Chapter 2
Ana awakens once again, but this time in a pale hospital room. She's in a soft bed with the covers up to her chest. She looks around; no Gabe, or Pharah, and no strange doctors.
"A dream? Was that just my imagination?" She thought
The door opens and Angela steps in. She is staring at a clipboard with some papers on it, when she looks up and sees Ana awake, she rushes to her side.
"Amari! You're awake!" Mercy says, checking Ana's vitals and feeling her forehead at the same time.
Ana is somewhat confused. She could hardly remember what happened, last thing she could recall was the Meka going off. She tries to sit up right but is stopped by Mercy.
"No, just lie down. You've been unconscious for two days. Your body might not be used to moving quite yet."
Ana's eye widened
"Two days? What happened? Why was I out for so long? Is everyone okay?"
"Yes, everyone is fine," Angela started "You see… When the explosion happened you were knocked back, and…" she stopped and turned away for a second, Ana could see a look of uneasiness come over her.
"And what? Angela, what happened?" Ana asks
Mercy takes a deep breath and turns back to Ana.
"We were on opposite teams that day. When you were knocked back, you didn't move, you didn't get up. We waited for you to vanish to respawn or something, anything. But nothing happened. I quickly glided over to you and…"
Ana raises a brow, prompting Mercy to continue.
"Ana… You were dead. Really dead. You wouldn't respawn. I- I tried reviving you but you wouldn't come back. So we had to rush you to a hospital where we started operate."
"And… I came back, right?"
"No."
"What?"
"You wouldn't come back. We tried everything. But if resurrection wouldn't work; what would? We declared you officially dead that day."
Ana felt a chill run up her spine.
"But then, the strangest thing occurred. Your heart started to beat, and you were breathing again, everything about you seemed fine, your vitals, everything. It was as if nothing had even happened. So that's when we decided to just let you rest and keep an eye on you until you awoke."
Ana took a deep breath, and exhaled.
"Thank you, Angela. Would you… Mind leaving for a moment?"
"Uh, of course. Take your time." Mercy leaves the room and closes the door behind her.
It's silent. Ana had to think. Why did this happen? How could she have died and not respawned? Did the others not respawn as well? No, Angela didn't mention that. Why was she the only one? Was the knock back to serious it literally knocked the life out of her? And what about the dream?
She shook her head and took another deep breath. It was fine. She was alive and that was all that mattered.
Everything was fine now.
A few weeks later Ana was finally out of the hospital and back into action. She was a bit rusty after being in bed for so long, but she was starting to get back into the flow of things. After a match of 'King Of The Hill' she went back to her home base and and walked down the hallway to her room. As she did, she heard something. She turned around and saw Sombra. She was leaned up against the wall, looking at her purple screen that always seemed to spawn out of nowhere aimlessly pressing keys and buttons.
"Sombra… Long time no see." Ana said, almost with a bit of sharpness to her voice, seeing as Sombra abandoned the team and no one had seen or heard from her since.
"Miss me?" Sombra responds
Ana sighs and crosses her arms
"What do you want? You're clearly here for something, if it's secrets you're after, there's none here."
"Oh please, if there was information I would have gotten it already, I wouldn't be wasting my time talking to you."
"So, what is it?"
Sombra looks around to see if anyone was eavesdropping. She then gets close to Ana, real close, and begins to whisper to her.
"You saw it didn't you?"
Ana steps back to create some personal space
"Saw what?" Ana asks
"The room. The room with the doctors."
Ana takes another step back, but Sombra takes a step closer.
"You were there. You woke up."
"What are you talking about?" Ana says, looking for anything to get her out of the conversation that was beginning to make her uncomfortable.
"You. Woke. Up," Sombra repeats "You got out some way. How did you do it? How long have you known?"
Ana furrows her brow
"Know about what?! I don't know what you're saying!"
Sombra then is the one to take a step back. She has a look of confusion, but she begins to chuckle.
"Oh man, this is too good. You really don't know? You mean you went there, and you still haven't caught on?"
"Leave." Ana says coldly
Sombra stands there for a moment, smiles, and walks up to Ana.
"This world," Sombra gestures to their surroundings "Isn't what you think it is." Sombra taps the tip of Ana's nose
"Boop!" She says and then disappears.
Ana stood there for what felt like an eternity. She then slowly turns around and heads to her room.
