No Tears | NR

Chapter 21 - Part 2: Ambrosia

British Columbia, Canada

TW: war, human experimentation (torture)

"Hey there."

Yara stared at the woman in front of her with a grin, trying to hide her surprise. "Told you that you would find me." It wasn't the fact that the woman had found her that surprised her, but it was the fact that she had come here so soon. She had figured that Natasha would stay with her superhero friends a little longer, especially after just breaking them out of prison.

Natasha smiled in response. Yara suddenly realized that she should probably invite the redhead in. It was freezing cold outside and the air made her shiver in her hoodie and sweatpants. So she stepped aside and gestured to the Avenger to come in. After Natasha had taken her boots off and Yara had taken her coat, they walked over to the table where they sat down.

"How have you been?", Natasha spoke up first.

"Alright. And you? I saw on TV that you were busy..."

Natasha nodded and smiled. "Yeah."

Yara glanced up at the former redhead's hair. "New haircut?"

It was meant as more of a statement rather than a question, but the Avenger still replied. "Yap. Red stands out more than blonde."

Yara nodded and looked down to see the plate of food, she had prepared earlier, sitting on the table in front of her. "You hungry?" The brunette didn't wait for a reply and pushed the plate with the silverware over to Natasha. "Coffee?" This time, she waited for the newly blonde to reply with a short nod. Then, she got up and started preparing a second cup of coffee for the former assassin.

Once she was done, she sat the hot drink down on the table next to Natasha and took her seat across from the blonde again. Nobody spoke a word while Natasha ate and Yara nipped on her coffee which wasn't very hot anymore.

Both women were quiet people out of habit and necessity. While Natasha was an assassin and a spy which meant that being silent was part of her job description, Yara had needed years to learn the importance of it. For someone in her position, it was crucial to stay lowkey and not be noticed unless she wanted to get herself caught and become a lab rat. Therefore, the silence felt almost natural to both women.

It was only when Natasha got done with breakfast that the silence was broken. Yara who had been waiting for the blonde to finish quickly got up and snatched the dirty plate and silverware away from Natasha before the latter could object out of a sense of politeness and the need to help. She put them into her dishwasher and was about to get her own empty mug as well when she felt someone standing at her side. Natasha had grabbed the mug and had brought it over to her. When Yara looked up, she found a smug smirk grazing the blonde's lips.

Once everything was cleaned up, Yara showed Natasha to a spare bedroom that was located right next to her own one and a bathroom that they would have to share. The house was very small and only had one bathroom with a shower. Before Yara left to give Natasha her privacy, she told the blonde that she would be out of the house for a few hours to go to the ski resort. She added that she had left her cellphone number on the table in case of an emergency. 

With that, Yara left to get ready and drive to the resort.

By the time that noon came around, Yara had almost forgotten that she had a visitor at her house. She was fairly certain that she had found all slopes there were, so she had resorted to exploring other, less accessible areas of the mountains. She had to use more dangerous ways to get there since there were no official slopes in those parts of the mountains. But in her opinion, it was absolutely worth it.