The Raven

COMING HOME - SIX

[Song Suggestion - Darkside by Neoni]

"It's your sister, She'd like to speak to you." Coulson gulps, Extending his palm out to hold the active comm for Sofia to take. 

No apology finds it's way from her burgundy lips as she slips the cold piece of plastic into her ear.

"Hi, Shadow." Natasha's calm tone does nothing to soothe the anger still boiling within her sisters veins.

"Let me speak to him." Sofia damn near growls, her sharp jaw clenched tight.

The sigh followed by momentary silence she receives causes her nostrils to flare, echoing her demand once more.

"Let me speak to Barton, сейчас !"
[Now]

"He wasn't there." Natasha's cringes as she hears the distinct sound of Sofia's sai shred through what she imagines to be a leather punching bag, the beads spraying the hardwood floors. "We have Loki, And we're bringing him in." Natasha finishes, ending her sisters outburst.

"He's still breathing?" Sofia seethes.

A warm feeling engulfing her entire body as she envisions splitting his tongue, A torture tactic proven to be quiet effective over the past year. Even once she has her Da safely returned to where he belongs, She has no plans to allow the man who dared try taking him from her to walk away alive. She'll hunt him all the way to the Raft and guy him within his cell — If she allows him to make it that far.

"We'll be there soon." Natasha tries to summon her Motherly tone, However after confronting Loki face to face she's beginning to lose hope in finding Clint herself. "мы найдем его, я обещаю."
[We'll find him, I promise.]

A loud roar of thunder nearly deafens Sofia as Natasha yells something inaudible on the other end of the comm.

"Natasha?!" Sofia shouts, panic swelling as her anger is replaced with fear for her sister's safety.

"Be there soon, семья навсегда." Natasha responds, causing a pit to take root in Sofia's stomach.
[Family is forever.]

Something's wrong.

If she were to never speak to her sister again, how would she feel if this were their last conversation?

"семья навсегда." She reluctantly spits out, unable to push her anger aside.
[Family is Forever.]

Sofia plucks the comm out from within her ear and shoves it into Coulson's open hand.

I wonder what color God's bleed.

"She'll get them back safely, Don't worry." He forces a smile, She studies the wrinkles gathered by his empty eyes and a bit of pity creeps across her chest.

"I should be out there with her." She huffs, slipping her Sai's into their respective holsters on either of her thighs. "If I were, Barton would be on his way here now."

"We all want Agent Barton to return safely, He wasn't with Loki. There's nothing you would have been able to do that the others couldn't." Despite using his most soothing tone of voice, He regrets his choice of words the second Sofia's mess of black curls flop to the side. Her eyes appearing to cut through his chest as an intense scowl takes root on her otherwise angelic face.

"Barton doesn't mean to the others what he does to me. And you know that nobody is willing to go to the same lengths as I am!" She stops a few inches shy of his face, the smell of sweat seeping from her glistening skin caused by her battle against the punching bag minutes prior wafting to his nose causing him to swallow thickly.