A Romanogers Story

Chapter 34

Natasha was dreading this day. She had heard rumors that The Red Guardian had been injected with some sort of super soldier serum. She often wondered how she could defeat him.

"We're here." Phil stopped the car and informed all agents. Natasha was deep in her thoughts. "Natasha? We're here." Natasha's trail of thought had been broken and she was now focused.

"Natasha... Romanoff, is it? I remember that name. You were the one who escaped the night I was to take you out to dinner." A horse voice with a low growl had spoken fron the shadows. A large figure stepped out and glared. "Natasha. Why?" It was The Red Guardian.
"I didn't want to have my life torn apart anymore. I didn't want to be tortured anymore and the night I escaped, you didn't care. So why care now?" Natasha was almost shouting at him.
"I care now, because I have cared ever since!" The monster was shouting too.
"Jacob, I'm sorry. What about all the other girls like me? Trained and tortured like me? Why care so much, about me?" Natasha was glaring back.
"There are no girls like you, Natalia..." The Red Guardian said something in Russian.
Natasha replied, in Russian.
"I know you are here to defeat me, but I can let you walk free unharmed and say I am defeated. I will let you take me away to your base and not cause any harm. But only if you come back to me. Please, Natalia." The Red Guardian's voice was softer and quieter now.
"No, Jacob. I am married now and have a fifteen year old son, who I'd rather be with right now, than being with anyone else or anywhere else. I was happy living my life, okay? I felt happiness and love in my life, until I was dragged here for a mission and to defeat you! I should get it over and done with, but I would much rather talk it out, because yes, I used to have feelings for you, but then I watched you torture an innocent man. You were the reason I escaped." The room fell in silence and her last word echoed a little. She lowered her voice and said, "Please, Jacob. I don't want to hurt you."
"Kill me. I am your mission." The Red Guardian looked at Natasha's gun. She raised it, aiming it at him. She shut her eyes and pulled the trigger. Jacob was knocked over with a hole in his chest, overflowing with blood. Every agent, and Coulson, heard the whole conversation.
"I'm so sorry, Jacob. You brought it upon yourself." Natasha walked away. Mission accomplished.