Chapter 2: Sting
There was fire, burning red fire and she could hear screams telling her to run. She thinks that they were her parents but she doesn't know. She got outside just in time before the house collapsed. She was only four. There was a man waiting outside and he told her to come with him, that everything would be okay. But it wasn't, it never was.
Natasha was jolted out of that faint memory when someone entered the room. It was a different man this time. He was older, looked like a scientist. He started walking towards her with this weird look in his eyes.
"Hi, I'm doctor Hellosh and I'll be your doctor today"
She remembered him, he was the one that gave her the serem, the one who tortured her for hours, making her believe that she was fighting for good, the one who made her the Black Widow.
"Ah so you remember me. I knew you would, I just didn't think I'd ever see you again. You were my best patient though, so I won't be the one to complain."
He started pulling something out of his pocket, it was a needle. Natasha knew what was in it. She remembered all the times it would be injected into her blood after a bad mission, after she screwed up.
Natasha looked at Steve, and he looked back. She prayed that he wouldn't see the real monster she once was. She spent so long learning to trust again and trying to earn peoples trust. Ya she did a lot of bad in her life but she was trying to make amends, trying to clear the red of her ledger. Natasha knew that no matter what good she did, she would never be able to erase the bad but it could make things at least a little better. She felt the sting of the needle in her neck and then everything went black.
Her last sight was of Steve fighting against his binds, yelling at him to stop. If only he knew that even when the torture subsides, the pain never really does.
Enjoy;)