Marvel Universe Imagines

Just come home {Part One} ~Natasha Romanoff~

Featuring: They/Them Y/N
Love interest (if any): Natasha Romanoff
Warnings: angst, abuse (sort of), swears
Summary: A year ago, Y/N was kidnapped by Strucker. He and Hydra tried to brainwash them but it didn't work. They didn't know that anyways. Flash forward a year from then, and Tony finds a lead on Y/N's whereabouts, and of course, goes straight to Nat to tell her.
Word count: 720

Natasha paces back and forth in the kitchen, shaking her hands up and down, breathing heavily. "It's ok Nat. It's fine. You can do this. Just try not to think about it." She repeats these phrases, hoping they were true. She sat down at the kitchen table, holding her head in her hands. Tony walks into the room. "Hey Nat- Are you ok?" He asks. She looks up from the table her eyelids brimming with tears. "Yeah, it's just- it's the one year anniversary of when Y/N was kidnapped." She looked back down and his face fell, realizing what she was talking about. A tear falls down her cheek as she whispers under her breath, as if Y/N could hear her, "Just come home..."

One year before, right after Y/N was taken:

They woke up in a dark room, sitting in a chair, their feet bound together at the ankles and their hands tied together at the wrists. There was a gag in their mouth and the room reeked of some type of chemical. They spit it out and screamed into the darkness, "Hey assholes! Come interrogate me before I escape!" A door opens, and a light turns on. Y/N squints their eyes at the blinding lights. Once they adjust, they say two two men that they didn't recognize walking into the room. One of them says to the other, "Thank you for bringing them here. They will be most helpful." The man he was talking to nods, and turns around and walks back out the door. "Hello there, Y/N." He says. They spit back at him, "Who are you and what do you want?" He laughs lightly. "I am known as the one and only Baron Strucker, and I want you." He grins evilly.

"Yeah, we'll, sorry to burst your bubble lover-boy but you're not exactly my type." They say, and Strucker smacks them across the face saying, "Enough with the wisecracks." He stands up from Y/N's level. "I will be experimenting on you. And you will, join our forces against the Avengers albid with another one of our tests." They laugh. "As if I'd ever agree to that. Go up against my girlfriend, friends and family? You're insane." He grins. They get a little suspicious. "Why are you smiling...?" He take a small vial out of his pocket and puts a needle in the top. "I may be insane, but I never said you have to agree." He creeps closer to you. "Stay still. It usually hurts a lot less if you do." He stabs the vial into Y/N's neck and they scream in pain, before finally and slowly shutting their eyes.

Back to present day, Nat POV:

Tony walks over to her seat at the table and sits next to her. He places his hand on her shoulder and says, "Do you want to talk about it?" She pushes his hand off, and says uncomfortably, "N-Not really. I kinda just want to be alone." She gets up out of her chair and turns to walk out the door when Tony stops her. "Actually, we have a mission. And a lead on Y/N." Nat whirls around to face him. He continues on. "We found an encrypted file in some of Hydra's databases, but the only mentions of it are that an actual paper file, so we'd have to go to them to get it. We're expecting to see the Winter Soldier and his accomplice, the Scorpion. I was already going to tell you about the file part and I didn't want to stress you out with the mission. But, you know, if it'll take your mind off of Y/N, you're free to come." She smiles at him and says, "Let's go get that file." As they both ran in different directions to get ready for the mission.