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(A/N: short chapter because the next one is about Budapest and I wanna do it alone!!)

21 YEARS LATER

(ANIA IS IN A BATHROOM)

"Wait... I was there before appearing here..." Ania says and looks down at her clothes, they're the same she's wearing on the screen.

"Really?"

"Yeah..."

(MUFFLED SHOUTING)

(MUFFLED GUNFIRE)

(SNIFFLES)

AGENT 1: They're topside, sir!

AGENT 2: Tier 1 has LOS!

Officer: We've got all exits covered.

Thaddeus Ross: All right. Stay alert. I'm sending in alpha squad. Ania Romanoff is in violation of the Sokovia Accords. She assaulted the king of Wakanda. Make an example out of her.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Thaddeus Ross: Yeah?

Ania Romanoff: Don't do this.

Thaddeus Ross: Do what?

Ania Romanoff: Come after me. I mean, you're embarrassing yourself. It looks desperate.

Thaddeus Ross: (ON PHONE) Thought maybe you'd be calling me to cut a deal.

Thaddeus Ross: (ON PHONE SPEAKER) 'Cause from my vantage point, it's the federal fugitive who's desperate.

"Uhm... Hate to agree with him but he's... Right?"

"Yeah."

Ania Romanoff: From my vantage point, you look like you could use some bed rest. What is this, your second triple bypass?

Thaddeus Ross: I wouldn't worry about me. We got Barton, we got Wilson and that other guy, the incredible shrinking convict. Rogers is on the run. You got no friends. Where you gonna go?

Ania Romanoff: I've lived a lot of lives before I met you, Ross. You shouldn't have gone to all this trouble. I'm done.

"Have you?"

"Yep."

Thaddeus Ross: Romanoff?

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING NORWEGIAN ON SPEAKERS)

Officer: (IN ENGLISH) Got an empty nest, Secretary Ross. Her tracker, sir.

"Intelligent."

"I'm the only one with brain."

The team gasps dramatically.

(SPLASHES)

MOROCCO

Yelena: Eyes on target. Waiting for the package.

"Hold on.... What is she doing...?"

Ingrid: I have sights on collateral one. Firing in place of three. Five, four...

(ALARM RINGING)

(KIDS SHOUTING)

Yelena: She made us. Target deployed smoke. She's on foot with the package. Stay high. I'm going to ground.

(HORNS HONKING)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANING)

(BOTH GRUNTING)