A/N: So this kind of jumps ahead but finite! Enjoy!

Lipschitz

This Doctor was one Natasha was happy to take out.

That's who she was now, Tasha. Not Talia.

She was free of the Red Room. Clint Barton had hauled her KGB arse out of a fire and after a bit of undeserved trust she found herself in SHIELD instead, saving lives not taking them. Well she was taking lives, but the right ones this time.

This kill was personal. Doctor Lipschitz's death would probably get her into all forms of trouble, especially as she was only nearing the end of her SHIELD probation but this was a kill Tasha had to undertake. Clint would understand why this man had to die.

So when she strolled into his laboratory and shot him at point blank, there was a joy in watching him crumple onto his desk. Smirking slightly, she turned to the man's assistant and shot him as well, even while his mouth formed the word 'Natalia'.

She was right, Fury roasted her arse for the two unauthorised deaths. But as she smiled up at him serenely while he threatened her with almost anything, it was Clint that called off the interrogation and pulled Tasha out of the brightly lit room to the relatively dark training floor.

"Who was he Natasha?" Clint pulled taut his string before releasing the arrow. It hit the target with a satisfying thunk. Though, she had noted he used her full name which meant she was still in his bad books.

"He's a Doctor that worked for the Red Room." She sighed, picking up metal stars and they soon joined Clint's arrow.

"I know that. Who was he to you?" Clint amended his question as he nocked another arrow then spun to hit a target 100 foot away.

"The man that experimented on the Widows. He gave us different formulas and serums to see what would strengthen us and what would kill us." Her tone was detached but Hawkeye knew better than to offer any physical comfort to the woman before him. She had been conditioned to avoid love or intimacy. Everything about her life had been cold and he could only thaw her one tiny piece at a time.

"What did he do to you?"

"We have a ceremony as a Widow, we undergo sterilisation. But Lipschitz also convinced some of the seniors that the Widows were strong enough to go through other various tortures. Then he started doing them on the younger girls and because of that I always promised I was going to put a bullet in his brain." Tasha had explained all of this while calmly shooting different targets around the room. She had only missed one perfect shot when she mentioned the younger girls and suddenly Clint was very glad she'd already killed the Doctor.

"Well… then he's better off dead really." It was all Clint could offer, but from the half smile she gave him, he knew it had been enough for Nat.