When The Snow Turns Black

The Room

They took her when she was just a child. Her whole world was still colorful and happy. However all she knew and loved had died shortly after she was kidnapped. All her childhood ended within one winter night, since then, even though, she was only five years old, she had to fight for respect, dignity, she had to fight for her life.

That memory chased Natasha all her life, she didn't really remember how life looked like before Red Room, what she did remember, was that before it was warm.
But she was who she was, because of the Red Room and as much as she hated that place, experience from there saved her life more then once.

'Kill her Natalia, kill her and you will be the best, just pull the trigger'

"Natasha!" loud voice woke her up from deep thoughts.

"What?" redheaded asked, she was still clouded by her memories.

"I think that punching bag has enough for today." said tall man and threw a bottle of water to female assassin. Girl looked at the bag, that was taking her punches for some time now, she then understood what the man had in mind, surface of the bag was thin and you almost could see the inside.

"Oh so I can't destroy it but you can, mister new punching bag every training" Natasha looked at him with smile on her face. She knew a new bag wasn't an issue, in Avengers tower they had room full of punching bags, mostly for Steve. "You want to spar and save life of that poor bag?"

"I think I will pass, just came back." blond lowered his head and looked at his black big boots.

"Right... and judging by the way you look it didn't turn out how you wanted, hm?" That wasn't the first time this failed so she didn't fully understand why he was so disappointed.

"He wasn't there, it was dead end, Nat I... I have to find him!"

"It looks like he doesn't want to be found and maybe you should respect that." she just told him what she was thinking, there was no reason to keep it to herself and maybe finally he would understand.

"He is my best friend I have to help him." And it didn't work but she didn't have high hopes.

Natasha put her hand on soldier's arm "Steve you can't save everyone."

"He is not everyone, he is Bucky" he was worried about his best friend, even after he almost killed him last time they saw each other.

"Okay, you know I'm not good in all that, people skills thing but I think you are my friend, so if you need some help, just ask, I will even help your buddy Bucky, I don't trust him but if you do... I just hope you're right cuz if you're not, that might end up bad for both of us."

"I am right, he is still in there! He pulled me out of the river after all." he was such a good person, Natasha couldn't believe how someone can have so much faith in people. She knew she had some trust issues but Steve was just opposite.

"Okay so let me know if you find out something new." girl gave super soldier a cheering smile.

"Thx Nat it really means a lot to me." 'See girl that looks like a friend right there.' She thought to herself, happy that maybe one day she can be normal, be like everyone else, maybe not everything is lost.

"Agent Romanoff, Director Fury is waiting for you in his office." loud voice jumped all over the tranning room.

"Thx JARVIS, let him know that I'm on my way." said Natasha looking back at Steve. "See you soon, okay?"

"Yes, see you soon." they looked at each other one more time and then redheaded walked twords elevator.

"Fury." Female nobbed her head. She walked through the door, behind white desk, sat black man with one eye coverd.

"Natasha." director smiled to agent.
Sitting more comfortable in the chair. "I have a misson for you." courners of his mouth went even higher.

"What is it and when do I start." It was almost a routine for her and she was happy on the thought that she will be able to kick some asses, all this being friend was new and not easy to her but fighting, shooting or pretending to be someone new, was easy and actually kind of fun.

"Yes so... We found a location of one of the HYDRA squads and we have information that Andrew Aksakov is working with them, he is going to be there as well. You will take them out and take all information about them you can find. Oou and Nat take rifle you may need it this time." He knew that she was not shooting someone without explanation, so he added." He is a serial killer, he is responsible for three bomb atacks in Syria, Russia and Israel and the rest is working on some new high tech bomb. Understood?"

"Yes sir." she answered in agreement. She was even happy at the thought of useing rifle again. It was long time since she shot one.

"Quinjet will be waiting for you at 5.00 am tomorrow so be ready, we have much more rifles to choose from this time." Fury smiled at Natasha. Guns were things that they both really liked and they knew everything about them. "But back to mission, you will be in Tucson at about 9.00 am, the car will be waiting for you. Then you will go to this address." Man looked at the files on the desk in front of him and took a piece of paper and handed it to redheaded woman. "The apartment has great position and you should shoot from there."

Natasha looked at the address but it didn't mean anything to her. "How many of them will be in this squad you mentioned?" she was wondering how hard the job will be and how many ammo she has to take.

"All information you will find in these files but you should do just fine as always." Fury this time picked up folder and gave it to her. "And I think that's all I have for you Agent Romanoff."

"Okay I better get ready then." she said while getting up.

"And Natasha, open the window this time." girl just tured around to face the director.

"Really Nick, this again?! I told you this window could not be opened, I tried, there was just not such function!"

"Yeah, right." he tried not to laugh.

"I'm serious!"

Natasha went straight to armory. She opend huge metal door and saw, what Fury had in mind, while talking about new rifles. Big wall full of beautiful guns.

"Okay I'm in heaven." Female assasin smiled at the big collection."Well hello gorgeous." she walked through the room and touched black Barrett 50 cal.
Choice was obvies for her, she took rifle that never let her down it was her friend, she could always count on, even if it was so huge and heavy. Redheaded packed also two 26 glocks and four different knifes, along the way with huge amount of ammo for both pistols and rifle.
She was just about to walk away from the wall of knifes, when she heard movement behind her. Natasha grabbed the closest knife to her hand and turned around in a second.

"Woho easy I won't kill you!"

"Sorry my instincts are stronger then... Anyway what are you doing here?" Natasha asked tall woman with dark brown hair standing in front of her. It was agent Maria Hill right hand of Fury's.

"I have new mission that will recqaier me to take these." brunett left her hand twords granats. "How is Steve? I've heard that he came back." woman said with worried voice.

"Well he is not happy, I feel like he's starting to lose his hope." she was actually starting to worry about someone.
That was new.

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First I'm sorry for all the mistakes here, I'm still learning English.
So if you see that something is wrong I will fix it just let me know. 😉

I hope you guys like it. I'm just starting next chapters should be better.
I hope. 😛

And I had so much fun looking for one and only rifle for Nat. 😉