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An Uncomfortable Situation

My body tenses up as I'm faced with the second door. I'm not about to breakdown so Sterns can see but I don't know how much more I can take. At the same time, I have to make sure that the locals are okay so I have to play along with this sick and twisted game.

I step inside and shiver from the sudden cold that hits me. The room is so cold I can see my own breath.

"Cold isn't it? It's similar to death."

I know that voice all too well. After all, how could I not know my own mother's voice? I turn around with a stony expression. It's my dead mother. "Wow. Sterns makes a damn good LMD."

"Am I? Or could it be that he actually brought me back? He is a genius after all."

I scoff, "Yeah, right. Resurrection?"

"Agent Coulson managed to pull it off."

I take a few steps closer to her, almost in a taunting manner. "You're not my mother. Even if you were, I made peace with what you did to me a long time ago."

"You think you can forget me just because you found your dad? Because you hang out with righteous idiots? Have you truly forgotten all I've taught you?"

I clench my fist briefly and take a deep breath, " I'm not gonna do this with a robot. I still have a little dignity left."

"Oh, how I miss the days when all you'd ever do was sit around. Children are made small so-"

"You can't see or hear them," I finish.

She smiles sickeningly, "It seems I did teach you something after all."

"You didn't. The insane people who raised me brainwashed me into believing crap like that. Thankfully, I know better now."

"It's nice to you let yourself think that. Deep cover does tend to mess with the mind. But you've managed to complete your mission nonetheless."

"What are you talking about?"

She chuckles, "Splitting the Avengers, of course. You did it wonderfully. Gained their trust so you could take all they had away."

"Stop it."

"This may be the best torture we ever invented. You actually believe that you're one of them. You actually believe that you're anything more than what we made you."

I break my eye contact with her, "You're lying."

"It's just a shame Zemo couldn't finish the job. That would've left them beyond repair. Your job would've truly been complete." I shake my head silently. She continues to taunt me. "Go ahead and cry. No one does it quite like you. You were only a distraction so that we could finally take those 'Avengers' down. That's all you are. A distraction."

"My mother manipulated me for years. I won't let you do the same."

"Worthless," She spits out. "You are just a worthless little-

"You're not my mother. You don't have her way with words, " Light wraps around her body, lifting her up in the air. "She was a horrendous monster."

The body begins to spark electricity as the light is wound even tighter. "But she gave birth to a bigger one."

The body falls to the ground, writhing. It still tries to speak to me, "Y-you'll....nev-never... be....an-an... Avenger."

I kneel down to her face level, "I'll settle for being rid of you."

The body dies out, growing still. Sterns really captured all her features but he could never capture who she really was. She scarred me so much, the simple thought of her would be enough to give me nightmares for days. But at some point, I just stopped thinking of her.