Coldflash and Legends One-Shots

Need (Rated PG13)

Summary:

Barry Allen doesn't want Leonard Snart. He doesn't need Leonard Snart. He's given Len chance after chance, and every single time, Len's let him down. But Len needs Barry. Luckily for him, he's found himself an Earth where Barry Allen needs him, too.

Notes:

Written for Coldflash Week 2018 prompts Alternate Earth and Halloween.

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"We are approaching Earth-1260, Mr. Snart, as you requested," Gideon says, adding what could be perceived a dig at the end as if to say You did this. I didn't want to. I warned you. I gave you good advice, but you didn't take it. You made this decision. You made this decision because you NEVER LISTEN!

That's what it sounds like she means, but the voice in Len's head saying those things is a very different one entirely.

"Thank you, Gideon," Len growls through teeth clenched uncontrollably during the last hour of travel down one of the most treacherous timestreams the crew of the Waverider has ever discovered. Earth-1260 is considered an outlier in a sea of outliers – a dimension whose position had been erased by the Time Masters in an attempt to isolate it indefinitely from the rest of the universe.

Not to keep other dimensions safe, but for use as an eventual secret prison.

A better deterrent than the vilest penal colony.

An oubliette of no return.

As luck would have it, the crew of the Waverider stumbled upon it entirely by accident while looking for a viable Netflix signal.

Len releases the harness securing him to his seat the second the Waverider exits the timestream. Even with the ship to himself, being locked down in that harness makes him feel trapped.

Vulnerable.

Especially after the night he had that led him on his little day trip.

Len would think swiping the Waverider for a joy ride would be harder than it is.

It probably helps that the Waverider he's in isn't the Waverider.

Well ... it is and it isn't.

He got the idea from his sister of all people, one night while she was jabbering on about some Back to the Future fan theory she claims she read on the Internet. That's Lisa speak for Cisco told her, because why the hell would she be watching Back to the Future? Lisa has been seeing Cisco on the sly while Len's been away. Len knows. He also knows that she doesn't think he'd approve. Which he doesn't. But Len can't hold it against her. He left her alone on Earth while he went traipsing through time, trying to be a hero. And he has been a hero in his own way. But the outcome is still the same.

He may have helped save their dimension and beyond, but he failed his sister.

He left her alone.

And not just in another city or another country. In another time. So whatever she does to cure her loneliness, that's her business. As long as she stays alive.

But why did it have to be Cisco Ramon??

Len sighs. In retrospect, he only has himself to blame for that, too.

Anyway ...

This Back to the Future theory argues that there isn't only one DeLorean, one Marty McFly, and one Doc Brown, but that due to the circumstances of their traveling through time, there are DeLoreans, McFlys, and Doc Browns scattered around all over Hill Valley. It sounded ridiculous to Len at first – fake pseudo-science mumbo jumbo created for Tumblr likes. But he remembers a time way back when when he thought things like time travel, superheroes, and high tech weapons were the stuff of comic books and nothing more.