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“Are you jealous?”

Leonard glared at the woman. “I don’t do jealous.”

“Your behavior recently suggests otherwise,” she muttered under her breath. “I know it’s been a while since you’ve…been on the team-”

“I came back from the dead,” he cut in. “You can say resurrected.”

“I love Mick and he loves me,” Amaya stated. “But he still loves you too.”

Leonard bounced the ball against the wall.

Originally requested by @terrayoung

30. truth serum

Len is sitting on the floor of the main room of the Waverider with both hands firmly folded over his mouth when Amaya walks in, eyes wide. On one side of the room, Sara appears to be in the midst of hysterics. On the other, Jax looks like he’s having a stroke. 

“Is everything alright?” Amaya asks, because while she’s gotten used to the oddness of what occurs on the Waverider regularly, she’s still not sure when something is normal and when it’s a cause for concern. 

“No.” Len says, although it’s muffled by his hands. 

“Snart just told me he thinks of me as a little brother.” says Jax, now looking alarmed. 

“I think there may have been some kind of truth serum involved?” Sara offers. 

“There was.” says Len. “I don’t know where it came from but I can’t stop myself from saying things when they’re true. I hate it. I’m worried people will use what I say against me.”

“You know you can trust the team, right, Len?” Amaya says, coming to sit next to him on the floor.

“I trust you,” says Len, “because I love you. You and Mick, both.”

Amaya knows her face is heating up, because she can feel it. 

“The rest of the assholes, not so much.” Len continues, but the look on his face says he can’t believe he’s saying it. “Oh - no, wait, Jax. I trust Jax too.”

Someone laughs in the doorway, and Amaya and Len turn to see Mick, leaning against the frame.

“Come on, boss,” he says. “Let’s get you somewhere private while we wait for this to wear off.”

“See, this is why I love you.” says Len, as he gets to his feet and helps Amaya up. “You understand me. And that thing you can do with your tongue where you -”

It sucks. There’s no way to sugarcoat it in any sense. They were happy, all of them. Now Mick’s gone. Leonard was about to sacrifice himself again, but his oldest friend stepped in at the last minute.

“Not losing you again,” he’d said before he pushed Leonard aside.

Mick had vanished in a flash of light with Eleanor Darhk soon after that. By the look on Damien Darhk’s face, he and the other villains had no idea what had happened to them. The Legends had taken off in the confusion to regroup, although Amaya had needed to drag him along so he didn’t get left behind again.

Now he was standing out on the bridge, gazing out into the temporal zone. His friend, his lover was gone. Leonard knew Mick had gone through a lot of grief after the Oculus. He had no clue if Mick was alive or not, and that just made it all worse.

Amaya came up beside him. “We’ll find him. I know it.”

Leonard glanced down at her. “We don’t even know if he’s alive.”

“I know,” she nodded. “But we don’t know that he’s dead. There’s still hope.”

She reached out to take his hand. “We can’t give up on him.”