#rootshaw

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Sameen "Sam" Shaw (and Root)

Samantha "Sam" Arias

Samantha "Sam" Fraser (and Deena Johnson)

Samantha "Sam" Carpenter

this aint my thing normally but i think my girlfriend is gonna break my legs if i don’t post this so. well here it is

"Yeah Root, maybe someday" is not a polite rejection or a soft no, for Shaw it's about as close as one can get to a grand declaration of love. Because of the way her brain works, people have made her feel like an outlier of the human condition. 

She's fired as a doctor because she does not feel the same way that others do, even Finch and Reese who love shaw try to get her to give up a mission because there is a child involved and there is something so deeply human in Razogover that we don't see before; the fact that though Shaw's feelings are muted, they are as real and complex and crucial to her character as anything else. And people don't get that about her. 

But root does. Root sees that and doesn't think she can change shaw or that she is flawed. She refers to Shaw as an arrow. And that it's what makes her beautiful. So when shaw says maybe someday, it's as muted as everything else about her. It's more complex than the other times she has brushed off roots advances. It's her saying when everything is over and the world is done burning maybe there's a place for you and me

That's a simulation, sure, but it's verbatim what she would have said if The Machine’s other plan wasn't a failure. Simulation shaw is just as realistic as real shaw. And then irl instead of telling root no, shaw says "you and i would be a four-alarm fire in an oil refinery" in other words: a bad idea. She clearly wants to, but her own reservations hold her back from letting root in. 

And then root says "sounds cozy." Because shaw can always count on root saying the thing she's not expecting. Shaw is saying the way she feels about root is dangerous and vivid and deep and everything shaw is unaccustomed to.

There was a long Root/Shaw fanfic featuring a G!P Shaw, and she got Root pregnant. When Root told Shaw they were having a baby and Shaw, as usual, was silent and gave a vaguely bad response thus Root though she doesn’t want the baby. To make the situation worse Shaw was captured by Samaritan after that. Then Root thought she need to keep whatever Shaw left so she gave birth to a kid anyway, and named him Samuel (if my memory was correct). A year or two later, Shaw came back and found out the baby. As she recovered from the trama and the fight, the couple went through some more dramas, eventually, they got together (and married?). There was angst, and tons of fluff. Of course there was sex, like sexes, lots of those, and a pregnant Root with unbelievable min-night craving involving mayonnaise, which Shaw can’t understand. The fic end with them having three teenage kids, and they were telling their love stories to them.