•VIII•

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St. Petersburg, Russia.

Yelena's POV

We arrived at Melina's farm being watched by the old widow.

"Honey, we're home" Alexei said when we were face to face with Melina.

We followed her into her hut.

"Welcome to my humble abode," said the woman walking confidently "Make yourselves at home. Let's have a drink."

Natasha followed her without taking an eye off her, while Luna and I took a seat in the dining room listening to the horrible sounds of Alexie in the bathroom.

"Let's drink." Melina said taking the bottle of vodka and pouring each of us a drink.

"Uh," Alexie came out of the bathroom posing like an idiot "Still fits."

"Oh my God" I whispered turning my head away from the Russian.

"Can you get any more ridiculous?" Luna  said looking at him with disgust.

We were all sitting in the dining room looking at the Russian playing the fool.

"The family," Alexei said, looking at Melina, then turned his gaze to Luna "And an aggressive guest, reunited again."

Luna smiled wryly, showing him her middle finger.

"Seeing as our family construct was just a calculated ruse that only lasted three years," Melina commented coolly "I don't think that we can use this term anymore, can we?"

"Agreed." Natasha said bluntly " So, here's what's gonna happen..."

"Okay," the supersoldier interrupted her, reaching across the table for a tupperware "A reunion then? I want to say something right off the bat."

Luna denied exhausted from listening to Alexei's voice and I looked at Melina asking her with my eyes to shut him up.

"You haven't aged a day," the Russian said to the scientist "You're just as beautiful and as supple as the day they staged our marriage."

Luna and I looked at each other with disgust and seconds later we both drank our vodka without leaving a drop.

"You got fat," Melina replied, "But still good."

I wanted this to stop right now. I have enough traumatic memories, I don't need any more.

"Please don't do that," Natasha asked, as disgusted as we were "So, here's what's gonna happen..."

"Natasha," Melina interrupted her "Don't slouch."

"I'm not slouching" the redhead defended herself.

"Yes, yes, you are." Melina argued "You're going to get a back hunch."

"Listen to your mother" Alexei said.

"God," Natasha despaired, "All right, enough. All of you."

All of us?

"I didn't say anything," I complained "That's not fair."

Luna looked more and more annoyed with everyone at the table, she was fed up of sharing space with these idiots, as I was.

"Here's what's gonna happen..." the redhead kept trying to explain.

Melina kept insisting on putting things on my plate, when I just wanted to drink.

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