Prologue

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"Natasha?"

"Clint?"

"Can I ask..."

"Probably not a good idea..."

"It's about you. About your past..."

"Like I said, you probably don't want to know about that kind of shit. Is it about a previous mission?"

"I...I want to know about...The red room..."

I freeze.

The red room.

"Well...What do you mean? What do you want to know about it?"

"I want to know what happened there. What you went through. What turned you into the Black Widow."

"What turned me into the Black Widow?"

"Yeah. The red room is where you earned the hourglass, right? The rank of world class assassin?"

"...Well, yes. That's where I earned the hourglass. Not why."

"...How did you get the name?"

"...I had help. I earned the title in the red room, but it's not the red room that truly gave me the name. He did."

"...Who really gave you that hourglass? Who knew you had the strength to do it? Who believed in you? Who helped you earn the name?"

"...Ok, Clint....Let me tell you a story. Let's call it...The Wolf and the Widow..."

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