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black widow ([personal profile] redrooms) wrote2016-07-10 05:56 pm

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"You've reached Natasha Romanov. Please leave a message."
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-09-26 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe a man can, or a sahib, or - or someone who is literate. But someone like me can't.
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-09-26 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
But so's everyone, Miss Natasha - that is - servants, not tools. The soldiers in the Army, too, and the men in the government... we all do our part.
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-09-26 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oah, that's fine. I don't want a family. I want a good mission, and I want to be good at it. I thought... I thought I'd be a good spy.
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-09-26 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Miss Natasha... I know here you are a captive like the rest of us, but back home, who do you really work for?
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-09-27 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I want to know. Not, not because it's a secret. Because... I want to know how it is. How it really is.

[She's never heard this story before. Not this one.]

Tell me?
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-09-28 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[She knows it's real - she knows spies lie, Natasha must be very good at lying, but part of what Kesara knows would make her a good spy is that she hears lies. It's the truth, and a truth that Natasha is at pains for her to understand.]

I know how it is in the Game, [she answers very quietly.] Lives aren't the currency of the Game. Lord Gavin said so, when he - when he would have his men shoot me, when I was a hostage. But that was my own fault. He wouldn't have, if I hadn't failed.
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-10-01 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
I was meant to... [she hesitates. These are secrets, her greatest secrets, and secrets are all she has in trade. But the secrets Natasha must have...]

I was meant to fool a smuggler into revealing where she got a very great and rare treasure. Not gold - something much more important. They thought I could fool her into thinking I was not an agent of the Crown, since, my colour and my age... but she could tell. She took me hostage and used me to escape. Lord Gavin would've had me shot, to stop her, but - I convinced him to let her take me away instead so I could spy on her. [She's more than a little proud of that narrow escape. Remembering it lets her take a deep breath.] And I did do that, I did very well.
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-10-01 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
But that's the Game. [And although the stakes are higher, it isn't truly different from her life as a whole. She doesn't know another way.] It's better than never being valuable at all, isn't it? If this is what I'm good at, then that's how I'm going to get - well - oah, anything.
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-10-06 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You're from - from the future, aren't you, Miss Natasha? A time where women can vote, and be police officers, and soldiers?
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cw discussing misogyny

[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-10-06 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you know. That even if I do want to do other things...
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[personal profile] heavensreader 2016-10-06 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Then what is, Miss Natasha? This is what I'm - I thought it was what I was good at.