The Widows Daughter

Part thirty-four

A few weeks later.
(Third person POV)

As the weeks passed, it came closer to Christmas. After finding out that Chloe had never celebrated it, Natasha decided to make it extra special.

The compound was decorated, movies had been watched, story's had been told, and arrangements had been made.

While it was true that Chloe had never celebrated Christmas, she knew what it was and what it was for. Although, she appreciated their efforts. She thought it was funny.

Meanwhile, rumors about Brock Rumlow started to swirl around the net.

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(Steve's POV)

"I'll see what I can do. Mom said I might be able to come Christmas Eve, but she wasn't sure. Yeah. Yeah, I'll talk to her about it. I don't know. Cap has this thing that he wanted to look into and I said I would come as backup just in case, so we'll see. Yeah. Okay. Alright. I'll talk to you later. Tell everyone I said hi. Bye." I sat at the table with a computer when Chloe hung up the phone as she walked in.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"Boyfriend." She joked and I raised an eyebrow at her.

"That was Cooper. Mom said I might be able to go spend Christmas with them. Something about have Christmas in a house instead of a compound. She thought it might do me some good to do something normal." She explained sitting across from me.

Ah.

"Ah. You sure you want to come tomorrow night?" I asked referring to the mission.

We were going to leave on tomorrow, fly to California and scope out a lead. Then we'd fly back on Saturday. Christmas Eve.

If all went according to plan, we might actually get back before Saturday.

Hopefully.

"Yeah. I'm sure. What could go wrong, right?" Chloe smiled.

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(Natasha's POV)

"Well, Chloe's going on a mission, but should be back by the twenty-fourth." I said into the phone.

"So you guys are gonna come then?" Clint asked on the other end.

"Most likely. Although it will depend on how it goes. But yes." I said.

"Listen, I gotta go, Chloe needs something. I'll talk to you later." I told Clint when Chloe came in motioning for me to come.

Clint said goodbye and then I hung up following Chloe.

"What's wrong." I asked her.

"Steve's going on about something, and I'm not getting any of it. I need you to translate." She said pulling me with her.

What?

Before we got to the conference room I could hear Steve going on about something.

"Nat! Good! I'm glad you're here! We need to leave now!" He said as soon as I walked in.

"What?" Chloe and I said at the same time.

"Someone fitting the description of Rumlow was seen in L.A. ten minutes ago. If we leave now, we might have a chance to get him before he does any damage." He explained.

Okay?

"We have to leave now?" Chloe asked.

"Yeah. I got word that Rumlow's been looking for something to do a lot of damage with." Steve told us.