While back in 2017

After the most recent jump into the future to chase down anything causing harm to the time line we all decided we could go for a weekend with the family, so that's just what we did, while back in 2017 I spent the better part of my weekend with my dad, but with him helping Oliver out he was quite busy, I wasn't in the mood to fight bad guys on my weekend off, and spending time with Felicity underground wasn't all that entertaining so I asked her about getting ahold of Cisco to fix my suit since Ray has awful aim when getting chased by medieval knights armed with grenade launchers, his suits lasers apparently destroy kevlar, I learned that the hard way after getting tagged in the shoulder with one.


On that Sunday morning, before meeting back up with everyone I made a trip to star labs to let Cisco repair my suit, while he worked we made small talk about my travels, he enjoyed the stories almost as much as Felicity and Curtis did, I was just leaning against the doorway fidgeting with Snart's ring like I did most of the time, I was very thankful that Mick gave it to me awhile after I helped him break the bad news to Lisa, Leonard's sister.


I was in mid thought when Cisco spoke more to himself than to me "Perfection!" "Does that mean it's finished?" I made my way across to the table he was working at, "Oh yeah and look at this baby." He held it up for me to see, I grabbed for it and forgot I had Snart's ring still in the palm of my hand, Cisco let go of the suit and reached down to pick up the ring for me as I admired my suit.


He paused for a minute after he grabbed the ring from the floor, he shook his head, "Cisco are you okay, you look like you seen a ghost." He looked into my eyes, "Why do you have Captain Cold's ring?" I was a bit confused for a moment until I finally spoke "Oh, uhm, Mick gave it to me after Leonard's death." "Well I'd hate to break it to you Sister but he's still alive." The words shook me to the core, "What do you mean?" He handed me the ring and said "I seen him Sara, he's alive." "But how is he still alive?" He shook his head and started to walk toward the door, "I don't know but you should look for him somehow, he was calling your name in my vision." I hugged Cisco, so happy to know Leonard was all right.


I told everyone my goodbyes as I ran out the doors and toward the meeting point and the Waverider.


I got there just as everyone else was and we headed on board, I took my place at the captains seat and asked Gideon to take us to the next known place where the timeline was being challenged as soon as she found a point in time where it was.


I gave everyone the okay to go do their own thing until we found out where we were heading next, and with that I headed off to my sleeping quarters where I sat on my bed after instructing Gideon to close my door I asked her to search for anything concerning Leonard in the timeline, "No such luck finding anything Captain." I sighed at her words.


The next morning around three AM I woke up from a dream about Leonard, "Gideon?" She hummed to life, "Yes Captain Lance?" I sat up in my bed, "Can you search for Snart?" a moment later she replied, "No new results concerning Leonard Snart, Captain." About a week went by of the same thing, waking up at three AM from a dream about Leonard every single night, the same dream, I'd ask Gideon every night to check for something new on him, every night it would be the same thing, nothing new, no sign of Leonard.


Gideon couldn't find anything for us to fix at the moment so we just went about doing stuff aboard the ship for the day, Stein and Nate headed toward the library, Mick headed to the kitchen and everyone else headed to their quarters, I walked to the sickbay and sat in the chair as I asked Gideon to check my brain to to make sure I was okay, "Everything's fine Captain Lance, but your reoccurring dreams of Mr. Snart have been having a bit of a toll on your sleep schedule, you have been waking up at the same time every night from those dreams which is quite uncommon, if you would like tonight I can give you an all night sedative to keep you from doing so." I stepped away from the chair "No thank you Gideon." I walked to my quarters and laid on my bed just thinking about how to find Leonard if a twenty second century AI couldn't even find him.


A few more weeks passed of the same thing, fixing the past, present and future during the day, waking up from the same dream nightly at three AM, asking Gideon to check for any sign of Leonard, no luck at figuring out where he was at all.


After a long day of being shot at by crazy civil war soldiers we all boarded the Waverider and retired to our quarters for the night, the dream came just like every other night, I was sitting on my bed and he snuck up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist, kissing down my neck between words as he said "Sara I love you." We were about to kiss as I heard Gideon speaking to me, "Ms. Lance, I have found something, I know you usually don't wake up for another two and a half minutes but I started the search before you woke up so I could start my new update sooner." I sat straight up, "What? Tell me what you found!" I was so excited. "It's a distress call originating from Mr. Snart's comm unit with scrambled coordinates, Captain." I couldn't contain my excitement as she said that.


I was on the bridge trying to help Gideon figure out the scrambled coordinates when Stein, Jax and Nate woke up and greeted me with a good morning each, Nate was laughing subtlety as he looked at my face, stuck looking at the screen "What's that thing on your face?" He joked as Jax joined in, "If I didn't know better I'd say it's a smile." Stein even noticed as he asked "Whats got you in such high spirits Ms. Lance?" I told them once everyone woke up and was there I'd let them all know at one time instead of telling them separately.


I told Gideon to tell everyone to meet on the bridge as soon as possible, shortly after that everyone met me there, "Everyone, Gideon found something that I think you'll all be very happy about," smile still on my face, I told Gideon to tell them what she found at three AM, her voice came on as she explained to them about how I kept asking every night to search for Leonard and how she found coordinates sent from his comm, after she said all of that I told them about Cisco vibing him when he touched Leonard's ring.


Nate quickly shared his confusion afterward "I thought you guys said he gave his life to destroy the Oculus?" Stein cut in before I could reply "He did, but its not uncommon for someone," he pointed in my direction, "To appear dead and really not be." Jax then replied to that "Stein we seen the place blow up though?" I got their attention before anyone else could start talking, "Guys we have to unscramble the coordinates but Gideon can't figure them out, we all need to try and figure them out and see if he is alive or not.


A few hours later of us all working, in groups and alone in our own quarters, it still turned up no luck in unscrambling the coordinates, Mick came from the eating area, sandwich in hand, mouth full of food, I looked up as he walked over to the table where we were all sitting in the library, "Mick, why are you not helping us?" I practically screamed at him, "Stein told me I was stupid and didn't know what I was talking about when I told him what the coordinates were, so I got lost and made a few sandwiches." I shot Stein a glare as he looked up at Mick like he was offended that he said anything.


I looked up at Mick hopefully, "You mean you know how to unscramble this?" I held up the notepad I was writing on with the numbers, "Its not scrambled, its backwards." he spoke through another bite of food, I quickly grabbed my pen again and started to write it backwards, "Gideon, we got it!" I jumped up from the seat and ran over to Mick wrapping my arms around him as he took another bite, "You're a genius Mick!" he patted me on the back with his free hand before I let go and headed to the captains chair.


After inputting the coordinates I asked Gideon if she could take us there, she told me she could, I made sure everyone was strapped in, activated the lever and asked one simple question, "Who's ready to rescue our crook?" shortly afterward we arrived at a dark point in time, all of us except Amaya stepped out of the ship, I noticed the ground was charred and you couldn't see a single star in the sky.


Really you couldn't see much of anything without the light from Ray's A.T.O.M suit, "Guy's, do you hear anything?" I asked already knowing the answers, "No, why?" came from Nate who was now standing beside me, "Because that's not good, quiet is okay but not this quiet." I felt fear, fear I hadn't felt since being shot by Thea.


A painful scream filled the silent air, the scream seemed to come from all directions, Mick Started to run toward where he thought it was coming from "That's Leonard!" he yelled to us before we could register what just happened we all started to run behind Mick, we came to what looked like was once a town or city, burnt and disfigured buildings stood among piles of charcoal beams and soot, only small candle like things were producing light but we all knew to stop and survey before walking any farther into the mess of dirt, dust and soot.


I was close to Ray's side and I glanced down to see the grass and cement was all covered in the black mess, Amaya's voice came over our comm units "Gideon says that this is a planet that was torched when the Oculus exploded and to watch out because some of the time masters may have been on board their time ships and came here to avoid dying in the explosion." I called back to her "Amaya you be careful too, they might be a bit angry we caused them to be stranded and they might want a ride out of here from how this planet looks." she assured me she would alert us if anything went wrong and with that we slowly snuck about the wasted buildings and soot piles.


We had been looking for what seemed like hours with no luck until yet another scream coursed through the air, we all glanced at each other and ran toward where the scream seemed to come from, a once tall building, now with broken windows and many holes where bricks used to be, we stopped outside the once glass door and looked inside through complete darkness, Mick screamed from beside me, "Leonard, are you in there?" no reply, so we did what we do best, we continued on.


The only way up was an elevator, no electricity so we were screwed there, we knew Leonard was close, I was with Mick digging around the rubble trying to look for a stairway with no such luck, another scream came, this one you could tell originated from the elevator, "Leonard's in there!" Mick screamed it at the same time I did, Ray started mumbling something which I knew in short meant he could hook his suits power source up to the elevator so it could come up and open, so he pulled a few wires from the wall beside the elevator doors and connected them to a panel on the arm of his suit.


Electricity whirled as a few lights and wires flickered from above us where the ceiling and second floor once was, the elevator started to hiss and screech as the doors started to come apart, when the opening was far enough open for me to fit in I jumped in and seen that Leonard was covered in dirt and scars, his clothes were ripped and dirty but as he said my name I had to hug him to make sure it wasn't just a dream.


He looked up at me as I asked if he could stand up, he shook his head no as Mick walked into the elevator with us, "Mick he can't stand up, you need to carry him back to the ship." he nodded as Leonard spoke up, "Timemasters knew you'd come for me." his head fell as he gasped for air, I told Mick to be careful with him as he hoisted Leonard up over his shoulder, "Don't worry Blondie I wont hurt your crush." Mick laughed a bit at my concern.


We were walking back out of the building when Ray said something I really didn't like hearing, "Uh oh." I seen them as he said that, a group of people I knew must've been Timemasters heading right toward us, we started to run back toward the ship, Mick was running directly beside me "Sara, grab my gun out of my pocket." I reached into Mick's pocket and retrieved the gun, we were still running as the Timemasters opened fire on us.


We weren't far from the Waverider, Ray was using what little juice he had left in his suit to shoot the enemies as I was getting up the nerve to pull the trigger of Mick's gun, but when I did I charred at least three men with one shot as I let out an excited giggle and Mick congratulated me with an atta girl.


We were only a few yards away from the Waverider "Amaya open the door!" I was still shooting at the remaining pursuers while the rest of the crew got onboard, as soon as I got on board and closed the doors I commanded Gideon to get off the ground, before doing anything else I ran straight for the sickbay where Mick was just putting Leonard down in one of the examination seats.


As soon as Mick sat him down I asked Gideon to check him out before Mick could open his mouth, she started examining him as Mick stepped over to stand beside me, "Kinda hard to believe he's not in my head or evil this time." I laughed a bit at his humor, "I'm just happy he's really alive." Mick looked down at me and nodded "Me too Blondie." I sat down on one side of Leonard and Mick sat on the other.

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