Time Child

Practice Makes Perfect

  The girls practice and Jax's birthday is just around the corner. 

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Leonard abandoned the discussion between Jax and Rip, but he could still hear them arguing, he was all in favor of what Jax was saying but he just wasn't in the mood to start arguing too; so instead the leader of the Rogues made his way down the corridors looking for Mick and that had been how he had ended up arriving to the training room.

Against the doorframe Leonard saw Mick, he could hear grunts coming from the training room and he was sure the girls of the Waverider were training, especially now that Ray had made the batons for Greta.

Leonard walked up towards Mick just as Greta rolled over her side, blood from her nose spreading over the training mat, with a precise swing of her leg, Greta kicked Kendra off her feet and Hawkgirl landed over her back on the floor; eyes closed and losing the grip she had on the training stick.

Greta jumped to her feet, crossing her arms in an X and the batons came out instantly and she rushed towards Kendra just as she was about to push herself up; Greta stood above Kendra and pointed one of the batons to her face, Kendra, knowing that the batons were yet to be electrified, grabbed the piece of metal and pulled Greta down to her. The young blond crashed back to the floor and yanked the baton away from Kendra's grip, almost hitting herself on the face while doing so.

Still on the floor but laying over her side, Kendra threw a punch and hit Greta painfully on the stomach, the newbie grunted but swung her leg over Kendra and straddled her, grabbing her wrists and pulling them over her head and staring down at the woman.

"Wow" smiled Sara, she had taken the part of trainer and was surprised to see how much Greta had improved, not to mention that the batons gave her a lot of confidence.

Greta looked up at Sara and smiled before her eyes drifted towards Mick and Leonard, the leader of the Rogues had his arms crossed over his chest and a smirk that was accompanied by a raised eyebrow while Mick had an amused look over his face.

"Good job Blondie" smiled Mick.

Greta nodded, her chest rising and falling rapidly, she pushed herself up and retracted the batons before helping Kendra stand up; blood still rolling down her chin and dripping over her chest, some of it had fallen over Kendra when she had been pinning her to the ground.

"I'm gonna feel that punch until next week" panted Greta, she glanced at Kendra.

"I hope so" chuckled Kendra.

"Jesus Christ" whispered Greta, she doubled over and leaned over her own knees as she tried to get her breath back.

"You're getting better" smiled Sara "But we have to do this again"

"Please not today" panted Greta.

"Not today" chuckled Sara.

Greta felt someone pat her on the back, by the gentle touch she was sure it was Kendra, she glanced up to watch as Kendra picked up the training stick she had been using before Sara spoke.

"I'm gonna go take a shower"

"You should swing by Rip's studio and help Jax out in their little fight" said Leonard, Sara rolled her eyes.

"What are they fighting about?"

"It's Jax's birthday in two days and he wants Rip to let him go out to a club to celebrate" explained Leonard, he shrugged "I'm not against it, but we all know Rip is not going to listen to me"

"You want me to threaten him" snorted Sara amused.

"Jax would appreciate it" nodded Snart, with a smirk as he looked at his friend.

"We could use a break" shrugged Kendra, everyone turned to look at her. "What?" she rolled her eyes "We've been fighting Savage, we almost got killed by someone we don't know who it is, don't tell me we don't deserve to go out, and besides, it's Jax's birthday"

"Fine" Sara gave in, she rolled her eyes "I'll go talk to Rip"

Mick nodded at her as Sara walked past the Rogues and out of the training room to look for Jax and Rip; she had to agree with Kendra, they deserved just a night to relax, they had after all pushed back Savage's plan five years according to Gideon and that was something.

"Want me to help you fix that?" asked Kendra, Greta turned to look at her.

"No, it's fine" smiled Greta "Go take a shower, I'll tell Gideon to help me"

"Sure?"

"Yeah"

Kendra nodded and walked out of the training room to head to her shower, she grunted as a pain shot up her side from one of the blows she had received from Greta. The young woman pushed herself up straight and walked towards a chair and grabbed a towel, she swung it around her neck and looked at the Rogues as she approached them.

"I'm glad to have a pair of cheerleaders"

Leonard rolled his eyes and Mick let out a grunt but by the smirk over his lips she could tell she was warming up to his heart.

"You were right" she smiled at Mick as she walked towards the door "I did need practice"

"Told you" nodded Mick.

"Perfect" smiled Greta, she turned to Leonard "Now all I need is to get even on our life debt"

"Where's the fun in that?" smirked Leonard, Greta let out a sound between a snort and a laugh and shook her head, the blood starting to dry over her skin.

"To be fair, I don't think Mick intended on killing me with the grenade" she shrugged and glanced at Mick before turning to look at Leonard.

"Still saved your face from melting off" he pointed out.

"I'll get even, Snart" she smiled.

"We'll see to that" he raised his eyebrow at her almost as if he was daring her.

"You will"

Mick glanced from Leonard and Greta, the sense that he had gotten when the three of them had been at the living room some weeks back returned to him, almost as if he was being part of something he shouldn't.

"See you later" smiled Greta, she glanced at Mick and her smile got softer. She stepped past Leonard, her hand landing over his shoulder, "You'll see" and with that she walked away, her hand slipping away from him gently.

Leonard looked down at her hand and then up at Greta as she walked away from him, he narrowed his eyes and then turned to look at Mick; his friend was looking at him with both eyebrows up.

"What?" hissed Leonard.

"Nothing" said Mick "Clearly" and the last word dripped sarcasm like nothing Mick had ever said before to his friend; the pyromaniac suppressed a chuckle as they started to walk away from the room to check if Sara had already succeeded.

It wouldn't be until later that week that Leonard would realize something about the newbie.