AN: Gold stars for everyone who knew it. I hope the ones who are disappointed because it is Sarah can deal with it. I did intend to make it that obvious. This fic is based on two ideas: 1. The idea of an artifact that exists without time. 2. Sarah as a character. I wrote her character before I started writing the fic. ;)

Warning: Chapter 11 and 12 will be pure angst and pain. I am very sorry about this, especially because this fiction did start so fluffy. If you can't deal with the possible future death of a beloved character, please don't read this chapter. If you can't deal with the depression of another, please don't read the next chapter. I promise everything will get better after chapter 12. I hope nobody intends to kill ME after these chapters. And no: It's not cancer. This fic stays cancerfree.

Thanks to lastminutegenius for suprising me with the beta of this chapter. That made me very happy.

Chapter 11 - Sarah's Story: Part 1

Sarah wasn't planned. She wasn't wished or desired by her mothers. No unspoken words made Sarah appear into Helena's and Myka's life.

They didn't even think about getting a child together when the incident happened that impregnated Helena.

Helena was back to the warehouse for four years when she finally felt healed. The conversations with Abigail and Myka's support finally helped her in a state of inner balance and acceptance of the loss of her daughter. She was still a very impulsive person, but she could manage her feelings.

Claudia became caretaker before Sarah happened and she did feel the change of the Warehouse's feelings towards Helena and Myka. The Warehouse felt - yes it felt- happy with them and this was the point where it decided for them to give them something that would grow them tighter.

One day this artifact fell into Helena's bag. They didn't recognise it at first so it was with them at home when they shared intimate time with each other. When they later found it and neutralised it they weren't sure about how it would affect them. It was a wishing artifact, but they didn't really wish for anything because for the first time in their lives they were happy and with each other. What made Helena become pregnant was the warehouse's wish to bind them to each other and to itself. The neutralisation had no effect on Helena's state because the wish head already lead to a new life formed out of love and happiness and it wasn't in any way like what happened to Pete and Myka once.

Helena's impulsive side showed up, when she finally found out that the throwing up and mood swings were caused by hormones. She didn't feel ready for this, she was afraid to go through the same story she went through with Christina. Myka supported her in every way but always made sure that it was Helena's part in this to decide about their future. She couldn't force Helena in getting a child that neither of them planned. Myka held her when she was sad, she took every yelling at her calmly and she talked to Helena as much as she could but also gave her time to be alone. Myka was ready for this child and she wished that Helena would be, too.

When Helena spent time alone after an argument with Myka, full of tears, she entered the Warehouse and walked between the aisles without a particular direction. This was the first time she felt the connection between the Warehouse and the child inside her. The Warehouse showed her what it felt for the child and that gave Helena a feeling of acceptance and trust. The Warehouse would take care for her and the child and she finally felt free from her fears.

Sarah wasn't just made by the Warehouse, she was also born and raised in it. Her parents always tried to give her a normal life, but Sarah always managed to be brought into the warehouse. Claudia was the first among the Warehouse family to feel the connection between the girl and the warehouse and started taking care for the girl, too. She explained to the little girl everything, showed her the world of endless wonder and tried to teach the girl a responsible behaviour within the Warehouse.

Even though Sarah tried to follow the instructions of Claudia and her mothers, she got lost a few times between the aisles. It was like she followed a path of the scent of apples. The Warehouse played games with her, it showed her the world of endless wonder and artifacts itself, never bringing her in danger. Sarah was never really lost, but it always ended up in worried parents searching for her and yelling at her not to go alone into the aisles. They didn't understand that the Warehouse was in a way a parent to her and that she felt inner peace by following the its invitations.

Sarah's baby brother was born when she was six. She soon realised Paul didn't have that connection to the Warehouse that she had, but it didn't matter to her. She cared about him and sometimes she showed him her little world.

Sarah didn't like the fencing lessons. She didn't like the Kenpo lessons and she also didn't like the firing practice when she was older. But she never refused to follow the wishes of her parents to take these lessons because she know it was important to them that she could protect herself if it was necessary. Sarah didn't want to fight, she was by nature a peace-loving person.

Her relationship with the Warehouse was different from any relationship it had had to any person ever.

The bigger was Sarah's loss when she smelled fudge in the Warehouse for the first time.

Smelling fudge wasn't anything abnormal here, but Sarah had soon managed to differentiate the scent of fudge. If there were snagged, bagged and tagged artifact out of control, she could smell them. If there was an incident with a strange artifact, she could smell it.

This was new. It was the most intense scent of fudge she ever smelled and it overlaid the constant smell of apples the Warehouse sent to her.

Sarah was back from college for a week. Her mothers had just picked her up from the bus and brought her home. The twenty years old waited for her mothers who stood in the aisle behind her to tag an artifact they had retrieved from a mission. They weren't doing that many missions anymore but sometimes they went out to have a little fun with an artifact hunt like in old days.

Sarah fumbled at her wrist watch. She couldn't really remember that day anymore when a strange woman appeared in the B&B and gave it to her, when she was five. The watch had always been there. In the first years, she hid it in a little box under her bed, like the woman told her. When she went to junior high, she just started wearing the watch. Nobody asked her, where she got that watch. At some point, it was just part of her arm and fumbling at the wristband was just part of her behaviour, like her mother always thumbed her ring or clutched her necklace.

Myka frowned at her daughter."Is everything okay, Sarah?"

"Yes, mom, it's just...this smell."

Sarah was so taken by the scent that she couldn't think clear. It felt again like the Warehouse was inviting her, asking her to come. Myka and Helena were talking to each other so they didn't realize that their daughter had left the aisle they were standing in, following her feelings.

It was also a different feeling. Like the Warehouse was afraid.

Sarah felt confusion. She walked through the aisles, searching for a reason for this feeling.

"Sarah!" Myka's voice behind her."Don't walk through the aisles alone. You know I don't like this!"

Sarah ignored her. Her mother was always afraid something could happen to her but Sarah knew better: The Warehouse would never harm her.

Suddenly, Sarah saw someone running between the aisles in a very far distance. She was sure about it and started following the stranger. The Warehouse's attitude changed aprubtly.

A little lightening hit Sarah at the shoulder. She stopped and looked confused at the ceiling.

"Didn't you see this? There is someone in the Warehouse who isn't supposed to be there!"

"Sarah! Where are you? Did you see that flash?" Myka yelled.

"Please come back, darling." Helena added.

"There is something wrong in the warehouse!" Sarah answered. "Please don't follow me, I have to find out."

"Sarah! Stop! Please!"

But Sarah didn't listen. She decided to solve this puzzle on her own and walked straight into the aisle where she had seen the person last.

No one was there and the warehouse started firing several lightnings at her.

Great.

Now she had three annoying parents after her. She could hear Myka and Helena running through the aisles, searching for her.

The Warehouse's flashes increased the more Sarah went on.

She followed the smell of fudge. Suddenly, she heard someone move behind her, but when she turned around, she saw nobody. So she changed direction, following another aisle in this labyrinth, moving into an area where the shelves were bigger and carried bigger artifacts. Another flash hit her at the shoulder and Sarah stopped:

"Could you please just trust me for once? There is someone in the Warehouse and we have to find him."

In response, a big flash hit a shelf down the aisle. Wood splintered through the aisle, artifacts rained to the ground. Sarah was shocked. She turned around and saw her mothers running through an aisle far away. Between them, she saw a person sprinting from the right to the left, out of her sight after crossing Sarah's aisle.

Sarah started running. She followed the person, sprinting around the corner, she saw the silhouette far away. The warehouse started producing flashes again, shelves splintered, artifacts fell to the ground, breaking in a million pieces.

Through the noise, Sarah could hear her mothers behind her yelling. They had taken a short way and had almost caught up with her.

Suddenly, Sarah heared a big bang behind her. One of the flashes hit a shelf next to her. The whole shelf broke into two parts and collapsed slowly. Sarah turned around and just stared at the scenery. She could feel that the Warehouse didn't intend to break this shelf completely. Maybe it was just friable. With another bang the shelf hit the ground, burying Sarah's mothers under itself.

Sarah gazed at the heap of debris and dust, completely frozen and in shock. Then she heard a loud voice yelling "NO!" far behind her. Another flash, another shelf falling down, Sarah couldn't see, who that person was that got burried under it.

She run towards the point where she thought her mothers would lie and found Helena first: "Momma! Are you alright?"

Helena just managed to get out of the debris and hugged her daughter, then she turned around and started digging, pulling big, heavy,wooden beams away. Her face was pale, her eyes shone with an insane gleam: "Myka?", she yelled.

Sarah helped her mother with another beam and under it lay her mommy, her forehead was covered in blood, like the floor around her. Sarah was unable to feel her own emotions anymore, it was overlaid by the Warehouse's grief. The Warehouse mourned and Sarah realised what that meant. She stood there in desperation, watching her mother kneel down in front of her other mother, pulling her dead body to her chest and starting to cry: "No!"

This was the last time that the great H. G. Wells spoke.

Sarah was in shock, when she sat down on the floor next to her mothers, burying her nose into Helena's chest. Sarah was in shock, when Helena grabbed her arm and wrapped it around her and Myka's body. She was still in shock when she saw her wrist watch shine, she didn't realise that her's and Helena's grief created an artifact, it didn't matter to her.

Sarah was still in shock when Steve and Pete found the two of them still wrapped around Myka's body two hours later. She didn't recognise Pete who carried her out of the Warehouse. She didn't recognise her own bed when they placed her there. She felt nothing.