AN: It's the anniversary of Laurels death and Sara is not taking it well

It's in the early morning when Sara awakes. Tears streaming down her face and Laurels name coming from her mouth. She sits up sharply and closes her eyes. She breathes heavily and pulls her knees to her chest. She thinks about all the memories her and her sister had. The good ones and the bad. She's lost in her head when she feels the waverider shake, bringing her back to reality.

She wipes her face and gets off her bed and heads to the bridge. "Gideon" Sara calls out to the AI. "A level 9 anachronism has presented itself in Star City 2016" the AI replies. Sara's face pales at the location of the anachronism but covers it up when the team gathers.

"Where are heading to Captain?" Ray asks, already sitting down and strapping himself in. "Gideon, plot a course to Star City 2016" she commands the AI. "Back to where it all started Ray" Sara says and takes her seat at the head of the ship.

The legends time jump into 2016 and land in a big field. Sara cloaks the ship and stands up. "Gideon what exactly is the anachronism in star City?" She asks leaning against the console in the middle of the waverider. "Captain..I'm not sure I should tell you this." The AI trails off. Sara, curious and slightly annoyed, "Gideon what is the anachronism?" She asks again with an air of finality.

"The anachronism is.. oh how do I put this.. your sister is somehow alive." The AI says and all color drains from Sara's face. "Since she is alive, Damien Darkh never died and Star City, well, is not Star City anymore, and the rest of the world and time, will soon follow." Sara barely listens before she bolts off the waverider and sprints to her sisters apartment. "Sara!" Ray, Amaya, and Nate yell after her but she's already gone.

Zari hesitantly speaks up, "so we have to make sure Sara's sister dies?" Everyone slowly nods. "This is some fucked up shit" she says breathlessly. They all share a look of sorrow and set off to make a plan and find out if there's any loopholes to save Laurel.

*Back with Sara*

Sara ran. She ran and ran until she got to Laurels apartment. She hurts through the door and the sight before her takes her breath away. There before her, alive and well, is her sister. "Laurel" she whispers. Laurel stands up smiling and goes over to Sara and hugs her tightly, "Sara I didn't know you were back," she says happily. Sara slowly wraps her arms around Laurel and hugs her tight. She squeezes her eyes shut and just relishes the contact she had missed so much, that she never thought she'd have again. Laurel pull back and looks at Sara with concern once she sees her tears.

"Hey," she says softly wiping Sara's face, "what's wrong?" Sara just looks at Laurel and shakes her head and takes a deep breath. "N-nothing," she smiles a watery smile, "I just missed you so much" she says and pulls Laurel back in for another bone crushing hug. Laurel smile and rubs her baby sisters back. "I missed you too Sara." Sara gasped happily at hearing her sisters voice. Sara pulls back and wipes her tears and smiles at Laurel.

"So, how are you?" Sara asked not really knowing what to say to her sister that was supposed to be dead. Laurel smiles and pulls them onto her couch. "I'm good" she says happily "Day job is going great, night job is, well, it's exhausting but worth it" she says winking. Sara wanted to tell her no it wasn't. Laurels phone ringing stops her from doing so. She smiles sympathetically at Sara, "sorry." She stands up and answers her phone.

Sara just smiles softly and listens to her sisters voice. God how much she's missed hearing it. Laurel sigh and plopping down on the couch brought Sara out of her reverie. "Ugh I'm so sorry but that was the office, we caught a case and I have to go in. Dinner tonight?" She says hopefully, she's truly missed her baby sister. Sara smiles at her sister and nods. "Yeah, is like that" Laurel smiles and kisses Sara's cheek. "Great I'll see you later." Laurel grabs her jacket, keys, and briefcase and leaves the apartment, "Bye Sar!" She calls. "Bye Laur" Sara says. But once the door closes Sara breaks down again.

*With the legends*

"Incoming transmission from Agent Sharpe" Gideon's voice rang out. Amaya looked at everyone and nodded, telling them to leave. "Put her on Gideon" she says once they leave. Ava's face appears on the screen in Sara's office and she looks somewhat surprised to see Amaya. "A-Amaya " She stutters. "Hello Ava." She says back. "Not that's it's not good to see you but where's Sara?" Ava asked wanting to see her girlfriend.

Amaya sighs and looks down. She takes a deep breath and looks back up at Ava. "You should get here as soon as possible." Almost instantly, Ava opened a time portal and stepped through onto the waverider. "Where's Sara?" She asks with a worried look on her face. Amaya turns to face her. "We don't know" she says slowly. "What do you mean you don't know she's your captain!?" Ava raises her voice as she gets even more worried.

"Look Ava, right we are in 2016 Star City. This morning in the temporal zone, we experienced a timequake. Originating in Star City 2016." She takes a breath. "The anachronism is Sara's sister. Somehow, she's alive" Amaya says slowly. Ava's face drops, "oh Sara" she says softly. She needed to get to her. "Gideon can you locate Sara?" Ava hopefully asks the AI. "Captain Lance is currently at her sisters apartment. Alone." The AI says. "Thank you Gideon," she turns to Amaya, "keep researching, I'm going to Sara" she says and opens a time portal to Laurels apartment.

The time portal closes and What she sees when she steps through breaks her heart. "Oh my girl" she whispers to herself. Sara is curled up in a ball on Laurels couch sobbing her eyes out. Ava rushes over and kneels in front of her. "Sara? Baby can you hear me?" She asks softly as not to startle her. Ava snorts in her head, she's a trained assassin, I doubt I can startle her. Sara looks up slowly and when she looks at Ava, Ava's heart shatters at the pain and sadness is her girlfriends eyes. "My poor girl" she says and pulls Sara into a hug.

Sara clings to Ava and cries into her shoulder. "Why? Why did this have to happen?" She sobs out. Ava sits on the couch and pulls Sara onto her lap. She holds her tight and runs her fingers through her hair. "I don't babe...I don't know" she whispers and tears sting her eyes at the pain her lover is in.

Ava takes her hand and puts it under Sara's chin and gently raises her head. Sara's eyes and cheeks are red, puffy, and tear stained. Ava leans down and first places a kiss on her forehead. The places a kiss on each cheek and then places the softest kiss on her lips. Ava pulls back and rests her head against Sara's. "I've got you" She whispers. "Can you please take me somewhere. Anywhere but here and the waverider. Please Ava" Sara pleads and looks into those blue-grey eyes.

"Okay babe" she says softly and stands them up. She puts her hands on Sara's waist and kisses her. Conveying nothing but love, support, and understanding in their kiss. "Thank you Aves" Sara says wrapping her arms around Ava's neck. "Always Peter Pan" Ava smiles, hoping the nickname would make the distraught woman smile.

It did indeed and Sara let out a small laugh and a beautiful smile. It also brought a light smack from Sara to Ava's arm. "I told you not to call me that jerk" she says joking with her. "Well if it gets you to smile that beautiful smile then it's worth it" Ava says softly." Sara smiles, "sap" she teases and Ava rolls her eyes but smiles softly. "Come on, lets get you out of here." Ava opens a time portal to her apartment and she picks Sara up bridal style and walked into her apartment, the portal closing behind her.

"You're lucky you're cute. If anyone else picked me up like this their arms would be broken" Sara says and pecks Ava's cheek. Ava scoffs and sets Sara down on her bed, "if anyone besides me picked you up like that, let's just say they would have arms to do it again." Sara raises her eyebrows, "I see your green eyed monster coming out there babe" she chuckles. Ava smiles that the captain was acting more like her usual self. "Only for you" She says and crawls on the bed next to Sara. She leans back against the headboard and opens her arms. Sara gladly crawled into them and set her head on Ava's shoulder.

Ava wrapped her arms around Sara and kissed her head. "Sleep babe, you'll need the rest" Ava whispers softly. "Thank you for everything Aves, I can't get through this without you" Sara says looking up at her. "You won't have to. Not ever again. Not while I'm around" Ava states firmly. Sara smiles and kisses Ava passionately. When they pull back the smile at each other and Sara falls asleep. Everything, for right now would be alright.

*One week later*

Everything was, sadly, back as it should. Only this time, Sara got to say goodbye. That night she had dinner with her sister, and even introduced her to Ava. The three talked and had fun all night. But once morning came, the legends had to make sure that Laurel died. Sara stayed on the waverider with Ava. Amaya was supervising the mission. The reason Laurel had suddenly not died was because a chemical substance was released on the prison which caused Damien to not have his magic. But the legends were able to catch the men who released the gas and history was set back on track. And although it wasn't a happy ending, Sara felt a piece that hadn't felt before, and so it was okay. She got to say goodbye and I love you to her sister this time, and that was enough.