"If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone."

– Gregory Alan Isakov, "Second Chances."

Fall 2015. Somewhere off the coast of California.

Initially he didn't understand her reluctance.

She hesitated. "It's been a while since I've been to yoga."

"As if that would matter to me in the slightest."

He finished undressing then, as encouragement, and ultimately she followed suit.

For a minute, he just stared—stared at she who was dearest, she whom he had seen only in his mind's eye for nearly three years.

"You're so beautiful, Sara."

When she met his gaze, she recognized the truth of his feelings. She went to him then, and they were one, as they always should have been—as they would be forevermore.

SOUNDTRACK

You could say I lost my faith in science and progress
You could say I lost my belief in the holy Church
You could say I lost my sense of direction
You could say all of this and worse, but

[…]

If I ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do
I could be lost inside their lies without a trace
But every time I close my eyes I see your face

– Gordon Sumner [Sting], "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You."

There are only five songs (plus two live versions), but I have collected the songs referenced in this series of post-"Immortality" drabbles in a Spotify playlist, if you would like to listen to any of them. (You can find the playlist by searching my username on Spotify.) 💕🎵

NOTES

On Sara's yoga:

Please forgive me as I risk ruining the thing by over-explaining. The "yoga" reference here isn't intended to be about whether Sara is literally still flexible in bed, but rather the contrast between the youthful confidence and enthusiasm she displayed (including in stripping down for him) in her first few intimate encounters with Grissom, before she joined the Vegas crime lab, versus the anxiety and insecurities she initially feels in again baring herself for him, after everything they've been through over the preceding days but also the preceding decades. (This paragraph is itself exactly 100 words and thus also drabble-length.)

A/N:

Thank you so very much for reading! 💛 I had contemplated abandoning this one due to pure sugar overload, but then I realized it fit too well with the ficwip #all ships week "second chances" prompt! 💕 So I hope you enjoyed it! 💛