Afraid to lose you- Rip Hunter Appreciation Week, Day 4.
“Hello everyone! So this day of Rip Hunter Appreciation Week it´s about “Rip ship”, basically a day to write about romance and our fav ship with Rip, in my case my fav ship it´s Timecanary and I´m still so bitter by the fact that the writers ruined it but fanfic writers are here to save it all:) So this fanfic will be about Rip and Sara being afraid of losing each other, they lost so many people before so that´s their fear and that brings some problems when they have to plan an attack or something like that. I hope you guys like it!
Rip´s P.O.V
Since the time pirates took over, the Legends had more job to do, more danger and more time and people to protect. Sara and I as captains had to work harder, sometimes we didn´t even sleep because we kept spending our time planning and trying to figure out where the time pirates are going to attack next.
I don´t know why, I don´t know if it is because I haven´t slept and I´m not thinking straight, but I just found myself watching how beautiful Sara was, with her blonde hair and deep eyes, thinking about the way she smiles and light up the entire room, how brave and strong she is. Sara Lance believed in me even after everything I did, and I believed in her since day 1.
“What? Do I have something on my face or why are you looking at me like that?” Sara asked, I tried hard to not blush.
“Sorry, I´m just tired that´s all” I answered.
“You should go to sleep, I can stay here”
“What if we both go to sleep? You must be really tired too”
“I´m tired of this situation, like I mean, when are we going to have a break?”
“We are Legends, time protectors, this is what we do”
“And look how many we have lost. I wonder, who´s gonna be next?” I couldn´t answer to that, I couldn´t think about losing another legend again, specially if that legend is Sara “You are right, we have to sleep, I´m thinking things I shouldn´t be thinking about” before I could ask what she was thinking, she stood up and went to her room.
Was she thinking the same thing I was thinking?
On the morning, we got the alert about the time pirates attacking some old village, so Sara and I had to made a plan right away.
“Appareantly there are more time pirates than other attacks, so we are going to split up. Amaya, Zari and Ray are a team, and Mick, Nate and Sara are other team, I will go to find the time pirate leader and stop this” Sara looked at me confused.
“You seriously don´t think that you are going alone right?”
“Why not? This war started because of me, so I have to be the one to stop it”
“And get yourself hurt or even killed? Hell no, I´m coming with you”
“I am the captain so you will obey me”
“I am the captain too, we are partners so we are doing this together, until death do us appart”
“Sara I said no, you are not strong enough!” everyone got quiet on the room, looking uncomfortable about the tense situation. Sara looked at me, and by the way she was looking at me my heart broke.
“That I am not strong enough? Let me remember to you that I am the one who went through death and back to save you, I got hurt and I almost got killed to save you. Yes, maybe I´ve lost many people, we´ve lost too many legends and maybe it´s my fault, but don´t you ever come to tell me that I am not strong enough, even after everything I´m still here and I am not giving up. You want to go alone and try to save the day? Fine, but I won´t save you this time, it´s pretty clear that you don´t appreciate it” Sara turned her back on me and got out the room. I covered my face with my hands, thinking about how bad I ruined all this situation.
“You didn´t meant what you said, right?” Zari asked “I can see how much you care about her, how much you love her, you are just too afraid of losing her”
“Don´t be a coward and just tell her” Mick said, Nate rolled his eyes and looked at him.
“It´s not that easy, specially when you´ve lost people that you loved before”
“I agree with Nate, it´s not easy, but you have to tell her before it´s to late” Amaya suggested, I let out a deep sight.
“Let´s stick with the plan, we have time to save”
And that´s exactly what we did. I tried to not think about Sara, about my fears, I even tried to not look at her but it was so hard, she was so beautiful.
The village was devastated, we had to stop the time pirates, there was already too much damage.
“Well, let´s split up” Zari, Amaya and Ray went to a side, and Mick with Nate and Sara following him to another side.
“Sara wait” I said stopping her, she turned and looked at me.
“If you haven´t realised, we don´t have too much time so what is it?” in her eyes I found myself falling in love with her, the first time we meet and all the moments we shared, specially the moment when Sara lost her sister and I told her that she was one of the strongest people I ever met, and I still think that, the one who is not strong enough here is me.
“In case I get myself killed and you don´t save me” without a doubt, I took her face and kissed her, with passion and love, passion and love I had kept a long time. Everything just stopped, time, space, everything, it was just Sara Lance and I, kissing.
Before I could saw her reaction, her face after we kissed, I ran away.
Sara´s P.O.V
And suddenly, my dream came true, Rip and I finally kissed, in the middle of the battle and the trouble. The dream became a nightmare when he just ran away for me, ready to get himself hurt or worse, and if I lose him, I lose everything.
Then I realised that Rip don´t actually thinks that I´m not strong enought, he is afraid of losing me because he loves me.
Rip Hunter loves me.
In that moment I ran, trying to find Rip. Of course I was going to save him, he saved me too when he recruited me to be a legend, he is the reason that I am now this person.
“Rip!” I shouted, and then I found what I feared the most, Rip on the ground, unconscious “Rip! No, you are not leaving me” he wasn´t moving, he wasn´t breathing, I started RCP but still no answer, tears were already filling my eyes “I know, I know that you love me, and you have to know that I love you too. You are afraid of losing me and so I am, so please don´t you dare to leave me. Without you, I´m not strong enough, I lost too many people so please don´t be the next to leave me. I love you Rip Hunter”
“And I love you, Sara Lance” I heard Rip´s voice behing me, when I turned around I saw him, alive.
“How...?”
“Turns out he is a shape shifter, so he changed on my form to escape”
“Oh thank God” I stoop up and threw my arms around Rip “I thought I lost you”
“So you were going to save me, after all”
“How couldn´t I? You saved me before, and I love you, you are the best part of me”
“Glad to know” and we kissed, letting our fears of losing each other go away.
