This was a request from SLLS, who wanted to see some stuff between Sara and Len based on the Lazarus Pit and him losing his hand. Sorry it took so long, i was really stumped for awhile but the last episode gave me some inspiration!
Mick was unconscious, Sara had just been disbanded from the league, and when they all turned to go Len attempted to carry his former partner; attempted.
"Oh my god," Sara practically gasped when she saw his hand, or lack thereof is probably a better term.
"How long has it been for him?" She briefly wondered to herself. She didn't think it could've been long, but then again from the fact that he hadn't come with the others could mean that he was lost for as long as they were. But she doubted that, considering it had been him to tell them who Chronos really is she would bet that just like Rip, Jax, and Stein it was only a mere few hours for him.
Still, his hand is gone.
She can't help but wonder how he lost it, or more specifically, if it was Mick who took it.
Jax and Ray went and took Mick from him and he looks frustrated by it but he doesn't insist that he can carry the much heavier man; he knows that he can't. Sara is fully aware that her expression is dazed as she approaches Leonard, but she can't shake it.
He's standing there, gripping the open and bloody stub that used to be his hand and gritting his teeth harshly from the pain.
"What?" He didn't mean to snarl at her, she can tell, but he can't help it. It's the pain talking, he just wants to get back to the ship and drug himself so high on painkillers that what's left of his wrist goes numb.
"Nothing," she eventually managed to say after standing there with her mouth open for a solid minute or so, and she only did so because she felt the presence of the man approaching them from behind. She turned, knowing that it was Ra's al Ghul standing behind them.
"Something tells me he is going to need his hand," he said and Sara's eyes grew wide when she realized where this conversation was about to head.
"No," she said, shaking her head before she turned to Len who honestly looked like he was about to pass out from the clearly recent pain of losing the limb. It made her chest ache, made her want to accept what she knew Ra's was offering, but she would never forgive herself if she did. "He'll manage," she said and before Len could argue she grabbed his good arm and began leading him away.
When she said he would be able to manage she hadn't thought that Gideon would be able to give him a new hand, so it goes without saying that she was beyond relieved when she watched it happen before her very eyes. Rip left the med bay with her right on his heels, Len still sitting in the chair and examining his new hand.
"Hold it assassin," he called out before she could get away, she was reluctant but she did in fact turn back.
"What?" She asked, folding her arms and watching as he curled his new fingers into a fist two or three times.
"Not that I'm ungrateful for futuristic technology, but next time that I'm doubled over in pain and one of your friends offers to help please ask for my opinion before telling him I'll manage." He said and she sighed before walking just a little closer to the chair, waiting patiently for him to look away from his hand and at her.
"Ra's was going to dunk your arm in the Lazarus Pit," she told him bluntly, "Once you go in that thing you don't come out the same. It doesn't matter if it's your whole body or not, that thing takes a piece of you and sorry Snart but I wasn't going to let that happen." She defended but he leveled a glare at her, unimpressed by the answer.
"What happens to me is not your decision, or your concern for that matter." He said it coldly, shifting in the chair so that his legs now dangled over the side, but despite his commanding voice she wouldn't back down.
"I've seen the inside of that pit," she growled at him, "It wasn't until just a few months ago that I stopped seeing it every night in my dreams. So sorry, not sorry." She bit out and with that she walked away.
They tried to forget the little disagreement, but when she found him down in the cargo bay during their next mission, practicing with his new hand by throwing a ball against a crate and catching it again, forgetting was no longer an option. She had come in here to talk to him about Mick, or more specifically to try and get him to talk to Mick, but he was refusing.
"Mick's made his feelings about me pretty clear," he was trying to weasel out of this, but he knew he would have no such luck.
"And what about your feelings?" She asked,
"About you?" He snapped too quickly, and when an amused smile spread across her face he almost thought she was going to let it slide. But when she heaved a sigh and crouched down to his level he knew he was far from being that lucky.
"I bet those are less than pleasant right now," she half joked, to her surprise and he only shrugged in response.
"Confusing mostly," he admitted, "I get why you didn't let me decide about the pit considering I was in too much pain to think strait, but before that you looked like someone had just stabbed you in the chest, why?" He asked and she smirked in amusement.
"Those two years, despite the fact that I was practically brainwashed during them," She began as she made herself more comfortable on the floor. "I was always thinking about what I would do if a I ever saw you again-"
"And the answer was try and kill us?" Len mocked and Sara smirked again.
"This was before Ra's' teachings got through to me, when he was telling me to let go of everything that tethered me to my past." She explained; her eyes now focused somewhere else as she lost herself in the memories. "Rip snapped me out of it by pitting me against Kendra but when I saw you missing your hand…" she trailed off, not quite sure how to explain the feeling. "All that time, I was wondering why you guys left us but when I saw what you were going through… I didn't know what to think." She finally admitted and if Len didn't know better he would've said that he saw tears forming in the corners of her eyes, actually no, he did see tears there. "I spent two years thinking that maybe you left us on purpose." She confessed, her voice just starting to shake.
Upon hearing this Len's expression softened and he crawled over to her from where he had been sitting. He went and sat next to her, and they were both silent for a long moment before he finally said what he crawled over here to say.
"This might not mean much coming from a guy who left his partner unconscious in the middle of nowhere, but if Rip ever tries to leave you stranded somewhere on purpose I'll ice him." He promised and Sara chuckled,
"Thanks," she said before getting back to her feet. "No stop being an ass, and go deal with Mick."
It was after Mick told them what the Time Masters had in store as their backup plan should he fail to bring the team in. He told them that all they can do is run and then slowly the group dispersed out of the bridge. All except for Len who remained seated in the corner, and Sara who approached him.
"What?" He asked her, his voice icy as always but not quite as hostile.
"You look like hell," she deadpanned,
"You would know," he deadpanned back, he didn't expect her to laugh at the joke but she did, although it was mostly just so he wouldn't stop her from taking the seat next to him.
"Think we can outrun whoever the Time Masters send after us next?" She asked after a moment or two of silence.
"Don't know," Len answered honestly, "What do you think?" He asked and in response Sara huffed out a long sigh accompanied by a shrug.
"Don't know," she agreed, "All I know is I just spent two years thinking about what I would do if I ever made it back here, then I got captured by Savage before I even tried." She said and that was enough to peak Len's curiosity.
"What are you going to do now that you're back?" He asked and Sara smiled just a little as she grabbed his hand, rubbing her thumb over his bruised knuckles a few times before reclaiming her hand and standing up.
"Come find me when your face heals," she said, a teasing glint in her eyes.
Len smiled to himself as she walked away, suddenly very anxious for his face to heal up.
Author's Note: I just want to thank everyone whose been leaving the great reviews, they mean so much to me! However i am putting the one-shots here on a bit of a hiatus, i don't have time to focus on two stories and i want to focus on my multi-chapter story "Cover Stories and Family Bonding". I have two more one-shots for this still in the works but i can't be sure when they'll be up. Because of this i'm not going to take requests for a little while :( i just don't have the time. I'll post another note like this when i have the to work on this series again, but until then it'll probably just be the two that i'm currently working on before the end of the month and then i don't know when the next update here will be :( Please check out my multi-chapter story, it's based on chapters six and seven of this and I'm really excited to do it!