A/n:: So this is a new story that I'm working on and I do plan on continuing this I'm just not sure how soon I'll update this. I'm also not sure of the pairing that I'm gonna go with in this story but I do plan on having dark subjects all throughout as well as sexual content present. So, NSFW

Also this will take place during Mankind Divided so SPOILERS TO THOSE WHO HAVEN'T PLAYED OR BEATEN IT. This will be slightly AU such as, more time will pass by between milestones than it actually does in the game.

Prologue

She looked down at her phone as she walked impatiently past the slow moving crowd of depressed inhabitants of Ruzicka Station. She had four missed calls from her father but instead of tapping her father's name to dial him back, she clutched her phone with deep regret before forcing her hand to her side and returning her attention ahead of her. Her phone vibrated strongly in her palm again but she ignored it like every other time.

Vera Severov halted as the mass of people, both naturals and augs alike, became too clustered for her to get by. She adjusted the strap to her overstuffed backpack as she moved around the crowd.

That morning she and her father had fought about what they always fought about. Vera wanted out. She wanted to leave the depressing shit-hole of Prague but the ever so strict head of police, AKA her father, demanded that she stay. He could protect her; she could join the force. Hell, they were naturals so what was the big deal? Vera was basically royalty among the meager peasants and the homeless that were the augmented.

But none of that mattered to her. Vera hated every bit of Prague. It was always grey. Every television station was nothing but the same horror stories about crazy augmented people taking more lives. The Dvali and the long running friendship that her family had with some of its members. Her father constantly spewing his same hate speech about augs to try to make her see his way. It's why her mother left. After the incident two years prior, Vera couldn't help but have a small fear towards those augmented but she and her mother never grew as distant and cold as her father and the rest of the police force did. Everyone was human and she wasn't better than anyone else. All Vera wanted to do was leave to go to art school in America where her mother was. Her art was all that took her away from the melancholy of the world.

Her mother was half American, half Russian and had family in Florida. That's where she had moved to after the divorce. Bitter towards her mother for being the one taking the step to leave, Vera refused to leave her father behind and stayed in Prague, but now, she just needed to be gone. She was going to move to America to be with her mother and start her new life. She was 26. It was time for her to leave her old home behind.

A shaky exhale escaped past her pale lips and her chest tightened in pain when the phone vibrated again. Vera did love her father very much. She knew if she spoke to him, heard his voice; his apology, then she would stay. She would call him after she was gone.

Vera didn't know that her pale blue eyes had drifted towards the screen of her phone again until she bumped roughly into a brick wall of a man ahead of her and dropped her phone to the concrete.

Vera took a quick step back and opened her mouth for an immediate apology but was hushed when the man faced her. Dressed in a long black coat with dark hair, a nicely kept beard and golden impenetrable shades, Adam Jensen towered over the woman as he looked down at her with an expressionless face.

"Shit," a woman standing next to Adam breathed as she picked up Vera's phone; a large crack split down the middle of it. "Sorry about your phone."

Vera shook her head with an apologetic smile tugging at her lips as she took her phone back. She spoke in English after she heard the other woman do so, "No I'm sorry. It's my fault." Her blue eyes drifted back towards the man who remained silent before looking back at the woman. Vera noted that the two were both very evidently auged but she didn't mind. In fact, the slight change in expression from the woman after Vera's apology was enough to say that she wasn't expecting such politeness from a natural.

Vera opened her mouth to speak again but this time was silenced when she saw an unmistakable yellow hoodie stand out from the crowd to a man that Vera knew all too well. Or at least she suspected she did. The man hid his face well as he strode by without even a glance.

Is that..? Vera began to herself but shook her thoughts away. No it can't be. Ivan is in the Utulek Complex. She was there when her father dragged him away.

"Something wrong?" Adam finally spoke with a deep roughness in his voice that was more than enough to jolt Vera's attention back to him.

"Nothing," Vera quickly replied with another apologetic smile before dipping her head to the two. "Sorry again. You two have a good day." The two didn't stop Vera as she moved around them to continue on into the building. Before they continued as well, the woman, Alex Vega, noticed Adam looking towards the man clad in yellow.

"Adam?" Alex said with curiosity.

Adam remained as he was for a few more heartbeats before shaking his head and moving to walk again with Alex and continue from where they left off.

Vera was inside now and was relieved when she learned that her phone still functioned just fine. Yet another call; her father was worried, she knew and that tore her apart inside. With a defeated sigh, Vera caved and answered the call.

"Vera!" her father spoke in Russian. "I've called you six-"

"I know dad," Vera interrupted. "You know I can't go back."

"No," her dad's voice was soft but firm. "I'm sorry sweetie. I'll let you have your space but just please stay. There's no one else here for me except you. Please don't leave me too. Come back and we'll talk this over. No more fighting, I promise. I love you Vera."

Vera breathed with a heavy heart. As her eyes wandered around, she saw the two she ran into earlier within with building too stopped and conversing with one another. Her hand was gripping her phone too tight and her heart rate had picked up dramatically. Her eyes were already watering and she knew that she couldn't leave.

"I love you too d-,"

All that followed was a loud bang of an explosion, screaming and more explosions when Vera turned to the source of the terror as soon as the bombing hit the building she was in.

Adam had reached for Alex to help her stand as soon as the explosion was over.

"Alex, you okay?" Adam asked gruffly after some coughing.

"Yeah," Alex answered and coughed twice, "yeah."

When they were on their feet, Adam spoke again, "Let's get out of here."

As they trudged onward, the victims of the attack were all too evident and abundant. Adam halted in his step when he noticed a woman laying before him with a few shards of glass along the left side of her face, ruining her left eye. Her long black hair sprawled out messily around her and her other eye untouched but glassy. The once pretty pale blue of those eyes that were once looking at Adam with curiosity were now gone; stolen as Vera lie lifeless.