Ava walked into her kitchen and flipped on the lights humming some song she'd heard on her way home from the office. She was completely unaware of the masked man in her dining room waiting for her. She poured herself a glass of wine and pulled out her phone walking into the dining room texting her sister. When she looked up from her phone she was startled by the sight of the masked man she dropped her phone and glass and went for the gun in her waist band. He looked up at her brown hair falling in front of striking blue eyes surrounded by black smudges.

"Who are you?" She snapped pointing the gun at the strange man

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"Ava Romanoff." He said standing her name muffled by the mask.

"How do you know my name?" She demanded she was undeniably frightened she was not like Nat who was a trained assassin all Ava was a scientist she really wished Natasha was here right now.
He doesn't speak he just steps closer to her. Her gun shaking a bit in her hands sure she knew how to use it but that didn't mean she did very often. "Step closer and I will shoot you!" She could see a glint of amusement in his eyes

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The man didn't back down he staples forward and grabbed the gun out of her hands. She noticed something odd about his hand underneath the glove and jacket he wore was metal. Before she could say or do anything else his other hand came up to her neck and she felt a needle slip into her skin before she drifted into unconsciousness.

When Ava woke up she was alone in a plane grey room sitting at a dull metal table. Ava tried to stand but was restricted by a pair of handcuffs around her wrists and ankles connected to the chair she cursed loudly. Ava looked around the room trying to find an escape and make a plan but the whole idea seemed unlikely since she couldn't get out of the handcuffs and there was only one door to the small room. A few minutes later the door opened and two men walked in one was the man from her apartment and the other she recognized instantly as Alexander Pierce the head of her work place S. .E.L.D. Fear surged through her if Pierce was hear and she was cuffed than something very bad happened or she did something unforgivable though nothing came to mind.

"Director Pierce." She greeted him respectfully."Why am I here in cuffs?"

"Hello Dr. Romanoff I need your help with creating some serums." He said sternly and she raised an eyebrow confused.

"Alright but if S.H.I.E.L.D needs me to help with creating serums why send a masked thug to get me and not Fury and why cuff me?" She asked unwilling to trust her boss anymore.

"Because this isn't a S.H.I.E.L.D project Ms. Romanoff it's for Hydra." Pierce says with a smirk as her face drops.

"Hydra doesn't exist anymore Steven Rodgers destroyed it." Ava said confused more to herself than to him.

"Hydra is bigger than you could imagine Captain Rodgers cut off just part of an always growing operation cut off one head and two more will take its place." Pierce explained

"Well in that case there is no way in he'll that I am going to help you." Ava snaps angrily at her traitorous employer.

"But you will because if you don't you'll have to deal with my friend here the winter soldier." Shock crossed Ava's features as he gestured to the man from her apartment she remembered Nat telling her about this infamous killer she was afraid but not afraid enough to cave into his threats.

"I don't care he can bloody well kill me if he wants I am not going to help you." She spat at him.

"Well if you don't have concern for your own life maybe you'll have some for Natalia's." He says pulling out his phone showing her security footage of Nat standing in a hospital room over what looked to be Fury's corpse. "As you can see the soldier has already taken out Nick if you do not help us Agent Romanoff will be his next mission and Ava dear the soldier has never failed a mission." Panic surged through Ava's body at the thought of the masked man hunting her sister.

"I'll help you just leave Natasha alone." Ava growls at him

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"Fantastic soldier take her to her lab use as much force as it takes if she struggles." Pierce commands the man making Ava shudder as pierce steps out of the room.

The man was told to use as much force as he needed so Ava decided she wasn't going to make it easy for anyone here. The soldier uncuffed her legs first then did her left hand when she was mostly free she stood up quickly making him move back a step before he could react she took the chair in her hands and hit him with it. The man hardly flinched he just stepped to the side like he was expecting it he grabbed the chair and threw it to the floor letting it take her with it. She hit the floor hard and cursed in pain she was lucky she was still intact. He loomed over her and watched for her to move to attack him again when she didn't he released her other hand and waited for her to stand and follow him. She didn't however she knew he was stronger than her so fighting was useless her final attempt at defiance was simply not moving. His eyes darkened in annoyance. He didn't like missions like this not ones that he can't simply kill the person them living always made things more complicated.

"What's your name?" Ava Asked softly she wasn't sure why but she was curious this man never seemed to be called anything but soldier or the winter soldier. He tilted his head a bit he seemed confused. "Come on you have to have a name."

"Stand up or I will make you." He commanded through the mask.

"I hate to break it to you buddy but you're going to have to make me I wouldn't want this whole kidnapping and threatening me to work on some serums thing to be easy on you." She said with a shrug. She could almost swear she saw a bit of amusement cross his face and she grinned. She decided she would not let these men intimidate her Natasha wouldn't. The man picked her up and roughly threw her over his shoulder locking her in place with what she could on presume to be a metal arm. "Easy there big boy. I'm a delicate package." She said a little out of breath.

The man carried her through several halls and doors until they came to a stop. Ave couldn't see where or why they stopped. They had stopped at a solid metal door that the soldier was all too familiar with and a guard next to it. This had been where they made him stay until he was needed and now this is where they will both stay.

"Soldier." The guard said greeting him "Is this the girl?" He nodded watching the man's eyes travel up her legs to her butt and he smirked it bothered the soldier a little and he didn't know why. The soldier nodded and the guard opened the door allowing them to walk through Ava waved at the guard when she was carried past him. The guard gave her a weird look before closing and locking the door. The soldier drops the woman to the floor with a thud.

"Now that was just rude." Ava snarls looking up at the soldier through the brown hair that fell in front of her face. She whips the hair back into place and looks around she was in a small room that held two beds and two dressers. And there were 3 different doors the one she came into and one that said lab she presumed the other was the bathroom to her cage. Something seemed odd she couldn't figure out why there were two beds. "Who is staying with me?"

"I am." He answers.

"Would you take of that damned mask?" Ava snaps she reached her hand out quickly to snatch the mask off his face but his metal hand catches her wrist in mid-air. She froze up in fear and wondered what he was going to do. He registers the fear on her face and lets go of her wrist but instead of pulling back she moves her hand forward and gently removes his mask. The gesture is strange to him he is rarely around others without his mask. She smiles at him. "There that's better. So this is your room?"

"Yes this is where I have been put in between my missions." He said in a way that bothered Ava he sounded like a machine not a man.