chapter twenty one, real or not — act two, the anger
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Location: BAU office
Quantico, Virginia
July 11, 2016

PENELOPE GARCIA IS MANY THINGS things to many people. She is kind, understanding, and overall a ray of sunshine, she always brightens up the day especially after dealing with a heavy case. But the one thing she is not good at is keeping secrets. Yet she somehow kept a secret for awhile but is now completely busted.

Garcia glances around the room seeing everyone waiting for her to speak, she feels a squeeze in her hand as Tony gives her an encouraging smile. In normal circumstances she would have been freaked out that Tony Stark smiled at her but she can't at this moment.

Garcia lets out a breath not knowing she was holding it in for so long, "Please don't be mad."

Hotch shook his head as he and the rest of the team could never ever really stay mad at Garcia, "I won't, now what do you know."

Penelope squirm around her chair since is not much she knows, "I don't know much she called me after she left the hospital saying she need to do something, then again about I don't know maybe 2 days ago to check in saying she was fine but still no way for me to track her since she was using a burner phone."

The rest of the team nodded at that Steve moved forward, "At least we know they are okay assuming that they are together."

Bucky glances at the pictures as he furrows his brows. Sam teasingly, notices his behavior, "What is it metal arm?"

Bucky rolls his eyes at Sam's teasing but answers anyways, "I know this blonde girl I recognize her but not sure from where. And somehow both Natasha and Emily seem familiar to me."

Many were confused how Bucky might know these girls but sometimes they all forget that Bucky was under hydra for a long time. Steve moves towards Bucky, "Do you think you can try to remember?"

Bucky was about to reply when JJ and Wanda entered the room and they both immediately noticed the tension of the room. Wanda eyes JJ then back to her team, "What did we miss?"

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Location: Vostokoff's residence
                                St. Petersburg, Russia
                                July 10, 2016

"Did that pig just open the door?"

The three sisters and Alexei had dumbfounded look. A pig just opened a door. Now all of them live in a pretty weird world with aliens, gods, etc, but seeing a pig open a door on its own was really bizarre. The girls glance up at Melina, who had a big smile on her. Melina loved her pigs, as she went down to pet it.

"Yes. It did. Good boy, Alexei. Good boy."

Emily let a snort out as Yelena and Natasha had a tiny teasing smile that was hard to notice but it was there. Alexei did not know how to feel, "You named a pig after me?"

Melina turns to Alexei, "You don't see the resemblance?"

Melina glance down on her tablet as she press a button that starts to control the pig as the pig sit down on the floor, "See, he sits just like a dog. Now, watch."

Alexei was honestly a little confused on this whole thing, "It's a little weird, to me."

"Stop breathing."

All heads turn to Melina. Did she just instruct this pig to stop breathing? What the fuck, is going on? Melina had her head down to the tablet as she was controlling the pig and she continued her point.

"We infiltrated the North Institute in Ohio. It was a front for S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists. Actually, it was Hydra scientists at that time. In conjunction with the Winter Soldier project, they had dissected and deconstructed the human brain. We didn't steal weaponry or technology. We stole the key to unlocking free will."

The three sisters did not say anything. Emily was staring down at the table, Yelena had tears in her eyes, and Natasha just stared at Melina. Natasha spoke out as she heard the pig groan, "What are you doing?"

Melina looked at Natasha, "Oh, I am explaining that the science is now so exact, the subject can be instructed to stop breathing and has no choice but to obey."

The pig fell down as there was no air going through its lungs, Natasha looked back at Melina, "Okay, you made your point. That's enough."

"Yes, all right. Well, don't worry, Alexei could've survived 11 more seconds without oxygen. Good boy. Now, you go back, back home where it's safe. Good boy, Alexei."

Melina turns back to the girls and Alexei, "The world functions on a higher level when it is controlled. Dreykov has chemically subjugated agents planted around the globe."

Yelena looked ahead as she spoke out, "And do you know who they test it on?"

Melina gives it a second before answering, "No. That's not my department."

Alexei harden his expression at Melina, "Ah, come on, come on. Don't lie to them. Hmm?"

"I'm not lying."

"You're Dreykov's architect, huh?"

Melina looks at Alexei intensely, "What were you? If I was his architect, you were his partner. You were his business partner."

Alexei frustration was building as he slammed his hands on the table, "He sell me ideology.

"Stop with the politics."

"All the while, bigger..."

Before Alexei could finish, Emily slammed her hands on the table. Emily stares straight at Melina and Alexei, "Don't come up with that bullshit. You guys don't give a single fuck about us. Because if you did you would have not done what you did."

The room was pure silence. Normally silence can be so soothing and calming at times or it can be suffocating as it creeps in there air. The atmosphere was nothing but tense. With the three sisters feeling frustration between their own thoughts and between their suppose "parents."

Melina eye Emily, as she could see the pain in her eyes. Alexei lightly glances at her, "Look at miss FBI agent, she doesn't take shit from anyone. I could have been more proud."

Emily scoffed at him, "What is wrong with you. Do you not understand anything? What is there to be proud of? We are not a family. You both lost the title of being a mom and dad the second you left us."

Melina glances down in shame. Emily was right. Alexei was about to say something but Natasha interrupted him, "You are an idiot."

Natasha turns to Melina, "And you're a coward. You're a coward. And our family was never real, so there's nothing to hold on to. We're moving on."

Yelena was quiet the entire time just glancing down at the table. It hurts because this family fake or not, is all she knows.

Alexei once again opened his big mouth, "Never family, huh? In my heart, I am a simple man. And I think that for a couple deep undercover Russian agents I think we did pretty great as parents, huh?"

Emily gritted out, "It hurts. It really does, but you were never my mom or dad."

Natasha nodded her head in agreement, "Don't try to make it seem like you care because you don't."

Melina nodded in agreement to Alexei's statement ignoring what the girls had said, "Yes, we had our orders, and we played our roles to perfection."

Natasha rebuttals back, "Who cares? That wasn't real."

Yelena turned her head to Natasha and Emily as both sisters notice her the sadness in her eyes, "What?"

"That wasn't real. Who cares?"

Yelena looks at them then back ahead, "Don't say that. Please don't say that. It was real. It was real to me."

Yelena turns to Melina, "You are my mother. You were my real mother. The closest thing I ever had to one. The best part of my life was fake. And none of you told me."

Yelena takes a deep breath, "And those agents you chemically subjugated around the globe? That was me."

Yelena turns at Emily, "You tried but when you decided to check on me I was barely out. You did not even decide to check again."

Emily glances down in guilt. Yelena moves to Natasha, "And you, you got out. Dreykov made sure no one could escape. Because of your escape we suffered the punishment. Are you gonna say anything?."

No one answer. The silence was enough to answer Yelena's question, as she let out harden chuckle, "No. Okay then."

Yelena had enough of this. She got up, grabs the bottle of vodka and makes her way to a room. Melina tries to reach out for Yelena, "Don't touch me."

"Yelena."

"Lena."

"I had no idea."

Melina really did not know. But it hurts knowing that her girls went through this. And it was all her fault. Alexei gets up, "It's okay, it's okay. I'll go talk to her.

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notes!

The reason Bucky does not remember the girls is for one his minds was played with and two he is under recovery so his mind blocks out many things.

Also I start another new story on my page if you want to check it out were caroline (from the vampire dairies) is nat and lena sister so the supernatural gang and the avengers watch their past! Is called reverie if you want to check it out!

Also i'm sorry if I'm slow on these updates, just life has been pretty chaotic lately and still trying to get it all under control.

But anyways we are one chapter away from end of act 2 !!!!

MAKE SURE YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!! ❤️