for the longest time in ingrid's life, she was alone. she had nowhere to go, definitely no family to go to, so she was alone. she sorta liked it that way because she could do her own thing without having to worry about anyone else. canada was the only place where she could be without people trying to kill her, unlike firstly coming to the states. the only time in her life where she felt loved was back in the forties with bucky and steve. the happy, smiles and laughter filled her life she definitely missed those time where she was free, but most of all happy.

happiness is most definitely a feeling ingrid hasn't felt in quite a long time, and not sarcastically and or anything like that. but genuinely happy like it's christmas morning and she sees all the presents. she started having flashbacks of when she was a little girl as she felt that it wasn't real but it definitely was real. 

'i love you daddy.'

'i love you, too little one.'

she opened her eyes at the soft kind voice of someone she used to know as she tried looking around but didn't find the person she thought she had heard. she closed her eyes again falling into a deeper sleep. she deeply longed to hear that same voice again but her life has a funny way of letting her get what she wants. 

'make sergeant barnes forget about her, he doesn't deserve her'.

she heard another voice it didn't sound as safe and comforting as the voice before, she instantly recognized it as  arnim zola. the man who took her papa away from her in the first place back in the 40s. not knowing he was the one who brainwashed him and took her father away from her. 

'i promise i would come back'

that voice was what made everything in the medbay shatter and clint screaming as ingrid's eyes were still shut tightly. multiple alarms went off at the compound as the security cameras went off as multiple men in suits rushed into the room and put handcuffs on her wrists. as they weren't just ordinary handcuffs but power restraints and immediately the chaos and shattering stopped just as it started.

bucky immediately looked around as multiple agents coming in and out without giving him a single word of what's happening. all of them are speaking at once so it's hard for him to even come close to what there saying, it sounds like gibberish but his metal fist clenches in and out for no reason, as if someone is controlling just his fist.

"какого черта?" bucky whispers to himself under his breath, as it felt as if everything was in slow motion as he heard doors open and an agent came down and opened his door and practically threw ingrid in his cell. she curled up in a ball as much as she possibly could with the restraints around her wrists. (what the hell?) it made him tear up a little as he looked away from the girl not knowing what to even do.

he chose not to do just that anymore he stood up and took a step closer to the girl as something in him made him recognize the girl. he swiftly grabbed the blanket and wrapped the girl into it. he saw that the girls mouth was moving ever so slowly as if she was saying something. he leaned his head a little closer to make out what she's saying, the words shocked him. 'dad, please come back.'

who was her father? why is he important to her? why is she talking about her father?

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the next morning

in the past twenty four hours everything seemed to be going relatively smoothly, with no errors or problems so that's a bonus. they took ingrid to do some testing on her. definitely not like testing like HYDRA does, but at least her background and all that. seeing where she came from because obviously she isn't from sixteen-seventeen years ago. they took numerous blood samples and other things like that.

SHIELD agents hacked into ingrid's HYDRA files, and they made a shocking discovery. her original HYDRA file. from the forties. it was stated that james buchanan barnes was in care of the girl as she had no original parental figure in her life. so they were guessing that he was her father figure in her life. 

"so you're not finding anything else of james' cellmate?" nick fury asked the agents who were looking at the girl's file and they shook their heads no. "no we haven't sir, except that james used to be in the care of the girl so we're guessing he was a father figure to her." the female agent says as nick nods his head before going somewhere.

down in the cells

it is very peaceful in the cells considering that bucky and ingrid are the only cell mates down here at least it's not natasha. god forbid if it was natasha ingrid would not be having any patience at all. she still hates her guts though, natasha though she's getting used to her a little. she won't tell anyone besides steve though, which is fine for him.

bucky would often glance at the girl to see if she'd move or not but she hasn't on the cot that is in his cell. well there cell but it's fine. he hasn't seen the girl a whole lot since his amazing stay here at the 'compound inn' that's what he's calling it, because he heard someone say it too. mainly that. he has been keeping himself busy for the time being, as nick was a little nice enough to give him something to do. reading lord of the rings and the hobbit. two of his newly favorite books, as he is slowly getting his memories back. something about the two books brought him back to a fantasy world that he had almost forgotten about.

he saw something move from the corner of his eye and knew that ingrid finally moved he quietly put the book beside him and slowly got up towards the girl. from what he has seen she was curled up in a tight ball with something on both of her wrists. that made him more curious of what happened. maybe it had something to do with what occurred in the medbay the following day. from what he has heard from agents coming and going ingrid didn't deserve any of this. he may not know the girl and or remember if he does or not but from what he has seen and heard of the girl. she doesn't deserve being a slave with restraints on her wrists. what broke bucky out of his thoughts was a murmur of random words he tilted his head a little.

"ostanavlivat'sya! pozhaluysta. ne zasluzhil etogo. pozhaluysta ostanovis." if bucky were to put those words correctly she was speaking russian for number one. for number two, it sounds like whatever she is imagining of in her head. she is saying stop. 'stop! please. don't deserve this. please, stop'. it made him think about what exactly she was dreaming of, or maybe it was a nightmare, but either way he wanted to know what's wrong. because clearly something is wrong as she is saying these types of words.

"vse v poryadke, ingrid. eto kruto. ya vrode pomnyu tebya, no ne sovsem. ya tvoy sokamernik v etom der'movom meste, tak chto eto milo." bucky says in a soft whisper and to his surprise she didn't flinch hearing his voice but merely calmed down which was a good thing but it scared him because he was expecting her to freak out at hearing a stranger's voice. but he isn't complaining of getting this verses what he was a little bit expecting. 'it's alright ingrid. it's bucky. i sorta remember you but not really. i'm your cellmate in this shit place, so that's nice'. 

he smiled faintly at his little joke at the end as he wanted to lighten the mood for the time being, she went to get up but fell back down. he immediately bent down to her level and helped her get back onto her feet. she mumbled something back to him and he figured it was a 'thank you' and he nodded his head back to her. not saying a 'you're welcome'. it's fine anyway at least she's not freaking out as he kept telling that to himself in his head. 

once ingrid was back to her senses she opened her eyes a little to adjust to the very little lighting in the area and also the single lighting right above her giving herself a little glow. ingrid made a single glance at bucky but then looked away because she couldn't see much because he was still in the shadows a little. bucky gave the girl a little tiny smile seeing what she was looking at before she moved her gaze somewhere else. to say she was a little fascinated with him was an understatement. to her he was interesting. but maybe that was the anesthesia that was talking or something she wasn't too sure what it was.

for the time being now the two haven't said anything just looking in their own separate directions but occasionally glancing at each other. but moving their gazes to make it less obvious that they were staring at each other, because they both knew that they didn't like people staring at them. what broke bucky out of his thoughts now was seeing ingrid's mouth opening up again, he waited patiently until the words came out.

"tak kto ty snova?" ingrid asks as she couldn't remember his name even if he might've said it like three times like yesterday. she doesn't remember. clearly. 'so who are you again?' even if the two just have a conversation in russian bucky isn't complaining. he likes talking to the girl as she seems friendly to talk to once you get over her tough exterior and walls that she has built. "ya dumayu, chto menya zovut baki. eto to, chto bol'shinstvo lyudey nazyvali menya v posledneye vremya. tak chto ya predpolagayu, chto eto to, chto eto." bucky says as ingrid nods her head as she is a little confused. he doesn't know his own name? huh? 'i think my name is bucky. that's what most people have been calling me recently. so i'm guessing that's what it is'. 

ingrid nods her head again as she thinks of the question she wants to ask this man. "imeyet smysl. no u menya yest' vopros?" she asks as bucky gives her his full attention as he knows fluently what she is saying in russian. if one thing is right about HYDRA they teach you different languages for the missions that they give you. but that's the only good thing that the two of them can think of right now. 'make sense. but i have a question?' bucky gave her his attention as he nodded his head for her to continue what she wants to ask about him. he isn't going to say no as he can also tell that she is friendly, not going to hurt him, and that she's very curious. but he isn't complaining about it either. 

"pochemu ty ne uveren, chto tebya zovut baki? moy papa skazal, chto menya zovut ingrid rouz, potomu chto, kogda on vzyal menya, u menya, me bylo vtorogo imeni, i ya prepolagayu, chto on podumal, chto ono podoydet. kak vashe proshloye? otkuda ty?" bucky nods his head letting her words set in so he can understand what she is saying. far as he knows she wants to know why he isn't so sure that bucky is his name. 'why aren't you sure that bucky is your name? my papa said my name was ingrid rose because when he got me i didn't have a middle name and i'm guessing he thought it would fit. like what's your past? where do you come from?'

"ya rodom iz ochen' temnogo mesta, gde ne bylo vesel'ya, no yedinstvennaya khoroshaya veshch' v tom, otkuda ya prishel, eto to, chto oni izuchayut raznyye yazyki, i vy mozhete puteschestvovat' po miru diya vypolneniya missiy tomu podobnogo." bucky says as at this point ingrid is staring at him she's either fascinated with his metal arm, his hair or the same blue eyes that she can faintly see through his messy hair. at least there getting somewhere with this conversation and not just staring at each other too awkward to say anything. 'i come from a very dark place where there was no fun, but the only good thing about where i came from is they learn different languages and you get to travel the world for missions and things like that'. 

for an outsider who doesn't know where he is talking about, it is HYDRA. they teach you different languages and you travel the world for different missions around the globe. at least that was one good thing about HYDRA, but she thinks that list just stops right there. because there is no other good thing about HYDRA it's all dark and evil. as you are basically competing against people to see who is better at being a soldier or an assassin.

"ty iz GIDRY? yedinstvennaya prichina, po kotoroy ya sprashivayu, eto to, chto ya tozhe byl tam. oni delali so mnoy uzhasnyye veshchi i zastavili menya zabyt' moyego papu na dolgoye vremya, potom oni posadili menya v etu shtuku s trubkoy i zamorozili menya, chtoby ya ne sostarilsya." ingrid says to bucky as he nods his head without giving her an actual answer to her very in-depth question. which is fine because he is going to answer it because he knows it would just bug her if he doesn't answer. 'are you from HYDRA? only reason i ask is because i was there too. they did horrible things to me and made me forget my papa for a long time then they put me in this tube thing and froze myself so i wouldn't get old'.

"nikto  nikogda ne dolzhen prokhodit' cherez eto. skol'ko vam bylo let, kogda vas priveli na GIDRU?" bucky asks her as she looks at him before looking at the ground wanting to ignore that question. 'no one should ever go through this. how old were you when you were brought into HYDRA?'. ingrid shook her head as something in her made her raise her hands and red orbs came out of them before she brought her hands lower and the orbs were gone. but before anyone can say anything there were steps coming from the stairs meaning someone was coming down here. the person walked into the shadows and stopped in their steps, and said this. "ingrid we need you upstairs regards to lagos." the voice said as it was agent coulson and maria opened the cell just to let ingrid leave and then shutting it again leaving bucky alone in a terrifying silence.

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fury brought ingrid to the conference room where he undid her power restraints which was a good thing about it because her hands were starting to hurt. natasha looked up from something on her phone and saw ingrid she looked across at steve and he faintly nodded his head at her. natasha was honestly surprised to see the girl here but it makes sense since she is technically an avenger but also a vigilante, as that's what ingrid calls herself.

tony smirked from where he was sitting on one of the couches behind steve. there was also vision (tony's robot child), sam, steve, rhodey, natasha are all gathered around on various spots at the table, well minus tony.

the secretary of ross turned around and had a fake big smile at seeing ingrid. he hasn't met her but has heard tons of mixed stories about the girl. she is also one of those people who he isn't afraid of and she looked at him as if having a mental conversation to him as she narrowed her eyes.

"can i help you, secretary?" ingrid asks in a clear russian accent as she crossed her hands tightly over her chest as she rolled her tongue around in her mouth. before the secretary could even speak ingrid walked to one of the other couches and sat on them, and when she sat down she rolled her eyes.

"anyway, five years ago, i had a heart attack. i dropped right in the middle of my back-swing. turned out to be the best round of my life, because after 13 hours of surgery and a triple bypass....i found something 40 years in the army had never taught me: perspective. the world owes the avengers and miss vigilante an unpayable debt. you have fought for us, protected us, risked your lives...but while a great many people see you as heroes, there are some...who would prefer the word 'vigilantes', like miss over there does." thaddeus ross says pointing to ingrid when he said miss vigilante, because she doesn't consider herself a hero by any means but she isn't also a criminal.

natasha was the first one to pipe up and say something about what is being discussed. "and what word would you use, mr secretary?" natasha says as ingrid crossed her hands over her chest as she tilted her head to the side with a raised eyebrow.

"how about 'dangerous', that would also go for missy over here." ross says ingrid just flipped him off making tony snort and steve turning his head towards him. ross continued what he was saying. "what would you call a group of US-based, a enhanced individual who routinely ignore sovereign borders and inflict their will whatever they choose and who, frankly, seem unconcerned about what they leave behind?" 

ross activates a screen behind him, news footage from past avenger and shield matters flash on the screen as he speaks. "new york." a chitauri leviathan. terrified citizens, a soldier firing a gun. the hulk smashes into a building and sends a dust cloud to engulf the camera. ingrid glanced at rhodey is that what his name is, okay then. ingrid thought in her head he looked regretful, as he glances behind him at natasha. 

"washington dc." ross says as three insight helicarriers, firing on each other. the destroyed triskelion a helicarrier crashing into the potomac and throwing up a massive wave, engulfing citizens and the camera as sam looks down. ingrid is confused of why ross is showing them this, well besides her because she wasn't involved in anything.

"sokovia." ross says as he continues to list off the things the avengers have caused. in sokovia terrified citizens are running the city is rising and a building is falling over. ingrid stares at the screen as does tony. "lagos." ross says as it felt like silence drained over her as a building is burning as paramedics are moving a body a dead girl. ingrid is particularly affected by the footage from lagos as she lets out a tiny gasp as steve sees this and he intervenes in the situation.

"okay, that's enough before ingrid destroys the room." steve says knowing what ingrid is capable of doing as is everyone else in this room well besides vision as he hasn't met the girl at any point yet. secretary ross nods his head to his aide and the images disappear for everyone's sanity and for ingrid's sake.

"for the past four years, you've operated with unlimited power and no supervision. that's an arrangement the governments of the world can no longer tolerate. but i think we have a solution." secretary ross takes a thick document on the desk  and passes it to rhodey.

"the sokovia accords. approved by 117 countries including canada how about that. anyway it states that the avengers shall no longer be a private organization. instead, they'll operate under the supervision of a united nations panel, only when and if that panel deems it necessary." ross says as ingrid shakes her head as she takes in this useless information as she'd rather be in a prison than being here, hearing ross talking about shit.

"permission to speak secretary? good because i was either way. this is total and absolute bullshit. last i know the avengers were formed to make the world a better and safer place. so if you don't agree with that, because clearly you don't so fuck off you shit." ingrid says standing up from her spot on the couch with her eyes glowing. 

"oh sorry, miss ingrid. i don't remember saying you could talk. so sit your ass down." ross says as maybe it wasn't a good thing to take off ingrid's power restraints because right now she really wants to give ross a piece of her mind.

"tell me captain rogers, do you know where thor and banner are right now?" ross asks the captain of all things, aka steve rogers. if ingrid had the chance she'd want to leave and go back to her cell with bucky and do things with him. but noooo she has to be here losing her mind of why she was even here in the first place. steve looks up at ross and meets' his cold old ass eyes as said ross continues doing his fucking speech.

"if i misplaced a coupe of 30 megaton nukes...you can bet there'd be consequences. compromise. reassurance. that's how the world works. believe me, this is the middle ground." ross says as rhodey looks up at the secretary as ingrid is chewing her fingernails because she's bored.

"three days from now the UN meets in vienna to ratify the accords." ross says as steve looks at tony. ingrid rolls her eyes as she gives him the finger as he makes his way towards the door. he stopped in his tracks before turning back to the group. "talk it over." ross says as always natasha has to speak her mind. "and if we come to a decision you don't like?" natasha says with a proud smile on her face that makes ingrid want to squeeze her body parts out of her  mouth. "then you retire." ross says as ingrid suddenly grinned at hearing that what he just said, natasha stifles a smile. "i like that idea, i'd retire a looong time ago."

ingrid leans back in the couch that she is sitting in and crosses her legs as the team gives her unimpressed looks but she could care less at seeing their reactions. she did a little wave before fiddling with her fingers.

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CLEVELAND

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vasily karpov a  well known HYDRA operative and member of the soviet armed forces. he was also given responsibility over handling and deploying the winter soldier. he went into hiding specifically twenty five years ago in the aftermath of HYDRA uprising which resulted natasha leaking encrypted shield and hydra secrets to the internet. 

vasily karpov is sitting eating at the table in his cluttered house he hears the sound of something crashing outside and peers through the drawn blinds. outside, helmut zemo stands by his car, the front and crumpled against karpov's car.

"hello? is this your car out front?" zemo asks as his voice comes outside the house by the door as he saw karpov's face through the blind. "i jumped the curb." zemo says lying through his teeth as a girl comes from behind him. the girl is about fifteen years old she's the daughter of zemo, her name is claudia.

karpov eyes his gun that's nearby as zemo nods his head at his daughter claudia as she swiftly grabbed a gun from her back pocket and hid it behind her back.

"maybe we could take care of it ourselves. if you wanna call the cops, tha-that's okay too, i guess." claudia says in a hungarian accent that is thick. "no. no cops, will be needed." vasily says as claudia grins at the man as he slides a heavy duty lock and opens the door as odessa punches him in the face.

while claudia is seducing the man her father zemo is using a sledgehammer to smash a hole in the wall. he retrieves a large box from inside the hole and tips the contents onto a table. karpov is hanging upside down, tied to pipes in his basement. there are various documents and the red book with the star on the cover. zemo holds the red book for a moment then opens a file, and inside is a photo of karpov in his military uniform and beret. claudia rolls her eyes at glancing at the photo as she and her father are the only known relatives left after the avengers killed her grandfather, mother and brother.

"you've kept your looks, colonel. congratulations." zemo says as karpov's head is in a sink which is filled with water as odessa has an evil smirk on her face. "mission report: december 16, 1991." claudia seethes at the man as zemo continues to look among the other artifacts.

"who are you two?" karpov asks the girl as she bangs her fist to his head to make him shut up, but apparently it isn't working. "my name is claudia and he is zemo. i will repeat my question. mission report: december 16, 1991." 

"how did you find me?" vasily asks the girl but she ignores him flatly. "when shield fell, that pathetic black widow released hydra files to the public. millions of pages, much of it encrypted, not easy to decipher. but...we have experience. and patience. a man can do anything if he has those." claudia explains as she is slowly losing patience for the man right now.

"otchet o missii: 16 dekabrya 1991 g., seychas!" claudia seethes at the man as she has a knife directly on his chin as she isn't afraid to kill the man. 'mission report: december 16, 1991, now!' vasily is still not impressed by the girl as she digs the knife deeper into his throat. "go...to....hell." vasily says as claudia goes to lean on the sink as the water continues to flow onto it. she turns off the tap and studies karpov's upside down face.

"hydra deserves it's place on the ash heap. so your death would not bother us. but i'd have to use this book...and other bloodier methods to find what i need. i don't look forward to that. you'd only be dying for...your pride." zemo says as he stares at karpov and nods resignedly. he turns the tap back on. the water is up to karpov's eyes. zemo watches the water level rise. "hail hydra." karpov says as zemo is holding the red book as he and claudia walk away, as karpov twitches and struggles in his bindings.

"gute arbeit, meine geliebte tochter. ich bin so stolz auf dich." zemo says praising his daughter as she nods her head at him with a sadistic smile. as she's always been power hungry and wanting her father to praise her. 'good job, my darling daughter. i am so proud of you.'

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the avengers are gathered at the hq. steve is sitting at his spot studying the accords, while rhodey and sam argue behind him. ingrid is biting her nails again as her anxiety is kicking in as per usual which is fine with her.

"secretary ross has a congressional medal of honor, which is one more than you have." ingrid hears rhodey as she is slowly getting better at his name. then the ever so annoying sam wilson decides to speak his opinion. "so let's say we agree to this thing. how long is it gonna be before they lojack us like a bunch of common criminals?" ingrid rolls her eyes at the two males who are acting like children in her opinion. "117 countries want to sign this. 117, sam and you're just like, 'no, that's cool. we got this.'" rhodey says as ingrid grins as the two look at her. "i mean he isn't wrong, that's cool." ingrid says as rhodey groans as sam grins. "thank you, slugger." sam says as ingrid doesn't even question what sam even called her.

sam turns back to rhodey. "how long are you going to play both sides?" he fired back at the colonel which ingrid just heard earlier that day. sometimes she questions why she is involved in adult arguments, when she isn't an adult and isn't being questioned.

"i have an equation." ingrid jumped a little at hearing the voice of vision. why in the hell was he called vision in the first place was her question in her head. "oh, this will clear it up." sam and unbeknownst to him also ingrid said that in sync and they both grinned at each other before turning bitter towards vision.

"in the eight years since, mr. stark announced himself as iron man, the number of known enhanced persons has grown exponentially. and during the same period, the number of potentially world-ending events has risen at a commensurate rate." vision says as ingrid's teenage mind didn't comprehend single thing was said. "yo, robot are you saying it's the idiot's fault?" ingrid says which got everyone's attention but they all chose to ignore it especially what ingrid had just called them. idiots.

"i'm saying there may be a causality. our very strength invites challenges. challenge  incites conflict. and conflict...breeds catastrophe. oversight...oversight is not an idea that can be dismissed out of hand." vision says as rhodey makes an explody noise. "boom."

tony is lying on the couch nearby ingrid. when natasha speaks he looks at her like she just offended him. "tony. you are being uncharacteristically non-hyperverbal." natasha says as for once in ingrid's life she grinned when natasha said that. "it's because he's already made up his mind." steve says rather sarcastically as ingrid sniggers to her. "boy, you know me so well." the sassy king strikes again says as he gets up and winces as he is rubbing the back of his head. "actually, i'm nursing an electromagnetic headache." ingrid rolls her eyes at what the sassy king says. 

"why can't you say you just have a headache, stark. not some fancy ass words." ingrid snaps at the stark and he ignores her as she gives him the finger. tony walks to the kitchen and grabs a mug. "that's what's going on, cap. it's just pain. it's uncomfortable. who's putting coffee grounds in the disposal? am i running a bed and breakfast for a biker gang?" tony says growing annoyed at ingrid smiles. "i mean yeah basically." sam shakes his head at the girl. "slugger, not now." 

tony puts his phone in a basket and taps it. the phone projects an image of a smiling young man. he looks down, then back up, and pretends to notice the picture for the first time. "oh that's charles spencer, by the way. or as the cool kids says btw." tony says painfully grinning at ingrid as she just flips him off as he continues. "he had a computer engineering degree, 3.6 gpa. had a floor level gig at intel planned for the call. but first, he wanted to put a few miles on his soul, before he parked it behind a desk. see the world. maybe be of service. charlie didn't want to go to vegas or fort lauderdale, which is what i would do. he didn't go to paris or amsterdam, which sounds fun. he deicded to spend his summer building sustainable housing for the poor. guess where, sokovia." tony says what feels like he's rambling about this charles spencer dude at least that's what it feels like for ingrid. 

"chto tam opyat' sluchilos'? razve ne togda byl plavuchly gorod? eto ne odno iz tekh der'movykh video, kotoryye ublyudok pokazyval nam reneye. potomu chto, yesli eto tak, ya ne byl tam, chtoby zasvidetel'stvovat' eto. vse vyglyadelo grustnym i tomu podobnoye. ya znayu, chto takoye emotsii, no ya mogu ne pokazyvat' ikh polnost'yu. no ya ne idiot." ingrid says fully in russian as natasha turns to her and gives her a sorrowful look. as she knows exactly what ingrid was saying, as she speaks russian fluently. 'what happened there, again? isn't that when there was a floating city? isn't that one of the shitty videos that fucker was showing us earlier. because if so i wasn't there to witness it. it looked all sad and things like that. i know what emotions feels like, but i may not show them a whole lot. but i'm not an idiot'.

natasha felt bad for a split second as everyone turned to look at ingrid like she was mentally crazy, but from the girl being on brink of tears and natasha giving ingrid a sorrowful look they know it meant something to the girl. "ya znayu, chto ty ne idiotka, ingrid. vy daleko ne odin, u vsekh nas yest' svoi sposoby vyrazheniya emotsiy, a u vas yest' boksorskiye grushi, kak eto delayet stiv, kogda rasstroyen. u menya tozhe yest' svoi sposby pokazat' svoi emotsii. vse my delayem. ya znayu, chto ty chuvstvuyesh". natasha replies back to ingrid in the same language, as everyone just watches the two without saying anything. even tony isn't saying something sarcastically. mainly because he isn't in the mood to be saying anything like that. 'i know you're not an idiot, ingrid. you are by far from being one. we all have our ways of showing emotions and yours is punching bags like steve does when he is upset. i have my own ways of showing my emotions too. we all do. i know how you feel'.

"pochemu ty dobr ko mne? ya ne byl mil s toboy, tak kak ya poluchil zdes'?." ingrid asks natasha as for once in her life since being here, natasha opens her arms up for the girl and she doesn't hesitate to hug the redhead back. they finally made amends. 'why are you being nice to me? i haven't been nice to you since i've gotten here?'

"b'yus ob zaklad, ya znayu, pochemu ty byl ochen' sderzhan so mnoy. potomu chto ty ne zna, moshesh' li ty doveryat' mne. vot pochemu?" natasha asks her in russian as ingrid looks up at her before faintly nodding her head, proving her answer already. 'i bet i know why you were very standoffish with me. because you didn't know if you could trust me. is that why?'

"what are they talking about?" sam whispers to vision as he quietly explains the whole conversation to everyone else and when he finishes they nod their heads with forced smiles, when vision said that the two girls made amends.

"hate to interrupt that cute moment, but imma get back to charlie spencer. he wanted to make a difference, i suppose. i mean, we won't know because we dropped a building on him while we were kicking ass." tony says as he drops a pill with some coffee, then faces the others.

"there's no decision-making process here. we need to be put in check! whatever form that takes, i'm game. if we can't accept limitations, if we're boundary-less, we're no better than the bad guys." tony says as for once in ingrid's life she knows that he has a point. is she sick already? maybe that's why everything is happening. her and natasha made amends, and tony has a point.

"tony, someone dies on your watch, you don't give up." steve says as ingrid plays with a strand of her hair as she let's natasha brush her hand through her hair. "who said are if we're not taking responsibility for our actions. this document just shifts the blames."

"i'm sorry, steve. that - that is dangerously arrogant. this is the united nations we're talking about. it's not the world security council, it's not shield, it's not hydra." rhodey says ingrid froze a little at hearing just that word. it is bringing back painful memories at being at hydra.

"no, but it's run by people with agendas, and agendas change." steve says as ingrid rolls her eyes at hearing that. "that's good. that's why i'm here. when i realized what my weapons were capable of in the wrong hands, i shut it down and stopped manufacturing those weapons."

"tony, you choose to do that. if we sign this, we surrender our right to choose. what if this panel sends us somewhere we don't think we should go? what if there is somewhere we need to go, and they don't let us? we may not be perfect, but the safest hands are still our own."steve says rambling in complete gibberish to ingrid's teenage mind to comprehend. so natasha came to her rescue and dumbed it down for her to understand.

after natasha dumbed what steve said, she looked at tony. "maybe tony's right." she says as said stark looks at her quite surprised. because in all the time that tony has known natasha she has not once agreed with him. "if we have one hand on the wheel, we can stills teer if we take it off--"

"i'm sorry, but aren't you the same woman who told the government to kiss her ass a few years ago?" sam asks the redhead as ingrid leans her head onto natasha. "i'm just...i'm reading the terrain. we have made...some very public mistakes. we need to win their trust back." natasha says as she looks back to the accords.

"focus up. i'm sorry, did i just mishear you or did your agree with me?" tony says confirming what he just heard from the woman. "oh, i want to take it back now." natasha says as tony shakes his head at her. 

"no, no, no. you can't retract it. thank you. unprecedented. okay, case closed --- i win." tony says as a phone buzzes steve looks down at his technical device and sees a text message as it reads. 'she's gone. died in her sleep'. steve immediately knew who it was about. peggy carter.

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