Hello and welcome back to another chapter of "Over Time." Thanks for staying along with me while I post new chapters. I hope you enjoy this chapter and future. Thanks for reading.
A/N: A part in this chapter deals with something hard. If you have had this happen to you, I'm sorry, but don't worry, we all have your back :)
-Twix
The sound of applause filled the darkness quickly. An old light flickered on and Overwatch members quickly filled the room. The comfort that they gave me an internal feeling of being loved. Maybe this place is right for me. I liked the feeling of being surrounded by people who cared about me and vice versa. I hated being alone. The feeling inside makes me depressed and turns me into a mood that brings everyone down with me. I got up realizing that I was back in Overwatch HQ. Everyone looking at me with cheeky grins. Even Lena gave me a look and mouth the words 'You're an idiot.' I shrugged it off and I was given a pat on the back and the title of 'Good Sport.' We drove back to Lena's place, chuckling about today. Today was good. I hope the rest of the missions were like this, but unfortunately that is not the case. My first real mission was to clear out a hanger filled with Talons troopers and dangerous explosives. I had to take a helicopter to slide down from a rope to get on top of the steel roof.
"Alright, you be careful down there." As I was sliding down the rope I heard one last thing. "Good luck!" His voice cracked, trying to talk to me over the sound of the propeller. Touchdown. I was set on top of the building. I took out a little device they gave me, apparently called a spinner. I place the little device down and let it do all the work. It worked pretty well as it cut a pretty good sized hole. I jumped in not thinking that this was basically a stealth mission. To my surprise no one heard my landing. 'Let's see what I can find.' I used my binoculars to see about ten foot soldier, lying around and some sleeping. The Intel was extremely accurate as explosives almost took up the entire space in the hanger. 'This should be fun.' I sneaked throughout the entire hanger, looking to see what I can do. 'There are two ways I can handle this. Guns blazing or I can pull a Genji. Either way, don't set off the explosives.' I was as quiet as a cat and ended up on the first floor, taking out one by one with a wire I had. I snuck up on everyone until the hanger was 'dead' silent. I got back on the radio and called the chopper to let him know I was done. As I ascended into the air, I made a fist and punched the air in excitement. My first mission was a success. I went to Lena and said, "One for one." I made one of those bragging looks and she rolled her eyes back in response.
The next three years of missions were basically get information so other members can go to the base and raid them, hostage rescue, crime fighting, and so on. It looked like I hadn't aged at all since my first mission, but today a special day. Today was the day that Mondatta would give his speech in London. I was standing close behind Lena but not too close just in case some Talon agent decided to intercept us. I was at this speech with Amber. Then the big moment came. Mondatta came out and started to speak to the crowd. His speech was really inspirational to all of us and talked about how machine and humans are alike. Just at the start of the speech, I looks towards Lena to see her concerned about something and turned to go up to the roof. I proceeded to tell Amber I'm going with Lena, she nodded not really paying attention to what I said.
"Something up?" I walked in unison with her.
"I got a feeling someone's here. Go up to the roof. I'll search around a bit." Lena looked towards the building adjacent to ours and blinked up.
The journey to the roof was silent. I had to sneak by the guards and waited for Lena's call. I hide behind a wall and sat and waited until I heard gunfire. I peeked to see Lena blinking out of the air and firing at a fire at a figure hanging from the roof. All of it happened so fast though. Then a pause came as I heard Lena say, "Mind to crash a party love?" She started firing at the slender figure as they both ran up the building towards me. Somehow Lena popped out of the door in front of me. I knew that the lady was on the other side getting ready to fire whatever goes through that door. Luckily I had fast reflexes and pulled her back at the last second.
"Thanks." Lena breathed in relief. I nodded back and felt like I had to do something. So I turned on iron skin and started walking out and fired back. Lena also did her part and blinking between the gap and ran around her, shooting her pulse pistols in the process. They both ran away from my position and I watched as Lena activated a trap and ended up on the ground. Barrel pointed to her head. I couldn't speak up and just watched as the lady was about to pull the trigger then something surprising happened. Lena looked to rewind time and went back to a previous spot and blinked a different direction, then threw a bomb. But this wasn't any assassin, she quickly spotted the bomb and destroyed it. The blast blew Lena of the roof. Her goal was to kill Mondatta but fortunately he escaped in just in time. She peeked at me and smirked and waited a second more before firing her sniper. Lena blinked out of the way and I watched as the bullet struck someone in the head. I came to realization on who she just shot. I quickly ran down stairs to the courtyard with my heart racing fast as ever. I looked in horror as who was shot…. I turned towards the body, tears starting to roll down my face. 'Amber…' I ran towards the body and held her lifeless body in my arms.
"Amber…..baby…..come on…..stay with me….please God…..don't do this." I couldn't hold back and I let the tears run down my cheeks. I heard Lena walking slowly behind.
"Oh….Sean, I'm so sorry." Lena put her hand on my shoulder and plumped down next to me, staring at what she just done. "I didn't mean to let this happen."
I kept hold of Amber's body and picked myself up and walked away in silence, crying my eyes out. I pulled my hood up and kept looking forwards. Lena tried to stop me but I ignored her.
"Sean, I'm sorry. Sean! Sean…"I heard her voice get lower and lower as I got farther away from her. The last thing I heard was a whimper and a last, "I'm sorry." Before she started walking the other way. Then the feeling settled in. The feeling of being alone. I sat at a bench, Amber in hand and sat and cried the rest of the night. People just passed by taking a peek and continued walking.
Third P.O.V.
"I killed her. I should've of taken that bullet." Lena starting pacing back and forth, thinking of her friend.
"Hold on. Calm down. What happened?" Genji said.
"I-I-I tried to get Widowmaker-but-but she shot Amber-er. I tried to get him to come back with me but he-he left and I don't know where eh-is." Lena started to hyperventilate a little.
"So you don't know where Sean is?" McCree said.
"I don't. I'm going to go. I can't stay." Lena push the chair out of the way and stormed out of the room.
"Lena wait." Reinhardt said. "I know it's a bad time to say this, but you can get with Sean now. I see you around him. You absolutely melt when he is around. You just don't want to show it. I can see you too making a good couple."
"Shut up!" Then Lena stormed out of the room.
Everyone was staring into space. Silence. Until someone spoke up. "So, what do we do?" Angela said softly.
"Let him grief for a couple days. He's probably doesn't want to see anyone right now. Going back right now is going to get him more emotional." Winston responded.
"Ok everyone, go home. Let's not let this happen again! Got it?" Jack slammed his fist on the table, leaving a dent. He turned around and looked at the board on what jobs need to be done and crossed his arms.
Everyone scattered out of the room but one person. Angela. "We can't protect everyone you know."
"But I like to protect the ones we can. Now please go, I have some things to think about." Jack's voice started at a medium tone.
"But..." Angela pleaded.
"Please go!" Now his voice rose quite a bit. Angela got spooked and left the room.
Lena P.O.V.
'What was I going to do? My best friend's hates me and I can't get over what I did. I don't think I can get through to him. Hopefully, he'll talk in a little while.' I just laid in bed and stared at the ceiling. I couldn't move or think correctly. Tears started to form up but I just let it happen and let it run down the side of my face. My bed started to get damp as I couldn't stop sobbing. The rest of the night was to be depressing for me. The next morning was slow. I got up to make tea which I took one sip of and slipped on my black cloths and left my room, slowly locking the door behind me.
Sean's P.O.V.
"Here lies Amber Williams. She provided for the world and an unfortunate death came upon her." The man spoke loudly. Everyone of Overwatch, family, and other people came to the funeral. "Sean, I understand you had a relationship with her. Do you have anything to say?"
"It should have been me." I said looking down at the ground. Lena was all the way in the back, holding back tears. I stood by the coffin as everyone came up to say 'I'm sorry' or 'I'm sorry for you loss.' Genji came up first. He laid his hand on my shoulder, looked into my eyes and walked away. Everyone proceeded to do the same thing, until Lena came up. She didn't say anything or do anything and just looked at me and walked away. Her face was puffy and eyes blood red, which probably means she stayed up all night. After the funeral was over, I went back to my old home. The home was messy and plates scattered everywhere. Cloths throughout the house. I only stayed there for a couple of hours when I heard a knock at the door. It was Lena.
"You need something?" I said in a rudish tone.
"May I come in?" Lena was still in an all-black shirt and skirt. I just turned and walked to the kitchen to make some tea. "How you holding up."
"You know that feeling of losing something important? Well tell yourself that, then ask how I'm holding up." I set the tea cup next to hear and looked down and sighed. Lena just sat there, I heard a whimper before I spoke up, "Lena, I'm sorry, it just that I loved Amber very much and I can't see myself living without her."
"I know that feeling as well, but I hope I can continue to see you around Overwatch HQ." She sipped her tea and set the cup slowly back down.
"I'll come around. I just need to clear my head and regain my thoughts. I'll try to come tomorrow." I said.
"This is a very nice home you have Sean." Lena looked around the house.
"It's what I grew up in with Amber, so it's the last thing I have next to this necklace I have." I pulled this little necklace out from underneath my shirt and showed Lena. "The necklace I have is a broken heart. I had half and Amber had half. We would always come home and connect them to show our love for each other."
"Oh. That cute. So is this where you going to be for a while or you want to come by Overwatch HQ?" Lena asked drinking her tea.
"I'll come around. I just need some time to think."
"Alright. I will see you later." Lena came in for a hug before waving goodbye and closing the door. The rest of the day was silent. I just sat in my couch and watch T.V. all day and then went to bed. I didn't eat anything and drank maybe one cup of water. The next day I called for a cab and drove to Overwatch HQ. The atmosphere was different than before. Everyone was a little sad but acted happy when I was around. I went up to the meeting place and sat down in one of the chairs.
"Sean, you ok?" Jack asked.
"Yeah I'm good, just a little sad that's all." I responded.
"You good to go on a mission then?" Everyone looked at me waiting for a response.
"Always." I said proudly.
"Good, your mission today is to go to a base and eliminate Widowmaker. The lady from yesterday. You two think you can handle that?" Jack asked.
"Yeah." Lena responded.
"I'm ready." I said.
We both saluted him and left the room. Grabbing our gear, we jumped in the helicopter and Lena took controls of the heli and we took off. The way to the base was silent. We landed the helicopter near an old barn and walked the rest of the way to the base.
"Man, this place is huge." Lena was astonished on how much Talon built.
"I know right. Let's look around to see how to get in." I responded. We found a ledge in the window and threw up our grappling hook. We slowly climbed up, trying not to alert any guards. "And we in." Finding Widowmaker was not going to be easy. The place was enormous and it was filled with Talon agents patrolling some part of the base. We used the little shadows we had to our advantage and somehow made it passed the first couple of hallways when we saw a meeting room. There was a holographic table in the middle. Empty chairs surrounded it and it was projecting the earth and certain marks scattered throughout the map.
"Maybe we should take this info back to base. I don't know what it means but it looks important." Lena was leaning on the table looking for a reason they would have this.
"Yeah, let me hack into this. It should be easy. Be lookout, speak if someone is coming, yeah?" I pointed towards a direction that I think that they would come out of.
"Yeah." With that was left alone, hacking into the computer. I got passed the first wall but the second was difficult but I managed. The third wall though was impossible. I needed a code to get in and if I did I needed a voice activated command to get in. I was so close but yet so far. We straggled off our main objective but we had to get this. I was thinking on how to get past this when Lena came running in and grabbed my jacket and ran to a dark corner and we both hid behind a giant plant pot. It was a little crowded so we had to squeeze in. We were basically spooning each other at this point. "You don't speak to anyone about this."
"Don't worry, I won't." Lena said, a little out of breath.
Then as soon as she said that, about five people walked in. A guy in a black caped jacket with a white mask, three Talon agents and…Widowmaker. I didn't know what I was going to do, but I wanted to kill her very much. I needed to get revenge for taking Amber. I just wanted to spray them all down but I knew that alarms would go off.
"So what do we do from this point?" A Talon agent asked.
"We have to do this sooner or later." Another one said.
"Hold on, we need to see how to go off first." The guy in the black cape said. "Cheri."
"Well look at you, I know what that's the thing but you cannot say it Reaper." Widowmaker responded.
"I try." Reaper said shrugging.
"Alright, plan is, we need to make an example. Make the public hate Overwatch. Without them, our other endeavors should be smooth sailing. We attack the place marked on the map. We got this. Dismissed." Then the room cleared out and we were left in shock.
"I hated that." My legs were burning and back was sore.
"You're not the only one." Lena said rubbing her neck. "So how do we get in?"
"I have an idea." I looked towards the console and tried to say it in a French accent. "Cheri." The computer unlocked and moved to a window where we had full access of the map. "Tada. You have the bug."
"Yeah." Lena tossed me the hacking device and I copied the whole map and everything else that looked important.
"Ok, let's look for Widowmaker." We sneaked through rest of the base. Pictures filled the walls and lights shined down to show their picture more. The floor was carpet with a red line down the middle, but shadows were everywhere. I guess we were in the hall of fame. We were looking at the pictures when we spotted Widowmaker. She went into a room and appeared to lock the door. "There she is. Now how do we get in there?"
"I have an idea." We walked up to the door and pulled a hair clip out of her pocket and pick locked the door. We entered the room and we locked the door and left looking at Widowmaker.
"So they finally came. I was waiting when you guys would show up." Widowmaker turned around and looked towards my direction and gave me a smirk.
"You wipe that smirk off you face or I swear I'll blow your head off." I pulled my pistol and aimed at her head. Before I pulled the trigger, I yelled, "This is for Amber!" Widowmaker only smirked in response and out of nowhere kicked the gun out of my hand and knocked me to the ground, pointing the pistol at my head. I put my hands up hoping to not get MY head blown off. Lena just stood in her position before punching her straight in the face. The moment that happened, alarms started to go off. I had a tug on my jacket and soon we were running through the hallways and computer room, trying to get out of Talon's base, attempting to not die in the process. My heart was racing so fast I almost forgot to breathe. I was holding my breath the whole time were we running out the base. Then there it was. The window we had taken to get in. It was so close but yet so far, then the unexpected happened. Out of nowhere, a small bomb went off and we went flying out of the window. My vision went white for a couple seconds then I came back. I woke up to see that we were laying on top of each other. Lena was lighter than I thought. Her accelerator dug into my stomach and it did not feel pleasant. Our faces were about an inch away from each other's. I looked away, trying not to make eye contact.
"Ow. That did not feel good. You ok?" I slightly patted Lena on the back making sure she was ok.
"Yeah…it's nothing." Lena slowly rolled up my aching body. I picked up to her feet.
"Let's go home. I don't think we are going to get her anytime soon." The way back was silent. We were scared to see what Jack would say to us when we told him that the mission was a failure, but to our surprise he was proud of us. He didn't think that we would kill her in the first place. We showed him the map we got and he left for his office to look at it. We were congratulated on a job well done and Lena and I went home happy. I went back home to Lena's place and chilled for the rest of the night.
Thanks for reading this chapter. Sorry this chapter is a little shorter than usual. I couldn't think of anything to continue this chapter and plus I don't really want to put as many of my ideas in one chapter. I want to spread my imagination through multiple chapters. I hope you understand. See you in the next chapter.
-Twix