Victoria flinched as the bandage around the top of her arm was tightened, Ana chuckled as she finished tightening the bandage looking at her, "How is it?" Ana questioned.

"Alright," Victoria wiggled her fingers hissing in pain slightly.

They were now on their eighth month in Australia and the Omnics seemed to be calming down their assault on the Australian out back. Yesterdays fight however went south for the team, Reinhardt's shield didn't hold out as long as they thought it would breaking around him, Reyes and Jack. Victoria and Laio were on the other shield of the field at this point in time had rushed across the field both thankful for the speed enhancements that they had been given but both Overwatch members had got shot in the process Victoria in the top of her arm and Liao in the top of his leg. All five of them had come back from the fight drenched in dirt, sweat and blood.

Victoria had been trying to hold off another panic attack as the doctors picked the bullet out of her arm until Ana who had been behind the lines with Torbjion throughout the fight had come in swiped the doctors away and started doing the work herself.

It was now the next morning and Ana was checking up on both Victoria and Laio.

"We are fine Ana, you can stop mothering us woman," Laio laughed from the chair next to Victoria ruffling the blondes hair, "Did fantastic out there yesterday."

"Me," Victoria laughed large smile across her face, "You sliced through more Bastion units than I could count."

"You both did wonderfully," Ana smiled at them.

Victoria and Laio laughed to themselves at this, Ana had asked them both to can she check there wounds and both slightly high up on pain killers. "Thanks Ana though we know who you were really looking at," Laio laughed.

"Hush children," Ana told them as Victoria pulled her jacket back on smiling widely.

"Didn't the Secretary General want to speak to us?" Laio questioned as he stood testing the weight on his injured leg both Victoria and Ana stood on standby to make sure he did not got face first into the floor.

"Yes she spoke to Reyes earlier about it wanting all of us there," Ana told him handing him a pair of crutches, "Should be healed up soon but until then keep the weight of your leg."

"Yes mum," Laio chuckled before he grunted as Ana had smacked him up side of the head.

"Did your mother not teach you manners," Ana scolded him which made Victoria laugh in return.

"Come on I'm rearing to get back into the fight," Victoria smiled brightly.

Both Victoria and Ana helped Laio down the hallway the three were silent as they entered the meeting room, "Ah friends finally," Reinhardt cheered a giant grin across his face, "How are you both feeling?"

Surprisingly to the entire team with yesterdays battle the only people to come out injured was Victoria and Laio and that was because they were more focused on making sure there team mates were safe.

"Oh good," Adawe had come through the door moments after they did, Reyes had moved helping Laio pull out his chair as both Victoria and Ana took their seats.

"Fantastic job yesterday all of you, yesterdays push is just what was needed," She told them, the secretary general had not actually been in Australia constantly leaving the organising of the team to Reyes. She had visited three times now since they had been stationed out here.

"So..." Reyes stressed knowing the team were all itching to get back to the fight.

"Australia Omnic Crisis seems to have dwindled we believe that they can now handle it on their own," Adawe answered the unspoken question.

"We are going back?" Victoria asked.

"Yes the world is very please with Overwatches work and believes its time for you to have a well deserved rest," Adawe smiled at them, "We will be leaving in a few hours to give you time to collect your belongings."

"So the omnics are..." Jack did not know how exactly to finish that question.

"A lot of there forces here seems to have dwindled, Egypt seems to be taking a brunt of it along with the rest of Africa whilst Russia seems to be doing well and holding there own, a few other places are struggling but Australia has been one of the worst areas to be hit. They are thankful for your services, now please get your bags packed we will be leaving soon," Adawe told them.

Victoria bounced from her seat wide grin across her face as the others also stood she followed Ana out who shared the same wide grin. "Are you going to tell Fareeha you are on the way home?" Victoria asked.

"Yes I have missed my baby girl," Ana smiled.

"Are you coming Jack?" Victoria asked looking over her shoulder at him.

"Just a minute, you get on with packing," he grinned at her.

"oh ok," Victoria shrugged and left with Ana.

"Is there something I can help you with Jack?" Adawe asked him slightly confused to why he was still in the meeting room.

"Yes, I would like to give a call home before we leave if that is ok with you," Jack grinned widely at her.

Victoria hummed to herself as she folded up the clothes that they had taken for the journey along with the clothes they had brought as well stuffing them into the large bags that her and Jack had. The bed was perfectly made a habit Jack told her that his mum drilled into him and it annoyed him whenever she had left the bed unmade.

She smiled slightly at the present that sat on the bedside table, through out their time in Australia Jack had taken her to a camera store allowing her to choose. Victoria sat down taking hold of the large camera looking down into the lenses.

'"Jack no," Victoria laughed as they stood in the schools car park, they were waiting to be picked up from school.

Jack had snuck into her bag and removed her camera, he flipped through the memory of the camera looking at the photos. Pictures of the entire school everyone in their year some of their teachers as well. He knew Victoria would head down to the camera store tomorrow and get them printed.

Victoria was always embarrassed when people saw her photos she loved taking photos ever since she was younger always seen with a camera in hand. Jack held the camera out of Victoria's reach, the blonde blushed brightly as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder pulling her in and turning the cameras on themselves snapping a photo of them both.

"JACK!" Victoria hollered.

"Oh come on," Jack laughed this time turning the camera on her snapping the camera as she held her hands up to the lenses. "You can not hide this talent from the world."

"Jack..." Victoria whined at him.

"Oh come on Vicky, you are brilliant at this every picture you take I hold the camera and create a monster," Jack told her.

Victoria slapped Jack on the shoulder laughing loudly at him he snapped another picture surprised how well he had captured her laughing face. "See..." Victoria was able to pull down the camera so she could see the photo he just took, "I don't look like a monster."

Jack took hold of her chin tilting her head up so she can look straight into his blue eyes, "You can never look like a monster."

Victoria hid her face in his shoulder hiding her blushing face, "Shut up."

Jack kissed the side of her head laughing at her reaction, "Maybe after the army."

"How about we get through the army first then speak about what we will do afterwards ok?" She questioned him.

"Yeah maybe you are right," he sighed resting his chin on top of her head.'

"Vicky?" Jacks questioned voice filled her ears as fingers snapped in front of her.

"Sorry I didn't notice you had come back," she smiled widely at her.

"What were you thinking of?" Jack asked her.

"Something... a memory I think," she smiled as she moved and put the camera back in her bag.

"Good?" Jack asked.

"Oh really good," she smiled, "what did you talk to Adawe about?"

"Nothing important really," he grinned Victoria watched that grin, "Just wanted to tell mum we were on the way home."

Victoria continued to look at him, it was the face she pulled when she knew he was planning something in Jacks gut he knew Victoria did not know she pulled that face not after what happened to her there were small things she didn't realise that she did. She wiggled around the bathroom as she brushed her teeth humming something that did not make much sense to his ears.

"Alright," she shrugged before going back to packing, Jack could not help but grin to himself knowing she will love the surprise.

'"Jack come back its not safe," Victoria yelled after him.

The snow was thick across the grounds, the lake behind the Morrisions farm had frozen over though by how it looked Victoria did not in one sense of the word feel safe the dalamation sat at her feet and whined as they watched Jack walk out onto this ice, "I know darlin'," she cooed down at the six month old puppy. Sixteen year old Victoria Johnson stood knee deep in the snow watching her idiot of a boyfriend walk out across the ice.

"Vicky you are so boring," he laughed back at her, it was Christmas eve the last Christmas before they ship out in the summer and won't be back until spring the following year they both turn seventeen this spring and ready to join.

"Jack oh my god that does not look safe, come on your ma has most likely baked apple pie waiting for us to come home," She called out to him.

Dexter whined pulling on his lead looking out to Jack, he gave a sharp tug which Victoria was not expecting and his lead slipped from Victoria's hand. The dalamation went barrelling across the snow and onto the frozen lake his paws went sliding and both Victoria and Jack heard a thump as the puppy landed on the ice.

"Dex," Victoria whined as she watched Jack step further towards the centre of the ice, she looked down at her hiking boots and groaned knowing she was gonna go flat on her arse.

She took one tiny step on to the ice, she felt her foot slip slightly as she put the other one down next to it and started to shuffle across the ice.

Dexter was struggling to get his baring on the ice struggling to get up onto his paws as he continued to slide over to Jack.

"DEXTER!" Victoria screeched the the puppy slammed into Jacks ankle on any other day Jack wouldn't have fallen but not with the correct shoes Jacks legs went out from under him and he slammed back into the ice. Victoria heard the ice crack and saw the cracks as she was a three feet away from him.

Dexter bounced on Jacks chest, they both heard the ice creak under them. "Slowly..." Jack told her his eyes on the ice as he held Dexter between both his hands watching he puppy wiggle.

"Jack I don't like this..." Victoria's eyes locked onto the ice cracked under her feet.

"Quickly..." Jack told her as he slowly got to his feet holding Dexter in his arms, a loud crack sounded under him the two locked eyes and sprinted across the lake as best as they could. Victoria screeched with laughter as they reached the edge and the ice finally gave up leaving then face first into the snow on the bank with their ankles in the freezing cold water.

"I hate you," Victoria whined as she pulled her ankles out of the lake shivering from the cold as Dexter yipped at her licking her cheek.

"We love you too," Jack laughed kissing her cheek.'

"You alright?" Gabriel asked as he sat down across from her on the flight, the UN had Overwatch with their own private jet she was sat near the back of the plane flicking through a tablet in front of her.

"Hu?" Her green eyes now came into focus looking up at him.

He had put a glass of water in front of her, "You ok?" He asked again.

"Yeah sorry Commander I was... in a world of my own," she told him.

"Yes you looked rather happy with what ever you were thinking about," he told her.

"Nothing important Commander," she smiled that pretty smile she would for the others.

"Gabe, Victoria you know this," he told her.

She shook her head again, "Sorry."

"What was the memory, good I hope," he questioned.

Gabriel, Ana and Jack had mainly been dealing with Victoria when she has nightmares or freezes up on the field. Ana and Jack more than Gabriel but Gabriel was always there when need be.

"No good I promise..." her voice was soft and her smile this time was genuine.

"Good hows the arm?" He indicated to the bandage wrapped around the top of her arm.

Victoria

moved her arm slightly, "Alright."

"You have to stop saving my arse," Reyes laughed at her watching take a sip of her water, "People think I am going soft."

"You have always been soft Commander," Victoria winked at him looking back down at the tablet, "My memories are coming back slowly... But a lot of the stuff I'm remembering is small things with Jack."

"From what Jack told me you two were inseparable and always have been," Gabe explained to her.

"I hate this, people the news mainly says that Jack is my fiance and so does my file but I can not remember it, I remember him taking photos o me with my own camera, him being an idiot nearly drowning in a frozen lake I can not remember this damn proposal," she huffed slamming the tablet down falling back in her seat.

"You will remember," Gabriel told her smiling down at her, it reminded her of an older brother who would ruffle your hair when you've done something well or threaten your new boyfriend because your the family princess. "Remember the doctors told you not to push yourself to remember."

"Yes sir," she gave him a mini salute across the table.

Gabriel laughed at her salute none of the team treated him like a commander off the battlefield though he had come to the conclusion Victoria started to do it wind him up. Her smile widened as she let out a burst of giggles as she caught his glare, "Jacks really happy how much you've remembered."

"Yeah in seven months I remember a few good memories and three years of rape, Jack is so impressed," Victoria hissed the words.

"No," Gabriel told her, "You might not remember everything but your mannerisms are the same as what they used to be."

"What?" She questioned.

"He said to me over drinks the other night, Jack was most likely so drunk he does not remember this conversation knowing him and it takes a lot to get one of us drunk. But he said you do this adorable wiggle around the bathroom when you are brushing your teeth," he told her chuckling as he watched her cheeks flame a bright pink colour.

"I do not wiggle," She whined hiding her hands behind her face.

"I will take your word on it Vics," he told her, leaning forward looking down at the tablet in her hands seeing was reading a news article of their time in Australia. "Vic do you really?"

"Why do they speak about me and Jack a lot... I mean you and Reinhardt do more fighting than me I'm more of a distraction," she huffed.

Gabriel chuckled at this, "Adawe seems to think you and Jack will help gain the public's trust."

"What drugged up whore for Talon," Victoria hissed out.

The team knew that Talon was a sore subject for both Victoria and Jack, Adawe had never questioned Victoria over what she knew when she was in the Talons compound. Though Gabriel had a feeling that Adawe had done that because Jack had said something about it.

"You aren't a Talon whore, you were a prisoner," Gabriel ordered her.

Victoria shook her head, "I know sorry... I am... just not use to being on this side camera and..." she double tapped the screen before showing him a picture of Victoria and Jack on one of their days off sipping coffee out in town, "I do not feel comfortable with cameras watching my every move."

"None us seem to like it," Gabriel sighed running a hand through his short hair as he looked at the picture neither Jack or Victoria had noticed that the cameras were there. "But the public needs to see us as figures they can trust and if a lost romance rekindled is the way to do it."

"So be it..." she sighed dropping the tablet back down.

Gabriel smiled at her in a gentle manner watching her lean back in the chair sipping more on her drink, "Fourteen more hours to go you might want to go have a proper lay down soon."

"Yes dad," she laughed.

'Victoria hid behind her mothers leg as she stepped up to the farm, it was huge a giant apple orchard, a pen for the horses, chickens and pigs a large barn and hundreds of fields.

"Come on Victoria," her mother smiled down at her.

She had been begging her mother for horse riding lessons ever since she could speak, now age five her mum

had taken her to the Morrison family farm. "Come on Victoria," her mother told her taking her hand and walking up the dirt path towards the house.

"Mummy what if I fall off?" The five year old asked.

"Well your father would say if you fall of the bike you get back up... though the bike is a horse... that could be a really big fall... and..." her mothers breathing became rapid and her hans felt clammy around Victorias hand, "Nope you aren't doing this."

Delilah went to turn back when a voice called out, "Delilah! John is saddling up the horses come in for tea send Victoria off the barn she knows were it is," Victoria looked up at the woman with sun blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes.

Victoria slipped out of her mothers hold and ran towards the barn the door was slightly ajar as she was able to slip through the small gap, into the barn a tall blonde man stood next to a giant black horse with a white diamond on its head. "Victoria finally," the man finished saddling up the horse before walking over to her and picking her up swinging her around, "Your mother finally snapped."

"Yep I get to ride a horsey," she grinned widely at the man.

"Fantastic hopefully you take after Richard," he spoke more to himself than any one else. As he put her down on the ground she looked round the room when the man would put a helmet on her head securing it i'm place. Her eyes landed on a boy standing by another horse this one a light brown colour whilst the mane and tail were black he was stood he stood on a stool so he could reach the horse as he gently brushed her.

"Jack come say hello to Victoria," the man told him, "You two haven't seen each other for a while."

Jack looked round the room before his eyes landed on her and he jumped off the stool rushing towards her, "VICKY!" he yelled as he crashed into her sending them both to the ground as he hugged her tightly, "I've missed you."'

Victoria groaned as she blinked a few times stretching her arms up above her head, she releaised she was still in the same seat as she was earlier but she had been swaddled in a blanket. Her eyes landed on Jack who had fallen asleep in the seat across from her, his head tilted back his mouth open.

She tapped at the tablet a few times seeing that there was about three hours left in their flight she sighed resting back and brought up the news again a report on an onmic clash came up on her feed. She double tapped bringing the article up and sighed apparently a fight broke out between a group of peaceful omnics and humans in Kings Row last night.

She didn't understand it was the omnics that were built to fight that suddenly said no and started to fight against humans. She rubbed her temples she was never good in robotics didn't have time for them.

"Vicky?" Jacks groggy voice broke her from her chain of thoughts, "You are going to break the tablet if you keep gripping it like that."

"I find this stupid," she whined.

"What?" He questioned sitting up fully cracking his neck as he sat up.

"Us the omnics, the omnics are not all bad and not all humans are good," she showed them the article as he sat forward.

"This has been happening for years Vicky," he sighed, "but hopefully we are going to help this."

Victoria nodded lifting the blind on the window looking at the sunrise across the clouds, "Breakfast?" She asked smiling at him as she pressed the button for the hostess.

"What time is it?" He asked.

"'Bout six in the morning," She answered, "And three hours to go so we can get back to the comfy mattress."

Other than the one night in the fancy hotel they were sleeping in bunkers thin mattresses enough to sleep through the night but nothing that helped them actually relax. All of them felt mentally drained six continuious months constantly fighting a random day here and there of rest which they were doing something or another.

Jack took her hands in his drawing her closure across the small table kissing her finger tips, "Comfy bed is that all you want," he winked at her watching her cheeks flush the pretty pink.

"Hush..." she giggled as he kissed the

this inside of her wrist grinnig as he watched her blush brightly.

Ana squeezed Victoria's hand for a second rechecking the bandages round the top of her arm Victoria was peaking out the window looking down at the group of reporters down on the runway and a group of people.

"Is Fareeha out there?" She asked Ana, Ana lent in next to her after securing the bandage.

"Yes," Ana smiled pointing out towards the small crowd of people a little girl same colouring as Ana dressed in a dark blue dress with gold beads in her hair, "that's my little girl."

"Oh Ana she is gorgeous," Victoria cooed.

"Yes she is," Ana smiled stepping down onto the run way felt like heaven to both of them

"Bridget!" Reinhardt smiled rushing across the run way sweeping a small lanky woman into his arms and swung her around, Bridget had mousy brown hair and a plain face. Victoria could see the hurt look across Anas face at this which turned into a smile as Fareeha wrapped her arms around her mothers legs. Arms wrapped around Victorias neck and lips pressed against her cheek.

"Hi Mum," Victoria laughed hugging her mother back releasing that she had grown taller than her mother.

"Oh look at you, you look so much better than you did before. Australia must have done wonders for your skin," Delilah cupped her daughters cheek.

Victoria felt more focused than the last time she saw her mother as the elder woman hugged her tightly. She could see the grey in her mothers blonde hair the small wrinkles around her smile. Though Victoria's memory served her right which it had been doing recently. Victoria's mum always laughed when people mentioned wrinkles.

"Yeah the heat is intense out there," Victoria softly smiled at her mother.

"Your eyes are more focused hows your memory?" Her mother asked taking a step back.

"Sketchy in places I don't honestly remember alot Mum," she told her, "I remembered my captivity and a few things with Jack... I remembered Dexter and my first riding lesson."

"Speaking of Dexter," her mum smiled.

"Your allergic to dogs though?" Victoria questioned.

A familiar bark sounded in Victorias ears the scrabbling sound of nails against tarmac and suddenly oph! Victoria had been knocked on her arse on the tarmac, a large wet tongue lapped at her face as a weight pressed down on her chest.

"Dex," Victoria laughed pushing the dogs head away from her own she laughed loudly as the dog nuzzled into her hand, barking at her, "Missed you too boy."

The dalamations bright brown eyes looked so happy, even in her own memories she had not remembered the eyrs being so bright. "Come on boy down," Jack told the dalamation who in turn hopped off Victoria's chest.

Jack helped Victoria to her feet she laughed as Dexter bounced around her feet, "I knew he would remember you."

"You planned this?" Victoria asked him her eyes wide in disbelief.

Jack chuckled as he scratched the back of his head, looking slightly embarrassed at her mind clicking all the puzzles pieces into one, "Yeah gave my folks a call before we left Sydney I thought you seeing him would help with memories."

"Oh Jack," Victoria smiled widely at him wrapping her arms around him , "I love it, thank you."

Dexter barked loudly that rang in Victoria's ears at, "Alright buddy all yours," Jack laughed letting go of Victoria allowing her to bend down running her hand through his short fur.

"Come on you two," Reyes hollered back at them as he stepped into the car.

"Will you be staying Mum?" Victoria asked.

"For a few days yes," Deliahs eyes were waterring slightly at Dexters fur.

"Fantastic," Victoria smiled going to hug her releasing that she was covered in dog fur.

"I will ride with your parents Jack," Delilah told her as they walked towards the car, Delilah pecked her daughters cheek as Victoria clicked her fingers towards the car and Dexter jumped into the back seat. Fareeha, Ana and Reyes were already in the seven seater van waiting on them.

"See you in a bit Mum," Victoria waved back at her.

"Doggy," Fareeha smiled as Dexter sat on the seat next to her.

"Fareeha this is Dexter," Victoria who smiled at Ana's daughter as Dexter kissed Fareeha's cheek.

"Mummy will doggy be staying?" Fareeha asked her brown eyes wide with excitement.

"Well I think it is up to Jack and Victoria," Ana answered.

"I see the secretary general being so happy with a dog being around the place," Reyes chuckled in the front seat.

Victoria twisted in her seat looking over at Ana, "You ok?" Her green eyes filled with concern for her friend.

"He never mentioned..." Ana didn't know how to voice what she was thinking as she watched Fareeha stroke Dexter's back looking at the dogs face turn into bliss as he thumped his foot against the car seat.

"He seems to like that doesn't he Fareeha," Jack smiled at her.

"Ana we don't know anything about her she might be a sister she had the same eyes as him," Victoria's smile was bright and warming to Ana, "Lets get cleaned up. I am sure Adawe has a nice family meal prepared for us all when we return."

Victoria was right as she sat in actual dinning room apparently Adawe had been working on renovating the entire Washington headquarters to be more homely for the Overwatch members they weren't stuck in a single room with an attached bathroom. Each member actually had there own version of a flat now, the dinning room was added so they could have actual proper sit down meals together. Dexter however Victoria knew was best if the dog stayed in hers and Jacks apartment so he didn't set off her mums allergies.

Reinhardt and the woman called Bridget wasn't their yet, they met Laio's wife Cynthia who was a tall french woman with platinum blonde hair she was a school teacher in France. Torbjion's brother was as short as him he was bright and cheerful just as his brother. Whilst Mrs Reyes was a rather plump woman with a loud voice, telling them all across the dinner table how proud she was of all of them and not just her baby boy which a earned snigger from Jack and a punch from Gabriel but all of them. Ana's mother was also their the older woman sat next to Ana smiling politely at everyone.

"Victoria," Jack caught her attention smiling brightly at her.

"Sorry what?" She asked swinging her head around side to side releasing they were waiting on her.

Cynthia smiled softly, "I asked was there something you wanted to do other than the army?"

"Um... from what I remember I wanted to go into photography," she answered.

"Yes," Mr Morrison told her, "Always had a camera in her hand, you were always good at Equestrian as well."

"Mummy whats Equestrian?" Fareeha questioned.

"Its fancy horse riding," Jack told her.

"Only cause you were good at the racing half," Victoria laughed winking at him.

The table laughed at this comment which in turn had Jack punch Gabriel's shoulder, "Friends I am sorry we are late," Reinhardt said as he pushed the door open.

Victoria saw Ana flinch slightly as Reinhardt took the seat next to her as Bridget sat on the other side of the table because they were the only seats left at the large table, "Everyone this is my younger sister Bridget."

Victoria lent back in her seat and smiled at Ana, Ana sighed and shook her head at the smile on Victoria's face was saying that I told you so.