Why Does a Spider Kill?

Chapter 16

It had been 2 days since he wedding but for Amelie felt like it was an eternity. It hasn't worked and she was left feelings lower than ever. Sure it had been a great night but Lena did not seem to be improving

Lena was left at home with her but she mostly just spent time trying to get used to everything in the hopes that she would remember something. Right now Amelie had put on her favourite movie from before, Top Gun. She didn't remember Amelie but for some unknown reason Gabriel decided to let her remember the entire lyrics to the song 'danger zone'.

Amelie was doing anything that would help her clear her head. She looked around and saw that there was a massive amount of dust beginning to gather on their bed so she would sort that out. If Lena ever did remember then she would want it nice for them to sleep together on. She grabbed the brush and got to work. They always split the chores between them and Lena always brushed because with her power it took only 5 minutes. For the entire house. She was often left with the dishes so brushing was somewhat foreign to her.

She worked on the bed until she decided to brush underneath the bed. As she poked around she felt something and she poked at it again then saw movement. Then right on the floor scampered out a bigger than black spider with a red marking on the back of it. It stopped in front of her and she stopped in front of it. All eight of it legs were spread and she was freaking out at the sight of it.

Even though she was a fully grown woman she was still scared of spiders. Arachnophobia to the extreme. She took the brush and grasped in her hands. If she could kill it she would be fine. It was just the living spiders she despised. From when she was a young girl she was always told how cold and ruthless they were. She would never be like that. She raised the broom carefully and whacked down hoping that she had got it.

Amelie screamed as she missed the spider and it ran away from her. As she was going to kill it with the broom again it seemed as though someone else had already done the job for her as she heard the squish of its body meeting with the ground.

"You're afraid of spiders? I thought you feared losing Lena most. I guess not judging by your screams." Said Gabriel lifting up his boot and wiping the dead arachnid is of it.

"Reyes! Don't come any closer or I put this in your skull." She said pulling out a knife from her belt and pointing it towards his head. She had the urge to kill him right here right now but he didn't seem like he was going to attack her back. He obviously had another motivation.

"I didn't come her to fight. I can here to make an offer." He said edging ever closer to her, he noticed how she was watching him like a hawk.

"What offer could you possibly have that I want?" she scoffed slowly beginning to lower the knife.

"We saved Lena's memories to this." He held up the small pen drive with the skull sticker on it. Amelie looked at it and had slightly hope but a majority of disbelief in her eyes. She recognised the emblem from Satya's computer desktop though she had no clue what it was meant to be.

"No matter what you do she will always have her training and we always had more than one trigger word and I could have her kill you right here right now." Amelie looked down the hall to Lena's room. She knew that Gabriel wasn't lying. He would be smart enough to have more than one trigger on her. He had planned everything including this meeting.

"Why tell me this?" she asked looking at the mask. It was creeping her out but she needed to know. He had some sort of ultimate design.

"I wanted to make a trade." He said, he was containing his joy at the prospect of the deal. He loved it when a plan went right unlike his plan to become the Overwatch icon. Unlike his plan to be with Morrison forever.