Find A Way Back
By Misha
Disclaimer- Not mine.
Author’s Notes- Day 19 of the advent challenge and the prompt is “escape” which seemed perfect for Hero, since we are left in eternal limbo. This is set after the end of ““book 1″ and is just an attempt at the closer we will likely never get.
Pairing- Kenji x MC
Rating- PG
Summary- After finding herself in another dimension, Sarah fights her way home.
Sarah pushed herself. Just a little further. She could see the portal.
But the environment seemed to be fighting against her, it wanted her to stay. Her parents had warned her as much, but she had dismissed it as them trying to persuade her to stay.
And yet… it was like fighting a brick wall, as if her own body was resistant. But she did it. She kept pushing, forcing herself to remember the reasons she was fighting. Her mom. Her friends. Kenji.
She pictured him in her mind, his warm, cocky grin, and felt a burst of energy, as if he was beckoning her home. And maybe he was. She was exhausted, out of breath by the time she reached the portal and flung herself in it.
There was the weirdest feeling of floating through space and then she hit something hard. Sarah opened her eyes and nearly cried when she saw the familiar sight of Northbridge.
Now the question was how long had passed? For her it had seemed like days, but she didn’t know if time was the same there as it was on Earth. Suddenly a terrible thought occurred, what if years had passed?
Sarah anxiously scanned the city. It was dark, so there weren’t many people, but to her relief there was still some visible damage leftover, presumably from the fight with Silas.
“Sarah!!!!”
She blinked at the sound of her name and turned to see Kenji and Eva both running for her.
“It’s really you!” Eva cried, hugging her quickly and then stepping aside so Kenji could wrap his arms around her, pulling her into him.
Sarah clung to him, breathing in his scent, the feel of him,
“I thought you were gone,” he told her, his usual cockiness nowhere to be seen.
“You can’t get rid of me that easy,” Sarah assured him, her arms looped around his neck.
“Good,” Kenji said simply and then he lowered his mouth to hers, his kiss hungry and desperate, channeling all his fear and loneliness from their time apart and Sarah returned it eagerly. She knew they would have to go back to the Tower and catch up on everything that had happened since the fight, but right now she was going to savour this moment and the fact that she was really and truly home.
- End
