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Sarah panicked "Shit Fe, this isn't what it looks like" "Oh really, because it looks like you've been shagging your clone in my bed. Not that I'm judging, If I saw my clone I'd want to shag him too although my imaginary clone didn't try to to kill me and kidnap my daughter" "I can explain Fe...sort of" Sarah mumbled. She has no idea how to explain any of this and gave Felix a look of apology.
" You can shag whoever you want darling, but if that one wants to hang around here then she better start being nice to me" Felix quipped, pointing at Rachel
"Hello Felix, I love your...artwork" Rachel replied slowly, not quite comprehending what was happening. "Oh look, she's learning already" Felix noted with an eye-roll. The three of them looked at each other, unsure of what to say next. Sarah couldn't tell if if Fe was finding the whole thing horrifying or hilarious. "Well I'm going to Bobby's, but we'll be talking about this later I'm sure, ciao for now". Felix grabbed a new coat and waved as he walked out the door, unable to stop from smirking.
"Well I guess we're out" Sarah said with a shrug. There wasn't much else to say. Whatever they had been doing was real now. There was no more hiding it, no more secret meet-ups. Sarah had given Felix ribbing ammo for the rest of their lives, and he was never one to miss the chance for a joke. But more than that it meant Sarah would have to process this. Felix wouldn't let this go as easily as he did other things. This was way too big a revelation to go unquestioned.
Rachel should have felt scared. It was terriying afterall. Yet somehow she felt more relaxed than ever before. She no longer had to keep it all in, hide her true self. It was out to the world now and then was nothing Rachel could do to change it. It was remarkably freeing, like skinny dipping for the first time. She hadn't know how to to take Felix's reaction but her own was even more foreign. In the past she would have been out the door by now, but Rachel hadn't moved yet. "Do you want me to leave Sarah?'
"No". Sarah didn't want her to leave. She wanted her to stay in her arms all night. She wanted to forget the fact that they were enemies on opposite sides of a coin. "I wanna talk to you"
Hell what did Sarah want now. Had this really just been another game to her, it seemed impossible to believe after what they had just shared."What do you want?"
Sarah stared at Rachel, wondering if she was making the right choice. What would the others say. She hoped they would understand. She stared at Rachel, trying to find the words.
"I want you on my side Rachel, I want your help in taking down Neolution"
Rachel was shocked. She had been expecting a very different kind of request."Why on earth are you going after Neolution Sarah? Are you mad?"
"Kira isn't safe as long as they're around. And neither are we. They're only leaving us alone because I told them S would incinerate Kendall if anyone tried to touch us. But sooner or later they'll call my bluff"
"Then run. Take your daughter somewhere and run."
"I'm tired of running Rachel, just like you're tired of keeping up your walls. I have to stop them once and for all, and I need your help"
"So this was all just a plan to get my help then? You offer me sex and in return I give you information"
"No" Sarah replied. "What happened between us, what is happening between us, has nothing to do with this." She kissed Rachel softly "I'm offering you a family"
"After the last few nights, I'm not sure I want to consider you family Sarah"
"Not that kind of family. I'm talking about friends. Love. RacheI I want you to join clone club"
Rachel felt shell-shocked. She could sense her life was coming to a crossroad at that moment. Take one route and her life would stay as it had always been. Everything inside, unable to feel until she felt everything at once. But at least it was familiar. Take the other route and her life would change. Everyday would be scary and new and Rachel would have no control over where it took her. "And what about the others?"
"They'll come round to it, we all came round to Helena remember, you and her aren't so different you know" Rachel hadn't met Helena but she couldn't imagine she had much in common with the Ukranian assassin "I doubt that Sarah"
"I just mean, you just came from the same place is all. I'm starting to realise we're all just products of our environment. They made us this way. But we're all capable of change. I just...I want us all together. I want us all to fight together, to fight for each other. I'm over you being another enemy, I'm tired of getting it from all sides. Fight with us Rachel, lets take back our lives"
Rachel couldn't stand it, she so wanted to be able to say yes. Family was all she ever wanted. and here was her enemy, offering it to her on a platter. Sarah was so naked at that moment, so open. Unlike herself, Sarah showed everything. She was daft of course, Neolution couldn't be stopped. Not with Rachel's help and certainly not without. Sarah was like a bull in a china shop, there was no way she would be able to orchestrate this. And yet Rachel somehow wanted to be a part of it. A part of something that was actually her choice. But it could never work. Rachel wasn't a good person. She had never even tried to be. Why was Sarah suddenly trusting her to become one.
As if she could read Rachel's mind, Sarah brought her hand up to her face, tracing her finger around her lips, before kissing her properly. "Stand with us" She was nearly crying now, just as Rachel was herself. "I think...I think I might like that" she replied before kissing Sarah right back.