The Winter Widow

Chapter 2

AURELIA NATALIE HEART

James told me I was safe here now and no one could hurt me anymore. He also said that back in Hydra and that he left me there to get hurt even more but it's not his fault he wasn't himself either.

"Little Doll." I looked up at him as he gave me a soft smile. "Follow me okay?" I gave him a nod following him into the room I was in earlier. He led me to the bed and told me to sit and I did as I was told.

"Little Doll this is Bruce, he's going to just take some blood okay?" My eyes widened at the mention of him needing my blood. I shook my head no immediately. "Please no more needles, James don't make me please," I begged him.

"Little Doll-Please I promise I'll listen please just no needles." I tried not to cry, I'm usually not this emotional but being around James is making me my old self again I guess. "What's your name?" A redhead asked me as I looked at James. "You can speak little Doll no one is going to hurt you for speaking." He assured me.

"Aurelia," I mumbled taking a deep breath. "That's a beautiful name you got, my name is Natasha but you can call me Nat." She told me smiling at me. "Thank you," I said trying to steady my voice. James extended my arm out as I looked at him-So Aurelia how old are you?" She asked as I looked at her.

"15." I answered shortly. "Wow, you so-Small?" I cut her off and immediately regretted it. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to cut you off." I apologized to her. Cutting someone off while they are talking is disrespectful also not looking at them is too it's a sign that you don't respect them or even care and I got told that I'd get punished if I never cared about Hydra or the red room.

"It's fine no need to apologize at all love. So how do you know Bucky?" Nat asked me. "H-He was my cellmate back in Hydra." "Your one and only little doll." James immediately said as I smiled a little bit. "Not when I was in the red room," I told him as he scowled at me but then smiled at me.

"You were in the red room?" Nat asked me as I nodded my head. "How'd you end up in Hydra?" She asked me. "I don't know, Drayko told me I was moving facilities then next thing I know I'm there in Hydra," I told her.

"How long were you in the red room?" "Since I was a baby up till I was fourteen that's when I got moved," I explained to her as she looked down a little bit. "I was also in the red room too, until I escaped." She told me as I stared at her.

"You escaped? Drayko made it impossible to escape how'd you'd manage that?" I asked. I tried a couple of times but failed miserably only to get punished severely. Everyone always told me I was his favorite and that I could never escape him and he'd always find me.

"I don't know how I just did." She told me. "You must've been scared, I was when I tried to escape," I told her. "You tried to escape?" I gave her a nod. "Yes but I failed and Drayko wasn't so happy about it, I got punished for it." She grabbed my hand gently squeezing it.

"Don't worry Drayko is dead now." She told me as I stared at her in shock. "N-No you're lying." She shook her head no at me. My heart started racing fast and I could feel it. "Hey, hey, it's okay little doll," James told me pulling me into his chest.

"James-breath little doll everything is all okay." He's doing what I used to do to him when he'd get overwhelmed or get panic attacks. "Listen to the sound of my voice okay." I nodded my head as he started talking to me.

"Remember when you used to braid my hair?" I nodded my head. "You still can, I left it long for you little doll you can do as many braids as you want how does that sound?" "G-Good," I mumbled my breathing slowly going back to normal.

"He's not gone, James," I whispered to him as he held me close to him. "He can't be gone because if he was gone Lena would've come for me," I told him quietly.

Lena is my aunt/ mother figure she raised me in the red room since I was little she's all I know, she preferred if I called her aunt Lena and I don't mind doing that. But she's been there for me through it all until I got moved.

"Shh it's okay little doll we can talk about that another time but for now you're done." I looked at my arm seeing it with a bandaid already. They did it when I was talking to Nat. "You did it when I was busy talking," I mumbled quietly as he nodded his head.

"I know I'm sorry little doll, but let's get you to my room so you can rest okay? You need some sleep." I gave him a nod. I got up off the bed my knees giving in but Nat held me from falling to the floor. "Slow down okay, just hold onto me," James said as I held onto his side.

"Let's get you some rest little doll." I didn't say anything but let him lead me to his room. "Are we safe here James?" I asked him quietly. "Yes little doll, we are safe here everyone here only wants to make sure you're okay and safe." I nodded my head not saying anything just listening to him talk.

"Can we trust them?" He stayed quiet for a moment before answering. "Yeah, we can." We got to his red and he helped me onto the bed. "Rest little doll, okay, and we can talk more in the morning," James told me. "Night James." "Night little doll." he kissed my forehead as I shut my eyes letting sleep and exhaustion take over my body.