[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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[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."