[Timeloop] Thread 2

[knowthyexits]

Her hands still have blood on them.

The house is in one piece, the bomb in the Jeep was dismantled in time, and she has blood on her hands from Sarkissian's body and his henchman. She had been waiting for them. She had known they would be there and instead of letting them chain her up and beat John, she'd been waiting for them with a weapon and all the rage of a mother protecting her child.

And now, she has blood on her hands and she stares down at the stain, unable to process anything around her. Not John, not Derek, not even the men from the island who are impossibly there. She just can't...

She can't process this. Not yet. She's done a lot of things, but this is the first time she has blood on her hands from a direct kill. It's her first.

And it hadn't even been the machines.

She has human blood on her hands and she's not sure if she's done the right thing.

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[rewarded-by-god.livejournal.com]

"I don't think I'm the one to tell you that," Gaius admitted, taking a step further into the room, closing a bit of the distance but still giving her a good deal of breathing room, "The simple fact is, I don't think I've really fought for anything in my whole life. Not until it was too late, anyway."

[knowthyexits]

"I know why I have to do it," she insists, stubbornly rubbing her fingers up and down her thigh, again and again. "But I never see a result. Everything always goes back to the same grey and depressing place, like I can't do anything about it."

She's becoming fatalistic and ought to hate it, but she can't even be bothered to care at that point.

[rewarded-by-god.livejournal.com]

"Sarah, I don't think we're always meant to fight for ourselves," he said, watching her rub her fingers against her thighs, likely rubbing them raw. "We fight for the ones who come after. You might not ever see the results, but that doesn't mean they're not there."

[knowthyexits]

"If I can't win this fight, there won't be any ones after," she says. "And I'll know if I manage to make it this time." Even if she's not sure that she's going to. She's been putting off appointments with George, losing weight and not knowing why.

[rewarded-by-god.livejournal.com]

"You're telling me the weight of the world rests on your shoulders?" he asked, genuinely curious, because knowing what he knew, having seen what he'd seen over the course of the last five years, he knew it wasn't entirely impossible. "That seems like an awful lot for one woman to bear."

[knowthyexits]

Sarah stares back at him and yes, that is exactly what she's saying. It's exactly how it's been and it's her life. She can't get away from it. "If I don't do it, if I don't protect John from dying, the world as everyone knows it is over. Humanity dies."