<div class="floatright">(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBadCQB7tH7yfWujsxz9qb8Xj3tkLgrm9Yg9Qp1SZLAqk7KOv3&amp;t=1)<strong><br/>Sara (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=150938.msg6869979#msg6869979)</strong><br/><strong>Location:</strong> On Dom's bus<br/><strong>Summary:</strong> Trying to get back Noah<br/><strong>Tagged: </strong> Noah, Dom, Twitch, Mika, Tim, Chris<br/><hr/></div><br/>As soon as Sara had gotten off the radio, she attempted in naive vain to retrieve the gun from Noah, forgetting that the kid had woken up and put on his hero pants that morning. She should have known the moment the weapon left her hands, it wasn't coming back. And so the evidence of their crimes remained squarely in his spindly digits until Dom so forcibly claimed it. Little other then shock registered at the impact of the backhand, and her confusion was only compounded by the second in command's cackling. After a few shaky breaths, Sara began to entertain a fledgling relief.<br/><br/><em>It was just Twitch. <br/></em><br/>That cautious optimism was shattered by Chris' arrival, and Big Tim's impending presence. He would not be so quick to laugh at what would be seen as a botched rebellion. This wasn't her fault, she continued to tell herself. And yet every crazy misstep Noah had made, from the moment he had disarmed Twitch, had been to protect her.<br/><br/>The kid was disappearing into himself. She could see the altruistic survivor sh'd come to reluctantly love being drawn deeper into apathetic defeat like water devoured by dry desert earth. As much as she wanted to reach out and drag him from his free fall, Sara could only stoop beside him, desperately searching for his eyes. Sara wasn't known for being overtly emotional. She kept her sentiments under lock and key, but the vault had cracked, delivering guilt and grief to her gaze in droves.<br/><br/>When Tim entered, Sara's jaw set with resolve as a stupid courage perceivably overcame her. She was breaths away from a most likely failed attempt to claim the blame for this clusterfuck of epic proportions.