Chapter 8

We are Overwatch

After placing the last chair, Sombra thought she would fall on it to breathe a little before everyone else got here. But the nervous bubble in her stomach wouldn't let her. Standing up was okay, but as soon as she tried to sit she felt acid climbing up her throat, and she stood up again.

"Honestly you are putting too much effort in a club no one is going to attend."

Sombra looked away from the door and toward the small tables at the edge of the room, where Amélie had already picked a cupcake and was tearing through it one bite at a time.

"You came."

"You dragged me. And I like those cupcakes."

Sombra sighed and looked back at the door, then her phone. It was just about four o'clock.

Any advice?

You're asking me for advice? I'm terrified! I've never apologized to anyone! It's one thing to do it on paper but this! ¡Esto es loco!

As long as you don't go blank on me, we're going to do great.

After a few seconds of silence, Sombra added:

I feel like I'm back in India...

Oh yeah, I remember! The twelve hours stakeout.

The both of them were so engrossed in their thoughts they failed to noticed the door opening. First it was just a hand holding it as it was slowly pushed open. Then, Satya's head passed through the gape once it was large enough. Sombra and Sophia finally stopped arguing with each other. A smile spread on her face.

"Hi... hum..."

Satya was a bit surprised to see that beside herself and Amélie no one had joined Sombra. Maybe the others didn't carry her in their hearts, but still. She glanced longly at the twenty-four empty chairs in the room, and Amélie next to the cupcakes. Finally she looked at Sombra, standing beside one of her chairs, her hand griping strongly the back. For a few seconds, Sombra was afraid Satya would leave just because no one else had showed up. Her panic was a surprise to Satya, who had never seen her anything but cool, collected and calculating.

"Please come in! We have cupcakes, and you can pick your chair!"

"I noticed."

Satya finally opened the door to enter, and she decided to sit down in one of the chairs opposite the one Sombra was holding, to see her better.

"So hum... should we start the meeting or should we wait?" Sombra questioned with pursed lips as she looked between Satya and Amélie.

"Probably wait. Maybe a few more people will come." Satya suggested.

"No one is going to come. Let's get on with it so I can eat more of those." Amélie declared.

Sombra sighed.

"I think she's eating to cope with the trauma." she whispered to Satya.

"I heard that." Amélie said with a mouth full of cake.

Satya giggled lightly, and that seemed to ease Sombra's nerves as she began to laugh as well.

The door opened once again, and Hana walked in, too curious as to why Sombra was laughing to notice the emptiness of the room.

"Hey, you alright?"

Sombra finally stopped and cleared her throat.

"Hum yes, I'm alright. You're late."

Hana shrugged.

"I was just finishing a quest."

She took a seat in one of the many empty chairs and crossed her arms and her legs, waiting patiently for the others to show up. Which didn't take long. Hana's arrival, it seemed, had caused the rest of the group to show up. First it was Hanzo, Zenyatta and Genji, followed closely by McCree. Then Mei. Junkrat and Roadhog had been lost on their way down, but still managed to found the door. Lucio apologized longly, because he wasn't sure he was going to come, and he felt bad for it. Lena came with Emily, and when Sombra suggested that their wouldn't be enough chairs, Lena just sat down on Emily's lap.

The more people arrived the more Sombra could feel her stress growing. But that was nothing, just the people from her school. Then, the adults began to show up.

Ana was the first to arrive, with Mercy and Pharah. Everyone seemed not only impressed to see the older woman among them, but also a bit uncomfortable. Soldier 76 and Reaper arrived together, apologizing because they were at work. The same excuse came again and again when everyone else arrived. Reinhardt, Torbjörn, Orisa, Winston, Bastion, Zarya. Soon enough the twenty-four were cramped up in the small room, everyone seating in one of the chair. Amélie had to take a chair, and Sombra still hesitated longly to sit down, before she decided to stand behind it, both of her hands resting on the back.

When everyone was finally there and the door was closed, a heavy silence enveloped them. Now that everyone was there, they could all note how close or not they were to their counterpart. Sombra had more hair. Widowmaker wasn't blue. was almost the same. Satya hadn't lost her left arm, neither had McCree lost his hand. Genji was flesh and blood, but so were Zenyatta, Orisa and Bastion. Tracer didn't have her helix ear piercings. Junkrat was mostly sane, and Roadhog was slimmer, if only a bit. Ana and Reinhardt still had both of their eyes. Angela wasn't visibly lacking sleep. No matter how small or insignificant the detail, everyone was able to compare them with the memories of the people they knew.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Sombra decided to talk.

"Hi everyone, thank you for coming. Welcome to probably the only Overwatch club meeting. Everyone here was probably a bit shaken by what happened last week, so before Sombra starts apologizing to everyone individually, as promised, if you want to talk now is the time."

Everyone exchanged looks and a few mouthed sentences which Sombra, over her stress, couldn't quite understand. Finally, Reaper stood up. He was accompanied by the crisps sound of his leather jacket, and Sombra was suddenly confronted by a strange reality. This wasn't Reaper, the half-dead guy she'd loved to tease. This was Gabriel Reyes, bartender, who had never set a foot on a military base, who wore leather jacket all day, rode a large Harley and had a cat. And he was looking at her with dark living eyes.

"Sombra, I think I speak for everyone when I say that you don't need to apologize. And god knows Reaper wants to see you squirm, but you don't have to. You already apologized in your letter, and I don't think anyone needs a repeat. Plus, you have nothing to apologize for. Beside the teasing, of course. This mission was your idea, yes, but it was our choice to go or not."

Sombra was, at first, every surprised to hear him say that. It was a big deal coming from him, the Reaper, the guy who lived for revenge. Had he been in control of Reyes' body she thinks he would have knifed her by now. Both of them were at a lost for words. Sophia was wondering what she should say, if she could speak for Sombra here. And Sombra was stunned, all of her well planed apology had fallen off her tongue, leaving only stuttering nothingness.

"I..."

"How about you sit down kiddo? You did a great job, not just finding us, but convincing us to come and meet. I say you deserve a rest."

Everyone seemed to agree, and Sombra suddenly found herself seating down. She wasn't sure she had done it herself, or someone had forced her down. Reaper sat back down, too. Before a full silence could fall again Hana huffed:

"Well, I guess we came here for nothing."

"Actually, , there was something Soldier wanted to tell you."

Jack stood up, a benevolent smile on his face, and he declared:

"Soldier wanted to thank you again for that time in Busan, when he was wounded. Not just that, but the fact that you answered his call every time he needed you."

He marked a pause.

"He almost came to consider you like the daughter he never had."

Hana was visibly shaken by the revelation, as she waited silently for to give her reply. When nothing came, Hana declared in a shaky voice:

"I think she's crying..."

Suddenly there was a snore coming from the opposite side of the room, and all looks stopped on Fareeha, who suddenly felt bad for laughing.

"No, it's just, Pharah thought she was the daughter Soldier never had."

Everyone chuckled.

"I think Pharah was everyone's daughter or sister at one point or another." Soldier declared.

The first meeting was a great success. While Sombra had reunited everyone to talk to them, instead, they talked to each other. Thinks that had been left unsaid where finally out, memories no matter how painful were shared, and it became even more complex when people talked about their week's experience with their other self inside, and said other self made their own comment on the situation. After about an hour, it was decided to end this first meeting, and a new one was planed for the next month. But the talks didn't stop there. While they enjoyed the cupcakes small groups began to form and discussed of anything and everything. The only one who was strangely silent was Sombra, and a few were afraid that they had broken her. Sure, she hung with Amélie and Hana while the two girls stuffed their faces with cupcakes, but she didn't talk much. Amélie, however, and Widowmaker most importantly, had talked a lot. Now that Widow's memory of before Talon had been unlocked, there were so many things she had to say to old Overwatch members. Just like Sombra had asked her a week ago, she had talked, and both she and Amélie felt better now.

When people began to leave, the room emptied quickly. Soon enough Sombra was left alone with twenty-four chairs to clear. Thankfully she wouldn't have to take care of the cupcakes left, since Amélie had left with them. She let out a sigh, and began to fold the chair she had silently sat on the entire hour.

"You were very silent."

She suddenly looked up, only to find Satya, looking at her with an understanding look in her eyes.

"Sombra didn't have much to say. Neither did I."

Sombra placed the folded chair against the wall, and as she grabbed another chair Satya did the same. Sombra thanked her with a nod. Together they made quick work of cleaning the room, and folding all the chairs.

"I didn't know this room was a club room."

"It's not. It's a chair closet or something."

Satya couldn't help but giggle. Sombra picked up both of their bags and handed hers to Satya.

"So, how about we get out of this closet and find something else to do?" Sombra suggested.

Now that this whole meeting was over, she suddenly felt better. Satya took her bag and Sombra opened the door for her.

"Why, what do you suggest?"

Sombra closed the door behind them and they headed for the stairs side by side, their fingers brushing lightly, and sending electricity through them every time.

"How about tomorrow at five? I just so happen to know Thor 3 is being shown just around that time."

Satya shrugged.

"Sure, why not."

Wow, that was almost too easy. If I had known I would have asked her out ages ago!

A/N: Hi guys! We only have the epilogue left but when I say epilogue I mean it's as long as any other chapter because we have six story line to wrap up! So anyway, I was very happy to receive four reviews from you guys between the previous chapter and this one, and I want to take the time to reply to everyone:

Sombra Main: I'm very happy that you are enjoying the story, and I hope you will like the ending as well! As for future stories I'm just about to post a one-shot LenEmily once I've posted this one, so if you are interrested you should check it out. It's called "Yet Another Trip to the Hospital". I'm also trying to think about a few spin-off for "Hana's Diary" I could write, but since I'm going away on Monday and I won't be home for the rest of July I have no idea when I'll start posting again. Once again thank you for your review, and I hope you'll like the story till the end!

Malifacter0605-XxKINDSOULSxX: Thank you for reassuring me!

Guest (zeldaleepalutena): Once again I'm very happy to see you are enjoying the story as well. I know its a bit confusing, it was mostly an experiment to see if I could deal with multiple main characters in one story. Three is usually the point when it starts to get confusing and harder to work on because you have to keep an equal focus on each character, ect, ect... I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and maybe I'll try something similar soon, and try to make it less confusing. And yeah, you're basically right with your summary of the story. It's just me wondering "Should I write a headcannon or a Modern AU? Wait, I can do both!" I'm not very good at making choices, you know. Upon your advice I lowered it to a T rating. I was mostly going for M because of the prologue and all the trauma those guys have been through, but I'm mostly afraid of not choosing the right rating, because its freaking hard. And yeah, you're right, there is no such thing as too much Sombra!

Guest: Thank you for your review, I aim to please. I always try to make something different, because what would be the point in making the same thing everyone else does? It's always more fun to try and explore new things, I think.

Anyway, sorry for the longest Author's note ever, I'll see you on Friday for the epilogue!