Romanova [COMPLETED STORY]

26

  I had another meeting with Athena Stark today. Her place at noon. With traffic the drive would be just over half an hour so I called for Natalia and we were off. We were almost late last time so we left a little earlier than normal. We never had to bring anything, she had everything in her office. She's pretty cool, I can see why Natalia likes her so much.

  Tony hasn't found out and I don't want to be around when he does. He doesn't scare me, no, it's what he could get others to do to me that scares me a bit. Now I know I seem like I have no fears, but I'm scared of a lot of things. Now, these fears are always there but I just block them out, forget about them by thinking about the good things that could come out of the task at hand. It works.

  We pulled into Athena's parking lot and got out of the car when I heard Natalia's name being called. We looked around but couldn't see anyone. Then, an orange Audi pulled up next to us and I sighed. We were dead. Unless Natalia was an actress, we were goners. Tony had his arm rested on the door of the convertible and his glasses on so I couldn't really see what he was thinking about.

"What are you two doing here?"

"Visiting Athena, what about you?"

"Same, you guys never come here."

"Decided we should start," I said.

"You just met her last night."

"And I took a liking to her."

"Guess it runs in the family. Let me tell you what you're really here for. You're here because you're teaching her something I wouldn't."

"We aren't teachers Stark. You do my taxes, have you seen any extra money coming in?"

"She's paying you after. She's related to me guys, she's not an idiot."

"If we were here to teach her something, what would it be?"

"Nikita's tactic of choice, how to snipe."

"Not my tactic of choice but nice try."

"Get in the car."

"Why?"

"For spies you two really suck at lying. Should probably work on that."

  Natalia sighed and got in the back seat of the car. I sat down next to her. This was not going to be good. He was going to get someone to torture us. Okay, that might be a little extreme but you never know. I think this is the exact opposite of what he wishes she was doing with her spare time. I don't want to see her get ripped into by Tony, it was my fault too.

  She just wanted to go her own way on a problem that really didn't concern Tony all that much. I don't think he really gets to get mad at her for that. She didn't break any laws, she was just... taking a class? She didn't operate any firearms, and she does have a license. I've seen it, I know it's legit. He can't really do anything except use his big boy words. And Tony gets really annoying when he talks a lot.

  Natalia tried calling her but she was probably in the conference room already and she has a no phones rule in there. She says although phones are important, people take priority. There are IPads in there in case something needs to be verified or booked, but that's about it when it comes to electronics. Tony dropped us off at the tower without saying anything and sped off back in the direction of her place. Lord help her.

  Natalia and I couldn't do much. If we left, he'd lecture us more. I can't even listen to him in a meeting (in which he doesn't talk as much as normal) without wanting to throw a chair at him. He probably wants to throw a hundred chairs at me though. I would too if I were him. Let's just pray Natalia and I live to see tomorrow.