Remember Me

Chapter 27

Steve, Bucky, Sam and Natasha have already completed a number of solo missions. Sam and Bucky are currently somewhere steaking out for a mission. Steve is on location with a team to take care of something.

Natasha is off on a solo mission. She is on location in a town where she has just hog-tied a suspect with a lot of evidence so the local police can find him and lock him up.

Natasha dusts off her clothes and grabs her phone. She goes to her contacts and calls Bucky.

"Hi James."

"Hey doll. Did the mission go as planned?"

"Good, it was a success. I'll be coming home soon, I have to finish some things here before heading out."

"Okay, see you soon."

"Love you."

"Love you too."

She puts the phone back into her jacket and walks down the street. She is trying to find where she left her motorcycle. She walks past a market that is now held there. It's crowded and she's trying to get through the crowd. In the distance she suddenly sees a woman standing among the people. She looks straight at Natasha. Natasha gets a bad feeling in her stomach. A few seconds later, the woman disappeared again. She knows it, it was Lilly. She looks around her and after a few feet Natasha notices a man, he is following her. She tries to shake him. When she walks around a corner she goes through the first door she sees and closes it behind her. She waits until she knows he's gone. A few minutes have passed and she decides to check if he's gone. She opens the door and peaks through it. The man suddenly appears in front of her and pushes her back inside. He pulls his gun and shoots. He misses. Natasha fights back. She hits the man a few times and he falls on the floor. Natasha puts her foot against his throat. "Who send you?!"

The man is making choking noises and is holding her foot trying to get loose from her grip.

"Who send you?!" She asks again.

"You can't escape her..." He whispers. "Nobody can..." She sees a purple glimmer in his eyes. The man pulls out a gun and shoots Natasha in the stomach. She falls to the ground. From her belt she grabs her gun and shoots him. He's dead.

Natasha groans. "Fuck!" She gets up and rips a piece of fabric from a curtain nearby and tries to put pressure in the wound. Natasha goes to the guy and searches his pockets. She finds a false passport but further nothing useful. She looks out the window to see if she sees more suspicious people following her. She takes the gamble and steps outside. She knows of a safe house nearby from her time as a Black Widow and walks to it.

Natasha finally arrives at the safe house. She types in the code for the door and leaves behind bloody fingerprints on the keyboard. Inside she searches the kitchen for a first aid box. She sits down at the dinner table and opens the box. She grabs the alcohol and needle so she can stitch the wound. She leans back and carefully takes off her shirt and pulls back the improvised bandage from her stomach. It's soaked with blood. She pores alcohol over the wound, she flinches an groans. With a clean cloth she dabs the excess blood. With tweezers she is fishing for the bullet. When she finds it she pulls it out slowly and throws it in the metal dish on the table. She starts sewing the wound. "Fuck." She whispers.

When she's finished she goes to the bedroom and throws on some fresh clothes. She finds a black shirt and an army jacket. She sits down on the bed and sighs.
She pulls her phone from her jeans. The phone is almost snapped in two. "Shit." She searches the room and in one of the drawers the finds an old Nokia phone. The battery is still working. "Yes!" She dials Bucky's number and puts the phone to her ear. She hears him ring. She hears Bucky picking up.