Remember All Your Training, As We go to War

Chapter 8

Natasha grabbed the flash drive from her pocket, holding it in front of her.

Steve quickly grabbed the flash drive from Natasha, putting in in his pocket for safe keeping. "Now where is Olwen? You say that she is somewhere safe. Do you know where she would be hiding right now?"

"I can't tell you where she is right now. All I know is she is somewhere safe. Even if I knew where Olwen was hiding right now. I wouldn't go and tell you where she is, because Olwen seemed pretty alarmed about someone working for Hydra finding her, though I kept trying to reassure her, that there are no Hydra agents in the building. But she was not having it," Natasha explained.

"Can you blame her for wanting to keep an eye on her surroundings? She had been through hell and back. So, she's going to be a little on edge. Not to mention, she witnessed the death of the only man who had been a constant in her life, the moment that she was unfrozen," Steve said.

"Excuse you," Natasha said getting offended by what Steve had said.

"What? Why do you look so offended? You knew damn well that I only speak the truth," Steve said oblivious as to why Natasha was getting offended.

"You seem to forget that I was there for Olwen when she was defrosted. I was there to help her adjust to the current time period," Natasha explained.

Steve rolled his eyes. "You are getting offended for no reason. Yes, you were there when Olwen first woke for the first time in the current time. But you weren't always there for her consistently. I know this for a fact, because you were on missions with the rest of the avengers and I. So, would you pop in and out of her life a bit. So, don't take any offense to me not including you in being a constant in her life. Now lets get out of here and find where Olwen could possibly be, and get her out of here before Pierce finds her and drags her back to his office; that way he can bully her into admitting that she is an active Hydra agent or something like that."

Natasha waited until she and Steve were out of the building and far enough away from it. Natasha then spoke up again. "Olwen is a smart woman you know."

"I know that," Steve replied as they continued to Natasha's car.

"Then you should know that Olwen would go and hide in my car until we get away from S.H.I.E.L.D, before she pops up and makes herself known," Natasha said as she and Steve got into car before she started it up and pulling away.

Steve pulled the flash drive out of his pocket, playing with it, before asking Natasha about it. "Do you have any idea as to what is on this thing?"

"Just a bunch of information that I had downloaded from the Lumarian Star. It has tons of information. I believe those pirates may have found something important that they could use to their advantage to get what they want." Natasha replied as she continued to drive. "I take it Pierce's conversation with you didn't go so well."

"If you consider being accused of knowing something about Fury's death, being considered an enemy who is out to take out a director for S.H.I.E.L.D, getting blocked in an elevator, fighting off agents a conversation going well, then yeah it went well," Steve said sarcastically.

"No need for sarcasm, right Olwen," Natasha said waiting for Olwen to speak up from the backseat. When Natasha didn't get a response, Natasha began to grow worried. "Check the backseat under the blanket for me, will you? Olwen knows to hide under there. I want to be sure that she's made it to the car, maybe she fell asleep waiting for me to come back to the car."

Steve took off his seatbelt, before turning to the backseat lifting the blanket up, only to discover that Olwen isn't hiding under the blanket, before he climbed back to the front, putting his seatbelt back on. "Hate to say this Nat, but Olwen isn't hiding under the blanket like you said she would be."

"No there is no way that she got caught. She's always so careful never to get caught. She's always sticking to the shadows to keep from being returned to her handler," Natasha said.

"Her handler," Steve asked confused.

"When O was first unfrozen, she begged that she not be brought back to her handler. She was so terrified when she woke up. She was afraid of being punished for not being unfrozen and brought to him for God knows what. She wouldn't go into details of what her handler had done to her. The only one who may have successfully got that kind of information out of her is now dead," Natasha said.

Steve sat and thought about what Natasha told him, before and idea popped into his mind. "Maybe the flash drive will contain some information about Olwen; all of the information that she may have told Furry. It could be on this flash drive. Maybe that is why those pirates were on the Lumarian Star that night; because they possibly see that Olwen could possibly be used as a weapon to get all that they could possibly want."

"It could possibly give us the answer we need. Though it would be a bit risky. We need to get answers now and find Olwen before she falls into the wrong hands," Natasha said. I just hope that wherever Olwen is, that she's alright and safe, Natasha thought to herself.

Olwen began to gain consciousness, feeling something metal rubbing against her cheek. It took Olwen a moment to realize what it was, before her eyes snapped open, spotting the one man she feared the most.

Olwen was about to scream, but was cut off by a metal hand moving from her cheek to her neck gripping her neck tightly as someone entered the room.

"Now asset, is that anyway to greet your toy, after missing her for several years? Though I can understand the aggression. She has been missing for quite a while. But if it wasn't for S.H.I.L.D defrosting your precious toy, we would have never found her. So do ease up on her. Unless she does something to disobey you, then do what you have to do, to put her in place," Rumlow said before turning his attention to Olwen. "Welcome home princess. I told you that the asset missed you. Why don't you be a good girl and show him how much you missed him."

"B-bite...m-me...asshole," Olwen struggled to say.

Rumlow turned his attention to the asset. "You know what to do. I believe she forgot her place. Do what you need to do, to put her in her proper place. Remind her that she will always be connected to you." Rumlow turned his back walking away with a satisfied smile on his face as he heard the painful cries coming from Olwen.

That should teach you a lesson for talking back to someone who is a higher rank thank you. I honestly thought you would know better than to do something like that. But it's clear that you forgot your place among Hydra, Princess, Rumlow thought to himself as he walked away.