Pink Mercy
Angela flushed at the costume she was now wearing.
How did she end up wearing this?
Oh, right.
It all started right after Mako had taken Wilhelmina the store to pick up some groceries (daddy-baby daughter bonding), as soon as the little one’s carseat was strapped into the sidecar and he drove off, Molly happily skipped over to her and handed her a bag, “Mum! Mum! I got you a dress! Try it on! Try it on!”
She had felt so touched by the gesture, but she had a feeling that something was off here.
Molly wasn’t much of a clothes shopper, she rarely bought them when on her own and when she did buy dresses, more often than not, she’d take a blade to them (yes, a blade, because god forbid she use something safer) and try to make them look ‘cool’. (Normally ruining them and requiring someone to hold on to a new dress until it was needed so she wouldn’t do it again)
But instead of bringing that up, she happily opened the bag and smiled.
Inside was a cute little black dress with a skirt that ended halfway down her thigh and a black cloth choker.
“Hana helped me pick it out for you!” she said cheerfully, violet eyes sparkling as she asked, “Do ya loike it?”
It was quite cute, although it was probably designed for a younger woman in mind. However, Hana often was all for the women of Overwatch being sexy at any age and Molly had very little fashion sense in general, so it made sense that Hana could convince Molly that it was fine for a woman in her forties to wear such a thing.
And it was cute...
“I love it!” she said, making her adopted daughter beam, “I’ll try it on right now!”
Molly bounced on her toes as they, (along with Bob who was curious as to what they were up to) rushed back to Angela and Mako’s room to try it on.
Angela had to admit as she looked in the mirror that it was quite a nice dress. Very flattering to her figure and it was comfy to boot.
Then again, Molly probably wouldn’t of shelled out any money for it if it wasn’t at least comfortable.
She stepped out and Molly ‘ooo’ed and ‘aaahh’ed and they gushed about the dress for a bit before Molly asked if she could play with her hair, “Hana taught me a new hairstyle fer Willi ‘n exchange tha’ I take a picture of all of us with it.”
“Even your father.”
“She said she’d pay me ta see Da’s hair loike this.”
“What kind of style is it?”
“Pigtails.” She said, her smile wide, “Get it?”
Angela chuckled and agreed as Molly pulled masses of colorful ribbons and travel brushes from her pockets and let her go first. Angela smiling as she brushed her Chäferli’s hair into pigtails, using purple and green ribbons to tie them up as Molly tied two red ribbons onto Bob’s floppy ears.
“Your turn!” She cried, Angela chuckling as they chatted more, Molly telling her all about the newest trends that Hana had told her about as she worked.
When she finished, they took a picture together on Molly’s phone and Molly tapped on it for a moment before looking at it, thoughtfully and excusing herself to go to the door and back with a package.
“Who is it for?” she asked.
“Me.” Molly replied, “But I don’ remember orderin’ nothin’.” She said, squinting at the label, “But this is th’ shop Hana ‘n I were at when we got yer dress...” she paused, “There was a contest goin’ on tha’ Hana ‘n I entered when we bought our stuff. Maybe I won?”
“When did you buy the dress?” Angela asked.
“Yesterday, but we was the last ones ta enter th’ drawin’.” Molly explained
“What was the prize?” she asked.
“A surproise based off yer purchase.” She said with a shrug.
The two of them looked at the box.
“We probably shouldn’t open it without knowing what it is.” Angela said.
“Yeah.” Molly said.
Less then five seconds later they were back in Angela and Mako’s room with packaging and fancy paper thrown aside as they admired a very revealing pink dress, pink ribbon gloves and silver hair accessory.
“Accordin’ ta th’ paper, Mum, ya put th’ pink dress overtop of th’ black one.” Molly said as she looked at the information that came with her prize (that explained how it went with the original purchase).
Angela quickly slipped it on top of the black dress and tied the pink ribbons attached to the neckline behind her neck and found it looked amazing together, not noting the silver hair accessory hovering over her head until Molly instructed her to sit down as she gathered some hair pins from her room (that she had to pick locks with) and carefully pinned it down as she tried on the gloves.
Molly stepped back as Angela admired herself in the mirror.
She looked fantastic in this outfit. Not that she could really go out looking like this, not with the ribbons on the back open like that...
“Hmmm...” Molly hummed thoughtfully, eyeing the outfit critically before smiling and running to her room and returning with a set of wings that were similar to the ones she had for her Valkerie suit, only they were pink and silver in color.
“Molly, what is that?”
“A failed attempt at floight.” she said before helping her put it on and tying the ribbons on the back.
“Perfect!” she said, giving her a thumbs up.
Angela looked in the mirror and was surprised to see that Molly was right, the whole outfit, wings included, was indeed, perfect.
She loved it!
Maybe she’d wear it for the next time she and Mako...
She heard the sound of a motorcycle coming closer.
Mako.
Mako was HOME WITH HER BABY GIRL AND SHE COULDN’T LET THEM SEE HER LIKE THIS AND FHDKLSFHLAF!!!
“Calm down, Mum!” Molly cried, immediately tugging on the ribbons in back and pulling the wings off as Angela began struggling to free herself from the ribbons on the gloves, “I’ll distract Da’ ‘n Willi while you get tha’ off, okay?” she offered as she swatted at her arms, trying to get her to focus on her words for a moment.
Angela gave her a grateful nod as Molly quickly slipped out of the room, Bob right behind her and she heard footsteps leading away from her door.
She closed her eyes and took deep breaths.
Molly was right, she needed to calm down. She had time to take this off and put it away before Mako came upstairs...
She heard a familar creek of the stairs under his foot.
don’t panic
don’t panic
Don’t panic
DON’T panic
DON’T PANICCCCCCC!!!!
“Angie? You in there?” He called.
“Yes!” she squeaked.
“Everythin’ okay?”
“Fine!” she blurted.
But despite her protest, she heard the doorknob turn and her face burn.
Ach nein...
Roadhog had come home with Willi strapped to his chest, a bag of groceries in his hand...
And silence.
Something was up. Normally Bob was already at his feet, Molly was running to him with a smile on her face and Angela was giggling in the background.
He walked into the kitchen and was about to call out to his wife and elder daughter, when he saw Molly smiling impishly at him from the kitchen table, her biological mother’s cheshire smile wide on her face, her dog and a duffel bag by her feet... And her hair in pigtails tied with ribbons?
What?
Well, that wasn’t something you saw everyday. Molly normally left her hair either down or in a simple ponytail. And she normally didn’t put ribbons in it.
“What’s with th’ hair?” he asked.
She shrugged, the cheshire smile gone, “Some toimes girls jus’ wanna have fun, Da’.” she replied simply before she put her bracelet down on the table and the groceries and the baby went flying in the air, “Speakin’ of fun, Hana, Bob ‘n I are goin’ ta have a sleep over at Ana ‘n Reinhardt’s ta watch Lúcio’s concert, Can I bring Willi too?” she asked as the baby plopped into her arms and the groceries were seemingly putting themselves away.
“Why would you bring her?” he asked.
“’Cause it’s cute watchin’ Reinhardt cooin’ over ‘er.” she said plainly, “’N Fareeha asked if I could bring ‘er so ‘er Mum wouldn’ bug ‘er ‘bout th’ ‘still waitin’ fer a grandchild’ thing.”
Ah.
“Foine by me, you ask yer Mum?”
“...”
“Molly?”
“No. But she’s koinda busy so I figured I wouldn’ bug ‘er ‘bout it.” she said, not making eye contact.
His eyes narrowed, “Busy with what?”
“... Hana helped me pick out a dress fer ‘er ‘n she’s tryin’ it on.” Molly said sheepishly.
His eyes narrowed at her tone before he said, “I’ll jus’ let ‘er know yer goin’ ta Ana ‘n Reinhardt’s then.”
Molly leapt to her feet, baby sister in hand as he walked up the steps, the two girls and Bob finally making it to the bottom of the steps as he reached the room he shared with his wife.
“Angie, you in there?”
“Yes!” she squeaked.
Okay, not normal.
“Everythin’ okay?” he asked.
“Fine!” she blurted.
No, it wasn’t. He turned the doorknob and opened it to...
“Angie?” He murmured, his face turning bright red and his ears were burning.
He had no idea what she was wearing. All he knew was that it was pink and that he liked it.
She looked a bit embarrassed to have been caught, “I was just trying this on...” she said.
“Yeah?” He managed. Her bashfulness dissolving as she realized how flustered he was.
Oh boy, he knew that look.
“So... what do you think?” she asked, more confident now.
What did he think? WHAT DID HE THINK?!
He turned to the little ones at the bottom of the steps, “Have fun at the sleepover.” He said before walking into his room to join his smiling, pink wife.
Molly had Wilhelmina cradled in one arm and her bracelet shining off her wrist beside Bob’s leash as she talked into her phone, “You were roight, Hana, worked loike a charm! It was so worth cheatin’ in tha’ contest ta get tha’ ‘fore ‘er! I figure in a few months there’ll be ‘nother little one ‘round ‘ere!”
She listened to the voice on the other end, a smile on her, “Yeah, ‘nother win fer team more babies!”
FYI team More Babies starts with Hana, Reinhardt and Molly, but the others are quick to jump in too. They get matching t-shirts to wear at the hospital whenever a little one is born. They also get ones for the parents that really only Junkrat and Genji wear in public. The rest of them have them in their closet and don’t really take them out to wear outside hospitals and usually they hide them until they get there.
Also, nine months after this, Ben was born, if his creator @the-inline-rex is okay with it.
Wilhelmina is @glampyra‘s and Molly and Bob are mine.
Mercy and Roadhog and Mercy’s awesome new Pink Mercy skin all belong to blizzard. (Although I totally bought it as soon as I could, it’s so awesome!)