Avengers react to Bucky Barnes

4.

NATASHA ROMANOFF. BLACK WIDOW

I need to talk to Barnes. Only he can tell me what they did to me. 

I knock on his door. I can easily enter without it, but he may not be wearing clothes, so...

"Come in, Romanoff," a voice came from the other side, faintly.

"How did you know?"

"I know your footsteps," he said simply. His room was pretty simple. Fully white. Nothing had changed much. It was the same as when he had been given it about two months ago. The only thing that showed that he lived there was a iPhone, left on the side table. He got up from his bed, and quickly placed the iPhone in his pocket.

"I won't be able to take it from the open," I said.

"Really, Ms. Romanoff? I have watched you steal something from an open white room- no furniture. Just a small black cube. Easily seeable in everything white. My, my, you have forgotten everything." 

"What do you- Whatever. I want you to spar me. I want to test a theory." I replied.

"Come on then, Romanoff."

***

I got ready and took off my jacket. It would only get in the way.

When I turned around, I saw that Barnes was waiting for me in the arena-like place. Why hasn't he taken off his jacket? 

"Why haven't you taken off your jacket?"

"I'm cold" he replied. But I could tell he was lying.

"Okay..."

And then we started:

I jumped onto him, trying to get a strangling hold. He step aside, easily. He jabbed me with his knife. But I was agile enough to step aside. Wrong move.

It cut the side of my stomach.

Barnes tusked, "You go down for this move, not sideways."

I once again tried to punch him in the middle of his stomach. He tried to step aside, but I was able to punch him in the side. He stepped back, but instead of glaring, he smiled.

"Well done."

I smiled a little at that compliment. As if I knew that he only complimented when he saw fit, not like the others who tried to encourage me. 

And this went on for some time.

At last he kicked my right knee- which had my full support. I fell down and he quickly pinned me down to the ground, he grabbed my neck, putting me in a choke hold.

"Never put your full support on one limb unless necessary." he said, and I nodded.

He got off me, and held his hand for me to take. I took it, a little frustrated that I had lost.

"You should practice more, Widow, the last time I had seen you in H.Y.D.R.A., we had a tie. I hadn't thought you would just forget it. Maybe you should try to remember it." He advised.

"Yeah," I panted, "but my theory was correct. Tell me what they did to me."

"Not much. Injected some super-soldier serum. Trace amounts. You don't need to worry." He replied, gently.

"Oh," I sighed in relief, "It's just that, I'm able to pick up weights that no ordinary human should be able to lift."

He nodded, before picking up his knife, and placing it in his pocket. 

"пока, Natalia," he said softly, giving a two fingered solute before leaving the room.

пока means bye