A/N: Heyo! I know I'm spoiling all of you with these chapters...ya welcome! I'm glad some of you enjoyed the last chapter. Next chapter is coming soon! Sooner than expected...maybe...or maybe not…


Vanessa sat in the cell staring at the cell across from her at the body sleeping on the bed. Her brother. The mop of hair that laid on the single pillow they were given sent her mind back to nights when they were kids. Shaking her head, she cleared the thoughts from her minds as the man across from her began to rouse. Standing, she walked to the bars and leaned against them as he opened his eyes. After a moment of roaming around, he released a sigh.

"Awake I see," she called causing the man to jump. His eyes snapped to hers as they grew wide.

"Nessa?"

A cocky smirk graced her face as she lifted an eyebrow. "The one and only."

Frank shot up and rushed to the bars, as if they would evaporate and allow him to leave the confines of his cell. "What are you doing here?"

Vanessa shrugged her shoulders before responding. "I could ask you the same."

"You first."

"I'm here to see you," she admitted softly. Frank looked at her with disbelief before shaking his head.

"How did you know where I was?"

"I followed you when you were sneaking away from the cabin. I saw you get taken. I would have been here sooner but alas circumstances did not prepare for that."

Frank listened in silence before he stood rigid. "You're here for Spiderman aren't you?"

It was Vanessa's turn to stand silently. "I don't know what you're talking about." Frank gave her a look before he crossed his arms over his chest. "You know you look like dad when you do that."

"You know damn well what I'm talking about. I saw you talking to the boy right before I tried to take him. You're looking for Peter Parker. Apparently he's your son, right?"

Vanessa pursed her lips. "What do you know about it?" Her voice changed from soft to defiant.

Frank raised an eyebrow at the change as he watched the cocky smirk leave her face. "I heard what you told James at the cabin. I was hiding under the window."

Color seemed to drain slightly from Vanessa's face as she watched her brother. His expression remained serious. Internally, the woman began cursing herself for not going to check when she heard the noise outside the window. Standing tall, she walked away from the bars while running a hand through her hair. She looked at Frank before turning away. Her breathing hitched slightly before she squeezed her eyes shut and held her breath, allowing for the beating of her heart to fill the room. Releasing the breath slowly, she whirled around and looked at the man.

"Okay, after the cabin you followed James and got taken. I didn't see you call anyone. So that means Alice doesn't know."

"If by Alice you mean our mother, then no. I haven't told her that I have confirmation that the boy is yours. She suspects though. That's why she sent me to get the information out of Spiderman. I denied it of course. I told her, Vanessa Foster wouldn't be that stupid to have a child and keep it a secret. In fact, I was so confident that I placed a bet. Looks like I lost."

Vanessa watched as her brother's face went from impassive to downright fury. "Frank I-"

"If this is you about to give some weak excuse you can save it."

"Listen to me! You know what that life is like. Being a child, growing up in Hydra. I didn't want that for my child. My son. They train them at a young age to be some kind of machine the moment they start walking. You saw how we grew up. Remember the pact we made when we were kids. We promised that when we grow up and have children of our own, we would not allow for our family to take them. They would have a normal childhood."

"I get that, and believe it or not, I'm not mad about that. I understand that. The part that I'm pissed about is the fact that you didn't tell me. I could have helped you. Instead you kept it all to yourself like you do with everything. God Vanessa. Wait is that why you disappeared? You were pregnant?"

Vanessa opened her mouth to deny it but seeing the hurt expression on her big brother's face caused the word to fall short. Frank seemed to fill in the blanks with her silence. He pushed away from the bars before returning. Finally finding her voice, she asked the question that she had been dreading. "How did they find out?"

Frank lowered his eyes to the ground and shook his head. "I'm not sure. It was before the whole Foster Seven thing. I guess mom saw a picture of him and seemed convinced that he looked a little like her grandfather. The kids fifteen, so I guess she put your sudden disappearance and his age together."

"That's a far stretch. We all have at least one person in the world who we are not related to that looks like us."

"Yeah well. I don't know the specifics because I wasn't there, but from what I heard, Hydra sent someone to follow the kid. Saw he was living with some woman, a May Parker. Mom convinced them to send someone into the house at night and steal some DNA from the kid. Apparently, while they were in the house May Parker woke up and caught them. She got stabbed for her troubles. I guess they were told to be discreet about it but then it was reported on the news that May Parker died. Apparently, they ran the DNA from the boy against yours and that confirmed it. By the time they could go and grab him without being noticed, he was already reported missing."

Vanessa opened her mouth to say something but Frank continued. "You know they showed me the results because I didn't believe them. Even then, I wasn't convinced. They could have taken anyone's DNA and just slapped your names on there to try and fool me. I mean it is Hydra after all. Turns out for once, Hydra was telling the truth."

Frank leveled his sister with a look as she processed the news. "You killed May Parker?"

With a wave of a hand Frank huffed. "Not me directly, but I guess yeah. Made it seem like a break in gone wrong."

"Are you that cold blooded?"

"I just said not me directly."

"But you still stood by them after you knew what they did."

"I just said, I didn't believe them. God Vanessa, you make it sound like they are awful people. Monsters."

"Because they are. They killed a woman in cold blood over a DNA sample."

Frank looked to the wall and kept talking, trying to ignore his sister's last statement. "You know they found something weird in the boy's DNA."

"What?"

"I don't know. They didn't have enough of a sample to test again. They were going to send someone back to get another one, but the police were all over the place. It was risky. We decided to get a sample directly from the source but the kid was always around someone, we finally had a chance but then he disappeared."

Vanessa breathed out evenly and almost collapsed in worry and secret joy but her brother's voice captured her attention. It was soft and low. Not like the careless Hydra agent that was just speaking to her. "Nessa, why didn't you tell me? I could have helped you." Hurt filled his eyes sending a tight feeling throughout her body.

"I couldn't. You have always been close to Alice."

"I wouldn't have told her. I swear by it."

Vanessa snorted once before walking to the bars. "Frankie, you can't keep a secret even if your life depended on it."

"I would have kept this a secret. Hell, I would have come with you!"

Vanessa froze at the admission and carefully studied the man. Despite the hard exterior, she could see a flash of hurt and vulnerability behind his eyes. Realization dawned on her. She left him to survive Hydra alone. She, Vanessa Foster, left her little brother to fend for himself at the hands of what she would consider the most wicked of people, all alone.

"Frank, I am so sorry."

"Yeah, I bet you are," he grumbled. "Do you know what they did to me when you disappeared? They thought that I knew where you went. I swore to them that you didn't tell me, but of course they didn't believe me. Mom allowed for them to tourture the answer out of me."

"Frank-"

"They waterboarded me, electrocuted me, and beat me. They starved me for days! Locked me in the cells, not my room but the cells. They tied me to a chair and allowed the prisoners to beat their frustrations out on me. I begged and pleaded, but nobody believed me. This lasted for a month, then mom somehow seemed convinced that I didn't know anything so they let me go!" By the end of Franks rant he was shouting. His throat burned at the treatment but the man didn't care. Vanessa grew quiet as guilt clawed at her body.

"I sent a letter telling her that I was okay about a month after I left."

Frank kept his eyes on the ground. "Maybe that's why she stopped."

"I didn't know Alice allowed them to do that."

"For fucks sake, stop calling her Alice. She's our mother."

The siblings remained silent allowing the sounds of Frank's deep breathing to fill the air.

"No matter," Frank said without any emotion. He raised his head and Vanessa could see the vulnerable man that stood before her was now gone and the Hydra agent was back. "All that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is, when I get out of here, I'm going to tell them all I know. Where the compound is, your involvement. Everything. Let you see what it's like to be on the receiving end of mothers wrath for once."