Retnikopf: Widow Of Siberia (old Version)

Chapter 14 - An Unwanted Thank You

After their success in London, the UN wanted to hold a ceremony to thank the new Avengers for saving the city and preventing further attacks on the rest of the world.

It was a formal thank you, so they had been lined up to receive a handshake from the different representatives of the nations. Most of them went, Vienna and Yelena out of want for the space ship, but Carol, Melina and Alexei decided against the whole situation.

Not particularly interested in what the UN had to say, Vienna and Yelena stood at the end of the line next to Kate. Vienna was distracted as the different officials came down the line, Kate was showing her the bracelets she had on her wrist. She would only look up when someone was shaking her hand, but the next official to shake her hand was the Russian ambassador. Their eyes met and her heart stopped. The smile disappeared immediately. Sidorov.

"Malen'kiy," (little one), he said, keeping hold of Vienna's hand as her arm went limp, "so much family, yet still so alone."

Kate and Yelena, shot looks between each other and the interaction going on next to the them. Not sure what they could do in the situation.

"You should have stayed," Sidorov told her, pulling her hand closer to him. Vienna couldn't move, she'd been having a tough time since the battle in London so this had her over the edge of what she could handle. "I would never have made you fight in a war. You weren't trained for that, you mental state can't handle it. You become overwhelmed and violent. Hard to control."

"Thats enough," Yelena said, grabbing his hand and ripping it off of Vienna's arm.

"Sorry," Sidorov chuckled, "you must be feeling it now more than ever, without the conditioning, that brain of yours is making its own choices. Something you've never had to do before."

Yelena took a step forward, to put something in between him and her sister. Vienna was simply staring at her hand as if him touching it had changed it in some way.

"The invitation for your job back," Sidorov told her as he stepped away, getting his handshake refused from Kate, "always stands."

"Vienna. Ty v poryadke? Smotri na menya," Yelena asked her, grabbing her by the arm and trying to turn her sister to look at her.
(are you alright? Look at me.)

As Yelena spoke, Vienna began to regain her function. She looked up and stepped forward to watch Sidorov leave down the corridor with four members of security. With Yelena holding onto one of her hands and Fury just behind her other shoulder, Vienna stood stoic.

"Take a breath Red," Fury told her, placing his hands on his hips, opening up his coat.

It took Vienna only a second to make her choice. Without turning round, she reached back into Fury's coat and took his concealed gun from inside. She got three shots into Sidorov's back before getting tackled by Yelena and Fury.

"Vienna stop," Yelena hissed, forcing the gun from her hand and pulling her away from the increasingly chaotic scene that Vienna had just created. "What were you thinking?"

Vienna didn't answer, she wasn't quite sure what she had done. Now that she was being dragged away, the fact that she had just shot Sidorov felt like a blur. Something she had just thought about doing but not actually done.

They had to stop at the other end of the corridor as they were met with armed guards.

"Do you have a plan?" Yelena asked, her hand clasped firmly around her sisters wrist, "cause I don't think we can fight our way out of this one."

Vienna looked up, there were guards on their right and more approaching from the left. In front was a large window that covered the whole wall.

"Shoot the window," Vienna told her, glancing down at the hand gun still in her other hand.

"What? No. Are you crazy?" Yelena exclaimed, pulling the gun away from Vienna.

Yelena tried but her arms were shorter than Vienna's and her sister was half a super soldier so, Vienna was easily able to over power her. Two shots to the window weakened the glass.

"You really think we'll make it?" Yelena asked, the nerves in her voice clear as they stood on the 20th floor.

"You're not coming," Vienna told her, taking her wrist out of Yelena's and smiling down at her, "I told you, I'm not going to risk you for any thing. I'm running low on my supply of siblings."

Three fast steps and Vienna jumped into the window, crashing through it into a free fall down the side of the building.