After some hours of fun and amazing stories with the Pawcifisters, Lena had decided it was time for her to go to bed, and whilst everyone had agreed and said their goodbye, Bruce had offered himself to walk her to the entrance of the Watchpoint.
Thing that Lena found absolutely endearing.
Now they were walking through the little forest that could be seen outside the base, with Bruce literally next to Lena.
"I can't believe you guys actually survived the omnic attack on Russia hiding in the frozen forest" Bruce nodded at her comment, "Must've been, y'know, really cold, huh?" He chuckled and nodded again.
"It was cold, but there's nothing colder than one of Talon's base we once took out when we're on a field trip, that thing was colder than their sniper's heart" He said referring to Widowmaker's cold personality.
"Wait, you guys went on a field trip and ended up taking out a Talon base!?" She asked impressed, and Bruce nodded with a grin.
"We did! It was hard because John and I had to infiltrate there while Logus and Danny waited outside to invade and distract them while we prepared some good ol' bombs" He laughed as if it was nothing, "The old school Boom and run plan" Lena nodded, remembering some situations in which she would do that too with her own Pulse Bomb.
"You guys have done a lot without help, huh" Bruce shook his head.
"We help people and do what we can do, Lena" She smiled at him, "There's stuff that we can't do, and that's why we joined Overwatch" He showed her his big, toothy smile, "To help even more, and also because we wanted Logus to finally accept his crush on Zarya!" They both laughed until they reached the entrance of the base.
"And you, little BB?" She asked him, and he cocked his head a bit in confusion, "Who's your crush, love?" He blinked in shock two times, and then smiled even widely.
"That's a secret" He said with a snicker, "Maybe I'll tell you in the future" He told her and started heading back towards his camp, "See you tomorrow morning, Lena" He said, waving his hair in the air.
"See you then, love!" She waved at him a goodbye and started walking towards the hero rooms with a smile that, if someone would've been up at that hour, then would've questioned it without doubt.
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Next morning, Hero hallways, Gibraltar.
Lena was jogging towards the mess hall, which fortunately was connected to the hero dormitories, while thinking about how she couldn't have got herself a better sleep that night.
She waved hello to a few heroes that she met on her way to the mess hall, like Dva who was murmuring something about her not being able to beat a certain boss in a certain Dark game, or Mercy, who was also making her way towards the mess hall, just with a bit slower than the cheerful brit.
"Being so young and cheerful must be nice" Angela thought and let out an internal sigh.
Lena unconsciously started humming, perking up when she started to see the door that leaded to the mess hall, hoping to see a certain boy there eating, or perhaps just sitting.
"Boys, Lena. Certain boys" She corrected herself and pushed the doors open with a loud HIYA! In order to let the other people in the hall witness her happy self.
She quickly scanned the room and found out two or three new things that had changed in the mess hall.
One is that apparently, Soldier 76 had decided to divide the zones, one for heroes and one for soldiers. Of course the hall wasn't big enough for three hundred plus, but half of the soldiers worked at night, and decide to stay in bed and eat in their rooms or rather train at daylight, and some others were the actual chefs and workers for the hall.
And more important- Two, The Special Squad, Pawcifister had, much to Daddy76 dismay, dragged a table from the Soldier session and placed it in the middle of both divisions, earning surprised looks for both the Soldiers and the Heroes, who one by one approached the Squad to rather eat with them or just say hello.
Lena's smile went wide and her eyes shone when Bruce's eyes found her, and waved her to go join them.
"Good mornin', loves!" She greeted them all with a smile, and they greeted back with their mouths stuffed with whatever they chose to eat for breakfast...except for John, obviously.
"Monnin Mish Lemna!" Logus was the first to greet her with his mouth full, earning himself a smack from their brains, John, who seemed to be the only one of the group with a slight bit of manners.
"You aren't allowed to speak with your mouth full, Logus. We've gone through this already" He lectured him, and the big guy gave Lena an apologetic look, making Lena let out a giggle, "And good morning to you, Lady Lena" She smiled at him.
"Sup' Lena! Come here, sit next to me" Bruce greeted her with his typical smile and, with a bit tad of force, pushed Daniel to the side to make room for Lena, "Come on, man. I know you love my charming self but make some room for the young brit here!" Danny scoffed, far too concentrated in his food to actually care, and moved a bit, Lena instantly taking her newly made place.
"Howdy, Lemna…" The pink haired doc greeted her with his mouth full, and Lena was just waiting for the blonde gentleman to smack him too.
"He isn't going to smack him though.." Bruce whispered into her ear making her blush for a second, "Brains knows Danny ain't no mornin' person, you see" Lena nodded apparently understanding, "So, how'd you sleep, darl?" He asked with his normal tone again, a smile on his face all the time.
"Actually, pretty better than normal, love! Maybe those awesome stories gave my mind something to dream about!" Logus perked up at that and gave her a thumbs up with a big smile on his face.
"Well at least someone got herself a nice rest" She heard a familiar, deep voice and turned to see Jesse McCree in his lamest self…
His not so much of a morning person self.
"Good'ay to ya, McCheese" Lena mocked him, wondering what was he doing there with them.
"Mind if I join y'all? Would like to get to know our special forces right away" Bruce chuckled and nodded, motioning Logus to make room for the cowboy.
"Sure, sure! Everyone's welcome 'er, right love?" He asked Lena, and she just nodded in response.
"So where do you guys come from? How long you've been together?" he asked, playing with the food he had in his plate.
"We're from an orphanage, don't quite remember which one in specific, but yeah. And we've been together for as long as I remember, so probably our whole life" Danny replied with a smile on his face, the energy finally getting him.
"Yep, we've gone through alot together, Jesse McCheese" Bruce copied Lena's mocking skills and got himself a fork on the head.
They kept talking and laughing for awhile, Jesse quickly making a bond with the crew just like Lena, and before they even noticed, breakfast time was over.
"Are you guys ready?" McCree asked, getting a confused stare in return from John.
"Ready for what, exactly?" The blonde know it all asked with a bit of bitterness in his voice.
"Mind four eyes mood, he doesn't like surprises" Bruce apologized for John's harsh tone, and laughed it off, "So what's happening now, Jesse McGreez?" McCree gave him the middle finger and kept talking.
"Dad76 is so into putting people in their place now, right? So he's making this little competitions all over the place to see how capable the soldiers are, and stuff. So he put me into the aim field, and Zarya in the lifting field with Reinhart" Logus perked up at the mention of that name, thing that Jesse didn't miss, "Lena in the agility field, Genji in the fight field with Fareeha, and so on, and I was just thinking, this might be your opportunity to show the people why you're the special squad indeed" Bruce and his team nodded.
"So he wants to test our abilities, huh" Jesse nodded, "Well, obviously, we're in! Aren't we?" Bruce asked his brothers, and all of them nodded with enthusiasm.
"I say we all participate in every subject, that way we can show that we aren't just good at one thing, but at everything" John commented with knowledge, "We can't prove we are the special squad otherwise, BB" Bruce nodded and turned to Lena.
"Why didn't you tell me that, Lena?" He asked her with suspicious eyes.
"I didn't know either!" She replied innocently, "This is recent information for me too, love" She turned to see the heroes table, in which Hana, Angela and the other heroes were eating peacefully, "Those guys are so anti-social" She commented, seeing how they kept everything to themselves.
"They think they're on another level" Jesse scoffed with a smirk, "Except for some, obviously, who just like eating alone or in peace" Lena noticed how Reinhart and Zarya were both missing, as well as their ninja-robot and Lucio.
"Well, time to show 'em why we are the special squad and not them, huh" Danny said with enthusiasm all over his voice.
"Right, move those paws, my dudes" Bruce said, slamming his two hands on the table, standing up and started heading towards the door.
"Here we go again…" John sighed with laziness as he stood up with the rest of his brothers, yawning as he walked pass everybody.
It's freaking show time.
