Chapter 25 A Normal Evening

Watchpoint:Gibraltar - Abel's Room 5 PM

Abel was coming out the bathroom in his room, he was glad to finally be allowed free roam again and being back at Gibraltar. He looked up and found Amèlie waiting with a towel and a change of clothes, but her frown showed she was still mad at Abel, witch he did understand and didn't mind, someone had to put him down if he got of hand. Abel stepped away from the bathroom and let her enjoy a nice hot shower, like always, he took a cold shower.

However now he found himself with some free time, so he put on his spare training clothes and teleported to Winston's Office. Winston was about to shovel down a few spoon fulls of peanut butter until Abel appeared in front of his desk. Winston sighed in disappointment and asked "How can i help you Abel?" Abel could clearly see he interrupted something important and quickly asked "Can i leave? Just for the evening, got afew places i would like to check out." Winston was surprised, Abel hasn't been out by himself before, so this kinda blind-sided him.

Winston sat up straight and asked in a curious tone "And where exactly do you plan on going?" Abel gave a sheepish smile and spoke honestly "Well actually it's just one place, and it's mostly to learn how to create more things. I wanna go to the Bovington Tank Museum." At the mention of "create" and "tank" in the same context made Winston go quickly from calm to full on surprised. Winston quickly recomposed himself and nodded, stating "Alright, but be careful, and no weapons." Abel frowned at this last condition but nodded, he did understand where Winston was coming from with saying that, and teleported away.

Lena's Room 6 PM

Lena was laying on her bed after she gave the Orca a full check up, and now was bored. She rarely got bored due to her hyper nature, but after a week since she got "shagged" by Abel she hardly zipped around, and was significantly calmer. But today she felt horrible, she had been dizzy all day, had snapped at Torbjörn when he tried to help, and avoided lunch altogether. "Bloody hell is wrong with you Oxton? Do you really miss him that much?" Lena asked herself as she stared at the ceiling in her room, she still felt her head spinning and was getting sick and tired of it.

She got up and stomped to her bathroom and splashed some cold water on her face, it helped, for a little bit. After a solid minute she could hear a small knock on the door to her bedroom and groaned as she made her way to it. She opened it and found Hana waiting silently in the hall, Lena forced a smile and greeted her Korean friend "Hey love, what's up?" Hana could see the strained smile clearly and spoke in a low tone "Sorry for trying to beat you up..."

Lena and Hana had been avoiding each other ever since Dokkaebi revealed to the whole team that Abel and Lena did indeed have sex. But Hana knew that they couldn't go on like that forever, so here she was now, apologizing to her best friend. "Can we take a walk?" Hana asked awkwardly as Lena nodded and followed her friend through the halls of the base. Lena smiled abit and asked "So love, how can i help'ya?" Hana gave an awkward smile and asked "Well... I wanna know just one thing, and i wont get mad at the answer, i swear. So... Do you love him too?"

This question made Lena light up like a Christmas tree, she had been thinking a lot about Abel recently, and she did seem to get along well with him. Lena sighed and answered with a simple "Yes." This, oddly enough, made Hana smile, and say "You know he would die for anyone of us right?" Lena smiled back and nodded as both women talked about their lover, about the man who would change the future, but now they had the same question. Where is Abel?

Bovington Tank Museum 8 PM

Abel was exiting the tank museum with a face of absolute tranquility and happiness. He had arrived hours ago and was greeted by a humble old man who watches over the entire museum and warehouses of the tank museum. Abel spent the majority of the time listening and asking questions about each respective war machine, starting from the British Mark 1 Landship up to the Panzers used by the Nazis back in world war two. His favorites where hands down the British Mark IV, the FT17 light tank, the Chamond, the Char C2 super tank, and the M7B1 "Priest" self propelled artillery platform.

He was even given a book about tanks with detailed information on their mechanisms and variants. But all good things come to an end, and the museum was closing for the day. Abel didn't mind, he actually did learn alot from the tour, like some flaws tanks had and that he could correct when working on one. Now he prepared to teleport away when it started raining and the boom of thunder scared Abel to teleport accidentally to London, Buckingham Palace, to be more specific. He looked around and the guards already had spotted him.

Abel quickly teleported away but was halted when he reappeared in the middle of the street. He knew why he didn't appear in Gibraltar and groaned "No, not now..." he could feel another coughing fit and ran to the nearest alley to cough up some blood, he had teleported too far for one day and his body was giving him a harsh reminder of it. He sat against the wall for roughly 10 minutes of nothing but coughing and taking shallow breaths, and to make matters worse, it was raining and some thugs spotted him as easy prey.

-Insert Song: Fight for all the Wrong Reasons by Nickleback-

It took everything Abel had to stand his ground, but his body was still strained from the teleportation that he was met with no other option but to run. He had to buy time for his body to recover, and he was failing miserably. The thugs surrounded and outnumbered him 1 to 30 and where armed with knives and lead pipes. Abel growled and prepared for a beat down as the first one lunged at him, Abel sidestepped and kneed the thug in the gut, knocking the wind out of him. Abel then kicked said thug towards his fellow criminals and prepared for the next one.

Four jumped at him from every direction, Abel thought quickly and ducked for his life. The four goons hit each other in mid air and Abel gave each one a quick one-two combo, five down. The next two jumped up to Abel and landed in front and behind him, Abel quickly dodged their knives as they tried slashing and stabbing him, then two more came from both flanks and grabbed his arms so Abel wouldn't be able to punch or grab them. Abel felt the goon in front of him leave a cut along his chest, and pulled both thugs holding his arms towards him, and used them as human shields.

However the fight was halted when a empty glass bottle hit the back of one of the thugs, a redhead woman with auburn eyes and a red coat stood at the end of the alley holding another empty bottle. The thugs had a quick laugh at the sight of the woman trying to stop them, that was until the woman threw the second bottle and knocked out one of the thugs.

Half of the group of thugs charged after the woman as she ran away, Abel looked at the ones left and said in an ominous tone "Run or Die. Your call..." They all laughed until Abel put his palms together and made an M1911 pistol. They all went pale as the last thing saw was a pistol before their brains painted the walls. Abel quickly disposed of them and hurried to help the woman before she got overwhelmed by the thugs. Abel made a Mauser pistol and extra clips and hurried through the alleys, jumping from wall to wall while he followed the sound of commotion.

-Song End-

When Abel finally arrived he found the thugs inside an abandoned warehouse, all of them searching for the woman that interrupted them. Abel took this opportunity to prepare, he made afew more clips and made a bullet proof, armor platted vest. He slowly made his way in as he listened to the thugs ahead calling out the woman, they weren't even remotely aware of Abel's prescience, giving him the advantage of the Hunter. Abel silently walked until he found two thugs searching through some storage rooms, Abel quickly ran up to them and decked the first one down and shot the second one in the chest.

The gunshot echoed through the vacant warehouse as the thugs and woman listened, the place was silent, say for Abel's footsteps. The thugs started panicking as the footsteps started getting closer, the woman could see the the thugs panic then, the lights went out. They stayed still and listened, the footsteps stopped, and they didn't know where the hell to go, until Abel spoke up "Right behind you." The thugs screamed and slashed their knives all behind and around each other. Abel waited patiently until the sound of movement stopped, then he made the substance covering the lights fade away.

As expected, the thugs slashed at each other, leaving them covered in cuts and bleeding. Abel walked into the light and said in a offensive British accent "Well you bloody wankers... Y'all fucked up." They all tried to lunge at Abel one more time, but to no success, they just fell on top of each other. Abel hummed as he walked up to them while reloading his pistol, then aiming at the first one. However he was halted by the woman he came to save, she stood in the way of the thugs with a frown.

Abel raised a brow at her and made his pistol fade, and sighed at her. She gave Abel a small smile and dialed the Bobby's to come and "investigate" the warehouse. Abel quickly left with the woman before the cops arrived, both looking over their shoulder to make sure no one was following. Once out of the alleys both stopped and panted as they looked at each other, then Abel finally asked "Thanks for the save, you ok?" The woman simply giggled and nodded, the night had been chaotic and intense, yet somehow she ended up having fun, so did Abel.

King's Row London - 10 PM

Abel walked with the woman through the winding streets of King's Row, both agreed that dinner was in order after getting an entire gang of hoodlums sent to the gaol. Abel finally asked in a awkward tone "What's your name? Didn't really occur to ask sooner, sorry.." The woman smiled and answered with a small snort after her giggles "Emily, local here at old King's Row and Vigilante. You chap?" Abel smiled and said in a joking voice "Abel, international target for half the world." Emily blinked when she finally knew who he was.

Both entered what Emily called a "Coffee Bar", once inside the sweet smell of cakes, pastries, and hot drinks filled Abel's nose, making him melt on the inside. Both took a seat at the back of the bar, where Emily asked in a serious tone "So you are the lad that started the war?" Abel frowned and corrected "I didn't start the war, Talon did." both stopped their small bickering when a waitress came and took their order, Emily ordered green tea while Abel ordered Black coffee. After the waitress left, Emily continued "So what happened at Russia then? Can't deny you leveled the whole bloody place."

Abel felt the anger boiling in him, making him respond "What happened in Russia was not my fault... I was trying to-" Emily cut in "Trying to what? The news showed that you where fighting some criminal, but you didn't show any regard for any collateral damage." Abel sank his nails into his palms as he held his anger in and answered coldly "You weren't there, i tried to kill Reaper, one of the leaders of Talon, not because it's what needed to be done. Because he shot my mother, so don't you dare judge, got it?"

The waitress came back with their drinks and set them in front of each one respectfully then left. Emily was silent now, she did go rough on him, but what surprised her was that Abel knew Reaper. She took a small sip of her tea then spoke in a low tone "Sorry chap, didn't mean to hit a nerve." Abel sighed and responded with "Don't be, i don't deserve forgiveness, trust me." After that the evening went by quietly, both drinking their drink and simply relaxing abit, the cozy ambiance and warmth of the bar soothing them.

And another one, sorry it took me a week to post another chapter, but i have been busy, sorry. Now i would like to address the last comment, wish the user had a username so i can give him/her a proper shout out, but thank you for pointing out a lot of the flaws in my fic, but, like i stated, it's my first one. Hell i might repost it one day with fixed grammar, but as for the rest i can see where you come from with it, and i will respect your opinion, But, i will have to respond that i have gotten praise from the opposite of what you have you have ranted/complained/judged my fic about, but i everyone their opinions. (PS: I'm from Mexico, not Italy, triggered me when i saw that but it was also a good laugh XD just putting it out there.)

Will work on more development or progress for the next chapter.

Now, like always, i'm still in the trenches, and hope you enjoyed.