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[sassy_assassin]

Who: Sara
Broadcast: Video!
Action: On the Marsiva // The Twin Roses
When: Now!

[ The feed starts with Sara adjusting the camera and pursing her lips, then flashing a waxy smile that doesn't go anywhere near her eyes ]

Hi, so, I'm going to need you to go ahead and let me out of here and return me to my ship. I mean, we could do this the long way, but you really, really won't like that. It will be long. And painful. Possibly over days. The thing I'm going to assume you didn't realize about me before you decided to make this incredibly idiotic move is that I don't take kindly to cages. They're not really my thing, and I have a particular prejudice against the people who want to put me in them.

But hey.

[ She puts her hands up in a conciliatory manner ]

Maybe I'm reading this entire situation the wrong way. Just come and get me, we'll talk, and I won't even break your fingers for it. Promise.

Okay? Okay. Chop chop!

[ She rolls her eyes, sighs, and switches off the camera ]

****

[ some time later, Sara shows up in a burst of confetti on The Twin Roses. Hi friends! ]

Comments

[passingthrough]

No, I... Actually, yeah. I did, but not in Rip's mind. She was here in the fleet, but really briefly. And how did you do the same thing back home? Was there a telepath involved?

[sassy_assassin]

Gideon was here? Looks like I'm too late to have all the fun.

And no, no telepath. Some future sciencey junk that I still don't get but whatever worked, worked. His memories had been messed with and we had to get him back to baseline so he'd stop trying to kill us.

[passingthrough]

She knew Rip, so I'm guessing it's the same one.

As far as I know Rip didn't try to kill anyone here, so it must have worked or he was from some other point in time.

[sassy_assassin]

It worked, but anything's possible with Rip. Anyone else here they mentioned knowing? Maybe someone named Oliver or Laurel?

[passingthrough]

Cisco mentioned Oliver, but he wasn't here. I did know him back in Marina though. [A Smallville version, but she's never heard or seen anything to make her think they're different people.] Good kisser.

Who's Laurel?

[sassy_assassin]

I think that's something most women know about Ollie.

Laurel's my sister. I don't expect her to be here, but it was worth a shot. She would've reached out by now, though.

[passingthrough]

[She nods at the sister part. It's hard being separated from family. She knows better than most this place can bring back the dead, but she doesn't expect to see hers either.]

He really gets around, huh? [She tilts her head.] You too?

[sassy_assassin]

Ollie? Yeah. He's the dumb idiot who took me on that yacht cruise.

[passingthrough]

Oh wow. Small multiverse.

[sassy_assassin]

Guess so.

But what I'm getting from all of this is that I'm still the only one here.

[passingthrough]

As far as I know. Sorry.

[sassy_assassin]

No, it's fine. I wouldn't want anyone else to get themselves into this mess.

[passingthrough]

It's okay for it to suck even if it's for the best.

[sassy_assassin]

Whatever.

You have people here, right?

[passingthrough]

Kurt's from my world. I pretty much figured I'd never see anyone from there again by the time he showed up. And then Remy is an alternate reality version of someone I know from home. Alternate reality versions of people I know are more common.

[sassy_assassin]

Of course. It wouldn't be that straightforward.

[passingthrough]

This is definitely a place with a looping, curvy, zigzag line instead of the straight kind.

[sassy_assassin]

[ sassy sara is back ]

Straight is boring, anyway.

[passingthrough]

[She's not going to blush okay. It's the lighting.] More into the wavy life?

[sassy_assassin]

Wavy, loopy, curvy— I contain multitudes.

[passingthrough]

You'll fit right in.

[sassy_assassin]

Then it probably won't be a total waste.

You seeing anyone?

[passingthrough]

I am.......not not seeing someone.

That's the mature, adult answer, right? It's new and complicated. And possibly casual.

[sassy_assassin]

Honestly? Relatable.

You have to wonder what the rules are, when you're in a totally different dimension against your will. Are you still seeing the person you were seeing before you left?

[passingthrough]

Before I left home? [Or maybe it's because of the boyfriend reference she made earlier? Eh, she'll just go through the list.] Okay, so I got married really young back home because the world was ending, why not? And remember when I said the circumstances of my death are a lot sadder than just the fact of it? Yeah, it was my husband who killed me. Kind of accidentally-ish. Anyway, that's extremely over.

I had a couple of guys who were important to me for awhile in the prison, but those both ended before I came here and then I was with Winn for about a year and it was great and then he disappeared, and I found a ring in his stuff. [Holding up her hand, still wearing the engagement ring.] He's also been gone for a little over a year so I'm trying to be okay with moving on now. And I am...except for when I think about it.