"I don't like this," Sara deadpanned early the next morning as Len got out his goggles and his gun.
"Then tell me I can't go," He replied, Sara scoffed from her position in the doorway.
"You have to go, they need you." She said and he sighed, because she was right. This threat was very serious and if he didn't go, well, he would be resigning to do nothing as the threat of global annihilation hung over their heads. "What about Kendra and Carter?" Sara had to ask, she knew the idea might be a little selfish but she truly did not want Leonard going on this mission if someone else could take his place.
"Hunter tried, but unlike me those two apparently know how to say no." Leonard sighed, "I guess they're afraid that with Savage dead the whole reincarnation thing is over and if one of them dies they might actually stay that way." He finished as he did he could practically feel Sara rolling her eyes behind him.
Sure enough, when he turn around she was standing there looking annoyed with her arms crossed over her chest, an action that was becoming increasingly difficult for her. He walked over and stood in front of her, placing his hands on her waist before leaning over to kiss her. She reciprocated the kiss but only with minimal interest, he knew that he couldn't kiss away her worries this time but he figured that he might as well try.
"Just be careful," she instructed once he pulled away.
"Don't worry," he said but she didn't look like she felt any better. So it was with a gentle grip that he took hold of her chin and tilted her head up to look him in the eyes. "I'll be home by tonight," he promised her and she nodded.
"Watch out for my sister," she requested,
"Of course," he agreed before pulling her in for one last kiss and then pulling away. "I love you."
"I love you too," Sara murmured back and with that Len headed out, leaving Sara to hope that he would come back.
Snart left early in the morning, and once he was gone Sara couldn't go back to sleep despite how tired she was. So she got dressed and took to cleaning up around the apartment. Both she and Len are fairly neat people, although Len much more than her, and neither of them is one for knick-knacks of any kind. So once the dishes from their quick breakfast this morning were done, and there weren't very many of those considering the only dishes they used were two cups for coffee, she found herself in the doorway to the apartment's second bedroom; the baby's bedroom.
She looked down at her stomach and smoothed her wrinkly t-shirt over it, thinking about how they were going to need to get started on this room soon. But she didn't have much time to think on it because it was at that moment she heard the front door open. Stupidly, for a moment, she let herself believe that it was Len already back.
"Hello?" The voiced called out, breaking through Sara's fantasies because it so clearly wasn't Len's. "Sara?" It called,
"Right here," Sara called back before peeling herself off the doorway and making her way into the living room where she found Lisa closing the front door.
"You didn't break my lock this time did you?" The blonde teased her boyfriend's sister; they really need to get her a key. She usually picked the lock to get into the apartment but last time her bobby pin snapped and so she tried to get the half that was stuck in the lock out but just ended up getting the entire thing stuck and Len had to call the landlord to disassemble and reset the lock. He would've done it himself but all of his tools were inside the apartment and in the end Lisa was lucky the landlord didn't call the police on her for attempted breaking and entering.
"No," Lisa said in obvious annoyance, causing Sara to smirk. "Come one, you're not going to sit around here moping all day." She commanded and the seriousness only made Sara laugh harder.
"Who said I was moping?" She mocked but Lisa just leveled a deadpan and knowing glare at her.
"Come on," she said again.
"Where are we going?" Sara asked and Lisa shrugged.
"I don't know; we'll go to the movies or something." She suggested but her blonde friend didn't look convinced. "Come on, neither of us can sit at home all day worrying about Lenny so let's go get our minds off it." She said, she knew all about Len's mission with Hunter today and how he should be back by tonight, and she knew how she felt about it. He had called her last night to tell her, and to ask her for a favor. He made her promise that if anything were to happen to him today, she would take care of Sara and the baby. She would help Sara as much as she could, and when Sara inevitably decided to start dating again she would make sure that whomever she was with was good for her. Naturally Lisa had told her brother none of this would ever happen and he admitted that he was sure she was right, but just in case he needed the peace of mind. She had promised him readily; in fact she was honored that her brother would trust her so much. Of course she was sure that he had asked a similar promise of Sara, that if anything were to happen to him the blonde would look after his little sister.
"Ok," Sara agreed, interrupting Lisa's thoughts on last nights phone conversation with her brother.
After the movies the two girls decided that since it was such a hot day they would go out for ice cream. They ended up at this little shack on the very edge of Central City, far out of the actual city and even out of the more suburban areas where it's still a lot of farmland.
"Never been out here," Sara remarked after she and Lisa had ordered their frozen treats.
"It's a little out of the way, but worth it in my opinion." The brunette replied and less than two minutes later the worker returned with the girls' cones.
"Thanks," Sara said to the kid as she and Lisa took their ice cream and walked away. She had gotten a Cookies and Cream flavor while Lisa had opted for plain chocolate with rainbow sprinkles.
"So," Sara began as they found a picnic table and sat down, "What are the odds Len's already tried to kill Barry?" She asked and Lisa smirked,
"They've been gone for six hours, pretty good." The younger Snart answered and Sara laughed. "Probably tried to freeze Cisco too," Lisa continued to muse, and that gain Sara's attention.
"Cisco went too?" She asked and Lisa scoffed,
"Based on what you and Len have told me, do you really trust Rip on the monitors alone?" She asked and of course Sara had to agree with that.
"Ok, new topic." Lisa decided, still not wanting to spend the rest of her afternoon worrying about her brother and crush.
"Ok, what?" Sara challenged and Lisa thought for a moment before an excited smile that Sara did not like lit up her face.
"Your baby shower!" She decided excitedly, Sara briefly choked on her ice cream before quickly getting her bearings.
"My what?" She demanded and Lisa fixed her with a disapproving look.
"Come on Sara," she started to nag.
"Lisa," Sara whined,
"You need to have a baby shower," the other woman deadpanned.
"Why?" Sara demanded, "So we can force my mom and my sister into playing some of the worlds dumbest party games, or so you can barge into my apartment with a bunch of balloons?" She asked and, much Lisa's annoyance, she wasn't even mocking.
"First of all I'm sure you know more people other than your mom and your sister who could come," She said after chewing on the inside of her cheek for a minute or two. "Second, although I would be happy to help decorate, that's not the reason." She said,
"Then what is?" Sara demanded,
"I've seen that spare bedroom Sara, you guys have absolutely nothing in there." She reminded her friend, who did look guilty at the fact that she's halfway through her pregnancy and still hasn't bought a single item for the baby.
"That's not true," she said, quickly remembering that the room did in fact have one content.
"The broom in corner doesn't count as anything," Lisa deadpanned, resulting in Sara's face falling once again. "Sara come on, we don't have to play any stupid party games or anything like that. We'll just call up your mom and your sister, your will be stepmom and stepsister, and anyone else you want to invite. We'll just do pizza and cake or something like that, whatever you want, but you're having a baby shower." Lisa pitched her idea, although Sara stopped listening around the beginning when she mentioned Donna and Felicity.
In all this chaos and madness of the engagement and the baby and even just settling in Central City she hadn't even realized that with Donna marrying her father Felicity would become her sister. She smiled wickedly at the thought, suddenly realizing that because Felicity is two years younger than her she technically is no longer the youngest of the Lance sisters.
"So what do you think?" Lisa asked, interrupting her friend's thoughts.
"Hmm," Sara hummed in thought as she took another lick of her ice cream cone. "Alright," she finally agreed, resulting in Lisa squealing with happiness and clapping her hands together excitedly. "But no party games," She quickly reminded.
"Done," Lisa agreed, still as excited as ever.
With that more or less decided the two girls finished their ice creams before climbing back into the car. Sara was driving and they had gotten about halfway back to the city, Lisa talking about something Cisco had said nearly the entire way, when she stopped paying attention to the story. Something felt off suddenly; she felt this strange and nearly undetectable pulse like sensation in her stomach. At first she thought it might be nothing, but five minutes later it came back and didn't go away. She then assumed it simply was her pulse, since one of the human body's pulse points is located near the abdomen and she had been able to feel that very point throbbing in the past. But typically she had only ever done so during meditation, and she hadn't felt it at all since she got pregnant. Not to mention that this feeling didn't seem to be following any sort of pattern the way a pulse would. She tried to tell herself that the reason for that was that she probably wasn't picking up half the beats and so it only seemed random but that lie wasn't very convincing.
"Ok this is going to be a really weird question but do you ever feel like you're having, I don't know, a mini muscle spasm in your stomach?" She finally asked Lisa; interrupting whatever story she was telling but not particularly caring.
"No," Lisa replied, suddenly more than a little worried. "Are you ok?" She asked,
"I don't know," Sara answered honestly, "I think so but it feels like I can feel my pulse in my stomach, only it doesn't feel steady like a pulse. I don't know I'm sure I'm fine," She replied and she hoped she was fine because she did not want to go to the doctor's.
"Do you think it's the baby?" Lisa asked after a long and somewhat heavy silence.
"No, you can't feel a baby's heartbeat." Sara replied,
"Not that, do you think it's kicking?" Lisa clarified and at first Sara didn't respond.
She thought about the notion, she had never felt her baby kick before but according to the doctor it was due to start any day now. She had been told that the feeling of a baby kicking could be compared to having butterflies in your stomach. This, to Sara, didn't exactly feel like butterflies but then again she could understand why some people would make that comparison. She focused all the attention on it that she could while driving; it felt random and not at all painful like she thought it might, but it was definitely there.
"I think so," she finally answered Lisa, wide and excited smiles breaking out across both their faces.
She dropped Lisa off at home and then preceded to go back to her own apartment, her spirits considerably lifted since this morning. She began thinking about the baby shower Lisa had decided they were having at some point. There was a chance having her mother and stepmother in the same apartment for an entire afternoon could end badly but she chose to believe that it wouldn't be so awful. Her mother is typically a very understanding person and Donna doesn't seem like the type to start drama for no reason, so hopefully things would be fine. She decided that in order to keep her mind off of Leonard and the mission he was currently on she would spend the night sitting in bed and looking online for things that they were going to need for the baby. She wasn't going to pick anything out without Len's approval, though she suspected he probably wouldn't care if she decided on a few things singlehandedly, but it couldn't hurt to make a short list of some ideas.
A part of her wondered if maybe she didn't want to make any definite decisions tonight, no matter how small, because telling herself that she would wait for Leonard meant that he would come home. As she looked online through the different cribs and changing tables she realized that while most options for those could work for either a boy or a girl, there were other nursery items such as bedding and mobile's that were typically geared towards either one gender or the other. Of course there were still some that could work neutrally, but all the same it made Sara realize that she and Len need to decide whether or not they're going to learn the gender before Lisa starts writing up baby shower invitations.
In that moment Sara was pulled from her thoughts by the same sensation she had felt in her stomach earlier, the one she and Lisa had determined was the baby kicking. With an amused and admittedly happy smile Sara ran a hand over her enlarged belly, smiling even brighter when one of the kicks landed below the area of her hand. She couldn't really feel it against her hand, not firmly anyway, but she could feel the sensation that really felt like a twitching muscle right below the surface as if the baby had been aiming for her hand. She stayed like that for a little while, her previous task of scanning through the Internet all but forgotten as she sat up in bed just caressing a gentle hand over her stomach in wonder until the kicking inside died down and eventually stopped.
"At least one of us can manage to fall asleep," Sara remarked after it had been quite a few minutes since her baby last kicked her. "I'm going to stay up and wait for daddy," she said, not entirely sure if she believed that her baby could actually hear her. Nevertheless she picked her iPad back up and began scrolling again, occasionally bookmarking a few things down to show to Len later.
She thought it wouldn't be until he very early hours of the morning that Len returned, but it was only a few minutes after midnight. She didn't even hear the front door of the apartment opening and closing, but she did notice when her boyfriend came to stand in the doorway of their bedroom. She'd seen him after tough missions plenty of times, but right now the only time he had looked worse was after he had supposedly killed Mick. He was still wearing his parka, his goggles strung loosely around his neck and his cold gun even looser as it dangled by his side curiosity of his index finger and thumb hooked through the loop of the trigger. He looked like he'd been crying, and the sight of this immediately snapped Sara to attention.
"What happened?" She demanded seriously, her words broke him.
He dropped his gun and all but ran to the bed, crawling into his place beside her and wrapping her in his arm as she did the same to him. He laid his head on her chest and began to let the tears fall free, leaving Sara utterly scared and confused. She had the common sense not to press him for any information; instead she took to rubbing his back with one hand while pressing a kiss to the top of his head. She used her other hand to rub small and comforting circles on his temple with her thumb. They stayed like this for a solid ten minutes or so before Leonard's breath finally evened out and he was as close to calm as he was going to get for the night. He could feel the tenseness in Sara's body as she comforted him, she still wanted to know what had done this to him and he knew that she had the right. So he took a few deep breaths before sitting up and giving her a kiss on the cheek as he did so, and then he began his tale.