badly kept promises and lies well spoken

[clouberding]

rating: g?
characters: sarah & sara
a/n: let's assume that sarah actually owns the orange orange because why the fuck would she just be working there while driving a porsche and that she actually has a real place to live instead of a hotel room for two years and only gets actual accommodations that facilitate long term living after she moves in

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[slybrunette]

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Other times, she’s content to sit on the couch playing Cooking Mama or something on Sarah’s uncharacteristically baby pink DS - another lovely gift from Chuck.

He doesn't get her AT ALL. Of course he bought pink. Not even hot pink, baby pink. It's a ~girl color, and she should get in touch with her ~feminine side like a ~normal girl. This fills me with rage. The image of Sarah and Sara playing video games with each other however makes me a happy camper.

Normally, she would leave, kind of sneak away or something in the middle of the night. Her stuff fits in a small enough duffle bag and if she really didn’t want to go through the hassle, she could leave all of it behind without caring too much about it. But this is different, she internally berates herself, she can’t pick up and leave because this is Sarah and she promised.

Ugh, bored to tears and yet still cannot force herself out the door because Sarah actually means something to her, whether she wants to vocalize it or not, and ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Also, omg the lock combo is Sara's birthday that's shit people do with their significant other's birthdates not their ~friend why you do this to me.

She can be all hard lines and scary efficiency when she needs to be for as long as she’s required to, until it’s not anymore and Sarah can let all of that fall to the wayside, suddenly looking like exactly the person she would be had she had a life that was more typical.

(sara envies that - knowing who you were made into and who you were meant to be and being both)

Lawd. Sara's insecurity and identity issues and Sarah being presented as actually having her shit mostly together when the show never gave us that much and Sara reading her so so much better than Chuck ever will/did/could.

I already mentioned to you like two minutes ago that I enjoy the overall feel of this scene, but also I like that in this version Sarah sees more clearly just how useless Chuck is in this situation and how outside help would be beneficial. It's basically competence porn, at this point.

“Didn’t really take you for the jealous girlfriend type but I guess I can see it now.”

And, if the stars currently flooding her vision are any good indicator, that was the worst thing she could have said because now she’s got a face full of training mat, with her shoulder levered in such a way that it’s probably a millimeter or so away from popping out of its socket.

Fuck. Yes. This whole scene is the greatest because it's so bitchy and exploitative of an obvious weak point, but at the same time Sarah never did much denying whenever someone (usually Casey) insinuated jealousy playing a role in her decision making, and I like that Sarah takes some of her own back here. And that Sara lashes the fuck out because why the hell does she have to pay for Sarah's fucked up dynamic with her dumbass asset. Plus, I sense some residual bitterness over Sarah having some sort of settled life, even if it's only temporary, because Sara has issues sticking around for long, and ugh it just plays really well.

“I need you to bring her in.”

“My way or your way?”

“Bring her in.”

Great example of using dialogue instead of some boring wordy transitional paragraph but also this is slightly bitchy on that second sentence and I love it a lot.

The bit about spies always checking their six instead of looking at what's right in front of them - and Sara exploiting the hell out of that - is wonderful, because it's so true and also, though I liked Jill enough, she wasn't exactly the brightest or the most inventive.

“Maybe later,” and she finds she means it, for the most part. It earns her a hug that could be considered too tight and a Batman key to Sarah’s apartment hung on a Buy More lanyard of all things. For later, Sarah explains, pushing the key in her direction. She takes it despite not wanting to, it feels like making too big a promise she won’t be able to keep.

Maybe on a rainy day, she’ll be able to find her way to another home.

RAINING ON MY MOTHERFUCKING FACE. Oh, baby girl, I hope one day you'll be able to stay.

There's gonna be more with them in this universe, right? Right?