summary: During a mission to Starling City, Sara runs into an old friend.
pairings: Sara Lance & Sin
notes: Takes place somewhen during the beginning of Season 3 of Arrow for Sin and past Season 5 of LoT for the Legends, only that Sara didn't get abducted and Charlie is still around. Otherwise it's pretty much canon-compliant. If I fucked up anything about the Arrow part of it, don't yell at me. I hate that season too much to look up things about it.
Truth be told, a part of Sara feels a little guilty as she sneaks around the Waverider. It’s quite a difficult task, though, even for someone who’s had more education in sneaking around than anyone else, with having to persuade Gideon not to tell on her - the AI, however, is set on keeping the timeline intact and to make sure Sara’s own past doesn’t get messed up and ’Oh, Captain Lance, don’t you recall that you were the one to bring up this issue in the first place?’
(Actually, it was Ray, who, when the exact time and location of this new encore was revealed, immediately said that has was present in Starling City for it and cannot remember such an incident. When the attention fell on Sara as the only other Starling inhabitant, she’d simply shrugged and explained that she’d been dead at the time. No one had questioned it.) But she had to agree; running into someone who knows she should be dead at the moment could be more than complicated. Even if it were Oliver, who’s already had his brushes with the supernatural - mostly thanks to their resident warlock himself -, time travel would stretch it a little bit. Hell, if she isn’t mistaken, even Barry hasn’t discovered it for himself yet, so it’s not like anybody would believe her. Ava had pointed all of this out, advising that they stay on the ship, and Sara hates that she’s right.
This whole thing would be easier if Ray hadn’t stayed behind with her. Then she could just ignore Gideon and go her way and only face the consequences after coming back. With Ray - who should be playing house with Nora, really, but while she’s on a new fairy godmother gig he’s decided to visit - here, however… Gideon will be a tattletale before she’ll have a foot on good old Starling concrete.