A/N: So here's a second chapter of this, it was slow coming but hopefully as it goes on updates will get quicker, guess it all depends on life though as I have finals coming up.

Also I realised after I'd written that at the beginning the only phones Sarah had were Beth's but oh well.

Anyway enjoy and any feedback is appreciated.

And Walked Upon the Edge of No Escape.

They're pulled from their discussion when Sarah's phone rings, making them both jump. She reached into her pocket to pull out her phone, attention still on the woman in front of her.

'Yeah,' she answered distractedly, eye still firmly fixed on Beth.

'Where are you then?' the familiar voice from the phone questioned.

'Felix?'

'Well who else would it be? You phone to say you're coming, and you want to meet, then disappear.' Ah yes she'd forgotten about that. 'Not that that's anything new, but…'

'Shit Fee. I… I got distracted by something. I'm Sorry. I'll be there soon, yeah?'

'Well don't take too long. Not losing sleep for your sorry arse.' Felix said, hanging up before Sarah could answer.

Sarah stared at her phone, she didn't want to leave Beth yet. Yes, she had the answers to the most of her questions, but really, right now, she wanted to know more about her. And plus, the woman had tried to kill herself earlier that night, who's to say that she wouldn't try again if she left. She didn't want that on her conscience.

She looked up from her phone, directly into Beth's curious eyes.

'You have to go?' Beth questioned.

Yes. She knew that she probably should. Felix would be pissed if she stood him up, but she didn't want to.

'Do you want me to go?' Sarah replied, breaking their eye contact, afraid of the answer she'd find there.

She regretted the question the moment it passed her lips. She could just feel Beth staring at her, trying to find a way to tell her to leave, that she didn't want her there. She knew that she should leave, leave and never look back, she could escape from this whole mess, from the inevitable pain and confusion, if she just left now. She had the perfect excuse, Felix was waiting for her and yet, she didn't know what she'd do if Beth said yes. She wanted to stay, wanted all the answers, wanted to know this woman in front of her and, for some reason, it was important that Beth wanted her there too.

The silence hung thickly between them, and Sarah had never felt more foolish in her life. She closed her eyes and tried to will the disappointment away, she had really thought that Beth would want her to stay. She should have known better.

'Do you want me to go?'

The hopefulness in Sarah's tone had thrown Beth. Sarah wanted to stay. She wanted to stay there with her, not go running to whomever had called. The thought filled Beth with warmth.

She's not really used to people being around her. Even her family and Paul, the man who was supposed to love her or pretend to at least, she wasn't sure anymore, couldn't stand to be around her for more than a couple of hours. She wasn't used to someone actually wanting to stay.

She watched as the hope drained from Sarah. Her posture drooping, breaking eye contact as she waited for her to answer. She watched all this whilst desperately trying to find the words to convey just how much she wanted her there. She'd only just met this woman but for the first time in a long time she no longer felt alone.

Sure she had Alison and Cosima with her in all of this, but they didn't even know half of the stuff that she does for them, plus they have their own lives to worry about. Cosima has school and Alison has her family and her whole life to maintain, Beth just couldn't burden them anymore than she had to. Something about Sarah just felt different, she'd saved her. Literally. And here she was basically offering her help, offering to share the burden. Beth knew that if she can just get Sarah to stay, she could help. Even if she doesn't know if she can trust her yet, at least she wouldn't be alone. Things would be better.

But she couldn't find the words.

'I guess I'll just go then.' Sarah said.

Beth watched as Sarah began to gather her things, as she slowly stood and walked towards the door. She couldn't believe that she was just letting her walk away. All she could think was that she had to stop her. Stop her now or she'd regret it.

She didn't even have a way to contact her and she was what, going to let her just leave. Sarah was a part of this now, whether she wanted her to be or not. She had to keep them all safe, and that included Sarah now, she couldn't just leave.

And yet Beth had still not stopped her.

Why hadn't she stopped her?

'Wait' Beth said, finally. Sarah paused, facing away from the other woman her shoulders tensed.

'I don't want you to go.'

There. She managed to say it.

She watches as Sarah hesitated for a second before returning to her side.

'Besides, we still obviously have a lot to talk about.'

They settled into a comfortable silence as Beth considered how to start with the rest. There was so much that she wanted to tell her, but she figured that unless Sarah actually asked to hear it, that she should probably ease her into it. She'd already been bombarded with enough new, life-changing information that night to last a lifetime.

'So you've met others, you sounded like you'd met others, like they actually exist, yeah?' Sarah asked.

She watched as Beth seemed to consider the question. 'Yeah, I've met two others. Cosima and Alison. No doubt you'll meet them too, especially once I tell them about you. Alison doesn't even live that far away.' She paused momentarily before looking directly at Sarah, a small, almost self-satisfied yet solemn smile on her face. 'You realise there's no escape now, right?'

Sarah was taken aback the certainty in the statement. She couldn't help but disagree, however, Beth really knew nothing about her still. She barely had her name, let alone any sort of way to contact her. Besides, she was good at disappearing. If she wanted to, she knew that she could leave and Beth would never be able to find her again.

But she knew that she couldn't run again.

Not now.

Despite the mess that she'd landed in the middle of, she couldn't leave then. Not without Kira, at least. She was the priority. If she needed to deal with all this other shit as well, so be it.

This would help keep her occupied while she figured out how to do that. Or at least that's what she had to keep telling herself. She couldn't let herself get attached, she wouldn't. No matter how intrigued she was by the other woman, she had to keep her head in the game.

'You realise there's no escape now?'

Beth really wanted to believe that. That Sarah was just as stuck in this as she was. And maybe she shouldn't want another person to be dragged into the middle of the whole clone situation, but she just couldn't shake the feeling that Sarah could help. That Sarah could make things better. Make her better.

She'd been drowning for so long, and she couldn't help but feel that Sarah could save her. She'd already done it once, after all.

As the two of them fell silent Beth wondered just how the others would react to Sarah, she laughed at the thought, drawing a confused look from her companion. Alison would probably hate her on sight. But she'd have to deal with that later, she had to tell the others about Sarah first.

One thing at a time.

The next thing Beth knows its morning. She doesn't really know how that happened.

They really hadn't been talking for too long before they must have fallen asleep but, she supposed that it must have been well past midnight by the time she had gone to the train station. She doesn't really know, even though she knows that she had been sober the details are a little fuzzy around the edges but, even so the morning shouldn't have come as a surprise.

She can't help but be disappointed. With the morning comes real life, and with it everything that she had been trying to escape. Maybe, just maybe Sarah can save her from that too.

She walked to the bathroom, wanting a minute to put herself together, needing something to take the edge off, before walking back towards Sarah.

The other woman looked so troubled in her sleep, she had rolled in on herself in her sleep, tension sitting heavy in her shoulders, her eye-brow furrowed.

Beth reached forward, wanting to smooth her troubled brow, to ease her worries as she slept but, just before she made contact she caught herself. How could she possibly hope to help when she would only inevitably add to Sarah's problems?

Laughing incredulously, she pulled her hand back as she sank down onto the sofa.

As the pills started to work the world around her began to dim, become softer as it lost focus. She hoped Sarah was still there when she woke up.

Sarah awoke with a start, looking around quickly as she tried to figure out where on earth she had ended up.

As her eyes landed on the woman sleeping next to her on the sofa it all came rushing back. Beth. Clones. A whole fucking shit-storm of complicated that she knew she had to avoid if she wanted to escape with Kira.

And yet, she still mad no move to leave.

She jumped up, looking around for the backpack that contained her life, moving around the room as quietly as possible as she picked the bag up and made her way to the bathroom to clean herself up.

She hadn't even washed up from the train.

She stood hunched over the sink basin, looking at herself in the mirror above it as she tried to make sense of the last twenty-four hours.

She'd known that coming back here wouldn't be easy, she'd come to steal her child for Christ's sake, she just hadn't anticipated running into any other trouble.

She could see herself getting attached and that was really not part of the plan. She was supposed to be in and out quickly, she wasn't supposed to be getting involved in anything else. It was crazy. Sheer fucking lunacy. She should have left as soon as she woke up. And yet, she was still here.

As she stared at herself in the mirror she tried to motivate herself, gather the strength she needed to leave now, go to Felix, sell that fucking coke she had taking up space in her bag, and get the ball running on things with Kira. Keep things simple. Or as simple as they can be anyway.

'Sarah?' she heard Beth call as she shook her head and all thoughts of leaving, of running and deserting the other woman left her. For the moment anyways. Or at least that's what she tried to tell herself. All of this, this whole mess, it was just a temporary distraction. She needed it to be.

So for now, she'd put on the least horrendously uptight looking of Beth's clothes because, at least they'd be clean, and go with it. Whatever comes next, she'd handle it, for now. For Kira. And although she'd only just met her, for Beth.

The minute she woke Beth knew that she needed to face reality. The world hadn't stopped turning. And her phones would not stop ringing. Beeping. Neither life was on standby today it seemed. Her head was killing her and what's more, it seemed that Sarah had her left while she was sleeping.

Wonderful.

She had known that it was a possibility but she wouldn't let herself get too upset before she knew for sure.

'Sarah?' She called out, and as no response came she sank back into the couch and allowed the disappointment to flow through her. Her eyes burning with the sting of tears. She had really thought that Sarah could make things better.

For the first time in a long time, she'd hoped. Fat lot of good that had done her.

She started as she heard a noise, hastily wiping her eyes as Sarah emerged from the bathroom, her steps measured, hesitant. It seemed she wasn't sure about what to do now either.

She smiled weakly up at the other woman, even as relief flowed through her at the sight of her, it was hard to gather much enthusiasm for the day ahead. For everything.

Her phone rang again, filling the silence that had between them. She eyed it disdainfully. Why wouldn't it just stop?

'You need to get that?' Sarah asked.

'Probably,' Beth replied as she continued to ignore the ringing. If she ignored it would go away, Art and Katja would leave her alone and everything would be okay again. Or as okay as it had ever been, ever could be.

She stood, walking towards the kitchen, looking for something to make the morning more bearable. For the moment she had to settle for coffee. Paul must have found the stash she kept in the cupboard.

Life still goes on.

'Now what?' Sarah asked from the couch. Beth turned to face her, raising her mug towards her mouth, stopping as she too the other woman in.

'You're wearing my clothes.' Beth stated, raising her eye-brow. God that was weird, she thought, now they actually did look identical. She'd even taken her hair down, if it wasn't for that streak in her hair it'd be like looking in a mirror.

'Don't miss a trick you, do ya?' Sarah chuckled biting her lip in an attempt to contain a smile, raising her own eyebrow in return.

Okay. Again. Weird.

But she liked the teasing. She liked the teasing a lot. Things with Sarah were already so different than with the others, even if she couldn't quite understand why. There wasn't the same stifling weight to their interactions. Less pressure.

'Well it is my job,' She retorted lightly, 'Detective Childs at your service.'

'You're a Cop?' Beth puzzled at the cold tone to the question. A harsh edge to Sarah's voice that hadn't been there before.

'Well technically I'm suspended but, yeah. With the badge and the gun and everything.' She answered hesitantly, they'd been joking around just seconds earlier, what had happened?

She could hear Sarah muttering to herself, fidgeting about on the couch.

She watched as Sarah picked up her bag. 'I have to go.' She said as she moved towards the door. 'I got your number and I know you live' she remarked with the echo of a smile, 'so I'll be in touch, yeah'

She could see that Sarah had made up her mind, and if she was anything like her she wouldn't change it. There was no making her stay this time.

And as Sarah walked away, Beth fully expected to never see her again.

As Sarah tried to walk away she could hear a man call out for Beth, call out to her, she didn't care who she just needed to get away before they caught up with her.

She hadn't been lying when she said she'd be in touch, she just needed some time to get her head around Beth being a cop. It goes against every fibre of her being to trust her, but she couldn't help herself.

Even though she trusted her she'd still feel better without the coke burning a hole in her bag. She needs the money, but she somehow doesn't think that she'd be very forgiving if she found that on her. No she needed to shift it.

The door to Felix's loft opened, some faceless guy squeezing out, leaving the door wide open behind him.

She slunk in closing the door behind her before throwing herself down on the couch. Just because it had been awhile since she'd seen him didn't mean she had to make an entrance.

And anyway, she could hear him pissing about in the bathroom, no need to disturb him there.

Eventually, Felix emerged from the other room, freezing at the sight of his sister in his living room.

'Well, well look what the cat dragged in.'

'Leave it out Fee, it's not like you didn't know I was coming.'

'Yeah, well, you said you'd be here hours ago. For all I know you could have taken off again.'

Okay, maybe she deserved that.

'I'm back Fee, and I'm not leaving again without my family, without you and Kira.'

He moved quickly towards her smacking the back of head playfully as he collapsed beside her, 'You better not,' He threatened lightly as he pulled her close 'or I'll kick your arse.'

Laughing softly she pushed him away, smiling 'I missed you too Fee.' She teased.

'Oh shut up. What happened to you then and what's with those clothes? You look…'

'I had a weird night Fee and we'll leave that at that for now, yeah. I'll tell you when I figure out just what on earth happened.'

'And what about Vic the dick?'

'Done. For good this time.'

'You said that the last time.'

'Yeah, well, I hit him first this time. With an ashtray. Doubt he's too eager for a repeat performance. And anyway,' she said as she reached into her bag pulling out the coke 'don't think he'll be too happy with me when he realises I've got this. Reckon you can shift it?'

Sensing his hesitance she quickly added, 'C'mon Fee. That's our escape fund there.'

'Can't promise anything, Sarah'

'Never asked you to. Just try, yeah? For Kira?'

She decided that she needed to go back to Beth's, she'd only been gone a couple of hours, but she knew she had to go back, had to apologise, explain. She's run from a lot of things in her life, but she knows that she shouldn't have run from Beth.

She just freaked out. Cops had always equalled trouble in her book, but she'd already known that about her. She was her fucking clone for fucks sake, it was never going to be simple, and so she was going back.

As she turned towards Beth's townhouse she heard the same voice as that morning, calling out for Beth. She sped up trying to pretend that she hadn't heard him and actually make it to the house, but before she could make a hand grasped her upper arm, turning her sharply to face the assailant.

'Beth! What the hell,' he said, frustration at Beth evident in every move as he began to pull Sarah towards his car. 'Where the hell have you been? I've been trying to call you for hours. We've gotta go.'

Fuck. Who the hell was this guy? And more importantly, what the hell was she supposed to do now?