Overwatch Fanfiction: The Love We Feel 💕COMPLETED💕

Chapter 67: Deep

Guest Writer: My Editor-Taeton Jaxon  

"Well... both questions actually have about the same answer. It all started about 15 years ago when I was 23 or so. At that time Forgiveness was a legitimate businessman. He made a bunch of medical supplies for some of the hospitals of Switzerland. He was, and still is, a medical genius; that I'll give him. At the time I worked in one of those hospitals, as one of his medical practitioners on site. I was his favorite daughter back then, I was given a bit more freedom than the others. I had my own house at the time, my own car; everything."

Mercy's face became a little wistful, as if nostalgic for a past long gone, "But I was still loyal to Forgiveness above all others, even more than myself. I felt as if I owed him a debt for giving me life."

Then Mercy's face became more serious, "As a doctor, I worked on a number of patients, subtlety using the powers given to me to save the lives of many. I thought I was giving them Forgivenesses' mercy, which I was named after. Little did I know that Forgiveness was using me and all of his daughter, to foster a cult of complacency."

"Then one day, I got a patient a little different from all the rest. One of Forgiveness' business partners actually. He knew about Forgiveness' plans, and couldn't condone them. I was in the room when he first confronted Forgiveness."

Mercy felt a little queasy, but her story couldn't stop now right when she was about to get to the most important part, "That man was later found in an alleyway, extremely hurt. He was sent to my hospital, and because of the extent of his injuries, he was sent to me for treatment. I recognized him as the person who had confronted my father. Now I don't know if it was Forgiveness himself or someone he hired, but I'm convinced that Forgiveness had something to do with his injuries; of course I didn't think he did at the time. Despite him being an enemy of my father, I still felt like it was my job to treat him, give him the mercy he deserved so that maybe he would come to see my father's vision of healing as we did."

"The man was suffering extreme brain trauma and severe stress fractures in the skull. It would've been impossible to cure him normally without any huge complications, but I was different; I had powers. I worked for 3 long days keeping him alive, and he made a full recovery."

"That's about when it all changed for me. The man left my care, but he felt indebted to me; as I did to Forgiveness. He came to visit a lot, and I got to know him a bit better. We became good friends even, meeting outside of work. He was the first person besides my family that I actually had a connection with, and that changed me. I began to look at the world differently."

"A couple of years after we first met though, something horrible happened. I was at home, with Forgiveness and the others. He began to notice my change, and asked why that was. At the time I didn't even think that Forgiveness could've been behind my friend's harm. I told him everything. A week after, my friend went missing. I looked for him for a long time, not really having much luck. That was until his body was found by an Overwatch reconnaissance team in the middle of a war zone."

Pharah's hand was over her mouth, she literally couldn't move.

Still, Mercy's story continued, "I was sad of course; sad and angry looking for someone or something to blame. It was then that I noticed the pattern, my father. I blamed him for my friend's death. I formulated my revenge slowly. Using his own plan against him."

"He wanted to set up a new hospital in a different continent to spread his influence. He decided that Numbani would be perfect, and that it could also serve Omnics so that even they would be under his cult of complacency. He picked a perfect spot, a large cave that would be outfitted with the best equipment around. It was out of the way, it was perfect. We were all to go to the cave and help decorate. I had plenty of time to prepare my attack. At first, I was even planning to trap myself in there as the ultimate sacrifice. But I decided that to keep the world safe from them, I would need to be on the outside doing damage control."

"I sprung my trap the 3rd day we were there, when there was plenty of equipment; enough to keep people alive for years without food. I went outside and channeled all of my healing power towards a single focal point. The cave responded to my call, enclosing itself so that it could never be opened by conventional means. That destroyed my powers, I literally unable to heal anybody for years afterwards without using normal methods. Eventually, some of it returned, albeit at a lower power level than it was before. I told everybody that my family had died there, in a cave in and nobody questioned it. I got all of Forgiveness' estate and used it to leave my old life behind. I joined Overwatch afterwards, hoping it would provide me some clarity... and that's basically is how I ended up here."

Mercy was literally out of breath, and almost on the verge of tears after remembering her past. She was almost going to cry before Pharah began to speak again.

Pharah was taking shaky breaths, but she was able to ask Mercy one question, "What was his name?"

Mercy was barely able to whisper his name before she broke out in tears. "Henry," she said between sobs, "his name was Henry."

Pharah couldn't be stopped by the just friends barrier at this point, she went over to Mercy and hugged her and let her cry. Pharah was the literal shoulder to cry on.

"I'm so sorry Mercy. I'm so so sorry for making you talk about it," Pharah was stroking her hair trying to get her to stop sobbing.

Mercy eventually calmed down a little. Still whimpering she said, "No it's ok, I couldn't have kept it a secret forever. It's better to have talked about it than to have left it fester."

They continued to hug for another 3 minutes, eventually Mercy pulled away, "I need to go to bed."

Pharah was disappointed, but not surprised. She said goodbye and goodnight and turned to leave, but she was unable to just walk through the door. She was so moved by Mercy's story that she turned around and said, "I promise you Mercy, I'll never let something like that happen again. Ever in my life, not to you not to anyone."

Suddenly, Genji burst through the door. "HEYO I JUST WALKED RIGHT PASSED ANA AND SHE DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT!"

And everything became awkward. Pharah spun around to face the cyborg ninja. She covered her blushing face and dashed out to the door. She didn't care if she got caught by Ana. Mercy's face was also a bright red from crying and blushing and Genji stood in the doorway shocked.