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Part Two: On the run

I mean I’ll take this opportunity to say man I love her. In every version of her, from comics to movies. She’s just so special.

The way she watches Ross. Taunts him. And the way she plays him, and he was a

I love her face when he mentions everyone. The way she looks when he mentions Clint :( (and the others).

Camerawork here is a+ with the transitions. Man poor Nat. Tracked by the red room and then the avengers. The scenery is so beautiful.

Yelena!

Morocco. Do we think that Dreykov was hunting widows or this one specifically because of the serum?

I always love her facial expressions. The sheer anger and brutality in her face. And then the realisation of what she’s done.

Taskmaster gets sent out for the deserters quickly. How often do we think this happens? Perhaps often enough that the other girls tell Taskmaster to smile when they send her out?

Norway Nat.

I forget that Nat and Steve were the only two not to be captured but also I don’t care for Civil War. Man I want to go to Norway. If I do, then watch out, there will be fic lol.

Heh who’s trailer? It’s very neat inside. I like the idea that Natasha has a whole lot of contacts outside of the avengers.

Fanny Longbottom. Lol. Solid alias.

I wonder if Clint has some good nicknames.

“Are you okay?” “Why won’t I be?” :(

Avengers getting divorced. lol. Truth. “It’s fine”

“I have friends.” “People who have friends don’t call me.”

Budapest safe house. I wonder how often she visits it. Someone else in the flat now. Ahh the questions. What is this safe house? Who owns it!

Yelena knowing about it and knowing to send shit there(

Also can I just say I called Nat watching Bond way before the movie came out?

Yay for special interests and rewatching comfort movies. Nice to know spies do too.

The car accident - like fuck that’s a force to be hit with. How does Taskmaster know? Is she tracking the package? Like I assume so? The slow walk to Natasha is ominous. Nat thinking it’s Ross and then readjusting. Ah what a spy, heh it’s so creepy the way she tracks her and then just leaves her. How do you defeat someone like that? By doing unpredictable shit.

Fuck being kicked into a river. Ughh that would be cold. At least Yelena had the sense to wrap them all up together.

“Oh shit.” Is a great reaction.

The train station! I love it. All the shots in these scenes. Especially Natasha disturbing the pigeons. @broken--bow lol I’ll meet you there.

Omg I forgot that Yelena already knew knew Natasha was there. How long had she been waiting for her? Days? “I know you’re out there.”

“I don’t know if I can trust you.”

Okay, so here is a thought. What if Natasha had tried to find her but because of the chemicals Yelena had tried to kill her every time. Which may account for the “oh shit.” And the severe distrust of this encounter.

The fight is like fucking fantastic. The pacing of this movie is so excellent. Poor Nat has just been beaten by Taskmaster and is probs running on no sleep and now this. lol life is all about okay, now this, but this seems hard.

Do you know how hard it is to fight hard and not hurt someone? I do. They make it look easy. Because genuinely I think Natasha and Yelena don’t want to hurt each other.

Okay, I believe my headcannon above, because when Nat and Yelena are strangling each other, Natasha looks into her eyes and calls a truce - she knows she’s not under drugged control.

:( the way she rests her head on the floor and just looks. I wonder if they’ve had other encounters like this.

And they immediately both start moving. And arguing lol. Though how does one react to a fight and reunion and fear of getting caught all at once?

Natasha taking her top off and being covered in bruises whilst Yelena tells her that she’s the only superhero person that she knows is simultaneously brilliant and heart breaking. Thanks screen writers.

Natasha’s shock at Yelena’s flippant statement of “Captain America bringing down the red room” is also painful. “It’s been gone for years, dreykovs dead.”

Yelena knowing the story of the supposed downfall of shield makes me think that all of the widows got punished for it. And there was probably more control.

“You’re forgetting Dreykovs daughter.”

The widows finding the safehouse must be a blow.

Yelena having an exit plan and Natasha just following it.

Natasha dropping out of a building. Like fuck. She must be more black and blue but then literally just going and being like “I can help you” to the other widow, is next level.

Dreykov being able to terminate them at will, sucks. Esp as she’s like “I don’t want to do this.” Does the chemical subjugation only last as long as he wishes? Like can he take them in and out if it? Yelena having a vial ready for the girl too. :( was she the same one on the roof in Morocco as Yelena? I think so.

Oh and the headcannon that Natasha was the one to make the widow bites? And then the girls all having them? I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Guys, we’re literally only 40 mins in.

lol taskmaster barreling in a tank. International incident if I ever heard of one. Alongside stealing a dudes car. What different rules they have. Clint wouldn’t care. Steve would.

This scene of them being in the car fighting verbally juxtaposed later with the scene of them being in the car peacefully is so fun.

Interestingly that Yelena thinks taskmaster is a man.

Seatbelts on kids.

This is Natasha’s second car accident.

No wonder she wants the seatbelt on.

Love that everyone in the train station is like well shit.

Solid plan. Go up and make Taskmaster look down.

I wonder why Yelena gets so stuck on Natasha killing Dreykovs daughter. Like yeah yeah I know, but in terms of all the things they did, is it because that was the catalyst? Or like, just that she omitted it.

Flashbacks are fun.

Antonia is also so little. Decisions. decisions. It makes me want to re-read travel through the shadows where I deep dive after that. Ahhh.

“I got out.”

The little gas station scene. “I can’t believe he could stay off my radar.” Do we take this to mean he was as scared of what she could do to him as she was of him?

lol Nat being like “what are the big ones?” Like she’s disbelieving of any of the avengers being better than the others, and Yelena having opinions™️.

And the real question.

“Where do you think I was all this time?”

And the lies that come after it. Genuinely I think that Nat found her again and again and gave up hope that she could ever break programming. I think that’s my headcannon now.

Let’s just say hurtful things. “You’re not my sister, and the Avengers aren’t your family and don’t forget you’re a poser.”

“And we are both still trained killers.”

I like when they sit down and talk. Like have an actual conversation. I feel Yelena being able to say exactly what is on her mind is part personality and part lay it all out.

I appreciate Natasha saying “did you have a choice?” Because no; when Yelena killed the other widow, she didn’t have a choice. Psychologically or Chemically.

What’s worse? Doing it with full knowledge or doing it and then realising after the fact what you’ve done?

I don’t know.

1/20 survive. Weapons. There’s always more.

parents. Do we think Natasha went looking? Do we make that into whumptober this year? lol Yelena and Natasha go looking for their birth parents. What a trip.

You’re a science teacher. You had a son - Natasha :)

Yelena. I want a dog.

Natasha - fuck the red room. Yelena :D

Part 3 - The Mission

Natasha driving - lol is it cause she doesn’t trust Yelena or does she always drive. Does that mean on missions Clint doesn’t drive? Haha, I like this headcannon.

Yelena - clothing - my jacket is great because of the pockets. Natasha - ummm okay. But let’s not touch on the fact that Yelena has never had to buy or got to buy clothing.

Her “I want to do things” is slightly heartbreaking.

I hate the fact that Natasha knows that Alexei is alive.

Natasha having a tab with guy. I wonder how she helped him.

I hate Alexei. We won’t be talking about him, as i would go off on a rant. But maybe drekov sending him to prison wasn’t the worst thing.

Nat is very smart. Putting an ear piece in the dolls head. And her being so done with him without being near him. lol both of them being done. I love Natasha white suit. Very under-utilised.

I can’t tell you how often I use “we’re doing a really good job” in real life.

Yelena’s repeated adage of cool ways to die should also be a fic.

So I’m getting paranoid that this won’t post, so am going attempt to post it and do a part two.