MercyKill Origins

A New Year, A New Beginning

Only a few days after Christmas and everyone was getting ready to celebrate the New Year at the Overwatch base. Angela had taken down all the Christmas decorations in her room and office. Now, she sat in her chair in her office, signing papers and organizing everything before the New Year party. Gabriel walked into her office, since the door was open, and had a flower in his hand. Angela looked up and smiled. “Is that for me?” she asked, fluttering her eyelashes.

“Mmm, not quite. The flower isn’t what I want you looking at,” Gabriel replied sheepishly. He moved the flower to his side and waved it a bit. Angela could hear something rushing up behind him. In a flash, Angela saw a creature swipe the flower out from Gabriel’s hand and jump onto the desk. Angela stared into bright blue eyes that belonged to a grey, fuzzy face. The creature put the flower on the desk then barked.

“A husky!” Angela squealed. She picked the puppy up and hugged it tightly. The husky licked her face and she giggled.

“They were giving away puppies at the animal shelter for Christmas so I got you one,” Gabriel explained. “I remember overhearing you talking about Huskies being your favorite dog and luckily the animal shelter had some available.” Angela smiled at the man.

“Thank you, Gabriel,” she thanked before snuggling the pup some more.

“It’s a girl so name her whatever.” Angela thought about it for a moment and then clicked her tongue when a name came to mind.

“How about Carrie Ziegler Fisher?” Angela smiled and looked at Gabriel to see his reaction.

“Is Fisher and Ziegler her last name?” he asked.

“I guess you could say that,” she chuckled again.

“I like it. It rolls of the tongue,” he said. “Carrie Ziegler Fisher.” Angela smiled and then put the pup on the ground.

“How old is she?” the medic asked.

“20 weeks.”

“Oh my, she is really young,” Angela gasped.

“Yeah, it’s gonna take a while for her to get used to everything, but I’m sure you’ll have no problem with her.”

“Thank you. She’s a sweet girl.” Angela looked down at Carrie who had her tongue sticking out of the side of her mouth as her head was tilted. Angela reached down and scratched the husky behind the ear. “Good girl.”

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A few days later and it was officially New Year’s Eve. Everyone in the Overwatch HQ were standing outside, ready to watch the display of fireworks as they moved on into the New Year. Angela held Carrie in her arms while Gabriel had his arm around Angela’s waist. They sat on a bench in the front of the building. “I hope with this New Year, the ORM and Omnic Crisis will come to an end finally,” Angela breathed. Gabriel nodded.

“I hope so too. I kinda want retire from being Commander of Blackwatch,” Gabriel sighed. “It’s not that I don’t like my team or anything, it’s just that we do so much shady shit, I’m just not into it.” Gabriel looked down at the ground with a sad expression on his face. Angela used her hand that was not petting Carrie and turned his head to face her.