Delayed Departure [Sara Hawke]

[phdfan]

Title: Delayed Departure

Prompt: Nostalgia

Player Character: Sara Hawke

Universe: Everything's on Fire

Characters/Pairings: Fenris/Hawke/Anders (implied)

Summary: In Skyhold, Fenris and Sara reminisce.

“Can you believe that I actually miss Kirkwall?” Sara said.
 

They sat on Skyhold’s battlements, overlooking the frozen valley below.  Their breath rose in white puffs.
 

“The climate was certainly better,” Fenris said, hunkering down into the fur-lined cloak the former Knight Captain had given him.
 

“I can’t believe Cassandra wanted me to come here, to do this.”  Sara gestured over the empty valley, but Fenris knew she was thinking of the Inquisition as a whole.  “Especially after what happened in Kirkwall.”
 

“A lapse of judgement,” Fenris said, softening the words with a smile.  “It probably helped that Varric didn’t mention our… involvement with Anders.”
 

“Andraste bless him,” Sara said.  “He didn’t tell Cassandra where we were either.”
 

Fenris missed the years they had spent alone.  No Kirkwall.  No mages and Templars.  No ancient magisters.  Just him, Sara, and Anders.  Not that it had been easy.  Anders had taken his continuing survival badly, and had tried to put an end to it multiple times.  It had taken all of Fenris and Sara’s combined support to get him through it.
 

Sara’s next words suggested her thoughts had followed a similar path.
 

“I miss him,” she said.
 

“We’ll see him soon.  Just as soon as we’re done here,” Fenris said.
 

“I’m worried they’re going to try to recruit me as an advisor,” Sara said, shaking her head.
 

“You can always refuse.”
 

“Refuse the Inquisition?” Sara said with a laugh.  “Sounds dangerous.”
 

“They don’t have the resources to track down two people moving alone.”
 

“Are you suggesting we leave?” she asked.  “Sneak away in the middle of the night?”
 

Fenris smiled before he could help it.  It was a nice thought.  “Maybe,” he said.  Whenever you say the word, he thought.
 

Sara walked her hand across the stone wall, and took his in her cold palm.
 

“I’m glad you’re here,” she said.  He moved closer, and wrapped his cloak around her as well.  “Just as soon as we’re done with Adamant, we’ll leave,” she said softly.
 

Fenris could barely wait.

Comments

[renegadefolkhero]

Just as soon as we’re done with Adamant...
DDDDDDD:

I have been wondering about their relationship post DA2, this fills in some blanks for me. Anders walks a difficult road.

[phdfan]

Thanks so much for commenting!! :)

I'm going to have to think about how I handle Adamant/the Fade with Sara + Fenris, because there is no way in hell that he'll be staying behind.

I've changed my mind a few times about how the aftermath of the Chantry boom would go down. If it had been Sara alone, I think that she would execute Anders. As I've been exploring SaraxFenrisxAnders' relationship I actually think that it is Fenris that makes the difference. He knows what it's like to do something that you hate yourself for (the fog warriors), and I think it is him that stays Sara's hand (who has a tendency to be snap-judgemental) and him that helps Anders to move past it.

I'm really looking forward to exploring more of their relationship, and probably will do so as new prompts come out! :)

[maramcreates]

Their ease with each other is delightful :)
I have to ask: is this part of a larger work?

[phdfan]

Thank you so much! :) This isn't directly part of a larger work, but follows on from a longer story I'm writing about the beginning of Fenris, Hawke & Anders' relationship (on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3899500). Once I'm finished that story, it should go approximately up to the beginning of this piece.

Thank you again! :)