Smells Like Teen Spirit
15th july 1997, Cuba
Costia was seven years old when she learned the world was not going to be easy on her. But she didn't think it was gonna be this hard.
"Let me go, I want my mom!" the 11 year old Costia begged as two guards were dragging her inside a plane. She wanted to go back to her 'mother', she wanted nothing more than to have her little family back. It wasn't real, but Costia was too young to actually notice.
She got cuffed and watched the two men who dragged her inside walk out of the plane, leaving her alone with her thoughts. Costia sat there in silence, tears running down her face. She was so confused and afraid of what might happen to her.
After a while she heard a plane land and voices from the outside. Costia tried with all her strength to stand up to look out of the small window, but with her little hands and legs in cuffs she didn't have a chance.
She heard voices from the outside, but they were too quiet for Costia to understand. So she just continued to sit there in the plane, waiting for something to happen. Her mind kept wandering back to her 'mother'. Where was she? Was she okay?
"Daddy!" she heard someone scream, she sounded like a little girl. "Yelena! Get away from her! Don't touch her! Я буду стрелять! Don't touch her! I will kill you all! Я буду стрелять! Не трогай ее!"(I will shoot, I will shoot, don't touch her) she heard another girl scream, she sounded very upset.
"You need to hand me that gun." a male voice said in a calming tone, he was talking in a tone almost inaudible for Costia.
"I wanna go back there. I wanna stay in Ohio. You can't take her, you can't. She's only six." the girl said shaky, Costia assumed she was crying.
She understood the girl, the girl who was crying for a normal life.
"You were even younger. It's okay, come here. You're gonna be alright, do you know why it's gonna be alright? 'Cause you're the toughest girls in the world. You're gonna take care of each other, okay? And everything's gonna be fine." Costia heard the man say and shortly after the two guards who carried Costia inside brought two unconscious girls in the plane.
The doors of the plane got closed and it was silent again. One girl was smaller than the other one and had blonde waved hair, she looked so peaceful laying there. The other girl had dyed hair, the same as Costia.
Her hair was in a light blue tone in contrast to Costia, she had bright red her which ended right under her shoulders.
After what felt like forever one of the girls woke up, the plane was flying now. "вы двое в порядке?"(Are you two okay?) Costia asked unsure when the girl with blue hair turned to her. Costia was from Russia, but grew up in Chicago because she was taken away from her family when she was seven years old.
She had agents as parents, same as the two girls in front of her and they taught her Russian, they said it would help her. Back then she didn't understand it.
The two girls fell into a conversation about what was happening, the blue haired girl seemed to know a little more. She told Costia about a place where her parents came from and where she was before.
Later on the other girl, called Yelena as Costia learned, woke up too and joined their conversation. She was far more afraid than the others were, she was also younger.
The girl with blue hair, who introduced herself as Natalia, told Costia the same thing she told the woman at the airport; pain only makes you stronger.
Costia didn't believe her, how could she? She felt so much pain when she got taken away from her home, from everything she had. That didn't make her stronger, it just caused a feeling of a knife in her stomach everytime she thought about the life she couldn't have. The happy life she could have had. The happy life that was taken from her. That didn't make her stronger.
After a few more hours they landed next to a big hall along with other planes. The girls saw more and more planes arriving through the small windows of the plane.
Suddenly the doors of the planes got opened by guards and everyone was dragged out of the planes and into containers. Costias' cuffs got removed and the three girls got in a container with eleven other girls, in every single face they looked they saw terror and panic.
The containers got closed and for hours the girls sat in the dark, a slick silence above their heads because everyone was too afraid to talk. Just the sound of crying filled the air. One of them would whisper for their mom, but the others would tell them to shut up, all of them were afraid, terrified.
The containers got opened and many men with guns were standing everywhere. Everyone screamed in fear and was crying for help. All the girls got checked to be either transported to some place called Red Room or be executed, it was a complete mess.
Natalia, Yelena and Costia walked out of the container they were trapped in for hours and the wave of fear from all the other girls around hit them immediately.
Natalia and Costia got separated from Yelena but Natalia managed to give Yelena something that looked like a picture. Natalia and Costia found themselves standing in front of a man who looked at them in a way they did not understand yet, he looked proud and like he was expecting something.
"The Red Room is your home now." The man said to Natalia and Costia, and the next moment both of them got dragged to another plane, but before they could see something else every girl in the plane got stunned.
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17th july 1997, Red Room
Costia woke up in a small room, tied to a wooden bunk bed she was laying on, her bed. She looked under it, she saw Yelena laying there, still unconscious. She looked around in the small room seeing six other bunk beds and it seemed like she was the first one awake.
"Are you okay?" she heard Natalia's voice coming from the bunk bed next to her. "Oh, hey. Yeah." Costia smiled, Natalia's bed was right next to hers. The two of them started talking again, the other girls, including Yelena, joined them when they woke up.
None of them had an idea of what was happening, everyone except Natalia and Costia. It's not like they knew everything, but they were special, special to the Red Room.
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13th september 1997, Red Room
"We've been here since when? Two months? Nat, that can't be it, that can't be the reason they brought us here." Costia said, sitting on one bed with Natalia.
"I get what you're saying Cos, really. I mean they had guns and all that stuff but we can't do anything anyways. Don't think about it too much."
Two more days passed and the girls were brought to a big room where around twenty other girls were already waiting. Everyone was in order and with straightened backs.
"я мистер Dreykov." (I am mister Dreykov.) the man in the room started talking after around fifty more girls arrived. "это мадам B." (This is madam B) he pointed to the women next to him, "Это будет комната, в которой вы будете проводить большую часть своего будущего времени. Вы начнете тренироваться прямо сейчас." (This will be the room where you'll spend most of your future time. You will start to train now) he said and the air got filled with questions.
"I see you wonder what you're going to train." Madam B said after Dreykov left the room, everyone fell silent again.
"You'll learn to fight and kill, to be an assassin and spy. If you're not good enough, you'll die. At the end ten of you will graduate."
Now everyone was silent and had a terrified look on their face, even though some of them expected something like this would happen. Some of the girls in the room had agents as parents, same as Natalia and Costia.
"Let's start."
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What The Shadows Hide ~ Natasha x female OC.
Fanfiction- This is not edited, it's a first draft. I wrote it with 13. Hereby you are warned. - Everybody has a chapter of their story they don't want others to read. (Costia has a whole book) - Costia was raised to be a killer among other girls, one of the...
