Winter's solace

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New York:

Alyssa waved goodbye to her friends as she walked out of a small diner. She felt someone watching her but ignored it. She walked two blocks, taking a right then a left then a right again. She walked past her apartment building. He was still following her. She turned down an ally and slipped off Peter's jacket, revealing her white suit.

  "Why are you following me?" She asked

"So you are the white widow. Miss Romanov." The stalker replied in Russian.

    Alyssa tensed. Was this a red room agent?

   "I am my mother's daughter." She said in Russian.

  "Oh are you?"

She whipped around, running up the wall of the alley and dropping onto his shoulders. She flipped him on the back and kneeled on his throat. Leaning over, She grabbed Peter's jacket and threw it over herself. She let down her hair, leaving it in a ponytail.

  "Help!" She screamed, still kneeling on his neck.

She pulled out her tazer to make the altercation seem more mundane than it was. People came running.

  "He tried to attack me!" She screamed, putting on her innocent girl act.

   Two police officers walked through the crowd. One pulled her off of him while the other pulled him up off the ground and cuffed him.

  "Alyssa?" Peter yelled, rushing through the crowd with MJ in tow. "What happened."

  "I'll tell you later." She promised before returning to speaking to the officer.

She finished giving her statement and turned back to her boyfriend and girlfriend.

  "Can we go home?" She asked

Peter nodded and led the girls to the apartment. As soon as they were inside, Peter locked the door and turned to Alyssa.

"What happened."

"We can't stay here. Not tonight. Pack some clothes. Both of you. We're going to the compound." She replied

"What? Why?" MJ asked

"That man? He's a hydra agent. I don't know how long he's been watching me but by now he knows where we live. He knows who our friends are, where they work. Our families...oh my god! Dad! I've got to warn him."

Suddenly, a knock came at the door.

"Alyssa? You home? Peter?" Bucky's voice said urgently.

Alyssa ran to the door.

"Dad!" She said, pulling it open.

She tackled him into a hug and pulled him inside.

   "Is everything okay?" He asked "I got word of an attack in the alley behind the building."

   "Everything's fine. I just....sorta kind of got followed by a hydra agent." She said "I wasn't sure at first then he followed me into the alley and spoke Russian and-"

Bucky pulled Alyssa back into a hug.

  "Thank god, you're okay." He whispered "You're all okay."

  He pulled away from the hug.

"You need to go to the compound."

"We know." Peter said

"I've already got the bags packed." Mj said, reentering the room.

She had three bags.

  "I got you knife set packed." She said "Learning with them might be a good idea now." She said.

Alyssa nodded. The four left the building, headed to the compound.

  "What do they want?" MJ asked "Like why are they back?"

"I stole something from them. Years ago." Bucky explained as they entered the compound "They want it back."

  "What'd you steal?" Peter asked

"Me." Alyssa replied