Bug Bites

Chapter | Twenty-Six

Yelena watched with Natasha as both Steve Rogers and Tony Stark went back and forth with what they needed to do about Lucas. They were currently tracking anything they could for the man, even sending his face through local and national databases but came up with nothing. Lucas was like a ghost, only seen when he wanted to be seen. A very dangerous ghost at that.

One of the teenagers, Adrien, had brought forth that they haven't been able to get in contact with one of the others who left the city without notice. It was enough to get Tony to start searching the videos of street camera throughout Paris when they did find a purchase of a plane ticket from New York to Paris on Luka's bank account.

"Lucas Valentino." Steve says the name, looking at the two widows in the room. "If you were in Marinette's shoes, would you kill him or arrest him?"

Yelena gave him a look, "Seriously?" Then looked at Natasha, "Does he not know about Dreykov?"

"Who?" Tony questions, looking at the redheaded assassin then back at Steve as F.R.I.D.A.Y ran facial recognition. "You realize that you just asked two assassins if they would kill someone right?"

Natasha just wanted to pinch the bridge of her nose and get these two to stop having a pissing contest. She may have wanted to keep some of her past a secret, but with Yelena saying things she shouldn't be it was proving to be difficult to do so. 

"He was the director of the Red Room." Natasha answers before Yelena cut her off. 

"She blew up a little girl thinking she killed Dreykov, said little girl was his daughter." Yelena tells the two, "Turns out she missed the targets and he continued the Red Room- chemically subjecting people's wills to his own. Lucas was part of the families involved in that as well."

Tony opened his mouth, then closed it. "Hold on a second, you blew a little girl up?"

"Not my proudest moment, I'll admit that." Natasha sighs and shakes her head, "Despite the point though. She lived as well as he did. He was a dangerous man who cared little about others. Lucas is no different than him, and the world would be a better place without him."

Steve was frowning and gave the red head a look, "I could have sworn I saw a file saying Dreykov was deceased."

"As of last year, yes." Yelena pipped in, "Natasha blew up his facility with help. I left to search around the world for other Widows still chemically subjected and then I met Marinette."

Tony was looking at Natasha as if it was his first time seeing her, "Yeah no more explosives for you. I didn't know you were a pyromania."

"I don't do it for fun Stark." Natasha quipped back, refocusing on Steve. "Lucas is the type of man who poses a threat. I don't disagree with Marinette's line of thoughts, but I also don't believe she should be the one to carry out his sentence. She's been through enough to change who she is for a life time, she doesn't need this added to her plate."

"I'll kill him." Yelena volunteered with a hand raised, "The kid has grown on me and he hurt her. I also understand how she feels because unlike Natasha, I was one of the ones chemically subjected to carry out missions for the Red Room. You're fully conscious but you don't know which part is you. I'm still not sure myself but I do know that the feeling of no control is not fun."

Natasha raised an eyebrow, "You know the last thing I expected was for you to adopted a teenager."

"Well what can I say? She's great with a sewing needles and baking." Yelena replies, but then she refocused on the topic at hand when she saw footage of Lucas shaking someones hand. "There's our guy."