A/N: I reworked this chapter after reading it again, the previous version is the version i posted on my tumblr and was my first piece i made after having stopped writing for many many years. It just seemed so rushed and even I wouldn't read my story if the first chapter was like this. But i'm happy with this new version now! The first chapter needs to get you hooked to the story after all right? Anyways...hope you like it! Thanks for reading!
It was a lazy afternoon, Satya, Jesse, Hana and Lucio were eating lunch outside laughing and telling stories. Somehow the topic of "hilarious/embarrassing birthday moments" came up and Lucio was describing how at his last birthday a crowd surfing stunt went wrong.
"I was in a cast for a month after that stunt. Still didn't cancel the tour tho, my fans don't deserve to suffer because of my own stupidity after all!" Lucio said with a bit of pride in his tone. "How about you McCree, a guy like you has got to have some good stories" Lucio smirked and leaned back into his seat waiting for his response.
"Hmm well let's see..." the cowboy pondered for a second, sure he had good stories, but appropriate ones to tell with the ladies around...maybe not. "Well there was one a few years ago me and my buds went to a bar during a mechanical bull night. I was beating everyone's scores too! Made it to almost two minutes until i got flug off by the moderator and flew across the room. Luckily no bad injuries came from that tho I did hit my head pretty bad. That plus the hangover that next morning was like hell" Jesse chuckled to himself scratching the back of his head
"Geez what's with you guys and getting injured?" the small gamer questioned.
"The best parties always end with at least a few bruises!" McCree chimed
"Well then Han' what's your most embarrassing birthday moment huh?" Lucio asked
"Hmm...well, there was this one time I accidentally hit a kid in the face while playing a round of laser tag with my friends. She was so tiny I didn't even know she was next to me! I felt so bad i took her with me and got her the most hit points and let her win every round." Hana said
"That was cute, not really embarrassing tho" Lucio teased
"Well I don't really get to celebrate my birthday that much, it's in winter, during the holidays at that. Also I'm kinda a soldier and movie star...not much free time dude" Hana reminded Lucio
"Right...sorry" Lucio apologized while scratching the back of his head
"How 'bout you Darlin? you got any funny birthday stories for us?" he asked nudging Satya hoping for a good story.
She just shyly blushed nervously and said "Well I…i've never celebrated my birthday. I'm actually not sure when it is to be honest... My birth records are missing and Vishkar never bothered to find or tell me." she looked around and everyone looked shocked and sad to hear she's never had a birthday.
"Damn…you've never had a party Vaswani? That's messed up." Lucio said, actually feeling pretty bad for her.
"It's fine, it's rather unnecessary at this point. There's no need for celebrating one specific day of one's life. If others care about you then that's celebratory enough." Satya claimed trying to reassure everyone not to worry about it. She didn't like worrying people or getting pity from others. Still, everyone did look saddened and uneasy even after her reassurance. The rest of lunch was a bit awkward after that.
The next day Jesse gathered up a meeting of the overwatch crew members. "Alright gather 'round everyone, I've gathered y'all here today because Satya has never had a birthday party an' that. just. ain't. right. So we're gonna celebrate here at headquarters and all y'all gonna help out y'here? Any objections?" Jesse said in a somewhat demanding tone. Jack isn't amused that he called them all here for something as silly as this. Ana is smiling, proud that he turned out to be such a sweet young man. All the youngsters are beaming because they love parties and can't wait to help.
"I'll help with the cake!" Lena said excitedly
"I got music!" Lucio boasted
"we got decorations!" Jamie volunteers for himself and Mako "it'll be a…blast!" he snickers. McCree gives him a warning look that says no funny business or you're dead. "Don't worry mate we like the Shelia we ain't gonna sabotage or nothin'" Jamie reassured.
"I'll help with the party games!" Hana cheered "I can help with the cake too if Lena needs any" Mei chimed in shyly.
"That's great! Thank ya kindly. Let's make it for this weekend then, that'll give us enough days to get everything prepared. Ana, Angie, Reinhardt, and Jack i'm makin' ya'll in charge to of everything to make sure everything goes down smoothly. Since i gotta distract her all day until the time of the party I'm definitely goin to need y'all to supervise. That ok with y'all?"
"Of cooooourse! I LOVE parties!" Reinhardt beamed with his booming voice.
"You can count on us Jesse" Angela reassured and Ana nodded in agreement. Jack just huffed with crossed arms. He'll help, but he won't be happy about it. Everyone split up into pairs based on what they'd be helping on as the meeting was adjourned.
.:Tracer and Mei:.
"Oh boy Mei we get to make the cake! It's gonna be big with flowers and sprinkles and rainbows and and…SPARKLERS!" Tracer was overly excited to help throw this party. Mei was starting to get a bit nervous that she wouldn't be able to keep up with her
"Um Lena….what flavor should we choose to make? Do you know what Satya likes?"
Tracer paused "uh….ummmmm…..well everyone likes chocolate right? and vanilla never fails! Maybe vanilla with a filling! Uhmmmm..."
"Maybe we should ask McCree?"
"Yeah…."
"i'll text him"
.:Lucio and Hana:.
"i'm gonna put together the hottest playlist for this party! Vaswani's gonna love it!" Lucio claimed excitedly already searching his library for songs while laying on top of Hana's bed.
"I don't think Satya would like video games so what kinda games should we do for the party?" Hana asked falling back into her beanbag chair wracking her brain for ideas
"hmm let's look some up, there's gotta be a ton online." Lucio suggested then started to mimic Reinhardt in a bad German accent "But you can never go wrong with the classics like truth or dare, 7 minutes in heaven, spin the bottle…." Lucio trailed off and stopped his joking as he saw Hana's face grow more and more devious and mischievous as he listed such games "…oh boy this is gonna be one interesting party i can already tell"
.:Jamie and Mako:.(( 4 days left))
The two were in their lab tinkering around with a bunch of craft items from paper mache to glitter.
"I give it a 10!"
"you've said that for every decoration we've made so far Jamison"
"because we're creative geniuses! she's gonna love it!" Junkrat said giggling
"…let's just settle for like. she is a perfectionist after all and we….aren't." Mako said trying his hardest to sound not so harsh
"oh don't be so hard on everything! it's the thought that counts! especially since it is the girl's first birthday party!" Jamie cheered
"if you say so…" Mako said in a bit of an annoyed tone, partly at Jamie overly optimistic attitude at this project, and partly because he got him covered in glitter and it's now everywhere on both of them and the room.
.:McCree & Symmetra:.
*bzz bzz bzz bzz*
"your phone sure has been going off a lot lately Jesse…" Satya said with a bit of suspicion
"Ahaha yeah um Hana! Added me to a group chat an' the kids keep blowing up my phone! No big deal honey, i can silence it if it's botherin you" McCree lied "Can't these kids do anything without asking a million questions" he thought to himself, slightly annoyed at the amount of texts he's been getting for the past few days
"Ah alright. She must really love showing you those funny pictures to add you to a group text" she chuckled to herself at the trouble she thinks Jesse got himself into for giving Hana his personal number.
"Y'know how kids are, they get excited and gotta show it everyone immediately. No harm done, she's a good kid after all" Jesse said smiling, relieved that she bought his lie without question.
McCree checks his phone and it's texts from Tracer, Mei, and Mako, all over questions or pictures for things that have gone wrong. Jesse sighed. "I need back up for these guys, Lucio and Hana already have their own projects, maybe i can get Genji and Zenyatta to help. And maybe Genji will bring his mopey brother along too, i'll take any backup i can get at this point." Jesse groaned and dialed his phone to call Genji for help
.:Genji & Zenyatta:.
"A party you say? For Symmetra? Oh how sad… Of course I'll help! Yes i can bring them too. Yoshi! Ja ne" *beep* (t/n:yoshi: Alright, ja ne: see you later/soon)
"Who was that Genji?" Zenyatta asked curiously
"McCree! He's throwing a surprise party for Symmetra, he said she's never had a birthday party so he's throwing one for her on Saturday and needs our help. I think we need to help with cooking and decorations"
"Maybe we can get your brother to help! You said he's good at origami right? He could help with decorations!" Zenyatta said cheerfully
"It will take some convincing but hopefully we can get him to help" Genji stated while trying to think of a way to convince his brother
.:Hanzo:.
*bzz bzz bzz*
"Hello?"
"Brother I need your help!" Genji said a bit excitedly on the other end
"What for? What's wrong?" He immediately assumed it was a mission or his brother was in trouble and started walking to get his bow
"A surprise birthday party! McCree is throwing it and we need some help for some stuff!"
"A party?! You called me for this?! I thought you were in trouble! No!" Hanzo said a bit annoyed at his younger sibling
"But brother it's for Symmetra! McCree says she's never celebrated her birthday before because she doesn't know when it is. Isn't that sad?!" Genji whined to his brother trying to sympathize him into helping
"That is rather unfortunate but I just don't see how I can help. I barely know Satya afte rall. If you wish i can come to the celebration but otherwise…"
"Well brother, considering you called her by her first name I'd say you do know her a little bit!" Genji said with a sly smirk on his face he was lucky Hanzo couldn't see. "You can help us decorate! You're great at origami! You use to do it all the time when we were kids! We can make her 1000 cranes for good luck! She'll love it!"
Hanzo sighed at his little brother's persistence "I haven't done origami in years Genji i–"
"Please brother! It'll be like old times!"
Hanzo sighed in defeat "Okay fine. You win. I'll meet you at headquarters tomorrow so we can work on it"
"Yoshi! See you tomorrow brother" Genji said excited he got his brother to agree and hung up the phone
*beep*
Hanzo wasn't very excited for what his brother talked him into doing, but he is a little happy that he has the chance to bond with his brother again. He knows he hasn't been treating Genji as well as he should have been lately so it will be nice to bond like old times. But 1000 cranes…that's a bit much to do in such a short amount of time he thought to himself.
.:Tracer and Mei:. ((3 Days Left))
"Ahhh it's only a few days away and we've failed miserably so far!" Lena whined in defeat
"What's wrong girls? You seem to be having trouble. Plus something smells like it's burning…" Ana asked as she walked into the kitchen
"We're having some difficulty making the cake for Satya…we either keep burning it or it ends up tasting awful…" Mei explained in an exasperated voice
"WHAT is with the BURNING smell my friends?!" Reinhardt asked from down the hallway as he walked towards the kitchen but his booming voice could be heard clearly
"The girls are having troubles making the cake" Ana replied
"WHAT?! Then we should teach them! Reinhardt roared happily "Come my friends, get me an apron I'll show you how to make a proper cake!"
Ana chuckled a bit, knowing that when he meant "proper' cake he meant "huge and unnecessary" cake
"REALLY?! OH BOY! Look Mei he's gonna teach us i can't wait this is gonna be the best cake ever!" Lena boasted while jumping up and down
"Let's get started!" Mei smiled while handing aprons to Reinhardt and Ana as Tracer dashed around getting the ingredients and utensils.
Ana didn't really want to help bake the cake but her mischievous side wanted to see what Reinhardt was going to put the poor girls through, they had no idea what they were in for
.:The Decorations Team:.
Hanzo sighed "Even with our speed and Zenyatta's 8 hands i really don't think we're going to be able to make 1000 cranes in two days Genji" he said as he folded the paper rhythmically as if the entire process was simply muscle memory
"I think we have a nice flow going and we do have a lot done right now. I think we can do it brother!" Genji said optimistically
"Let's see we have almost 100 already and we've been working for an hour and a half so if we do this for 5 hours today and tomorrow we should be done!" Zenyatta said calmly
Hanzo was about to groan about how troublesome this was until Genji started talking "That may be a lot of work but I think it's worth it. Especially since i get to spend time with my brother and my master. It's nice being with you two at the same time"
Hanzo couldn't help but smile softly at his siblings words. To know his brother still thought so fondly of him. Even if this project was tedious it was worth it to have some bonding time with him again and to get to know who his new master was.
"And how is your project coming along Jamison?" Zenyatta asked happily
Junkrat sneered at the omnic, still not happy that he works with them but still replied "Goin just great thanks, we've made a buncha' pinatas for the Sheila so they'll explode with confetti an' glitter when they're broken. And of course the birthday banner! The Sheila's gonna love it!"
The three stared at him and Mako, well that explains why they've been covered in glitter for the past few days
"How lovely!" the omnic spoke up "I'm sure she's going to love everything!" Zenyatta cheered happily as he put three cranes down on the table
Jamie huffed, mad that it's so hard to be mad at an omnic when they're just so damn nice all the time. "Thanks…I guess…"
Mako chuckled at the rat's reaction and put his hand on rat's head "come on we still have a lot of work to do" he said while moving him towards their work station
Everyone worked diligently determined not to let Jesse down and show Satya the best birthday celebration they've ever thrown
.:End Part 1:.