The Beginning Part 5

The Beginning part 5

Come nightfall in the desert, Kaaru is loading her gun as she smokes a cigarette, a serape draped around her shoulders that she bought, the pattern and color much like her father's except brand new and untorn. Jesse snores next to her, still fast asleep. 

She's ready to kick him.

"Jesse, get your ass up." She says, flicking his nose.

He groans and turns over.

"I said, get up." She says, rolling him into the still hot sand.

He jumps up and pouts at her, rubbing the hot sand off his singed arm and face.

"We gotta move." She says, getting up and flicking her cigarette into the sand, starting to collect her bags.

“What for? The sand is still hot and when the sand’s hot, the snakes are out.” He says, shivering at the thought of the animal.

She thinks for a minute, looking over the desert. 

“My father once taught me somethin about that. He and I had awful fears of snakes when I was little so when he took me on a campin trip out inta the desert, he showed me a snake nest. At nightfall, they all were borrowin inta the sand to keep warm. No snakes bothered us at dusk or all night.” She says. “And they won’t here neither. Them snakes are borrowin in for the night. And if we do happen upon one, I’ll shoot it before you can say “tickle me silly till i’m blue in the face, the checkered flag is mine i’ll win this race”.” She smiles at him and he stares.

“Was that a NASCAR reference?” He asks in disbelief.

“Yeah? What of it?” She asks as they start to walk.

“Nothin’.” He says, looking away from her.

She chuckles.

~storytime~

Mccree looks at the girl in absolute disbelief. 

“I’m sorry, what?!” He asks as Hanzo tries to process the information he was just given.

“My birth, I have to write a report on it.” She says. “It’s for the lowlife of an ape that calls himself a scientist.” She adds, letting her anger for Winston seep into the conversation.

“Why do I get the feelin you don’t like him much?” Mccree asks. 

“Oh I don’t. He’s a selfish asshole who wanted to and did experiments on me as a child. But only during my lessons with him and after he had me kill-” She suddenly stopped, unable to physically say anymore. 

Hanzo looks at her, his attention perked at the last thing she said.

“Finish that sentence.” He says but she shakes her head, mouth shut tight. “I order you to tell us what you were saying!” He shouts.

“I can’t! It’s against the rules! If I do tell you then you’ll remember too much when I leave! Once I disappear, all you remember is my code name and that I once existed but everything else goes away! You won’t remember who I am or what I’m doing here! You won’t even remember the things I’ve already told you! And if I break the rules the entire timeline will be broken! I won’t exist.” She says and Mccree puts a hand on Hanzo’s knee.

“Darlin, we better listen to her.” He says, convinced she’s telling the truth. 

“Why are you believing a child? She has no proof of any of this!” Hanzo scowls at him. 

“You didn’t believe me when I proposed.” Mccree says with a bland and upset face. “Or Genji when he said he forgave you.” He adds, making Hanzo back down. 

“Fine. But I won’t believe her until she gives definitive proof.” He says and she shrugs.

“Would this count?” She asks, two purple dragons in her lap growling at the men, summoned from her adrenaline spike. 

She hushes them as they glare at Hanzo the most. 

“Shinpaishinaide. Kore wa kakodesu. Sore ga otōsandesu. Kare wa tada konran shite imasu.” She says in hushed Japanese to the dragons. (Don't worry. This is the past. That is Otōsan. He is just confused.) 

Hanzo is astonished.

“You have dragon spirits.” He says, shaking his head slightly.

“Yes. They appeared two months ago on my first mission.” She says.

“How are you born?” Mccree asks.

“I don’t know. You’ve never talked about it.” She shrugs.

~reality~

“She has dragons?” Jesse asks. 

Karru nods. 

“Yes. But that’s not even the best part.” She smirks. “But that’s enough for now. I’ll tell you more in a few hours.” She adds, putting her serape on him as he shivers. “Keep ahold ah that for me.” She smiles.

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