Hello guys and welcome to the first update of 2017! Also keep in mind that in this fic since Widowmaker didn't exist previously Ana's eye was never shot out. After years of service she decided to switch to support and healing. You'll see it's relevance in this chapter.

It had been 2 days since he wedding but for Amelie felt like it was an eternity. It hasn't worked and she was left feelings lower than ever. Sure it had been a great night but Lena did not seem to be improving

Lena was left at home with her but she mostly just spent time trying to get used to everything in the hopes that she would remember something. Right now Amelie had put on her favourite movie from before, Top Gun. She didn't remember Amelie but for some unknown reason Gabriel decided to let her remember the entire lyrics to the song 'danger zone'.

Amelie was doing anything that would help her clear her head. She looked around and saw that there was a massive amount of dust beginning to gather on their bed so she would sort that out. If Lena ever did remember then she would want it nice for them to sleep together on. She grabbed the brush and got to work. They always split the chores between them and Lena always brushed because with her power it took only 5 minutes. For the entire house. She was often left with the dishes so brushing was somewhat foreign to her.

She worked on the bed until she decided to brush underneath the bed. As she poked around she felt something and she poked at it again then saw movement. Then right on the floor scampered out a bigger than black spider with a red marking on the back of it. It stopped in front of her and she stopped in front of it. All eight of it legs were spread and she was freaking out at the sight of it.

Even though she was a fully grown woman she was still scared of spiders. Arachnophobia to the extreme. She took the brush and grasped in her hands. If she could kill it she would be fine. It was just the living spiders she despised. From when she was a young girl she was always told how cold and ruthless they were. She would never be like that. She raised the broom carefully and whacked down hoping that she had got it.

Amelie screamed as she missed the spider and it ran away from her. As she was going to kill it with the broom again it seemed as though someone else had already done the job for her as she heard the squish of its body meeting with the ground.

"You're afraid of spiders? I thought you feared losing Lena most. I guess not judging by your screams." Said Gabriel lifting up his boot and wiping the dead arachnid is of it.

"Reyes! Don't come any closer or I put this in your skull." She said pulling out a knife from her belt and pointing it towards his head. She had the urge to kill him right here right now but he didn't seem like he was going to attack her back. He obviously had another motivation.

"I didn't come her to fight. I can here to make an offer." He said edging ever closer to her, he noticed how she was watching him like a hawk.

"What offer could you possibly have that I want?" she scoffed slowly beginning to lower the knife.

"We saved Lena's memories to this." He held up the small pen drive with the skull sticker on it. Amelie looked at it and had slightly hope but a majority of disbelief in her eyes. She recognised the emblem from Satya's computer desktop though she had no clue what it was meant to be.

"No matter what you do she will always have her training and we always had more than one trigger word and I could have her kill you right here right now." Amelie looked down the hall to Lena's room. She knew that Gabriel wasn't lying. He would be smart enough to have more than one trigger on her. He had planned everything including this meeting.

"Why tell me this?" she asked looking at the mask. It was creeping her out but she needed to know. He had some sort of ultimate design.

"I wanted to make a trade." He said, he was containing his joy at the prospect of the deal. He loved it when a plan went right unlike his plan to become the Overwatch icon. Unlike his plan to be with Morrison forever.

"What trade?" she said eyeing the knife again becoming ready to strike if he did anything.

He spoke in a voice that sent chills down Amelie's spine. It was so voice of emotion but it sounded so evil at the same time. Gabriel announced what he wanted. "Overwatch gets their best agent back while we get their best sniper."

Amelie rolled her eyes at his proposition. What he was asking for was asking far too much.

"You're not getting Ana." She said plainly. No way was she handing over her mentor and mother like figure. She didn't see why he would want Ana. She didn't seem like he would want her involved in her endgame plan.

"We don't want Ana, she's past her prime. And besides she's to driven by justice, just like Fareeha she would never work under me, she's worthless to us." He laughed at the end trying to get her to understand what he wanted. He thought she would have been able to get it by now. If Somba's intelligence on her had been accurate then she would have no choice but to accept.

"Wait... Do you want me?" She backed away from him thinking instinctively that he was going to do something. He laughed and stepped back to give her space. He knew this must have been quite a shock for her. He loved the reaction on people's faces when he made them nervous. The smell of fear was soaking her clothes.

Amelie didn't know what to do. She knew she should probably call for help but she was too fascinated by where he was going with this.

"It's a fair trade after all. Makes it more even. If we have a good sniper on each team things get a little more even." He tried to reason with her. Logically Amelie did see it as being more fair but since Talon were the bad guys she didn't care about fairness.

"What would happen if I was to agree?" she asked wanting to know more details.

"You would simply be found dead during a mission, we would make a double up to look like you. Lena would return to Overwatch. You would never get to see her again. Well, you would but only as a Talon agent."

She had no idea what made him think that turning Overwatch agents into Talon agents a good idea. Then again it was a brilliant idea. He had lost Tracer so now he was going to take another.

"Would you leave her alone?" she said asking the only question that mattered.

"Yes. I would tell my soldiers only to incapacitate, not kill. As soon as Overwatch gets disbanded or destroyed, whichever happens first, she'll simply go back to a civilian life and you can return to her like before she fully joined. That's it."

She was hating that he was right. She looked at the weapon and tried to go after him. She wanted him to be quiet for a moment. It was all in vain as he ended pinning her to the ground.

"We both want the same thing. Overwatch out of our lives. Think how safe Lena will be. It's best for everyone." He whispered in her ear as she struggled to get out from under him. Amelie felt the weight of him being lifted of here as he went into his smoky form.

Amelie didn't know what to think. This had been the man who had essential ruined her and Lena's relationship, broken her and taken away who she was. But then again this was a once in a lifetime deal. She could make Lena herself again and get Overwatch disbanded once and for all. She could ensure her and Lena's future. They could finally be safe. And it meant that the other members of the team could still meet up and not have it be in a life or death situation. They might even be able to enjoy Christmas without the threat of danger.

"I'll think about it." She spat venomously at him. She wanted him out of her house and out of her life. She knew he was the enemy but an offer like this didn't happen every day.

"You'll make the right choice." He said enveloping himself in a ball of black smoke and leaving her with the worst choice.

She could not accept, which meant that Lena would never regain her memories and there would still be the possibility of her being in battle one day and Reaper saying whatever the word was and then it would be Lena gone forever. If it made her Reapers pet again then she would kill all of Overwatch. She didn't die easily. She would keep on getting up until the job was done. Then Reaper would dispose of her for good. So she was dead either way.

Or

She could accept and Lena would be safe. Permanently. True she wouldn't be able to see Lena for a long time. Her safety was 100% assured. But she would be joining the bad guys and more than likely she would have to do some bad things. She would have to hurt people she once called friends, people she once shared meals with and had invited to her wedding.

As she looked at the clock she realised the meeting had gone on longer than she had anticipated as it was about 3:28 am. Gabriel had made her tired and she just wanted to sleep.

She decided she would sleep on it and then she would decide in the morning. After tonight's events she knew she wouldn't be getting much sleep.

As she lay starting up at the ceiling she noticed another spider crawling back once again but she didn't care. Her fear was something she had to leave behind if she was going to make the choice. No matter what she did one of them would be in pain. If she took up the offer the sights of Lena fighting her would break her heart but the sights of Lena without her memories was causing her great pain as well.

Her mother always told her spiders felt no emotion. And she had the sneaking suspicion that she would have to become like a spider.

What would be best for Lena was something entirely different from what was the right thing to do. She tried to reason that giving into Gabriel was essential admitting defeat and giving into him but with Lena's life at steak she couldn't take that chance.

She looked back down to where Lena was watching and knew what she had to do.

Amelie was going to take up Gabriel on his offer.