sympathy for the devil | natasha romanoff

An Asset does not think, feel or speak unless spoken to; an Asset obeys no matter the order.

In some far-out, unattainable realm of her mind, the woman known as the Red Warrior knows that she wasn't always like this.

Once, she thinks, she was human.

But she isn't anymore, so why does the red-head who calls her "Livia" bring her humanity simmering to the surface? And why does HYDRA drag her to the chair every time she so much as thinks the name "Natalia"?

{part i of the Earth-667 series}