The next several weeks passed without issue. Len took his medication diligently and didn't have a single instance of high blood pressure since the first. The Time Drive still hadn't been fixed so the Waverider was sitting in limbo. Tensions were beginning to run high as the team had been stuck on the ship together for about four months now. Not to mention Len's hormones running amok.
"What do you mean my cookies are gone?!" Len roared. He had been in the kitchen looking for the cookies he'd picked up in the fifties when Gideon informed him that someone on the team had betrayed him. "Who ate them?" he demanded. It took a moment before the AI spoke back up.
"Ms. Lance." Len growled, turning on heel and heading for the team's quarters. Once at Sara's door, he banged until it opened.
"Leonard, what's up?" she asked, slightly startled. Len glared.
"Don't you 'what's up' me! You know what you did." he hissed. Sara, legitimately clueless, just stood there, staring. "You ate my cookies!" That shocked Sara. Here was Len, tough, bad guy of the Waverider, fussing over missing cookies. Unable to hold it in, Sara began snickering before laughing outright. Len's scowl deepened. Sara's laughing slowed and she sighed.
"Oh, come on. I didn't know they were yours." Sara watched in wonder as Len's expression crumbled and tears filled his eyes.
"Why do you hate me?" he asked miserably. Sara just looked at him for a moment, confused, before trying to reassure the upset man.
"I don't hate you. I didn't know the cookies were yours. I wouldn't have eaten them if I knew." Not a moment later, a growl came from beside Len.
"What'd you do to him?" asked Mick, suddenly in the doorway. Sara's eyes widened slightly before she began speaking louder.
"Me?! What makes you think I did something?!" Mick's eyes narrowed.
"Because he's in your doorway crying." Before Sara could answer, Len cut in.
"He's still here!" Mick looked at him, eyes softening slightly. Sara huffed out a loud sigh and threw her hands in the air.
"Look, all I did was eat some damn cookies! I didn't know that they belonged to someone!" At that, Mick looked back at Len.
"Cookies, really?" he deadpanned. Len's eyes welled up again and he sniffled.
"I was saving them!" he wailed before storming off. Sara and Mick looked at each other.
"I'll go after him." the man said.
~x~x~x~
When Mick found Len, he was curled up under the covers of their, now shared, room. Mick sat on the bed and attempted to remove the covers from over Len's head. He was unable to do so and sighed, patting where he thought Len's head would be.
"What's wrong? This has got to be more than cookies." When Len didn't move, Mick tried once more to remove the covers, only to elicit a growl from the mass. The larger man decided to back off and sat back. He didn't say anything, but was determined to wait Len out and stay there until the man talked to him. Finally, a voice came from below the covers.
"I don't know what we're going to do." Len sounded small and so, so young.
"What do you mean?" Mick asked, curiously. Len sighed and pulled the covers from his head.
"The baby. Neither of us have had the best father figures in our lives. What if we suck as parents?" It was Mick's turn to sigh. Obviously this had been on the other man's mind for a while.
"Len-" he started only to be cut off.
"Also, our lives... Not very conducive to raising a child."
"Len." Mick said again. Len turned blue eyes, swimming with tears, toward him. "Everything's gonna be fine."
"How?"
"We'll figure it out, Lenny. We've got Savage. It won't be long before we can go back home. We'll clean up our lives. For the kid." Len sniffed and sat up. He curled into Mick's side and sighed.
~x~x~x~
A few weeks later, it was time to learn the gender of the baby. Len and Mick were in the med bay, everyone else just outside the closed door. The people on this ship were beginning to seem more and more like family, Len mused. His attention was drawn away when Mick lifted Len's shirt and attached a funny looking sensor to his stomach.
"It's kind of like a high-tech ultrasound." The man supplied. Sometimes it was easy to forget just how much Mick had learned during his time as Kronos. Len and Mick both looked up as a hologram began to form. It took the form of a baby. Len's eyes began to water as he looked at the image. Mick put his hand on Len's shoulder. Gideon's voice startled them from their intense stares.
"Congratulations gentlemen. It's a girl."
When the door slid open all eyes were on the couple. Sara was the first one to step forward and speak.
"So?" she asked excitedly. Len looked at Mick before a grin spread across his face.
"It's a girl." he said proudly. Sara smiled and let out a 'whoop'. She turned to Jax.
"Looks like you owe me a hundred bucks!" Some of the group laughed. Len and Mick looked shocked and a scandalized look crossed Rip's face.
"You bet on the gender of Mr. Snart and Mr. Rory's child?!" Jax had the decency to look guilty and Sara just looked smug.
"C'mon. It's not like there's anything better to do." she said.
"That is true." Kendra chimed in. Rip turned his glare to her.
"Shouldn't you be checking on Carter?" he asked. Kendra rolled her eyes, but left to go do just that, Ray right behind her as always. "And you..." he looked at Jax. "Should be working on the Time Drive." Jax left, looking like a kicked puppy. Len let out a huff of a laugh, something that was rare these days. Stein stepped up to the three and looked at Len with fascination.
"This entire situation is quite extraordinary." he said. Rip rolled his eyes at the old man.
"Hardly. This kind of thing happens all the time where I'm from." Stein looked slightly offended.
"Well, I'm not from where you are, am I, Mr. Hunter?" was the response he got. Mick grinned at that as Rip walked away.