Fics like Yelena Proved Herself

Life in Russia was so different than life in Ohio. In Ohio, Yelena had had people smiling at her. Here, they seem either cold as the snow outside or angry, angry in ways Dad had never gotten. Angry in ways the girls around her seem to expect. (When little Yelena has finished her first month, she too will have learned to anticipate the blows. But that is for another time). **** Yelena is breathing heavier than she was when she was shot because she wasn’t useful. The mission is over and she’s in here and she made Bucky have to be in here and everyone else had to pick up her slack, she can’t afford to have any slack to pick up, she has to be useful and instead they had to take care of her like a liability. Liabilities do not get to survive. **** In other words, Yelena learns young that your usefulness directly impacts how long you survive and how much you hurt along the way. So when she's thrown into the Thunderbolts, well... let's just say old habits die hard, and Yelena doesn't quite understand this whole "unconditional safety" thing. Mind tags and notes. I own nothing.

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