Time Child

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  Leonard and Mick run late.  

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Leonard's fingers worked fast and steady over the safe box, behind him Mick was standing with his eyes glued over the door and his heat gun ready to roar to life if anyone was to walk in. Sneaking into the massive house had been the easiest thing for the Rogues, after all they had done a lot of sneaking into houses before; but getting the combination of the safe was always something long that drained Mick's patience.

"What time is it?" asked Leonard, he was just missing one number to crack the code.

"Nine twenty" answered Mick.

"Damn it" hissed Leonard, the plan had stretched out a bit after Rip had decided to remind them a few things before they left the Waverider and now they were late to help the newbie and Leonard didn't trust Jacob a bit; not after the way he had seen him looking at Greta.

"I hear footsteps" said Mick, he gripped his gun tighter and glanced at Leonard.

"Give me a second"

"I don't think we have a second pretty boy"

Leonard rolled his eyes and tugged at the handle of the box, it opened heavily but even through the crack he saw the gem staring back at him and Leonard could have sworn that he had never seen anything as beautiful as that.

"Got it" whispered Leonard, his hand reached out for the spectacular gem softly and his fingers curled around it gently; this was something you couldn't rush, touching something so beautiful had to be done properly.

Mick held his breath and put a little pressure over the trigger of his heat gun as he heard footsteps approaching, he knew they had to help the newbie, but Leonard was his partner so the first thing was to protect Snart and himself and then go for the newcomer. But the footsteps walked past the room and then down the hall, Mick turned to Leonard as his friend pushed himself up.

"I think the hallway is compromised" explained Mick.

"Yeah" said Leonard, he narrowed his eyes and Mick could tell his brain was working at the speed of light to come up with another plan. "There should be another door around here"

Leonard spin around, his coat dancing around him with the gem secure in one of the pockets, he looked at the bookshelf that stood in front of them; he had seen the blueprints with newbie and he had seen they showed a second door, which meant the thing must be hidden away by the bookshelf.

"It should be behind this bookshelf" explained Leonard "We just need to find...

But before Leonard could finish telling Mick that they had to find the way to open it, Mick's heat gun came to life and Leonard rolled his eyes as the flames burned the books over the shelf almost instantly.

"Very subtle Mick" sighed Leonard.

"We can open it now" shrugged Mick, he pointed at a small opening with his gun and Leonard walked towards it.

Carefully Captain Cold slipped two fingers in the small space and he pulled the shelf towards himself; the massive piece of furniture moving gracefully towards him just like a door would and the new escape route appeared in front of them.

"Let's get out of here" said Leonard, he was sure someone had to have heard Mick's gun and that meant they had little time to get out of that room, to find Greta and to get out of that house.

Leonard guided Mick into another room, this one had even more books and a massive desk that told Mick that had to be a studio, a jacket lay over the chair of the desk; Leonard glanced at the jacket and hurried across the room to get to the second door that would lead them to the hallway and directly in front of the door of the master bedroom.

"How did you know that door would be there?" asked Mick as he followed Leonard.

"The newbie thought it would save us a few minutes if we used that door" explained Leonard "I just didn't know it would be disguised as a shelf"

Leonard cracked the door open and looked out just as Mick's voice spoke, a hint of mockery in his tone.

"The newbie told you?"

Leonard narrowed his eyes and glanced back at his friend and partner in crime "What is that supposed to mean?"

"I just find it interesting" shrugged Mick, a smirk over his face.

"What exactly do you find interesting?" barked Leonard.

"That you dislike her so much yet here we are" Mick pointed at the door they had used to enter without looking at it "Going along with her plan" he looked at Leonard "Maybe you've grown soft with the blondie, snowflake"

Leonard grunted and rolled his eyes, this wasn't the time or place to be having a conversation that had no sense at all; he turned to the door and pulled it open fully, the door to the master bedroom was a few feet away from them and the hallway was empty.

"It's empty" whispered Leonard before he rushed out of the room and towards the other door, Mick trotting behind him closely with his heat gun up and ready to burn anything and anyone that got in their way.

Leonard reached the door and he could already hear a few grunting sounds, he narrowed his eyes and placed his right hand over the doorknob as he held his cold gun with his left one; the doorknob didn't turn.

He sighed and stepped back, Mick was usually the one breaking doors and punching people but Mick was watching his back and they were already running out of time; so Leonard Snart took a deep breath and threw a kick to the door as hard as he could.

The door's lock snapped under his foot and the door swung open to reveal a very agitated Jacob over Greta; the young woman turned to the door and Leonard noticed she was using her left hand to hold down her dress and as she tried to push herself over her elbows he realized the guy had broken the straps of her dress.

"Honey, I'm home" hissed Leonard as Jacob turned to look at him with wide eyes.