68. Torn

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Devon sits by River's side, hearing the beeps and sounds coming to help him stay alive and breathe. Matt sits with her, keeping her company. Shes just in disbelief. There was a price to be paid. She took one of HYDRAs weapons and for that, her mother died and her brother hurt.

She had said nothing to nobody, besides Issac. Matt knew that she was holding it in, trying to keep anyone away from her problems. He knew that she will break. He held her hand and she stares at her River.

"Hobbs." Mahoney comes in, he's trying again to get to her, tell her what had happened. Because the first time, she was in a whole different world.

"Maybe not now Mahoney." Matt stands up. "Maybe tomorrow? Shes in a bad place."

"I get it. But if we want to get this guy, i need to understand why this happened." Matt sighs. He kept telling him no.

"You cant catch this guy." Matt tells him.

"Take me to her." Devon spoke. The two men turned to her.

"Sweetheart..." He held her face, cupped her cheeks with his hands.

"I want to see her." She told him.

"I don't think that's possible." Mahoney coughs up. Devon pulls her eyes away from her brother, standing up and heading over to Mahoney.

"I want to see her." Her cold tone sent the man in shivers. No argument there. Matt and Devon went with Mahoney. She stares out the window as they drove away to the place that her mother was held in. Matt held onto her hand as he heard her shaky breathing. Just by that touch, Devon wanted to fall apart.

She sees the smoky area, the fire was finally put out. Devon was the first one out, she just heads straight to the burned down building.

"Theres no body, it was..." Mahoney clears his throat as he tells Devon. She stands in the ashes and debris left. "It was a quick death."

"Where did they find them?" Matt asks him.

"We found the car they were taking. It made it 5 miles from the house, the driver was found dead, gun to the face. We found chloroform." Devon squats down, touches the debris. She takes a deep breath, closing her eyes as she remembers her mother. Devon gathers herself, slowly getting back up and heads to Matt. She holds onto him, clinging. She just felt sick. Her stomach felt heavy but empty.

"Lets go home? Rest yeah?" Matt kisses her forehead. She said nothing.

Devon drags her feet inside the apartment. This is where Matt was right about. Shes gonna break. He can hear her chest tightening, her breathing quickening, her heart beating was fast, it was like shes was about to have a heart attack.

"Sweetheart." The soft gentle voice of her lover broke her. She immediately pushes the frames off the table and throws the table across the room. She throws the couch back. She breathes heavily. Matt immediately runs to her, holds her. Devon calms down by his touch, she just cries. He follows her down to the glass shattered floor, kneeling.

"She deserved to live..." She cries onto his chest. "She didn't know. My mother..." Matt strokes her hair back. "I did this to her."

"No you didn't." He shakes.

"Why me?" She comes from hiding on his chest, her teary eyes looked at him. "Why does this happen to me? Why am I not good enough? Why do bad things happen to me? Is god punishing me? Does he hate me?" She hiccups. "Why Matthew?" He couldn't find the answer. No matter what she has done, it never stops with her. The way she tried not to kill, Elektra nearly killed her. She stopped being the Red Widow, escaping, her father was later killed. Now, she has saved Isaac from a horrible fate, her mother is dead and god knows what will happen next.

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Devon went back to hospital to be with River. Shes all he has left. She picks at her fingers, waiting. Blood was drawn. She was tired. She couldn't remember when she slept. Devon heard groaning, a little movement. She immediately stands up, looking over her brother.

"Help!" She panics as she sees River trying to get out. "Nurse!" River grabs Devons arm, yanking her to him.

"Distraction." He gurgles. She frowns at him, not knowing what he meant. "Distraction. Issac." Her heart skipped a beat. The nurses pushed her out. It clicked. Not only Eros took River and Gen to send a message, but it was also for Issac to come out of hiding. He found him. Devon runs out of the hospital, reaching out to Frank. She makes it to the old apartment they were hiding in, Matt was there. Frank had called him before Devon.

"Where? Where is Issac?" She pants. Matt takes her away but she fights him. "Matt! Wheres Issac!" She yells.

"Eros." He told her. She sees Frank. He was all beaten up. The place was trashed. "He got Issac."

"I tried to hold him back but..." Frank gets close to her. "He was fast for me. He knew every move. I tried Dev, i really did." Frank apologizes.

"His backpack, where is it?" She searches around, tossing the things on the floor to look for the boys beaten up school bag. "Where!"

"I saw him kick it under the bed." Devon rushes in, reaching out for the bag, she rumbles through the trash inside and found nothing. "Its not here." She licks her lips.

"His phone." Matt goes up to Devon. "Track him."

"They wouldve taken it from him." She looks at him.

"Its worth the effort." Devon opens her phone, opening the tracking app and sees that phone was still live. When Frank was fighting off Eros, Issac rushed to his phone, remembering that Devon can track him. He breaks the phone to find the tracker and hides it in his shoe.

"Wait..." Matt pulls her into him. "Whats the plan here?"

"We get him back."

"With that psychopath?" Frank laughs. "He nearly killed me, what makes you think he wouldn't kill you too?"

"Have you met me?" She looks at Matt again. He holds her hand, it has to be done. She was going to get Issac back and kill Eros. If he was being honest, fighting with her about killing is over, there was no point. But killing Eros, he didn't mind. He took Issac. Devon and Matt headed out, following the tracker to an underground bunker. Matt and Devon stayed closer, checking put the old place. Nobody was around, empty, abandoned.

"Again!" They hear from one of the rooms. "Fail again and you will die!" They run to it and Devon sees the videos playing on the screens. Issac. "Wipe him." Devon sees Eros looking down at the boy who was beaten up.

"What is this?" Matt tilts his head. Devon's eyes didn't look away as she sees Issac being dragged away, screaming, as they went to wipe his brain. It cuts to another video, Issac was covered in blood, breathing heavily, bodies torn and around him.

"Well done." Eros places his hand on the bloody boys cheek. "Beast."

"Why they want Isaac." Devons eyes start to tear up. The images of him locked in a dark room, looking so defeated and broken. Watching them wipe his brain, strapped to a chair, screaming. He was just a kid.

"They destroyed him." Matt listens to the videos of him screaming. Matt never knew how much pain Issac and Devon went through, and just hearing the screams from this kid, his kid, broke him.

Red lights started to flash, sirens blaring. Matt takes Devons hand and drags her out of the room. They need to find Issac. They hear screams, growling and then silence. Matt follows it and they stood put as Issac had his back to them. He breathes heavily, his body soaked in blood. Issac's head snapped back, he was in his fight mode. He charges at Devon and she pushes him back. Matt took out his batons but Devon tells him no.

"Issac!" Matt yells to him. Issac tries to claw at Devon Devon puts her hands on his shoulders, pushing him back so he can look at her. "Stop! Stop." Matt gets in the way.

"Dont touch me!" He grunts, pushing them back. "Im not going back! Don't take me back there!"

"Its okay. Its us." She grabs his cheeks. "Its me. Look. Look." He immediately stops fighting her, takes a moment to look at her. "Its me." Issac breaks down, crying onto her chest.

"i killed-" He sobs. "I killed them all."

"Oh my sweet boy." She hugs him tightly, kissing his head. "its okay." She whispered to him.

"Its okay kid." Matt puts his head on Issacs. Issac calms down from the touch of his parents. He wanted them so bad. He wanted be back with so bad. Now they are here. Eros was wrong, they did care about him. Devon looks up to the glass room above. Eros was watching from above.

"Take him." She says to Matt and she didn't pull her eyes away from Eros. "Now!" She yells.

"Devon dont! Lets get him out of here and then we will-" Matt pulls her in.

"Hes here, if we leave, he'll come back again. i want to finish it." She runs off, speeding up the stairs and up to the room. Eros stands tall, smiling at her.

"Finish with the family reunion so quick?" Devon runs up to him. She kicks his leg back, he groans and grants her arm and tosses her through the glass. She hits the ground hard, rolling over the broken glass. She immediately gets up. Eros jumps down and walks up to her. "Why have you gotten so weak?" He punches her face, Devon tumbles back. "I just miss the old you." He shoots her, Devon falls back and gasps for air. "Lets get that back yeah?" Eros drags out, Devon kicks her legs to have him stop. Eros was stronger, better than her.

"All set." One of the scientists steps back. Eros slams Devon onto the chair and straps her back.

"Good." He shoves a mouth guard into her mouth. Devon bites down on his fingers. He groans as he held his fingers together.

"I swear, you do this, the moment i come back, i will kill you!" She spits.

"I bet you will." He laughs again. "But honestly, don't think you will." he grabs her chin, pulling her face to him. "Do it." He steps back, watching the chair slowly move back. Devon's eyes were wide. Her chest tightened. Eros nods and hit the switch. Devons screams filled the room as the electricity went through her brain. She grips onto the arm rests, her nails breaking the leather. The pain ran through her body. Pain the she was familiar with long ago.

Eros decided to stop the wipe. Devon was passed out and he takes her away to a room and chained her by the arms and left her there until she woke up.

Eros and his men went back to the room and saw the Widow chained. Eros smiles at the sight. He walks up to her.

"Красная Вдова." (red widow) Her face slowly rises up. Her dark eyes look at her past lovers.

"ya gotov otvechat." (ready to comply) Her raspy voice stats. Eros smiles down. The real Red Widow is back.