"So you're a superhero?" Jax looked up at the sudden, and somewhat bored, remark from the goth girl who had shown up roughly two and a half hours ago.
By now almost everything was set up and those who were here working had one by one started heading off to get ready for the day's event. He and Sin, which he had since learned her name was, were setting up some peach colored curtains at the start of the aisle when she finally decided to break the silence.
"Um, yeah." Jax answered, a little surprised that after working together in nearly fifteen minutes of silence she had spoken up. "But only when I combine with Gray," he explained and she arched an eyebrow at him.
"Come again?" She questioned skeptically and Jax chuckled, he'd gotten so used to living with what is essentially a time traveling circus that he had forgotten a statement like that would be very confusing to a normal person.
"Professor Stein," He began to explain,
"The old guy?" Sin questioned and Jax nodded.
"This is going to sound weird but we… share our powers." He tried saying but Sin didn't look like she understood any more than she did ten seconds ago.
"So what?" She asked, "You high five and then you can use your powers?" She asked and Jax actually laughed at that, noting that life would be a whole lot simpler if that were the case.
"Not exactly, though we do high five." He joked while steadying his curtain just as Sin did the same. "But when we do we sort of… become… one person." He explained further, wondering if his words were making any sort of sense or if they were completely lost on even the girl who had been able to get her head around her best friend coming back from the dead.
"Wait…" She trailed off, a grin lighting up her face in a way that let Jax know she did in fact understand. "So when you use your powers, you become a sixty-something year old man?" She teased, nearly doubling over laughing at the sight of Jax's flushed face.
He just stood there for a minute, watching her laugher harder and harder with each passing second of silence from him.
"Are you done?" He finally managed to ask, of course by this time Sin was practically on the ground she was laughing so hard.
She didn't respond at first, just continued laughing while Jax watched her with a stare that was torn between unamused and very amused.
"Ok, ok I'm done." She finally said between two bursts of laughter, rising back to her feet on slightly unstable legs. "I'm done," she confirmed again, this time in a stronger and more assuring voice.
"Good, because for the record it's my body when we become one person. Gray sort of goes inside my head." He explained but Sin only started laughing again, maybe he should've just let things be.
"Huh, they did alright," Laurel praised as she and the others arrived at the lot just in time for the wedding. The seats were set up along with the aisle and a little altar made of two ladders, a plank of wood between them, and some pink flowers set in vases on the ladder rungs. They had also set up some peach colored curtains at the beginning of the aisle on both sides for the girls to stand behind, not that the girls knew how annoying of a process that ended up being for Jax.
As far as Laurel could see everyone was here, which was good. The only person she couldn't see was Leonard, but that was part of the plan. They had agreed that he would wait on the Waverider until Mick went and got him so that they wouldn't risk him being able to see Sara as she got out of the car. Speaking of Mick, he was up at the alter with Ray and spotted the car before Laurel even had the chance to text him.
"Ok, everybody ready?" Ollie asked, it had surprised just about everyone when Leonard asked him to be one of the groomsmen, but he later explained that Mick, his sister, and his daughter are really the only people he cares about having in the wedding. So when he realized that they would need to find two people to walk Laurel and Felicity down the aisle, and that Sara tasked him with it, he asked Jax and Oliver.
"I think so," Sara replied nervously as Donna finished making some last minute adjustments to her hair.
"All set, I'm going to go get your father." The older woman all but squealed before giving her stepdaughter one last hug and hurrying out to her seat.
It was only a few seconds later that Quentin showed up behind the curtains with Jax by his side, both of them looking awestruck the moment they laid eyes on Sara.
"Wow," Jax gasped, that was all he was able to get out and it made Sara beam with a giddiness that she so rarely feels.
"You look beautiful baby," Quentin said and just as he did little Aurora peeked out from behind her mother's legs and, upon recognizing her grandfather, toddled her way over to him and stretched up her arms to be lifted.
"Hey sweet pea," Quentin said with a smile as he hoisted his granddaughter up. "You look as pretty as your mother," he said to her, Jax giving the little girl a wave from behind him, which prompted her to turn her head away.
"She's just a little shy," Sara assured her former teammate before taking her daughter from her father. "Everyone's all set?" She asked and her father nodded.
"All set," he confirmed, "Are you nervous?" He asked and she nodded,
"A little," she admitted, and she was. Her heart was practically beating out of her chest and she felt like her entire body was shaking with adrenalin. But it was the good kind of nervous, the kind where she just wanted to be up at that alter already and saying her vows to Leonard.
Meanwhile Len was still in Mick's room on the Waverider, pacing anxiously and trying to memorize his own vows. He'd already accomplished this task ten times over of course, and since he and Sara had written their own it wouldn't matter if he forgot something so long as he recovered it in time. But he was still unspeakably nervous about all this. He had never in his life, not even for a moment, believed with all his heart that he would one day get married. So the idea of getting married to a woman as incredible and loving as Sara Lance just left him to wonder where he went right in life.
He had probably only ever made a handful of right turns throughout his life, and the one he really can't believe that it ended up being the one that he took for the wrong reasons that turned out to be the most important.
"Ready boss?" Mick's voice cut through his musings, the man was standing in the doorway with a giddy smile spread across his face and for once Leonard didn't feel the urge to smack it off, well not entirely anyway.
"Yeah, let's go." He agreed, following Mick out of the room and off of the ship.
They made their way out to the ceremony and once Len found his place by the alter and Mick was a little more than halfway to the back, Sin flipped on Rip's high-tech music speaker and signaled the ceremony to start. Dinah came first down the aisle, followed by Felicity and Jax, then Laurel and Oliver. Aurora was due to walk next, and honestly Len was a little curious as to how she was going to do. Sure she's been super excited for this for weeks now, and she did great during the rehearsal, but he wasn't so sure how she would do with so many people.
To her credit, she didn't start crying immediately upon setting foot on the peach colored carpet. Leonard personally thought that she looked adorable, dressed in a white dress with a poofy skirt and a pink sash around her waist. Not to mention the pink flower that was clipped into her hair or the fact that she was actually remembering to toss a few flower petals out of her little basket. However he could also see her little face growing redder and redder by the minute, along with her steps growing slower and slower. He tried giving her a reassuring smile, and secretly he felt that it worked. She locked eyes with him and seemed to grow a little more confident, but that only got her halfway down the aisle before she broke down completely. Fortunately, Dinah had also been watching and so once Aurora broke she was on her feet and hurrying back down the aisle to scoop her granddaughter into her arms. Once she had her she hurried back up to her seat and sat down with Rory on her lap, and the ceremony continued.
Sara came out next with her father, and Len swore he felt himself stop breathing for a moment.
She was wearing a mermaid style dress, one that had the typical, poofy, material for the skirt but slowly faded into lace as it went up. Two thick straps of lace found their way over her shoulders and only when she turned slightly to face her father did Len notice that the lace simply wound back down her hips and that the dress was backless.
"Good afternoon, everyone." Ray started with his part as soon as Sara's father was seated and Sin cut the music. "We've all gathered here today, in this empty shipping yard, to celebrate the marriage of Sara Lance and Leonard Snart. Now I'm going to be short and sweet, partially because for me short and sweet is still long, and partially because the last time I was in town Sara warned me that if I rambled too long today she would turn my A.T.O.M. suit into scrap metal." He joked and that got a little bit of a laugh from everyone, even Dinah who had just discovered the truth about her daughter's adventures through time very recently. "So anyway, I just want to say that when I first met Sara and Leonard I was afraid of them both, and that hasn't changed." Apparently Ray is that one minister who likes to crack jokes, "But over the months that they served as legends, they taught me a very valuable lesson. That lesson is, that people aren't always who they appear to be. I met Sara and Len, and all I saw was an assassin and a crook. But they tore through my world of black and white, and showed me that sometimes things aren't straightforward, sometimes they're bent. And those bent things, they are the most beautiful." He concluded, it was at this point that Len spared a glance past Sara when the sight of his sister wiping away tears caught his eye. "Now, I understand that you've written your own vows?" Ray asked more than said; that was Leonard's cue to speak.
"Sara," he began, nervously taking her hand as he did. "When I got on that ship I was only intending to make a profit by stealing priceless artifacts as we traveled, but then I met you and I knew I was in for more than I bargained for. I watched you take down men twice your size, and when we were facing death locked in a freezing room, I realized that I never want to meet my end without you by my side. You've given me a life I never could've dreamed I'd have, and I hope that somehow I can make you as happy as you've made me." He concluded, he tried not to smile at the tears he saw welling up in Sara's eyes as a watery smile spread across her own face, but he just couldn't help himself. It was impossible not to smile, she looked like an angel standing in front of him and if it weren't for their joined hands he may actually have believed that this was all a dream.
Sara took a breath to compose herself; trying to will some strength into her voice before she began her turn.
"Leonard," she finally started, "All my life, I thought I knew where I was going. But then I got on a boat and everything changed. I became a person who I didn't recognize, and it was only after meeting you that I realized I had been staring into a fun house mirror, because the reflection I saw was warped. When I came back to life, I thought the answer to my problems was to return to being who I was before Lian Yu, but you showed me that I would much rather be the person who came off that island. My sister brought me back to life, but it was you who showed me how to live again. I promise that I will always cherish you and the second chance that you've given me, for the rest of my life. I love you Leonard." She just barely managed to finish without crying, but she did manage it.
With the vows said they each slid their wedding bands onto each other's ring fingers and when Ray finally pronounced them husband and wife Len pulled Sara to him for the kiss practically the second Ray finished talking.
Author's Note: Hey guys, sorry for the slight delay on both this and the previous chapter. Real life has been getting in the way a bit, which is part of the reason why chapter 27 was originally the end. But things are now pretty much back in their usual schedule for me, so the next chapter shouldn't have such a delay. You guys are the best for sticking with me! I hope this was worth the wait!
