Prompt: Fire and Ice

Pairings: None

Character: Natasha, Black Widow

Timeline: Pre-pre-movie

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Her childhood is of fire and ice.

Fire that scorches and burns and kills and destroys-

Ice that surrounds, that's solid and whole but distant and unfeeling-

Russia is ice, always too damn cold and fire is how it starts.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?"

She's just a girl when they take her. There's ice on the ground but her clothes smell of smolder and ash and as they drive away, she can see the cloud of smoke that killed.

The first memory she has is of fire and ice and not the faces of her parents, long since gone.

Her hair is of fire, she realizes one day catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror. It's a stark contrast against everything else in the white lab they test her in.

Her body is ice. Even as she gets older, Russia is in her veins and her skin is always cool to the touch.

When she's out, on her own, she learns about fire and ice in a different way.

Attitudes can be of fire and ice. It's so easy to switch between the two. Passion is fire; fear turn veins to ice in seconds.

Her life, her soul, she is fire and ice.

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Thanks xxx