Loving Her is Red

Eight

YOUR POV

We've found Melina's house. She's got pet pigs, it's pretty cool. It was intimidating to walk up to the house while she has a huge ass sniper in her hand but we're fine. She didn't shoot us.

- Alexei : Honey, we're home

- Yelena : And we bought a guest

- Alexei : Come on girls

Yelena is going to be one of my best friends. She doesn't need me to talk about my problems but she does stay nearby incase I need to talk to her. It's great. It's great because I'm not talking to Nat right now.

- Melina : Welcome to my humble abode. Make yourself at home. Let's have a drink

- Natasha : Hey, no funny business

- Melina : I am putting away my weapon. It is rude not to introduce your friend

- Natasha : This Y/n, my, yeah

Melina is more tolerable then Alexei.

- Natasha : Are there any booby traps around here? Anything we need to know about

- Melina : I didn't raise my girls to fall into traps

- Natasha : You didn't raise us at all

That was rude of Natasha. Melina was the adult in the situation but clearly she's under Dreykov's control. She was sent on that mission and did what she was told.

- Melina : If you got soft it wasn't on my watch

Natasha isn't soft, she just cares. There's a difference.

- Melina : Let's drink. Y/n?

- y/n : Please

- Natasha : You can't handle this stuff

- y/n : I'm not a child. I know what I can handle

I can handle a drink because that's all it is. It's one drink, no more, no less.

- Alexei : Still fits

- Yelena : Oh my god

- Melina : I never washed it once. Come and drink

- Alexei : Family, back together again

- Melina : Seeing as our family construct was just a calculated ruse that only lasted 3 years, I don't think that we can use this term anymore, can we?

- Natasha : Agreed. So, here's what's going to happen-

- Alexei : Okay, a reunion then, huh? And to Y/n, the American. I want to say something off the bat. You haven't aged a day, huh? You're just as beautiful and as supple as the day they staged our marriage

- Melina : You got fat, but still good

- Alexei : I just got out of prison, I, uh, have a lot of energy

- Melina : Ohh

- Natasha : Please don't do that

Yelena taking another shot is a mood right now. Melina and Alexei's flirting is so bad. He's just an ick, everything he does is an ick and she's a red flag because she's part of the Red Room.

- Melina : Natasha, don't slouch

- Natasha : I'm not slouching

- Melina : Yes, yes you are

- Natasha : I don't slouch

- Melina : You are going to get a back hunch

- Alexei : Listen to your mother

Is this general family conversation? It's not like I'd know.

- Yelena : I don't want any food

- Melina : Eat a little something Yelena, for god's sake

- Yelena : You're not making Y/n eat

- Melina : I was not Y/n's mother

Good. From what Maria told me my mother was kind and loving. She wouldn't had ever been a part of the Red Room and would've tried to help as many people out of there as she could.

- Melina : We infiltrated the North Institute in Ohio. It was a front for SHIELD scientists. Actually, it was Hydra scientists at that time. In conjunction with the Winter Solider project, they ha-

- y/n : Bucky's alive, you know?

- Natasha : Y/n-

- Melina : Let our guest speak. Who is Bucky?

- y/n : Bucky, the Winter Solider, Sargent Barnes. He's alive, he's an Avenger.

- Yelena : I remember him. He trained us Natasha

- Natasha : I know

Melina is now just talking over me. I'm talking at Yelena who's also listening to Melina as well as me.

- y/n : Are you okay?

- Melina : We stole the key to unlocking free will. The subject has no choice to obey, like Alexei

- Natasha : Okay you made you point, that's enough

- Melina : Don't worry. Alexei could've survived another 11 more seconds without oxygen. Good boy. Now you go back, back home where it's safe

The pig is not the centre of what she's talking about. She's talking about what was done to Yelena. The crappy mind control that allowed Dreykov to control Yelena and make her murder people.

- Melina : Dreykov has chemically subjugated agents planted around the globe

- Yelena : And do you know who they test it on?

- Melina : Hmm, no. That's not my department

- Alexei : Ahh, come on, don't lie to them

- Melina : I'm not lying

- Alexei : You're Dreykov's architect, huh?

- Melina : What were you? If I was his architect, you were his partner. You were his business partner

- Alexei : No, no, no. I was patsy

Alexei has no right to be angry. They only people that do are Yelena and Nat and that's because they got dragged into this crap as a child.

- Natasha : Shut up. You are an idiot and you're a coward. You're a coward. And our family was never real, so there's nothing to hold on to. We're moving on.

- Alexei : Never family, huh? In my heart, I am a simple man. And I think that for a couple deep under cover Russian agents I think we did great as parents, huh?

Yelena is upset. There's nothing I want to do more then get her out of this room and give her a hug so she knows she's not alone. Nat's upset too but I know it's not a sad upset, she's angry and tired and everything for the last however long is getting to her.

- Melina : Yes, we had our orders, and we played our roles to perfection

- Natasha : Who cares? That wasn't real

- Yelena : What?

- y/n : It's time to stop now

- Natasha : That wasn't real. Who cares?

- y/n : Nat-

- Yelena : Don't say that. Please don't say that. It was real. It was real to me. You are my mother. You were my real mother. The closest thing I ever had to one. The best part of my life was fake. And none of you told me. And those agents you chemically subjugated around the globe? That was me. Mhm. And you, you got out. Dreykov made sure no one could escape. Are you going to say anything? No. Don't touch me

- Natasha : Yelena

- Yelena: No

They took it too far and now Yelena is shutting herself away and I'm going to have to do everything I can to mop up this mess of a family.

Authors Note
Have a drink and
a snack please