March 25th, 2015
"A memory of a past I hate to remember, 1991.
I didn't know who she was, not really. But day after day I watched as they nearly beat the life out of her. Some days she wouldn't be released from her cell, some days I didn't know if she was still alive. Despite not knowing her aside from her name and her ability, despite not knowing the connection that we had in a past HYDRA stripped from us, I didn't understand why they were doing that to her. After a few weeks of the endless torment, the last beating keeping her subdued for a full week, I couldn't watch it any longer. I'd killed, I'd tortured, I'd mutilated, but I simply obeyed my commands. It was clear that she was part of HYDRA, which meant she was on the same side as me. And no one commanded me to stand and watch, to let it go on until she never recovered.
When they brought her out again that day, there was something in the back of my mind that told me not to show any inkling of care when I finally stopped it. I almost didn't say anything, until she looked at me with utmost fear and a hint of pleading. Even then, I watched as they brought her to her knees, bruising her face, breaking her ribs. All that, I could handle. When they began to strangle her, I knew they weren't going to stop. The way she looked at me, the life disappearing from her eyes by the seconds, I thought I saw something in her eyes that I hadn't seen in years. Looking back at it, I know what it was now, what drove me to stop her execution."
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