Asset 17

They called her Asset 17 before they ever called her by her name.

HYDRA built Y/N into the perfect weapon: obedient, controlled, impossible to read. Trained to manipulate, trained to survive, trained to make people trust her even when her hands were covered in blood.

Escaping them was supposed to be the hard part.

It wasn't.

Now living inside Avengers Tower surrounded by people who somehow keep choosing her anyway, Y/N is forced to navigate something far more terrifying than missions or violence: being known.

Especially when old HYDRA files begin resurfacing.

Because it's one thing to survive your past.

It's another thing entirely to watch the people you care about discover what was done to you.

And Wanda Maximoff-soft where Y/N is sharp, patient where Y/N wants to run-keeps looking at her like she's still human underneath all the damage.

The worst part?

Y/N's starting to believe her.