irreplaceablescream:
THERE WAS A REASON SHE’D been avoiding the members of Overwatch who were still attempting to fight for something good in the world – because she didn’t want to fight that fight anymore. But after snapping at Lena, there’s a piece of her that hurts more than she ever has before – the team used to be like her FAMILY. As the shorter woman’s arms wrapped tightly around her, Dinah stayed quiet for a couple seconds, realizing something. No one had hugged her since Overwatch fell. Black Siren Canary’s face changed as she slowly hugged back, closing her eyes.
“I- I CAN’T GO BACK. Not after what I’ve become. Losing Sara has been… the hardest thing I’ve ever been through, && now- now I’m not the hero I was before.”
PULLING BACK, DINAH GAVE THE always cheery hero a sad smile. “You’ve got to let me go, Lena.”
It was rare, so rare, that anyone got to see anything other than cheer and optimism from Lena ( aside from the grit and determination the anger, the RAGE of the battlefield ) and this moment made Dinah a member of the minority. She felt just as vulnerable now as she had when she’d been trapped in Winston’s lab, drifting, F R A G M E N T E D , through the timestream. No, that wasn’t right. This might just have been worse.
Just when she’d thought Dinah would push her away, she felt the other woman’s arms around her, and Lena swallowed hard, fighting the lump in her throat, and the tears threatening to fall. It was like Dinah was the one lost now, fragmented, splintered, like any moment she could fade, and drift away, nothing to anchor her. Sara had been her anchor.
Dinah’s words only served to make her tighten her hold on the Canary, refusing to let her go, in any sense of the word. “Y’ don’t have t’ be -- love, we don’t expect -- ” no one had expected anything, really. Lena had been the one to insist; the others...had mixed thoughts. “I know it hurts, an’...I know things can never be the same,” she admitted, looking up to meet Dinah’s gaze, eyes misty with unshed tears. “But I can’t -- I won’t. I’m not about t’ let you go, love. Not now, not ever.”










