Shout out's this time go to Momo-Chocola (God you cat girl loving freak you finally got round to it.) , LiamStarWars and musicnerd34. Hope you enjoy because once again it is the calm before the storm.
"Amelie, come on the movies about to start." Lena called from their living room. It was snowing badly, so badly that they couldn't go into work and instead lit a fire and decided to have a movie day.
"Coming Cherie." She was in the bed room and she was trying to practice her face as she could pretend that everything was normal. It had been a couple of weeks since Lena got her memories back and things seemed to be going okay yet everyday Amelie would catch herself checking behind her shoulder for any signs of black smoke or possible Talon agents.
There had been a small indecent where she had been out shopping where she spotted him watching her from a narrow alley way. She looked at him for a moment but when she went to go confront him he had vanished without a trace. She was taken out from the disturbing memory by the annoying beeping of the microwave and the scent of salted popcorn.
She put her biggest most oversized purple sweater on and took the small popcorn bowl out of the microwave. She walked and Lena just putting the DVD into the player. Since it was Lena's choice this time it was going to be loud, fast paced and action packed.
"What have you put on?" She asked carrying in a bowl filled with sweet and salty popcorn. Lena had a preference for the sweet while Amelie like the salty more. Lena said it was just like their personalities which Amelie did not appreciate but secretly accepted as the honest truth.
"Three guesses." She said starting her straight in the eyes just as the theme of 'Danger Zone' started to blare out from their TV. It was always Lena's favourite movie so she sat down beside her and assumed the position which would ensure maximum cuddling. Lena made sure to get herself lost in Amelie's giant sweater as it was softer than Winston was.
As the film rolled Amelie noticed how Lena was so cosy. She was again had to remind herself that this was only going to last a little longer before she would have to pay her debt to Gabriel. When it came to the most quoted part of the entire movie she pulled herself from Amelie and sat on her knees and readied her voice.
"I feel the need, the need for speed." She said in unison with the character of Maverick. The differences in their voices clearly showing. Her wife was a total dork but she was her dork. Amelie would miss her little quirks.
"Must you do that every time?" She asked feeding her a piece of popcorn to shut her up.
"Yeah I must. It's just tradition luv." She opened her mouth to receive another piece.
She went to take another handful of popcorn but it seems as though they had finished it all. She sighed as she would have to get up from her cosy position and have to go through the long process of putting making it.
"I'm going to get more popcorn. Would you like anything from the kitchen?" Amelie said getting up and wrapping Lena's legs in blanket to keep them nice and warm while she was away. Along with her time abilities and her pistols she had one weapon that could work against Amelie. Cold feet.
"If you're going could you get me some more hot chocolate please?" Lena said giving her the cutest eyes that she could made and put her finger up to her cheek to make her seem even more irresistible to Amelie.
"Of course Lena." Her wife was always one for the theatrics.
Amelie went into the kiychen and located the hot chocolate mix. Personally she couldn't stand the stuff but Lena could take an abundance of it so they always kept it in the house. As she scooped the grainy powder into the she felt a presence behind her and she didn't need to look over her shoulder to check who it was.
She already knew.
"What are you doing here Gabriel?" She said quietly under her voice so that Lena wouldn't hear. When Amelie looked back she seemed too invested in the movie to even notice.
"Please Amelie. We have a working agreement you can call me by my call name, Reaper." The name of Gabriel was dead to him. He had heard it enough from Morrison.
"You didn't answer the question." She snapped back at him.
"I need to run through the plan. It is happening tomorrow after all." Amelie dropped the container all over the floor and covered it in the cocoa powder. She silently swore in French under her breath before grabbing a cup to try and scoop it up.
"Are you crazy? How do you expect me to do that?" She said trying to keep her voice down. She was clearly putting her stress into her actions as when she tried to use the cup she banged it against the floor. Thankfully it didn't break but it was loud enough for Lena to hear.
Lena upon hearing the falling of the hot chocolate mix raised an eyebrow of concern but didn't take her eyes of the screen as she didn't want to miss the movie.
"You okay Ame?" She called over the sound of the planes being flown in the film. Amelie looked around to see if she could stop panicking and think of an excuse.
"Oui, I just spilt the stuff, it may take a bit longer but you keep on watching." She said getting up to reassure her it was okay.
"If you're sure, Love you" She said while making a kissing sound just to emphasis her point. Amelie replied with the same sound but she wasn't smiling when she did it.
"Love you too."
She the focused her attention back onto reaper and he seemed to be amused by it, all though he also scoffed at the idea of romance. It was a concept that was pretty much dead to him. She glared as to say that there was no way in hell that she was doing it tomorrow but he stepped closer and went right up to her face to whisper in her ear.
"Tough luck. That's the only opportunity we have. When Lena falls asleep come out to the back and we'll discuss the plan." He then once again left her alone. She took a deep breath and finally got around to making their snacks.
She brought them out and watched the rest of the film with Lena. She yawned once the credits started rolling and Amelie saw this as her window of opportunity.
"Do you want to go to bed Cherie?" She said looking down as she sprawled out in her pyjamas.
"Oui, Merci." She said in her best French accent but sounding incredibly tired at the same time. Amelie grimaced and picked up the sleepy partial time traveller. She carried her upstairs but on the way up she took a moment to look at her face. All the little details that made it so perfect. The small light freckles all across the middle, her piercings and her weirdly shaped hair. She looked and tried to remember every detail s with Gabe waiting for her she knew that her time to leave was coming soon.
"Good night. I love you so much." She said nearly crying as she placed her down on the bed and planted a small kiss on her forehead. It was hitting her that this would be one of the last times that she would get to see her.
"Luv you two Ame. See you in the morning." She said pulling her down for one last kiss on her lips before curling herself up into the blankets, not noticing how Amelie was wiping the silent tears that were falling.
She made her way out to the garden and just like expected he was waiting there, arms folded and clearly tired of waiting. She didn't want to have to deal with any form of pandering and just wanted to get straight to the point.
"So what's going to happen?" She asked looking up to their bedroom window.
"We'll be crashing an Omnic ceremony in Nepal. We have a way so that you have an excuse not to be with Overwatch anymore."
"How?" She questioned. She had tried to think about how he would get her away from the group but like many things she had too many questions and not enough time to answer them.
"We searched for you double and by chance we happened to find someone who looked mostly like you. We just did some work and now they are the perfect match. They could be your twin."
She started at the photo. He was right, it was her down to the shape of her nose, eye colour and even her purple lipstick was the exact same shade. She knew that technology was evolving but she never expected it to go this far. When she thought about it more the idea began to grow creepier in her mind.
"Who were they?" She asked looking at the file and picking up that the name tag only read as #2803. Talon didn't even care about who she was as a person beforehand and only gave her a number like she was some kind of animal.
"Just a woman from prison. She was in there for stabbing an omnic waiter. So don't let it weigh on your conscious too much, she was a dead woman anyway. And it was just an omnic so it didn't really matter." She was disgusted about how people could be so disregarding of omnics. She didn't care about the topic herself but she still supported what Lena did.
"What do I do?" Now that her conscious was only partially cleared she needed to know what she would be doing.
"When the chaos begins you will be up sniping on the roof top and then we provide a smoke screen where we make the switch. You put a bullet in her head and toss her from the roof. Everyone will think that it's you and they won't do any blood tests so they won't suspect a thing." Even if they did it would be the same as Amelie's. He didn't want to tell her the extent that they had painstakingly gone through to make sure everything went to plan but it would be better if they were thorough.
Amelie was trying to hold it back. All of this was making her nauseated with worry. She had to cover her mouth with her hand just to try and keep it down. He was going to scoff at her. She didn't know what being in pain was really like. Being in constant agony as he regenerated and then immediately died after. Repeating the cycle over and over.
"I can't believe I'm doing this." Amelie was defeated and both of them were aware of it.
"You have to Amelie. It's the way that's best for everybody." He reassured her. He was glad that Amelie was on board but he knew it would be a while before she fully accepted it. She could see herself on the battlefield shooting everyone but Lena.
"What happens when Amelie Lacroix is officially dead?" This was feeling so surreal, talking about her own death like it was some kind of normal mission. Like it was nothing. She just needed to get used to it.
"You will undergo intense training and you won't be recognised by anyone." He knew what the side effects would be but he decided that it would be a lot more interesting if he just let her see what would happen first hand.
"What do you mean?" She only thought that she would be an agent and not have to be physically changed. This was not mentioned in the job description anywhere.
"Enough questions." He snapped at her. He handed her another file on everything that she would need to know. There was a burn after reading mark on it so she made a note to herself that she would have to destroy it but she was wondering if she even wanted to read its contents.
She had heard enough. She parted their way and Amelie made herself a small cup of coffee because it was going to be a long night. And a long day.
Tomorrow it would all be over.
Amelie Lacroix would officially dead.