Extended Epilogue
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New Aeterna
2029
He looked like a Helion.
Same chestnut brown hair, probably the same piercing blue eyes.
Right now his eyes are downcast, his mouth in an unyielding line as I drive toward Queens.
He'd walked out of the 4th Municipal District Jail and right into my Lincoln Town car.
I'm prepared for a fight when I get on the expressway but he’s so lost in his own thoughts he doesn’t even notice I'm not driving to his boarding school until I pull into the empty parking lot.
“Where are we ?,” he finally asks.
“Rockaway Beach. Get out.”
He doesn’t.
I open the his door and point the gun at his head. “Get out.”
He doesn’t move. “It’s a waste of time. She won’t care if you kill me.”
“I don’t want to kill you. I want you to get out.”
He steps out of the car. Part of me is afraid he’ll rush me. I knew Helion boys were cruel but he was raised by the Resistance so maybe he wouldn’t attack a girl.
“My name is Sailor,” I tell him.
“Arrow.”
“I know…I’m the one who bailed you out.”
“You work for Paris ?”
“No. But I have access to his e-mail and bank account.” Actually, I had access to all of New Aeterna's emails and bank accounts. “I wrote the e-mail to the police chief as him. I sent the bail money transfer too.”
He looks at me like I’m crazy and I know I’m fucking this up. I'm explaining too much.
But I needed him.
I hold up the gun again.
The clip was empty. It had been empty since the day after we found out my brother hung himself. When my Dad used it to take his own life.
When we found Dad's body, I knew Daddy would want to go next.
Daddy probably would have taken me out with him but my Dad had emptied the clip and destroyed the bullets before shooting himself in the head in our bathtub.
I’d only been 12-years-old.
Losing half our family like that hurt more than I thought possible. More than when I lost Mikayla.
Daddy drowned himself in more alcohol and hadn't resurfaced much in the last 5 years.
I didn’t want to be taken away so I'd had to teach myself how the outside world worked; how to sign and deliver the rent check to the landlord, wash clothes, order groceries and lie to Daddy's mom and sisters when he was too drunk to come to the door.
At some point I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do but I didn’t know how to stop.
In 9th grade, I’d failed my social studies final and needed him to respond to my teacher’s e-mail. I wasn't allowed in Daddy's room so I waited until he was passed out and then stole his computer to write the e-mail to my teacher.
That's how I saw everything.
Daddy had hacked into the New Aeterna computer system at some point and set up a mirror of all the systems that made New Aeterna run. He had access to their banking network and even the King's e-mail. I still didn't know why or how he did it but whenever I could, I'd take his laptop and read. I’d learned about a lot of New Aeterna's secrets over the years--including about Arrow.
Arrow, who was connected with the New Legion boys and the Queen but didn’t appear loyal to either.
And he was my age.
When I saw he get arrested for arson I put the plan in motion. I’d sent an e-mail to the Police Chief as the King saying I’d pay his bail and a Town car would be waiting to take him back to school.
Then I rented a Town car with a stolen credit card and went to kidnap Arrow.
“I'm the one who burned down the New Legion's house,” I tell Arrow. “I made sure Eos II got a copy of a police record that says you confessed to doing it because you think they are the sons of cowards.”
“Are you crazy ? I didn't say that. Why–”
“Because I need me to be your only option.”
“For what ?”
“For everything. I need you to help me.”
He sighed. “Help you do what ?”
“New Aeterna took everything from me,” I tell him. “We're going to burn it down.”
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Below in pink is the original A/N that has been here. I don't have much to add. The reason I wanted to post this part now is because AJ in Severance suddenly reminded me that I wrote my own little fanon of Arrow from Arrow where he is forced to cause chaos in NA by a human girl with a lot of resources and unlimited revenge.
Anyway, sorry this was stone cold bummer.
That's all folks!
I knew at some pointed I wanted a teenaged Sailor as this Vice!Sara anti-hero type character who is like a terrorist in New Aeterna and fueled by rage. I didn't want to explore it, I just wanted to end it with that being who she becomes. I was just so fascinated by the character of Ravi and the part in QC where people are marking the angels with spray paint...IDK what is says about me that I kind of want to write a terrorist.
ALSO, I am ENDLESSLY fascinated by the character of Arrow...maybe it's because I can't resist a broken woobie and putting them with another broken woobie.
I figured Survive would have a bleaker ending because it's the most fanfic-esque thing I've done. I don't see it as cannon and my characters are all slightly OOC so it feels more like an alternate universe and AU characters I'm just playing in.