Skye Widow

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"Why didn't we see it?" May demanded as she paced back and forth in front of the one way window to the interrogation cell Skye was in. The very second after they processed the word 'predecessor' from Skye's mouth in terms of talking about Natasha, Hand had the girl carted off to the cell while she tried to get ahold of the Black Widow who was apparently in the building somewhere.

FitzSimmons were shooed off to a laboratory and kept far away from what was going on while Ward was sent to keep an eye on them. Having too many people there would not be good.

"We didn't think to look." Coulson said looking upset and a bit dismayed as he stared at the girl who wasn't making any movements but he had no doubt she had already picked the handcuffs and probably even the anti-tech bracelet that she was wearing.

"That shouldn't matter! I helped deprogram Natasha and you were her handler and there from the very minute Clint brought her in! How did neither of us notice anything?" May demanded as she glanced at the schooled expression on Skye's face.

"Anything we did notice was brushed off as coincidence or something she learned in the foster homes. We never thought that she could be a trained assassin, especially given how young she looks." Coulson said running a hand through his receding hair line.

"What's this I'm hearing about another assassin like me?" Natasha demanded not even surprised at Coulson being alive as she stormed over to them with Agent Hand following behind.

"She says that you're her predecessor. She knows the Tili Tili Bom song, she used your thigh choke with ease, and she took down three trained specialists without a weapon and without breaking a sweat." May said looking at her friend who stared through the window at the girl in the room who was staring at the window with a blank face.

Natasha winced at how hollow the girls eyes were. She wondered how long she had been captive and what all she had seen and done.

"Anything else?" Natasha demanded as she stared at the girl who seemed to be staring back.

"She's good at undercover. We never noticed that she's like you were when you were brought in before you were deprogrammed. Hell we had no clue about anything involving any of this until she decided to sleep with a target to keep him in place for us to grab him. Of course she wouldn't tell us about that part of it, no we had to hear about that from another agent who had came across Skye being tagged to the wall with an anti-tech bracelet. She even says the same thing you do about love being for children." Coulson said making Natasha nod as she moved for the door, Hand going with her.

"I want to learn who trained this girl and why the hell she's in my building." Victoria said in answer to the questioning look Natasha was giving her.

"Are you my new handlers? Or my targets?" Skye asked as soon as the two women walked into the room, making Victoria stay close to the door and eye the girl warily. Natasha just strode over to the chair opposite of Skye and sat down without pause.

"Neither. I'm your predecessor according to you." Natasha said without preamble making Skye stare at her blankly for a moment.

"You're the woman they were trying to make me replace. You're the same one who busted in and caused a big enough distraction that I managed to escape at the last minute." Skye said her voice and eyes blank as she stared at Natasha who raised an eyebrow at this.

"So you were programmed and trained to replace me. How come I haven't heard of you before then?" Natasha asked staring at the younger woman who raised a single eyebrow right back at the Russian.

"Is it not the job of a spy and assassin to keep to the shadows? Not all of us can be public assassins." Skye asked in return making Natasha pause for a second at that.

"Well she isn't wrong about that." Victoria noted since she had often thought that having two of their best assassins as part of a public team like the Avengers as being stupid. Sure they were often overshadowed by their enhanced and much bigger teammates like Thor and Hulk and Captain America but Black Widow and Hawkeye were still rather public for assassins.

"When did you begin training?" Natasha asked making Skye hum a bit.

"I think I was two. Hard to tell when you don't have a birthday." Skye said making Natasha wince. At least she had been about four or five when the Red Room had killed her parents and taken her. The girl across from her hadn't even had time to make memories of her parents.

"And how old were you when you got free?" Natasha demanded making Skye hum a bit again.

"Thirteen if I was two when they took me. Interesting word choice however. Free? You should know better than anyone that you never get free from them. You escape them and you run and hide and pray like hell that if they do catch you and take you back, you're dead. You're never free from them." Skye said with a small twisted smirk at the end as something glinted in her eyes but it passed too quickly for them to tell what it was.

"Jesus you were just a kid." Victoria said her eyes widening at that as she looked at the girl who didn't look any older than twenty. How long had a trained assassin been running around without their knowledge? How long had someone trained to replace the Black Widow been running around in the shadows like a ghost? Victoria very carefully did not blink when the girls brown eyes locked onto her.

"So is everyone else they take. Most of the other girls were lucky. They died during training and had a few memories of their parents. I was the only one who didn't have any knowledge of my parents or any possible family members…and I was the only one to survive. They seemed quite pleased with my progress. I was all set for the graduation ceremony when you busted in and destroyed them." Skye said turning her eyes from Victoria back to Natasha as she spoke.

"They and them, you keep mentioning it but you haven't said who they are yet." Natasha pointed out although she had a sinking horrified feeling in her gut right now.

"You mean you didn't piece it together? It's obvious who would want a replacement for you isn't it?" Skye asked her lips twitching up into a rather dark smile that looked so out of place on her face.

"Who?" Victoria asked leaning forward.

Natasha's breath hitched as her worst suspicions were confirmed as Skye leaned forward and hissed out the answer.

"Who else?" Skye asked rhetorically before her eyes seemed to glint darkly as she pulled up her hands to show that she was no longer in the cuffs or the bracelet and that she had somehow gotten ahold of a knife without either of the spies noticing.

Natasha didn't even bat an eye as she kept her eyes locked onto the younger womans, feeling a kinship with the girl that she'd do anything to give a second chance too.

This kid deserved the same second chance that she herself had gotten despite all the red in her ledger.

After all they were both created to be monsters by the same people.

"Red Room."