BitterSweet

Talon

You awoke in a sweat, every night you either have a nightmare of Gabriel's death or a dream of your memories with Gabriel, both would end in the same result and that was to wake up in sadness and anger. 

You looked around your room with tired eyes. You had a small studio apartment in Spain, you didn't own much, You only had a bed and a dresser along with a huge safe to keep your extra armor, ammo, and weapons in. Next, to your bed, you had a copy of the picture of you and Gabriel that you stared at every night for the past 8 years.

You opened your tablet to see a new message, probably a mission. Ever since you left Overwatch you have been a mercenary a good one at that, you had the reputation to be the number one hitman/mercenary in the world and a lot of people wanted to hire you. The message you had was from someone who employed you a lot and has become a trustful client so you would take any mission he gave to you. 

"y/n

I need you to do me a favor.

Tonight Talon will be kidnapping a target of mine, I need that hostage dead. 

I will send you the location and time." 

You sighed, you wanted to stay home tonight but you guessed this was important. 

You prepared for your assault, you looked at virtual maps your contact sent you of the area.

You planned to take out the target with a sniper rifle and have the gun that Gabriel gave you for close quarter fights if needed. You mapped out where you planned to lay, your contact gave you inside info on where the Talon will most likely drag the target out. 

Everything was planned out, now you just wait for your ride, you had a lot of connections to people and so you had a dropship pilot that was always willing to give you rides. 

You grabbed your guns and dressed in your usual gear which was, a black mask that covers your mouth and noes along with light black armor on top of your black hoodie and leggings, it gave you the ability to quickly walk through the shadows.

On the dropship, you looked at the gun in front of you, your fingers traced the photo of you and Gabriel, it always calmed you for missions. 

When he dropped you off you quickly made your way to the ledge you planned to snipe off of, you had 30 minutes before Talon would be making their way towards you with your target. 

You set up your sniper on the ledge and lay down a little mat you used to lay on when you sniped. You set your assault rifle next to you as you adjusted your scope. You began the wait as you looked down your scope.

Sure enough, on time you saw a man in a black cloak and mask escorting your target. You lined up your shot and held your breath, memories of Gabriel teaching you to snipe came into your head but you pushed it down and focused on the shot, you lined it up again and you pulled the trigger, you watched as your target fell to the ground dead and the man turned around that was escorting him and looked up at you, he was far away so you figured you had time to leave but all of a sudden he almost seems to disappear into the ground in a black mist. you couldn't believe your eyes. Without notice you heard a strange noise behind you, you turned over and tried to reach for your gun but the man that disappeared into the ground now stood over you, he pressed his boot into your chest causing you to stay put on the ground as you moaned in pain, he then raised his shotgun to your face. You took a moment to soak in his image thinking it was going to be the last thing you saw, he was a big guy with a black hooded leather cloak that was covered in scratches, you looked up at his mask that was resembling an owl skull, You thought this would be the end, you recognized the masked man as Reaper, the terrorist that's been hunting down Overwatch agents and killing him.