Save Him One More Time: Phase 3

Chapter 17- In Which Problems Arise

"Olivia, I have them." Moira burst into the hotel room, triumphant. "The Russians are far too friendly for their own good. Led me straight to them. What do you know about someone called Aleksandra?"
Sombra typed something into her laptop with one hand, holding her book open with the other.
"The first Aleksandra that comes up is Aleksandra Zaryanova. She runs a safe house here." She turned the laptop so Moira could see and went back to reading. The scientist scrolled for a moment.
"Eureka." She turned the laptop back around to show a picture from the street.
"So you want me to scope out the place?"
"No. You're too obvious. They both know you and you can't stay hidden to save your life. I want Amelie out there, she's got that infrared visor and she can stay put."
"Fair enough. Do you want me to see if I can get into a nearby traffic cam?"
"You do that." Moira knocked on the bathroom door. "Amelie, hurry up. I have a job for you."

It had been decided. Angela and Gabriel would go with Jesse and Sam, back to America, but they would find somewhere to live in the Northeast. Ana wouldn't tell them what she was going to do, and Zarya said she wasn't going to let any of them back in for several years in case Talon came knocking.

"But first, dinner," Zarya insisted. "And you can set out in the morning before dawn."
Angela tried to protest.
"We've been here too long already," she said, "Moira will have found us by then."
"I'd like to see her get in here," Zarya laughed. "If she looks like you described I could break her like twig."
Angela gave in, but not without saying they had to leave as soon as possible and split up so Moira would have a harder time.
As they were sitting down to eat, Jesse, who'd gone outside to take a smoke, mentioned he'd seen someone.
"Sitting in a tree, watching the place," he said. "Looked like she'd been there awhile, her hands were blue." Gabriel and Angela stiffened.
"There's no way we're going to leave undetected," Ana said. "Widowmaker has an infrared visor. Unfortunately, our surroundings are not our friend right now. It's too cold to go aboveground. If we can go underground, though, we might stand a chance." Zarya shook her head.
"It will take days to tunnel to sewers." She looked around. "Days we do not have." She sighed. "Ana, do you still have your rifle?"
"Yes, although it hasn't been used in years. I can have it ready in a couple of hours, though. Was she in sight of a window, Jesse?"
"Sorta. The tree's at the corner of the building, so she's got both doors. I guess there's a door on the other side of the house," he added. Zarya nodded slowly, thinking.
"What about the other two sides of the house?" Angela asked. "Are there doors on those?" Zarya nodded and opened her mouth, but Gabriel interrupted her.
"The purple kid is definitely going to be there."
"Purple kid?" Ana frowned.
"Sombra," Angela corrected. "Purple hair."
"Oh."
"Well then how are we supposed to get out and get away?" Jesse took off his hat in frustration, cursing as he threw it on the ground. "The witch has eyes everywhere and we can't hide!"

"Hey, Moira. Do we have any food?" Sombra leaned back on the bed, away from her laptop.
"I don't know, check the refrigerator."
Sombra clambered off the bed and made her way to the minifridge.
"Moira, there's nothing in here except your nasty concoctions in bottles. I'm going to go get something to eat." She closed the fridge, and headed to the door. "You want anything?"
"If you can find some granola bars."
"Okay then." Sombra grabbed her bag and left the room.
In the elevator, she pulled out her phone and loaded a holo of Zarya's house.
"Right. I'm supposed to have these sides covered," she muttered, spinning the display. "So I can go in from..." She trailed off, calculating angles of sight and hoping Widowmaker's visor was off.
"Hey." She materialised next to Amelie, making her jump.
"Olivia. I've told you not to do that," she hissed. "What do you want?"
"I was just checking in. Moira's got me covering the other side of the building. Seen anything interesting?"
"They're having dinner. McCree came out for a smoke."
"McCree?"
"Cowboy."
"Oh, that's what his name is!"
"What did you think it was?"
"Jesse but I didn't know his last name." She snickered and added, "Last time I ran into him I called him Joel and he hated it." She stepped into her translocator again. "Call if you need me!"
The hacker materialized in an unfamiliar bedroom. Funny, she thought, this room doesn't have any windows. She shrugged and made her way downstairs, noticing several oddities in the walls that made her wonder if there were secret passages through the building. But she wasn't there to explore. She had someone to talk to, and she had to join the group before Amelie noticed her. A quiet glitching sound broke the silence and Sombra's vision grayed a bit. "Perfect," she whispered.
Once in the dining room, she watched for someone to leave, to provide her some cover. Specifically Gabriel or the doctor. And took note of all the plans they were making. Specifically, that they were going to zap Amelie with some kind of tranquilizer dart, and then Gabriel wanted to blast a hole in her head but the tall Russian -that must be Zarya- promptly vetoed that idea.
"No killing at my house," she said with a deep frown. Gabriel seemed a bit afraid of her, and Sombra held back a little chuckle. It took a couple of hours, but then Jesse decided he was tired and picked up his sleeping kid.
"I'm turnin' in. See you guys at the ungodly hours of the morning."
The old lady agreed with him. "Jesse's right. We've got an early morning and a hard fight ahead of us. We need to rest up." She too left the room. Zarya turned to Gabriel.
"Do you need me to show you your room again? Is a big house and is easy to get lost." Gabriel shook his head.
"Nah, I should be fine. Third floor, right?" Zarya nodded, and the doctor and Gabriel stood up to leave. Sombra sidled up close behind Gabe, holding her breath. She followed him as closely as she could without touching him. He knew she was there, she guessed; he kept turning around and looking behind him. He locked the door behind him when he got into his room, but Sombra had already slipped past him and stood next to his bed, disengaging her invisibility. He turned around and nearly fell over, recovering almost instantly and started throwing punches. She dodged him and ran around to the other side of the bed.
"Gabe, calm down. I'm not here to hurt you. Or catch you. Or whatever. I'm here on strictly friendly terms." He fired a shot at her.
"Gabe! Calm down! Do you want Zarya up in here to take your guns away?" He froze for a second.
"That's what I thought. Put the shotgun down, Gabe, and let's talk like civilized people."
"What do you want," he growled, lowering the gun.
"I want to get you out of here. All of you, if I can. I know what Moira's going to do to each and every one of you if she catches you." Sombra shook her head. "And I don't want her to do that again. Especially not to you, Gabe, you've had more than your share of this torture, this infierno en la tierra." She paused. "Also I don't like listening to you cry for days. Gets annoying." She held out a translocator. "Anyway, you and the doctor need to use this one. It'll take the both of you a couple of miles away and you can get a head start." He crossed his arms. "You're a double-crossing little $#&%. How do I know this isn't a trap?" She shrugged.
"You don't. But it's either shoot your way out of here, or shoot your way out of there, so I don't think you need to worry about a trap. Besides, it's not a trap. You'll appear on the side of a road, and you'll need to follow it west until you reach an abandoned Overwatch building. Once you're there, you'll be able to jet back across the Atlantic and get Joel back to North America."
"Joel?"
"Jesse. I call him Joel to annoy him."
"Why can't he just take his own jet back to North America? I've got a score to settle with a witch anyway."
Sombra shrugged. "I don't care what you do, I'm just letting you get out of here without dying." She turned invisible again. "I'll see you on that roadside tomorrow morning, Gabe. Bring your girlfriend."
"The $#&% you will!"
He tried to hit her, but he couldn't see her and she easily sidestepped him. She left the room, locking the door behind her.

"Hey, Joel, wake up."
He swung an arm out and whacked something hovering over his face.
"$#&%!" He jumped out of the bed and grabbed his pistol off the nightstand. "Who's there?"
"Ah, calm down, Joel, it's just me." Sombra appeared in a purple shimmer. Jesse trained his aim on her head.
"You better tell me why you're here right $#&% now or I'm gonna shoot you, don't care what Zarya says."
"Fair enough." Sombra held out a translocator. "Tomorrow morning, you, the kid, and the old lady need to use this. It'll take all three of you to a roadside a few miles from here. Follow that road east until you reach an abandoned Overwatch building. Gabriel and his girlfriend will meet you there."
"You're lying. You're gonna lead that evil doctor lady right to us. This is a trap."
"No it's not. Even if it was, you and Gabe could shoot your way out of capture from here or from there, so what's the difference? There's less collateral damage out there anyway. But it's not a trap so don't worry about it. I'll keep Moira off your trail for a few days, give you guys a breather. You can get back to America, the doctor can get back to Switzerland, Gabe can go wherever he wants, and the old lady can go somewhere too. You can all split up and then Moira won't find you all so easy."
Jesse lowered his gun. "I still don't trust you."
"Fair enough." She set the translocator on the bed, carefully reaching across Sam to set it down. "I'll see you on the roadside tomorrow morning."
"Oh, $#&% off."
She disappeared in a purple shimmer and left the room as silently as she'd come in, closing the door behind her.

"Sombra."
The hacker froze.
"Amelie."
"What were you doing in there?"
"Scoping out the place. Seeing what rooms they were in. Make it easier to attack them tomorrow night."
"Sombra." Amelie's tone was serious.
"They won't be there tomorrow night. You know that. They would have left today. They were preparing to. And then they didn't. Why not?"
"I don't know. I wasn't in there for that part. They're leaving day after tomorrow, they said so. When I got into the big room with all of them, that's what they were talking about."
"They're leaving in the morning, aren't they, Sombra?" Widowmaker laid her hand on Sombra's arm. "They're leaving tomorrow morning, early. Am I right?"
Sombra didn't answer.
"Am I right, Olivia?" The sniper's grip tightened on her arm. Sombra wrenched her arm away.
"Leave me alone! I'm telling Moira the information and she can plan the attack! You're supposed to be in your tree, staking out!"
"They saw me, didn't they? The cowboy, when he went outside to smoke. He saw me, told the others, and they didn't leave today as they had planned. Then you followed someone to their room and gave them something. And another room." Sombra felt a cold point in her back and heard a sharp click. Widowmaker's voice was as icy as the weather.
"You've betrayed us."

(My apologies that this took so long to get out. I ran into a massive writer's block in the middle of the chapter and then life caught up with me and I forgot about it. But I'm back, and I've figured out where I want to go with it so I will try not to disappear without warning again. The next chapter should be up in the next couple of weeks!
Thank you all so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you'll continue to enjoy it as I continue to upload!)