Hello and welcome back to another chapter of "Over Time." Sorry for the huge delay for this chapter, school recently started for me and I am focusing on it at the moment. If my chapters aren't as good as before please tell me, I'll try to improve. I'm trying my hardest to get inspiration for each chapter and get more ideas. Leave a review, good or bad. Thank you.
P.S. I'm having a little writer's block. Sorry ;/
When Lena and Widowmaker got back to the base from their mission, which was a success, they both parted and did their own thing. Widowmaker just walked throughout the base and Lena went to the same box as before and sat, playing with her necklace. She just sighed and stared into space when a Talon agent came up to her.
"Hey girl, how you doing." He threw his arm around her shoulders and grinned as he looked at Lena.
"I'm not looking for anyone right now." Lena shrugged the arm off and looking a little distressed.
"Hey now, don't be that way." Lena crossed her arms, stood up and walked away. The man started to chase her and placed his hands around Lena's waist and pulled her closer. Before the man could say anything one of his friend's spoke up.
"Lay off her Richard. She's only a rookie." The man leaning against the wall spoke up.
"Fine, I'll catch you later." Richard leaned in closely and whispered in her ear then walked. Lena just made a sound of disgust and walked to her quarters. I just need rest. Today has been quite the day. She walked to her small living area. Just a bed with a closet to the side and a bathroom with a shower. The room was boring and only had two colors: gray and a dark red. Lena slipped out of her cloths and stepped into the shower. She let the water wash away her emotions. Leaning against the wall, the liquid just poured over her. When Lena stepped out, she grabbed a towel and covered herself. She stared into the mirror, messing with her hair. Who am I anymore? Just a pawn for a terrorist organization. Lena put on casual cloths, shorts and a white shirt a little too big for her. The brit turned around and jumped when she saw a man in a black rope staring at her.
"Come with me." The man's voice was scratchy and menacing. He grabbed her arm and dragged her to another room. "Get." He shoved her in the room and gestured to the chair in the middle. Lena walked up and sat down, resting her arms on the sides, with no reaction time, the seat locked up, catching her legs and arms.
"What?" She struggled to get out but to no avail.
The man from earlier came up to her and grabbed her chin. "Didn't change a bit." He unveiled his hood and glared at her. "So gullible."
"Sean?" Lena tried to get up to hug the fallen friend.
"Still the same as before."
"Sean! Let me go!"
"And why would I do that?"
"We're friends aren't we?"
He hesitated for a second before responding, "Not anymore." His voice wavered and he leaned up and looked like he tried to hold back a tear. Then the door opened up.
"How's our guinea pig?" Reaper asked.
"She's fine. What you want me to do?" Sean pointed to Lena. She looked up in confusion, still trying to get out.
"You know what to do."
"Yes sir!" He saluted Reaper, who already started for the door, and walked towards Lena.
"What are you going to do to me?" Lena tried to say this sexily but she was so scared to do it confidently.
"You know where your friends are." He turned away and put his hands behind his back. "Tell us and you'll get off easy."
"I love you but I won't sell out my friends."
"Expectable." Sean walked up to a wooden table and grabbed a stick. "You want to be that way."
"What are you going to do? Hit me with it?" Lena stared at the stick.
"Maybe. Tell us where they are and I'll go easy." Sean pointed the stick at her head.
"I'll take it. I'm not going to sell out my friends." Lena said confidently this time.
Sobbing and anger filled the room. Blood spread across the desolate floor with the touch of tears. "This is your last chance! Tell us or…" Sean was up close and personal this time. He thought about his punishment for a second when a grin came to his face. "Or, I'll shut down your accelerator."
"No no no no no no. Don't put me back in that place. I don't want to go back there." A tear started rolling down her cheek as Sean just laughed it off. "It's boring and there's nothing to do. I'll be lonely."
"Then tell us what we want." Sean stared into Lena's eyes and she realized what was going to happen.
"After all we've been through." Lena said.
"Yes. You." Sean pointed at someone behind the window. "Begin the process."
Lena heard a faint 'yes sir' and the room was empty. She looked down at her chest and saw the once bright blue start to fade. "Sean! If you can hear me I just wanted to say that I loved you. I want to be with you, no matter what. I'll come back and you know it!"
Sean's head fell down as he stared at the cold ground. When he looked back up the blue light on Lena's chest starting to fade. The way of emotions started to set in. Seeing his best friend, having a panic attack and tears running down her face was grueling. She started to scream and squirm as the light got darker and darker. Her breathing started to get heavier and heavier. Slower and slower his mind process got, when it got to him. He was part of a terrorist group, but he still had a heart. Out of nowhere, Sean blurted out, "Stop the process!"
"But…" A soldier questioned him but his look made him change that decision. "Yes sir." The soldier quickly stopped the process, seeing Lena taking quick breaths, chest bouncing back and forth like she had just ran ten miles.
The door squeaked open. "You want to tell us now?" He laid his on her shoulder.
"Told you I'd take it." Lena responded, still recovering. Sean chuckled a little bit. He un-holstered something from his side. A gun. "What, you going to shoot me now?"
"No." Sean quickly turned and shot twice. Two fell. "C'mon, we're leaving." Sean unlocked Lena from the chair and held out a hand.
"What?" Lena tried to finish her thought, but took the hand in front of her.
"Don't question it, just come with me, we go through the back entrance." Sean ran and peeked out the doorway, looking for any trouble ahead, seeing two separate guards, but there would be many more.
"Ow!" Lena stumbled when she got up, falling to the ground, grasping at her leg.
"What's wrong?" Sean looked at Lena who glared back.
"You hit me with a stick, what do you mean what's wrong?" Lena voice grumbled.
"Well I had to make sure Reaper left."
"Whatever." The brit stood up and limped towards the wall, putting all her weight on her back to the wall. "Well, you have a plan then? We can't just stand here."
"I got one, follow my lead." Sean and Lena crouched down, using the shadows as cover. They got the first door and pushed it slowly open. An empty room. A wave a relief hit them both as they shut the door behind them and proceeded to the next room. Their breaths started to get quicker and quicker, their minds ready for whatever pops out at them. "There." Sean pointed at one of the door with the plate saying 'Vehicle Bay.' "We go through there, get a ride, then we're out."
"Alright." Lena let out a breath. "Lead the way."
Sean walked up to the door and opened it slowly. Quickly crouching down to not get any distraction, Lena did the same. Sean mentioned for her to follow. They held close to the wall, letting the light from the sun shine right over them. It was a spiral staircase going down to biggest room in the base. Tanks, helicopters, and many more lined up as far as the eye could see. Lena wanted to run around, looking at the jets and planes but Sean calmed her. "I see five on the catwalk and ten more on the ground around here. How do you want to escape?"
"Plane, obviously."
"Like I said, didn't change one bit." Walking to one of the jets was going to take a lot of time. They had to make sure not to alarm anyone. Talon soldiers were scattered everyone. The air was dusty and it was hard to keep a silent breath most of the time. Lena's breath started to get louder and louder, she was putting too much weight on her leg. "Shh, you're going to alert someone."
"I'm trying to keep quiet, this gash kind of hurts a lot." Lena just wanted to scream. Just let all the pain out and get it over with. The ground was especially dirty. Bunches of dust and pieces or scrap laid across the ground. To get to one of the jets, they had to sneak around the back.
"Let's go around there, jets are that way." Sean murmured and pointed over to the small figure of jets, sitting in one position, nose pointed to freedom. Lena shut her eyes and slumped back. Hands grabbing her leg, the dust was getting into the cut. It stung even more, blood was slipping down her leg. "Just a little bit more, c'mon." Sean gestured to her and helped Lena back on her feet. The two hunched over once more and silently started to walk again.
"You…really…know…how…to…make…a…girl…tired…don't…you?" Lena breaths started to take over her voice.
Around and over the tanks and jets, next was an open area. "Crap, we have to make a run for it. The jets are only right there. You go first, get you out of the way then I'll run."
"Ok, see you on the other side love." Lena utilized her blink ability to get across quickly open field. Sitting down under a wing of the plane she motioned for Sean to follow. He started but was quickly stopped and rolled back to his hiding spot. A guard was patrolling the area. He walked in random directions and pointed his gun around like it was nothing. Until he walked over to where Lena was. Please don't notice her. The guard walked to the wing and his legs were staring her in the face. Lena curled up into a ball, shutting her mouth to not make any attention. The guard was toying with the wing and started to kick around his foot. Slowly backing up, trying not to make any noise, Lena was hit in the spot where the gash was. Her cheeks filled up with air, holding her leg. Sean ran across and took out the guard. He crouched down and dragged the man under with him.
"Ok, that was too close. Now we just need to get in one of them." Sean was cut off by a familiar voice. A sinister voice.
"Where are they?!" Reaper slammed down on a hood of a jeep.
"Who?"
"Sean and that one girl!"
"I didn't even know about them."
"Useless." Reaper shoved the guard out of the way and went over to the intercom. "Everyone keep alert, there are two enemies trying to escape, let no one leave. Shoot on sight." He threw the microphone away and quickly ran back up.
"You heard him. Everyone put up the barricades! Snipers, scope in! Everyone else, with me!" The footsteps started to get louder, voices started to get louder. The sound bounced off the wall as people started not to hear what people are saying.
"Okay, right now a jet isn't a good idea, I don't know if they didn't checkups yet." Sean started off looking Lena in the eye
"So what are we going to use the motorcycles?" Lena was sarcastic, she didn't really want to ride on a motorcycle.
"We came too far, we can't run back. Unfortunately that's our only option." Lena huffed but agreed and the duo snuck under the jet and look right at the lot of motorcycles. Now they just needed the keys. "Stay here I'm going to get the keys."
"Okay, where would they be? Oh, over there." He walked over quickly checking over his shoulder to make sure no one was looking at him. He was face to face with a wall with keys. "Uh, this one will do." Sean made his way back and wiggled the keys in front of Lena. "There won't be much road, there is a lot of desert."
"What about my leg?"
"Uh." Sean's hand went up to his head and grabbed his hair in frustration. "Okay, I'm going to get supplies stay here, get ready when I come back."
"Okay."
Sean ran over to the end of the room, he looked at a door that Mess Hall above it. Okay just past this room is medical supplies, get past this twice and I'm good. Sean barged in the room to see it empty. Food trays and bottles of water were laying on the tables. I need a back pack, food, water, bandages- you know what, just go, and I'm wasting too much time thinking about this. Sean immediately ran over to locker bay. Lockers lined the walls. Each locker had their separate name above it to show their owner. I have no time to be stealthy. The man kicked the metal door. It slowly creaked open. He grabbed the backpack and emptied out its content on the floor. A couple snack bars fell out, wallet, knife, papers, and a book. He picked up the snack bars, knife, and wallet and stuffed them back in the backpack and ran towards infirmary. Crap, some people are inside. He heard talking amongst other people in the room. Slowly opening the door, he looked around at the backs of the doctors and shut the door slowly. Sean tip-toed over a bed and closed the curtain. Okay, let's see what I can find. Sean opened up every cabinet and shelf there was. I need this and this and this. Okay I got plenty of bandages, painkillers, antibiotics, syringes, and some cloth. Now I need rope, food, and water. Sean exited the room unnoticed and made his way to the kitchen. Quickly searching around, he got a lot more snack bars, nuts, crackers, some candy bars. For drinks he only managed to get four bottles in. Now I just need some rope and I have no idea where they are. Sean hunted around a bit before finding the supply room. Jackpot. Sean grabbed a ten-foot rope. I guess a couple lighters and a mobile crutch won't hurt. Now, I leave.
"What took you so long?" Lena was worried, luckily the sound of everything made the process of barricading the doors slower.
"I had to get a lot of things for you. Got the keys?"
"Yeah." Lena tossed Sean the keys and the two got on the motorcycle.
"Okay, you have to get in front. My backpack is too big."
"We have to go fast love, I feel someone watching."
"Here we go." The engine started up and roared and Sean. Before Sean could go and the same black mist appeared in front of him.
"Where do you think you two are going?" Reaper took out his shotguns and point at both their heads.
"To freedom." Sean revved the engine back up and launched, bulldozing Reaper out the way driving out into the wasteland. Reaper lay flat on his back, looking straight up at the ceiling.
"Reaper, you ok?" A Talon soldier ran up to Reaper's side, holding his arm up.
"Argh, yeah." Reaper stood back up, snatching his arm back. Too the soldier's surprise, Reaper started to laugh under his mask. "If I can't get them, then someone will." He turned to his soldier and looked down at him. "Get the robots ready." Reaper started to walk away when he sparked a new idea. "And throw Widowmaker in the mix. Let her loose for a couple days."
"Yes sir!" The soldier saluted and ran back upstairs to get the troops ready.
"So what's your plan?" Lena had to yell her answer as the motorcycle was going fast, the wind made it hard to comprehend anything.
"Uh, I think we drive far away from the base and find camp somewhere, it's going to be dark soon. We sleep for the night then in the morning we find out what to do." Lena could only nod to the answer, her leg wasn't getting any better. They had to setup soon so Sean could patch Lena's leg up in hopes it didn't get infected already. Driving for about three more hours was tiring. Lena tried to start conversation with Sean but he either didn't respond or was too tired too. "Ah, the cave should be good." They drove up to their so called "home" and laid the motorcycle near the entrance of the cave. Sean slumped down, breathing heavily, trying to get some air back into his body. Lena did the same, but she wasn't tired, the pain in her leg kept biting.
"Sean. When are we going to fix my leg? Can't do much right now but sit around."
"Right." Sean set his bag to his side and flipped it open. "This will do." He grabbed the cloth and set it under her leg. He used the syringe and pulled back some of the antibiotics. With that in one hand, he gestured to her leg. "I am going to have to cut some of your suit open to get this in correctly."
"That's a big needle." Lena looked back up, big eyed.
"Do you want your leg fixed?"
"Fine." Lena used the knife and cut an opening in her suit, holding it open. "Just make it quick."
"I'll try, don't look." Sean positioned himself and put the needle up to her leg. "This is going to sting for a second or two." Lena looked at the ceiling, making her hand into a fist. Sean inserted the needle and put the liquid into her leg. Lena just slammed her hand against the wall, trying to fight back the pain. Her eyes were shut and she was trying not to scream at the top of her lungs. "Ok, you're good. Lift your leg." Lena lifted her leg with the help of Sean holding it up. He used the bandages to wrap her leg, the blood immediately spread across the tight-white surface. "Here, I grabbed this on my way out." Sean handed Lena the mobile crutch and extended it for her height.
Lena used the wall to stand up and leaned her weight on the crutch. She weighted very little but it felt like she Sean's weight, around 200 pounds of pure muscle. "Thank you Sean. I'm going to get used to this thing for a little bit. Any plans for food for tonight?"
"Yeah, I have some snacks, I'm afraid we aren't going to get as much protein." Sean took off this shirt revealing a white tank top, he walked out of the cave, sun shining down on them. He looked out into the wasteland seeing nothing but cactus, which they could eat, sand, and the sky. His muscles were huge and Lena couldn't help but sneak a peek. She tried to hide her blushing and was almost caught but she slowly moved past Sean. The rest of the day consisted of Sean watching Lena get used to her new toy. She might have had her blinking ability but it's hard to do this when you can't stand on your two feet without any support.
Nighttime quickly fell. The darkness covered the two with ease but was resisted by a small flame and two people on opposite sides, warming themselves. The sound of the crackling fire lit the walls and the silent munching filled the air. Their dinner consisted of snack bars and some crackers. Sean was eating away laying down, looking around at the walls. Lena was nibbling at her food, staring at her crutch on the ground. "So what did you do?"
"What?" Sean responded, eating his crackers.
"You know, at Talon's base. What events did you go through?"
"I'd rather not say."
"C'mon love." Lena made her way around the fire and forced Sean's arm around her shoulder. She laid her head on Sean's chest and look up. "Please." She made her eyes bigger and her voice like a child begging for something.
Sean could only chuckle when he looked over at Lena staring him down.
"I'm going to you one story and that's it."
"Okay." Lena words rushed out of her mouth at this point.
"Well, one day, I had to go on a mission right? I was with Widowmaker and two other squads. We got orders too…." Sean had to clear his voice before continuing. "We got orders to grab some Intel in a hotel. Or so I thought. When we arrived to the hotel. There were resistance already set up waiting at the door with some hostages." Sean's voice started the waver and a single tear ran down his face. "We tried to talk to them but. Lena?" Sean listened closely and heard the silent snores of his companion. I guess she fell asleep half way through. Sean looked up, trying not to wake her up, and saw Lena snuggling into his chest. He let his arm fall back around Lena and pulled her close. He chuckled a little, "Good night Lena." Just like were in the academy again.
Kind of long chapter, I just wanted to get a chapter out because I don't want to leave you handing. I feel good about this chapter and I hope you do too. I apologize for the last chapter as well, I know it wasn't my best and I didn't feel good about it either. Sorry. I recently have read other fan fictions and really enjoyed them. I was inspired to write this one. Leave a review good or bad. See you in the next chapter.
-Twix