-Waverider, Temporal zone-
Ava is walking inside the Waverider towards the bathroom. She looks pale, tired and very sad.
"Good morning, captain." Gideon greets her, in a not-so-confident tone.
Ava stops her tracks, closing her eyes for a second and taking a hand to her chest. She lost her breath for an instant when she heard the word 'captain'
"Good… morning, Gideon." She manages to say in a raspy voice, and keeps walking slowly, chin down.
"My data indicates that your lack of sleep is reaching worrying level, miss Sharpe, may I suggest-"
"Gideon, I don't need sleep, ok? I need to think and keep looking for Sara." Then she feels dizzy and faints.
Luckily Nate was around and saw her, catching her in his arms before she hit the floor.
"Ava! Ava are you ok?" He asks.
The rest of the crew come to his aid and they take Ava to the Med bay, where Gideon administers a sedative. They all stand there, with her, with concern written on their faces. They seem to be tired too, lack of sleep is affecting everyone on the ship. They understand, not even Gary dares to bother Ava with extra blankets or anything, she looks so fragile in that state.
"Gideon, how is she?" Nate asks, after the AI completed her scan.
"Captain Sharpe is sleeping now, she really needs to rest."
"She hasn't been sleeping at all?" Zari asks.
"I'm afraid whenever miss Sharpe would sleep, her dreams would be too much for her to stay asleep."
"Is she having nightmares? About… you know" Zari asks, making eye contact with some of her friends.
"Not exactly, miss Tarazi… her dreams are her memories with captain Lance."
The room went silent.
"Well we have to do something, we can't stay here just waiting for her to not be depressed." Astra breaks the silence.
"We need a brain storm, some ideas." Nate suggests.
"We've been doing that for days, we've thought of every possibility."
"No, not every possibility. We are the legends, we will find a way to get our captain back." Nate exclaims, looking around at the others. Then he looks at Ava and adds: "Or we will lose both of them." Before turning on his heels and walking out of the med bay.
Gary starts crying and runs away.
Mick, John and Astra follow Nate.
Zari's eyes look like she's about to cry too, so Behrad strokes her shoulder in comfort.
She smiles at him. "It's ok, go with them and find a solution. I'll stay with her."
Once her brother has left, Zari sits next to her friend and holds her hand.
A couple of lonely tears run down her cheeks while she remembers how that woman was there for her, and became her first and only friend on the ship. Ava had made space for her and helped her feel at home, even before knowing the ship was her home.
"Come on, girl! You're a badass." She tells Ava, and smiles. "A stubborn, perfectionist, kind and crazy in love badass…" She paused. Then squeezed Ava's hand softly. "We'll find her. I know wherever she is, she'll be trying to get back to you too. To us. You don't want her to find you like this when she comes back, right? Come on girl, you've got this."
In the galley, the rest of the team is drinking a much needed cup of coffee while discussing once again what are the possibilities. Gideon in projecting a big board in front of them.
"- she can't be there, John, we asked around, remember?" Astra says
"Then what about Charlie? She might know something." Behrad asks.
"We already asked her, remember?"
"Well maybe now she knows-"
"Don't you think Charlie would have called us the second she knew anything?" John replied.
"Alright so" Nate interrupted the discussion in a loud voice, looking at the board. "we have no signs of anachronisms, mythteries or anchors… we know she didn't make any noise when she vanished so we can assume nobody attacked her directly."
"We're in the same place we were yesterday…" Astra commented, earning fulminant stares from her friends.
Everybody startled when Mick spoke up:
"Well… when I steal, I don't attack directly either… most of the times."
"That's right!" Nate says, excited because this was new material. "So how do you do it, Mick?"
"I just do. Where they don't expect me to be." Mick replied, annoyed drinking another sip of his beer.
Everyone sighs in frustration.
"WWSHD?"
"What? Nate, speak English please" Zari says, walking in the galley to join the team.
"What Would Sherlock Holmes Do?" Nate elaborates. "We have a mystery here guys, he's a detective."
"A fictional one." Astra points out.
"Well yes, but his methods are not." He gets up and walks to the library. "Follow me!"
The rest of the Legends follow him into the library, where the screen is on, showing books, newspapers and movie clips.
Nate speaks to Gideon: "Tell them, Gideon."
"Sherlock Holmes, a famous fictional detective who was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, worked in London at the end of the 19th century, solved many mysteries using an unconventional method of deduction."
"AND there is this quote I could remember…"
"That's right, mr. Heywood. 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth' "
"There it is!" Nate says excitedly, turning to his friends.
A few minutes later, they were standing at the exact same spot where they had seen Sara for the last time.
"Sara didn't go back to the club…" Zari pointed out.
"Nobody could have attacked her from where we were standing…" Behrad says.
"She wasn't attacked from any side either, we would have heard the struggle." Astra says.
John chants a few words in latin with his palms open. "Nothing came out of the ground"
"Which means…" Nate says.
And they all look at the sky.