cosmic strings chapter update: legendary
summary: Alex and the team finally come face to face with Savage.
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notes: it’s the end of act one!! Thank you all so much for the love and support on this fic, I never imagined people would like any of my weird oc writings, so thank you! I’ll be taking a slight break (and finals are this week so I may disappear for a while haha) but I’ll be back in two weeks with a new chapter and a new act! Let me know what you think is gonna happen or what questions you have!
She stepped out into the fresh air, unused to the pollen in the air after months aboard a ship that perfectly filtered their air.
It clogged up her nose, itching her throat. He had dropped them back off in 2016.
He was leaving them behind.
“What are we doing here?” She choked out, ignoring the numbness in her chest, staring at Rip’s figure.
Their Captain sighed, regret flashing over his face, “Savage has a timeship, courtesy of the Time Masters. The timeline is unclear, due to our destruction of the Oculus, meaning Savage is lost to history,” he paused, inhaling deeply before finishing his thought, “Which is why I brought you all home.”
“Mission's not over, man,” Jax stopped Rip, but Alex knew there was no convincing him. They had lost someone on the mission.
That was enough to call it off.
“Jax is right,” Ray agreed, looking toward Alex for support. She couldn’t give it to him, “We've lost Savage before. We'll find him again.”
“That’s not the issue is it?” Alex piped up, she caught the slight nod of agreement and bit her lip, nodding mirthlessly. “I will not lose more you to this mission,” Rip choked out, swallowing his grief, “Carter, Kendra, Leonard...I made a mistake in thinking you were unimportant to the timeline,” Rip scanned his team, stuffing his hands in his pockets, “Now that I know how...precious your lives are, I can’t afford any more loss.”
Ray scoffed, shaking his head, “So that's it? We're... we're just giving up?”
Rip nodded turning back to the Waverider, “I'm on my way to the refuge to retrieve our younger selves and return them to the timeline. It will be as if you never left.”
Sara was the next person to protest, anger blazing across her face, “What, you think that we can just return to our old lives, and then pretend like none of this ever happened?”
Rip scrunched his face up at her words, “Mm, that might be a tad difficult.”
The team looked at each other, unsure of what was going to happen next, “See I had to bring you back to May 2016, not January 2016.”
Alex finally understood. The pollen, the thick air. It had been a completely different season than they had left in.
Her fingers grazed against the extrapolator in her pocket. She could go home. There was nothing keeping her here.
She could finally go back and see her family.
Everything she had ever wanted at her fingertips, and Rip was just giving it to her.
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