If lonely is a taste then it's all i've been tasting - Can you hold me by NF

Chapter 1

"How is project Fire Bird coming along, Rumlow?" Alexander Pierce stood hands clasped behind his back as he watched through the two sided glass into the observation room. Agent Brock Rumlow smirked at his boss and watched alongside Pierce as a young girl was dragged into the room.

"The serum is ready sir and we believe we've found the perfect test subject" The girl in the room struggled hard against the soldiers that gripped her arms. Her small body bucked and twisted as she screamed. The kick she threw out caught one of the doctors in the room in his chest and he went stumbling back. Another soldier grabbed her leg and the three lifted her and placed her on the table, strapping her down. She looked to be around the age of nine with long beautiful blood red hair, porcelain skin covered in freckles and bright emerald green eyes. She continued to fight against her restraints and Pierce smiled.

"Yes she looks like a fighter. Good choice Rumlow, we'll begin the experiments immediately. The soldier needs a partner and Hydra needs a new fighter" Rumlow nodded and motioned for the soldiers in the room to alert the doctors to begin.

"Where's the asset from?" Pierce watched as the doctor walked forward and inserted the needle into the girl's arm. Her struggling died down as the serum entered her system, her screams grew louder and tears fell from her eyes.

"Russia, sir. She was considered for The Black widow project."

"And her name?" Rumlow glanced at the file in his hands.

"Phoenicia Roselia Romanov"

"Fight" Phoenix moved forward quicker then death and began to fight her newest opponent. She had just turned 13 and after 4 years with Hydra she had learned how to take down a man more than 5 times her size when ordered. The man fell fast, he was a soldier she had seen at the facility she was kept in many times. To her knowledge he had disobeyed a direct order which meant he became her next test. Though it truly didn't matter who it was, she would have to kill him anyway. She grabbed the gun from her thigh holster and shot him quickly between his eyes. He didn't even have the chance to scream. Phoenix glanced over at her 'boss' Alexander Pierce.

"Very good, asset." She nodded numbly, killing had always drained a lot from her. She could still remember her first hit. Phoenix's eyes moved across the room and met the eyes of her partner and trainer, The Winter Soldier. He stared back at her with something like approval glinting in his eyes. She was the only person who could see the emotions that flitted across his eyes ever so rarely. Phoenix could still remember the first time she had seen those eyes.

At 10 years old, she had been shaking and scared. The serum Hydra had put into her had worked after many hours of excruciating pain, she had awoken to a blindingly white room and Doctors hovering over her. As a terrified child who had been taken from orphanage her sister and her had been living, she did the only thing she could think of. She fought and screamed. At some point she had broken the straps on her wrists and leapt off the table. The soldiers had left the door along and so she went flying down the hall looking for any exist she could find. Her hospital dress kept her covered but she was freezing in the facility. Her small feet slapped against the ground as she ran faster then had ever run before, faster then she thought possible. After turning a corner, she ran smack into a group of soldiers. They attempted to grab her but she punched one in the face with all her might. She could remember hearing a sickening crack but she was too focused on kicking the other soldier away from her to notice. The second soldier went flying and she gasped. What had they done to her? She hadn't had time to contemplate it as a siren blared throughout the compound. She took off again. After a few minutes she ended up finding the exit. She smashed the consol that locked the doors and threw them open.

Stepping out into the snow, she noticed something that stopped her heart.

She had absolutely no clue where she was! Her orphanage had been in a small village while apparently the place she had been held in was in the middle of a snowy mountain. The fear crept up her spine and wrapped around her as she glanced around looking for any route she could take. When she decided on the tall trees which could provide shelter, she bolted. Cold seeped into her feet and bones but she continued running. She could hear shouting from behind her, apparently the soldiers had followed her. Risking a momentary glance, she could see a group of dark figures far behind her. Her hope that she would escape didn't last long however for the moment she turned around she ran into something hard. She scrambled back and glanced up.

Her green eyes met an icy pair of blue.

Standing in front of her was the most beautiful and terrifying man she had ever seen. He had hair darker then any night sky she had ever seen and a face that seemed almost chiseled out of stone. His muscles were large and defined and he was dressed in black clothes with guns and knives strapped in every possible place. She noticed that one of his arms was completely covered while the other was exposed, revealing it to be made of metal. Phoenix had never seen anyone with a part of them being metal and she was terrified. He stared hard at her, as if he was curious. His blue eyes were cold and a gorgeous blue.

"Please don't kill me" It was the first time she'd spoken since waking the men had taken her from her bed who knows how long before. Her voice was small and shaky, weaker then she wished it had been. He tilted his head to the side and Phoenix couldn't help but mentally compare him to a confused puppy.

"Asset! Grab her" A dark male voice sounded from behind and she could see the change in the man before her. He went from confused and curious to menacing and violent within a moment's time. Faster then she could track he grabbed her and then all she knew was black.