Natasha slowly opened her eyes to dark room around her. She yawned and slowly rolled over, her eyes widening immediately.
"Loki…?" She swallowed and sat up, switching on the lamp. She and Loki had been together almost two years now and she'd grown accustomed to having him beside her when she awoke each morning. She got up and slowly padded into the kitchen, hoping to find him reading the paper or drinking coffee. To her surprise the room was exactly as she'd left it the night before; dirty and empty. Natasha frowned and moved to search the rest of the house. Each room was cold, lonely, and empty. Even the sun room they spent so much time in now seemed dead and lifeless. She ran back to the bedroom and jerked the drawers in the chest open. Tears filled her bright green orbs as she saw the empty cedar chest. She ran to the window and looked out; one car. Fear was seeping in with each passing second. She ran frantically through the house, tears streaming down her cheeks. Natasha finally fell to the floor a sobbing, screaming, ball. She sobbed until she had no tears left. Finally, she rose from the floor and walked into the sun room. She and Loki had spent nearly three whole months painting and re-painting this room and she loved it; every last inch of it. Until today that is. With trembling hands, Natasha picked up the baseball bat in the corner of the room and moved to windows. She stared at her tear stained reflection in the glass. She then swung the bat at the window, shattering the glass all over the room and the street below. She moved to the next window and did the same to it and the same to the next. Once the windows were broken she collapsed to floor and began sobbing again. Loki, the one person she had ever loved, left her; with no explanation, no rhyme or reason, just left. She looked at the diamond on her ring finger, her eyes growing more watered by the second.
"You said you loved me… you lied." She slid the ring off and threw it out the window, never flinching as it plummeted to the pavement. Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, was heartbroken and she would never recover