"Hey," Cisco greeted when Lisa came into work the Monday after the baby shower, which was the last time he had seen her.
"Hey," She echoed with her usual smile, not seeming to notice how nervous he was.
Caitlin had already gotten here earlier but she had just gone to a room down the hall.
"Um, here." He stuttered before pulling a few crumpled up dollar bills from his pocket. "It's gas money, for Saturday." He explained when Lisa looked as if she were very confused.
"Gas money? What are we sixteen?" She mocked and so with an embarrassed frown Cisco put his money back into his pocket.
"Well um, maybe I could buy you coffee sometime or something?" He suggested and at this point Lisa realized what was going on.
"Um…" She trailed off, her heart suddenly stopping in her chest and her breath hitching in her throat. "As friends? Or like as a date?" She asked skeptically, although knew exactly how he meant it.
"Doesn't matter," he said with a shrug,
"Uh…" Lisa began to stutter when Caitlin came back.
"Hey Lisa," she said as she entered,
"Hey Caitlin," Lisa replied as if she hadn't just been, sort of, talking to Cisco and she never returned to the conversation. Instead she just got started on her work for the day.
"Ok, run that by me again?" Sara asked of Cisco, she had been at the lab for all of two minutes before the resident engineer pulled her aside and started babbling about Lisa.
"I asked Lisa out-"
"You asked Lisa out?" The blonde gasped in surprise that Cisco had finally stopped dragging his feet.
"Yes! Were you listening at all just now?" He demanded,
"Not really," Sara admitted, "Sorry but it is nine in the morning and I'm still half asleep," She excused, to be honest she hadn't been listening to Cisco because she was thinking about the fact that she needs to call her doctor and confirm her next appointment, what was that thing about pregnancy brain she saw somewhere?
"Yes I asked Lisa out," Cisco repeated, drawing her back to reality once again. "I just asked about going and getting coffee sometime and she jut froze up. Like I thought if either of us was going to freeze up like that it would be me, but she just looked like she was trying to find the nicest way to say no." He vented and that confused Sara as much as Cisco, because Lisa's giant crush on him is no secret.
"Alright, I'll talk to her." Sara said, moving to head into the main room of the labs but Cisco stepped in front of her and refused to let her pass just yet.
"Wait," he ordered,
"What?" She asked and he sighed nervously.
"What are you going to say?" He questioned,
"Lisa's my best friend, relax." She instructed him and so with a sigh he let Sara go in and made his own way down the hall to his workshop.
Sara spotted Lisa over at one of the computers, scanning through some mug shots and security footage, trying to match the face of Central City's latest meta-human attacker.
"Why are most meta-human's criminals?" She asked just as her blonde friend claimed the seat next to her. "I mean seriously, whatever happened to all the kids who wanted to grow up and be superheroes?" She asked and Sara chuckled.
"You know sometimes I wonder if any kids were affected by the particle accelerator. If there's some little kid flying around his bedroom or turning invisible." She mused and that made Lisa laugh too.
"Let's just hope the powers aren't hereditary, because Barry will probably have kids one day and if they inherit his speed." She mused and Sara smirked before moving onto why she was here.
"So I heard Cisco asked you out," she began and Lisa sighed. "I also heard you said no?" She asked,
"I did not say no," Lisa quickly defended, "I just didn't yes either." She admitted with a sad and regretful face.
"Why not?" Sara pressed and Lisa sighed.
"I know he's a good guy, and I like him a lot." She admitted, "But people like me, good things don't happen to us." She said with a shake of her head. "I've been with enough guys to know that most will leave in the middle of the night, and the good ones... well the good one deserve better than me, and sooner or later they figure that out." She explained and Sara could do nothing but look at her in sympathy at first.
"Lisa," She finally said in a stern voice, prompting the other woman to look her in the eyes. "Do you hear yourself?" She asked and with a small and sad laugh Lisa nodded. "Then you know you sound crazy," Sara continued and Lisa laughed again.
"I don't want to lose him," she confessed but Sara just cracked a grin.
"You won't, not over coffee anyway." She said and her friend smiled, "Go, before you talk yourself out of it." She instructed and so with a smile and a nod Lisa stood up and headed for Cisco's lab.
"So let me get this straight," Len began after Sara told him about what happened at work this morning while the two of them flipped mindlessly through the channels that night. "Cisco finally asked Lisa out, and she said no?" He questioned in shock.
"At first," Sara reminded him, "She changed her mind later and they're out right now." She continued and Len rolled his eyes, causing Sara to smirk.
"You knew it was going to happen," She taunted but her boyfriend only groaned,
"I know," He huffed, "But that doesn't mean I'm not going to kill him if he does something stupid." He warned and Sara just fixed him with a glare.
"He's Cisco," She reminded him,
"I mean exceptionally stupid," Len clarified, Cisco may be a mathematical genius but when it comes to dating he doubted the man was very tactful.
Sara rolled her eyes but chose to let the matter go, they had something a little more concerning than Lisa's love life that they had been discussing before deciding that they were utterly stumped and needed to talk about something else for a minute or two.
"Whatever," she muttered with a small hint of amusement in her voice. "What were we on?"
"Um…" Leonard hummed thoughtfully, "Boy." He finally settled on, fairly certain that was where they had left off their previous conversation.
"Hm… Well even though Mick didn't stay dead, should we still go with that for the middle name?" She asked, after she had called and confirmed her next doctor's appointment the two of them had realized that she was already into her third and last trimester and they were still yet to decide on what to actually call the baby once it got here. So for the past twenty minutes they had been sitting on the couch and tossing some names back and forth while looking for something to watch and distract themselves; but of course nothing was on tonight.
"Do you want to?" Len asked after thinking about the notion and Sara shrugged,
"I mean, he is your partner and I don't think it's any secret that he's one of my best friends too. Besides, you already said he wouldn't want the baby to share his first name." She said and Len nodded.
"Right, and what about that little girl's father?" He asked, "He named his daughter after you," He suggested but Sara scrunched up her nose at the suggestion, not because it was a bad one, the opposite actually.
"I know but John is too common of a name," She groaned and Len nodded in agreement, he kind of liked the name but at the same time he couldn't argue with Sara's logic.
"Alright, how about we stop thinking of people we should name it after and just think of some names that we like?" He suggested and Sara nodded at the idea.
"Still thinking for a boy?" She asked and Leonard shrugged.
"Either or," He decided and Sara nodded.
"Ok um… Isabelle for a girl?" She suggested and Len turned the idea around once or twice in his head.
"That's a good one, what about Carmen?" He suggested and Sara nodded,
"I like that one," she agreed, "Jamie? Boy or girl?" She suggested and Len nodded,
"What about Austin for a boy?" He suggested but Sara shook her head,
"Sorry but I've never like that name," she told him, "Ok, I know we're not supposed to be thinking of people we could name it after, but my friend Tommy died while I was in the league." She continued and Len thought on it for a minute.
"Tommy's not bad for a boy," he admitted before he sighed. "But there is one name we need to pick regardless of whether it's a boy or a girl." He said and now it was Sara's turn to sigh, they both knew this conversation was inevitable.
"Lance or Snart," she stated and Len nodded,
"Which do you think?" He asked and this is what Sara had been dreading, because she knew Leonard was going to be against her answer.
"I would rather it have your last name," she confessed and he raised an eyebrow at her. "I know, I know, you don't want our kid carrying on a name associated with your father-"
"You're right," he interrupted her.
"But that name also belongs to you and Lisa, and you two are heroes." She said,
"You know I hate that word," Len whined and his girlfriend smirked in amusement at his denial of what he is.
"Besides, it also belonged to your grandfather, and I know you loved him." She reminded him and he couldn't deny that one. "Your father was a bad person Leonard, but that name isn't just his. There is a lot more good behind that name then there is bad." She told him and he took a minute to mull over what she had suggested before he eyed her skeptically.
"You don't even want to hyphenate our last names'?" He asked and Sara shook her head.
"I hate hyphenated names," she confessed and so Len smiled acceptingly.
"Baby Snart it is, at least until I figure out a way to change your mind." He warned but she only laughed.
"Not a chance crook," she teased before pulling him in for a kiss.
Meanwhile, halfway across town, Lisa and Cisco were seated in a booth down at Saints and Sinners because both of them had agreed that they didn't want to go for coffee at eight o'clock at night. They were having a fairly good time, and Lisa couldn't stop laughing at how adorable Cisco looked with a mustache made of mustard painting his upper lip despite the fact that it was long gone by now. They had mostly skipped the usual small talk of a first date; the standard asking about your date's day was out considering they work together and therefor had had the same type of day. Lisa had asked Cisco about his family and he told her that he has a rough relationship with just about everyone he's related to, although he is trying to work on things with his brother. He had the common sense not to ask about her family, which she was beyond thankful for.
"Ok, I've got to ask," He finally said after the two of them had been laughing at his mustard issue for long enough. "What happened to your motorcycle?" He questioned and Lisa chuckled out of what was obviously embarrassment.
"I traded it in," She admitted, "That plus some cash was enough for a down-payment on that crappy excuse for a car I have now." She explained,
"I know but why?" He asked and again Lisa looked away in embarrassment.
"When Lenny and Sara told me she was pregnant, Lenny said he'd be calling me to babysit a lot. He was joking but at the same time he was serious, and I figure I probably can't strap a baby to the back of my bike." She said and now most of the teasing was gone from Cisco's face.
"Wait, so you getting an apartment around the time those two came back from their mission really wasn't a coincidence? You settled down so you would be able to be around to help your brother?" He asked and upon hearing it put so bluntly Lisa blushed.
"Kind of sounds pathetic when you put it that way," she said but Cisco shook his head.
"I actually thought it sounded like you really love your brother," he defended and Lisa smiled.
"Well he did raise me, at the very least I own him." She excused but Cisco frowned,
"You don't owe your brother anything, and I know that's not why you're helping him." He said but Lisa just looked away as he thought on the situation for a minute, and then arrived at a realization. "Lisa, it's not weakness to love people." He told her bluntly, "It's not a bad thing to love your niece or nephew and it's not a bad thing to do things out of the goodness of your heart." He explained and for a minute Lisa seemed shocked that he figured her out.
"I know," she finally admitted, stirring her drink as a way to distract herself. "It's just a little strange, I grew up spending every day wondering how much longer I could get away with the excuses I had for why I was always hurt, or late, or sick, or whatever. And now, all of a sudden, I live in my own apartment and I have a job, my brother is happy and they have a baby on the way; I have the normal life I always dreamed about." She admitted and Cisco cracked an amused grin.
"You mean aside from the fact that the job you mention involves catching meta-humans?" He asked and they both laughed.
"Ok, relatively normal." She amended as they laughed,
"So what's better?" Cisco asked seriously after the laughter slowed, "Being a criminal or being one of the good guys?" He asked and his date smirked,
"The good guys," she answered confidently.
In truth, this is the life she had always dreamed of. She had always wanted to be part of a close family, and Sara has made it very clear by now that she is. It's no secret that she's had a huge crush on Cisco ever since they met, and now she's actually on a date with him. It had taken the better part of thirty-five years, but now, finally, life was looking up for Lisa Snart.
After they finally found Jumanji airing on one of the movie networks Sara and Leonard's conversation about a name for their baby slowly came to an end as they started watching the movie and Sara eventually fell asleep. Len smirked down at the sight, knowing full well that it was the baby making her this exhausted because a pre-pregnancy Sara Lance never would've allowed herself to fall asleep with something as loud as the TV blaring in the background. Not that the TV was very loud, heck Leonard could barely hear it. But he knew that there had been a time when, thanks to her assassin training, any noise had been enough to keep Sara awake. They weren't together when they had been on the Waverider, but he could still remember a few mornings in which she would drag herself into the kitchen looking like she hadn't slept at all, only to reveal that she hadn't because of some small noise like the humming of the ship's systems or something like that.
Now though, now she could probably fall asleep anywhere so long as she was tired enough. With a smirk Len pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead and did a mental recap of the names they had narrowed their choices down to.
For a boy they had come up with Tommy, Jamie, Alexander, Nicholas, Hunter, or John. Although Leonard was pretty sure that last one was going to end up vetoed and Sara had only agreed to consider it because her friend had given his daughter her name. Len wasn't a huge fan of Hunter, but Sara had argued that without Rip they would've never even met so apparently their former leader is in fact good for something.
For a girl they had narrowed it down it Carmen, Jamie, Mikayla, Aurora, Lauren, Abigail, or Lilly. It was much easier to come up with girl names, but probably because there just seems to be a lot more of those.
They had a few other options, but those were being strictly reserved for the slot of middle name. The only thing they had actually decided on was that the baby's last name would be Snart, and secretly, Leonard was glad.
At first he hadn't wanted it, but then he realized that Sara was right. His dad was just one person, and he is not going to let his deceased father be the reason that his child didn't share his last name. In fact he was hoping that the baby might not be the only one to take his last time in the foreseeable future. They were yet to discuss the idea, the last conversation that was even remotely close having taken place way back on the Waverider when Sara was only about two months along, but maybe if he was lucky and played his cards right Sara too would want to take his name someday.
