falke [sara lance] ✔

chapter 24

"Okay, the symbol that Nora drew was a time travel spell, right? So why don't we just cast the same spell and get out of here?"

"She was channeling the power of Mallus when she cast that spell. Not even I have that kind of juice."

"I do," Sara interrupted, her eyes bright with an idea as she looked between the three other heroes. Callie tensed up, aware that Sara was talking about doing something that could potentially end her life.

"Sara," Callie warned lowly, stepping slightly closer to the blonde as she watched her line of sight move directly to focus on John.

"You said that Mallus can use me the way that he does Nora. So you summon Mallus into me, I draw the rune, same as her, and we get to go home!" Sara exclaimed, swivelling round to look at Callie and see whether the girl was going to fight her on her plan. Callie stared back, her face blank as she tried to process what Sara was planning on doing.

"And what about when the demon is inside you, eh?" John pressed back, less keen on the idea than Callie was. He knew the extent of damage letting a demon in could do and he wasn't prepared to let his friend take that pain.

"You said I was strong enough to hold my own self," Sara noted, tilting her head as she tried to back herself up. John rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly, looking between Sara and Callie for a second before focusing back on the blonde.

"Yeah, well, I was trying to seduce you," he muttered, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, please. I was seducing you," Sara interrupted his excuse, causing a scoff to come from Callie's lips as the dark haired girl crossed her arms over her chest.

"Maybe I was seducing both of you," she added, getting bored of this constant back and forth between the two blondes. Callie was tired, and she just wanted John to fix this without turning her wife into a human vessel.

Leo turned to look at them all with wide eyes, an exhausted look on his face as he looked in-between the three individuals. Throwing his hands in the air as he thought about what they were doing while he was almost killed, he snarled at them.

"I hope no one was trying to seduce anyone while I was about to be lobotomised!"

"You know, this is why I like to work alone," John told them, rolling his eyes at them all fighting amongst themselves.

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"Sara, I don't like this," Callie murmured against the blonde's shoulder from where she had tucked her head into. Sara rubbed the back of her head slightly before grasping the raven-haired girl's face and pulled it back so she could look her in the eyes.

"I know, but if this is the only way to save us - to save you, then it's what I need to do," Sara told her, brushing a strand of hair out of the girl's face. "There's nothing I wouldn't do for you."

Callie nodded, squeezing her hand in silent agreement as John walked back into her line of sight, having just finished drawing a circle on the ground for Sara to stand in.

"Once you're under, don't let the demon coax you in any further. You must outwill Mallus and draw the temporal rune. Are you sure you wanna do this, love?" John checked as Callie slowly moved away from the blonde.

"You wanna stay here forever?" Sara asked, a soft smile on her face as she realised that the situation she was about to get herself into could ruin everything that she had spent her whole life working towards.

"The ash of a slain phoenix will hold Mallus within his parameter. And we'll, uh, hasten his wake up call by combining extract of hawk weed with the saliva of a damned man," John told her, before spitting into a small vile and smiling awkwardly at Callie. "Which, sorry to say, love, you'll have to ingest."