I sat in Natasha's room, thinking about the first time we met. Natasha had been young, scared and considered an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. I had never seen someone risk their life and take down so many Hydra agents since

Captain America. She saved almost 200 of my men thousands of times. Now I was watching her soft breath fading and a nerve wrecking heart monitor was the only thing telling me she was alive. Maria stirred next to me, her jet black hair fanned out on my lap. I touched Hill's head whenever she moved, and I saw Nat move slightly. I didn't know what was going on but I did know it was not natural.. I felt something kind of strange and weird. I had Hill on my lap and I reached out and grabbed Nat's hand. "I told you two," I said softly as a single tear rolled down my face, "I'd always protect both of you and I'll keep my promise. I always told people that you were my favorite agents, but I was wrong you two are more than that, you're.. you're my girls like my daughters and I swear whoever did this to you I'll hunt him down and torture his sorry butt back to his hole and then blow him off the earth," I rubbed Maria's head, "because no one messes with my girls and get away with it." Steve stepped into the room. "Is she.. Is she going to be alright?" I got up and set Hill on the chair. Maria woke up, "OW!!!" She exclaimed, "Fury a plastic chair seriously hurts your head, and why was I even on you? Or do I want to know?" I looked at Steve. "We don't know. They just barely saved her life. The doctors think that she won't live or ever come out of the coma she's in." I watched Maria take a small ribbon out of her pocket, she tied it in Nat's red hair. She touched her cheek and held her hand, "Please Nat," she said while fighting back tears, "if you stay like this, I'll lose my sister and if anything happened to you I'll won't be able to live any longer." I then saw two tears go down Steve's face and he stormed out of the room. I went and followed him out. "Where are you going?" "I'm going to find who did this to Natas..." His eyes went cold. "Rogers?" "Fury," he said in a cold voice, "you know Nat's past better than anyone, who would want to do this to her?" I looked at his pained furious eyes and knew I had to tell him. "Ivan Sormodov," I said, "Nat's trainer in the Red Room, ever since she joined S.H.I.E.L.D. Ivan has been wanting her back on Hydra's side, and I feared that one day the chip in Nat's head would reactivate and the nightmares have been saying her tigger words, and finally she broke, only Ivan can choose to save her or kill her." "What exactly are they?" Steve asked. "Mourning," I told him, "Marble, Sundown, Black Skies, Red, Alexei, Sugar Plum Fairy, Ballet, Death, Glock." Steve looked at me, that's when I realized Bucky was behind me. "Let's go beat," Bucky said, "some Soviet butt."