John woke up in a panic. He looked around the dark room, anxiously waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness to see where he was and where his beloved Angel was, only to see her laying next to him on the examination table under a blanket. He pulled her close, silently thanking whoever was listening that his dreams weren't accurate as he hugged her tightly, causing her to stir.

"Mmm, sweetheart..." she mumbled as she shifted to get more comfortable on the padded table.

He didn't stop holding her next to him as he slowly returned back to sleep.

...

When he stirred once more, it was due to the woman he loved stirring from laying atop him. He felt the pressure over his body lighten as she stretched before she planted a hand over the side of his face and a kiss upon his lips. He could feel the whole of her body tense up as his fleshy hand quickly pulled her in to deepen the kiss, before she quickly relaxed and slid her tongue over his.

"When did you wake?" she asked when she finally pulled away from his face, her hand holding his chin by the scruff.

"No idea. It was dark and you were next to me, so I'd guess last night?" he said as his arms wrapped around her. "I'm just glad you're alright."

"I don't suppose you have any idea what that monstrosity was?" she asked.

"What? Because I spend so much time dead I must know everything from beyond this world?" he teased her, placing a metal finger on her nose, which she quickly grabbed.

"Please, Sweetheart, be serious. We can't find anything substantial about it." she explained. "The closest we can find is some old fictional stories by..."

"Lovecraft?" he asked before kissing her again.

"Yes... how...?" she asked.

"My grandfather had a couple copies of his books." he explained. "I was able to keep them with me up until Overwatch captured me..." he said before going silent.

"Are you alright?" she asked as her hand gently held the side of his face, causing an instinctive flinch before he relaxed and let out a calm sigh.

"Yeah, yeah I'm alright." he said through her calming touch. "But now that I think about it, Ashe might still have some of my stuff tucked away..."

"Mmm. Well back to the topic at hand..." she said as she laid her head down on his chest. "We may be moving our headquarters due to the damage leftover from the attack."

"Not sure how well we could avoid something that uses the space/time continuum like a toy." he said as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Mmm... Sometimes I forget how smart you actually are."

"Probably because most of the time I'm setting things on fire like a madman." he chuckled before sighing. "We're gonna need more help if we have to deal with an extra-dimensional asshat as well as Null Sector and Talon..."

"I don't suppose you know of anyone who could fill in where we can't help?" she asked as she shifted to look up at his face.

"I got a couple ideas... a physicist named... fuck what was his name..." he mumbled as he looked up to the ceiling until it came to him. "Siebren!" he said finally.

"Siebren de Kuiper? The Dutch astrophysicist?" she asked. "Is he even still alive?"

"You know him?" he asked as he looked back down at her.

"We met years ago before his accident at a conference. I thought he had passed away."

"Well according to Sombra, Talon has him, so I'm going to help her get him freed from them." he explained. "Then I have an idea for a whole crew, or at least a couple who might give us a hand for the right price."

"Do I even want to know?"

"Probably not, but that's never stopped either of us before." he said with a grin, earning him a playful slap on his shoulder. "So I've kinda been sending and receiving info with a member of my old crew..."

"You aren't seeing Ashe behind my back are you?" she asked, her eyes squinting in suspicion.

"Not so much her as Bob." he said

"And here I thought you only liked women..." she said with mock distress causing him to laugh.

"Hardy fucking har Angel." he said with a grin on his face before pulling her into another kiss. "You don't have to worry about me. I have loved you since a non-creepy amount of time after I first layed eyes on you." he said causing her to laugh as well.

"Consider my fears lain to rest." she said before kissing him again. "Now what's this with you and Bob?"

"I got in touch with him when I came back from the dead... you know, the first time." he explained getting an annoyed hmm from his lover. "I've sent him info on a few different Talon and Nullsec shipments that were going to pass by them for them to hit. It sounds as though they got them all so getting their help dealing with one or both of them would definitely be helpful."

"I suppose they would, so long as they don't steal anything."

"Don't worry Angel, they'll just strip down all the gear on the Nullsec or Talon forces and use it or sell it to us to use... or on the black market... You really never know with Ashe..."

"Not the best way to convince someone..." she teased him.

"That's why I deal with Bob. He's more or less in charge when Ashe ain't around, and probably the most level headed guy I know..."