I will skin you...

Burning sensation covered Nathalie's skin as if someone was ripping pieces of her flesh. Her breathing got more often as she was drowning in the dark listening to an unknown voice threatening to skin her. Soon the voice changed along with the threat.

This time you will burn alive...

She began choking as the smoke filled her lungs. The crisp smell of burning wood and flesh tingled her nose and the sensation of heat around her started to rise. Nathalie couldn't understand where or who was keeping her and what was happening to her.

Burn. Burn in hell...

Someone cursed her in complete fury. The fire covered her whole body. She was shivering at the thought of death that she craved so many times in the past. Not this time, life was finally good for her. She frantically tried to escape whatever the place she was trapped in until she hit the cold ground of her room in the barracks. Nathalie shook her head to regain the consciousness. It was a dream; a nightmare so vivid it frightened her. She took a few deep breaths to calm down and to slower her rapid heartbeat. Carefully she stood up and regained her posture. There was no trace of pain anywhere in her body but she still checked her skin and limbs for any wounds. The only thing she saw was all of her old scars.

Nathalie sighed and looked at the clock on her nightstand. It was almost time to get ready for the mission. She dressed up, put on a holster with her mother's revolver, and walked out of the barracks holding her hands in the pockets. Cold air of the morning made her feel better and she decided to stay outside and relax, it was the first serious mission in a couple of years for her. Before being a field medic she didn't have as many responsibilities, it was all different then. As she was waiting for the calm feeling to settle down in her body Simons walked out of the barracks and lit up a cigarette. He reached out the whole pack for her and after thinking for a little bit she took one and he lit it up for her. They stood there in silence casually breathing out the smoke which reminded her about the dream and she shivered. Simons was surprisingly silent depending on his usual mocking. When they finished their cigarettes without saying a word they walked to the armoury to get ready. Nathalie put on body armour and additional equipment for the mission. Once she was done checking if everything she needed for a mission was there she looked at Jason who was also fully equipped. He still didn't say a word since they left the barracks and Nathalie was waiting for a big bomb to be dropped by him but all he did was hand her a rifle she picked out. She took the rifle and nodded to him. He nodded back and they walked outside to see more team members coming in to get their equipment. The two of them were ready and went to the meeting place. In 10 minutes all of the team that was going gathered and they boarded the helicopter.

During the flight Nathalie was thinking about the mission. They were going to the southern part of Russia to hunt down one of the men that were working and making deals with Imran Zakhaev. Since the man was killed all of his suppliers were looking for new people to work with and this fellow named Arseniy was one that was noticed dealing weapons and drugs that were later sold all over Europe and Middle East. Nathalie also knew that her father who was taking over the Zakhaev's position is cutting off all of the loose ends and the man Arseniy received an ultimatum to either deal weapons to Makarov for the lowest prices in black market or to pay with his life for ultranationalist betrayal. It was the best option for them to get there as Arseniy was making his last deal and getting away from Russia as far as possible.

When the heli landed they hopped off to see a thick forest that surrounded the hills and plains. It wasn't the warmest day even at the south of the Russian lands because they were near to mountains. Lieutenant led the team East to the outskirts of the forest towards a small village where the man Arseniy was holding weapons for his last deal. The intel they had on him indicated that he was lacking men to cover his ass since there was no clear authority and everyone ran of to the ones who pay more. As they were closing in on the village and it was already visible through the trees MacTavish stopped the group and explained the plan of actions. "Silver, you go forward to a lookout. Take one of the men with you. If you hear or see anything tell us through the comms."

Nathalie nodded and stood up from the crouching position everyone were in. She lifted her rifle and prepared for moving. "Newman, with me." She commanded and Matt followed her actions also getting up to standing position and readying his weapon. As John nodded at them Nathalie led the way through last metres of forest.

"The rest of us are going after to attack after their look out and once they are ready to attack we sweep through each house from the bottom to the top floors in groups of two or three. Priority is to take the man alive."

Once everyone nodded understanding the course of actions they moved up following their leader. As they reached the end of the forest they stopped waiting for a sign from Silver. The windows were all sealed shut and there was no way to peek inside there also weren't any patrols throughout the village which seemed suspicious.

"We are in position to enter the house. Move up." They heard Nathalie's voice through the comms and everyone moved up to the nearest houses.

"Attack in 3... 2... 1..." Sounded MacTavish and they stormed the houses simultaneously.

Nathalie and Matt walked inside the house and met no resistance. They walked throughout the first floor and Silver shook her head as it seemed suspicious. "Basement or upper floor. Your call." She said to Newman covering his back. He went down the stairs and she followed him looking up to their backs in case anyone came from behind. As they set their feet at the basement floor that was dimly lit by only one light bulb Nathalie noticed movement in the doorway to another room and pushed Matt to cover. That's when enemy bullets started flying towards them. Silver moved towards the other Sergeant in the cover and whispered "Do you see them?"

"I can't see shit." She heard the response from Matt and leaned over the side of cover to return fire. "When I say you run back up the stairs." She pulled the trigger and shouted "Now!"

Matt stumbled over his feet in the dark but managed to keep his balance and rushed back up the stairs. Nathalie pulled out a pin of a grenade and rolled it in the direction of enemies hurrying up the stairs before it blew up in her face. Up the stairs she noticed that the enemies were rushing down the stairs from upper floor and Matt had trouble fighting them off. They soon rounded them but Nathalie was taught to never give up and made sure that the skills she had were used properly.

Newman was crouching behind a couch taking out the targets at the front and had little to none cover from his right where was a door to another room that enemies managed to reach going to the other side from the stairs. Once an enemy was close enough she hit him in the face with the other end of her rifle. Nathalie kicked him out of the way and pulled out a knife that she jammed into another enemies throat as she was pulling it out a different man came up to her and stabbed her hip. She wasn't fast enough to block his attack and his knife was deep in her side but Nathalie did manage to hit his temple with knife's handle and she sent him flying down to the floor. She couldn't let him go like that so she dropped down and put her knee to his throat choking him. As she heard a flashbang go off at the room Matt was in and amount of footsteps was quite bigger than the amount of enemies the have taken out Nathalie contacted others through the coms. "We were ambushed. Look out for large groups of enemies." She sighed as in her sight came another enemy and she threw a knife straight to his chest. "I don't think we'll make it."

Silver pulled out her mother's revolver and was about to shoot another enemy she felt a pistol barrel press to the back of her neck. "Drop it." Said the voice and she lifted her hands up. Whoever was holding the pistol ripped out her earpiece before she could hear any response from MacTavish. "On your feet." Commanded a man with thick Russian accent.

Meanwhile John with the team was moving towards the house that was more to the left. Simons got one of the enemies and forced Arseniy's location out of him. Most of the fences between the houses were broken so they didn't have much trouble moving up. Once they heard Nathalie's words everyone tried to catch her signal. "Anyone hear them?" He asked clearly worried. "Negative." He heard the response from Simons.

They gathered up at the house where Arseniy was hiding. It didn't take them a minute to clear the house and capture the man when they moved around as a team. The team was standing around the Arseniy who was on his knees pleading "Proshu neubivayte. Otpustite menya." (Please don't kill me. Let me go.). John pulled him up on the feet and aimed a pistol at his head. "English. Where are our teammates?"

"You're not his men. I am a lucky man. He shoot me on sight." Blabbered Arseniy in broken English. Before John could say anything else another message came into the comms.

"Hello." Sounded the voice of a man other than Matt's. "Am I talking to the leader of these two soldiers?"

John stayed silent and nodded for someone to tie Arseniy up. Simons took the pleasure and tied his arms with a rope and stuck the duct tape that he found in the room over his mouth.

"Don't want to speak? Well I guess this charming lady and not so charming man will be disappointed knowing you won't even try to save them. In case you change your mind we will be by the barn to do an exchange. Bring us our friend Arseniy to settle the deal."

When MacTavish and the team moved in closer dragging Arseniy along them noticed a group of enemies waiting for them. Nathalie and Matt were tied up with their equipment and armour stripped down and looked like they took quite the beating. John also noticed that her side was all covered in blood. There was a man with a pistol standing in front of them with a cocky smile. There were more soldiers behind the barn and next to a heli with a running engine waiting to extract their leader.

"Finally. We almost thought you wouldn't show up." He mocked the Lieutenant that was leading the group. "I can say your girl has quite the skills. She almost beat me up trying to resist the arrest. Anyway, the exchange. You give me my friend - I give you your friend. Now which one do you take?"

"What do you mean which one?" Said John angrily as he took a step forward.

"We do an exchange one on one; that's the rate. If you think I will give you more than you give me then you are wrong." The unknown man said and pointed his weapon back and forth from Nathalie to Matt. "Now pick one."

Before MacTavish could say anything Nathalie shouted out. "Take Matt. Take him and get out. Do it!"

The man smacked her with the pistol in his hand and said "Now your attitude is very annoying. Take her to the helicopter." Before he turned around and his men could take Nathalie away she regained her posture and spit her blood all over his face. "Tie her up really well." He said as his men dragged her away. "Gni v adu." (Rot in hell) screamed Nathalie from the top of her lungs.

Her teammates tensed up from this encounter. They tightened their grip on the weapons and some got ready to fight in case it got nasty. The enemies did the same but their leader stepped in the front taking Matt with him. "Let's do this nicely." He said and sent Matt forward. John pushed Arseniy towards the enemies and when Matt was close enough he picked up his rifle and shot the man they were after from the beginning of the mission right through the head. The enemy leader sprinted back to the barn and towards the helicopted. MacTavish tried to hit him but unsuccessfully. A gunfight fired up between the two opposing sides and the British forces were victorious with only Matt injured since he couldn't fight with his arms tied up but by the time they were done the helicopter already took off with Nathalie on board.

Silver regained her consciousness in a room tied up to a chair tightly. She could feel that there was a lack of blood flow in her feet because of the rope tightness. Before they brought to the room she was in they have beaten her up even more. Almost all of her skin was either bruised or swollen and the bleeding of the stab wound they stopped at the heli started again. She was tired but still very angry and sarcastic. Nathalie didn't have to wait for a long time for the man that led the attack against her and Matt showed up.

"Here is the star of the evening. Quite the show you put up for us." He joked.

"I have another thing that I can put up. Do you know what that is? No? That's my foot and I will put it up your fucking ass." She said and received another series of punches to the face. He grabbed her by the chin and looked her in the eyes trying to intimidate her. To a regular man he might seem scary but it was Nathalie, the things she lived through made it seem like a joke and so she made a joke out of him. "Don't keep your face so close to my temptation. I might start spitting blood again."

He slapped her and said "Shut up. You are a thing here not a person. You're nothing so act like you know your place."

"Too bad you don't know who my father is." She said and started laughing which caused her to cough out blood.

"I don't care who your father is. He won't scare me."

"You should care who her father is because when I tell you who he is, you will be scared." Said another man who just stepped through the door.