Angela had been standing on the balcony for over an hour, her suit having been put on so as to keep out the cold. She had hoped to catch a glimpse of the Borealis, and after her long wait, the first signs of fire across the sky were showing. Small stains of colour were appearing in the sky, but nothing compared to what Angela had envisioned in her mind. The Borealis was weak, more lint coloured then the green and red she had imagined. The sounds of music were coming from beneath her feet, and singing. She smirked listening to Lucio's smooth voice to the ragged shouting of the others. Drunk.

"Don't need money! Don't need fame! Don't need an airplane to-"

Angela shook her head and focused back onto the sky, hoping for a bit of spectacle. She knew they were celebrating for a reason. They had had their third encounter with the Omnic, and the two it preferred had both been able to touch it. Lucio and Lena were celebrated members and Angela wanted to see the Omnic up close for once. Perhaps even touch it.

Soon it would be her night shift, and the metal of Gungnir had been wrapped in a cover so as to prevent it from sticking to Angela's suit. The cold stung on all pieces of bare skin. She was hoping to try out the new upgrades.

"Oi!" Came a shout from behind her, and Angela laughed as she was tackled and got a kiss planted on her cheek. "You're hair gets curly in the cold, and it's adorable" She muttered as she clinged, and Angela snorted.

"What are you doing out here, you dafty?" Lena asked as she climbed off "It's freezing out here."

"The suit, liquid cooling and wire heating" Angela placed her hand on Lena's check. "Warm, isn't it?"

"Wish I had that"

Angela put her hand on Lena's shoulder. "Are you not wearing layers?" Angela asked. The lack of thickness in the arms of her parka told Angela she wasn't wearing an insulating layer underneath her jacket, and just threw it on over her shirt. "It's far too cold to be just wearing that. I'm impressed"

"Heh. I'm alright. I won't be out for long" Lena grimaced as she realised her gloves were far too thin. "But, ah. Might get some thicker gloves"

Angela closed her hands over Lena's, trusting the warming system of the suit to keep them both warm. Lena smiled.

"Wouldn't that helmet be cold?" She asked.

"Me and Reinhardt added padding" Angela tugged on the red scarf around her neck revealing a small part of her neck and smiled. "And my throat is warm, thanks to you"

Lena moved and kissed the small bit of skin, and Angela took a step closer. Lena turned to where Angela had been staring before and realised what Angela was standing out for.

"Oh, the Northern Lights. Always wanted to see them"

"So have I" Angela replied. As much as she enjoyed Lena's company, she wanted the solitude back and would be glad when she could be on her way.

"Oh yeah?"

"I was always planning to see it, but my work with Idun made it impossible"

"Oh, how so?" Lena replied, slightly wary of the conversations shift.

"Are you sure?"

Lena nodded and Angela took a deep breath in. "You see. The work demanded everything from me. A holiday was simply off the tables. My wedding was just a single day off"
"You never got to have your honeymoon?" Lena asked. Slightly wide-eyed at the fact.

"No. Never"

"Jesus"

"Always wanted to come here. See the Borealis together with Einar like we planned. He's seen them plenty, being Icelandic, but he knew it would be new for me"

Lena bit her lip. "Tell me something. When you talk about when you were working on Idun you say how you never had time off"

"Yes. I couldn't stop. Couldn't afford to. Thanks to the Idun in my blood, I didn't have to"

"Yeah, but. Were you happy like that? Never having a moment. Always on the go"

Angela was quiet, and then replied honestly.

"It was the best time of my life. I was never content. But that suits me. It meant I would never stop striving for what I wanted."

Lena replied quietly. "I think I get it. If you told me that while I was in the RAF, I'd thought you were mental. But now I'm doing all this. I get it"

"Oh?"

"It's good to see the immediate effects of your work, the fruits of your labour. I bring in a monster to the hague, protect someone from a bullet and I never felt anything like it before. I don't want to stop"

Silence settled between them and Lena worried she had said to much. Angela gave her a little squeeze, and alleviated the worries by whispering in her ear.

"I'm glad you get it"

Angela had hoped that she could just have a moment to herself to reminisce and avoid the noise and the sound of the others. But now that Lena was out, she was hoping to stay rooted to the balcony and ignore her shift just for a little longer. A bleep from her helmet told her that her she had to get started, and she grimaced at the fact she couldn't ignore it.

"Got to go," she sighed. Lena nodded, and Angela released her. "See you in a few hours"

"Alright, We'll continue when you get back?"

"Yeah" Angela smiled. "Next time the Aurora shows, I'll come for you and give you a view"

"Hah! I remember how that went last time" Lena laughed. Angela smiled back and walked over to the edge of the balcony, feeling the slow build-up of power in her back and her wings making her steps lighter and lighter as her wings pulled for height. Reaching the edge she stepped up over the balcony and dived with her wings fully extended, allowing them to catch the air and glided down to the ground before alighting softly.

"Showoff" Lena said besides Angela.

"Get back inside before you freeze your tits off"

Lena held her hands up in mock surrender and smirked. A flash of blue and she disappeared, leaving Angela alone.

Angela started by making rounds close to the house, to see if the Omnic had left any marks close to the house, but a smattering of snow had covered what little tracks it had left. The cold was biting, and Angela brought the scarf up to cover her lips and nose, almost all of her was covered from the chill.

Trudging forward, she began the process of testing her new magnet. She started off dropping Gungnir into the snow, standing over it and activating the magnet with a button on the wrist. It flew to her hand and she gave a squeal of excitement and pride. Next she threw Gungnir, and activated the magnet.

"I should rename it the Thor suit" she said as it returned to her hand. Pleased with the results, she took off.

Some flights were utter joy, complete ownership of the sky. During especially windy and wet weather in Numbani, she would demand to go out. With the wind buffeting her, the rain lashing in her face and her utter determination to go on despite the discomfort. She would cackle in joy like a mad woman and call insults in German to those below and ride the winds in her domination of the sky.

This was not one of those flights.

The solitude was perfection, the silence a gorgeous serenity and she soared gently over the tops of the trees. The land beneath her was a mix of a dark milky blue from the large moon hanging overhead, and the sky above her was slowly beginning to intensify in the Borealis. As she gently glided, she thought about Lena. Her nightmares. All the while, she kept her eyes on the ground below her. Every now and then, she would become engrossed in the beautiful white and blue world that extended around her, her wings a small light in a big wide world. Queen of the sky surveying her territory.

Not far away was a large hill with a lone, bare oak tree, and Angela alighted so as to catch her bearings. Standing high, she flared her wings and scanned the world below her so as to catch any glimpse of reflective metal below her. For a moment, a fire shined on top of the hill, and the icy world suddenly was flared in golden flame.

A small glimmer of metal and Angela began to glide gently down towards the point she had saw it. When she got there however She found nothing.

"Are you hiding from me?" She asked the darkness. She waited for a reply, and heard nothing.

"Are you there?" Slowly the forest was shifting. Her clothes changing and rustling. She breathed in.

"Would it help if you knew something about me?" She asked. Again, no reply. She imagined her lab coat on her shoulders, and addressing an audience. She believed she would have to.

"I'm going to tell you anyway. You see, me and you have something in common" she could swear she heard a whir at that point.

"That group, Blackwatch. Well, they took something from both of us. Your coding and" she showed the solitude Gungnir. "My life's work. I believe that they're using the thing I helped create to poison the world. Taking something I love and made to hurt people. Idun, it has a certain ingredient. That ingredient was derived from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, to allow it into the body undetected. You see" She got into the rhythm of a lecturing professor. For whatever reason, she loved to rehearse it into the darkness. "The immune system is a wonder. Truly a miracle but, it has its problems. Any alien body it attacks; even if it's benevolent, will be repulsed. By using that awful virus; that causes death of thousands of people, we have been able to make a substance that can render a drug undetectable to the body, and allow for it to do what it needs to do. And, the drug itself naturally disintegrates once it is no longer needed". The revelation from her research had come early on, with Einar. It was the development that got her the honorary doctorate, and was years from years ago. She remembered giving the speech when she was 22. "The body is healthier, and from this me, my husband, and the numerous others have created a drug that improves the effectiveness of long term medication and invasive body prosthesis' by over 500%!" She remembered the applause from such a statement, and allowed herself to bask in the remembered glory before holding up her hand sharply for silence. "But!" She exclaimed. The next part was a addition, a speech to be given before the UN International Science council. She knew that she had to give the speech. She had been preparing it ever since Idun was finished "This can be used for terrible reasons. Flu that can go undetected by the body. Malaria, Tuberculosis! This is what people want to do with my research! One of the greatest achievements of modern medcine, used for evil. They will deny it, they will say that others develop it but they don't. But they do. When it comes to weapons, no country speaks the truth. So, please. Help me, and I can make sure that never happens. I can keep going on making this world better, without weapons like that. But I require your help to do so"

Only silence met Angela's speech. She threw her hands over her head and sighed. The speech would have to be changed. But for the time being, it wasn't so bad.

Frowning, she began to wonder why she was so far away from the tree. Why so far away just to recite her speech? Shaking her head, she began to make her way back up to the tree.

Seeing who was lying there waiting beneath the tree, Angela smiled and Einar smiled back.