Sarah started to stir, groaning as she started to become more aware of her body. Tally looked down at her brushing her hair away from her forehead, she felt her shiver under her touch. Then blue eyes were looking up at her until they looked at her with recognition. She tried to sit up but winced at the pain that shot through her ribs.
"No, don't move, you're injured. I think your biddies are too far away for you to heal."
Sarah settled for painfully reaching a hand up to cup her cheek, "Are you okay?"
Tally choked out a sob, even now while she was the one injured Sarah still only cared about her well being, "I'm fine, you're the one that isn't. What happened? How did we get out here?"
"You don't remember?"
Tally shook her head as tears rolled down her cheeks, "I remember waking up and you weren't there and I panicked. I thought you'd gone somewhere I couldn't follow. I kind of just spiraled from there. Next thing I knew we were here."
"I found you at the top of that waterfall, you must've blacked out because you weren't aware of what was going on. You slipped over the ledge but not before I caught you. I used what magic I could to keep you safe from the fall."
"Where did you go?"
Sarah winced as she tried again to sit up ignoring Tally's cries for her to stay still, "I'm alright, the biddies must be getting closer because I can feel myself starting to heal. I had simply gone to make sure our wedding license got mailed off. I'm sorry, I should've left a note or something. I didn't expect to be very long."
"No, Sarah, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have panicked like that. I don't know what came over me. I was suddenly so scared that they had taken you from me to take away your biddies."
Managing to get into a sitting position, her coat falling away she rested her back against Tally's front trying to catch her breath.
"I'm fine, darling. They'll be here soon."
They were suddenly startled by the sound of footsteps approaching and unfortunately it wasn't who they had hoped it'd be. How had the Camarilla gotten out here?
One of the three men stepped forward with a grin on his face, a Camarilla dagger grasped in his hand, "Just who we were hoping to find. The great General, not so powerful now are you?"
Sarah fought through the pain as she climbed to her feet, Tally trying to help her but Sarah wasn't having it. Sarah stood her ground putting herself between Tally and them.
"Sarah, neither of us are strong enough right now to fight them."
Never breaking eye contact with the three men grit her teeth and ground out, "Tally, I need you to run. They aren't far now."
Tally looked at her like she had said a joke at the wrong moment, "You're kidding? I'm not leaving you!"
Before Sarah could argue further the men came at the all at once, Sarah managed the energy to windstrike one of them in half. The one with the dagger lunging for her but Sarah managed to stop the downward direction of the dagger coming down on her.
"Tally, please go!"
Tally panicked and although she didn't want to leave her she saw the biddies coming along with backup so she made to run to them but the man not preoccupied with Sarah went for her but Sarah pushed the man in front of her away with all her strength as she scrambled after the other to protect Tally. The other man's dagger came down to be met with Sarah's back as she wrapped her arms around Tally to protect her from him.
She wouldn't let out a scream, she merely groaned through her teeth as Tally stared wide eyed at her in horror, "Sarah, no!"
"It's fine, I'm fine. Go!"
Tally ran and stopped to look back as the man ripped the dagger from her back, Sarah never broke eye contact but only smiled and nodded at her to keep going.
Sarah turned around knowing that Tally would be safe and blasted the man away with a single seed. She hadn't wanted Tally to worry but even though the biddies were getting closer her strength wasn't coming back as she had hoped. But as long as Tally and Fort Salem were safe she would gladly sacrifice herself right then and there.
"Don't kill her, yet, we want that voice of hers."
Sarah looked at them with fury in her eyes as she dared them to try and take her voice.
"We should release it, they're right there. They won't be able to stop it."
Panic shot through Sarah as she knew exactly what they were talking about, but before she could do anything the man in front of her lunged again causing her to pull focus from the other who was making his way towards the other as he pulled out a small black ball filled with the witch plague.
She had no other choice as she used all of her centuries of power and she sang, a wall of white light coming up around Tally, the biddies, and the rest of Fort Salem. She windstruck the man causing him to drop the ball which soon became an epicenter for the witch plague to come alive. But it sensed only Sarah and made its way for her.
She could see Tally and the others safe behind the wall, Tally was pounding on it, pleading. The biddies looked on in horror.
Yes, they would all be safe.
"The fall of the great Sarah Alder. Don't worry we'll make sure to take down your precious Fort Salem too."
Sarah raised her hands into the air and with the last of her strength sent a bolt of lightning down upon the man turning him into a smoking corpse on the ground.
"Idiots, weren't even smart enough to disrupt my seeds."
She turned back towards the others and fell to her knees. She didn't have the energy to do more. As the witch plague reached her. She would have to make sure this plague didn't reach any of them. So she took one last look at Tally as she enveloped herself inside a storm consuming herself and the plague.
