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Natasha is a super secret spy (firstwidow) wrote in marvel_prep,
@ 2014-07-28 10:12:00

Entry tags:

agent 13, black widow

Thread: A New Chapter (Natalia & Sharon)
Characters: Natalia Romanova & Sharon Carter
NPCs: —
Location: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, NYC
Timeline: July 19, 2014 [backdated]
Description: Confirmations on things suspected and Natalia becomes Natasha.
Rating: PG-13, maybe some minor cursing in Russian

It didn't take Natalia very long to figure out the cryptogram. When she sat down and put her mind to it, she finished in a few hours. The date and place where she was going to meet the person responsible for all these packages. She sent some texts to Bucky to ask him a few questions about something she had a feeling had just as much to do with him as it now did with her. So when the date rolled around for her to meet the person, she already came to the conclusion as to what really happened.

Her name was Natasha Romanoff, she was born in the 50s, and Russia, or the Soviet Union at the time, put her on ice until they had the technology needed to turn her into what she was now today. And the scary thing was, all of this somehow made sense and felt right to her. It wasn't like she woke up feeling like she was a person out of time, but she often felt like something wasn't quite right. She wanted to know why SHIELD kept this from her, and also, if it was SHIELD sending her any of this at all. She didn't dare talk to Bucky about this, or even Jim. Not yet. Not until she met the person and could judge for herself. It was stupid, really, but Natalia wasn't so easily taken down. She trained since she was 3 or 4 years old, so she was sure she could handle herself just fine. Or so she hoped. Hubris was likely her downfall.

She came to the small shop and walked inside. Dressed for the summer, she wore a pair of comfortable shorts and a nice blouse, though somewhere on her person, hidden very well, were a number of weapons. The bag she had held her gauntlets, the ones she could easily slip on and give whomever she might get into a fight with the shock of their life.

That's when she spotted a familiar face.

Agent Carter. She recognized her from her working alongside Fury. Sending Sharon there, well, it meant that SHIELD really was behind this. Or so she was meant to believe. She never really spoke with Sharon much, but knew of her. She knew she was a good SHIELD agent, well-respected among her peers, and wicked smart. If she weren't sitting at the exact table specified in the cryptogram, Natalia might have dismissed it SHIELD keeping tabs on her.

She ordered a drink and then took a seat as the second hit clicked onto the 12 of the minute she was meant to meet the person at. Natalia smiled as she took a drink, "Good afternoon."

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second13
2014-07-28 05:08 pm UTC (link)

The café she'd chosen had a wonderful array of tables along the streets. It was getting a little cloudy, but it there wasn't supposed to be a storm for a few hours. It was plenty of time to get what needed to be done, finished. She sat there with a cool drink before her. The glass was coated wit perspiration as the little lemon ledge sat on the tip edge. She hadn't bothered to check her watch since ten minutes prior. She'd thought about getting a snack to help pass the time.

Today all the cloak and dagger came to an end. At least, it would in regards to Natasha's history. She didn't have to walk by her like she didn't know what was happening now. That would be a welcome change.

Sharon thought of standing up, but Natasha had already sat down by the time she'd looked up from her phone. Not very professional, but this was a public location and she doubted the girl would want to hurt her before finding out what the hell was going on, or why she'd been left a trail of breadcrumbs over the course of two months. "Hi," the woman said, finishing a text, before looking up at the girl across from her.

She waited for the girl to get settled with her drink, before leaning over to dig into the attaché case beside her.

A moment later, she slipped a folder across the table. "Last piece, but you might have figured it out already." Inside was her birth certificate. She had one more thing to give the graduate, but she wanted to see how she reacted to the confirmation first.

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firstwidow
2014-07-29 02:51 am UTC (link)

Natalia sat down with her cup, taking a long drink from it before she was pushed another folder. She wasn't sure what else she could give her that could tell her anything new, but maybe this was just the final confirmation. What Sharon said made it clear that she knew that Natalia already made her conclusions. She took the folder, setting aside her drink, and then opened it to find the birth certificate inside. The date printed there was 1952, though the month and the date were the same ones she was familiar with. That made her...sixty-one now, turning sixty-two in September. The name printed there was the one she'd seen as well. Natasha Romanoff.

Yes, this was the confirmation she needed. Natalia didn't pursue over whether this was real or not, because deep down she knew it was. All of it. SHIELD officially gave her her past and exposed to her what she had every right to know. Natalia closed the folder quietly after her momentary observation of the slip of paper and then looked up at Sharon with a steady look.

"Is there a reason I'm being told this now?" she asked, her voice even. Natalia didn't really care what the answer might be, because she knew what she needed to know. She did want to know what SHIELD's motives were, however, though she doubted she would be told anything other than what they wanted to tell her. SHIELD was good at secrets, considering how well they kept all this from her and she didn't even have the slightest clue as to what they knew.

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second13
2014-07-29 05:09 pm UTC (link)

Sharon contemplated going on some sort of whole speech about her achievements and responsibilities and all sorts of other things, but that wasn't something you did for an elder. The thought made her smile. Natasha looked so young, but was old enough to be her mother. She'd watched the other girl carefully, and even so, she wasn't sure she could fully trust her reaction. The girl was good at what she did and could probably not have been as open in expressing herself as Sharon would have liked.

Instead of verbally answering the question that was posed she handed her a small booklet. She waited for her to open it and view the badge inside before punctuating the reveal. "Welcome to Level 1, Agent." Sharon was several levels above her, but that had been because she got doctored in, much like Steve had.

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firstwidow
2014-07-30 02:30 pm UTC (link)

Natalia took the booklet and opened it up. Sharon's words confirmed what it showed her. Level 1 within SHIELD. No more Junior Agent title. The picture there was of her from when she first went to SHIELD and went through the whole process of finger printing, retinal scanning, and so on. It shouldn't have made her feel so proud of herself, but it did, and while it left her question unanswered, it sort of answered it for her. She did notice the name on there though and she wasn't sure if SHIELD either knew her better than she realized, or concluded, rather easily, she would want the change.

Natasha Romanoff.

"Thank you," Natasha said politely, and closed the booklet for now. The brief scan of the some of the text in her booklet said she was no longer going to require someone on her mission with her or anyone watching her. She'd have a handler, of course, but she was ready to start doing things on her own. Somewhat surprising, considering what got her in trouble a few months ago, but at the same time, she suspected that SHIELD saw she was ready to move on.

She looked to Sharon, "Are you back to the school now?"

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second13
2014-08-04 03:53 pm UTC (link)

"I've got a few weeks of freedom left, but they're probably going to call me back to write up Lesson Plans. They were drawn up for me when I started in the middle of the year," she said with a shrug.

"I don't have a fancy introductory mission briefing to give you or anything, not that we need one in this city," she said lazily. In the past two months, they'd had more destructive activity than the school had seen in a year. It was sad how quickly people wanted to blame mutants for the whole earthquake thing when humans who consciously participated in drug usage had caused just as much.

"You got one up on the boys, though," she said referring to the two who had graduated in her class. It was always nice to have a lady on top. She couldn't say the same for herself, but to be fair one was a cyborg and the other had a super soldier serum to give him an edge.

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firstwidow
2014-08-04 10:30 pm UTC (link)

She had a hard time imagining Sharon as a teacher and not in the field. Natasha never really saw Sharon in action, but she did see her with Fury a lot of the time when May wasn't. It would be strange not seeing her there and instead blending in at the school. Yet, she figured that Sharon would do just fine there. She probably would end up with a few male students as her admirers as well.

She nodded as she took another drink, "It's New York, there's always something going on." Even not counting more recent activities, the smaller missions she did for SHIELD when things were "peaceful" told her enough of what to expect. She might not always be in the field, but it would be somewhat satisfying to know that she could go in the field and be less worried about being graded and more about getting the job done her way.

"I've been doing this longer," Natasha smirked, "but they'll get there yet. They should be up for evaluation soon, shouldn't they?"

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second13
2014-08-05 05:08 pm UTC (link)

Sharon couldn't help but smile and shrug at the statement of New York always having something going on. It was true. There was always something exciting happening in the city that never slept. It was why she preferred staying down at the Triskelion or even on the Helicarrier. There was time for preparation that way. Then again, New York threw her into the blitz of things and made her feel closer to her aunt in a way. This was especially true if she was moving along side Steve. "Hopefully it decides to take a break," she said, before taking a sip of her drink.

"You know that information is classified," Sharon said with a raise of her brows. While the badge said level 1, Natasha was being tested for a higher level priority placement. While there was still a lot for her to learn, she'd done so much in such a little time, that it was only her maturity and decision making that came into question. She'd made it this far. Sharon felt it wouldn't be long until she went further.

"Did you have any interesting plans for the rest of your summer?" Visiting Russia for instance.

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firstwidow
2014-08-05 10:06 pm UTC (link)

Natasha gave a mysterious smile, "I know." Yes, she knew it was classified, but that didn't meant she couldn't ask to see if something might slip. She tested her own limits and also those around her. Loose lips were not likely to be trusted with secrets. She didn't expect Sharon to let anything slip though. Whatever happened with her friends in SHIELD training, she knew they could never know what she was. The badge they gave her said "espionage" and the fewer people that knew she was involved with SHIELD, the better.

"Not particularly," Natasha admitted, "Just settling in for the new school year ahead of me. I expect my job will make my free time sparse and so I want to keep everything in order." To maintain a good cover, it needed maintenance and checking and double checking. School was her cover, so she had more than classes to keep up with. There were people there as well. People who knew Natalia Romanova, not Natasha Romanoff.

She took another drink, "I should probably get to work on that. Thank you, Ms. Carter." She paused, "Can I call you Sharon?"

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second13
2014-08-12 07:38 pm UTC (link)

It wasn't hard to see why Natasha had been chosen, not when she smiled that way. It was unsettling how pretty she could become so quickly. Sharon may not have been interested in bedding her, but she understood the importance of being aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

"You and I will both be doing some settling," she said, not sounding particularly happy about it. "And Sharon's fine. Ms. Carter makes me sound older than you," she said making a face. It was an honest face and a bit of a tease. She clearly looked older than the redhead before her.

"Oh, and Agent 13 when in uniform, if you don't mind."

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