, where do we go now?" she asked.

"I believe you'll find most of the Legends wandering the halls looking for a small black mouse," Gideon declared.

"Alright, let's go."


Sara, Zari, and John had been the first to join Ray after he'd call for help.

"I don't know what happened! One second we were talking about my suit and the next he was eating cheese and turning into a mouse!"

John smirked.

"He carved the spell into the cheese. I'm impressed."

"You can be impressed once we've found him!" Sara replied, "I'll go check on Lena, make sure he didn't let her out."

"Too late."

The two teenagers rounded the corner, walking casually as if nothing was wrong.

"I told you I'll be back," Danny declared with a smile.

Before Sara could say anything, Lena intervened:

"We're ready to talk. But two conditions. We don't go back into the cell, and you let us talk before you judge, okay?"

Sara frowned. This was too easy. Why would they suddenly decide to talk, especially Lena, after such a long time of fighting back?

"It's doable."

"Good. And call your girlfriend, she's gonna want to hear this," Lena added before passing through the Legends to go to the Captain's quarters.


A/N: Hi guys! I hope you liked chapter 2! As some of you may have guessed (though admitedly it was pretty obvious) Lena is the daughter of Sara and Ava while Danny is the son of Ray and Nora. I have been waiting for Legends of Tomorrow to make a future kid episode for so long, and I know that it's a problem, because it's basically declaring that a relationship is endgame and you can't pull some super dramatic things after that, but still. In the meantime, I decided to write my own.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you guys tomorrow for the next one!