"Good job, where is he?" Natalia was overjoyed to have finally gotten closer to finding James. She needed him to answer so many questions. She watched as Skye pulled up the location.

"Kazakhstan."

"Shoot me the coordinates." With that, she left the room and headed to her own. She was ready to go. She passed Darcy on the way and gave her the heads up. Darcy looked sad at having to leave so soon but she knew not to question the red head. Before she even got to her room, she knew Skye was following her, but she continued on. When she slid open the door, Skye rushed in after her and closed it.

"What are you doing Skye?" she asked as she started throwing her stuff into her pack.

"I want to go with you. You might need me over there. I'm a trained agent. Please!"

Natalia didn't even have to think about her answer. "No. Thank you for all of your help, but I have Darcy to help with anything. It's too dangerous, and you aren't even supposed to know about it anyways."

"Natasha, think about it. Is Darcy anywhere as good as me? If she was, I'm sure you would have asked her to find The Winter Soldier."

"I said no, Skye." She shot the young girl a death glare that shut her up.

Skye rolled her eyes at the assassin, accepting defeat. "Fine, but take this." She handed Natalia her handheld. "It's got a bunch of encryption codes and some of my own algorithms to throw off any HYDRA agent."

Natalia was pleased, she could use it to keep SHIELD or the Avengers off her trail. She didn't care about HYDRA.

"Thanks." She threw it into her pack and turned to leave, Skye still following. She headed to the ramp to wait for Darcy. The other agents on board sensed that The Black Widow was leaving and came to say their goodbyes. After a few handshakes and good wishes, Darcy finally made it to the ramp, followed by Agent Simmons. Natalia could see that the young doctor was still nervous around her. Darcy said her goodbyes and they both thanked the group for their hospitality. She shot a wink at Skye and then walked to a waiting car.

May had a car waiting for them that they used to drive to the airport and they arrived with no complications. Natalia was sad that she had to leave her newfound weapons behind, but knew she could get more. She was more deadly with her hands anyways. She left Darcy waiting at a chair as she went to order tickets. She was dismayed at the long line, and then again when she learned that they had to catch a connecting flight later on. She was eager to get to Kazakhstan before James left again. She knew his constant changing of locations was to keep anyone from following, but she wasn't just anyone.

She walked back to where she left Darcy and found her missing. She shot her eyes around the room and sighed in relief when she saw the girl emerging from the bathrooms.

"Got the tickets, we leave in an hour." Darcy just nodded. Natalia narrowed her eyes as the girl sat back down, not making eye contact with her. She wasn't acting herself.

Natalia dropped her bag to the floor and sat beside the girl, placing her hand on her shoulder. Darcy visibly jumped, and Natalia snatched her hand back.

"Darce, I'm sorry, flashback?" she asked the girl.

"Umm yea, sorry, you just caught me by surprise. I'm gonna go grab some coffee." Darcy jumped up and headed in the direction of the nearby Starbucks. Natalia brushed off her weird behavior.

40 Minutes Earlier

Darcy watched as Natalia went to get the tickets, and then quickly became bored. She decided she would try and get a hold of Jane so she walked over to some payphones. She put her money in and dialed the familiar number. Her heart sank as it went straight to voicemail. Not giving up, she dialed Clint's, then Tony's, then Steve's, all going straight to voicemail. Noting the weirdness of every single one not working, she dialed the Avengers Tower main line, and found that it wasn't in service. She even tried the lobby. This was just too weird. She tried all the numbers she knew, and none worked.

She hung up the phone after using up all her change, and headed back to wait for Natasha. On her way, she saw an unattended laptop next to its distracted owner. Getting an idea, she grabbed it and made her way to the bathroom for privacy. She hacked her way into her friend's cell phones, and saw that they were all in service, but something was blocking the signal from going in or out. The same was for the towers communications. She needed a way in to the cameras to see what was going on, but nothing she tried was giving her access.

Shit why didn't I think of that sooner! She wanted to kick herself for not thinking about it before. Skye had given her, her number that morning at breakfast. She could help. She used the number to hack into the phone. She waited for a few seconds before the girl answered.

"Hello?" Skye answered.

"Skye! It's me Darcy."

"Hey, I can't hear you very good, are you on a plane?"

"Nope, I'm on a laptop. It's got a crappy mic."

"Why are you calling me from a laptop? You know what, never mind. What ya need?"

"Call me crazy, but I need a way to get into a camera feed, but the thing is, I'm locked out and nothing I've tried has worked. Do you have any suggestions?"

"So Natasha finally told you about the mission?! I'm glad to help! Give me a sec to write something up. We are actually on our way to, well I don't know where, but it's going to be a long ride"

What mission? She asked herself. After a few more minutes, Skye sent her an algorithm to use.

"Thanks Skye, I owe you one. I'll try it and see if it will work."

"No problem! And Darcy, be careful. The Winter Soldier is dangerous, but I'm sure you knew that already. Tell Natasha hi for me! Bye!"

Darcy was starting to worry. The Winter Soldier? Is that who she is looking for? She pushed her thoughts away and tried the algorithm. She had to tweak it some to get through some firewalls, but she got a piece of footage. She couldn't get a live feed, but she got a part of some stored from yesterday.

She was horrified by what she saw. The feed she happened to pull up was the lab, right when Natasha was talking to Loki, and then Clint and Tony walking in. She had audio and everything, and heard the reveal about Natalia. She then watched as Natalia attacked the two and ran from the lab. She found another clip of the training room, where Thor found Steve hurt pretty bad. The feed lasted for a few moments, but she knew it was Natalia that had seriously injured Captain America, and possibly even Bruce. The algorithm ran its course and then locked her out of the system again.

Her friends were in danger, and so was she. She just knew that they had to be locked in the tower. She was the only one who knew about it, besides Natalia. She should call Skye back, and tell her what was going on. No, she didn't have the full story, SHIELD could mess something up. Plus, they were already gone. She would have to do this on her own. She powered off the laptop and exited the bathroom. She deposited it back beside the still unaware owner, and made her way back to meet Natasha.

She was startled to see Natasha, no, Natalia just walking up, so she put on as good of a mask as she could muster, despite her terror. When she sat, Natalia put her hand on her shoulder, which terrified the girl. She jumped, but Natalia thought it was flashback she was having. She couldn't just sit there, she had to get up. Her fidgeting would give her away in a heartbeat.

"Umm yea, sorry, you just caught me by surprise. I'm gonna go grab some coffee." Darcy jumped up and headed in the direction of the nearby Starbucks. Natalia brushed off her weird behavior and sat down to try and plan what to do once they got to their destination.

Darcy headed to Starbucks, all along the way and in line, she tried to formulate a plan to get away. She couldn't think. She was no agent, she was just a girl.

"May I take your order?" The Starbucks lady asked.

"Umm, coffee, black, small." The cashier brushed off the weird behavior, having seen it many times when dealing with tired and distracted travelers. She prepared the drink, and handed it to the girl after taking the money.

Darcy was terrified of walking back to Natalia. She had heard so many stories about her, and even witnessed some from the clips when she was on the memory trip. She knew Natasha couldn't be in there, she wouldn't have hurt her teammates if she was. But why was shehere? Did Natalia need her for something? The more she thought about it, the more of a coincidence it seemed that SHIELD was in the same area when they got attacked by HYDRA. The signal Natasha, Natalia, had her trace did have some of the same signature as the algorithm Skye sent her. Natalia needed her to find SHIELD! She hated being tricked. And she did notice her and Skye together a lot. Skye was one of the best hackers in the world, and that's why Natalia needed her, to find The Winter Soldier using their extended database. But why? Was Skye in on it? It didn't seem like it, she must have been played as well. Natalia hadn't hurt her yet, but she knew it was a matter of time before she found out she knew about her, then things would get ugly. She had to get away.

With coffee in hand, she saw Natalia still sitting at the chairs. She dreaded walking back over to her, but she was soon saved. Sticking out of a man's back pocket, was a plane ticket. He was hurrying through the crowd, heading for his gate. Darcy reached out and grabbed it without anyone noticing. She looked at it, and the departure time indicated that it left in ten minutes, she had to hurry. It was headed straight to New York.

She quickly started walking to the gate. She threw a glance over her shoulder to find Natalia no longer sitting, she was walking straight towards her.

Natalia was growing impatient. She was ready to go, but they still had a little longer to wait. She looked over at Starbucks and saw Darcy getting her coffee. She looked back down at her handheld and scanned through the files of information she had gathered with Skye. After a few more minutes of waiting for Darcy, she looked back up, and saw her snatch a ticket from a man's pocket. She stood up to see what was going on. She then noticed the girl rushing away. Natalia headed towards her. She saw Darcy throw a glance over her shoulder to where she was sitting, and saw the fear cross her face.

She knows

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