The Second Chance

The Black Widow Returns

She cleans herself off with her towel as she let's down her hair and sits in front of the window brushing it. She's beginning to remember her memories again. The Red Room, The KGB, Hydra, and her being taken away from her family. It cuts deep into her but it's nothing she hasn't held back before yet it felt new. She wanted it all to go away but she knows it's the reason she's called The Black Widow. She looks into the mirror and sees a reminiscence of her cold hearted past self. The spy, the assassin, the killer. She rubs her face and sighs as that brief clash with Wanda's power brought back the ugliness of it to her. Someone knocks on the door and she opens it to see Steve and she hugs him tight.

"Rough night?"

"Yep. A rough one indeed. I never thought I'd have to fight Wanda again." She says into his chest.

"Hey it's alright, she's gonna be fine." Steve strokes her hair and back.

"Mmm, yeah I know. How's everything else going with you?" She murmurs soothingly.

"I'm sleeping better, thinking more clearly thanks to Mantis's therapy and from you." He smiles and kisses her on the head.

"That's great! I'm very proud of you that you took it." She smiles and kisses him in his lips.

"Thank you Nat. Want me to help you out?" He asks noticing her messy hair and chuckles.

She playing hits his chest and smirks.
"I suppose a girl could use a hand once a while."

She plops back to her bed and taps for him to approach forward. She gives him the brush. "Don't pull too hard." She smiles as he brushes it without much hassle.

"I'm surprised you're doing it so well." She hummed in her enjoyment.

"Well, I learned from the best." He blushes as he brushes her scalp and hears a soft moan. She turns to him and lays down on him, hearing his heart beat.

"You wanna go for a walk?" Steve asks.

"Sure."

They walk around the HQ, the day was getting foggy as not a speck of sunlight or blue sky.

"Strange, it was gonna be sunny around this time-"

Suddenly a explosion blows them back as they tumble back in pain. More explosions shake around them as they run for cover. They try to run inside but the door explodes creating a massive hole of debris.

Nat tries to call out as loud as she can against her ears ringing as she painfully tries to get up. She can feel a streak of blood on the side of her face and the taste in her mouth. She looks up to see a ghostly looking man and gets kicked in the face from him as he steps on her neck, pinning her down.

"Don't get up Natalia, it'll make my job alot easier." The distorted voice says.

"You...you should be dead." She says through her clenched teeth as she tries to push back his pressuring foot.

"You've changed, alot. Too bad imma crave up your looks." The cloaked man says as he raises his energy sword up as Steve tackles him from behind and they tumble back.

Steve tries to get up but the man swifty punches him in the face and rolls back up as he tries to swing at Steve but Steve evades the blade as Steve tries to get a good hit at him. The man puts his sword back and raises his hands as Steve tries to jab at him but the man evades his two strikes and strikes him in the throat and a swift hard knee to the gut causing him to fall back on the ground.