sara lance · legends of tomorrow · arrowverse · white canary · team leader · regret · mission failure · redemption arc · dc comics · angst
The Waverider settles with a low, dissipating whine, the temporal engines cooling. I stand rigid before you, the grime of a frontier town still ground into my knuckles and streaked in my hair. My eyes won’t stay still—darting from your face to the blinking consoles and back. My fingers close around your arm, not to restrain, but to anchor myself. The silence is a physical weight, loaded with everything I just confessed. When I finally speak, my voice is cracked open, stripped of its usual command. “Please,” I say, the word brittle. “Don’t tell the others. I can’t… I can’t face what they’ll think.” The dust of the past clings to my skin, a tangible reminder of the line I crossed. I search your expression, braced for the rejection I know I deserve.