The Picture

Angela Ziegler didn't envy her position right now.

Angela Ziegler envied the positions of Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison even less.

After all, they were the ones that had to deal with the fact that Ana Amari had died, and Jack had been personally responsible for letting it happen.

She could only imagine how that would go down with Fareeha.

Meanwhile, she was here to gather all of Ana's personal effects and send them to the woman's newly-bereaved daughter. Reyes and Morrison had originally been the ones that intended to do it, but with the need to inform the girl, they decided that one of Ana's closer friends within High Command would be needed.

The doctor sighed as she looked into the darkened quarters of the recently-deceased Captain Amari. Everything was still in place, even her bed was still haphazardly put together. It made her remember that the 'Mama Bear' of Overwatch could sometimes be too lazy to fix her bed properly, even though she knew that Ana had always made it a point to get Fareeha to fix her own.

The sight of it brought a tearful smile to Angela's lips.

Wiping her eyes, she shifted the basket in her hand to the underside of her other arm, and walked through door into the room proper.

She looked around, eyeing the dresser on the far right where she new Ana kept most of her uniforms and a few civilian clothes for sleeping and going in and out of the base for leave. The doctor was also quite sure she'd find something to bring in the foot locker, and in a few of the drawers in the cabinet.

It was on the desk that she knew she'd have a lot to bring home.

It was full of pictures. She saw the picture with Fareeha when the girl was still young. Everyone was smiling then, and Wilhelm hadn't been forced into retirement yet. There was the picture of Ana and Fareeha training together and one of Ana in-uniform carrying a baby Fareeha.

There were so many that had been taken over the years. Mercy thought she even saw the picture of her and Torbjorn that one Halloween, and one that had Reyes, Morrison, and Ana herself.

Those three had always been together since the organization was founded. It saddened Angela to think that they were short one person now.

She began to place the pictures in the basket. If nothing else, it was important that these… these memories were given to Ana's daughter.

Once everything on top of the desk was taken out, she moved to checking the drawers, opening each one at a time for things of note that she thought Fareeha might want to keep.

It was when she found it:

The frame was polished wood and decorated with gold lacquer. And the picture was one of a young Fareeha Amari riding on the shoulder of a formally-dressed Reinhardt Wilhelm. Both were laughing and in what appeared to be a garden of some sort with a castle behind them.

This gave Angela pause.

Angela recognized that castle. It was hard to forget considering she had been there with her team almost a decade ago. Their group had just finished a mission in Germany, but their ship had needed to stop nearby to repair and refuel after a particularly dangerous deployment. Reinhardt had been kind enough to offer them a place to stay and a place to take care of their aircraft.

It had been then that they had found out that not only was Reinhardt of old German nobility, they had found out he owned his own castle in Bavaria.

They stayed the week, with Angela joining Reinhardt on a trip to his villa in Stuttgart to pick up some things since he had been scheduled for leave after that mission, but he had been planning to go somewhere else for that.

However, Fareeha looked about twelve or thirteen in this photo.

That was before the rest of Overwatch became aware of Reinhardt's status, so that meant that Ana and Fareeha had been visiting Reinhardt in Germany for years now.

But why?

While it's true that both Ana and Reinhardt had been founding members of Overwatch, they weren't usually found off-duty together. She had usually been found in the company of Reyes or Morrison. If this photo was any indication, however, Ana and Reinhardt had spent quite a bit of time together when they were on leave.

Now she remembered that those two always seemed to take their leaves at the same time or close enough together that they were pretty much overlapping.

Thinking back to the time she had stayed in Castle Wilhelm, Angela realized that the place Reinhardt had been meaning to go to once his leave started had been Cairo.

Angela Ziegler started at the photo, minutes passing by as she suddenly remembered so many times she had worked with Ana. All the times the older woman had quietly snuck off after dinner or came in late to breakfast, all the times Reinhardt had done the same.

Pieces clicked together in her head as Angela's eyes widened. She stared at the picture, looking from the smiling face of Fareeha to the laughing face of Reinhardt.

She choked back a sob, almost dropping the basket in her hands. "Oh god…"

Someone had to tell Reinhardt.