Red Widow

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Anastasia Katrina Petrova
Pov

'What happened' Natalia asked me

'More importantly who are you, how did Natasha know your name' Yelena asked

I began to explain how I was sent on a mission to eliminate them and they gave each other worried expressions 'I didn't want to; I need your help' they looked at each other before they looked at me and both said 'for what'

'I want to help get the girls out of there, you know what it was like, we are taught to kill not be children.' I say whilst trying to forget the memories.
Natalia pulled Yelena to another room and I was left alone trying to stop the bleeding from a few small cuts

Natasha Romanoff
Pov

I pulled Yelena to another room and said to her 'she is right you know; we know the hell all those girls have gone through for years all those deaths that the Red Room caused, all those innocent children who lose all rights to be people in society, we were lucky to make it out alive barely 40 a year make it out alive'

'twenty' I heard  a small voice from behind a wall say
I turned around quickly to see Anastasia stood there with an expressionless face.

'Only twenty girls in each year make it out alive and most of us barely, we all get nightmares and we all have to take medication every morning for PTSD and anxiety, I saw the bottles when madame B was handing them to us with our morning meal. Once the Red Room lost the both of you and few other girls escaped, they became stricter more missions and they began younger I was on my first recon mission at 12 with an older girl, she failed so Madame B had her shipped off to some place I never knew then but she was off to some man who comes once or twice a month and is after a few girls each time. Our training became tougher and if we were to hesitate during a fight that's it, we were shot on the spot. Our ballet training became more rigorous with Madame B yelling at us for hours on end.so the number dropped by 2 or 3 each year until one year when I was 9 a new rule came into place and a board had all of your year on the top 20 girls above the red line the bottom 130 girls under and if you were in last you were shot, it forced us to over work ourselves many people passed out from exhaustion but it still continued.' Anastasia explained

All I wanted to do was hug her, she had probably never had a hug, from the corner of my eye I saw Yelena walking towards her and I began to prepare myself for Anastasia to attack, in the Red Room we were all taught if a threat gets too close you attack however Anastasia showed no signs, she was going to attack Yelena and Yelena showed no means to attack Anastasia. I still kept a close eye on both of them.

Yelena stopped in front of Anastasia and knelt down.

Anastasia Katrina Petrova
Pov

I saw Yelena head towards me and it made me tense my body up, if she were to attack so would I, I told myself.

Instead of an attack she knelt in front of me and I felt my face have expression on it for the first time in a long time. I looked up at Natalia, she felt like a mother figure to me although I have only known her for a small amount of time however I have studied her every move so that's how I know her.

Natalia nodded at me and I looked at Yelena

'Anastasia, you don't deserve the 13 years you had in the Red Room' she began

'13 years' kept repeating in my head and my breathing got heavier and all I could see was red I needed to finish my mission and I ran round the corridor through the kitchen to a cupboard and I knew that was their weapons stash so I opened it and grabbed a small handgun and held it up to the two ex-widows who had run behind me as if they knew where I was going.

'Anastasia, its dreykov he is in your mind this isn't you' I heard Natalia say however I had an argument with myself in my head

'Do I shoot them and go back to the place I hate and be praised, no god Anastasia what are you thinking you hate it there but Sofia is there but if you stay with Natalia and Yelena, they can help you save all the widows'

Whilst I was arguing with myself, I hadn't realised that Natalia was now behind me and Yelena in front and I realised that is the better choice for me and all the widows, so I dropped the gun and heard it hit the wooden floor and I fell to my knees and began to cry.

I haven't done that in a while. I felt some arms around me and I looked to see and red hair in my eyeline and I hugged her back.

'Can you pass me a knife please' they game me some damn weird looks

'After that' Yelena said in a voice that implied she was questioning me

'I want to remove what the red room put in me'

'As long as you don't stab us' Natalia said in a jokey but serious tone

'I won't' I said as I was handed a small vegetable knife and I made a small incision on my right thigh to see a small red and black hourglass shape it was about the size of my thumb fall out and it was flashing. I picked it up with some tissue and wrapped it and said to Yelena 'take all your anger out on that' and I heard her say back 'that's fun'
Natalia helped me bandage my leg when my watch began to blink signalling that Dreykov wants an update so I took it of and threw it out of the window where I stared at if for a few minutes

I realised that I have just put all of us in danger again.

Draykov pov

'Get her, I want her dead, send out the emerald widows, 6 of them and have more training' he spat at the screens on which was Madame B

'I'll have her dead sir' Madame B said