Secluded Part Of The Beach, Early Monday Morning

[walks_two_paths]

Savannah hadn't returned to the Lighthouse after it was deemed safe for all of the refugees to leave the safety of Special Collections. There was the whole thing where she wanted to give Sean and Annja some privacy for their reunion. She'd hated seeing her brother looking so haunted and numb after he lost his wife, and she had been powerless to help him. The least she could do is give them some privacy.

She could see people all around her running about and being happy that they were alive again or excited because they had found out that people they loved were coming back into existence.

It was just like she had told Isabel, the people on the island were always brought back because those were the rules. By her logic, anyway.

God, she was exhausted, mentally and physically.

She wandered down to the beach to climb up onto one of the rocks. She needed some time to get her emotions back under control before she could go anywhere. She wasn't going to ask Wyatt to orb her to New York, because if everything she loved was still gone, she didn't know how she was going to be able to deal with it. Besides, Isabel and Wyatt had loved ones that they needed to check on, as well.

When she heard her phone ringing in her bag, she was almost afraid to answer it.


[[OOC: Open, but the Johnny thread takes place last. Johnny played for me by snarkyhealer.]]

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[likethestore.livejournal.com]

The first thing K-Mart had to do, she knew, was find Savannah. So she headed to the beach, knowing it was the most likely place to find her big sister.

"Savannah?" she called. "You here?"

She hoped she was right.

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god, K-Mart was all right!

Savannah turned her head in the direction she heard her voice. "I'm over here."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

K-Mart dropped down to sit next to Savannah before leaning over to hug her tightly, saying nothing. She just clung to her for a few moments.

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

That was all right, Savannah was going to do some clinging of her own.

"Let's not do that again."

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"Let's not," K-Mart said in agreement. "I... God, that was scary."

She didn't need to say anything else.

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Savannah nodded. "So much."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"Knowing that for a while, I didn't exist... God, that's scary." K-Mart shuddered. "I wasn't going to go down without a fight, though. I ran from it. I was going to make it work to get me."

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She nodded. "I have no doubt of that." She swallowed. "Not as many people as we had hoped escaped it. I lost Annja, you and Wyatt the last day of fighting."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"At least you lost us on the last day," K-Mart said, trying for optimistic. "We're fighters. No way we were going down easy."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"I know, but it was still hard as hell."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"But we're back now, and everything's okay," K-Mart said, taking Savannah's hand and squeezing it. "You didn't lose us for long."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah squeezed her hand back. "Still, losing you for any length of time has sucked."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"And we can't even blame this one on Fandom for once," K-Mart said after a moment. "Fandom was what fixed it."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

She nodded. "I told Isabel that it was against the rules for people on the island to get taken and stay taken."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"It is," K-Mart said with a nod. "It really is. Okay, so we went missing for a little bit, but we're back. Because Fandom's just awesome like that."

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"Only this time, Fandom saved worlds, too."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it did." K-Mart went silent for a moment. "This means home is safe now, too. Back home, I mean. Funny how avoiding zombies and dealing with the Umbrella Corporation counts as safe."

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"No matter what, it's your roots," Savannah said.

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"Exactly." K-Mart nodded. "I should... I should go home and check on everybody. Make sure everybody's there."

Because it wasn't exactly like she could make phone calls.

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"Don't go alone," Savannah cautioned. Or, tried to caution. It sounded more like a plea.

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"I won't," K-Mart said. "I'm... too scared to go alone, honestly. I just don't know who to ask to go with me."

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"If I didn't need to get back to my New York to see if Johnny is ..." She swallowed. "...I'd go."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"I appreciate the thought," K-Mart assured her. "But you get back to New York, check on Johnny. And when you find him, give him a big hug for me, would you?"

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"I'm afraid, K-Mart."

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"Of what?" K-Mart asked, squeezing Savannah's hand.