Goddess | Natasha Romanoff

Chapter 9: Miss American Pie

The group still sit at the table as Melina continues to explain the pig and the chemical subjugation that she created, "What are you doing?" Natasha asks as the pig falls to the floor

"Oh, I am explaining that the science is now so exact, the subject can be instructed to stop breathing and has no choice but to obey"

"Okay, you made your point. That's enough" Aloisia gives Yelena a concerned glance, she knows the woman is incredibly upset.

"Yes, all right. Well, don't worry, Alexei could've survived 11 more seconds without oxygen. Good boy. Now, you go back, back home where it's safe the pig grunts and trots off, "You go. You go back home, back home where it's safe. Good boy, Alexei. The world functions on a higher level when it is controlled. Dreykov has chemically subjugated agents planted around the globe"

"And do you know who they test it on?" Yelena asks

"Hmm... No. That's not my department"

"Ah, come on, come on. Don't lie to them. Hmm?" Alexei says, glancing around the table

"I'm not lying"

"You're Dreykov's architect, huh?"

Yelena continues to stare at Melina shocked, with tears in her eyes, but Melina and Alexei continue to bicker, "What were you? If I was his architect, you were his partner. You were his business partner" Melina argues

"No, no, no. I was patsy!" Alexei shouts as he bangs his hands against the table.

"Don't give me that..." Melina begins only to be cut of by Alexei.

Aloisia debates getting up and going to Yelena to give her a hug, but she knows that wont do anything for the girl, so she remains sat "He sell me ideology"

Melina continues to mumbles over Alexei's words, "Stop with the politics"

"All the while, bigger..."

Natasha cuts Alexei off, shouting "Shut up! You are an idiot" she says, looking at Alexei, she moves her gaze to Melina and adds "And you're a coward. You're a coward. And our family was never real, so there's nothing to hold on to. We're moving on"

"Never family, huh? In my heart, I am simple man. And I think that for a couple deep undercover Russian agents I think we did pretty great as parents, huh?

Melina nods, looking from Alexei to Natasha, "Yes, we had our orders, and we played our roles to perfection"

"Who cares? That wasn't real"

"What"

"That wasn't real. Who cares?"

"Natasha, stop" Alosia whispers to the woman, she knows Yelena is upset and that Natasha's time with melina and Alexei felt like a family and she solely saying this because she wishes it didn't. She wishes she could hate these people but she knows she cant, cause they were her family.

"Don't say that. Please don't say that. It was real. It was real to me. You are my mother. You were my real mother. The closest thing I ever had to one. The best part of my life was fake" Yelena exhales deeply, desperate to keep her tears at bay, "And none of you told me" a glass clatters on the table, as Yelena continues "And those agents you chemically subjugated around the globe? That was me. Mmm" she then looks towards Natasha again, "And you, you got out. Dreykov made sure no one could escape. Are you gonna say anything?" Natasha looks down sadly, and Melina goes to put her hand against Yelena, "No. Don't touch me"

"Yelena" Natasha shouts, but she walks away, grabbing the bottle of vodka and brining it with her.

"No"