Unlocking Mei's Secret

Mei managed to keep herself from running back to her room but It was a very fast walk if anyone saw her. Once inside she slammed the door shut, turned and slid down the metal in emotional agony. Tears began streaming down her face, salty droplets falling to her coat. Covering her face with her hands , she begins to remember the battle they just came from. The darkness surrounding her all over again. The bitter cold seeping into her bones causing her to scream as she remembers waking up over and over again as the machines malfunction on her and her team mates. She remembers hearing their screams of pain, the moans and cries as bones crack from the cryostasis liquid. The thrashing from others as the liquid filled the pod drowning them.

She lets her head fall back against the door as she looks up at the ceiling, sniffling softly. She hated having to use her cryo-freeze ability but she had no choice in today's battle. No choice in feeling the cold surrounding her again, but this time there was no darkness just bitter cold seeping in her bones. She was awake to see her ice wall fail from Junkrat's bombs giving Widowmaker a perfect shot. She could still clearly see the bullet lodged directly in the ice block she was in. Part of her begged the bullet to break through the ice, to give her release of the nightmares that plague her every single night since she had awoke from her cryostasis, but her heart refused to give into that plea. No, she would make sure that Angela and Fareeha would be safe and survive this hell.

Pulling herself back from the memory she looked down at her jacket with a was a large hole through one arm, and another larger hole through her shoulder. With a heavy sigh, she wipes her face and gets off the floor making her way to the bathroom. Once inside she begins stripping down to her soft ocean blue tank top, cringing as she sees the bruises forming on her skin. A soft beep catches her attention and she couldn't help but let her lips form an affectionate smile. She gives him a nod and lets her little friend begin spraying the healing mist that she made onto her shoulder. " Thank you, Dea." Her little friend vibrated happily as he continued to spray the soft blue mist.

While the little bot was busy healing her, she looked at her jacket. It was destroyed. She knew she wouldn't be able to fix it. Not with how the bullet tore through the cryo layer and the heat shield that she installed into it. She gripped the jacket tight as she felt a surge of anger wash over her. She watched as her knuckles began to turn white from the force of her grip. Suddenly she unleashed her anger and threw the jacket across the bathroom, screaming at it as the tears began falling down her face again. Her knees buckled as her mind pulled her back into the hellish flashback of the cryostasis tube. As she fell to the floor, her head hits the edge of the counter. Blood began pouring from the wound but Mei didn't notice. No, all she could feel and hear were her teammates screaming. Their faces changing from old faces to new ones, now all she heard were Angela, Fareeha and the others screaming at her. Their voices yelling at her to save them.

" Has anyone seen Mei?" Asked Angela as she looked around the infirmary, a soft frown on her face. She knew that the woman was injured. The scientist had taken not one but two of Widowmaker's bullets directly. The doctor remembered the fear that came over the scientist right before she placed herself in her cryo freeze. A fear that Angela had seen more times than she cares to count but she didn't get much more time to think about this for a high pitched chirping and beeping pulled her from her thoughts. Looking to the noise, she sees Mei's little robot flittering in front of her flapping it's little sides and spinning agitatedly. "Dea..what?" The little guy suddenly flew behind her and began pushing her towards the door. "Mei.." She whispered softly, her doctor's instincts finally kicking in.

Panic was flooding her system as she ran down the halls of the old base, her heart was hammering in her chest. She knew something was wrong, felt it deep in her bones. She had been watching Mei since she arrived at their little base a few months back, and couldn't help but want to get closer to the sweet, adorable little scientist. She was a breath of fresh air from all the soldiers that surrounded her constantly.

Arriving at Mei's room she tried to open the door but found it locked. " Damn it!" She hit the door then shook it but she still couldn't get it open."Mei!" Again and again she hits the door but nothing. Hearing a soft whirl, she sees Dea disappearing into an air shaft, but before the little bot could unlock the door a prosthetic arm came into view. Feeling a hand on her shoulder she looks over to see Fareeha with the same worried face as she had. " Step back." Angela moved back as Fareeha easily pushed the door open breaking the lock easily.

The Egyptian walked in first, scanning the room for both danger and the young Chinese scientist. Angela could tell the moment the chief's eyes found her. Angela wasted no time running to the unconscious woman on the bathroom floor. The doctor began quickly assessing the situation, her frown deepening with each scan she made. Angela sighed in relief when she managed to stop the bleeding but as she looked over the rest of Mei's body, she was struck at how many bruises there were. All over her arms, several running down her chest hiding from Angela's view by the tank top the young woman was wearing. The Swiss doctor reached out and pulled up the bottom of the cloth, gasping as she saw even more bruises across the soft body. " What?"

"So many bruises…" whispered Fareeha as she knelt next to the doctor. " Where did they come from?" She looks at Angela for an answer, but what she saw struck her hard. The doctor's eyes were filling with tears but then she saw the swiss clamp down on the emotions and enter doctor mode once again. " Quickly, Lift her up and help me take her to the infirmary. " Without question, Fareeha lifted the young woman but was surprised to be met with Satya at the door. The architect waved her hands in an elegance dance creating a portal before them. " Go, It leads to the infirmary. "

Fareeha didn't think twice and went straight through. Once she was in the infirmary, the former chief went straight to the closest med bed, laid the woman in her arms gently onto it and took a few steps back as Angela and Zenyatta rushed in to began working on Mei. As they took off the young lady's clothes, she tilted her head in a very avian move when she saw a small tattoo under Mei's hair line. It was a brief glance but she could've sworn she saw the eye of Horus with angel wings behind it. She was pulled from her thoughts when she heard a deep loud gasp.

" Ah Hell! What happened to Mei!" Mcree came in, eyes wide at seeing his little friend pale on the bed. He began walking up to the bed only to be stopped by Satya. " Shhh...Let them work. " The woman said as she provided the doctor and monk with the equipment they needed. The hard light architect may not agree with the climatologists' ideas all the time, but that did not mean she didn't respect the woman. She even would say that she considered the curvy woman a friend, glad she had followed her lovers urgings to get to know the woman.

Fareeha turns away from the bed, grabs Mcree by the arm and pulls him out of the room before he could disturb the healers anymore than he already had. Shoving him in a chair across from the door she dropped herself into the one next to him eyes watching the doctors moving around the woman. Her mind was in deep thought about the tattoo on the woman's neck plus the vision of her bleeding on the bathroom floor that she barely felt the nudge from the side. Shaking herself from her thoughts she looked over to Mcree.

"Well? Are you going to tell me what happened? " His eyes held the fire of anger in them. His cowboyish accent harder than normal. Why would he speak to her like? It was then she realized why they held such anger towards her. He thought she was the cause of what happened. She took a deep breath and lets out a soft sigh, leaning forward she stares back out the window. "I know just as much as you do, Jesse." Fareeha made a point in using his first name to let him know she meant no harm. " Dea came into the infirmary beeping madly. The next thing I know the doctor was running out of the infirmary and I followed. When I got there Angela was banging on the door trying to get in. So I broke the door open and found her unconscious in the bathroom…" Her body shivers remember the scene again. " bleeding and unconscious on the floor."

Another deep voice joins the two, it's soft soothing tone calming the cowboy instantly. "Ah, so it was you who had damaged Mei's door." Hanzo said as he walked up to the duo. " It would seem our little friend is having night terrors again." Fareeha frowned at his words, but Dea drew her attention for a moment. The little bot was trying to wiggle out of the archer's arms to get to Mei. It's little beeps and tweets sounding extremely upset. It managed to get loose only to be caught again by Hanzo. The bot let out a loud thrill that sounded very much like a huff.

" Damn…" Mcree said as he glanced through the large glass windows, watching as Satya began handing some hard light constructs to Zenyatta while Angela prepped the unconscious woman's shoulder. "Well, I suppose it's to be expected. " Tipping his hat over his eyes, he flips his cigar to the other corner of his mouth and wiggles a little in the chair getting comfortable while they waited for the doctors to finish working on their friend. Hanzo walks silently to the chair next to Mcree, sliding into it as he continued petting Dea slowly. " She used her Cryofreeze ability then." Mcree merely nodded, mumbling a soft uh huh. The men say nothing else and leave Fareeha to her thoughts, dangerous thoughts of a certain little scientist and doctor.

Fareeha thought about Hanzo's words for several long minutes. He didn't ask the question. No, he said those words as if there was secret meaning behind them. She looks through the large windows at Mei's soft form slowly regaining its color. What was the little scientist hiding? Her eyes move to the swiss doctor. She saw her pinching the bridge of her nose, then waved at Satya and Zenyatta saying something softly to them turned on her heels and went into her office. Fareeha watched as the two healers looked at each other, then walked towards the door.

The moment the two opened the door the trio stood up, but Dea zoomed from Hanzo's arms to get inside only to be caught in Zenyatta's quick fingers. " Not now, Dea. " The monk said softly but the bot didn't want to listen and tried his luck again only to be caught by the monks hand. The little bot huffed, and pouted. It turned it's little electronic eyes on Satya, trying to play the cute card but the lightmancer shook her head slowly. Her voice oddly tender compared to her normal stern and steady tone. " Dea, come… I'll set up your charging port for the night."

Fareeha watched the bot look back and forth from healer to healer then over to Mei. It gave a soft sad trill before floating over to Satya sadly. " You can see her in the morning." They heard the woman say softly as they walked down the hall to Mei's room. Fareeha looked back at Zenyatta about to ask what was going on when the monk looks to her, "May I suggest you speak with Dr. Ziegler." He turns his head to look at Mei for a moment then looks back at Fareeha. " Be open to what you hear, my friend." This made Fareeha cock an eyebrow at the Omnic but she had learned to trust him so he gave him a nod, quickly went inside to find to Angela's office.

As she reaches the door, she couldn't help but pause for a moment. Looking over her shoulder she spotted saw the small tattoo again. It called to her, made her want to lean in and kiss and nip at it. She wondered for a moment what Mei would sound like in the middle of passion. Would she be a screamer like her lover, or would she be more like herself? Only getting loud when extremely worked up.

" You see it too then." That sweet accented voice that welcomed her every morning for the past three years, washed over her tenderly. Fareeha turns to Angela's bright blue eyes looking at her questioningly. Fareeha nods slowly, as she pulls the doctor into her arms protectively. " Yes…" She said softly as she kisses the top of lover's head. " But what is more important at the moment is knowing what is wrong with her?" She hears Angela take a deep breath and sigh. The woman stepping out of her arms and walking towards the subject of their conversation.

" From what we have figured out, she was having a flashback when she hit her head and fell down. Physically she will be fine but...mentally I'm not so sure. No one has bothered to talk to her about her time in stasis. " Fareeha watched as she picked up the pad containing Mei's medical records. The doctor's thumb running over her fingers as if trying to flip a nonexistent coin, a nervous tick that the doctor had picked up while in medical school. " No one even bothered to give her a full psych evaluation." Angela gave a very unlady like snort as she continued speaking.

"Of course, they did a light eval on her but any doctor worth their salt would have seen something was wrong." Fareeha tried to interrupt her. "Angela…" But the swiss shook her head,blonde tresses moving over her shoulders lightly. She raised a hand up to keep her lover from saying anything else. " No, Fareeha, I should have seen it just as much as anyone. "

But the former chief was not going to let her lover wallow in self-pity. She wrapped her arms around the doctor and pulled her back into her chest. " Shhh...none of that. You see it now and that's what matters." She felt Angela bury her face into her chest, hands gripping her shirt tightly. The Raptora pilot knew that her lover was trying her damnedest to control her tears but the fear of losing a woman they had both fallen in love with was proving to be worse than loving her from afar.

" You know, Luvs, being happy isn't a crime especially in this day and age." The two women looked up to see Lena leaning against the doorway with a smug smile on her face, bangs flipping up as she blows them out of her off the door she zips to Mei's side, brushing a soft piece of dark hair away from her her words shock the two lovers. " To be lost in time is a lot like being frozen in time, you know? " Lena never takes her eyes off of Mei as she continues talking " You're alone, no one to speak to, but for Mei." The ex-pilot shakes her head sadly. " Mei ...Oh Mei had much worse...to wake up only to be put to sleep again. To hear her friends screaming in the pods next to her." Lena kept caressing her friend, a half smile on her face as she looked up at Angela and Fareeha. " Nightmares, we both have them. Me about the time right after the test flight and her...well, " She looks at the sleeping woman. " I'm sure if you two decide to pursue her, she'll tell you about them in a bit more detail than I did. " She leans over and kisses Mei's forehead, placing a small stuffed penguin on next to her. " See you at breakfast."

She turns to see Zarya and Satya waiting for her, a smile on their faces. "Like i said earlier," She zips to her lovers, kissing each one on the cheek. Grinning lovingly at Satya as the Indian woman pulled her back into her arms. "It isn't a crime to be happy." The same loving smile Lena had for Satya moved to Zarya. The Russian leaning down and kissing Lena tenderly, repeating it with Satya.

Once the kisses were done, Zarya looks at the two lovers her voice filled with love for the two extremely different women. " Some people are made to love more than just one person." The Russian's eyes fall on Fareeha, a smile spreading across her lips as the chief heard her own words shot back at her. "If anyone deserves happiness, it is Mei. It won't be easy but " Zarya looked at Lena and Satya with loving eyes, " it will be worth every moment." With that the three women left, leaving the doctor and security chief to decide their fate. Would they continue as before, hiding their feelings from the woman sleeping peacefully on the bed; or would they take a chance to bring her into their hearts.