#also cynthia breaches into cisco's apartment to find nyssa perched on his kitchen counter eating waffles and is like '......okay'

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I love your headcannons so much. Has Cadmus!Alex ever meet earth 1 Laurel?

oh, thanks!!! and also this is a bit long sorry

okay so laurel’s alive in every single arrowverse au i havesince there are literally dozens ofways for her to be brought back from the dead (though also i think it’d behilarious if alex was on e1 meeting up with cait and siren and zari and wasjust like so for this week i thought weshould bring a person back from the dead

cait & siren: no?????

zari: LET 👏 HER 👏SPEAK 👏)

now they don’t meet for a while because alex tends to stickto central and laurel’s team plus sara and nyssa and maybe cisco and ray have appointedthemselves as her babysitters and have basically confined her to like a fiveblock radius around her apartment (she doesn’t mind the rest of them that muchbut sara and nyssa have absolutely no boundaries whatsoever and keep doingthings like pulling back the shower curtains when she’s in the shower to makesure she hasn’t like drowned or something), and it takes laurel a good fewmonths to finally convince her teamthat she’s recovered enough to go on a trip to central by herself.

for a relative definition of by herself, that is, since felicity has definitely hacked into a good thirdof the surveillance cameras in central and has them playing on a loop in the base

digg: this....is stalking

felicity, running security checks on every single personworking or staying at the hotel laurel booked: but is it though

and nyssa just like turned up at cisco’s apartment and toldhim she was staying there

cisco: okay please don’t kill me

nyssa: i won’t kill you laurel likes you

cisco: oh thank god— wait does that mean you’d kill me iflaurel didn’t like me???

nyssa: are you able to make waffles from scratch?

cisco: yes???

nyssa: probably not then

don’t get me wrong, laurel 100% knows what they’re doing butshe’s honestly just relieved that sara and thea didn’t like stow away in hersuitcase or something.

(though tbf sara’s getting half-hourly updates from literallyevery member of team flash and the rogues, and thea’s about two seconds awayfrom buying out the hotel

oliver: we don’t have any money thea

thea: who needs money when you have blackmail

felicity: oooh i found a lotof stuff on the owners! i think one of them has ties to the mob and i’m pretty surethe other is moonlighting as a vigilante and you were joking weren’t you

thea, writing down everything felicity’s saying: i never jokeabout blackmail)

alex point-blank refuses to step foot in star labs (it remindsher of cadmus) and laurel doesn’t tend to hang around with villains, so they meetat eobard thawne’s old house, since i headcanon that every now and again teamflash (plus hartley) go to there to just destroy his stuff?? and alex is always up for some petty vandalism, and since laurel hasn’t beenallowed to fight for the past few months or so she hasn’t had any way to releasethe repressed emotions that she usually punches out??

so yeah alex and cait walk into eobard’s old house to seelaurel just taking a metal baseball bat to a wall. it’s very cathartic, and alsoa great way to meet someone.

and okay so the thing is, alex and laurel do like each other??? they get on prettywell??? alex teaches laurel ways to sneak away from her well-meaning butslightly intense friends and laurel shows alex how to kick someone in the face and they spend a lot of time swapping stories about their sisters.

the problem, then, is that within two minutes of meetingeach other they both think oh my god ihave to protect her.

because alex is brave and impulsive and self-sacrificial tothe point of having a death wish, like sara, and sneaky and insightful and has honed her trauma into a weapon, like thea; and laurel is noble andprotective and has pure sunshine covering up trauma, like kara, and too trustingand occasionally scathing and has a whole ton of abandonment issues, like lena.

and so basically every time they meet they try toout-big-sister each other. it’s pretty exhausting for everyone else

alex: hey laurel i thought you might be hungry so i broughtyou some soup

laurel: oh! that’s such a sweet thing to do! here have somemoney for your troubles!

alex: oh! well then i’ll use this money to buy you a scarf!

laurel: i’ll kNIT YOU A SCARF

alex: i’ll lEARN HOW TO KNIT AND KNIT YOU A SWEATER

laurel: I’LL SUPPORT YOUR NEW HOBBY

alex: I’LL SUPPORTYOU SUPPORTING MY NEW HOBBY

everyone: please stop

zari, eating popcorn: no keep going