Chris had awoken in the middle of the night. The dreams and nightmares were still plaguing him in is sleep, making it impossible to ever get a good night sleep. He looked at his phone that was plugged in to the wall charger on the ground next to him.

2 am

Chris lets out a sigh before looking around his room. He saw both Sombra fast asleep on the couch and Amélie under the covers in his bed. Better not wake them up. Chris opened up the door gingerly and closed it slowly behind him careful not to make any noise. He had grabbed his training gear and music to go to the gym and hit the heavy bag or lift some weights, his go to activities when he couldn't sleep.

He put his bag down and put on his headphones and started making quick work of the bag. He had been so consumed in everything going on he hasn't been thinking too much of what had happened recently. It was almost pleasant. But it all quickly faded. It all started to hit him again. There was no getting around it this time. He missed Lena.

Her intoxicating laugh, her bubbly personality, that way she had a knack of just being there when he needed her the most. Before he had realized it he was grunting and yelling in frustration without even realizing it, the bag was swinging wildly around. He took off his headphones and took a break from throwing strikes to grab the bag and steady it. He noticed stamps of blood imprinted on the bag. He had looked down to see his knuckles bleeding from how hard he was hitting the bag. He let out a deep sigh before grabbing a towel to wipe down the bag and wrap up his hands.

"Can't sleep either?"

The silence being broken caused Chris to jump around in shock. Amélie was standing there leaning up against the entrance observing Chris' intense bout with the punching bag. "Man you really are stealthy aren't you." Chris said still trying to catch his breath.

She practically glided into the room with how smooth she walked. She was like a runway model the way she swayed her hips when she walked. "It's easy to sneak up on someone when they can't hear." She said pointing at his headphones around his neck. This was the first sign she showed of having a sense of humor.

Chris looked down at his headphones before chuckling a little bit. "Yea I guess that would make me an easy target wouldn't it."

"That it would." She walked up to him and leaned up against the bag he was holding. "Want to go a few rounds?" The question caught him off guard completely.

"Uh..are you sure you want to? I mean like it won't like trigger some kind of self defense programming Talon put in you or something will it?" Her little smirk dropped instantly. "Sorry I didn't mean to offend you, I don't really know what Talon did to you to be honest, just that they messed with your head." Chris said putting his hands up defensively.

"So long as that Moira doesn't get her hands on me I shouldn't revert back to the monster they call Widowmaker."

Chris still was curious on what they did to her. Before he even got the chance to ask she already started talking about her time there.

"The physical changes they made to me I'm afraid might be permanent. The training and conditioning they put me through was deadly. I barely survived it, but they had me under some kind of drug that made me feel like I was acting on pure instincts, but aware of what they wanted me to do." She started taking off her shirt reveal a tank top over a sports bra. Her pants were skin tight and left nothing to the imagination.

"That was their problem with their project." She put a sarcastic spin on the word. "They could never keep me subdued for a long time. Something would break their..mind control over me and I would start to remember what they did to me and what happened."

Chris was staring at her mesmerized by how her body seemed to move in one fluent motion. He snapped himself out of it before she noticed. "How long did they have you captive?"

"I don't really know. I don't remember too much from my time before Talon. The earliest memory I have is what they made me do to..my husband. Anything before that is still hazy." She came back up to him centimeters from his face. "So how about it. Couple of rounds?"

"Uh..yea sure why not." The two of them made their way to the ring where him and Genji had had all of their match ups. Both of them took their stances at opposite sides of the arena. "Ladies first." Chris gestured to her waiting for her to make the first move.

Amélie swiftly moved and flung a fury of kicks and jabs at Chris, ones that he easily blocked and countered. She's not nearly as fast as before. He didn't really make an attempt to throw any strikes back at her. "It's not a sparing session if you don't fight back, then you are no better than that sac of sand over there."

"I don't want to hurt you or anything."

"Trust me, after what Talon put me through, i doubt you could." That devious smirk returned to her face.

Chris returned the smile, "Don't say I didn't warn you." Chris dropped her quick with a sweep kick taking her legs out from under her. But before he could make another move she rolled back and she pushed herself back to her feet off of her hands. She's nimble I'll give her that. He tried to keep the barrage of strikes up but she was easily blocking all of them.

"You're too predictable, you telegraph your attacks too much." She says while dodging the last strike. "Try some feint attacks here and there." She backs up to get separation between them. "For example," she starts a series of attacks "if I approach you like so and attack like so," She throws a straight punch that he was ready to counter attack before she ducks his attack and kicks his side knocking him to the ground she then jumps on top and mounts him. "You're opponent will be caught off guard and easily take advantage of their overzealous habits." She had him pinned down on the ground as she lowered her face inches away from his. "See how easily I turned the battle there?" She purred out. Chris just swallowed heavy and nodded his head.

"Good." She got up and helped Chris to his feet. Chris' face was flushed red, whether out of embarrassment or just from moving around a lot, he wasn't sure. She definitely noticed his face and demeanor this time. She picked up her shirt and looked back at him over her shoulder. "We should continue these sessions, I enjoyed this."

"Yea, I did too." Chris nodded back to her. He went over to pick up his things. He looked at his phone, 3:30. Wow time went by fast. Chris started to make his way outside.

"Where are you going?" Amélie asked her shirt slung over her shoulder.

"Oh I like to watch the sea when I can't sleep, its almost therapeutic for me." She raised an eyebrow before cracking that little smirk again.

"Do you mind if I join you?" She asked in the French accent that seemed like it was irresistible.

"Yea I don't see why not." The two of them went outside and sat on the rocks by the shore. The silence between them was a little awkward at this point given how intimate their sparing session. Chris looked over at Amélie, still in her tank top, the moonlight reflected an alluring glow off of her pale skin. Amélie seemed to be distracted by the sounds of the tide.

"It's impolite to stare." Amélie said keeping her gaze on the sea. Chris snapped his head back foward now as red as a cherry. Dammit Chris stop looking at her. She glanced over at him seeing his face red to which she just chuckled slightly. "You seem so tense around me. You aren't scared of me are you?" She asked.

"No no of course not. It's just that..." He looked to see her staring into his eyes with her golden pupils that were hypnotizing to gaze into. He started to rub the back of his neck again. "It's just that..you know..you're just have this commanding presence. And I don't mean that in any insulting way." He looked down and away too embarrassed to meet her gaze.

"Well, thank you, I guess." She seemed puzzled at his response.

"Don't take this the wrong way, I really don't mean this in any insulting way but why are you so, kind to me as opposed to everyone else." Chris finally looked back at her seeing her flirtatious gaze break away.

"You are the first person that I can really remember that has treated me like a person. Not a slab of meat, not a weapon but a person. Even here I could hear your commander and Reyes talk about me like I'm a weapon."

"You mean could hear that?" Chris asked with wide eyes.

She tapped on her ears, "One of the many improvements Talon made to me."

"Oh yea right. Sorry." Chris was reminded of why she was here to begin with.

"I heard you talking in your sleep." Amélie said moving slightly closer to Chris. He dropped his head when she mentioned that. When am I not talking in my sleep.

"Sorry I hope I didn't disturb you. It's something that's been happening ever since..well my first mission I went out on." Chris said looking down.

"Oh?"

"Yea its where I got shot for the first time." Chris rolled up his sleeve revealing a scar from the bullet wound. "Sniper got the best of me, didn't see him."

"Where was this mission?"

"In London. It was this Talon controlled factory in.."

"Kings row?" Amélie said before she covered her hand over her mouth.

"Yea how did you know?"

"I remember being there. At that factory. We were alerted to an intruding presence. And I was ordered to take out the intruders before there was a huge explosion. I remember gathering myself before aligning my shot." Her eyes went wide before looking at his wound. "I think I'm the one who shot you." She put her hand touching the wound almost certain it was her handy work.

"Well You're a lousy shot." Chris put his sleeve back down trying to lighten the mood. He knew she was going to dwell on it but he tried his best to make light of the situation. She looked at him and started to smile a little.

"I'm glad I missed, otherwise I wouldn't be here right now." The two locked eyes, Chris saw that alluring aura the moon was giving her again. She leaned in closer to him. He found himself leaning closer to her. They were close enough to feel each others breath. Amélie was finally the one that moved the last bit embracing his lips with hers. They were getting lost in each other before Chris pulled back looking down in shame.

"I'm sorry." Chris whispered ever so slightly before Amélie took his head in both of her hands and pulled him back into another kiss. This time Chris didn't fight it and let her take control. She massaged his lips for a bit before she slowly pulled away leaving Chris to slowly open his eyes. Amélie blushed a bit before she started to look away in embarrassment. God the moonlight is hitting her so perfectly right now.

"I don't know what came over me. I guess I just got caught up in the moment." Amélie was about to get up before Chris took her hand and held it.

"Don't be." Chris reassured her. "I've learned it's not the healthiest thing to do isolating yourself."

"Finding comfort wherever you can." Amélie added.

Chris nodded his head. He turned his attention to the moonlit sky looking at the stars too. "I miss my brother." He muttered under his breath.

"You had a brother?" She asked.

Right super sensitive hearing. Chris let out a huge sigh. "Yea, to make a long story short Talon killed him and my mother, and almost killed me too about 3 years ago.

"Sorry to hear that. Seems Talon has taken a lot from both of us." She added.

"That they have." Chris said. The two continued holding hands admiring the sound of the sea, memorized by the light reflecting off the water.

Akande was assembling the Talon transports full of bastion and OR-15 units while Moira was gathering the Mercs giving them all tranq guns.

"If you come across her shoot her with this sedative, it should knock her out instantly. We aren't her to make a war of attrition. We are only there to retrieve Widowmaker. Once we have her we are to leave immediately." Moira was ordering them.

Akande was finished preparing his transport with all of his units when Maximilian motioned for him to meet him inside. Akande followed him in to a room where the council was meeting. Their holograms were portrayed where they would be sitting if they were all there. The council rarely ever is in the same place at the same time.

"This is only for you to know Akande." One of the holograms said. "We have found this project to be too costly for us. If you cannot easily apprehend Widowmaker," He paused for a minute. "Terminate the project."

Akande grinned at the orders before nodding his head. "Understood." Akande went back to his transport knowing full well he had no intention of capturing her now. Akande left the room making his way back to his transport. Moira had noticed him disappear with Maximilian when she was equipping the special operatives.

"What was that all about?" Moira asked in a very suspicious tone. The two had been on tense terms since putting Widowmaker into the field. Akande grinned at her with a devious look.

"Discussions of a fail safe." He said.

"Which would be?"

"None of your concern, otherwise they would have involved you in the meeting."

Moira look burned with rage. She pretty much could guess what they had told Akande to do. She was hoping it wouldn't resort to that.

Amélie and Chris were walking back inside from their time spent outside. While they were going to the mess hall to get some coffee, they saw Angela walking through the hall.

"Angela? It's like 4 am. What are you doing up so early?"

"It's 4? Oh my I must have lost track of time. Amélie your scans came back. We need to talk now." Her tone was very serious.

Amélie nodded and started to follow. She followed Angela for a bit before she stopped and turned around. And looked at Chris. She didn't even have to ask Chris knew what she wanted. He nodded and followed along with her.

The three sat down in her office and Angela turned her computer screen.

"Unfortunately your cybernetics are too close to vital organs, I'm afraid there is nothing I can do about those. However this is where things get complicated." Angela zoomed in on scans of her brain. "There are a number of nano chips that are placed in parts of your brain, likely causing the headaches and the amnesia."

Amélie started rubbing her head looking at the images. "I can remove them, however this procedure doesn't come without a risk. Any kind of neural brain surgery is risky but this one is more invasive than your typical brain surgery."

Amélie was quiet studying the images. Chris got up and paced around the room. "What..what could the end result be?" He asked the question Amélie was too scared to.

"Well, worst case scenario, you could lose control of basic functions, walking, speaking. But of course that would be worst case." Angela said that trying to keep her in from worrying too much. "More than likely what will happen if we perform the procedure is you will have a temporary amnesia short term. Memories should return over time. You will have headaches for a while but that should be it. Best case scenario of course."

Amélie sat quietly letting what Angela said sink in for a little bit. "Is the procedure necessary?"

Angela let out a sigh, "Well, no as far as hindering your life. However your memories will likely never return, and there will always be the threat of Talon regaining some sort of control of you if we don't do this."

Chris put a hand on Amélie shoulder "I think you should do it. Eliminating Talon being a part of you would make it worth it for me." Amélie nodded and looked down and took a deep breath trying to muster up her voice.

"When can we start this?"

"The earliest I could prep everything would be about a week."

"Do it, the sooner we get this over with the better." Amélie said getting up and walked out of the office.

"I'm sorry if this upset her it's the best I could do." Angela said.

"It's not that, she's just scared reasonably so." Chris said looking at her walk down the hall. "She's practically been a lab rat for Talon for God knows how long, being inside any kind of lab or medical facility probably freak her out."

Angela nodded. "Agreed, Well I'm going to try and catch some sleep Chris, I'll see you later."

Chris caught up to Amélie who went back outside to try and clear her mind.

"Hey, you ok? I know that was probably a lot to take in." Chris said walking up next to her.

"Qui. I..just don't like to unconscious in the hands of a doctor. Everytime I was before I awoke to a new scar or two from them trying to improve me." She said looking down at her arms and hands.

"You can trust Angela. She'll take good care of you."

"I don't doubt that Chris it's just-" she suddenly stopped mid sentence and looked up in the sky.

"Hey, what's wrong."

"Shh" She put her finger up still starring into the sky. Chris looked up and didn't see or hear anything.

"Oh god." Amélie spat out.

"What is it?" Chris asked.

"They're here." She staggered backwards and kept repeating, "They're here!" She ran back inside in a full sprint. Chris looked up again still not seeing anything. He squinted his eyes even more, and then he saw it.

Two Talon transport bearing down on the base.