New Life

Ivan is... 25

He smiles at her. "The famous Black Widow. It's amazing that you think you are all clean from your past just because you're apart of the 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes'? Do they even know who Ivan is to you?" Bucky steps in front of him. Samantha also steps forward, "What do you mean?" Madden laughs throwing his head back. "Natalia was once engaged to be married to him. But she ran away before anything further could happen. I'm guessing with the ring on your finger now that you are with metal man next to you am I right?" Samantha's eyes bulge out as she steps in front of Natasha and when she reaches her hand out to grab her left hand to inspect it, she is stopped when Natasha pushes her back roughly. 

"Yeah, it's someone the red room set her up with, but at that time she and I were seeing each other." Bucky raises his gun and leans it on his forehead, Steve looks a little worried not knowing what he was going to do next because the man just tried to pull something by bringing up Natasha's past. "Now...you're going to tell us where he is." Madden nods dropping his head in defeat. "I do plan to come out alive in the end because I still need to do the ceremony for my son. The last I seen Ivan was a month ago as you know, and that was in Tula, Russia. He's been quiet since so I don't know what he's been up to." 

After getting the answer they needed they untied him and let him go, but not before Olive puts a vibranium bracelet on him to monitor should they find out he lied. "Hope you aren't lying. This wont come off on its own." Olive warns before they leave him in the room. 

"That was easier than I thought." Olive comments as the make it to the exit of the event, Steve laughs at her amusement. 

They walk a couple blocks down to get to the cloaked quinjet. Just as they about to walk past their ride back home Maria opens the door calling them over. "I would think you guys would want to go home now right?'

Samantha is the first to walk onto the quinjet. "Wait home? We aren't going to Russia?" Maria shakes her head. "No you guys were to just get his location, we're going to send someone else to find Ivan. Unless Bucky and Natasha you wanted to go?" Bucky and Natasha sits across from each other, they make eye contact giving each other a signal before responding. "No, we're good. No reason to go further into my past, I've come to terms with." Natasha winks at Bucky who blushes lightly and turns to Steve who was sitting on his right. Maria walks to the front and sits in the co-pilot seat, next to another agent to get ready for take-off. 

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When the arrive back at the base, Samantha follows Bucky and Natasha inside and to the lounge room instead of the elevator to their room. Natasha stops walking, "Is there something you want Agent?" she asks while her back was still facing her.

"I just wanted to know for sure. Did Bucky really propose to you?" The tone she uses did not go unnoticed by Natasha. Bucky stops walking at the question and turns around to face Samantha. As she was waiting on Natasha's response she didn't notice Wanda, Yelena, and Sam entering the room behind her. Natasha turns around and if looks could kill...it'd be the one on her face now. "What the hell do you mean by that?! You almost make it seem like I forced him or it was so out of character for him to do so." She crosses her arms across her chest and changes her stance to her rest on her left leg a little more. Bucky wraps his left arm around Natasha's shoulder. "I did propose, I love her and I plan to live the rest of my life with her. And again I don't know why you are so interested in me, we have never done anything together that wasn't work-related." As Bucky was questioning her, Samantha notices they weren't alone in the room. "Bucky there's no way you could possibly mean that. I mean come on, sure Natasha has the looks but she isn't a good person. She was raised to basically be a killing machine." Natasha moved Bucky's arm from around her and steps forward to Samantha. She smiles at her and then slaps her hard across the face, she holds her cheek as she turns back to face her. Sam and Wanda all come closer, standing near where Bucky is on the other side. Yelena stays by the entrance behind Samantha.

"You might think you have me all figured out just because you read my files. Sure...I was raised that way, but do you know who trained me mmh?" Samantha shrugs her shoulders. "Well, you clearly don't know James enough and when you're insulting the way I was raised and trained then you're insulting him too. Because not only did we go through similar events but he also trained me in the red room." Samantha's eyes go from Natasha to Bucky and then to the floor as she lowers her head in shame.

She brings her head back up to continue, "It doesn't matter, because he was brainwashed and knew no better. But you..." Samantha lowers her hand from her cheek and steps up until they are chest to chest.

Wanda rolls her eyes, "Yeah okay, that's in the past and she knew that it was better to get on the good side, earlier than later. Don't forget that she actually sacrificed her life to save everyone, where were you when the half the population was dusted?" 

"I also...dusted for 5 years."

Samantha couldn't handle the defeat so she quickly pulls out her gun from her holster and aims and shoots at Natasha, but since she was rushing she didn't really take the time to aim. Everyone clatters around Natasha to see where she was shot and if it was serious. But Yelena grabs her gun and shoots Samantha 2 times, from the back shocking everyone who didn't see it coming. Maria walks in just to see her do it, stopping where she stood 5 feet away.

"What the hell is going on?!"

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They get Natasha in the med bay to treat her shoulder wound. "It's a good thing it was just her shoulder and not anywhere else critically damaging." Steve tries to comfort Bucky as he pats his back gently.

Maria walks into the med bay. "I just came to tell you that Ivan is confirmed dead. What exactly happened?" Steve groans walking next to Maria and answering, "Agent Samantha has been an obsession with Bucky and is constantly trying to get with him, insulting Natasha with her past. She pulled her gun first and shot her, Yelena shot her straight after." 

Natasha sits up in her bed, about just as she was leaving the room she runs into them standing in the lobby. She freezes like a kid who got stealing cookies out of the cookie jar. "Natasha are you okay now?" Maria rushes to her side wrapping her arm around her shoulder. Natasha waves her off with a smile nodding her head. She goes to stand in front of Bucky holding her arms out for him. Bucky looks at her with worry but when she gets to him and holds her arms out a smile come across his face as he leans down and snakes his arms around her waist hugging her tightly rocking gently side to side. As this was going on Maria and Steve nod at each other as they sneak out to give them some privacy.

"I'm glad all that is over. Now I don't have to worry about my doll anymore."

"Mmh...I know."

"How are you feeling about Ivan being confirmed dead now? Personally I am very happy. I can marry you soon, I can't wait."

Natasha laughs at his giddiness. "I'm happy too. I won't have to worry about my past coming back anytime soon."

(A/N: Hope you enjoy this long chapter. Samantha finally gets a deserving ending.)