Goddess | Natasha Romanoff

Chapter 7: Truth

Tony and Fury are sitting in Tony's house. It's still pretty damaged from the earlier fight but the two sit here anyway. Aloisia walks towards the pair, she had gone to quickly grab a glass of water. she was still wearing her oversized hoodie and leggings.

"That thing in your chest is based on unfinished technology" Fury said

"No, it was finished. It has never been particularly effective until I miniaturised it and put it in my-" Tony began

"No. Howard said the arc reactor was the stepping stone to something greater. He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race. He was on to something big, something so big that it was gonna make the nuclear reactor look like a triple-A battery"

"Just him, or Anton Vanko in on this too?" Tony asks curious, he had been doing some research on the man.

"Anton Vanko is the other side of that coin. Anton saw it as a way to get rich. When your father found out, he had him deported. When the Russians found out he couldn't deliver they shipped his ass off to Siberia and he spent the next 20 years in a vodka-fuelled rage. Not quite the environment you want to raise a kid in, the son you had the misfortune of crossing paths with in Monaco"

"You told me I hadn't tried everything. What do you mean I haven't tried everything? What haven't I tried?" Tony asked. Aloisia hoped that Fury had a good answer.

"He said that you were the only person with the means and knowledge to finish what he started"

"He said that?"

"Are you that guy? Are you? 'Cause if you are, then you can solve the riddle of your heart" Aloisia is disappointed by Fury's response, it was too vague for her.

"I don't know where you get your information, but he wasn't my biggest fan"

"What do you remember about your dad?"

"He was cold, he was calculating. He never told me he loved me. He never even told me he liked me, so it's a little tough for me to digest when you're telling me he said the whole future was riding on me and he's passing it down. I don't get that. You're talking about a guy who's happiest day was when he shipped me off to boarding school"

"That's not true"

"Well, then, clearly you knew my dad better than I did"

"As a matter of fact, I did. He was one of the founding members of SHIELD" Fury says, a smug grin on his face.

"What?"

"I got a two o'clock" Fury says, getting up to leave

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. What's this?" Tony asks, pointing at the case that had arrived.

"Okay, you're good, right?"

"No, I'm not good"

"You got this? Right? Right?"

"Got what? I don't even know what I'm supposed to get"

"Natasha will remain a floater at Stark with her cover intact. You remember Agent Coulson, right?" Fury's asks tony, even though he did know the answer.

"Yeah"

"And Tony, remember, I got my eye on you" Fury says, he turns to Aloisia, "come with me"

"What, no Aloisia stay, Fury you cant just take her!" Tony shouts.

"I'll be fine, I doubt i'll be gone for long" Aloisia reassures him before following Fury.

Natasha goes to leave but before doing so she says "We've disabled all communications. No contact with the outside world. Good luck"