Hey there, Mr. Tin Man
You don't know how lucky you are
You shouldn't spend your whole life wishin'
For something bound to fall apart~The bar is crowded and smokey, and she's been here a while. Long enough that enough people have come up to her, thrown a line or two her way, enough to make her raise her gaze from where it is on her glass and look at them in a way that self-preservation didn't encourage any of them to stay.
She doesn't know how many she's had. Many. Not enough.
Her ear piece, on the bar next to her glass, beeps again.
She answered it once. Hours ago. Maybe a whole day now. Only long enough to say, "Not now," and hang up. Barely able to form those words then. She's ignored it four or five times now. The last one not too long ago. It's not enough, and it's too long, and someone won't take no for an answer sooner or later. One of them, or all of them. But they're fine. Mick's got the ship. She's not worried about that.
Given she's not stumbling or slurring, the bar girl, who looks about as wary of Sara as she is getting too concerned, rationally over whatever that drink count is, and maybe the looks she's given, still doesn't have a justifiable proof to stop her by yet. But Sara's not concerned with her either. Or here to get drunk. No matter how many drinks she downs.
She's here because she can still hear Martin's voice in her head.
You can't do this, he said.
You're the Captain now, he said.
I'm sorry, he said.
But Martin's dead now, and his apology, all his bumbling words, are in the ground with him.
Martin's dead, and Rip's dead, and Oliver is in jail, and her Dad -- her
Dad --
"I need another over here."