"Hey, rise and shine!"

Zari groaned as Callie, Sara and Ray all hovered over her in the med-bay. The blonde assassin had found the girl with Ray passed out in the engine room, and Callie had simply already been in the med-bay when they arrived with her.

Gideon had wanted to run a couple of extra tests on Callie to make sure that her body was adjusting back to their Earth normally after the whole ordeal with the Earth-X Nazis and pushing herself through time travel again and again. So far, they hadn't found any bad news and both of them were certain that they wouldn't anytime soon.

Callie was relived to say the least, after everything they had all been through, this was the one good news that she was excited to share with Sara and the rest of the team when they had the chance.

"How are you feeling?"

"Oh, like my head is made of cement," Zari groaned, pushpin herself up slightly in the med-bay chair as she rubbed at her head. Her eyes caught on to the knife that was resting in the holder tied to Callie's thigh and she paused for a moment before remembering that the girl was still adjusting to a world where she didn't need to have a weapon on her at every given moment.

"You were exposed to the ship's Bosonic hyper-fluid in the engine room. Knocked you out for hours," Ray told her, eyeing her suspiciously as she suddenly seemed okay.

"Oh, man, I have such a Gideon hangover."

"What do you mean?" Sara asked, titling her head as she leaned slightly against Callie. It wasn't an uncommon sight to notice the two of them displaying their PDA a little more obviously now that they were married, but none of the team really minded that much. It was a sight they were just glad to see after having believed Callie was dead for three months.

"While I was out, Gideon transported my consciousness into a matrix."

"Okay. I think you dreamt that."

"No, it wasn't a dream, it was real. Right, Gideon?" Zari called up to the AI system, fingers theoretically crossed as she waited on the disembodied voice to prove her right.

"Unfortunately, I don't know what you're talking about, Ms. Tomaz."

"Oh, that is cold, Gideon. After all that, we're still not friends?"

"Zari, are you sure you're okay?" Callie checked, reaching out to place her hand on the girl's head. Zari sighed deeply, pushing the raven haired girl's hand away from her forehead as she wailed her arms around in the air to try and convey the point she was making.

"Gideon trapped me in my own simulator, so I was stuck on the Waverider reliving the same hour over and over again. Needless to say, I got to know you all really, really well."

"Could be caused by the sedative dosage, I could look into it later," Ray murmured to Callie and Sara as the duo hummed in agreement, turning back to look at the girl like she had grown three heads.

"I'm telling the truth. You know what, I'll prove it. Sara, ask Ray what Constantine told him about you."

Callie and Sara both perked up at this, both having different expressions on their face. Looking at Sara he panicked slightly, but looking at Callie truly scared him. The girl had a very daring look on her face as she scowled at him, her mind jumping to various conclusions at the sentence that had just left Zari's mouth.

"Okay. Ray, what did Constantine tell you about me?"

"Yeah Ray, what did Constantine tell you about my wife?" Callie added, crossing her arms and narrowing her eyes threateningly at the man, daring him to step the invisible line that Zari had him currently balancing on.

"How did you know that? Okay, he warned me that if you were possessed by Mallus again and lost control, that I I should kill you. Oh, such a relief to get that off my chest."

"Well, he's right. You should kill me if Mallus takes over again, and you are going to need a lot of help."

"You and me need to talk," Callie told Sara, a scowl on her face as she processed what they were all trying to say. "Well, let's just hope it doesn't come down to that."

Callie turned on her heel without a second word, ignoring the protests of the other three as she stormed out at the plan that they had all formed in front of her. She was annoyed that they were even considering that as their only option, but she knew that there was something else they could always do instead of having to kill one another. There had to be.

Sara turned back to Zari, a soft smile on her face as she shrugged sheepishly at Callie's outburst. The girl smiled back gently as she lightly got to her feet, stumbling ever so slightly at having been sat down for so long.

"Hey, you wanna get a coffee?"

"Yeah."

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"Aren't you wondering what I learned about you?" Zari asked Sara as they sat in the kitchen, a mug of coffee clutched between both of their hands. Sara had hoped that Callie would have reappeared after her strop but she knew that the raven haired girl was either throwing knives somewhere or napping her anger off.

"Do I want to know?" Sara asked, stirring the milk into her coffee as she sat down across from Zari with a gentle smile on her face. She was just glad that Zari was warming to her - especially after they had been clashing so often recently.

"You're afraid of historical loopholes because you'd be tempted to save your sister."

Sara took a deep breath at Zari's statement, not even needing to take a full minute to process it. She was right, Sara was afraid of loopholes. There was nothing more important to her than her family and she missed Laurel so so so much.

"Well, not a day goes by that I don't think about her."

"I'm sorry I fried Gideon, but I had to know if there was a way to save my brother."

"And what did the simulation say?"

"It said I can't do it alone."

"Sounds like you're gonna need a team."

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Callie had her face buried in a photo album when Sara made it back to their room. She had a pair of old glasses pushed on her nose, something that instantly made Sara pause in the door and smile softly at how much it reminded her of being teenagers.

"You haven't worn those in a long time," Sara murmured, causing a tired Callie to look up with a soft and gentle smile that she currently reserved for Sara and Sara only. "And I mean like a really really long time."

The blonde threw her jumper to the side as she tugged on a pair of lounge shorts, hopping on to the bed and crawling to lay down beside Callie. The girl pushed the glasses up her head, letting them rest at the crown of her head as she passed the photo album to the blonde.

"My eyes were just a little strained today," Callie murmured gently, motioning to the page that she was currently looking at. Sara smiled at her before accepting the book from her hand, sitting up as she looked down at it.

She almost felt her eyes water slightly as she looked at the page, a heartbroken smile crossing her lips as she noticed the page.

Across the dual pages were photos of Callie and the Queen family. It was hard to imagine what it must have been like for Callie when it had been revealed her father was a villain to the city and that Tommy had died from his sick plan to reinvent the glades, but it made it easier for Sara knowing that the Queen family had stepped in and treated her like own of their own.

It hadn't been hard for them anyway, since Callie basically had spent almost every breathing day with Oliver Queen when they had been growing up. Her eyes trailed past a photo of Callie with the late Moira before they stopped on a newer photo of Callie and Thea.

"You know," Callie murmured, her voice whispy as she tried to think about what she was about to tell Sara. "I don't even know if Oliver was able to tell her I'm alive. They're not really in contact at the moment as far as I know."

Sara's eyes opened slightly in shock as she thought about what Callie was telling her, thinking back to whether or not any of them had even thought to tell Thea about the Nazi invasion that had occurred on their planet only weeks prior.

"Her and Roy, they got out of Star City. I don't know if I ever told you that," Callie continued as she began to play with Sara's fingers between her own. A blissful smile crossed her face as she thought about the couple that deserved the perfect ending just like her and Sara were destined for.

"I don't think you did," Sara spoke, "but I'm glad for them. Even if she did kill me."

They both chuckled slightly, knowing fine well that it was not Thea's fault that she had shot those arrows into Sara all those years ago. Callie's father had once again intervened in their lives and managed to brainwash Thea into killing the blonde. He was well aware of Callie's feelings for her and hence his motive.

"I miss them so much," Callie admitted, running a free hand through her messy locks as she closed the book over. Sara snuggled into her side, allowing Callie to begin to lightly massage the top of her head.

"I know you do, babe," Sara agreed, listening to the girl's steady heartbeat through her skin. Callie placed a soft kiss to the top of Sara's head before she sat up slightly as a thought came to her.

Sara sat up slowly too, fully aware of the gears turning in her wife's head.

"Mind if I take a few days absence to go visit?"

There was a brief pause as Sara remembered the last time Callie had left the ship to 'go visit' her family. She had returned three months later as a Nazi fighter which was certainly something Sara wasn't keen on happening again.

Callie knew that Sara had every right to tell her to stay; as her wife and as the Captian of the ship. But when Sara looked up at the girl who was still trying to piece herself back together, she knew that there was nothing she could refuse this girl of.

"Go, I'll still be here waiting for you when you get back."

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So later that night, Callie wished a quick goodbye to the team as they once more dropped her off in the present. She promised them all that there was no need for a formal goodbye as she would be back before they knew it and exactly how they remembered her.

It was interesting for Callie to find that when she arrived back on the Waverider a few days later that all hell had broken loose across time while she had been visiting the remaining members of the Queen family.