Anonymous asked: Sooooo, for the sake of pain, can I have a Nat/Clint fic for the OTP song thing for "Castle of Glass" by Linkin Park
*cackling* All right, let’s play. Trigger warning for…Red Room shit. There’s more of this story, of course, after the events of the last scene, but I felt like this was a good place to end it.
Bring me home in a blinding dream,
Through the secrets that I have seen
Wash the sorrow from off my skin
And show me how to be whole again
‘Cause I’m only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
She is very small when she learns what they mean, the words inscribed over the curve of her hipbone. Not the words themselves—they’re not Russian, not even the right alphabet, her parents say they’re French and she wonders what it means. But they are her soulmate, her parents say. Someday, somewhere, someone will say them to her, and that will be the person the universe has created just for her.
She smiled and traces her fingers over the words, over and over, and wonders who it will be.
And then her life catches fire and burns to ash, and she is taken away by a tall man with a solemn face, and given a new name.
Natalia grows up, and learns, and fights, and bleeds.
