It's Forbidden

Understanding

Aspen was still sitting on the floor tied up. Watching Yelena. Talking to her. And she was still tied up. She looked down at her hands and legs and then back up at Yelena, who was looking at her.

Aspen held up her hands and showed Yelena that she was still tied up. She had completely forgotten she was even tied up until she had looked down at her hands and legs.

She could tell by Yelena's facial expression she had also forgotten that Aspen was tied up. She walked over and bent down next to her, she knew Aspen was no threat to her.

And she wasn't going to hurt her and she really wasn't even tryin to like really really kidnap her so there was no reason why Aspen should stay tied up. She only did that for the initial kidnapping part.

And even then she really didn't think she was actually kidnapping her because she was gonna give her back once everyone came, once Nat came. Natasha was really all that mattered to Yelena. She was her sister.

She bent down next to Aspen and untied her legs, her ankles first, dropping the bondages next to her, then she grabbed Aspen's wrists and she untied them. Dropping the bondages in the pile with the others and getting back up, going back to bed spot at the table.

She sat down at the table where she had been and she continued to eat her macaroni. Aspen stayed sitting in her corner. She rolled her ankles and wrists from the right knots that had been in them as she sat there.

"I didn't know Natasha had a sister." Aspen tells Yelena after they had sat in silence for a few minutes. Yelena scoffs and shakes her head. "I am offended." Yelena says. "She did not talk about she." She says.

"But I am her adoptive sister." Yelena tells Aspen. "But that does not matter she is my sister." Yelena says. Aspen completely got it. She was in the same situation with Steve. He was her brother, blood relation or not, he was her brother. Her family. "Blood or not." Yelena says.

"I know what you mean." Aspen tells Yelena. Yelena started to laugh at Aspen. She didn't know Aspen. She didn't know her story or anything about her life, so she didn't know that Aspen really knew exactly what she was talking about. She knew how she felt.

"You can't possibly know what I mean." Yelena says, continuing to laugh. "You do not know." Yelena tells Aspen. Aspen shakes her head, her face scrunched up. She looks at Yelena compassionately, sympathizing with her. "I do. I was adopted." Aspen tells Yelena.

"You were?" Yelena asks Aspen. She was surprised that she had something in common with this girl she randomly kidnapped to get her sister back. It was insane to think about. She found it crazy that there were actually similarities between the two of them.

"I was." Aspen tells her. She thinks about the whole ordeal. About how she found out. How recently she found out. Everything that happened leading up to her finding out. She didn't want to completely open up to this stranger, let alone a stranger that kidnapped her.

She found it insane that she was telling this woman all about her, but she was just so easy for her to talk to. She related to her. She felt that they had more in common than being adopted or having an adopted sibling. She felt that they were more alike than they both realized, and it was easy for her to talk to her.

She opened up to her. Even though everything in her told her not to, she was just so easy to talk to that she couldn't help it. "And I only recently found out." Aspen tells her. Yelena nods, taking in what Aspen had told her, part of Yelena thought Aspen was just lying to her to try and get on her good side for whatever reason.

She wanted to continue to ask questions, to see if she was telling the truth, but also to get to know her better, because she kidnapped her and she knew nothing about her, she didn't even know her name. She still didn't know her name, which she had to hold in a laugh about.

"Your parents told you?" Yelena asks Aspen. "My parents..." Aspen says slowly. Thinking about her parents. Both of her sets of parents. Both adoptive parents and biological parents. She tried not to get emotional thinking about it.

"No." She says. Referring to the question about her parents telling her. "My birth parents..." Aspen starts. "My boyfriend, Bucky and I...." Aspen continues. She didn't want to open up to Yelena. It was bogus. But she found herself opening up to her anyway, she just couldn't help herself.

"We were ordered to kill them when we were under mind control by a group called Hydra." Aspen tells Yelena. "And the people who adopted you?" Yelena asks. "They died a long time ago." Aspen tells Yelena. You had siblings?" Yelena asks. Referring to how Aspen had said she understood what Yelena had said about siblings and blood relation.

"I do." Aspen says. "One. My big brother. Steve." Aspen tells Yelena. "So you understand why I would do anything to see my sister again?" Yelena asks Aspen.

Aspen understood. When her and Bucky were lucid during everything they went through with Hydra, Aspen prayed for their rescue, for Bucky to at least get out of everything, but the one thing that was on the top of her list, if anything, along with Bucky, was that she would see Steve again. She just wanted to see her big brother.

"I know I went about it wrong, but she is my sister, so all that matters is her." Yelena tells Aspen. Aspen completely understood. She knew that Yelena went about it wrong, but she meant the best by it, it was to see her sister again. There were definitely other ways, but...Aspen still understood.