Oa, Friday

[electrocynic]

This was it.

Sarah's apartment at MCA and office at the school had been emptied out. Most of her stuff was now in London under Jenny's care, waiting on how things shook out. Sarah herself had spent most of this past week in London as well, for the most part making sure her arse print was still worn into the seat in their favourite booth at The Fortress. It'd been a good time, despite Jenny's repeated fucking blubbering at how romantic this whole thing was. Alex had mostly looked confused about the whole thing, while Don had just stated he wished the sex was worth the move.

And Devlin, ever-present with his group of brown-nosers by the bar, had made some crack about her tits and space and whatever.

She'd said her goodbyes.

And then she'd set up on her journey. Which had been the bloody worst, so far. Of course there couldn't be a direct portal from London to Oa. Of course not. She'd been bounced around the multiverse, from one waiting area to the next, so many times that she'd already lost count and was ready to yell at just about anyone who gave her even the slightest bit of extra trouble. She'd worn her costume for this journey, hoping that'd make people treat her better, but nah. Same shit as she would've gotten in her civvies. Except maybe with a touch more leering, ugh.

She'd never been as glad to figure out this portal was the final one. It spat her out, and she was there. On Oa.

"Fucking finally."

God, she hoped that fucking ginger pain in her arse was actually here.

And also not dating some early-twenties waif with legs for days.

[ooc: This is it, Sarah's final hurrah! NFB and for the Guy + relevant NPCs with the kind permission of the admins. Thank you all for making these five and a half years with Sarah such a lovely time!]

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[in_brightest_day]

Well, he sure as he'll wasn't dating the twenty-something (looking, at least) waif in the mini-skirt.

"I didn't know we had new recruits," she said, eyeing Sarah's outfit.

[electrocynic]

Of course there was a waif here. Of-fucking-course.

Sarah rolled her eyes – she should've been on her best behaviour but she was tired from the travel, alright? – and held up her hands. After dropping her bag by her feet. "Do you see any fancy fucking rings? I'm not a Lantern of any shade of the bloody rainbow, I'm here to see someone."

[in_brightest_day]

Arisia's eyebrows shot up at that and she gave her a closer look.

"Who are you here to see exactly?"

[electrocynic]

"Guy Gardner."

And there came the first hint of nerves. What if this was a huge mistake to be making? What if that last visit was bullshit, what if actually everything was bullshit?

Jesus Christ, she'd just travelled across the multiverse just for one bloke. Maybe she was off her rocker.

She wasn't going to let that discomfort show, though. "Ginger, annoying. You know him?"

[in_brightest_day]

Arisia grinned at that before cupping her hands around her mouth to shout, "Hey, Kilowog! Guy's got a guest!"

Because she clearly needed to spread this one around.

[in_brightest_day]

And that was a little much on the alliteration there. But what could you do?

"What's that?" he asked, floating on over to get a look at the human. Oh, wait, he remembered this one! "Aren't you from that island he taught at?"

[electrocynic]

Sarah wasn't a fan of making this a big deal, at least in the way of calling more irrelevant people over. So, nice start on this acquaintance, Arisia!

"Yeah, Fandom," she said. Irritably, and not covering it very well. "That mean he's still around?"

[in_brightest_day]

"Isn't this the one he's been moo--" Kilowog started to say before a green band appeared around his mouth. Which was rude of Arisia.

[in_brightest_day]

"He's at the bar," she said, shooting Kilowog such a look. They had to find their own entertainment in space. "We'll show you how to get there."

[electrocynic]

Sarah raised an eyebrow at Kilowog, but wasn't sure whether she was supposed to take that as reassuring or not. Goddammit, Lanterns. Every last one of you were useless.

Okay, except for finding Guy. "Riiiight," she drawled. "Okay, thanks. That'd be really fucking useful at this point."

[in_brightest_day]

"You're really different from his last visitor," Arisia said, leading her toward the center of the base.

[electrocynic]

"Yeah? How so?"

She tempered her curiosity down to mildness, despite being curious about almost everything. She could mask that with looking around like she was unimpressed with damn near everything she could see.

[in_brightest_day]

"She means the snow princess," Kilowog chimed in, following a long at a sedate pace. They could just fly there, but nooo.

[in_brightest_day]

Because they were getting to know her, you philistine.

"Right. Her. You're different from her."

[electrocynic]

Also flying was for tossers, sorry not sorry.

"The who now?" Sarah asked and whoops, there was an ever-so-slightly harder edge to her tone - at least until she remembered something. "Wait, Tora?"

[in_brightest_day]

"Yeah, but that was ages ago," Arisia said with a shrug. "Apparently she was dead for a while."

Totally normal thing. She'd been dead for a little while too.

[in_brightest_day]

"...I don't remember that part of it."

[electrocynic]

"Right."

She didn't even sound like she doubted it. After all, she was a cape – even if her world wasn't quite so easy with the resurrections as some seemed to be.

"Good on her for living."

[in_brightest_day]

"He was awful mopey after she left." Kilowog and tact weren't exactly things used in the same sentence. "This gonna be a repeat of that?"

[electrocynic]

Sarah already liked you better, Kilowog.

Even if she rolled her eyes, again. "'S not my intention," she mumbled. Because she didn't really want to be discussing her intentions with random people, especially random friends of Guy's.

[in_brightest_day]

As she should. He was flippin' awesome.

"Good. Don't need more moody Earth Lanterns."

[in_brightest_day]

"They're not all moody," Arisia muttered under her breath.

Yes they were.

[electrocynic]

Earth caused moodiness, it was a fact.

Just look at Sarah! Lugging her bag around and ignoring the trepidation she was feeling. "Well, I can't control him. If he gets moody, that's his bloody problem. And yours."

Just not hers. Let that be clear.

(It would very much be her problem too.)

[in_brightest_day]

"Heh. I like this one," Kilowog decided with a firm slap on her back to show his approval.

[in_brightest_day]

"It's going to be so romantic," Arisia said, floating up a little as they approached a building with a big, garish 'Warriors' sign. Yep. That was all Guy there.