A/N: Hi all! Thank you so much to Cara Tala, Theta-McBride, crazy1person2you3been4warned and Torilovesu for reviewing chapter 5! You guys are awesome! I hope that everyone also had a Happy New Year! Now here's the next chapter!
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Chapter 6: Reunion
Anastasia followed her big sister through the labyrinth of hallways to her new room. Natasha eventually stopped outside a door and turned to look at Anastasia before quickly scanning the hallway for people. When she found that there was no one around, she typed a code into the keypad on the wall beside the door.
Anastasia followed Natasha inside and shut the for behind them. Natasha walked over to the small couch and sat down while Anastasia looked around the room. It wasn't too small or too big, it was a pretty good size room, and it had a couch, a tv, an en suite, a bunk bed and some drawers. Pretty good living standards compared to what she'd lived in before.
She then looked at Natasha, who was still sitting on the couch. She seemed to be partly in her own world right then, so Anastasia jumped agilely onto the top bunk and lay down on the comfy mattress. She breathed out a sigh, enjoying the comfort that she had been deprived from since moving to Wolfsburg.
The two sisters stayed silent for the next ten minutes. Anastasia decided to ask Natasha how she was and catch up.
"How have you been, Natty?" she sued quietly. She waited a little while for a response.
"I'm alive, Taisha, so I guess I'm doing okay. I've been better, though," Natasha admitted, giving no hint of an explanation. Anastasia had noticed that, even when Natasha was a child, she kept her emotions and feelings boxed up and hidden from the world, and she had never been the one to ask for help, either. That was one of the reasons that she escaped from the orphanage so long ago. "What about you?"
"Oh, you know, been here and there for the last few years now. Some people in Europe can be really scary, but you just have to deal with it and move on," Anastasia responded. It was quiet for another minute as both girls thought about what the other had said.
Anastasia found the guts after a minute to ask Natasha something important. "Who was that man on the screen before, Tash?"
"No one," Natasha answered too quickly, making Anastasia see right through the lie.
"Well, you looked pretty worried about no one, then," Anastasia said back. Natasha looked down at her hands, playing with her fingers.
"His name is Clint," she told her after a while. "Clint Barton."
"Who is he, and why were you so worried about him?" Natasha sighed and adjusted her position, picking her legs up and crossing them on the couch.
"The story starts when I came back to the orphanage to visit you for the last time. I knew that I was being followed, and I wanted to keep you safe. Clint was following me; he was sent to kill me because I had become a threat to SHIELD, and he was the best agent they had. He still is, in fact. I led him away from you, and he approached me the next night. He told me that he was sent to kill me, but he made a different call. He thought that I could be an asset to SHIELD, and-" Natasha stopped suddenly and put her hand to her right ear. Anastasia could her the voice coming from the earpiece. It was Director Fury.
"Right away, sir," Natasha responded, looking at her younger sister. She let go of the button. "Fury wants both of us on the bridge, where we were before. Loki is on his way to the cage," she said to Anastasia.
They both got up and left the room, Anastasia shutting the door behind them.
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