The wedding between Donna and Quentin was great, but when eleven months later found Sara and Leonard on the eve before their own wedding, they were much more excited. The planning process had it's ups and downs, the downs usually resulting in Lisa rolling her eyes at somebody because she had put just as much planning effort into the event as the bride and groom, thus meaning that the three people in charge of everything were also the three people with the shortest tempers. Honestly, if it hadn't been for Sara's mother, the three of them probably would've killed each other at some point over the past year.
But now it was nearly over, and tomorrow was the much-anticipated big day. They had considered a few different places as to where to get married, and considering they're both very non-traditional they ruled church, beach, and park out right away. Instead they had decided to go to Star City to get married, in the vacant lot where the Waverider first picked them up. Since Ray already has a minister's license he would be officiating the wedding, although like with Aurora and now Sara's last name Len had tried everything he could think of to talk his fiancée out of it. Sara had picked Lisa as her maid of honor, which Len had initially been thrilled about until he realized just how involved in Sara's business that put Lisa, she was around so much helping Sara that it started to remind him of the days where she was a little headache that he could NOT get rid of. Laurel and Felicity would be Sara's other bridesmaids, Len had chosen Mick for his best man, and of course they had tasked Aurora with being the flower girl.
Speaking of Aurora, or Rory as some people had begun calling her, she was probably more excited than anyone for her parents' wedding. She was pushing sixteen months old now and starting to talk, although her words sounded more like jumbled sounds than anything else. Still, once you were around her long enough you could make out the words "flower girl", which sounded more like, "fwow gir", in about every other thing she said.
Anyway, as it is the night before the wedding, which is taking place in Star City, Sara, Len, and their daughter, were staying with Laurel for the night. After tomorrow Rory would be staying here with her Auntie Laurel for the next week while her parents headed off on their honeymoon.
"So you're staying here tomorrow?" Len asked his fiancée, the two of them were currently lying awake in the guest bed of Laurel's apartment with Rory sound asleep between them.
"Yes, and you're going to the Waverider." Sara confirmed, they may not be the most traditional people usually, but Len had insisted on not seeing her before the wedding. Sure technically the superstition is 24 hours, but he's not a man who believes in superstitions.
"Noted, so what about Rory?" He asked,
"She's going to stay with me if that's alright," she said and Len nodded,
"Of course, besides I'm not sure I like the idea of her running around a spaceship that travels through time." He replied and Sara chuckled,
"Fair point," she agreed with a yawn before leaning over Rory to give Leonard a kiss, "I love you," she murmured as she pulled away.
"I love you too," He said back.
The next morning, as expected, brought chaos.
It started off calm enough, well, as calm as a wedding day can start off anyway. Leonard got up early to make breakfast, as he usually does at home, so this wasn't any shock to Sara. But it was to Laurel, who came traipsing curiously out of her room nearly an hour earlier than she had been planning to, which was already an hour earlier than normal.
"Didn't mean to wake you," Len more or less apologized, peering over his shoulder to see his soon to be sister-in-law looking at him as though there was something about him standing in front of a stove that had her completely dumbfounded. "What? Do you seriously think I'm going to let Sara near your stove?" He asked sarcastically, "No thanks, I put out enough kitchen fires at our place." He said and as if she had heard him mocking her, which she might have considering he wasn't bothering to keep his voice down, Sara came out of the guest room with Rory balanced on her hip.
"I am not that bad," she stressed as she placed Rory into the portable high chair that was clamped onto Laurel's table.
"The macaroni and cheese?" Len skeptically reminded Sara, turning around to raise an eyebrow at her.
"That was one time," she defended and so with a roll of her eyes Laurel went into the kitchen and snagged a piece of bacon off of one of the plates Len was scooping scrambled eggs onto.
"Whatever, just eat fast because you have to leave soon." She cut off the conversation, despite how much she wanted to know about this mac and cheese incident, and the four of them carried on with breakfast.
By the time breakfast was done, or nearly done anyway, Laurel was on her feet and clearing away the places before either Sara or Leonard had the chance to beat her to it.
"Where's the fire?" Sara joked when her sister took plate from her barely seconds after she had swallowed her last forkful of scrambled eggs.
"You need to get ready," Laurel replied, very matter-of-factly. "And you need to go to the Waverider and do the same, not to mention you and the boys seem so confident that you'll have enough time to set up first. So get going," she practically ordered Len, taking his plate from him probably before he was done.
Since the vacant lot is really the only place in the city for the Waverider to park, it was going to be in the back. Sara and Len didn't care of course, they did meet on that ship after all and so having it in the background of their wedding was just fine. So the plan was for the Len and anyone else who came with the Waverider to spend the morning setting up all of the chairs and everything for the wedding before getting ready, but obviously this left Sara, Laurel, Lisa, and pretty much everybody else nervous about time.
"Right, we've got a lot of work to do, I'll see you girls at the wedding." Leonard conceded, getting up from his chair and giving both Sara and Aurora each a kiss before he walked out of the apartment.
"Is it really just him and Rip's crew setting up down there?" Laurel asked skeptically once her future brother-in-law was gone.
"Felicity is sending Curtis down, I'm sending Sin, and with Thea coming early to help me with my makeup I asked Roy to go down too." The younger blonde replied and Laurel nodded, the idea of three extra sets of hands down there did make her feel a little better.
Less than a half hour after Leonard had left, Lisa showed up with Dinah, and later came Felicity and Donna. Now this threw Sara for a loop, because Donna was not supposed to come.
"I'm sorry, she insisted on being here." Felicity said in resignation as she and her mom entered the apartment, no doubt after a long car ride of incessant arguing. Donna's face, of course, showed no sign of any frustration and was already lighting up in a bright smile from her excitement.
"Hi Donna," Sara said, admittedly she did feel a little bad for not inviting her stepmother to help her get ready for her wedding, but then again Donna and her father hadn't even been married a year and she thought it would be understandable to not want her mother in such close quarters with Donna for the entire morning. Yes, the two of them do get along, but Sara hadn't wanted to push her luck on a day where tensions would already be running high.
"Sara, congratulations!" Donna squealed, hurrying over to hug her younger stepdaughter. "Oh you look so beautiful," she gushed once she had pulled away, resulting in a chuckle from Sara.
"I haven't done anything yet," she told Donna, "But thank you for coming," she continued gratefully, and in all honesty, as nervous as she was, she was grateful. She was going to need all the help she could get with this.
"Man your sister is crazy!" Jax exclaimed as he came marching back onto the ship, hanging up his phone, and locating Len in the cargo hold.
"She's calling you now?" The former Legend questioned his young friend, "How did she even get your number?" He wasn't even sure he wanted the answer to that question.
"Probably stole it out of Sara's phone, you stop answering her?" He asked as Snart handed him a few folding chairs before picking up his own and they headed out of the cargo hold.
"She's been going nuts with this whole planning thing, just like she did for Sara's baby shower. I never knew she could be such a control freak." Len answered as the two of them made their way out into the lot.
"It's kind of sweet," Jax mused once they came to a stop at an unfinished row of chairs and began setting up the ones they had brought. He looked like he was going to continue the thought, had he not been distracted by the sight of an approaching girl about his own age dressed in goth styled clothing.
"Any reason I'm out of bed at nine on a Saturday?" She directed her question at Len as she got closer to him and Jax, her hands stuffed into the pockets of her pants as she took her sweet time in approaching.
"Apparently Sara doesn't trust me when I tell her we have it covered, but since you're here, come on." He instructed, cocking his head towards the ship in an instruction for her to follow Jax and himself, the former still being oblivious to this girl's identity.
So it turned out to be a good thing that Donna showed up.
When Sara asked Thea if she would do her hair and makeup for the wedding it wasn't a surprise that the younger of the Queen siblings had agreed immediately. She and Roy don't live all that far from Star City, so their plan had been to leave their apartment at five in the morning so that Thea could be at Laurel's and Roy at the lot for ten. But that all went down the drain two hours into their drive when an accident up ahead stuck them in traffic and resulted in Thea calling Sara to inform her that at this rate she was never going to make it.
Obviously this could've easily sent the whole thing into disaster, but thankfully Donna has lived and worked the majority of her life in Las Vegas where she's done show makeup on and off for years. So Sara was willing to trust her with doing her hair and makeup, it's not like she was going to have much of a choice. But that being said she still made sure to pull her mother aside, while Donna rushed out to her car to get her makeup kit mind you.
"Are you alright with this?" She asked and much to her surprise, surprise was the exact expression on Dinah's face.
"What do you mean?" She asked,
"Donna doing my makeup," Sara deadpanned, beginning to regret it when her mother actually seemed more offended by the notion that she wouldn't be ok with it. "It's just that, you're my mom and I don't want Donna involving herself if you're uncomfortable with it." She explained and Dinah actually laughed at the notion, grabbing her younger daughter's hands and locking eyes with her.
"Honey, I'm not worried about how close you or Laurel become with Donna. In fact I'm glad you are, she and Felicity are both part of your family now and I think it's wonderful that she can help you get ready for your wedding." She said, which lifted a huge weight of guilt off of Sara's shoulders.
Fifteen minutes later found Sara sitting on the toilet lid in Laurel's bathroom as Donna crouched in front of her applying blush to her cheeks when Aurora ran in for the umpteenth time.
"Hi sweetie," Sara beamed, cracking her eyes open at the sudden sound of hurried little feet on the bathroom tile. Her daughter had already been given a bath and her hair had been dried for the day, they weren't going to put her dress on until the absolute last minute out of fear that she would stain it with something. So with her all taken care of for the time being, Lisa and Laurel were supposed to be keeping her entertained in the living room but they seem to keep losing her.
"I'm sorry," Laurel huffed as she walked briskly into the room, "Nothing's holding her interest." She continued, Lisa coming up right behind her.
"That's ok," Sara assured them, lifting Rory onto her lap when Donna turned away to swap out her brushes. "Do you want some makeup too?" She asked her daughter in a playful voice. The little girl responded with a vigorous shake of her head followed by reaching her hands out to touch her mother's face.
Sara gently pushed Rory's hands away with a laugh, giving them a little kiss as she did so, which only made Rory giggle.
"Ok well I'm sure Auntie Laurel and Auntie Lisa can find some for you," She said and so that turned the excited child's attention to her two aunts, who were both trying to figure out if Sara was serious or not.
Sara noticed this and so as Aurora slid off her lap she looked up at her sister and soon to be sister-in-law. "Just put a little bit of lip gloss on her, and if she'll hold still long enough you can paint her nails." She explained; that got a nod from both Laurel and Lisa and so without any hesitation the latter lifted the little girl up into her arms and carried her off.
"Come on Aurora, we'll go and make you look so pretty and you can show mommy when we're done." She promised as they left the bathroom with Laurel shutting the door behind them.
"Oh god," Leonard groaned, they had now finished setting just about everything up for the wedding and so he was with Mick in his room on the Waverider getting dressed when he happened to check his phone and see a text from his sister.
"What?" Mick questioned, fiddling with the tie that he may as well give up on. The man knows how to pilot a 22nd century time ship, but a simple tie from his own present is completely lost on him.
In response to the question, Len showed Mick his phone and the picture that Lisa had sent, and Mick howled with laughter.
There, on the screen, was little Aurora beaming like she was the happiest girl in the world, and proudly holding out her hands for Lisa to snap a picture of her bright pink fingernails.
"Just wait Lenny, soon she'll be painting your nails while you're asleep." He continued to mock as he took the phone from Len and looked at the picture, and probably sent it to himself.
Len rolled his eyes at his friend, and admittedly cringed at the warning of how his daughter would likely use him as a test subject for makeup throughout her preschool years. He turned away from Mick and back to his own tie, that is, until Mick spoke up again.
"Man, she's really getting big." He mused, Len turned to see that all hints of laughter were gone from the other man's voice, but his face was still beaming with a nearly proud smile. He peered over at the phone to get a good look at the picture of his daughter, as if he needed the reminder of how old she was.
Mick hadn't seen her since her first birthday, back when her walking was still questionable and she barely had enough hair for Sara to do one little, Cindy Lou-Who style, ponytail on top of her head. But now she was running all around the apartment, albeit clumsily, and her short blonde hair had grown out enough to fall just past her ears and frame her face. Len was also thrilled that her eyes never faded color, meaning she had kept the bright and piercing shade of blue that Sara has.
"Yeah, she really has." He mused with a proud smile of his own, before taking back the phone and shoving it away in his pocket. "Now come on, she'll be here in a few hours, when it's time for me to marry her mother." He continued and Mick smirked at the statement, it may not seem like much to some people, but he could tell that Leonard hadn't been this excited about anything since the day his daughter was born.
