Chapter 33: Emily's Sky Part 2: Change.

Emily's Home, 3 Days Later

Emily sat beside Lena as the three of them had lunch together, the silence deafening and awkward as the clattering of silverware was the only thing that echoed through the household. Emily's eyes darted between Lena and Abel, feeling small as both glanced over at her every now and then just to have her eyes shoot back down to her plate.

Unsurprisingly, Emily finished first, telling both of them "I'm gonna take a quick shower." then headed upstairs, leaving Abel and Lena alone, finishing their lunch.

Once both were done did Lena tell Abel "I'm gonna head out and pick up the package Winston sent us... Talk with Emily about... You know. But if you even so much as touch her, so help me... You'll regret it." Abel nodded at Lena, and watched as the Brit stood up and left, leaving him to wash the dishes as Emily rinsed herself off, just to hear Lena take off, causing her to freeze in place.

Abel on the other hand was taking his sweet time, washing every plate, cup and utensil one by one as he listened as the shower was still on upstairs. He hummed to himself as he continued, unaware that Emily was sitting in the shower, hugging her knees and hoping Lena returned quickly.

The minutes ticked away as Abel went upstairs, hearing the water still running he sighed and went up to his room, where he had boxes of models and model kits littering the whole place. He walked over to his work table and pulled out a small box containing the last model he was working on.

He neatly placed the plastic pieces on one side, and the substance replicas on the other, then picked the next plastic piece and made an identical replica of it, placing the plastic price back in the box and the substance replica with the others.

He did this until there were no more pieces left, then made the interior parts by memory to 1/35 scale. He finished the pieces then looked at the time on his phone, 5 PM. He then walked over to the hall and noticed the shower was quiet, making him approach the door and knock, asking "Emily? You done?"

Silence.

He tried opening the door, but it was still locked, making him frown and ask again "Emily, are you alright?" Inside, she was sitting against the door, hoping he wouldn't insist, hoping he would just go back to his room and leave her be. But that was just wishful thinking, and a shadow loomed over her, making her sigh and looked up to find Abel looking down at her with that worried look that made her feel bad.

Emily was hugging her knees, hiding her name body under a towel as she told Abel "I'm fine, just go to your room..." Abel however didn't listen, instead he sat in front of her, back to the sink as he asked "Can we talk?" Emily wanted to die, she didn't want to speak another word to him, but she sighed and asked "What do you wanna talk about?"

Abel replied quickly in a rather calm tone "Life." making Emily raise a brow and ask "Emmm can you be more specific?" Abel sighed, rubbed the back of his head and asked "Well... Why do people fight?"

Emily fixed her hair, pushing back some red strands as she inhaled and replied "Well... There are many reasons for people to fight... Maybe they don't have all the information and come to a bad conclusion, maybe they changed and now view things differently, maybe they simply are in each other's way... Why do you ask?"

Emily then noticed they had their eyes fixed on the others as Abel replied "Are we fighting?" This instantly made Emily go silent as she regretted having spoken up, but now she was in the deep end, so she replied "... I'm not Alex, Abel... I never will be... Can't you understand that?"

Abel kept his eyes fixated on her, making Emily shit uncomfortably as he asked her "Emily, have you considered that I possibly know that...? I mean, you do look identical to her, down to the freckles, but your attitude, way of speaking, and overall preferences are polar opposite to Alex's." Now Emily heard enough, she held her towel tightly, got up I an awkward manner so Abel wouldn't see anything private, then opened the bathroom door and stepped out.

Abel followed behind her but she stopped him and finally put her foot down "No. Abel, you need to understand that I can't be with you, I'm with Lena. W...w.. What do you think she'll say if she found out that you are enamored with me? Don't you think she'll be mad, kick you out? Hmm? Do you?"

Abel never broke eye contact and he told her "Why do you think I'm trying? She gave me one shot, that's it. If she told me not to try it, i wouldn't." Emily was visibly trembling, and without a word, she turned slowly and shakily made her way to her bedroom.

Abel followed behind her, and finally asked her "Why won't you give me a chance? Why are you so scared?" Emily didn't respond, she simply laid down on her bed and remained silent, not even bothering to put on clothes as she held her towel firmly in place.

Abel sighed, sat on the foot of the bed, add finally asked her "Emily, if you can tell me without a shadow of a doubt that you would never in your life have feelings for me... Then I'll leave you be without any protest."

She remained motionless, feeling the weight of his ultimatum slowly rise in her mind as the seconds ticked away. Abel looked at her as she saw her back rise and fall, making him walk around her bed and look at her, she had tears streaming down her face as she muttered "That's not fair... How do you expect me to choose between Lena or you...?"

Abel sat beside her, giving her question some thought, and replying "You are right..." Emily looked up at him as he had a rather thoughtful look, then asked her "But do you have to choose?"

Emily raised a brow, looking at him with a confused look.

Ecopoint, Antarctica, 6 PM

Mei looked around the barren frozen wasteland as she pressed her earpiece through her ear muffs and reported "No movements, coming back in before it gets too cold." Athena replied to her "Understood, be careful, the lift is having mechanical problems."

Mei sighed and got up, her white coat and fur hood keeping her warm as Snowball beeped and floated around her. She looked at her small floating companion then noticed a large cloud of frost being lifted I the distance. Mei quickly pulled out her binoculars and laid flat against the if beneath her, examining the sudden cloud in the distance.

She quickly looked both directions, looking for a point of origin, and found that there were large shadows moving in the cloud. Mei quickly pressed on her earpiece and told Athena "Athena, we aren't alone..."

In the distance, AB-27 had her legion all setting up camp, all of them exhausted from marching to their current position, with one of her men informing her "Ma'am, we are fifteen kilometers from the base, should we wake the men as soon as they are ready to fight?"

She raised a hand dismissively, and replied as she fixed the fur on her coat "Nej... Let the men rest, we can't go to battle with exhausted men... This will be the final battle with Overwatch, and it shall be a glorious victory for Talon."

27 inhaled, the cold wind interning her nostrils, then exhaled a cloud of frost from her mouth, causing the winds to pick up as a blizzard formed, encircling Ecopoint and her camp as she strutted to her tent, with her legion all moving large field guns and cannons into position.

Mei on the other hand arrived into the base as Winston attempted establishing communication with Lena, Angela and Hana, but nothing. Mei looked at Winston and told him "There was no blizzard up top a moment ago..."

Abby groaned as she felt her head throb with pain, and told Mei "That's 27... She can manipulate ice, water and cold in general... And if she's here, then her damn legion is here..." Winston growled at the monitors as he asked Abby "What does she specialize in?"

Abby looked at the ape, then replied "If Abel and Alex were special forces, then 27 is basically the Army... She is the main bulk of the AB military force, having four sixty's of all the troops in her legion... We are looking at half a million strong... But if I had to guess, she only brought fifty thousand... Leaving the rest in reserve."

Winston stared at her, shock and disbelief at his current predicament, then muttered "By Athena..."

Emily's Home, 6 PM

Lena entered the house with a small metallic box as she called out "I'm home!" then walked into the living room where she found both Abel and Emily waiting for her. It was kinda jarring, but Lena quickly brushed it off and asked "What's up you two?"

Emily was completely flushed from ear to ear, even her neck and a bit of her chest was a soft pink hue as she told Lena "W..we are planning on going out for a bit.."

Lena smiled, and told both of them "Oh, alright. Be careful then-" but Emily cut in and told Lena "Actually, I said we, as in the three of us..." Emily's blush darkened when she said that, and Lena felt her own cheeks warm up as the words reached her head. Lena was about to ask Abel what happened, but Emily quickly spoke up "Lena... I can't just pick... Just please, trust me this one time, please?"

Lena was staring at her girlfriend, the blush on Emily's face making her look like she was burning up with fever, then smiled and told her "S.. sure love. Ummm where we going then?"

Emily rubbed the back of her head, and told Lena "Tomorrow morning, and we're gonna go to London." Lena nodded, then watched Emily slowly go back upstairs, making her zip up to Abel and whisper "What the bloody hell happened?"

Abel leaned back as Lena appeared in front of him and asked that, being nose to nose he replied "She couldn't decide on one or the other, so why does she have to choose?" Lena was visibly turning red, but if it was because of embarrassment or sheer rage, Abel didn't know.

Lena raised her hand to slap him across the face, and asked "Didn't Talon ever teach you that you only are allowed to be with ONE person?" Right before she lowered her hand to slap him silly, Abel replied honestly "Nope." Lena stopped herself from lowering her hand, blinked, then muttered "...Please tell me you're joking."

Abel shook his head, and replied with his hands up defensively "Umm no, I'm not joking... Love was something I never really talked to anyone about... Let alone knew there were standards and rules for..." Lena was speechless, her hand falling to her side as she stared at him, unable to understand how what Abel said was even remotely possible.

Abel on the other hand just stared at her awkwardly, then asked her "Ummm is there something wrong with loving more than one person? I mean, people love more than one family member... They love more than one friend... So why can't that be applied here?"

Now Lena was about to reply with a well put and logical response, but no words came out, Abel's childlike logic did make sense in a stretch, but then she recalled that he was less than a decade old. So, she inhaled, counted to three in her head, then told Abel "Look, there's nothing bad with what you suggested... But think about this... Would love be anything special if you loved everyone?"

Abel scratched the back of his head, and simply replied "Well... I don't really know... But one thing I'm certain of is that, if I didn't receive any love from Alex when I was with Talon... Then I would have been a heartless, cruel, and trigger happy sociopath pitted against you. Overwatch and the world as a whole... So I can truthfully say, under my own judgement, that i can't deny someone love when Alex didn't deny me of said luxury... Denying love, is like denying someone the right to be happy... And that in turn only brings hate, anger and pain... I should know this... I lived it..."

Now Lena was silent, but not because of disbelief, or anger, or anything of that nature. Her silence was instead forged due to an absolute understanding of those words. So, silent as she was, Lena turned on her heel, and went upstairs, meeting with Emily as Emily asked "Did he speak his point of view to you...?"

Lena nodded, blushing brightly as she actually muttered "T... Tomorrow we'll see..." accepting the offer to go on a date with Emily and Abel... simultaneously... in London.

Chapter 33: Finished.

And i hope you North Americans had a wonderful 4th of July yesterday, and now a chapter for you guys to enjoy. Sorry for the delay guys, but been having some personal issues recently, and still up to my neck with them, so i'm sorry for the delays that might come in the future. Now, with that out of the way, to the reviews:

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Now, next chapter will be full romane, but for those who want the next fight, don't worry, you'll get a good fight soon. Now...

I'm still in the Trenches, and I hope You Enjoyed.