Chapter 1

The legends return to the ship begrudgingly after only one day in Aruba after Constantine's abrupt announcement that their work after defeating Mallus. Sara, Mick, Ray, Wally and Nate all trudged onto the bridge on the waverider and all surrounded the panel.
"So it may only have been a day but laying in that sun for a short while felt great!" Ray exclaimed with positivity and a bright smile. Mick growled under his breath and headed for the door.
"Shut it Haircut, you all ruined my vacation again! I need a beer". Ray's smile slowly disappears and he turns to the rest of the group.
Sara is stood at the panel in her standard pose resting upon the side. "Gideon?" Sara called for the AI.
"Yes Captain?" the AI replied.
"I need you to do a scan of all of time and space, we need to find out where these dragon. Creature things are coming from?! I need to get ahead of whatever this is before Constantine needs picking up."
"Of course Captain, the search may take a while this isn't a subject I'm very familiar with, perhaps Miss Tomaz could assist me?"
Sara looks to Zari who is has placed herself on the stairs of the captain's office. Zari realizes the attention is on her and quickly gets up. "Uhh yeah I can do an algorithm to look for fresh portals I guess but It'll be a long job, how long do we have until Constantine is back?"
"Who knows! He's gone back to his dungeons and dragons game with Gary, apparently it was our fault the game was interrupted, so we probably have a few hours maybe a day at most, that guy lives on his own schedule….Nate can you do some research, see if any of these things have popped up throughout history? And Ray, take Wally and just do what you do best I guess" Ray gave a cheesy grin "No problem captain, I can look for disturbances in the time vortex using the time manipulator that I've been working on, you see I just needed to look at the math's and it was simple to pick a pattern you just need…"
"Ok Ray that sounds great you guys do that," Sara interjects, not having the energy to pretend to understand Ray's science jargon. "So you guys know what you're doing? I'm going to get out of this comfortable swimming costume and into something more captainy and get back to you…" With that the teams disperse in different directions of the ship. Before Sara can leave the bridge Wally is still waiting around.
"Sara I really wish I could help but I have to leave." Wally just blurts out. Sara looks stunned. 'What's happened?"
Wally just smiles " Nothing bad, Iris just text me, Cecil's gone into labour and I really want to be there for my dad, I'm not sure how long I'll be gone but.." Sara waves her hand and returns the smile. "Don't worry Wally just go, go be with your family, we'll be fine here without you, just make sure to send all our love," Sara playfully punches Wally in the arm and pushes him away. Wally moves in and hugs Sara. "Thanks a lot," Wally zips out the room instantly. Sara just stands for a moment in silence and takes it in. Knowing she still needs to change, she instead heads into her office and goes straight for the bottle of whiskey on the side and pours herself a glass and leans against the table slowly sipping it.
"Captain you are receiving a transmission from agent Sharp, shall I put her on?" Gideon calls to Sara. "Yes Gideon put her though." Sara was giddy and nervous all at the same time, everything was so up in the air for the two women but she also needed to know what Constantine had told them, unless Gary had already informed her and this was a business call.
Ava's face appeared on the monitor in front of Sara, her cheeks blushed red straight away and Sara remembered she was half naked but also knowing that Ava had already seen less than this in the past, made Sara smile more seeing Ava squirm.
"Hey! What's going on?" Sara asked with her huge smile and maneuvering her body more to make Ava squirm.
"Well Miss Lance I see you've arrived back early from your vacation, I did try to contact you in Aruba only to find you had all left suddenly, thought I'd check in and see if everything was ok?"
"It was…until Gary and Constantine turned up" Sara replies looking fed up. Ava's scrunched up her face at the mention of Constantine. "So what did they want?"
"Well they turned up with a dragons head and said us releasing Mallus brought loads of monsters to our world, so I've got the team looking into it.."
"And you?" Ava asks looking concerned at her undetermined girlfriend.
"I dunno, it's just never ending, as soon as I think we catch a break and actually do the job right, we do what we do best and screw everything up…" Sara continues to drain her glass.
"But you forget Miss Lance, you and your team screw things up for the better, just because you can't see it now, you will do," Ava responds with a shy smile on her face, still too nervous to look at Sara.
Sara nervously place with her glass, spinning on her finger around the rim and looks up at Ava.
"So…uh we never really finished our conversation properly the other day, did you want to come over…maybe if you're not busy, I've got some time before dealing with John and the team and maybe we could just talk… relax.. you know whatever…" Sara waffles out her words as she rest her glass down on the desk and fold her arms across her chest.
This time Ava looks straight up at Sara and smiles "Well I have got a couple of Mallus related reports I need to finish but I can be with you in an hour? If that's ok with you?"
Sara's trying to look more nonchalant and hide her glee. "Yeah sure just get here when you need to, it'll give me time to cover up..." Sara gives a coy wink at Ava and the transmission end.