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    “You were pregnant.”

    13 years ago those words had broken Natasha’s heart and numbed it to ice. 13 years ago Madame told Natasha they’d killed the child in her womb during her graduation ceremony. 13 years ago Dreykov forced Natasha to watch as the Winter Soldier was wiped of all memory of her.

    She’d had cause to curse the Red Room a thousand times over but even she hadn't seen this coming. She'd never imagined Madame lied. She hadn’t considered Dreykov would want to keep the Winter Soldier’s child.

    When Steve asked her to look for Bucky, she didn’t expect to find him. She wasn't prepared to find a 10 year old with red hair, green eyes, and her James's features.

    She thought she’d lost her child forever, before she even had her, but it was all a lie. Now suddenly she’s mother to a traumatised 10 year old girl more familiar with guns than hugs. Her child has spent 3 years frozen in cryogenic storage and the other 10 training as a Widow.

    And Natasha would go to the ends of the earth and fight any monster to protect her daughter but even she might not be up to the task of protecting her baby girl. Because the Red Room is still out there, and Dreykov will stop at nothing.

    Set after CA:TWS

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    She didn’t make it.

    Steve’s answer wasn’t a surprise. Some part of Bucky must have known that the only reason Romanoff wouldn’t have been in the thick of this battle with her team was because she was dead. But the feeling welling up in Bucky’s chest, so big and unbearable that it crowded out the air in his lungs until he could barely breathe, so sudden that it nearly brought him to his knees, that was a surprise. He knew whatever expression was on his face right now wasn’t the right one, because Romanoff was—had been—an acquaintance at best, a friend of a friend, and yet here he was, struggling to keep it together at the news.

    An icy rime of fear crept in over and around the tidal wave of grief. What did his body know that his mind didn’t?

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