Multiverse Reborn: Legends

Chapter 6

When Sara returned to Nanda Parbat, she could tell that Ra's was both surprised and disappointed to see her alive.

"So, you returned." Ra's said to her when Sara bowed.

"With proof of Darhk's demise." Sara said as she presented him with the Khushu idol.

"I must admit, I am impressed. You performed a feat even I could not." Ra's said and Sara could tell she'd managed to genuinely impress him.

"I kept my end of our deal. I expect you to honor yours." Sara said and Ra's nodded.

"I am known as many things, including a man of my word." Ra's said as Sara looked at him expectantly.

"Ta-er aSafar, I release you. You may reclaim your previous name and your past life." Ra's said and Sara felt a ton of relief as a weight that she'd had to grow reused to bearing was lifted again.

"Thank you my liege. But before I go, may I offer you some advice?" Sara asked.

"What might that be?" Ra's asked.

"Don't just put the idol in the League's vault. Destroy it. It can corrupt even the most noble of souls." Sara advised.

"I will take that under consideration." Ra's nodded as Sara left for her now former quarters to pack her things.

Sara had just finished packing the few things she wanted to take with her when she heard someone walk up behind her and she didn't even need to turn around to know who it was.

"I don't suppose there's anything I could say to convince you to stay." Nyssa asked her.

"I'm sorry Nyssa. But I think we both knew that I'd never be able to stay with the League forever." Sara said honestly.

"Or with me." Nyssa said and Sara had to choke back tears, since even now, she still cared about Nyssa, just not in the way she once had or how Nyssa cared about her.

"Nyssa, I will always treasure our time together. For the past 3 years, you have been the only light in the darkness I was in. You helped me come to terms with who I am and I will always be grateful for that." Sara said.

"But you don't love me." Nyssa said and Sara had to wipe tears from her own eyes before wiping them from Nyssa's.

"I'm sorry Nyssa, but I don't. At least not in the way you want me to. I took that last mission from your father because I knew either way I would finally get my freedom from this place and that's all I've wanted. To go home and see my family again. To be Sara again. Not Ta-er aSafar. She's not me anymore." Sara said.

"Do you really think your family will accept you if they know everything you've done?" Nyssa asked.

"Who said I have to tell them. Nyssa, please, don't make this harder than it has to be." Sara begged her.

"I'm sorry beloved, but I can't help but want you to stay." Nyssa said.

"Nyssa. I will miss you, but I need to forge my own path beyond the League. Please, let me go so you can find someone who will love you the way you deserve to be loved. I'm sorry I can't give that to you." Sara said truthfully.

"I know you are right, but that does not make this any less painful." Nyssa said.

"I know. Thank you Nyssa, for all that you've done for me, I need to make my own path." Sara said.

"I wish you the best of luck Sara and I hope that you can find with someone else what you could not with me." Nyssa said.

"Thank you Nyssa." Sara said as she slung her bag over her shoulder.

"I just have one more thing to ask you before you leave." Nyssa said.

"Anything." Sara said.

"While it may not have been what I hoped it would be, was what we had real?" Nyssa asked and Sara nodded.

"It was real. Every bit of it. It just wasn't what it could've been." Sara said and Nyssa nodded as she stepped aside and let Sara walk past her, trying to keep tears from coming to her eyes as she let her go.