In the end, it's only us (Natasha x reader

A life for a life

Y/n pov

"She's down there, i can hear her" i say, pointing down another corridor that goes slightly up instead of down. She takes my arm before i can continue walking down.

"Just be careful, i would like to have a whole wife, not just a part of her" she says and i smile at her. The first genuine smile i've given her in hours. Because she still wants to marry me, after everything i've put her through. Maybe that's how i won't lose her.

"I'll be careful"

"See you when we get out?" she says it more as a question than a 'see you later'.

"Just get Wanda" i say and continue running down, further down into the bunker. To the lab, the same lab where i was strapped down for... i don't know how long. It's all a blur. My own prison cell. And there is it, the bed, the desks. There in the corner is still covered in dried blood and there is the burnmark from one of my escape tires. Another burnmark in my cell further in where i burned the files on me so that no one would know the things i went through. As i see where everything started, the fighting earlier seems like such a small problem. This is where i was before i flew to Russia, to her. I understand now why she wants to turn. Because she has the same fear as me, the fear of being alone. But it's just...

"Are you going to stand there in the shadows and watch me forever?" i ask right out, hearing a man's breathing and his heartbeat. But also a weaker beat, like someone's sleeping. A smaller heart.

"I wanted to give you time to take it all in" he answers and i stiffen at how familiar his voice sounds. "I thought i'd help out a little" but that's impossible, because he's dead. I had made sure of that.

"What could you possibly help me with?" i ask, turning around. Seeing the man standing there, with something in a blanket. I just stare at it when i realise what... who it is. "Is that Diana's baby?"

"Isn't he lovely?" he says, rocking the baby boy in his arms. I have a great grandson. But just the sight of the man disgusts me. "You wanna take him or should i keep him, i think he'll be a great asset to us"

"Why are you helping me? You should hate me" i say as he takes a few steps forward.

"To repay a debt of my grandfather"

"You're Florian's grandson?" I remember how i'd helped him escape Hydra back in 68', because he'd been nice to me in the cells.

"And with this, that debt is gone. A life for a life" he says, obviously not knowing that i had revoked that debt when i found him years later and killed him. Because no one could know where i was from.

"He would be very disappointed in you, especially after what it had cost him to get away" he is standing right in front of me. Close enough for me to take the baby from his hands.

"On the contrary, Miss Barnes, he would be proud" he carefully hands over the sleeping baby into my arms. "Now get out of here before i have a change of heart"

I do as he says and start walking out the same way i got down there. But before i can speed away he calls after me. "Next time you won't be so lucky, Atropos" that gives me chills down my spine. I look down at the handsome baby boy in my arms.

"You look so much like your great grandfather" i whisper as i speed out of there. The jet is gone, they left, for once they listened to me. Because this place is about to blow up. But the thought of the man down there is still in my head. I didn't know he had a grandson, even just a kid of his own. Meaning i killed someone's father, for myself. But this trap, it was just so that he could take that away from me. No past leverage, no way out the next time. And there will be a next time, that'll probably be my last. Because i felt the burning on my wrist as he said that name.