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Chapter 7 ~ Nat's POV:
I hiss as a Russian thug slaps my face and then glare at coldly. I stare ahead at the general, Luchkov as he interrogates me getting nothing from me. I look up at the thug as he tips my chair back and I try to get my footing a bit nervously. I raise a brow when the general calls me pretty and question it. I gasp as the thug grabs my face opening my mouth and the general pick up a pair of pliers. I move my jaw as the thug lets it go when the other thug's cell phone rings.
I frown as the general puts the phone between my ear and shoulder.
"We need you to come in." Phil Coulson says in my ear and I roll me eyes.
"Are you kidding? I'm working!" I tell him and he says it's important, I argue saying the general is an idiot while giving him a look.
"Natasha, Barton has been compromised." Phil says and my eyes widen slightly as my heart drops. I feel my blood run cold and then remember this is not the time to breakdown.
"Let me put you on hold." I say and nod to the general to take the phone. When he is close enough I kick his shin, head-butting him and stands with my arms still attached to the chair.
I attack the two thugs and knock them both out without breaking a sweat. I grab the general's leg wrapping a chain around it and let him drop from the open floor turning to grab the phone. I pick it up and my heels. "Where's Barton now?"
"We don't know." My handler answers and I shudder thinking I might lose Clint. I keep walking and bite my lip."
"But he's alive." I say not question because I won't face that.
"We think so. I'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy." He answers and I stop in my tracks.
"Coulson, this isn't about Banner it's about my husband!" I practically yell and my body trembles as I think of the kids. "Coulson, where are the kids?"
"I took them to Barney, Nat. They're very safe. The second I knew what happened with Clint, I moved them." He tells me and I sigh in relief making a mental note to call my brother-in-law soon.
"Agent Romanoff, we need you to go get Dr. Bruce Banner. You information files will be in your apartment and you're scheduled to leave in a few hours with a team just in case." Director Fury interrupts on the line and by his voice I know it isn't an option.
"Yes, sir." I answer quickly and the line goes dead. I curse in Russian and frown wishing I had Clint as my backup not a team of random S.H.I.E.L.D agents, I never could play well with others.
I get back to the motel I've been using and go in my small room frowning as I see the familiar TOP SECRET file lying on the bed. I throw my shoes in my open suitcase and pull off my ripped tights sitting down to read the file's instructions. I rub my forehead and sigh getting up to change into more comfortable clothes.
I sit in the small chair by the window and grab my phone hitting number 4 speed dial – Barney Barton. I look out at the moon as the phone rings and try my best not to get upset right now going into the spy mode, hard and distant.
"Hello? Natasha?" Barney's voice, so much like Clint's, breaks my thoughts.
"Oh yeah, Barney…where are they? Are they safe?" I say immediately and bite my lip.
"Yeah, the kids are fine. Asleep on the floor with Liza." He answers and I sigh in relief. "Natasha, what's going on with my brother?"
"He's been compromised, taken by someone from a completely different world. He's a demi-god from legend and a very evil man. Don't speak a word of this to Lucas or Aliyah." I answer and sigh thinking of how much I wish I could just hug my babies. I frown knowing they'd ask about their daddy and I would break my own heart by lying to them telling them he's fine.
"Well, are they tracking him?"
"Yes but nothing. He took a new collapsible bow that doesn't have a tracker yet. We'll find him though…I have to, Barney. I can't lose him and my kids will not grow up fatherless." I say my voice cracking and I wipe away a tear that has fallen down my cheek.
"If anyone can find that crazy boy, you can. He loves you, Lucas and Aliyah more than anything in the world and that can't be lost inside of him. Brainwashed or not." My brother-in-law says and I close my eyes with a sigh.
"I know…Look, I have a mission. Once I get settled from things I'll call and I will talk to my babies. Don't tell them about Clint." I say as a final command and hang up going to get ready to go to India to find Dr. Bruce Banner.
Within a couple of hours I am picked up via Quinjet with about a dozen other S.H.I.E.L.D agents and a few smile sadly as I go to sit near the front of the aircraft. I nod in response knowing they know about Clint and I being partners and more. I strap myself in and lean my head back sleeping for most of the two hour flight.
Upon arriving in India, I get a little girl from a small house nearby to the safe house to find Banner and lead him here at all costs. I persuade him to come into S.H.I.E.L.D and bring him there on the Helicarrier HQ. I show him around quickly running into Coulson and Captain Steve Rogers.
For the next few days, we all are trying our best to think of a plan of action. I do my best to keep my focus away from Clint in danger and just on saving him.