Title: Against the rules
Chapter 30: Be prepared part 3
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Widowmaker's POV
I sigh heavily in relief when the heavy bags stop resting their weight on me and onto the crate where Lena put her own bags that belonged to Mercy. I carried more than Lena, she wanted to carry more but I refused, claiming that I can carry more than her.
We soon found out that was the truth since she struggles more than me and she had less of a weight.
Said woman strolled up to me, her smirk very evident on her face. She must be planning something, or a plan worked.
"Well, Well, Well. Look who's Mrs muscle here." she says slightly flirty as her hands curl around one of my upper arms to feel my bicep softly.
I roll my eyes at her poor attempt to stroke my ego, of course I know I'm stronger than most.
"Well, you see. I have an implant for that. And... I didn't hear you complaining last night." I whisper the last bit to her, moving close to her ear so only she can hear it.
I feel a slap to my shoulder as Lena flees from being so close, her face a bright crimson. I smirk, looks like the tables have turned.
"You're the worst." she groans softly as she moves to a different area where no one occupied, I followed, my eyes attached to her butt in those skin tight orange leggings.
"again, you didn't say that last night." I say, earning another exaggerated groan as Lena covers her bright red face with her gloved hands.
I let out a controlled small laugh as I stride a little faster to get to the now stationary woman faster. I clamp my hands down on the hips of my partner.
"Don't be so sensitive Chérie." I muse softly, pulling her close to my body, feeling her soft curves against me.
I feel her sigh. Her body relaxing and pressing closer to my own.
"Sorry love. I've just been a little stressed lately. And it's not just this fight that's going to happen tomorrow." Lena releases what's on her mind.
I guide us towards a crate and sit on it, Lena taking a seat beside me. I pull the leg closest to Lena up onto the crate with my foot still dangling off with my leg still bent so I can face Lena.
I place a hand on her neck, stroking it softly to try and ease some stress.
"What else has been on your mind beau?" I ask, my voice soothing naturally so Lena feels comfortable.
"I don't know." Lena sighs out almost angrily. "for some reason I feel like something bad is going to happen. I don't know when or where but my mind is just constantly nagging at me."
My brows furrow in thought, my eyes shifting to the ground to help me concentrate. Why would she have such an ominous feeling? Maybe it's just nerves for tomorrow? But she said it wasn't just about the fight tomorrow.
Lena must be thinking about the same thing as the next thing she says brings me out of my own thinking and gives me some more idea what this is about.
"It… it feels like it may happen tomorrow…" she says uneasily. "-Oh for the Queen's sake I don't know!" Lena outbursts, obviously she's been thinking about this a lot and it's finally got on top of the usually energetic Brit.
I squeeze her neck, succeeding in relaxing her some, not entirely but some of the stress seemed to have left her.
Lena looks at me weakly, seemingly to have given up on thinking what this strange feeling could mean. My heart throbs painfully for the one I've come to love.
I pull her to me, my arm moving around her neck, the crook of my elbow behind her head as I hold her head to my shoulder, her own hands reach up and slide around my waist.
She sighs heavily into my neck. Her face hiding itself into that same nook.
It pains me to see Lena like this. Where she feels like she's useless. When she doesn't believe that she can do it.
I pull away slightly, my hand that was holding her neck close to me sliding up to coil into her short tresses as I make her look me in the eyes.
"I love you Lena. Tomorrow will turn out as expected and I won't have to hide those words from the world any longer. Everything will be fine because I will make it that way. If something goes wrong, I will make it right because those words mean so much to me that I can't possibly keep it to myself any more." I say firmly, making sure every word emits confidence that tomorrow will run as smoothly as a hot knife through margarine.
Lena looks shocked for a small moment. Her mouth hangs open as she just stares at me, her eyes hold unshed tears from how my words touched her and her fingers twitch at my sides before she throws herself back at me her face returning to my neck.
"I love you too." Lena chokes out as hot tears scorch trails on my neck. I pull my arms tighter around her, placing them on her back as I feel her sob through it.
I softly hush her, pulling the smaller body onto the leg that's on the crate, choosing her closeness over no slight pain in my leg from her weight.
"It's okay Chérie. I'm here." I whisper to my beloved, placing a firm but reassuring kiss to her head.
After a while, Lena's sobs turn into slight hiccups every couple of minutes and by this point I know she's calmed down a little.
I slowly move my hand up and down her back, it relaxing against my touch.
I feel her pull away slightly, her face coming into my view as she sits up but she doesn't dare move any further back.
Her eyes were red from crying, her freckled cheeks are puffed out adorably and her hair is in a bit more of a skew than it normally is. But still, she looks absolutely beautiful to me.
"Thank you." she manages out. Her eyes cast to her hands that returned to her front and that were fiddling with each other nervously.
I clasp my hand over her own two, my face moves forward to bury my nose in her hair as I gently kiss her forehead.
"This is what I'm here for baby. I'll always be here." I whisper to her. In reward I see Lena lift her head to look at me, her eyes looking like ones that puppies would have and her bottom lip protruding gently to add to the subconscious affect.
I smile and grip her chin with my free hand, pulling her face to my own to collide lips, holding it for a moment. We didn't go further than just lips as this kiss was just gentle and full of meaning.
When we pull away moments later. A small crack of a smile appears on Lena's face.
"You're the best girlfriend anyone could ask for." Lena whispers to me, causing me to smile bashfully. It means a lot to get her opinion on me. I'd hate it if I wasn't anything good for my Chérie.
"You're also a great girlfriend." I whisper back like an embarrassed teenager, my cheeks flare up too to emphasise this factor.
Lena coos as she grabs ahold of my cheek, squishing it between her fingers as she relishes in my embarrassment.
"Oh hush you." I say picking her up as I take my leg from under her and hanging it over the edge with my other leg as I sit her back down next to me.
She looks offended at this before saying. "Oi, I was comfortable on that."
I roll my eyes and nudge her shoulder with my own gently. She can be such an annoyance at times but it never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Lena turns to her own bag, grabbing out some tools and equipment and placing them on the crate next to us so she can use it as some sort of workbench.
She places her bag back down on the ground as she unbuckles her accelerator, removing it from her form like it was second nature.
As she places it down and starts to tinker, I look around and examine my surroundings.
I see Ewa by herself in the middle of the room, her headphones in while she sharpens her knives to perfection. I frown and look for her counterpart. She was sat with her daughter and Mercy looking alone as the two lovers spoke. Her one eye looking at Ewa with uttermost sadness in her heart.
My frown only gets deeper at this new information. What has happened between those two? I look towards the person who I'd knew would know and see her looking at me, knowing that I saw what she saw quite a while back.
She shrugs her shoulders at me suggesting that she doesn't know why yet but she's still figuring it out.
This is one odd circumstance, especially before tomorrow. Surely they should want to be united and not arguing for tomorrow. That's if they were arguing. Who am I kidding? Of course they must have argued if they're this adrift.
I shake my head, clearing the confusing voices out. I'll just have to keep a close eye on them.
I look to my side where Lena sat. She had her tongue poked out in concentration as she tries to do some sort of adjustment to her accelerator.
I smile and lean towards my love, pressing a soft kiss to her cheek and nuzzling myself close to her, holding my head on her shoulder softly.
Her fingers slow for a moment before they carry on at their normal pace. I feel her own head lean into mine in an affectionate embrace as she works on her anchor.
With Lena's fingers making quick work of the reason why she's here, it got me thinking. What was it like? How does it make you feel? Before I could bite my tongue out one particular question that was on my mind.
"What's it like? Being sent into time that is." I ask, my head lifting slightly to gauge her reaction.
Her fingers freeze in their current motion, her eyes become downcast as her brows furrow in thought and maybe some underlying pain that such torture brought to the usually energetic Brit.
Before I could take back my words I find myself cut off by my Lena's words.
"Uh… it's hard to describe… when it happened it felt like… like my body was being ripped into shreds. Like my very partials was… detached. This feeling stayed like this for what seemed like days…"
"when it finally stopped… it felt… odd… like I was floating and falling at the same time… the pain in my body felt like I was being dragged through miles of… needles…"
"It kind of stayed that way for a while. I didn't know how much time passed. It felt like years. I saw and felt things things that should have been impossible. Yet I couldn't feel anything. I saw a lot of the past like ancient Egyptians and ancient Greek. But I also saw some possible future things. They wasn't definite, what I learnt was that the future was never for sure because all it takes is one decision to change it all. But some times it was too late to change the future."
"I saw people die, I saw people who died previously live. I also saw a fast food restaurant that I loved changing their opening times. I experienced all of these things and I didn't know what to do but watch. I couldn't feel enough to pull away from the images time provided."
"I'm still trying to find out how it's even possible for this to happen to me. I don't know why my body acts like it does and why it drives me off into time when I don't have something to hold me to the present."
"Sorry if I haven't given you the information you wanted. I'm still trying to figure it out myself love." Lena finishes, shaking her head as her fingers return to moving as she continues to work on the very anchor that she was talking about previously.
"Don't be. When all of this is over I'll help you figure it all out. You don't have to be alone in this anymore." I say, moving closer to the most important woman in the world so I can hold her waist tighter without moving her.
I hear Lena laugh, a true happy laugh that lightens my heart and makes myself smile.
"You're such a kiss ass." she mutters as she leans closer to me.
"Only for you Chérie."