Early 2063


Albeit months later, Gabriel did allow for Kallista to go on her first reconnaissance mission that would take place in Seoul, South Korea. The country was still rebuilding from the first crisis, the economy had regained its footing and lead the country back to recovery but it also bred an anti-omnic mentality. Overwatch kept a close eye on the various anti-omnic groups formed in South Korea whilst Blackwatch kept an eye on a specific group called, Bulgasari.

"Bulgasari…" Kallista trailed off, her attention on the new phone in her hand. She had been given a new and upgraded phone for this specific mission and would be able to keep it after the mission to use as she pleased, and without 'jail breaking' it.

"Interesting choice for a resistance group…" Gabriel said as he sipped his coffee, he casually sat next to the woman at a small cafe.

"In Korean mythology, Bulgasari is an iron-eating monster known for destroying evil and wrong things," Kallista replied as she continued to look at the article on her phone.

"They are one of the reasons why Seoul might be on the verge of civil unrest," Gabriel replied.

"Yeah...so much hateful propaganda against omnics…" Kallista trailed off.

"Don't get distracted. You know what we're here for," Gabriel reminded her.

The two were dressed casually and were posing as tourists while they gathered information about the Anti-Omnic resistance group Bulgasari and their connection to a well-known CEO Jae-Hyun "Cassius" Park.

In addition to Bulgasari, one of Seoul natives, CEO with a celebrity like status Jae-Hyun "Cassius" Park. A businessman in the technology and transportation sector, he was everywhere and made it known that he and his company were going to propel South Korea back to its greatness, regardless of the consequences. He donated lump sums of money to the government to and gave suggestions for implementing new technology and more. Effectively putting himself and in the limelight of the government.

Kallista's test consisted of locating where his money is originated from, learn about Park's business partners, discover his connection to the resistance group, and dampen the resistance group's communications.

The man was the fire to light the powder keg known as the resistance group.

Overwatch and Blackwatch both knew this.

"There are fliers everywhere for this protest…" Kallista commented as she looked at the flyer on the table.

"How else are you going to get people to come and listen to you spout nonsense?" Gabriel responded as he looked at his cellphone.

"That is true…" Kallista replied as she moved closer to the man, playing her part as a tourist's couple. Gabriel placed an arm around the back of her chair, playing his part.

"Hopefully a peaceful protest," Gabriel commented.

"The only way to find out is to go check it out," Kallista replied.


The sun had set hours ago when Kallista and Gabriel had managed to get a hotel room. They had spent most of the day on the streets of Seoul acting as tourists, sightseeing, scouting and more.

"We've been gone all day," Kallista groaned as she sluggishly followed after the man.

"You've covered a lot of ground," Gabriel replied as he unlocked the door to the hotel room.

"Yeah and I feel like death," Kallista said as she entered the room.

For the past two days, Kallista and Gabriel had been posing as tourists watching the unrest in the streets of Seoul, gathering Intel on the resistance group and Jae-Hyun Park. So far everything was going quicker than planned, he didn't expect the recon mission to move as quickly as it did but her skills and knowledge of politics and Korean language and culture added to the success of the mission.

She had already gathered leads to Cassius' money trails, located the individual in charge of the resistance's communications and was working with the others back at HQ to disrupt their communications. He was surprised that she went deeper and found Cassius' business partners.

Perhaps Lyudmila was right about her potential on the field, but decided to keep that to himself.

As they entered the hotel room, Gabriel closed the door behind them and instantly bolting it. With a small device in her hands, Kallista moved quickly around the room and scanned for bugs that may have been planted in the room. When she was finished she turned to the man and signaled that the room was clear.

During their time in Seoul, they switched hotels and locations just as a precaution if anyone happened to be too curious about them.

"How quickly this is going...we should be out of here within a day or so. You're doing a lot better than I expected," Gabriel commented as he dumped his small duffle bag down.

"You underestimated me, so allow me to continue to crush your expectations, Reyes," Kallista replied smugly as she too dropped her bag.

"Don't let it go to your head girl," Gabriel chuckled.

"I know when I'm good at something and I'm not shy about it," Kallista replied.

"Obviously,"

Kallista gave the man a cheeky smile as she plopped onto the full-size bed.

"It sucks that they only had a full-size bed…a double would have been perfect..." Kallista trailed off

"We take what we can get," Gabriel said as he flipped through messages on his cellphone and pulled a datapad from his bag.

The hotel room was basic and had minimal necessities for their night stay. A small table, an electric water kettle, a coffee maker with its amenities, a full-size bed, a small chair, and a small hallway that led to the bathroom and small closet. They carried basic needs for the mission, he carried a concealed gun, ammo clip, an extra set of clothing and basic tech, they needed to blend in with the surroundings and become tourists.

"How is your head?" Gabriel asked as he focused on the data streaming on the pad.

"It's ok…" Kallista replied as she took off her cropped hoodie and slipped off her boots.

"Are you ok? The others? "

"I'm fine, just looking at updates back at the base," Gabriel replied as he tossed the datapad back into his bag and checked his cell phone.

"I assume you're checking up on the new girl? How is she?" Kallista said as she yawned.

"Yeah...and others. Lyuda said the girl is having issues adjusting, volatile, a loner doesn't really talk to anyone…and she's stubborn," Gabriel sighed.

"Sounds like you have a lot of children to take care of Reyes. She was transferred from the Overwatch division right, something about her father? She sounds like a mess," Kallista asked. The man scoffed

"Have you been talking to Ana? Are you the leak in the department?" Gabriel arched an eyebrow. He was a little annoyed at how quickly information traveled in the division, but then again he knew there was always some type of gossip floating around.

"Maybe...maybe not," Kallista trailed off as she stretched out on the bed. Gabriel studied the woman before shaking his head and focusing his attention on his bag.

"Malik then,"

"I'll never tell my sources," Kallista smirked. Gabriel scoffed at the woman's cheeky response, it reminded him of Ana's way of finding out information he would normally keep to himself or a few others and yet Ana found out. He chalked up the info leak to Malik.

It was always him or at least he knew about it if he spread the information or not was always up in the air. He noticed the pause between them before Kallista spoke up.

"I guess we're sharing a bed," Kallista commented.

"If you want I can sleep on the floor," Gabriel suggested. Kallista sat up suddenly, crossing her legs and frowned at the man.

"What?" he asked confused as he took off his beanie and leather jacket.

"Look I know you have your manners and all but you sleeping on the floor is wrong especially when there's enough room for both us," Kallista began

"You're right, we are adults but I also respect you, so I asked," Gabriel replied nonchalantly.

"C'mon Reyes now you're making this awkward," Kallista sighed as the man chuckled.

"Fine," Gabriel replied as he sat at the edge of the bed and untied his boots. Kallista snickered as stood to stretch.

"I'm going to ask again, you're ok with this?" Gabriel asked

"Look I'm not gonna make you sleep on the floor, what do I look like not giving my elders or superiors the bed," Kallista shrugged and sighed. Gabriel frowned at the woman and slipped off his boots.

"Whenever you give me a run for my money, that's when I'll let you call me old," Gabriel said smugly as he stood.

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," Kallista replied as she pulled back the blankets.

Kallista rolled her eyes at the man's smug expression, she knew that he was just giving her a hard time about everything.

She kept the inkling thought in the back of her head that nothing was going to come of this, they were just seeking ways to distract themselves from the pain and stress. Since that stunt that she pulled, he had loosened up a bit around her and responded to her.

She knew that he could have easily pushed her away, easily reprimanded her, but he didn't. It started out simple but quickly tumbled into something more, a fling.

They didn't talk about it, and she was sure that it was the furthest thing from his mind.

She knew that she shouldn't think about it either.

"I hope you're not one of those people that hogs all the blankets, "Gabriel quipped as he got into the bed.

"It's not like you need them you're a walking heater, do you snore? I hope you don't for your sake," Kallista bit back as she too slid into the bed. Gabriel chuckled at her quick and witty response.

"I don't snore so relax. Let me know if you need any meds for your migraine," Gabriel said.

"Ok,"

There was another pause between the two before Kallista spoke.

"Hey, Reyes?" Kallista started.

"Hm?"

"Goodnight," Kallista replied.

"Goodnight...Kallista,"


When morning came, the two had unconsciously shifted towards one another. Gabriel was asleep on his back with Kallista nestled at his side, a hand on his chest, his hand rested gently on the small of her back.

[ Gooooood Morning]

A voice boomed through their cell phones causing Kallista to jump awake startling awake the man as well. They both jolted up looking around for intruders only to find themselves alone in the hotel room. Gabriel sighed heavily as he fell back into his pillow, Kallista had slid to the edge of the bed running her hands through her hair and sighed in relief.

"Jesus fucking Christ Magnus," Gabriel growled.

[Sorry Boss. I thought you would have been up by now...you slept a little later than usual]

"You almost gave me a heart attack Magnus," Kallista sighed heavily.

[My bad...I hope you slept well, though? I have good news if that helps?]

"Next time, how about you send some type of warning..." Gabriel growled as he moved to sit on the opposite edge of the bed.

[I said I'm sorry. Like I said you were asleep longer than usual. But the reason why I contacted both of you is because I wanted to let you know that that leads the Kallista sent back are giving us some promising results and might get you back faster than expected. We were able to hack a terminal of Bulgasari we're waiting on your signal to start disrupting]

"And the leads on Cassius?" Gabriel asked.

[We're already looking into them, Malik and Aleks is working on their money trail along with his business partners.]

"Ok that's a start," Kallista commented and yawned.

[I've already uploaded the best position for you to upload the code-]

[Hey, Gabi can you bring me back some Korean snacks? I hear they're really good]

"Ramos now is not the time," Gabriel said as he stood.

[C'mon just one bag of those fish chips or something]

"Malik," Kallista noted the man's tone as he too yawned after. A low rumble in his chest, his voice was thick with sleep. Kallista ran a hand through her hair and down the back of her neck, nervously.

[It sounds like you two had a long night…Kallista]

"Nonsense. We were working which is why we are almost done with this mission," Kallista scoffed as she grabbed her cellphone.

[Sure…]

"You two, don't start," Gabriel sighed.

[Oh? So you guys did have a long night]

"Magnus, Ramos. Get your asses back to work," Gabriel growled.

[Fish chips, please and thank you]

[Fine. We do want souvenirs though, Hey Kalli make sure you hook us up!]

As quickly as it started the connection to their cell phones were cut leaving the two alone with each other again. Gabriel sighed heavily before yawning again he turned to speak to see the woman stretch.

His gaze followed from her neck, he noticed a skull-like tattoo on the back of her neck, the curve of her back and more. Just as quickly as he looked, he averted his gaze as she looked over her shoulder at the man.

"When did you get the tattoo?" Gabriel asked.

"Before I went to Harvard," Kallista replied as she sat on the bed and began to pull on her boots.

"Why, what's up?" Kallista asked as she laid back on the bed.

"It's nothing," Gabriel replied and yawned.

"Sounds like you need some coffee," Kallista suggested.

"I do, want some?" Gabriel asked as he stretched again followed by a yawn.

"Rise and Shine Commander Reyes" Kallista replied.

"I'm working on it," he replied.

"Yes, I would like a cup or three or six," Kallista said smugly.

"Caffeine in small doses Kallista," Gabriel replied.

"...yeah ok," Kallista replied sarcastically as she grabbed the small keyboard from her bag.

Gabriel took out his cellphone as he went over to the coffee maker, the coffee looked good from what he could tell, everything was in Korean, it looked simple enough He noticed he had received messages and emails from Morrison, Hayden, Magnus and others from the R&D department. He quickly skimmed over the messages from Morrison judging if he needed to respond to them right away and looked at the message from Magnus last.

{Magnus: Soo...Reyes...about Kallista…}

{Reyes: What do you want Magnus?}

{Magnus: :( Ouch. I'm sorry about cutting in like that I assumed that you were already awake or something...I just wanted to talk to you about Kallista...the others think that she would be a good fit}

{Reyes:...the director's position….}

{Magnus: Don't tell me you forgot about it...Morrison has been pushing it...or at least someone is pushing it for him?}

{Reyes: It wasn't on my radar at the moment. Did you forget where I am right now?}

{Magnus: No but...but Kallista is on your radar}

{Reyes: …How much do you want to keep your job?}

{Magnus: Ruthless…but consider it...yeah She's perfect. You and I both know this.}

Gabriel glanced away from his cell phone and focused on the woman enthralled in the holographic screens around her. During a previous mission, Blackwatch had suffered extreme casualties within the Intelligence Department and was slowly recovering. One thing that the department lacked was leadership and not just from him or Lyudmila, leadership from within the department.

He knew that Malik was not a suitable candidate, he was too reckless and he had his own personal problems that sometimes lead him to think if Malik was suitable on the field. Gabriel still continued to take his chances with the man, he was a valuable asset to the team.

Recently, Aleksander, Magnus, and Linda had been transferred from the Overwatch Intel department to support and eventually became members of Blackwatch, but he didn't feel they were ready yet to be in that type of position yet.

{Reyes: I'll think about it.}

{Magnus: Oh c'mon she's been here for three years now. She knows her shit, she's hot, and you know she has the skills to do it.}

{Reyes: Thanks for your great description of her Magnus I said I'll think about it}

{Magnus: :) }

Gabriel sighed heavily as he shoved his cell phone into his back pocket. He knew that Magnus wasn't wrong about Kallista. He already knew that she was more than capable, she showed signs of leadership while on this recon mission, she was smart, her skills were the best, probably better than what he could discern at the moment, she would be the best fit out of everyone in the department currently.

She was damn good at what she did.

"Hey Aleks, I correlated names to Cassius' business ventures, I have a strong suspicion that these people are connected to Cassius. I was able to access their business proposals documents...some of them look suspicious, but there are some that look promising" Kallista began.

"I already pulled up information on them...these people have been really busy...but then again I'm not too surprised,"

Gabriel looked at the woman smirking as her fingers glided across the brightly lit keyboard. She was one of the most wanted people in the world and yet she hid almost in plain sight from everyone, what would they, the world, and the higher ups of Overwatch think if this said woman became the director of what she tried to hack into before they caught her?

Only one way to find out.

Gabriel took out his cell phone and began to type a message to Lyudmila.

{Reyes: Lyuda, the director's position for the Intel dept.}

{L. Dontsova: What about it?}

{Reyes: Kallista?}

{L. Dontsova: Why I thought you would never ask Reyes. I hope you caught my sarcasm in that. }

{Reyes: Clearly.}

{L. Dontsova: Of course, she is the most capable, reliable, versatile, agent we have in the Intel dept. She clearly has the skills to do whatever you ask her to do.}

{Reyes: Lay it on heavy why don't you?}

{L. Dontsova: Only the truth Reyes. I agree with everyone else in the Intel Dept and some outside as well.}

{Reyes: Figures.}

{L. Dontsova: You don't sound too happy Reyes…}

{Reyes: I'm fine. She's good at what she does... I think she'll be a good fit}

{L. Dontsova: I am glad that we agree on this. I know that Malik might have some mixed feelings about this due to his seniority and his skill}

{Reyes: He'll have to get over it. He knows he's too reckless}

{L. Dontsova: Agreed. We'll see how the brass likes it}