Noir sat on the bed with Lena's arms around her and she asked.
"Are you sure we can trust her?"
"Absolutely. Angela have saved my skin more times than I can count." Lena replied.
Angela Ziegler also known as Mercy. A highly skilled doctor and field medic.
And just like Lena she is an agent of Overwatch.
Lena is probably right as well. Mercy is most likely the best one for the job.
"Luv?" Lena said.
"No. You are right. Ask her for help." Noir replied.
"Alright then. I will get right on it!" Lena said and jumped out of bed and got her radio.
"If she will help?" Noir said quietly.
"Did ye say something luv?" Lena asked.
"No nothing make the call." She replied.
"Ayay!"
Lena went into the bathroom and made the call
"Hello! Mercy?" She said over the radio
"Lena Oxton! Where the hell have you been? Are you hurt" Angela replied.
"Well no i'm fine luv." She replied.
"You were supposed to report back two days ago!" Angela continued.
"Wait I can explain." Lena said trying to calm her down.
"Then start explaining!"
And Lena started explaining all that had happened the last few days.
"You really like to find trouble don't you." Angela said after Lena was done explaining.
"So will you help her?" Lena asked quietly.
"If you are really sure that she is not with Talon anymore." She said
"Yes I'm sure of it" Lena replied.
"Alles klar it will take at least two hours to get to you." Angela finally said with a sigh.
"Thank you Angela you really an angel. But can you do it without telling the others." Lena said relived.
"I can not promise that I'm afraid. But just stay put and I will get there." Angela replied.
"Ayay. we will luv" Lena said and hung up.
She went out to the living room again and Noir were still sitting on the bed.
Without even saying anything Noir had understood that Mercy where going to help.
Lena's face said it all so Noir asked.
"When will she arrive then?"
"Around two hours she said." Lena replied.
"Faster than I had expected." Noir said.
"Well that's her job. To be the first on the spot." She replied.
She looked at Noir. Her beautiful blue skin almost shines from the sunlight coming from the window.
This almost feels like a dream to her. A dream that she never ever want to wake up from.
"Is something the matter?" Noir asked.
"No nothing luv. You're just too beautiful not to look at." She replied with a grin.
Noir almost felt flattered or did she really feel it.
"There is nothing beautiful with a monster like me." Noir said.
"Who said that you are a monster." Lena said and blinked in front of her.
"I have killed so many innocent and good people." She said.
"People can change ye know. You don't have the villain forever luv." Lena said and moved in closer.
"I am not sure if I can change." She replied.
"Of course you can." Lena said and pushed Noir back on the bed with her on top of her.
"You've already changed a great deal." she whispered in her ear.
Noir just wrapped her arms around Lena and hugged her tightly.
"I do not know what to do? I do not even understand what I am feeling right now. You are the only comfort I have right now." She said with tears in her eyes.
"Don't worry luv I'm here. I will not leave your side." Lena replied with a calm voice.
Noir calmed down a bit. She felt the cold metal from Lena's harness on her skin. But she also felt the warm core of it.
The Chronal Accelerator. The device that gave Lena the ability to control her own time.
The trade of was the she could never remove it.
Noir remember reading about it. The accident that caused Lena to get desynchronized from the normal time.
And the only thing that keeps her stable in this time is that harness.
She just as Noir herself, have had their existence changed against their will.
They just stayed in bed for a while until.
"Ehm! Entschuldigen Sie!" A voice suddenly said.
"Angela!? Ao!" Lena said as she tumbled down out of the bed.
"Sorry I did not think that you would be so…. " Angela said trying to hide her embarrassed face.
"Ya could knock before entering! Ye know" Lena said with her face completely red as she grabbed one of the bed sheets and wrapped it around her.
"Well ja I could but still. I did not expect you to be that close to her. But enough of that. I will need a little time to prepare. So get dressed the two of you." She replied and flailed her hand still trying to cover that she was still a bit embarrassed to have stumbled in like that.
"Yeah yeah" Lena said a little annoyed and went over to pick up her clothes.
Noir did not say a word and just went up and got some new clothes she had in one of the crates.
She really should report Lena. Angela thought to herself as she prepared for the operation.
Widowmaker is a wanted terrorist.
But still the way Lena sounded during the call.
And she could almost feel that something really was different with Widowmaker.
So she decided to trust Lena for now.
And it's not like Overwatch is viewed in a good way with the UN anymore.
Overwatch is viewed more like a rogue organization ever since it's return.
"So everything is prepared." Angela said as she turned towards the two of them.
"Let's get this over with." Noir said and went over to Angela.
"Then where is this kill switch?" She asked when Noir went to the bed where Angela had prepared.
"Around here." Noir answered and pointed towards the back of her neck.
"Well then maybe it would have been better if you had remained naked. But nevertheless take of the top and lay down on your stomach and we will begin. " Angela said.
Noir nodded and did as she said.
"So I suspect that any sedative would work on you?" Angela asked.
"No. The only thing that would work is to knock me out." Noir replied.
"Well I was afraid of that, so I will hope it doesn't hurt to much." She said.
"Don't worry it won't." Noir said.
"Very well I will begin now Widow... I mean Amélie." She said and sat down on a chair next to her.
"Noir." Noir replied.
"Entschuldigen Sie?" Angela said.
"My name is Noir now." She replied.
"Very well then Noir. I will start to try to locate exactly where this thing is" she said and scanned the back of Noir's neck with a special device.
"Ah the you are." She said and put the device away.
When she had made the cut, she could easily see the little implant "the kill switch".
"Well this will be a little tricky." She said as she inspected it.
"Is it going to be a problem?" Noir asked.
"Oh no but I just need to be careful not to hurt your spine. Because it sits directly on it." Angela replied.
"I see" Noir replied.
"So so be quiet now. I need to concentrate." She said and started the work to remove it.
"Verdammt! This thing was though." She said finally removing the implant after almost three hours.
"Is it done?" Noir asked.
"Nein! don't move! I still need to close the cut." Angela said and stopped Noir from standing up.
"There you go now you no longer have a kill switch." She said putting down her equipment.
"Thank you." Noir said finally able to stand up.
"May I ask you a serious question now Noir?" Angela asked with a serious look at her.
"Depends on the question." Noir replied with an equally serious look back.
"Why have you decided to leave Talon?" She asked.
Noir remained quiet for a while before deciding to answer.
"I'm no longer the Widowmaker that Talon wants."
"What do you mean?" Angela asked.
"I've have started to regain my emotions and Talon wants Widowmaker to be as cold and effective as possible. Talon can however easily remove my emotions again." Noir continued.
"But you do not want that?" She asked.
"No I do not." Noir replied.
"Why not?"
"For the first time in years I feel alive. I feel things now that I never could have hoped to ever feel. And Talon would just rip that right out of me. To turn into a tool a weapon again. They would never let me keep this. They would even take away my name again." Noir said.
Angela just sat there stunned. Lena was right something really have changed within Widowmaker. There were truly emotions there. The person that stood in front of her was not Widowmaker neither was it Amélie. No this was someone else. Maybe She really had become Noir. A completely new person. Well not completely new there were still traces of Widowmaker left.
"These emotions you talk about. What are they?" She finally said.
"I really do not know that yet. It is all just a big mess in my head right now." Noir replied.
"And you still want to keep them even if it is a mess?" She asked.
"Yes I want to understand what it is I am feeling. I am do not want to be just a tool a weapon anymore." Noir continued.
"And what about Tracer? Why are you with her right now?" Angela asked.
Noir became quiet again.
That was one of the biggest questions in her head right now. Deep down she knew the answer, But why could she just not say it? It is right there. Why?
"I do not know how to say it. I have the answer somewhere deep down I just can not put a word on it." She finally said.
"Do you love her?" Angela asked.
Noir just froze. Love? Is it love that I feel.
It was one of the first alternative she had come up with. But back then she had dismissed it.
Well she saw it as a possibility, but she still thought it was something else.
But now. Was it love that she felt for Lena?
Lena had openly said that she had fallen for her.
Love.
That word triggered that warm feeling again.
The warm feeling that only Lena would bring forth.
"Yes I do. I love Lena." Noir finally said with a smile and she could feel her eyes tearing up.
Angela could not stop herself from smiling as well.
But unknown to the two was that Lena stood on the other side of the door. With tears coming down and huge smile. She had heard everything. She was so happy. She was so happy for Noir. She was no longer the big bad assassin.
"Then what are you going to do now?" Angela asked after a while.
"Well I do not know. All I know that is I want to stay with Lena." Noir replied.
"That will not be easy I'm afraid." Angela said.
"I know. But no matter what I will find a way. I will find a way to redeem myself." Noir said.
"And I do not want to leave her either." Lena said and entered the room with tears still in her eyes and a huge smile.
"You have heard everything?" Noir asked.
"Of course I did you foolish girl." She said hugged Noir, and Noir hugged back.
Angela should really report the two of them but how can she.
How can she report such a strange yet adorable couple.
She would just let it take it's time for now.
"Well as long as you promise to take care of her Noir." Angela finally said and stood up and starting putting down her equipment.
"Don't worry I will." Noir replied.
"And I promise that I will take care of you as well." Lena said and gave Noir a kiss.
But then they heard some sort of jet landing outside.
Noir recognized the sound of the engines immediately.
"Talon." She said.
"But how could they have find us?" Lena asked.
"There are multiple ways that they could have done that. But we have to leave now!" She replied and opened a secret door.
"We can take this way out." She said.
"Are you sure that they are not waiting for us on the other side?" Angela asked.
"Talon may know a lot about how I operate but they do not know the lay out of my safe houses. But go now we do not have a lot of time." Noir replied and grabbed the small amount of ammo she had left in the crates.
And the three of ran out of the escape tunnel and Noir closed the door behind them.
Not long after the door had closed a group of Talon soldiers stormed in and searched the entire area.
"Seems like we were too late sir!" One of the soldiers said.
"Dammit. make sure you search every piece of this place. We need to find her before our enemies do." Said the Commander.
"I think it is too late for that Commander" a cold voice said.
And Reaper entered the room.
"And what make you think that?" The Commander asked.
Reaper went and took up something from the floor.
"Widowmaker's kill switch!" The Commander said.
"I thought so. There is no way she could have removed this by herself, And there is only one group with the skills to remove this implant." Reaper said.
"Who?" The Commander asked.
Reaper turned towards the Commander and simply answered.
"Overwatch."
The end is near now. One or two chapters left I think. Maybe more. I don't know yet. And as always reviews are always welcome.
