Can you write something about Ray and Lisa telling Len that they're together?
(I couldn't decide on just one way to do this!)
Read on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38344498/chapters/95815894
After Lenny’s death Lisa let herself think about scenarios where he came back. In hindsight, it might not have been the healthiest coping mechanism; at least not considering she let those daydreams bring her stomping onto the Waverider, demanding to be a part of finding him. But ultimately everything worked out. She found a place for herself with the Legends outside of being here to bring back her brother. She – and she feels guilty over it now – but she made peace with his death. She made friends, and in one person she found more than that.
She isn’t sure how Lenny will take that.
It’s been four years and finally they’ve found him. Sort of. She’ll believe it when she sees it. They got the call from S.T.A.R. Labs an hour ago that he just… showed up. Broke right in the side door like he always would. Barry explained the whole thing to Sara, and Sara relayed the information to her. They think it’s a result of the big crossover mission they just returned from, the one Sara knows more about than her, Ray, and Mick. The three of them were there, but Sara remembers it differently. She says everything changed. Everyone died; not just the heroes but everyone. Everywhere. In every universe. The only ones left were seven paragons, and they managed to bring everyone back but in doing so they created a whole new timeline. Only the seven of them remember the old timeline.
The seven of them and, from what Barry said, Lenny.
“So is he even… You know…” Ray trails off, sitting on the edge of their bed, trying to find the right phrasing.
“The Lenny we remember?” She fills in, and he gives her this slight nod. She sighs, pulling her jacket on. “You, Sara, and Mick all compared notes; you guys said our history was mostly the same. Aside from me.”
Yeah, that had stung a little bit, hearing from Sara – one of her closest friends – that she basically doesn’t know her. Apparently in the Pre-Crisis timeline she hadn’t come and threatened Rip into letting her come and try finding her brother. Sara only remembers meeting her once, when she accompanied Mick to break the news, and then they’d left her with Shawna; Mick promising to let her know if they ever found a body.
“I think he is.” She muses aloud, meeting Ray’s eyes, searching for an agreement. “I know we’ve had false alarms before but… This one feels different.”
Ray nods, that agreement she was hoping for in his eyes, though it’s cautious.
“So far we remember the mission against Savage the same as Sara, so if that didn’t change, I don’t know how he’s going to feel about us being together.”
Lisa can’t help but to chuckle. Obviously she wasn’t here for that mission, but from what she’s heard and what she can believe her brother and Ray weren’t exactly best friends. They got along, but when she came on board Ray still had that edge of a superiority complex in certain moments, and she knows Lenny never would’ve gotten along with that. Plus much as she loves Ray, she isn’t blind to how his sunny disposition can sometimes be a bit much for some people, and her brother would be a prime candidate for that.
A logical part of her knows on some level he would’ve admired it. He would’ve admired Ray’s genius, and she knows they butted heads sometimes but at the end of the day Ray remembered Lenny as a hero; an equal. He never would’ve admitted it, but she believes Lenny overall liked Ray.
If he would’ve liked him for her… That could take some getting used to.
“We don’t have to tell him right away.” She says, “Let’s just give him a few days, he’ll have a lot to process anyway. Besides it’s not like we’re married, it’s ok if we keep it a secret for a day or two.”
She sees some sort of thought process fly through Ray’s blinking eyes, probably thinking about how they’re so used to their relationship being common knowledge. They’ve never attempted to hide it, and he is so bad at secrets, not to mention they share a room.
She smirks, steps in front of him, and drops her arms down around his shoulders.
“I’ll sleep in Charlie’s room tonight if he comes on board, maybe the next night too. Then we can break it to him.”
Ray doesn’t look overly thrilled with that plan, and that serves to make her grin even more. Whether it’s the idea of keeping their relationship a secret, even just for a short time, or the idea of having to spend a night or two without her, or both, that has him looking like this she can’t be sure, but no matter what it boils down to them having to coexist like there is nothing between them. That shouldn’t give her any sort of pleasure, but it does. It makes her feel giddy inside, it’s a reminder that he love her and he would rather be with her than without.
That is not a feeling she takes for granted.
She bends down and kisses him, his hands finding her waist automatically and she grins against his lips.
“Ok.” He says as she’s pulling back, “Let me know how the reunion goes.”
Well now she’s smiling for a reason that has nothing to do with him.
