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Chapter 1: Drunk texting

If she had a nickel for every time they got into a bar brawl, she would probably be... using those nickels to get drunk somewhere and start another fight. Bar brawls was for them what Netflix and chill was for normal people- the perfect way to relax after a long day. And so it was a little disappointing to sit at a bar sipping beer peacefully with no signs of trouble.

Well, as peaceful as it could be with Mick constantly talking about that trick he knew of setting shots on fire, and Leonard answering him with non-committal grunts.

It wasn't long before she switched to tequila shots, and the room started spinning around her. Leonard warned her she had had enough, that she was going to get wasted, but Sara Lance, being a woman who never liked being told what she could and could not do, specially by the smug crook she secretly had a thing for, continued binging on liquor. In the end, when the bartender cut her off, he offered her his shoulder to lean on, like the gentleman he tended to be when it came to her, but she decided to use her ninja skills to make it back to the ship by herself.

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What her ninja training didn't teach her was how to refrain from drunk texting, and before sleep could claim her, she found herself reaching for her phone.

Leonard groaned. That was the seventh text in a span of minutes. He wasn't drunk, but he was tired and trying to sleep, and whoever was thinking of him was certainly not helping. Sighing, he grabbed his phone and willed his eyes to half open so he could read the messages on the screen.

U cheated.

Wherez my money? I won d last poker round. :(

Hey that smiley looks just like u! Bald grumpy n kinda cute.

Am I cute, Len?

Len, Lenny, Leo, Leonard. That's funny.

Whatcha doing?

thinkin of me?

Drunk Sara sounded like just another woman in her tweens, and it was the first time he realized how young and vulnerable she truly was, behind her mask of acquired strength. And beautiful. There was a pure, innocent beauty in this rare moment of silliness.

Also, blackmail material. He could threaten to show the texts to the others and get her to pay his bills. If she didn't kill him first.

He waited a while for her babbling to stop and her to fall asleep, and when she did, he found himself drifting off to sleep with a smile on his head.

Sara's head was hurting the next afternoon when she finally woke up, and no medicine Gideon could provide seemed to help. The lights seemed too bright and her bed seemed too inviting, but she had to at least make an appearance at the team's lunch table.

"Sleep well?" Leonard asked, with a hint of amusement in his eyes that made her want to crawl into the depths of the ship in embarrassment.

Tentatively, she asked, "Did I do something stupid last night?"

"Aside from professing your undying love for me? No," he answered coolly.

Sara froze. She didn't. Did she? No. Of all the many ways she could have told him, this had to be one of the worst because she couldn't remember it. But if this had really happened, Leonard would have chosen to forget it and never brought it up. She knew he was bluffing. Besides, loving him maybe a lot of things- terrifying, frustrating, exhilarating- but it wasn't stupid. She grinned. "So nothing then. Great!"

Leonard smirked. If only she remembered the texts she had sent him last night! They were enough to torment her forever, and if he had a nickel for each time he would do just that, well, he could finally retire from robbing banks and take up bar brawls as his full time job.

Two hours later, he made the mistake of passing her his phone to show her the damning evidence he had against her, and she repaid him by deleting all the texts.

On the bright side, at least she didn't break his bones.

"For the record, Sara," he said in an amused tone, "I am not cute. Babies are cute, bunnies are cute, you are cute."

She raised an eyebrow. "Aww, you just called me cute, and you don't even have the excuse of being drunk."

He shrugged. He certainly wasn't going to shy away from flirting with her. "Come on then. Let's hit another bar."

She grinned. "Thought you'd never ask."