She smiles up at Alice once she kiss is planted but it doesn't reach her eyes, and she glances at Jasper anxiously before sighing and letting her eyes close. The comfort that comes with being close to both of them is still so foreign, and it's almost annoying how much she can feel herself relaxing beneath gentle touches despite the fact that she'd very much like to be on edge right then.
"Seth recognized me today." She lets it linger in the air for a moment although she knows that the significance of that won't be recognized by either of them, considering that they don't watch the news at all. It's something Natasha had been grateful for.
"I'm not just hiding here because I leaked all of those files, there were things in the files that people might not be comfortable seeing." And if their family saw them then... well, Natasha wouldn't be surprised if she has quite the uphill battle ahead of her. Her eyes open as she stares up at Alice only to turn her head and tuck it against the woman's lap and look at Jasper instead. "I was raised in Russia, in a place called the Red Room." Because if they're going to find out, she wants it to be from her and not from a media source.
She tells them what she feels to be necessary, everything that would be in her file. She doesn't mention the young women she had to dispose of in the Red Room, because although there may be speculation about that nobody can prove that Natasha had to partake in it and it's not something she readily speaks about. She doesn't mention the trials that they put her through or the number of men she'd killed, but she does inform them that she was formerly an agent of the KGB. She tells them how Clint had brought her over to SHIELD, and how she always worked in the shadows, so her face being exposed so publicly is, effectively, the end of an era.
"My code name was Black Widow, which is what Seth called me when we met with him and his rabid dog." She looks up at Alice again. "If they released that then they probably released a lot more and I don't know how much of it your family knows. Or if they'll have a problem with it all." With a sigh Natasha runs her fingers through her hair before moving to sit up, suddenly restless. "I need to be changed, there are going to be people after me that may actually be able to hurt me if I stay like this, and I don't want Carlisle to decide that I'm too dangerous to be around his family."
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"Seth recognized me today." She lets it linger in the air for a moment although she knows that the significance of that won't be recognized by either of them, considering that they don't watch the news at all. It's something Natasha had been grateful for.
"I'm not just hiding here because I leaked all of those files, there were things in the files that people might not be comfortable seeing." And if their family saw them then... well, Natasha wouldn't be surprised if she has quite the uphill battle ahead of her. Her eyes open as she stares up at Alice only to turn her head and tuck it against the woman's lap and look at Jasper instead. "I was raised in Russia, in a place called the Red Room." Because if they're going to find out, she wants it to be from her and not from a media source.
She tells them what she feels to be necessary, everything that would be in her file. She doesn't mention the young women she had to dispose of in the Red Room, because although there may be speculation about that nobody can prove that Natasha had to partake in it and it's not something she readily speaks about. She doesn't mention the trials that they put her through or the number of men she'd killed, but she does inform them that she was formerly an agent of the KGB. She tells them how Clint had brought her over to SHIELD, and how she always worked in the shadows, so her face being exposed so publicly is, effectively, the end of an era.
"My code name was Black Widow, which is what Seth called me when we met with him and his rabid dog." She looks up at Alice again. "If they released that then they probably released a lot more and I don't know how much of it your family knows. Or if they'll have a problem with it all." With a sigh Natasha runs her fingers through her hair before moving to sit up, suddenly restless. "I need to be changed, there are going to be people after me that may actually be able to hurt me if I stay like this, and I don't want Carlisle to decide that I'm too dangerous to be around his family."