Shout outs to XDashieX, goddragonking, Dr. Chipotle. Thanks again. Sorry for the wait. Exams and other things. On with the story
Fareeha. Amelie. Satya. Pain.
This was the list of things Ana Amari was trying to remember as she began to stir. She had trouble remembering what happened but those 4 things were the ones she could remember the most clearly.
When she moved about a bit more and her brain was beginning to wake up more memories of what happened came back and as she put the pieces together she shot up out of the bed she was lying in. It was Amelie who had done all of this. She was trying to open her both her eyes but it seemed that only one was working properly.
"What happened? Fareeha! Where is she? " Ana said trying to look around only for one of her eyes to be covered by a bandage. She saw something move by her side and as she began to panic she felt two big hands grab her own.
"My dear please relax. You've been through a lot and you've only just woken up."
"Reinhardt, habibtaa. I am glad to see you but where is Fareeha? She was snipped by Am-!"
"Ana, please you must relax. She's very well." He reassured her in his heavy German accent. Ana could tell he was lowering his volume just for her. She would have smiled for him but the dull pain in her eye was making it hard to feel happy at the moment.
Her hand instinctively moved towards her snipers eye but instead of flesh she felt it was only a medical bandage. She felt around more to see if there was any other damage and while she was thankful she couldn't find anything else she was biting at her lip slightly due to the fact that her main weapon was covered up.
"What about…?" She felt the bandage one more time but she was pretty much told the whole story by Reinhardt's expression. He tried to smile for her but she could see that it was hard for him to tell her the bad news.
He rubbed her hand with his thumb and sighed "Miss Ziegler wasn't able to save it. She could fix it but it would be omnic parts." He was waiting for her reaction and to his surprise she was very calm about it. Then again she was like that with a lot of things. It was all being debated beneath the surface.
"I'm an old woman now. Save for in case Fareeha needs them." She let her motherly instincts take over. Fareeha was priority now. Not her.
He gave a silent nod and simply held her hand. It was nice when they could have quiet moments together. She felt the gauze began to become heavy with blood and as soon as it changed from white to red Reinhardt decided to change it for her. There was one thing that was bothering him about the whole situation.
"It's not like you to hesitate like that." He commented as he began to change the bandage. Ana looked with her one eye but Reinhardt saw that it was filled with the upmost seriousness.
"It was Amelie." She stated. He stopped changing the bandage and he had to step back a little.
"My dear, I'm not sure what you mean." He said beginning to patch her up again.
"It was Amelie Lacroix. She was the one who snipped me. I couldn't believe it was her and I hesitated. She took out my good eye." She said looking off to the side. She didn't know why she was alive but the thing that shocked her most was the fact that she looked dead on the inside. She wasn't the Amelie she knew before.
She was trying to think of what he would say next but it was Reinhardt so she was expecting that he would probably yell but not angrily. Just simply out of confusion.
"Are you sure? If it was then she'll meet my hammer!" He said. He would have been out the door if it weren't for Ana still holding his hand. If Ana said it was true the Reinhardt had enough trust in her judgement to believe her. She was a smart woman and always right in his opinion.
"I am." She said confidently. And for Reinhardt that was all the proof he needed.
One more question as resounding in both of their heads but Reinhardt was the one to say it. "Should we tell Lena?"
"I'm not sure. We don't know what the full story is." Ana would have rather waited until they had actual proof before causing her any unnecessary distress.
"Where is she now?" He asked.
"She's in Kings Row I believe."
Lena was wondering around her old town. It was nearing October and it was getting cold as hell and she had her eyes set on getting herself a good chippy and curling up to watch whatever awful Saturday night TV programmes were on.
As she was patrolling she was knocked to the ground as a distressed girl collided with her when she was running out. They both produced an 'umph' sound s they hit the stone ground.
"Oi' watch where you're going mate."
"Sorry, I just need help." Lena was immediately taken aback by the mysterious stranger's hair and eyes. Her hair was a shade of red she had never seen before and she had pretty cute looking eyes. Lena had to admit she was hot. For a while she didn't think she would find anyone as beautiful as Amelie was but she was proven wrong.
"What's the problem luv?" She asked suddenly wanting to help this stranger with whatever problem she had.
"My friend is an omnic and he's being attacked by a group of thugs." Lena nodded before she blinked into the alley and saw three very British blokes carrying cricket bats and beating the parts out of a poor omnic. The robot was trying to call for help but he kept on being hit.
As one of them was about to go in for a head shot, he suddenly found that the weapon was no longer in his hand. The others were about to raise their weapons only to find that they too had vanished out of existence.
They didn't even get a chance to question it before Lena had gotten them off of their feet and beaten the absolute crap out of them. Knocking their heads together and effectively putting them out of commission.
She finished up and saw the girl standing there. She surprisingly didn't seemed shocked by her use of violence but instead seemed rather impressed. Lena couldn't tell through the orange goggles but it seemed like she was red around the cheeks.
"Come on buddy, Let's get'cha up." Said the mysterious girl as she helped her friend up. He was badly damaged but luckily there were some omnic doctors who still lived in the area so she decided she would take them to him.
"You're not against Omnics? Don't see many of ya about these parts." She commented. With the amount of anti omnic slurs around the area if someone was pro-omnic they would tend to keep that information to themselves. You didn't want the wrong people hearing. There had been reports of people going to omnic houses and vandalizing them. It made Lena sick.
It seems that both of them were just as shocked as she was as they both turned to look at her. "I can't stand it when they treat them so horribly." Emily stated looking to her friend.
"Sorry about what happened to your boyfriend." She said trying to up hold the omnics weight. He was heavy enough. If Lena had to make an educated guess she would say that he was a mixture of a bastion unit along with some other parts.
"Oh no sorry. He's not my boyfriend we just work together. And besides, I don't go for guys." She said as sly as a fox. This caught Lena off guard. Just like Amelie had. The tables had turned as for once it was someone else who began flirting with her as soon as they met and not the other way around.
"I'm the same. What's your name?" She blushed as she realised that she may have just accidentally answered the question about liking boys instead of her being supportive of omnic rights. She blushed and just hoped that she didn't notice. Or that she did notice and found it adorable.
"Emily. I know about you Tracer." With the name she felt senses freeze. She must have heard it wrong. She was having mini flash back to one time early in the relationship when she had mistakenly called Amelie Emily. She wouldn't let her forget it for a whole week. Emily looked at Lena weirdly as she appeared to be in her own little world.
"Please- call me Lena." It was often weird to meet fans in public. Most people had either forgotten or just gotten used to her. While there were select few who saw her just as Overwatch scum and said stuff beneath their breath but wouldn't dare initiate a fight. They all knew she would beat them.
"Oh okay Lena." She was so weirded out by the situation. She was essentially flirting with her idol as a teen. There wasn't that much of an age gap between them. As they walked she decided to make conversation to lighten the mood.
"I would love to meet Mondatta." She said hoping that Lena could relate.
"I met em once." She said hoping that it would impress her but now that she had brought it back up she began to remember the events through which she had met him.
"Really what was he like?" Her eyes had lit up. It was clearly somethings she was passionate about. She paused. Her mind while thinking of the happy time when she had met her inspiration was always filled by the image of Amelie's body.
"You okay?" She wasn't acting like the hero she had read so much about. She seemed almost too distracted.
"I'm sorry. I was thinking about when I met Mondatta. It was the attack on Nepal." The day was still vibrant in her mind. She had to throw out her orange jumpsuit and instead wear a blue one she had lying around, the blood simply hadn't been able to come out of it.
"I heard about that. Didn't one of your teammates get killed?" She asked unaware of how much this was hurting her. She didn't cry but the memories were still painful to think about. "My wife. Amelie." She said knowing that it would make her new friend feel terrible.
Emily put her hands over her mouth. She didn't realise that it had been someone so close to her, she felt awful for bringing it up. And she had just tried to flirt with her. Lena noticed how she turned a bright red with embarrassment and was trying to hide her face.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know. The press never said who had died just that it was a member of Overwatch." Emily was trying her best to explain that she intended no harm but Lena was quick to try and make her feel better about the whole situation. "It's fine." Lena said emphasising the truthfulness in her tone of voice.
"I could bring you out to coffee if you wanted to talk. Might be good to talk with someone who isn't a hero." She offered as friendly as she could. She really did admire her and honestly it was the least she could do for saving her friend.
"That'd be nice." To be perfectly honest Lena did need someone to talk to. Someone who wasn't a part of Overwatch. It was just hard to talk to her friends about it without having to remember how Amelie was friends with every single person there. Maybe a complete stranger was the right person to talk to.
They walked until they reached the doctor's office.
"I'll see you soon." Lena was exhausted and her chronal accelerator was running out of power so the quicker she got home the better she would feel. Also her watch was beeping at her as well and she didn't want to deal with that longer then she had to.
"Wait! I haven't given you my number yet." She said as Lena was about to jet off back home. Lena was mentally slapping herself in the face. She held out her phone and Emily put her number in.
"Thanks. I'll see you later." She said as they parted ways. Both still trying to deal with the fact at how cute the other was. So with Emily's phone number in her pocket she went to go get her food with the biggest smile on her face.
She arrived home and she was left alone. She was grateful that she could finally take her bloody chronal accelerator off. It was comfy enough but good lord could it get annoying after a while. She put it on the charger and was ready to take her food out and dig in. After the events of today she was famished.
She was alone. Or so she thought.
As she was about to take a bite of the battered cod Lena heard the sound of a translocator activating behind her and she blinked out of the way before the intruder could do anything. After her training she was used to doing stuff like this. Even after moving in with Amelie she would sometimes scare her by pulling a gun on her.
"Relax, Amiga. I just want to talk." Said the purple clad woman fazing into reality in front of her. She took a moment to see who it was then she recognised it as the Talon agent known only as Sombra. The hacker of the group.
"I don't want to talk to you." She said. Lena knew that she wasn't exactly a threat but she was still a shady person who only wanted to further her own goals. Also she probably knew about the plan to kill Amelie so she was borderline about to kill her right here and now.
"Fine then listen up. It's about the Talon assassin who killed your wife." She was confident in herself to pull this off but it was all a matter of whether or not Lena had that much faith in her wife. Her ex-wife.
This had Lena's interests peaked. She began to listen but did it reluctantly.
"It's Amelie. She's been working with Talon the whole time. Loving you was just a front." She said knowing that it was the truth but a twisted truth. It was easy enough to manipulate the situation just like she did with Katja. Lena was enraged at the fact that sneaky little bitch had come into her home and accused her dead wife of working for the enemy.
"She's dead. You should know that." She said placing the bag of food down on her coffee table while quietly taking out one of her pistols but keeping it very close behind her back.
"Is she? Last time I checked she was on a perch and shot Fareeha out of the sky, partially blinded Ana and murder Sat-Symmetra." She couldn't help herself but she had to keep this professional. There was no way she would break down in front of a good guy. This caught Lena by surprise but she scoffed at the idea of it all.
Sombra pulled up every single image, file and documentation she had on Amelie. She watched with a smile on her face as Lena's strong confidence turned to ash and was replaced with utter disbelief.
There floating in the air were pictures of Amelie training in a Talon base while another image of her official Talon record. Her strongest thought was that was dominating her mind was that these images had been forged and it was simply another Talon trick but then she saw something that couldn't have been forged.
A ring that said 'My Luv'.
She looked down to her ring and looked at the matching font which read 'Mon Cherie'. She was tempted to take the ring off right now and throw it away yet she couldn't find it in her to take action. She took a breath and thought of how she should approach this.
"Why tell me all of this?" She asked. If Sombra was telling her this she must have had some kind of alternate goal in mind. Lena knew that she only cared about finding out who ran everything yet for some reason all of this seemed rather personal.
"I have my reasons. Do what you will with this information. But she and Reaper will be trying to steal the Doomfist gauntlet in about 2 days, it'll be in Numbani. I leave you to think about it." She then booped her nose making the audible sound to accompany it.
She suddenly disappeared into thin air. Lena tried to see where she had gone but like missions when you lost sight of Sombra she was gone until she had a gun pointed in your face.
Lena was left truly alone this time. There was so much she had to take into account. Firstly and most importantly this information had been given to her from the enemy. It could be difficult to trust her credibility but the thing about that was it was from a rogue agent who was playing both sides. She only said and did this that worked for her advantage.
She was going to re-heat her takeaway and try to think it over but suddenly a message form Angela altered her plan as she was made aware that Ana was up an about. She packed up her fish and chips in the grease soaked paper and placed it in her fridge for later but now she had two reasons to go back to base.
Ana was sipping at her cup of tea while Reinhardt was by her side reading a German novel. Lena made herself known as she suddenly blipped in making Ana spill her tea and Reinhardt drop the romance novel.
"LENA! YOU SCARED THE POOR FRAU." He picked up some tissues and began to wipe the hot tea off her. Thankfully Ana didn't mind. Fareeha had already spilt enough tea on her growing it so the sensation was simply familiar.
"Sorry Reinhardt! But I just heard Ana had woken up and I wanted to say hi." She said in her cheery voice hugging the older woman not caring that her shirt was being partially soaked with Camomile.
"It's fine dear. I've had worse." She reassured her, clearly lying through her teeth as her voice cracked for a moment. Lena smiled for a moment but then it faded and she began to bite her lip.
"Say, you didn't happen to see who did it did ya?" She asked. Her eyes were pleading with Ana to tell her that it was someone else. Anyone but Amelie.
Ana and Reinhardt looked at each other. They both knew they had to bring it up to her sooner or later.
"Lena we need to talk."
