Chapter 3-Night Terrors

A/N: Sara and Ray both have cases of night terrors, that is until they find a way to stop them. (P.S. A sahlab is some kind of Egyptian hot vanilla drink).

Disclaimer: Don't own Arrowverse or Joss Wheadon's Firefly.

Sara couldn't sleep.

That was nothing new to her. After all that had happened to her: the Queen's Gambit, Anthony Ivo, Lian Yu, the League of Assassins, Slade Wilson, dying and being resurrected, she had more than enough nightmares to keep her up at night.

Only this night was different. This time her nightmare wasn't about her - it was about Ray. She dreamt of him being kidnapped and tortured by Damien Darhk. Then Darhk became Ra's al Ghul, who then became Vandal Savage, who then became her. She saw herself plunge a sword into the chest of the man she was falling in love with.

Sara shook her head to clear her of those thoughts as she walked down the hallways of the Waverider, clad in a robe over a top and shorts. Her first thought was to go and get a sedative from the med bay, but that would just lead to her arguing with Gideon who would no doubt wake the Captain. So instead she went to the kitchen and got a tub of cookie dough ice cream from the freezer and headed for the screening room.

Little did she realise the room wasn't empty before she walked in.

-Songbirds & Scientists-

Ray thought he was past having nightmares, after two years the death of Anna was no longer weighing on him, it was just a memory. A devastating memory that made itself known whenever he tried to sleep, until he learnt to let go of her and move on.

So when he woke up earlier that night, dripping with sweat, he was shocked to say the least. His nightmare started like so many before it: Ray watching helplessly on the ground as two of Slade Wilson's Mirakuru soldiers killed his fiancé. Only this time he wasn't watching injured on the ground, he was standing there facing the soldiers in his Atom exo-suit.

As he fought the soldiers, more and more came, until Ray was crawling towards Anna, as Oliver, Barry and everyone he knew watched and laughed at him, before Anna was killed again and Ray finally reached her body. Only when Ray turned her over it was not Anna staring back at him, it was Sara.

This led to where Ray was now: in the screening room eating a bag of chips and watching the T.V. show Firefly, when Sara walked in, a tub of ice cream in hand and the same restless expression on her face that he had.

-Songbirds & Scientists-

"Hey. Can't sleep either?" Ray asked her, as Sara joined him on the sofa, snuggling into his blanket, shaking her head into his chest. "Want to talk about it?"

"Not really, you?"

"Not particularly."

"Then can we just lay here?"

"Definitely." Ray wrapped his arms around Sara, and placed a kiss to her hair before pressing play on the remote, and the two began to watch the show.

"So let me get this straight," Sara said (the two were now four episodes in), close to laying fully on Ray now. "The Captain and the Companion are in love with each other, but they just don't realise it?"

"Yeah that and they're both too stubborn to actually admit how they feel." Ray answered as he went to eat a spoonful of ice cream, only for Sara to get their before him. "Hey!"

Sara laughed and kissed Ray, only for her mind to wonder back to her dream, causing her to lose her smile.

"Hey, look at me." Ray turned off the T.V. Before he sat up and pulled Sara into his lap. He then held her face in one hand and one of her hands in his other. "Tell me about it."

Sara hesitated for a moment. "I dreamt that you were, um. That you were being, uh being..." Sara stopped and looked at Ray's face for reassurance, seeing warmth and care in his eyes. "Tortured by Darhk and Ra's and Savage, and then you were killed by, by..." Sara stopped as tears began to put down her face, and Ray pulled her into a hug, repeatedly kissing her hair.

"It's okay, you don't have to say anything more." Ray whispered to her as Sara began to quieten down.

"No, I uh, I need to finish this. In my dream I killed you. I, I plunged a sword into your chest and watched as you died."

Sara's head fell against Ray's chest, only for Ray to make her look at him again. "Hey, don't think about it. You're a good person, one of the best I know."

"But-"

"No buts. Okay?"

"Okay." Sara nodded and ran her fingers against Ray's slight stubble. "So how about you, why are you up in the middle of the night watching sci-fi reruns."

"Um, I had a dream, about Anna."

"Your dead fiancé?"

"Yeah. I dreamt about the night she died, when Slade Wilson and his men attacked Starling." Ray started to explain, Sara remembering the battle. "Only I was in my Atom suit, and I was fighting off the soldiers trying to get to Anna. Only I couldn't and then the soldiers turned into Oliver and Barry and everybody else, all of them laughing at how bad a hero I am." Ray started to get lost in the memory, except Sara brought him back out by planting a kiss on his unshaven cheek.

"Then what happened?" Sara asked, knowing how the dream ended for Ray to be so distraught.

"I made it to Anna, although when I turned her over it was you who had been killed. I failed to save you."

"Hey, look at me." Sara ordered and grabbed his face in both hands. "You are a hero. You're more honest and warm-heartened than just about anyone I've ever met."

"Weird thing is I thought I had moved on from Anna and everything that had happened. I was sure of it by the time I actually met you."

"So we both have baggage." Sara laughed, wiped the remaining tears off her face and grabbed the tub of ice cream off the table, as Ray pulled the blanket back over them.

"Well it only makes sense, after all we both died and came back."

"Um, excuse me. You didn't die."

"What? Of course I did!"

"Nope." Sara shook her head and smiled at Ray's expression. "You just got miniaturised, went missing and then kidnapped, or atom-napped, by HIVE. You never died."

"Then how come I got a funeral, my will was given out, and the city was renamed in my honour."

"Okay, okay. Though really you were only as dead as Oliver when he went missing for five years. It doesn't count."

Ray wiped a bit of cookie dough off of Sara's cheek with his thumb, and sucked it off. "So only half-dead?"

"I'm never going to fully win am I?"

"Well I managed to charm a board of directors into giving me Oliver's company so I very much doubt it." Ray then yawned and, after moving the ice cream back to the table, moved back into a laying position on the sofa. "How about we actually just sleep for once?"

"Sounds like a good-" Sara interrupted herself with a yawn. "Plan. Oh, and just for the record I am much more charming than you."

"Yeah, yeah. Keep dreaming."

"I plan to."

-Songbirds & Scientists-

The next morning, as they had come to expect, Kendra and Jax walked into the screening room, to find Ray and Sara, both them still sleeping from the night (or rather morning) before.

"Do either of them two actually have beds in their rooms or what?" Jax asked Kendra, who was equally confused.

"Well on the bright side, at least we don't have to burn the couch. Or at least I hope we don't, I actually really like that couch." Kendra began to ramble.

"So should we wake them up or-"

"I wouldn't recommend that." The two turned around to find Len leaning against the doorway. "From the looks of things I'd say they both had a bad night, watched some T.V., ate some chips, devoured a tub of cookie dough and fell asleep."

"That seems very accurate. Almost too accurate." Kendra said, her voice taking a somewhat accusing tone.

"Okay. So I may have woken up in the middle of the night and while getting a drink I may have seen the lovebirds talking about their nightmares. Now then let's leave them to sleep."

"You know, despite your cold exterior you have a very warm heart man." Jax commented as he patted the crook's shoulder on his way out.

Jax was followed by Kendra and Len, the latter slowly closing the door. "Sweet dreams Raymond, Sara. Sweet dreams."

-Songbirds & Scientists-

Later on, after Ray and Sara had woken up and cleaned the room, they sat down at the island in the kitchen (the Team had made a new rule saying that the two weren't allowed at the new table without supervision).

"So I slept surprisingly well this night. Or rather this morning." Ray said taking Sara's hand in his.

"Me too. No nightmares at all." Sara confirmed, smiling like a giddy schoolgirl.

"And I was thinking instead of us sneaking into each other's quarters in the middle of the night or both ending up in the screening room, why don't we-"

"Move in together? I'm game if you are."

"Okay, great." Ray said, before coming around the island and pulling Sara into a kiss. "Your quarters or mine?"

"Mine. I mean we spend most nights in mine anyway, plus I really don't want to pack and unpack all of my stuff." Sara said before kissing Ray back, who proceeded to move her onto the island counter top.

"Oh hell no!" The two broke apart to see the rest of the Team (except for Rip), with Mick in particular glaring at the two of them. "Are you guys trying to make me burn this entire room down, because I will. Just watch me!"

"Easy partner." Len said, putting a hand on Mick's shoulder.

"So what's going on?" Kendra asked, apparently being the only one to notice the two's happy faces.

"Oh, I'm moving into Sara's quarters." Ray said excitedly, making Kendra run up and hug Sara, congratulating her friend.

"Is that even allowed." Jax asked everyone and no one.

"Well Rip doesn't seem to have a problem with me and Kendra sharing quarters." Carter mentioned nonchalantly as he began making four coffees, two teas (for Martin and Len), a latte (for Kendra) and a sahlab for himself.

"Well that's not exactly the same thing, but thanks for the support, I guess." Ray said to Carter, who nodded in reply.

"So, since all of you are going to help us with the moving, I suggest we get started." Sara said in a sweet but threatening tone, before she practically skipped out of the kitchen area.

"How much stuff do you have Raymond that you need eight people to move it?" Len asked as the two started to follow.

"Well I figure that neither Sara, Kendra or Professor Stein will actually help with the moving so with five of us it should only take a few hours."

"A few hours?" Jax asked, catching the end of the conversation. "Just to be clear I will not carry any weird science gizmos that could blast me and give me some weird side effects."

"Yeah, 'cause you it's not like that hasn't already happened." Mick muttered, making Len laugh.

"Well, I think this'll be fun." Ray said, not yet realising what kind of horror a few boxes can cause...