Look at him sleeping so peacefully. I'm so lucky to have him in my life.
Kill.
He's my king I would never let anything happen to him.
Kill him now.
She picks up the knife from under the pillow with a love struck look on her face. She grabs his mouth to muffle the yell before driving the knife right through his gut, twisting the knife that was hilted in his stomach. She watches the life fade away in the crystal blue eyes now dilated and fixed. She kisses him before the blood soaked bed sheets bring her back to reality. She looks at her hands trembling in fear. His blood drips from her hand. She sees a shadowy figure in the door way. A lightning strike lights up the night filled house revealing... her. With tubes and IVs hooked up to her, she has a blank expression on her face as she puts a finger up to her mouth signaling her to keep quiet. Her finger drops before the next lightning bolt lights up the room, shes gone. Suddenly she's behind her and grabs her mouth muffling any attempt to yell for help.
"Mission Accomplished." Was what she said before she sliced her throat leaving her gurgling trying to gather air in her lungs.
Amélie woke up immediately grabbing her throat and gasping for air, letting small whimpers of agony being haunted by that nightmare. She examines the room she is in, not recognizing it. She looked to see a young man sitting in a chair next to her bed side slumped over to the side asleep. She falls back in the bed giving up trying to figure out where she was. Thinking too much like this always made her head feel like it was splitting open. The small thud back in the bed was just enough to wake Chris up from his chair. He immediately sat up straight rubbing his face. Chris looked to Amélie their eyes both meeting. Neither one of them saying anything at first before Chris scratched the back of his head and cleared his throat trying to break the awkward silence.
"Ahem, so how are you feeling?" Chris said getting up to get some water for her.
"I Don't..know. Where am I?" She had been so used to saying she doesn't feel all those years under Talon's control and possession she had forgotten what it was like to be treated with decency.
"On a shuttle, we're taking you to the Gibraltar headquarters of Overwatch. Here drink this." Chris handed her a cup of water and sat down back in his chair wincing a little at the pain from his previous engagements.
Amélie's better than perfect eyes noticed the bruise marks in the form of a feminine hand around Chris' throat when he turned back to look out the window.
"Your neck..what happened to you?" She asked.
"Hm? Oh nothing just you know..little scrap I got into." Chris looked away trying not to give it away that it was her who did it. He knew she was in a delicate place right now and any kind. Ok, Come on she needs someone to talk to Chris come on think of something, what was it like when you first went with Gabriel.
Chris looked over to her still struggling to find any kind of words that would comfort her or make her not feel guilty. "Why did you help me. What possible reason could I have given you to even think about me." She started to sound upset, like she wanted to be left. She looks down at her clothes still stained with the blood from everyone she killed, her hands and her face still had dry blood on them too. Chris got up and got a towel and ran some hot water under it before going back to wipe off her face and started to wipe her hands too before he let out a heavy sigh.
"Talon ruined my life too." Chris said starting to dry some of the tears streaming down her cheek. "I was a normal kid living a normal life before Talon blew my city up. I don't know how I survived but I decided not to wallow in pity. I wanted to make a difference, whatever or however I could. I guess I was lucky enough to be found by Gabriel and McCree to put me in a position to do that."
Amélie still was looking down choosing not to really acknowledge his story. Chris put the towel down. "You're a lot stronger than you think. If it wasn't for you breaking their hold over your mind or whatever they have over you we wouldn't be here right now. Don't sell yourself short." Chris said putting a hand on her shoulder. Amélie started tearing up even more clenching her fists out of frustration. Then she had another piercing pain shoot through her head. She grabbed her head grimacing in pain and leaned back into the bed. Her rage subsided as did the pain before she started to get a little more drowsy.
"Try and get some rest, you've had a rough couple of days, just take it easy." Chris said pulling the covers over her and sitting back in his seat feeling his eyes grow heavy as well. He hadn't slept so great himself with everything going on the last couple of days. They both dosed off as Sombra just watched from the entrance of the room. She was watching to make sure Amélie wouldn't relapse to Widowmaker and attack him when he wasn't suspecting it but to her surprise Chris handled himself well with her. They seemed to have some common ground.
Maybe she will be better off with Overwatch, She thought before she returned to the pilots seat to take the shuttle in for it's final approach.
Angela exited the ICU seeing Gabriel sitting in one of the chairs propping his face up with his hands leaning forward. He popped up as soon as he heard the doors open seeing Angela walking towards him.
"How is he?" Reyes asked standing up.
Angela let out a heavy sigh, "He should recover fine. However there was a number of arteries that were damaged from the blast and severe nerve done to his arm." Angela started to look down as she proceeded. "I did everything I could..but hes lost the use of his arm. I had to replace it. It was the only way to mitigate the pain from the severed nerve endings."
Reyes gave the doctor a pat on the shoulder and went inside to see how the cowboy was doing. McCree was still being heavily medicated to reduce the pain he felt.
"Hey Reyes, can you give a round of applause? Because I could use a hand." McCree said in a bit of slurred speech. He started waving his metal prosthetic arm around getting a feel for it. Well flailing was the more accurate way to describe it.
"Good to see your still in high spirits Jesse." Reyes said walking up to his bed. "Doc says your going to be out for a bit."
"Yea you know Angie, what she says goes. Ain't no sense in arguing with her." McCree said slumping his arm back on the bed.
"Take it easy bud, we'll need you back very soon." Reyes patted his shoulder and exited the room. When he exited the ICU he saw Angela running to the shuttle pad.
"What's going on?" Reyes asked her
"Chris is back from a favor he ran for Winston and he said he needs medical attention. It sounded urgent." She said trying not to break stride.
I told him to take it easy while we were gone. Reyes started following her to the shuttle pad. When they got there they saw Winston waiting for him there too. Before Reyes could ask what he had Chris doing the shuttle came into site and was making its decent to land. The shuttle doors opened to reveal the trio: Chris, Sombra, and..Reyes' eyes went wide and filled with fury. Her.
Chris had Amélie's arm around his shoulder, she still had a hard time maintaining her balance from the pain in her head. Chris helped her over to Angela, with Sombra following behind them.
"I don't know what's wrong with her but-" Chris was cut off By Gabriel knocking him away from Amélie causing her to stumble before she caught herself and looked up at the end of one of Reyes' shotgun being pointed at her face.
"Reyes what the fuck are you doing?" Chris barked at him picking himself off the ground.
"Where did you find her?" Reyes asked not breaking eye contact with Amélie.
"Sombra and I rescued her from Talon she needs help, she's not well. I think Talon did something with her brain or something, that's why I need you to take a look at her Angela."
"Rescued from Talon. Doesn't that sound familiar Angela?" Reyes asked. But Angela didn't say anything. She looked concerned for how this was all going to turn out.
"This monster killed an entire base of soldiers. She's too dangerous to be kept alive. I've seen first hand what she is capable of." Reyes said ready to squeeze his trigger. Amélie didn't try defend herself at all. She stood there completely at the mercy of Reyes. Then to both Amélie's and Reyes' surprise, Chris stood between the two, in the way of Reyes' gun.
"Step aside Chris." But he didn't budge. Winston tried to intervene but was haulted by Sombra and Angela. They both knew better than to get in the middle of this.
"We need to help her Reyes. She needs us."
"You didn't see what she did to those men, to Antonio, hell what she did to McCree!" Reyes snapped back at him.
"You're right. You know what I did see? A plea for help. Reyes whatever she did wasn't really her."
"Why should we help her after what she's done."
"Well as someone once told me a long time ago, it's what we do is it not.? Remember that's what you told me when you found me. We help people."
Reyes gritted his teeth and gripped his gun even tighter before letting out a sigh an holstering his gun and turning his back. He walked back inside without saying anything more. Guess he thought I was right. Chris sighed in relief. "Merci." Chris turned around and saw Amélie give the ever so slightest smile before she grabbed her head again.
"Sombra I believe you have matters with Winston to attend to?" Chris said motioning for Winston to show her inside as Chris and Angela escorted Amélie to the medical wing.
Chris helped Amélie into the examination office while Angela started to start up the body scan machine. Chris seemed preoccupied hoping Sombra and Winston could figure something out on that generator schematic that Sombra had.
"You didn't have to do this." Amélie said looking down afraid to make eye contact. Chris turned and looked at her so defeated with no hope of getting passed this event. Chris looked at her and just sighed heavily. He saw so much of himself from when his accident first happened.
"You're right I didn't." Amélie looked up at him surprised at his response. "But I chose to. What happened to you wasn't your fault."
"Everyone seems to be a little..apprehensive to have me around." Amélie said looking at Angela finish up preparations for the scan.
Chris sat down and put an arm around the scared woman. "Give em a little time, their just a little shook with what happened in Venice. I don't know what they did to you but Angela's the best doctor around, she'll have it all figured out. Just listen to what she tells you to do. If you need me or Sombra we'll be in Winston's lab."
"How could you have let them slip past our defenses?!" Akande was strangling the security director of the base. He was a little weak from the battle he had between Chris and Sombra. Moira had patched up his stab wounds, but he was on insistent on still flexing his power.
"We couldn't have accounted for Sombra's hacking. She's far better than anyone we ha" -CRACK-.
Akande snapped his neck and tossed him aside without any remorse. He was beyond pissed from being bested by Chris yet again.
"If you keep killing everyone we won't be able to start our offensive." Moira said as she was not really worried about losing one of Talon's most prized investments.
"How can you be so calm when one of the most secure bases we have got infected with those Overwatch insects?" Akande's rage was building back up.
"Contingency plans have already been implemented for such an occasion. No need to snap the necks of anyone who looks at you the wrong way. We will need to gather a rather formidable team, for they will be at at a well fortified base." Moira said going to her computer as she typed a few input codes that lit up a hangar full of bastion and OR 14 units.
"Even so we don't know where they are keeping your pet." Akande said adjusting his gauntlet slightly.
Moira just smiled before she typed an input code on her computer that showed a satellite map with a ping marker on it. Akande smiled back. "I'll make the necessary preparations."