something like blood | natasha romanoff

chapter 16

i sat next to nat on the couch and picked up the remote lying on the coffee table. i looked at it and pressed the red button, assuming it was to turn the tv on, which it did.

not knowing what the rest of the buttons were for, or how to use a tv, i just stared blankly at the remote and tv.

nat noticed this and asked if i knew how to work a tv, to which i said no.

in all honesty, i had never seen a tv before, but i had seen a bigger screen from when they would play movies for us in the red room.

"do you want me to teach you how to play movies?" nat asked me. i replied, "really? you would do that for me?"

she smiled and nodded. she took the remote out of my hands and pointed at the arrow buttons on the remote, "these are for selecting different apps or options" she said, demonstrating. i watched as the icons at the bottom of the screen moved with each press of the button.

she then pressed the button in the middle of the arrows and an enlarged version of the icon appeared on the screen.

i watched as many small circled with names underneath popped up on the screen.

i saw 'billionaire/thor's favourite' with a photo of a lion above it? "that's mufasa from the lion king, tony's profile" nat said, as if she could hear my thoughts.

she named all of the other's profiles to me, which consisted of:

bucky having a picture of pua from moana and a name of 'indestructible'

wanda having a picture of anna from frozen and a name of 'witchy'

thor having a picture of sid the sloth from ice age and a name of 'strongest avenger' which nat also said was highly disproved by the rest of the avengers but was only put on because he strangled tony.

nat said we could make me a profile, so after scrolling for about five minutes looking for a profile picture, i chose rapunzel due to the similarities we shared. the blonde hair, green eyes, it all matched.

tony came in and stole the remote as we were choosing a name, so i somehow ended up with the name of 'angry widow 2.0'

"names get changed in a rare occurrence of historical moments" tony said as he winked at me.

me and nat shrugged and went onto my profile whilst nat searched for a movie to watch.

we were scrolling as one of them caught my eye that i recognised, "can we watch snow white?" i asked.

nat looked at me and replied, "of course we can"

she clicked on it and pressed play. there was a long intro before it started playing the start of the movie. the first few minutes were fine but then it got to a specific scene when i noticed something. when they played this in the red room there would be blood everywhere and everyone would be fighting each other. this movie didn't have any of that.

"nat i think we're watching the wrong one" i told her. "what do you mean дорогой (sweetheart), there's only one snow white movie" she replied, looking confused. i shook my head and looked at her, "no, this one is full of flowers and nature, the real one is full of death and blood" i told her, now seeming as confused as she is.

third person pov

nat took a second to think. she has never seen a tv, but she seemed to know that the remote was used for the tv. she has also seemed to have seen the movie before, but she said it was full of death and gore. she's never been anywhere except the red room and hydra.

she connected the dots. the red room indoctrinated children into believing the world was full of combat and crime to make them think that their childhood was normal.

they didn't do that when she was there, which meant that she had no idea what else they could've done to athena. she felt protective of the child, she felt the need to protect her from all harm in the world.

both females were lost in thought until they got called into the meeting room for an upcoming mission.

athena's pov

me and nat looked at each other as if to say that we'll continue the conversation later as we rushed out the room and into the meeting room.

we met steve along the way and he started talking to nat, leaving me walking behind them. they were walking too slowly for my liking and i walked past them, speeding off towards the meeting room.

i walked in and saw wanda, sam, bucky, vision, thor, clint and bruce all sat down at the table, whilst tony and fury were up at the front.

i sat down next to wanda and thor waiting for nat and steve to arrive. after about a minute of waiting, they came in and sat down in the empty seats waiting for fury to start speaking.

"first of all, nice to meet you properly rockwell, i have heard a lot about you" i smiled at him, to which he smiled back. wanda whispered in my ear, "wow, he must like you he doesn't smile at many people" i laughed a little.

"S.H.I.E.L.D have been informed that we have sight of a base to an illegal organisation you all know of, the red room" i tensed up, and out of the corner of my eye i could see nat tense up a bit too. "we need all your help to help take it down, and retrieve as many hostages as you can" he finished.

barnes, romanoff, banner, rogers, your mission is to take down dreykov. barton, maximoff, thor, vision, wilson, rockwell, your mission is to rescue hostages. rockwell, we're counting on you.

great, not too much pressure there then.

tony handed out some files which had the mission debrief in it for us to read in the jet, and we went off to suit up.

i rushed to my room to find my suit before finding it hung up in the corner or my closet. it was a plain black skintight suit with some red details on it and an hourglass belt, just like the one i saw nat wearing the day they came to rescue me and bucky from hydra.

i loved it. it was my own suit, one that i got to wear without the same one being worn by so many other people.

i quickly put it on before looking at myself in the mirror. it fit perfectly and it suited me well. i grabbed two clear small elastic bands from the desk to my left and then started dutch braiding my strawberry blonde hair which didn't take long as i was used to doing it quickly in the red room.

i liked having my hair tied up for mission so that it didn't distract me. it was very annoying having to move hair out of your face halfway through a fight.

i grabbed my weapons and put them into the holsters on my suit and rushed out of the room, file in hand. i ran to nat's room and i got there just as she was walking out. we walked to the quinjet together and we all filed on, ready for our mission. my first mission as a hero.

a/n

i have school tomorrow, kill me before i kill someone else or even worse, myself.