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This was actually the first thing that I wrote with Sarah in the NCIS:LA universe. Sarah actually evolved from Barbara Gordan (Batgirl), then to her own character for Grey's Anatomy (who would have been with Finn), and finally ended up at the same bar where the NCIS:LA gang had their team building night. This is how I think Hetty got the idea to sing "Wanted Dead or Alive." Everyone will eventually see that Callen and Sarah's paths have crossed a couple of times without even knowing.
I do not own NCIS:LA. I only own Sarah.
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It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I'd drive all night just to get back home
"Wanted Dead or Alive" By Bon Jovi
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Flashback: Night of "Past Lives"
Hetty walked in and saw her on the stage singing. She watched from the doorway letting everyone go in. She had seen Sarah sing many times before but this song was one she had not heard in a long time. "So kiss me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me..." The last time Sarah sang that was at her father's funeral instead of reading the eulogy that her Aunt wrote for her.
Sarah got off the stage and went to the bar. "I'll have a shot of Jameson." She saw Hetty walk up to the bar. "and cognac." She looked around the room and saw that Hetty's team were over on the other side of the room.
Hetty walked up next to Sarah looking straight ahead. "You were wonderful." She said.
"Thanks" She smiled.
"Doesn't seem like they would have been married forty-four years ago."
"Yeah." Sarah thought about them all day. She was glad that she got a text from Hetty to meet her at the bar for a quick drink.
"You said you would never sing that again after he died." Hetty remembered the first time she heard Bill singing it to Sarah's Mom. He was about to leave for the war. Mary cried every time she heard the song on the radio.
"Well after the day I've had I decided to change my mind." She paid for the drinks.
"I'm glad you did." Hetty told her. "He would have wanted you too."
She smiled and drank the shot. She felt the liquid warm and then burn down her throat. "How in the world could he drink this stuff?" She asked coughing.
"Very quickly" Hetty replied.
For the first time that day Sarah laughed. She glanced back and saw out of the corner of her eye someone watching her. "We're being watched."
Hetty looked and saw Callen watching the bar. She turned back around and smiled. "A member of my team. Do you want to meet him?"
She smiled and shook her head "You know my rule about that."
"You're just as bad with Gibbs with your rules."
"It works." She stressed.
"What song do you suggest?"
She had been singing there for a couple of years and basically knew the book. "Number 626."
"Would I know it?"
She smiled not wanting to ruin the surprise. "Played it constantly when I was with you for two weeks back in 1987."
"Here you go Sarah." The bartender gave her back the credit card.
"Thanks." She saw the man get up and give Sarah a strange look. He started walking over to the bar. "I wish I could see you sing it but see my cue to leave. I'll distract him." She slowly moved the drink over to Hetty. "The drink is for you. Knock them dead."
Hetty just sat there and wanted to see how they would react to each other "Goodbye dear."
She got up and walked right into him purse falling to the floor. "Oh! I am so sorry." She said.
"It's okay." He said.
"I''m just so clumsy." She said.
"It's fine. Here." He handed her purse to her.
"Thanks." She smiled and walked away.
"Yes Mr. Callen?" Hetty said watching him.
"Do you know her?" He asked.
"Know who?" She asked.
"Her?" He looked to see that she was already gone. "Never mind" He said.
