34. I didn't mind

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We met with Mason in a field where he got us a jet, but it wasn't. It was a run down plane. The three of us stood there as he came out of the plane.

"I said we needed a jet." Natasha looks at him as Yelena and I looked around.

"Yeah, you know what you didn't give me? Time. Or money. I'm not made of jets."

"I thought you were supposed to be the best. Like a real pro." Yelena comes behind him, staring him down.

"Oh, I beg your pardon, tsarina. Was the free flat and lifetime supply of kissel not to your liking?" Yelena faked a laugh and turns around,

"Don't let her wind you up." I patted his shoulder.

"No, I take exception to impugning my professionalism."

"Well, you did set me up with a generator that crapped out after six hours." Mason scoffs At Natashas complain.

"You, too, huh? Tag team." He points at us. "I had my share with you, i lived with it." I shrugged at him, "You three are not even related but so much alike. It pains me."

"Aw, he's sensitive. See why you keep him around." Yelena smiled.

"He's always sensitive." I dragged my hand across his chest, making him tense up from my touch.

"Where's the rest?" Mason steps back to the plane and throws out a bag. Yelena and Natasha bend down.

"Ooh." Yelena said as she pulls out a bar from the bag.

"Oh, I stashed that, like, five years ago." Yelena didn't care, she ate it and walked away. "How is it?"

"It's dry. It's really dry." She said with her mouth full. As Natasha looked through her bag, i head up to Mason.

"You got my request?" He smiles and gets the bag and hands it to me. I checked to see my red suit that Matt got when he picked up my belongings from the motel. It was nice to see this again. Its been too long, plus the white suit didn't make me look good.

"Here. The man in your apartment did not like me one bit." Awww Matt. "For a blind guy he knows where i go. He didn't even let me check your bedroom."

"You met her boyfriend." Natasha walks to me.

"Boyfriend?" He turns back to me, offended. "You never told me that."

"Jealous Mason?" I put the bag over my shoulder. "You're not the only one that has great taste."

"I do know what I like, and i want it, I get it." He steps closer to me. I wasn't fazed.

"Im throwing up, please stop." Yelena walks in front of us, to stop the conversation.

"Does he treat you well?" I laughed in his face.

"Thank you." I hopped in the plane with Yelena, now waiting to get Natasha in.

"I hate when you do that." He said as he closed the door.

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Natasha and I flew the plane to the snowy part of Russia. It was bad, barely see anything and hated how long the fly was. My hands got sweaty as the closer we got to the prison. Alexei.

"Today is your lucky day, Alexei." I said through the comms as i saw that he ignite it. Stupid doll of him. He's so full of himself and his Red Guardian glory days. Yelena comes from behind and showed me where he saw. "Move to the door on the south wall." He started walking, more like running. "Go left. Just don't make a scene." Through his ear piece i can hear yelling that he's escaping. Great. "You made a scene, didn't you?"

"What now?" He said as he was outside of the prison.

"We're gettin' you outta here." Natasha tells him.

"Go to the upper level." I said back to him as I can see him from where we were. My he gotten fat. As he was getting out, alarms were going off, guards were shooting at us and prisoners. "Move your ass, super soldier."

"He's never going to make it." Yelena shakes her head as Alexei got tased.

"Get me closer." The girls looked at me. "You got a better idea?" I unbuckled myself and got ready to jump out. Natasha joins me, landing onto the metal flooring, posing. Damn it, Yelena was right, i do. I ran to the guards, kicking them off the railings, shooting them and fighting them. I wrapped the rope around the guards leg and pushed him off as I spotted Alexei. Just i was about to jump off to catch up with him, Yelena lowers the plane and i ducked.

"Seriously?" I heard Yelena apologizing but i was to busy fighting. I stopped as Yelena used the blaster, hitting a tower. With that explosion, an avalanche started to happen. Who's idea was to give her that blaster? I scoffed and continued to run, and i mean hurry because that avalanche will kill us.

"Tell me that's a good sign for us!" Alexei yells at me from below.

"Move your ass!" I yelled back. We all ran above to get the plane.

"Get us outta here!" Natasha and I ran and grabbed the rope as we flew, managing to grab onto Alexei. Mission accomplished. The three of us climbed up and caught our breaths, but I head to help Yelena control the plane. I knew he was speaking to us but since we had the headphones, we couldn't hear him.

"Wow." He pants. Yelena elbowed him in the face, which was what i was going to do, she beat me to it. He swore in Russian, holding his nose. "Why the aggression, huh? Is it your time of the month?" I rolled my eyes

"I don't get my period, dipshit. I don't have a uterus."

"Or ovaries." I added. I didn't look back at him, i cant, I wont do it.

"Yeah. That's what happens when the Red Room gives you an involuntary hysterectomy. They kind of just go in and they rip out all of your reproductive organs. They just get right in there and they chop them all away."Yelena moved her hands as she demonstrated what they did. Alexei backs up, saying okay as she still talked about it. "Everything out, so you can't have babies."

"Okay! Okay!You don't have to get so clinical and nasty."

"I mean, you did let them take us, might as well hear what they did to us." I shrugged my shoulders, trying so hard not to look at him.

"Oh, well, I was about to talk about fallopian tubes, but okay."

"No.It means so much to me that you came back for me." I gagged as he tried to be all sweet and gentle to us.

"No. No. You're gonna tell us how to get to the Red Room." Natasha stops him from going on.

"Whoa, look at you, huh? All business."

"Trust me, this isn't pleasure."

"Little Natasha, all indoctrinated into the Western agenda."

"I chose to go west to become an Avenger. Cause they treated me like family." And what about us, 3 years meant nothing I guess.

"Really? Family? Well, where are they now? Where is that family now?" He says to her.

"Tell me where the Red Room is."

"I have no idea." We all shook our heads, liar. "Okay?" Natasha got fed up, taking off her headset and turning to him. He went on about how he was betrayed by him, saying that Ohio was a stupid mission. Yelena noticed not once I looked back at him, she tried to reach me but I gripped onto the wheel and ignored.

"Can we throw him out the window now?" Yelena says.

"I think we should wait till we get to a higher altitude." I told her.

"почему бы не спросить у Мелины, где он?" (Why not ask Melina where it is) we all sat up straight. Mama?

"Wait, Mom Melina?"

"We thought she was dead." She has to be, its been years since I ever heard from her. The last time was when i had a mission with Eros. Alexei scoffs at our statements.

"You cannot kill a fox that swift." We all made a disgusted face. "What? She was the scientist, the strategist. I was the muscle. She worked directly for Dreykov far more than I ever did."

"Wait. Are you telling me that Melina is working for the Red Room present day?"

"She works remotely outside St. Petersburg." No, that cant be. He has to be lying.

"Yeah uhh..." we looked at the gas tank. "I don't think we have enough fuel for St. Petersburg."

"No, we're good. We'll make it." Alexei insisted.

"You always want to be right." I continued to fly us to St. Petersburg.

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The plane crashed down right on St. Petersburg, we all climbed out and started walking away from the man we used to care.

"You should've brought the Avengers' super jet." We heard him say but we didn't stop walking away from him.

"I swear, if I hear one more word from him, I will kick him in the face."

"He's the worst." I strutted down the hill.

"Natasha. Natasha. Natasha." Alexei jogs to catch up. "Come here, I want to ask you something." The three of us looked at each other with annoyance, Yelena and I continued to walk, leaving her with him.

"Wait. You haven't seen either one of us in 20 years and you're gonna ask me about you?" We stopped as we heard her.

"What is with this tension?" He walks away, looking back from us. "Did I do something wrong?" I let out a laugh, making him frown.

"Is that a serious question?" Yelena rubs her forehead from frustration.

"How hard did you hit your head when you were a baby?" I put my hands on my hips as i looked at him.

"I only ever loved you girls." That was love? Wonder what his definition of love is. "I did my best to make sure you would succeed to achieve your fullest potential, and everything worked out."

"Everything worked out?" Natasha sassed.

"Yes. For you, yes." He walks up to her. "We accomplished our mission in Ohio." He comes up to Yelena. "Yelena, you went on to become the greatest child assassin the world has ever known. No one can match your efficiency, your ruthlessness." He hunched over her, the look she had, she hated that. Then he looked at me, my head turns away from him. "My sweet Devon, you become the best assassin in the world, topping off the Winter Soldier and you were the most dangerous killer in the world!" He walks away from me and to Natasha. "And Natasha, not just a spy, not just toppling regimes, destroying empires from within, but an Avenger." He grabs for Natashas arm but pulls back so he grabs mine and Yelenas. Shaking them. "You three have killed so many people. Your ledgers must be dripping, just gushing red. I couldn't be more proud of you." He pulls for a hug but I got out of it before i could touch him. Alexei was offended that I did that. "Why are you so mad! Ive done nothing to you." I laughed again in his face.

"Nothing to me?" I pointed at myself. "Are you serious? You did everything!" I yelled at him. "You lied to me!" I pushed him.

"It was a tiny lie! Everyone lies." He follows me. "You should be thanking me, i made you like this! You are ruthless! Crueler! You're everything that Natasha was supposed to be. Everyone is afraid of the Red Widow.
Impossible to be killed!" I closed my eyes and shook my head. "You have no remorse! Dreykov was so proud of how you turned out!" He quickly grabs me snd pulls me in for a hug. "My girl!"

"Get off of me!" I pushed him off. I stared at him down. "You think I should be Thanking you!? You're lucky to be standing right now!"

"You're still mad about what happened 20 years ago?" He scoffed as if it was nothing to care about. "You had to see it coming!"

"I was 9 Alexi! I put my trust in you and you didn't care! I was told to play my part and I got to be my family!"

"I said not to get attached. What did you do? Got attached.
But when you became the red widow, the stories i heard. I never been so proud of you." He put his hand on my cheek. "Killing that vice president of Russia, the widows, the women, the children."

"Dont you ever touch me." I shoved his hand out.

"I was proud to say that you are my daughter when you did all that. I was your father-"

"No, my real father is dead and you are nobody to me." I pointed at him. Tears started to form. "I didn't mind that you left me there, i didn't mind that you never came back! What i do mind, that I still wanted you to come back for me." I let out a shaky breath and i realized that I was crying, I quickly walked away before he was going to me that i was weak or that i deserved what i got in the red room for being emotional. Yelena yelled out my name but i kept walking. I hate him. I will aways, forever hate him.