It started off like any other mission. The legends were sent to 1958 to retrieve an anachronistic baby, who turns out to be the queen of England.
They located the baby, she was in possession of a drug king pen, of course, and his wife. Sara, Nate, Mick, Amaya made friends with the family and were invited over for dinner that night.
The rest of the legends were back on the waverider trying to fix Gideon and the Time Corp, because someone, Zari, decided to hack Gideon, again.
So while that mess was getting fixed, they were dealing with the anachronism. Getting the baby alone was proving to be difficult, and Sara was losing her patients.
Nate and Amaya finally found an opening. They offered to take care of the baby while the wife had to use the bathroom and Sara and Mick were talking to the husband. They quickly transported back to the waverider, curtesy of the time courier Sara "borrowed."
Sara and Mick we're going to make their exit when Sara notices that this man looked eerily familiar. She notices a shadow outside the window and her eyes widen.
"Oh shit," she breathes out.
"What's wrong boss?" Rory asks looking around. "Mick we have to go now!" She says and pushes him out towards the door.
Out of nowhere a figure dressed in all black repels from the ceiling on a scarf, league style. "Fuck." Sara whispers under breath.
"Amaya open a portal! Now!" Sara yells into her comm and starts to fight the league assassin.
The portal opens and Sara pushes Mick in, three more league members enter the house. "Gideon, Project Armageddon!" She yells and fights them all off. The King Pen and his wife already dead, thanks to the league members.
"Captain are you sure?" Gideon's voice calls out.
"Gideon Now! Armageddon!" She screams at the AI. The waverider locks down, "prepare for time jump." Gideon's voice sounds throughout the waverider.
"Sara No!" Zari yells and starts running to the portal.
"I'm sorry" the portal closes before Zari could get through and the waverider time jumps out of 1958.
Sara finds her opening and runs out back, the league members following.
She stops in her tracks, she's surrounded now by 6 league members. "Finish her," one of them says in Arabic. " yes Ta-er Al-Safer" They all reply in kind.
Sara knew this place seemed familiar. Because when she, Ray, and Kendra we're stuck in the 50's and she rejoined the league, this was her first mission.
Two of the assassins charge at her, swords drawn, she whips out her bo staff and easily deflects their attacks. She doges on lunge and swings her bo down onto one of their necks and ducks and knocks the other off their feet.
And they just keep coming. One assassins after the other, but they were no match for her. The real At'Taïr Al'safer. She makes quick work of all of the assassins, leaving just her and her younger self.
"It takes a lot more than that to try to kill me," Sara says in Arabic.
"Then I shall just kill you myself," younger league Sara replies in English.
Their bō's clash together, and they fight back and forth for what seems like forever, they're evenly matched. Thy are the same person after all.
But younger Sara has claimed the darkness inside of her, and embraced it, which presents an opening for her to strike her dagger into Sara's stomach.
Sara's eyes widen and she falls to the ground. League Sara has no expression on her face, she makes no sound, she just turns and leaves, leaving Sara in a pool of her own blood that's growing bigger by the second.
Sara knew this was the end. The legends weren't coming. She made sure of that. She closes her eyes and tries to remember all the good times she's had in life.
Images of her mother, father, and Laurel flash through her mind. Family dinners, movie nights, and sleepovers in her sisters room. But then another face flashes in her mind. She sees blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes.
Ava.
Sara opens her eyes and gasps, she never got to tell her. Tell her she loves her. Tell her she wants to be with her. And now she'll never get the chance to.
Panic rises in her chest, not because of her impending death, but at not being able to tell Ava how she feels.
She raises her arm and taps the comm in her left ear. The secure line that was connected directly to Ava.
"What is it Captain Lance? Some of us have important jobs to do, like fixing time-" Ava goes on, half teasing and half serious but Sara cuts her off.
"Ava!" Sara says in the strongest voice she could muster.
Ava instantly knew something was wrong. "Sara? What's wrong? Are you okay?"
Sara takes in a shaky breath, "y-yeah I'm fine. I...I need to tell you something. And you need to promise you won't interrupt."
Ava, who's sitting at her desk in her office stands up, her arms crossed with worry and confusion evident of her face, "Okay I promise."
Sara takes another deep breath and winces in pain, "when I met you," she spit blood out of her mouth, "I thought you were an uptight, stubborn, stick up her butt pain in the ass."
"Uhh that's rude, and I-a" Ava starts to argue, "You said you wouldn't interrupt!" Sara musters up in the best semi yell she could.
"Fine. Continue." Ava starts pacing back and forth listening to Sara's voice, something isn't right.
"But then you saved me," She whispers, " I've always found you attractive. How could I not, you're gorgeous, but when you pulled me out the void, your chest heaving and hair down in a beautiful mess, my heart stopped."
Sara takes aa big of a breath she can, blood starting to fill her lungs, "And I realized something," she's started crying at this point.
And so has Ava, throughout Sara's confession, she's gotten the sense that something is very wrong. Her suspicions are confirmed when she hears Sara's small sob, " What'd you realize Sara?" She asks in a small soft voice.
"I-I r r-realized that I love you," she lets out a relieved breath, "I love you Ava Sharpe. And I had to tell you before I.." Sara trails off, physically not being able to speak.
"Before what?" She gets no response
"Before what Sara?" She says frantically, getting more scared by the second.
"Before I g-go," She gurgles out, blood now pouring from her mouth.
"W-what do you mean before you go? Where are you!?" Ava yells into the comm, getting her time courier ready.
"I-it d-doesn't m-matter Aves. I-it's too late," Sara whispers. She stares at the night sky, looking up at the stars.
"No no no, Sara you tell me where you are, please, please tell me," Ava sobs and clutches the sides of her desk until her knuckles turn white.
She manages to whisper out her location and keeps watching the stars.
Ava quickly opens a portal to the location Sara gave her. She steps through and sees Sara's body lying in the grass. Not moving.
"Sara!" She yells and runs over to her. She slides to her knees and looks Sara over. There's a dagger in her stomach, and there's so much blood. So much blood.
"A-Ava." Sara whispers and looks at her, unshed tears in her eyes.
Ava let's out a sob and grabs Sara's hand in hers, "hey you," She says softly and puts her other hand on Sara's cheek, "I'm gonna get you out of here. You're gonna be okay."
Sara shakes her head and squeezes her hand, " I love you."
Ava shakes her head, "No, stop. This is not the end. You're not dying. Not again. Especially not on my watch." She picks Sara up in her arms and opens a portal to the waverider.
When she steps through with a barely conscious Sara in her arms, the legends, who were all yelling at Gideon and surrounding the control panel, looked at her. "Oh my god," Amaya gaps and brings her hands to her mouth.
Ava just shakes her head at them, saying not right now, and runs to the med bay, but the door won't open. "Gideon open the door!"
"I'm sorry Agent Sharpe. I have strict orders from Captain Lance to commence project Armageddon." The AI says to her.
"Captain Lance is about to die!" Ava shouts, "screw her orders, you won't have a captain anymore if you don't!"
The doors open and she rushes in and sets Sara down on one of the medical chairs and attaches the cuff to Sara's wrist, "Gideon fix her! Please," She sobs and holds Sara's other hand in her tightly.
Hours later, Sara is stable and alive.
Ava not once left her side. She refused to. She sat next to Sara the entire time, their fingers intertwined and her head resting on Sara's legs.
Ava had just fallen asleep when Sara started to wake up. She slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a couple times and looked around, she's in the medbay, she didn't die. She remembers what happened.
She remembers Ava coming to get her. Ava. Sara wakes up a little more at the thought of her and just now realizes that there's a weight on her legs.
She looks down and sees Ava's blonde hair cascading down her back and tear stains on her face.
She goes to speak but her throat is dry. She coughs and tries again, "A-Ava," she gets out in a horse and scratchy voice.
Ava groans and turns her head away but then realizes that that was Sara's voice. She shoots up and looks at Sara.
Sara smiles softly, "Hey."
Ava shakes her head and tears fall down her cheeks, "no! You knew something was up with that mission, and when you realized what it was you sent your team away, made sure they couldn't come back and save you, and then took on 7 trained assassins! One of them being your younger self!" Ava stands up and yells.
Sara opens her mouth to cut in but Ava doesn't let her.
"No! You're gonna let me finish!" Sara just nods.
"You took on your younger self who embraced the darkness inside of her. She had the upper hand you the moment you started fighting. And then when you're about to die, only then did you tell me how you felt. How do you think I felt knowing that the woman I am falling in love with was dying and I didn't even know it til it was almost too late," by the end of her speech her tears are now constantly flowing down her face.
"You're in love with me?" Sara says with a smile growing on her face.
Ava shakes her head and looks down but a small smile makes it's way on her face. She walks back over to Sara who is now sitting up and puts her hands on her face.
"Yes, I'm hopelessly in love with you," She whispers and kisses Sara softly and sparks fly. Their lips fitting perfectly together as if they were made for each other.
Ava pulls back and looks at Sara with fire in her eyes, "but I swear to god if you do anything like this again you'll be sorry. Do you understand me?"
Sara nods and wraps her arms around Sara's waist, "loud and clear babe. I promise I'll try and be a little less reckless."
It's not exactly what Ava wanted but she'll take it, as long as her canary lives, everything will be okay.
"I love you Sara"
Sara cradles Ava's cheek in her hand and looks into her beautiful baby blues, "I love you too."