AN: No AN this time
When I woke again, I quickly scanned the room for Doomfist, but I was thankfully in the clear. I looked at the clock. It was one in the morning. Angela was working at a computer across the room.
"Angela," I said quietly. "You should be sleeping."
She turned to me. "You should, too. I must always stay awake with my patients to make sure they're doing fine. It is part of my job."
"Hm." I would never have suggested she sleep before. I would have left her to her own devices and gone back to sleep myself. But I had changed.
I watched her type away at her keyboard. I could see that she was communicating with Baptiste and Zenyatta. She also had various programs open and running, and was constantly clicking between them.
Eventually she turned to me. "You're going to be fine, although you'll always have the skin color that Talon gave you. If you ever feel sick or lightheaded, that's just a natural reaction to your emotions suddenly coming back." She turned her computer off. "You may return to your room in the morning. I will monitor you and make sure all goes well during the night. Go to sleep."
I muttered my thanks and closed my eyes, drifting off to sleep.
When I woke, Angela was not in the room. The clock showed that it was eight in the morning. Time to get up and eat.
I swung my legs out of bed, something I would have though a waste of energy before. And honestly, it was, but it was fun. The first fun I'd had in a decade. I walked out of the room, down the hall, and into the cafeteria. I weaved around tables, moving toward the counter. Some people glanced nervously at me, likely wondering if I was going to scream and die on the spot after glancing at someone's phone. But no, I was fine. I passed by Lena, who was in the same seat as before, but she wasn't on her phone.
"Heya," she said to me. "I'm real sorry about yesterday. I didn't know-"
"It wasn't your fault," I cut in. "I shouldn't have been watching your phone. I apologize. I'm all better now, you're free to watch whatever you want around me."
She gave me a thumbs-up. "Okay!" I continued walking until I was at the counter. I gathered my normal healthy meal and sat down next to Lena. I bit into a chunk of meat on my plate, and promptly gasped with the food in my mouth. It was delicious! And I had never noticed it before!
"Vatf AWFOME!" I said with my mouth full.
Lena giggled.
After breakfast, I went to the training area to practice my shots. First, I went to my room and retrieved my rifle. When I got to the training area, I filled up on some ammo from crates and took aim. I aimed at the head of one of the holographic targets and shot. The bullet pierced through his head, then bounced off an energy shield at the back of the room, was picked up with a magnetic robotic arm, and dropped in the crate behind me. I shot two more shots, each eliminating a target. If my emotional change had affected my personality, it sure hadn't affected my aim. I practiced for my normal amount of time, then returned to the cafeteria to eat. When I was done with that, I went to my normal next activity, exercising in the gym. I walked out of the cafeteria and to the gym. The people who were normally here at this time were all here, including Reinhardt and Zarya. Reinhardt was bench pressing some unimaginable amount of weight, and I found a pullup bar next to him. I jumped up, grabbed the bar, and began to exercise. As I did so, I turned my head to Reinhard.
"Thanks for helping me out yesterday, you know, with Doomfist."
"Ha ha, anytime. Protection is my duty."
When I finished my final meal in the evening, I moved to go to my room, and Hana called out to me. "Hey! Amelie!"
I turned to her. "Huh?"
"I hear you've got emotions again?"
"Uh, yeah," I replied.
"Well," she continued. "I thought it would do you good if you learned how to play video games. All living people should play video games, although some reject it. You being a sniper, would be perfect at a character in my favorite game. Wanna come over to my room tonight and play a bit?"
I considered the offer. Why would I play video games with Hana? But then, why not? A little fun never hurt anybody. "Sure, I'll be there. What time?"
"You could come over now!" She said, and we walked together to her room. It was much different from mine. A counter-like desk lined each wall, framing the room. PCs, keyboards, mouses, controllers, monitors, and VR equipment was neatly arranged here, and gaming chairs sat in front of each. In one corner sat a gorgeous PC with Hana's bunny logo on it. A white keyboard, pink and white headset and mouse, and equally colored speakers and a monitor, sat here. A camera on a short tripod stood to the right of the monitor, and various microphones were positioned pointing to the pink and white, expensive-looking gaming chair in front of the whole circus of gaming equipment. Multiple monitors were set up on the walls around it all. This was clearly where Hana played and where she streamed.
Hana must have noticed my expression, because she laughed. "Yes, it is a beauty." She gestured to a PC next to it. "Take a seat and press anywhere on the keyboard to turn on the computer. The password is GamingPC#9." I did so, entered the password, and clicked on the same icon that Hana clicked on. A game loaded up. Hana invited me to a group and we entered a match. In no time, we were in the character-selection screen. I selected a random one and soon the match began.
"Follow me!" Hana said as her character and the rest of our team bounded off. I was left standing alone. "Why aren't you coming?" She asked.
"Uh… how?" I asked.
She burst into laughter. "Oh, of course! You're still a noob. You see that keyboard? You press E to go forward, S to go left, D to go back, and F to go right. Move the mouse around to shift your vision. Left click to shoot. Right click to use your special ability when it's ready. Front side button is ability one, back side button is ability two. Come on!"
I followed her, bumping into walls, until we came upon the enemies. She yelled, "Aim the dot at them using the mouse and left click!" I tried, but they moved a lot, and it was hard. Hana, however, wiped them all out in a couple of seconds. "Let's go!"
I followed her around, shooting at enemies and finding healing packs when I got shot. After an hour, Hana had been separated from me by a large group of enemies. There was a sniper nearby and two regular enemy soldiers advancing toward my position. I was behind a wall. The sniper was in a window in a building down the street. I emerged from behind the wall and fired at the sniper. Only one shot missed, and as I pressed shift to crouch, the sniper's bullet whizzed over my head. I fired at the sniper again, eliminating him. Now the closest one of the soldiers began firing at me. My character took damage and I ducked behind the wall, grabbing a healing pack. Fully healed, I peeked around the wall and landed multiple shots on the enemy, destroying him. Then I was out of ammo, and the other soldier was approaching fast. I switched from my gun to a combat knife. When the soldier passed the wall, I spammed the left click, destroying him. He had been the last enemy in the level, and we got a victory.
'Whoo! Not bad for a first time!" Hana exclaimed. "Wanna play again?"
"No thanks," I said with a yawn. "I'd like to sleep."
"Then how about tomorrow night?"
"Sounds good!" I said.
"See ya!" She replied.
I left the room with a wave and a smile. Now I understood about having fun. The game was very enjoyable. I entered my room and closed the door, still thinking about the game. I drifted off in no time.
AN: SO MUCH THANKS to PheonixPO16 for being the first to review, favorite, and follow this story, and to Sarge 123 for following a day after! Sorry this has been such a short chapter, but I couldn't think of anything more to add to it. Please leave a review! Thanks!