personal reasons for wanting to go back, in case this was going to work. If it wasn’t going to work, then it meant she was stuck there and at least she had Nat and her nice folks to stand by her. But she really hoped it would work. Now she wanted back to her old life as much as she used to want to leave it behind some time ago….
After talking to Sam, Nat secretly hoped that it wouldn’t work and that Sam would stay with her. She got used to having her around. But time would tell. Five days’ time that is. She was going to keep her fingers crossed.
Five days later the time had finally come to say good bye in case this worked and Sam could really go back home. So Mike, Diana, Natalie and Sasha were all by her side when she went to the park to look for the particular old oak. Nat was barely holding back her tears when she grasped Sam's arm to stop her.
“What is it, Nat!?” Sam asked her in a low voice as she didn’t want Mike and Diana to overhear whatever Nat was going to tell her.
“I want you to have this to remember me by”, said Nat as she put a photo of her and Sam that she had taken a few days ago. The photo had the beautiful modern city in the back and it was really beautiful, something the people in Sam's timeline had never seen. So she folded the photo carefully and stashed it in her trousers’ pocket. She thanked her and kissed her burning cheek.
“Don’t cry, Nat. Who knows, maybe if I do get home and Iget bored after a while, maybe I decide to come back? Or maybe this won’t even work. There is no storm now. Just the silver moon…”
“Maybe that’s all it takes, Sam. I won’t cry, if this is what you want. I will even help you look for the oak” she finally said at peace with the situation.