Heather knew precisely who she was looking for. The nurses didn't need to help her. Somehow she just new. "I would say I am surprised to see you." The man called from the nursing home hospital style bed. "But in actuality I am not." Heather approached him wearing a blank expression on her face. He was the same as she remembered but older. His skin had faded and wrinkled. His fingers were bony and thin. His eyes were sunken in and his hair was thin and white. "Alexi." Heather said flatly and the man offered her a crooked smile. "Hello my little muse."

"So why has my sweet creation returned to me at last after all these years?" Alexi continued talking with his crooked toothy grin. His voice was dry and raspy which only pointed to his age more and more. "Why you look like you haven't aged a day since I last saw you." Alexi continued. "It's because of what you did to me." Heather countered. Her voice was full of poison and spite but Alexi only laughed. "Another benefit to the work of HYDRA on you, my little muse." Heather scoffed. "Benefit?" She repeated his word. "Nothing that you did to me had any benefits. You ruined me." Her tone didn't scare Alexi. "So what are you going to do about it? Kill me?" He taunted. "I saw what you did today. My daughter has been arrested because of you, that former winter soldier, and that infamous man who calls himself captain America." Alexi said his words with distaste. "I'm sure he has already made you what they call an 'avenger'. Why, surely an Avenger wouldn't kill a weak and defenseless old man." Alexi said with a wide smirk. Almost as soon as the words left his mouth Heather's eyes darkened. The man began to feel a choking sensation around his neck. Alexi couldn't breathe. He looked up to Heather with desperate eyes only to see the blood dripping from her nose, a sign of her power. The muse that he had created would now be the end of him. He coughed and choked as he tried to free himself but Heather refused. Instead she seethed at him, "I am no avenger."

The true cause of Dr. Alexi Petrov's death was never released to the public, not even his daughter knew what truly had become of him. Heather had made sure of that. She was no avenger, that was for sure. Heather had her own way of doing things now. A free spirit of the 80's had been tamed by HYDRA. Heather was one to fear now. She would put an end to HYDRA but it would be by her own rules.

THE END