ultra-asgaridanwarrior - Tumblr blog

ultra-asgaridanwarrior · 6 years ago

Text

Words Left Unsaid (Rip Hunter x Reader)

Word Count: 1627

Warnings: Angst. Bullet wound and blood.

Summary: After a nasty injury from Vandal Savage leaves one of his teammates hurt, Rip must come to terms with difficult truths.

A/N: This is was originally requested by one of my close friends and posted on Quotev. Hope you enjoy!

Rip was still getting over his wife and son’s deaths.

The Time Master had tried going against Vandal Savage on his own, to no avail, which is why he had assembled the Legends in the first place, why he risked getting on the Time Masters’ bad side, why he stole the Waverider. It was all in efforts to stop him from taking the lives of his family. But he was starting to question whether they could actually pull it off.

Gideon had caught word of Savage’s leading engineer, one Michael Reyer, was attending a science and technology expo in Berlin, Germany 1948. Rip let out a soft sigh as he went over every scenario that the Legends could screw up time for the worse.

Rip came to the conclusion that he was lying to himself if he believed that anything the team did could save his family. The male knew that their deaths were a fixed point in time and yet he still fought. But even more so, he was lying to himself about Y/N. She was, ironically, the one that kept him fighting, that gave him hope. When Rip selected her to be part of the Legends he did so only with the criteria that her absence in the timeline would be trivial.

Y/N had also been one of the many causes of Rip’s anxiety. Her underdeveloped seismic powers had caused the San Francisco Earthquake to hit a year too early. But the way that her (eye-color)ed eyes looked at him with compassion and no judgment, the way that she would try, and mostly succeed, in making Rip laugh, the way that she would make sure that the Captain was doing alright….

After all that….Rip hadn’t expected to fall for her.

So like a man on a mission, hardened by battle, Rip pushed away those feelings and, subsequently, found himself pushing Y/N away in the process.

Y/N saw her chance and she took it. While the team was preoccupied with fighting off guards, Vandal’s engineer was able to sneak away. Knowing that Rip would probably let him slip through their fingers, the female did not even wait for permission before following in pursuit.

Rip’s words were still fresh in her memory and echoed in her mind: ‘You talk big but when it really comes to it, it’s all just words Y/N. So kindly, get over yourself.’ The British male had not meant the words he had said, the two adults simply got into a heated argument and said many things they didn’t mean.

The target was not particularly trained in combat so he should have been an easy target…that should have been the first indication that something was not right, but in the pursuit Y/N’s thoughts became blurred.

As she came to a large open courtyard the female glared at the man, “Mr. Reyer, you are coming with me. We can do this the hard way or the less hard way.” The pompous man, had the nerve to scoff at her which caused Y/N’s guard to drop for a split second.

Pain. Red Hot, Dull Pain. Y/N was too alarmed to let out a scream of pain as she looked down to see blood starting to spread down her shirt. Dazed, Y/N placed a hand over the wound, her adrenaline slowly fading and the sharp pain slowly overtaking her. Falling to her knees, all her energy left her and she met the ground. The shock would come next, Y/N thought.

But before the shock claimed her, she was able to make out Vandal Savage in the shadows. “This isn’t personal Ms. Y/L/N….it seems that you mean something to Captain Hunter and I intend to make him suffer.” At this point the bearded man was towering over her, Reyer standing behind him with a permanent smirk etched on his face.

Savage crouched next to Y/N and applied pressure to the wound that she had sustained at his hands. Without thought, she out a yelp of pain and Vandal’s eyes shimmered with a sick glee. “The bullet inside you was developed by Mr. Reyer here, meant to simultaneously cancel your powers and deliver doses of vibrations. A taste of your own medicine I suppose.”

Y/N wanted nothing more than to wipe that grin off his face but the pain betrayed her and Vandal saw the fear in her eye-color eyes. He chuckling manically. “Do not worry my dear, it won’t kill you. No….that would be far too merciful. You see, when killed Captain Hunter’s wife and child, it broke him. Hurting you sends a message to him: I can destroy him.”

Like a ghost he passed over her as she shook from the pain. The League of Assassins had taught Y/N well and she knew that the shock would have been the next thing to kill her and in turn, she knew how to counteract it.

Downside, without the shock she felt the the raw searing pain. The bullet had lodged itself in her lower chest and like Savage had promised, a current of vibrations radiated pain throughout her whole body. The vibrations that went through her hurt more than the shooting itself…it was more pain that Y/N had ever felt in her life.

The pain was so strong, so real….that it had consumed her to the point that she almost didn’t register letting out a blood curdling scream.

Rip was less than pleased as the fight ended, he knew it was all a distraction. Savage was probably gone with the engineer, Reyer. His finger on the trigger, he sent a bullet into the other guard. An icer, of course, the guard would be out for hours. “Are we all good?” Rip called out, putting his gun in it’s holster.

There were some groans as the Legends had sustained a few bumps and bruises but asides from that, they all seemed alright.

“Wait. Where’s Y/N?” Ray asked. Proving that the universe was out to get Rip.

Those three words had the power to shake Rip to his core. His eyes whipped around the room in hopes to find her. Swallowing a lump in his throat, he looked among the pile of the dead. Images of their fight flooded his memory and it was enough to make him tear up. He couldn’t lose her, not now, not after that fight.

As he felt his whole world slipping, he heard a scream that could only belong to Y/N. A moment of dead silence passed between the legends, she sounded in immense pain, such terrible pain that it would have been merciful to lay her to rest. Rip almost didn’t recognize it for he had never heard her in such pain. But she’s alive, the voice in Rip prompted him to react and made his legs carry him towards the sound of the screaming.

He knew it could have easily been a trap, but he didn’t care. Not a word was uttered among the Legends before they took off in a sprint after him.

Rip’s trench coat, flew through the wind and slowed to a stop; when the image that would haunt his memory came into his eye line. There Y/N was, curled up, surrounded by a pool of her own blood. She was trembling, in pain, but still alive, for her constant scream filled the space. Everything blurred away as he could see was the woman cared so deeply about, that he realized he loved, was in pain.

The stinging tears fell down his face as he took Y/N in his arms and cradled her in him, as if trying to tell her it was all okay. He felt a vibration inside her and his heart broke as she let out another anguished cry. Gideon, he spoke, his voice choked with tears. Prepare the med-bay for a critical.

Rip could read it in the Legends faces. The pity, the sadness, the realization that Y/N might not survive. But that didn’t matter, it couldn’t be true. There were still words left unsaid…

————

Extended ending:

Y/N was dead. She had to be, for there was no more pain. Was it what death felt like? She couldn’t remember a world without the excruciating pain she had only just experienced.

Her eyes fluttered open and immediately Y/N was greeted by a white light. As her vision settled, she found herself in the med bay of the Waverider. “What?” Y/N muttered in confusion, a blunt pain radiating in her head, assuring her that she was alive. Ms. Y/L/N, you’re awake, you heard Gideon say with warmth. I will alert Captain Hunter right away.

Rip, she thought. Joy overtook her but quickly diminished as she remembered the fight they had prior to the mission. To her it had only taken a few hours ago. But to Rip, it had been a little over four weeks, with no definite chance that Y/N would wake up.

Groaning, Y/N sat up from the med bay bed, her bare feet touching the metal ground. Miss Y/N, I would not advise you to get up. You have been in a coma for 32 days. You must rest.

The female was about to tell the AI that 32 days of rest was more than enough, when the sound of feet rushing up the med bay doors caught her attention. The doors opened with a hiss and she saw Rip standing there. His eyes were wet with tears as he smiled at her and Y/N couldn’t help but smile back.

“Hello stranger,” the female finally spoke.

#rip hunter #legends of tomorrow #vandal savage #waverider #the cw #the cw legends of tomorrow #rip hunter x reader

46 notes · View notes