What Comes Next(Ana)

Ana found him there, waiting for her. She walked over, and sat down next to him, resting her back against the wall.

"What's on your mind?" She asked, tilting her head to look up at him.

She had a pretty good idea though, with Jack's condition, as well as the condition of many of the team, and this operation as a whole. The whole situation was starting to spiral, and she worried what would happen to everyone here if it continued to do so.

He smiled when she sat next to him, leaning over to kiss her. He then nodded when she asked him what he was thinking about. "It's Jack..." Reinhardt said, his tone dejected. "He was leading this team, and pretty well. Now though, we don't know when he's going to wake up again." He let out a sigh. "One of us needs to take charge of the team...Mercy isn't really the leader type and we're the only other members of the original team here right now. None of the rest of them have what it takes to lead a team like this, so it's up to us. We have to lead Overwatch Ana..."

She smiled and kissed him back, but the smile faded quickly as she glanced in the direction of Jack's door. She wished they could make some actual progress in helping him but it was hard when they barely knew or understood what had even been done to him.

"I had intended to step up and temporarily take over as many of Jacks duties and command as possible." She put emphasis on 'temporary', Jack would be back to his old self eventually, she needed to believe that. Or at least keep telling herself that until she believed it. "It's what I always did before...it made sense..." She looked up at him.

"And I will need your help. It's not just Jack...it's all of this..." She gestured around her. "There's so much potential, so much talent here but it's not organized. It's not structured. This isn't a slick, organized team yet they're still being sent out like they are...and so many of them are just *kids*..." She had been around many of their ages when she'd started to fight against the Omnics in Egypt...yet this somehow felt different. "I don't know...what do you think?"

Reinhardt nodded. "You'll lead the team well, and I'll be right behind you all the way." It was when she started to talk about the team as a whole that he grew concerned. "We'll...we'll figure something out. We were young when we had to fight the Omnic, war's always affect the young it seems..." He remembered the things he'd seen and done to fight off the horde of Omnic. "This time though, the enemy is human too. We can't predict them as well..." He let out a long sigh. "We'll make it work, together. We'll get the team ready and we'll take down Talon. Together."

"It means that we need to be unpredictable as well, add our own human element." She mused.

"I know we're up against the clock here as well, but we desperately need to take some time to try to bring this group together before we keep trying to push ahead. We're down too many people and have gotten into too many hot situations recently." She shook her head, the medical bay was dealing with some pretty serious injuries lately, the sort people didn't just bounce back from. This wasn't a pace they could maintain if this wanted to win this.

"I want to take the time to talk to everyone. To hear their suggestions and concerns. I also want to introduce the newer members to some procedure and tactics like we used to use in the field...that's something I can use your help on." Anything that came to combat or surviving in the field, he was an excellent person to help with such things.

Reinhardt nodded. "We'll figure something out Ana. Hush is out with a team following a lead and Whiskey's always searching for more leads." He said, trying to be optimistic, when she suggested meeting with everyone he nodded. "That would be good for them, get everyone on the same page both skill and information wise. Perhaps we could also see if anyone has ideas of more members. We could always use the extra help, and there's bound to be someone that one of our team knows that we can try to recruit." He reached over and took her hand. "Just say the word and I'll do it."

"After they get back from this next mission I would like to keep everyone here for a while, just until we get things sorted a bit...there's no organization in chasing these leads and people are getting hurt because of it. We just...we don't have enough people right now for half our team to be in the med bay at any given time." She frowned.

"I am also all for recruiting...we can use all the help we can get. I would just like one of the two of us to be informed before new people show up...that we have the option to know a little bit about who they are first. Apparently we've had a few people just...somehow figure out where we are and show up at our door unannounced. And that's...a little unnerving if you stop and think about it." She looked up at him. "I know you've spent a lot of time out and around the last few years...is there anyone you would suggest?"

First, Reinhardt nodded. "We could use the time to recover and refocus. We haven't been working well as a whole team and we need to..." He paused and thought about it. "Plus, if we go quiet for a while, Talon might drop its guard. They've gotten used to us trying to get in their way that they may slip up if we don't..." He knew it wouldn't work, but he was hopeful. Then he shook his head, "no...I've been working alone all these years...I crossed paths with Romulus once but beyond that, I was alone. There's bound to be other heroes out there though. There's always heroes...aren't there?"