ASHES ↠ b. barnes [II]

nine

        ALLURA AND EZEKYEL ARRIVED AT the church, the strawberry blonde seeing James next to Captain America, the two engaging in conversation— that seemed more like Steve asking James a lot of questions.

        From their right, Natasha arrived next to Clint, completely unaware of their presence.

        "What's the drill?" She asked, her blue eyes observing her team until her eyes landed on Allura and James. She almost stammered, her mind going blank as she looked at the woman who had been her role model, the person she wanted to be like when she was older— not a handmade murderer, but a fighter.

        Everyone's eyes went to the two women, Allura sending Natalia a nod.

        "Plamya." Flame. Allura said, the softness in her tone surprise the red head.

        "You remember everything?" She asked her, not wanting to be too open because she knew that Allura would just leave again, and Natalia wouldn't be able to ask her all of the questions she was so eager to ask.

        What happened after the fight at KGB?

        Have you found everything about yourself?

        Were you aware of what you were doing in 2014?

        Are you and James back together, and share the same amount of love like when I last saw you?

        And more questions that could be answered with a simple glance if you knew how to look well. And Natalia knew how to look perfectly.

        They froze her after the KGB. Most likely, or she wouldn't have been controlled because she would've escaped, or they would've killed her.

        She hasn't found a lot about herself, because her eyes are still as calculating as they were when she was training her in the KGB. The same amount of tenderness when they landed on her, but also the need to stay away.

        She was definitely not aware of what she was doing in 2014, but when she was, she took it as her escaping chance.

        And James and her are certainly not back together. She could tell because if they were, they wouldn't leave any distance between them. They would be next to one another, especially in a fight like this one.

        "Not everything. But the basics are there." Allura replied, Natalia's eyes landing on James.

        "Soldat?" She asked, James shaking his head at the familiar woman he had seen through faces of her life.

        "What I need to survive." He told her, a small smile on his lips that Natalia couldn't help but respond.

        She was gonna be in a fight by their side, like she was when she was seventeen years old, before they could take them form her and all she could do was run.

        But she wouldn't run now.

        "As long as you remember how to fight." Natalia smirked, the Avengers's eyes filling with confusion as to how Natasha knew the two assets. But Ezekyel just stared at her in adoration, since she had told him everything and he could see her excitement and nostalgia.

        So, he held her hand, squeezing it in reassurance; something Natasha appreciated dearly.

        "This is the drill. If Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose." Tony interrupted their reunion, a few robots appearing in front of them.

        "Is that the best you can do?" Thor screamed, more robots showing up next to him. Those were at least a hundred robots, and Allura couldn't help but widen her eyes at the sight.