Daaaaaaaaaaamn that episode broke my heart! It was so, so good and ended so tragically! :(
Very happy for Sarah, though.
We can only hope she'll be able to come back.
Here's a short piece for my fellows Root/Shaw shippers.
Also, I will try to update "Raw" next month.
She wasn't even supposed to be there.
Root's grip on her gun tightens. She looks down at it. It wasn't her gun, actually.
It was hers. One that she had graciously (not really) accepted to lend to her.
Root closes her eyes and inhales deeply, slowly. Crying would not do. There is no time for that. Later, maybe.
Now, she has a revenge to plan.
The following days are going to be hell. For them. For those who have taken her away. She is going to make them pay. Every last one of them.
Root hears a whimper and she smiles sadly.
"Come here," she calls.
Bear approaches her and puts his head on her knees.
"Good boy," Root tells him as she strokes the dog's fur. "You miss her too, don't you?"
Another small whimper.
It has only been a few hours.
They don't have her.
Nobody has her.
There is no body. No one has her.
Root paces back and forth, back and forth.
Where is she?
Where is she?
It's been five days. Nobody knows where she is.
Finally, finally Root gets her hands on Martine.
She takes her time. She draws it out. She makes her suffer.
Martine refuses to scream, but Root is determined.
Tell me where she is, she says. Tell me what you did with her.
Samaritan's agent refuses to talk.
Very well, then.
Martine does not see the next sunrise.
It takes John and Harold a month to give up the search.
They say she's gone and it's time to move on.
They say she wouldn't want them to stop fighting. She would laugh at them and call them pathetic.
Root thinks that, yes, that's certainly something she would do.
But Root is not ready to give up.
She is not going to rest until she knows what happened to her.
They claim the victory almost two months later.
Samaritan is finally down.
The agents are either dead or soon-to-be dead. Root will make sure of that.
Greer, that old prune, is taken into custody by Control.
Root wants to kill him. John has to hold her firmly in place while the government agents take him away.
Harold asks her if she's going to stick around now. Root says that she needs time. He doesn't ask why.
He knows.
Even the Machine doesn't know where she is.
It is what surprises Root the most. How can an all-powerful goddess not know if she is alive or dead?
How could she miss it?
It makes no sense.
And this is what gives Root hope.
Hope is all she needs.
Over a year later, Root is sitting on a bench in Central Park, eating an apple, when she feels it.
Someone standing behind her.
But the Machine would have warned her if there was a threat.
Root waits. And waits. And waits.
She puts the rest of her apple next to her.
Finally, the stranger approaches and sits down beside her.
Root listens to the birds singing in the trees, to the children laughing, to the distant sound of engines running.
For the first time in fourteen months, she smiles a real smile.
"I knew you were alive."
And finally, finally, she allows herself to cry.
I'm here if you need/want to talk about 4x11!
OTH-FOQ