Since Anna was behaving herself, HYDRA would let her visit Taylor from time to time. Anna had told Taylor about what she had to do, and Taylor didn't like it one little bit.

"Anna, you can't do this just to keep me safe." Taylor insisted as Anna read through the file that she had been given for what seemed like the millionth time, trying to memorize everything down to the tiniest detail.

"Taylor, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had been able to do something to help you and didn't." Anna responded. "You were kidnapped to be used as leverage against me, that's already weighing on me, and I'm not going to be having anything else happen to you, not if I can help it."

"But Anna, if you do this, then HYDRA is going to be in control of the United States, and you know as well as I do that isn't going to end well, not for anyone. Please don't do this."

"Taylor, I have to. Who knows what could happen to you if I refuse. Not only would I not be able to live with myself, but Tony would never forgive me. The whole reason that I gave myself up in the first place was to keep you safe." Anna glanced at the camera that was in the corner of the room. "Everything will work out the way that it's supposed to, you'll see."

"But Anna-"

"Taylor, please." Anna said with a heavy sigh. "I need you to trust me on this, okay? Can you do that? Can you just...just trust me?"

Taylor stared at her for a moment. "Fine." She said eventually. "I'll trust you, that you know what you're doing. I just hope that this isn't something that you'll wind up living to regret."

"Me too." Anna said as she bit her lip, glancing once more at the camera. "Me too."

It was just a couple of days before everything was set to go down. Anna had completely memorized everything that had been in the file, they had used a simulator to run through every possible scenario with things that could go wrong, although Anna still hadn't been told that Tony Stark would be at the event. She had just been about to fall asleep when alarms started to blare, and she quickly sat up, looking around. She could hear soldiers shouting and she got up, walking to her cell door to try and see what the hell was going on. The soldiers were speaking in another language, but there was one word that Anna had been able to understand with complete and total clarity: Avengers.

Tony had managed to find them then, the plan was working. Anna smiled to herself, hopefully they wouldn't have too hard of a time finding the cell block, soon she would be able to go home and she would get to see Bucky again-

Bucky...would he even want to see her? He had been so angry at her when she had left, Anna wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even want anything to do with her at this point. She heard gunshots and a loud roar that could have only come from the Hulk.

A few minutes later, Natasha appeared at her door. "Anna, hey, we're gonna get you out of here."

"What about Taylor?" Anna asked her urgently. This had always been about Taylor, and Anna needed to make sure that her friend was safe.

"Tony's got her, she's safe, don't worry."

"Aufhören!" A dozen guards had entered the cell block. Natasha muttered something into her earpiece, but the response that she had gotten was not the one that she had wanted to hear and she groaned in frustration. "Anna..." She looked at Anna with a sorrowful expression on her face. "I'm sorry." Without another word she turned and ran, fighting the guards and leading them away from the cell. Anna felt her heart sinking deep into her stomach. Natasha had left her there...she was a super-assassin, she would have been able to take those guards on, but instead, she had just left her there.

Valerian seemed surprised to see that Anna still remained in her cell. "I thought for sure that they would have taken you with them." She commented. The Avengers had managed to escape the building, with Taylor in tow.

Anna shrugged her shoulders. "Guess that I wasn't important enough to be saved." Her tone was nonchalant, but inside, she was breaking, and Valerian seemed to know this.

"That's Stark for you." She sighed as she shook her head. "He and those other Avengers don't care about anyone but themselves, I'm sorry to say. If it doesn't benefit them, then they couldn't give a damn."

Now, under normal circumstances, Anna wouldn't believe a word of this, but the shock that she was feeling at being left behind, the grief, it was all too much for her. She had done this to keep Tony's daughter safe, and this was how he repaid her? By leaving her here to rot?"

"What's going through that head of yours?" Valerian asked as she entered Anna's cell. She sat down on the cot, motioning for Anna to join her on the bed.

"I just...I can't believe that they just left me here." Anna weakly sat down on the cot beside the HYDRA woman. "I thought that I meant more to them then that."

Valerian patted Anna on the shoulder. "I'm sorry that you had to learn the truth in such a painful manner, but I also feel that you wouldn't have learned any other way. I am sorry, I know that it must really hurt to be betrayed by a group of people that you had felt so close to. But Anna, now you see. Tony Stark and the rest of those Avengers couldn't give a damn about someone like you. But myself and the others here at HYDRA, we see the potential that you have, we actually care about you. If you don't fight us, if you don't resist us, then you can have a wonderful life here with us. You wouldn't be put in a cell, you would have a comfortable bedroom, you would have free roam of the facility, all that you need to do is to pledge allegiance to us. Think about it. We could give you the world. What have the Avengers ever done besides get your trust and then break it? Break you? You know, Barnes wasn't with the Avengers when they infiltrated this facility. You would think that if he cared about you like you seemed to think that he did, he would have been here, that he would have been the one to try and break you out."

She was right about that, Bucky hadn't been there on the mission. Maybe he really didn't care as much as she thought that he did, maybe none of them cared about her. Anna bit her quivering lower lip as tears filled her eyes. Valerian shook her head, quickly wiping Anna's tears away. "Come now dear, there's no need for you to cry. You see the truth now, you're wiser because of it. So what do you say? Do you want to join us? There are no tricks, we wouldn't force you to do anything. Pledge allegiance to HYDRA, and I promise that the people that have hurt you will pay for it tenfold."

Anna took a deep breath and closed her eyes and all was silent for a moment. When her eyes opened again, there was no emotion in them and there was almost something...something dark. She looked at Valerian and smiled a bit. "Hail HYDRA."