The russian one

Chapiter 20 : Not again

Nat's POV

It's been 2 weeks since the meeting with Fury. I'm worried about Y/n's behavior, it hasn't changed a bit. She wanders around the complex without emotions, without talking to anyone. She just stares into the void. No one knows what's going on with her and it's affecting our whole team. Tony and Steve are very concerned, I know they were very close to her, she used to spend a lot of time in the lab with Tony but not anymore, she used to go running with Steve all the time, not anymore. Clint seriously misses being able to make fun of her. Even Bruce shows concern from time to time. Good thing Thor isn't here right now but it seems to me he's coming in today. We definitely need to find a way to make her like she used to be. For the moment we are all in a total incomprehension.

I'm heading to the gym now, we're going to resume training with Y/n. Maybe I'll manage to trigger something in her.

So I get to the gym and I see Y/n already warming up. So I started to warm up too. After 30 min I called her to fight. She goes up to the ring and puts herself in position, I do the same. We start to fight and her movements are good but very mechanical. It looks like choreography that she would have been taught and that she would be repeating. She doesn't implement everything I've taught her so far.

"Y/n? What are you doing? Fight hard, give it your all!" I said. I felt her put more strength in her blows but that's all.

I decided then to put her on the ground. I find myself above her, I maintain her hands above her head and look her in the eyes. Her eyes are all black instead of her original color and it really looks like she's not there. She wasn't even struggling to get out of my embrace. Usually I would have liked this position but now I don't even think about it.

"Aren't you trying to get out of my grip?" I then ask her. She moved a little, tried to get up but in vain. I then violently tackled her hands to the ground and held her tight.

"Y/N! WAKE UP! DAMN IT" I shouted to her. I saw then a flash in her eyes, they quickly took back their natural color but became black again right after. It seemed to me that they were now even blacker than before.

"What the -" I could say before I went flying to the other side of the ring. I then got up and saw Y/n who now seemed to be pissed off.

Maybe she just needs help getting out of there.

"Well then? What are you waiting for? Are you afraid or what?" her face hardened and she charged at me. She threw a punch that I parried with my forearms but I lost my balance anyway. She put way too much force into that punch. She needed to let off steam.

"Clint!" I shouted then, knowing he was watching us, as was the rest of the team.

"Nat?"

"Doesn't anybody interfere okay?"

"What? Are you sure?" he asked, unsure.

"Yes." I looked at them all one by one, first Clint, then Steve, then Bruce, then Tony, then Maria to show them that I meant my words and that no one should interfere. I rested my gaze on Y/n. And started the fight.

"Ready to get slaughtered? Y/n?" I asked her with a smirk. I have to provoke her if I want my plan to work.

Avengers' POV

"What's she doing?" Clint asked, but got no answer from anyone. Everyone was asking the same question. It was clear to everyone that Y/n was not in her right mind and that Nat would get beaten up so why was she provoking her?