Pain Is Power

12: Storm

Natashas pov
Not having Amalia in the bedroom was weird. Her bed was perfectly made untouched for days. And despite the fact she never really talked to me it was quieter than ever. Normally I would hear the faint humming from her or the typing on the laptop as she coded some things for her father. I even miss being insulated as we fight over the mirror in the bathroom. 

There was no noise and it. Was unsettling I tried to fill it with the radio but they play the same four songs on a loop and no one wants that. It gets boring the second time around.

Laying there wide awake looking up at the ceiling I hear footsteps in the hall. I listen closely to work out who they were. Clint...Steve... Sam. I frowned where were they going. A few minutes later my door slowly opened. I didn't hear footsteps so it Surprised me and I sat up reaching for my gun that was under my pillow. "Shh," Amelia tells me holding her hands up so I didn't shot. "You scared me." I scolded her. "Get dressed." So tells me going to the closest and pulling out our suits. They were extremely similar on the belts mine had the black widow symbol and here's had the famous 'A'.

"What's happening?" "I told you to shush." She whispered clearly annoyed. She stripped off and changed in front of me and I followed suit. I pushed my feet into my boots and then followed her out. We were creeping around like we didn't live here it felt weird. We walked past the meeting room and everyone e was in there. I see my sisters picture up on the screen as Fury spoke to them about. The mission. I felt a hand on my wrist and then a soft tug. I meet her comforting brown eyes. "It's going to be okay," she whispered to me as she pulled me along.

We got in her car and she began to drive not saying much of anything. 30 minutes in I finally pluck up the courage to ask her why we were sneaking out in the middle of the night and why the rest of the team were having a secret meeting without us. "What's going on?" "You know what's going on, why ask such a dumb question?" She snarked back as she took a sharp left. "Actually I have no clue what's going on," I remark. "They're gong after Yelena in the morning. They've located her." "Why not send her a text." "They're tracking her phone." "So what are we doing?" "Warning her." "What are the others going to say when they realise we're not there?" "Who said we're not at the compound?" She asked with a smirk. "What did you do?" "You ask a lot of questions." "What did you do?" "Reality stone. I can manipulate what they see... we'll be in-ring fighting each other from the crack of dawn." "How do you know. It's going to work? Have you tried to use them from so far away before?" "No, but will you have a bit of faith? If it doesn't work I've trained  Morgan to tell Peppa we left screaming at each other." She has really. Thought of everything.

"Where is she?" "Back inNew York." "Why would she come back here?" "Beats me. I thought she was smarter than this." She shrugged before yawning. "Do you want me to drive?" "No. I yawned I didn't fall asleep at the wheel."

We fall back into silence. "You're thinking too loud and I can't concentrate." She tells me breaking the silence. "I'm worried about my sister." "Why start now?" "I have always cared about her." "Have you?" "I made a mistake when are you going to stop throwing it back in my face." I snapped at her. "When you go back in time and be there for your sister." "Well unfortunately I can't do that." "Then I guess you have your answer." "I don't throw your mistakes in your face." "Actually you do. Every chance you get you remind me that I couldn't save my sister. You bring my past up just as frequently as I bring yours up." "Then maybe we should both stop doing that." "Why? I did nothing wrong. I stayed by my sister's side and I fought for her until the end. You ran away like the coward you are. You have every man for themselves mentality and you can't do that when you have a family. Especially not when you have a sister who needs you to be there for them." "I needed to get out that place was killing me." "It was killing us all!" She raised her voice. "You gave in to them. We didn't we had to actually go through it day in day out. You absentmindedly went through the motions not having control over your actions. We physically fought that off so we didn't do something our parents would be disgusted of." "Disgusted? You're disgusted by my actions?" "You're a murder." "Newsflash so is your dad sweet cheeks. He's killed too." "He's killed for the sake of good you killed a child." "How do you... I." "I read it in a file when. I was searching for a way out. I was looking for blueprints. A bomb? Really? She was a kid." I swallowed. The lump in my throat. "I thought it would end everyone's suffering. "Well, it didn't it turned her into a mind-controlled robot too so congratulations you fucked someone else's life up." "You think I ruined your life? Your mum did that. She signed you over to them." "I never said you ruined my life." She remarked putting her foot down and speeding. "And don't talk about my mum ever again. You have no right to do so."