"Whoa this is so weird," Cisco exclaimed when he entered Nyssa's memories from earlier today, the assassin in question had to be put to sleep in order to get Cisco into the hidden part of her mind but so far it was working.
"Focus Cisco, what do you see?" Caitlin prompted him from the outside world.
"Right sorry, um… I don't see Nyssa." He said,
"That's because you're in Nyssa's memory, so you're seeing everything through her eyes." Caitlin's voice came explaining,
"Ok, that's trippy." Cisco determined, causing Sara to chuckle.
"Focus Ramon," Snart's much more demanding voice rang in his ear.
"Ok um… I'm in a gym and I'm heading towards a boxing ring, there's a woman there. Maybe thirty or something?" The engineer guessed,
"Nyssa?" The woman asked, suddenly looking Cisco's ways.
"Talia?" Nyssa's voice came, surprising Cisco.
"Whoa, I can still hear when Nyssa said." He stated more than asked the question.
The two girls then proceeded to begin their spar, although this was after Nyssa had gone to the locker room to change and so Cisco literally threw off his Vibe glasses. By the time the others coaxed him into putting them back on the spar was in full swing, and Cisco noticed that even for an assassin Talia was both very fast and very strong.
"So I heard you disbanded the league?" Talia questioned as she landed a kick to her sister's stomach.
"I did," Nyssa gasped out as she went reeling back in pain that made Cisco clutch his stomach.
"Is he ok?" He heard Barry ask,
"Not really," he gasped,
"He's feeling whatever Nyssa remembers feeling," Caitlin explained,
"I wish Nyssa didn't have such a detailed memory," he groaned before regaining his focus on where it needed to be. When he finally accomplished the task of refocusing Talia was standing over her sister with an outstretched hand to help her up, and a smirk on her face.
"How did you hear?" Nyssa asked while allowing her half sister to pull her to her feet.
"Ran into someone, of all things." She mused in response; "He said he was so happy that you freed him from that life." She continued and at that Nyssa couldn't help but beam with just a little hint of pride.
"I'm glad, because there are some others who were not happy with my decision." She informed Talia, who smiled sympathetically.
"There will always be people who stand in your way Nyssa," She advised just before tightening the grip she had on her sister harshly and pulling her arm up, biting her viciously before Nyssa could've done anything to fight back. "You just happen to be standing in mine," she said and just as she did Cisco's entire world turned black.
Cisco had hardly realized he was shouting out in pain whilst grabbing his arm, but one he had his glasses off the feeling slowly started to fade away.
"Ok it was definitely Talia, I think it's safe to say that Nyssa's right and she's trying to reform the league, and dear god this woman has an incredibly high pain tolerance!" He exclaimed, having noticed that Nyssa hadn't reacted at all to the pain when Talia bit her, or she doesn't remember reacting at least.
"She's former leader of the League of Assassins, what did you expect?" Sara mocked as Cisco continued to grip his forearm while the pain slowly faded away from it.
"Her sister tried taking a chuck of flesh out of her arm, maybe a flinch!" The longhaired scientist exclaimed,
"Ok so we know Talia met Nyssa in a gym with a boxing ring-"
"And there's only one boxing gym in town," Barry cut Caitlin off,
"Convenient," Leonard put in, earning little more than a variety of glares from the others.
"I'll talk to Joe in the morning, maybe he can go down there and ask if anybody's seen Talia." Barry continued, this prompted all the others to glance at either the wall clock or a phone and realize that it was already past midnight.
"She won't wake up for another few hours," Caitlin said in reference to Nyssa.
"I'll stay," Cisco volunteered with a sigh.
"Are you sure?" Sara asked but her friend nodded,
"Yeah, I got some things to do that I was putting off until tomorrow but considering it technically is tomorrow I might as well get started." He excused but the others still looked skeptical at the idea of leaving Cisco alone and in charge of an unconscious Nyssa. "Guys, come on. Do you have any idea how many solo nightshifts I covered while Barry was in a coma?" He asked and at that Caitlin appeared to surrender her apprehension, and Sara took the cue from her that it was safe to do the same.
"Ok," the blonde agreed as she reached for her boyfriend's hand, "Call if you need us." She instructed and Cisco nodded.
"Are we sure it was a good idea to leave Ramon with your ex?" Len asked as he and Sara drove home.
"He'll be fine," Sara chuckled with a sleepy smile on her face.
Leonard smirked as he spared a glance over at her, noticing how her head was propped against the cool glass of the window and her eyes were closed. "I didn't realize you were this tired," he remarked and a small smile spread across his girlfriend's lips.
"Me either," she replied before stifling a yawn, "It just hit me around the time Cisco finished screaming, I think everything from today just sort of caught up with me." She explained and Len chuckled,
"Then go to sleep, I'll wake you up when we get home." He promised,
"Ok," Sara murmured as she settled a little more comfortably into her seat. "Oh by the way, you make a much better pillow than the window."
Hours later and all was quiet in S.T.A.R. Labs. Cisco had fallen asleep in his chair over at the computers not long after the others all left and Nyssa was still yet to wake. Actually the assassin was just staring to stir out of her slumber when suddenly she snapped awake, the sensation of a tight hand covering her mouth informing her that she was not alone. She opened her eyes to see the face framed by brown hair that she had recently learned to associate with Talia, a name that had been faceless throughout most of her life.
"Shush little sister, don't make a sound and no one has to know I was ever here." Talia whispered, leaning into Nyssa's face and staying there until she was sure that the younger assassin was going to heed her warning and keep her voice down. It was then that she climbed off of Nyssa's bed and removed her hand from over her mouth, leaving Nyssa to gasp for the oxygen she had been deprived of.
"How did you find me?" She finally asked and Talia just looked at her with a bored expression.
"Oh please Nyssa, I hid from Ra's al Ghul for most of my life; I could track you even if you were invisible." She taunted, "Although running to a bunch of meta-humans was a bit of a surprise, power doesn't really seem like it's your style." She mocked, pacing around the small room as if she were thinking, but in reality she was slowly moving closer and closer to Nyssa.
Nyssa of course saw this and made a break for it through an opening that her sister had yet to close, but it didn't matter. Talia was too fast and caught up with her sister almost immediately and tackled her to the ground, holding her there with strength that was far too intense to be natural.
Luckily, all this noise woke Cisco and Talia's preoccupation with Nyssa allowed him the time that he needed to send a text to Barry. Once that was done he grabbed ahold of the nearest weapon, which happened to be a monkey wrench, and hurried over to the commotion.
"Let her go Talia," he ordered and seeing him (or more specifically his weapon) the woman in question let out a laugh.
"This is your protection?" She demanded just before a flash of red came out of nowhere and tackled her off of Nyssa.
"Nope, this is." It responded to her.
"Why didn't you call us?" Sara demanded the next morning when the events that had taken place around four a.m. were being recapped for her and Lisa.
"Why didn't you call me?" The other woman demanded, although she was asking Sara and not Barry, as she hadn't even been called the first time.
"We had it under control," Barry excused but Sara simply rolled her eyes, as well as avoided Lisa's question.
Talia had been locked up in the pipeline before she even realized what happened, and Caitlin had confirmed that she is in fact a meta-human with powers that resemble a vampire. Despite the fact that it's nine in the morning and she's currently awake Cisco is still joking that she might be nocturnal.
"So why did she make you kill that guy anyway?" Lisa asked Nyssa once it became obvious that no one was going to apologize to her for leaving her out of the fun.
"The league may be disbanded, but I still hold the title of Ra's. If she wants it then she needs to prove herself superior to me." She explained,
"Which taking control of her definitely counts as," Sara added and Nyssa nodded just as Barry came over.
"Well Joe's coming to bring Talia to Iron Heights, with the proof that the drugs were in Nyssa's system and that Talia can emit them from her teeth it's more than enough proof to arrest her so Nyssa, you're free." He congratulated and the former assassin smiled brightly at the news.
"Thank you, for everything." She said to the speedster who smiled in response before leaving the three girls alone.
"So where are you going to go?" Sara asked and Nyssa thought on it.
"I don't know," she admitted, "I was traveling before all this and I'd like to get back to it, and who knows? Maybe I'll find someone out there for me." She said and Sara smiled, and Lisa sensed that now was probably a good time for her to go over to Cisco's desk and get in his way.
Once Lisa was gone both Sara and Nyssa laughed, both being very well aware that she was trying to allow them a proper goodbye.
"I really am happy for you Sara," Nyssa said, "I was in shock yesterday, but I truly am happy that you've found Leonard, I can tell that he loves you." She continued and Sara smiled as she rubbed a hand over her belly, trying to get some of the constant movement she could feel inside of her to settle down.
"Thank you," she said, sort of regretting what she had been doing when she felt the baby finally settle, during all this chaos Nyssa hadn't gotten the chance to feel it kick. "And you will find someone out there for you, just try not to kick her ass too hard." She warned playfully, which resulted in Nyssa laughing before enveloping the blonde in a hug. They held each other for a long but much needed minute before finally pulling apart, although when they did Nyssa kept her hands firmly on Sara's stomach.
"And as for you little one, be good for your parents, and try to only cause a little mischief." She directed and Sara laughed at the advice.
"Gee thanks," she remarked sarcastically, "You know when my kid is chasing after vampires, I'm blaming you." She warned as Nyssa took her hands back.
"My sister is not a vampire," she defended but Sara rolled her eyes, despite knowing that Nyssa's statement is true.
"Stay out of trouble," she advised,
"No promises," Nyssa declared and Sara smirked, because that in itself was a promise. So with that Nyssa said one last goodbye before leaving S.T.A.R. Labs, and leaving Sara to smile to herself.
In the weeks following the little fiasco with Nyssa and Talia team Flash had their usual meta-humans to deal with, plus making sure Talia stayed in prison. But the real concern for Sara was planning her baby shower.
When she and Lisa were finishing up the invitations they had realized that Sara and Leonard's apartment was a bit too small to have a lot of people over at once. Lisa had suggested renting a party room at some kind of restaurant, but Sara wasn't too thrilled with the idea. Fortunately for her, well depending on how you look at it, her mother had been coming over for dinner that night and just so happened to show up while the girls were arguing. You see Dinah's apartment is bigger than Sara's and so she was quick to offer her daughter the option of having the shower at her place.
"Mom are you sure?" Sara had asked when her mom suggested the idea,
"Of course, I'm your mother Sara, I would love to have the baby shower at my apartment." She insisted and so with that decided Lisa was finally able to put an address on the invitations and send them out, and that is what led Sara to this conversation.
"Hello?" She answered her phone about two weeks after the invitations went out.
"Hi, Sara?" The voice on the other end asked, "It's Thea."
Sara's eyes briefly went wide upon hearing who she was speaking to, and while she was relieved to hear that she had gotten the right mailing address from Oliver for his sister she was also well aware of what this call was about.
"Hi, how are you?" She asked, trying to sound casual.
"I'm good, I uh… I just have a question for you." She began,
"What is it?" Sara asked,
"So I just got my mail and I was wondering if maybe you could explain to me why I'm holding an invitation to your baby shower?" She asked and Sara cracked a grin as she imagined Thea's stunned face on the other end of the call.
"Because I'm six months pregnant?" Despite the fact that it was an answer, Sara phrased it like a question. "Thea?" This time she really was asking, as her friend had gone silent. "Thea are you there?" She asked again,
"Yeah, I'm here." Her friend replied in a suddenly weak voice, "You're six months pregnant?" She demanded and at the sound of the shock in her voice Sara could barely suppress a giggle.
"Yep," she confirmed,
"So let me get this straight," Thea said, "You took off on some mission through time, and came back pregnant?" She demanded and Sara mulled over the accusation for a minute.
"That's a very stripped down rendition of it, but essentially yes." She confirmed, Thea was quiet again for another few seconds as she processed that the invitation wasn't a mistake or some kind of joke; this was actually happening.
"Ok well congratulations and I'll be at the shower," She finally said, her voice just barely growing stronger as the news wrapped around her head.
"Thanks Thea, I'll see you then." Sara said happily before she and her friend hung up, and when they did she let out all of the laughter that she had been suppressing during that entire conversation.
Author's note: Hey guys! Sorry for the little delay on this chapter, much like Lisa and Sara are busy planning a baby shower I've been involved in planning a party for one of my relatives, so that plus work has been taking up a lot of my time! Also just a little disclaimer, i based Talia's powers off of Nocturna, who i know is a Batman villain and i'm pretty sure she really is a vampire (don't know an extensive amount about her) but she seemed like a good model for Talia in this mini plot! Thanks again for the reviews! (and also please vote on the poll if you haven't yet!)