Retnikopf: Widow Of Siberia (old Version)

Chapter 4 - Nightmares

Everything seemed hazy. When Vienna tried to walk down the corridor she was standing in it felt as though she was wading through deep water. She felt dizzy.

She recognised where she was. The Siberia facility. Everything looked the same but the corridors were empty.

Vienna turned her head to see a room, the wall were the door was was missing. Inside, Natasha was sat facing away from her. Vienna tried with every she had to get over to her but her legs wouldn't move fast enough. Every time she tried to shout her throat was too dry and she couldn't.

Natasha stood up and walked away from her.

"Don't!" Vienna shouted, her voice finally coming back to to her, "don't leave! Don't leave me! Not again!"

Natasha didn't turn around. She simply left the room.

"She's gone," a man said, grabbing Vienna from behind, "she's not coming back for you."

The man threw her to the floor but before she hit all her surroundings changed. She was now in the snow, elbow deep in the cold powder.

"Vienna!"

That voice. She'd heard it a million times. That voice calmed her every thought. It was his, she knew it was.

She went to shout for him but as she turned to look around a large black cat pounced straight towards her face.

Vienna let out a scream as she launched herself backwards so fast the floor fell out from under her. She hit the wooden floor boards hard as she fell off of the bed. Her heart was racing. She could only stare at the side of the bed.

There was a crash as Bucky came barrelling into the room.

"Are you okay?" he asked, hanging on the door frame looking down at her terrified expression.

Vienna nodded shakily as she sat, frozen to her spot. Bucky stepped forward and touched a hand to her shoulder in order to try and lift her back onto the bed but Vienna flinched violently.

"Okay, okay," he said, slumping down as the initial adrenaline wore off.

He hadn't realised how tired he was. He had rushed in so fast when he heard her scream, he didn't have the time to wake himself up properly.

"Was it a nightmare?" Bucky asked, he didn't get a response. He didn't really expect one, he didn't like to talk about his nightmares either, "I just need to know that you weren't being attacked."

Vienna nodded. Her heart rate was slowing down so she brung her heels down from the edge of the bed so that she could sit properly. She wasn't ready to move yet, she didn't like sleeping anyway, she must have fallen asleep by accident.

"Vienna, I know it's hard," Bucky said, almost falling asleep against the wall, "but I think it'd do you good to try and talk to someone, it's been helping me a lot. You don't have to live in this hell anymore, it gets better. Is it okay if I call someone for you?"

He got a slow nod from her.