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It was a calm day for Lucille despite missing her lovers a lot. It is quite normal when their occupation is that of an avenger but this time is different.
They had a big argument before the two of them had to go on the long mission. The three of them were planning on a vacation for the longest time. The mission was sudden and was going to be long.
She was understandably mad about it. While nat and wanda was trying to explain to her the only thing they were repeating whenever the vacation was postponed.
...
"I thought you guys aren't gonna bail on me." She frowns at both her lovers.
"We're sorry babe but they finally got a lead on hydra. We can't exactly go to vacation when there's lives at risk." Wanda tries reasoning.
To be honest, she knew it was pretty unfair to Lucille. Both of the avengers knew. This has been for about a hundreth time they postponed the vacation. It's not like they can't have the other avengers to fill in for them.
Lucille has been patient and understanding at first but their vacation had been on halt for almost a whole year.
Everytime the date was to come she would got off work and prepare the suitcase only to see them packing the wrong one.
"Well sorry isn't gonna rewind the whole year i've waited. I tried being understanding that this was your job, to clean your ledger, to do EVERYTHING. THAT YOU'D EVEN BREAK THE PROMISES THAT YOU DID TO COME WITH ME. A VACATION THAT I PLANNED, FOR YOU GUYS!" She sighs harshly as her face reddens in anger.
She stops screaming when she notices Wanda and Nat flinching. She knew of the trauma they each hold being in an evil organization in their lives. She had tried holding back the anger on them but this has gone for too long too much.
She's not the type to scream when mad so when she did of course they were suprised. They knew this was her breaking point.
"Isn't what you did enough? to clean this invincible red ledgers of yours? I-I thought saving the world twice was good enough. More than enough actually." she exsperated.
"But you don-" Nat tried but got cut off again.
"Please...just stop.. If you guys don't agree with me then just stop. I don't want to argue anymore. You gave me the same excuse everytime i brought it up. I think its time I let go of this wish of mine. Let's just cancel this vacation thats never happening. Just do what you guys need to do. I'll be waiting home like always." she sighs tiredly
"i love you. be safe" she utters as she walks away. They replied hesitantly.
She doesn't like arguing especially when the other side won't ever listen to her. If only there are calculations on how their good deeds had passed all of their bad deeds then maybe they would feel free enough to relax and take time to enjoy the world. To see that the future held more hope than holding on to the past.
...
She sat on the counter facing kitchen as she drink her hot coffee off her mug. She reminisced on what could've-
"Ack-"
Her neck was suddenly pulled from behind. She falls to the floor with a thud and a pained grunt. Opening her eyes to see almost a dozen weaponed masked criminal looking at her.
She didn't even have time to react as she was punched by one of them. Three of them stayed around her while the others went around the house.
She tried getting up only to get hit on her head by a metal pipe. In her disoriented state they berated her. She hasn't recovered from the hit earlier. Blood covered her eyes as she tried her best to listen to what they were saying.
Her ears rings as the hits got more brutal. To what seemed like hours, it stop and they ended up tying her to a chair. They waited for her to gain a sense of bearing. After a while, one pulled her hair harshly.
"where is it". He asks. When she didn't answer fast enough, he threw a punch to her bruised stomach.
"I SAID WHERE IS IT!" With the lack of elaboration lucille could only ask him back. With girlfriends as avengers she would've thought they'd want something of the same value.
"where...where's..what...?" He looks at her as if she dumb. That gave her blows to her face.
"WHAT ELSE YOU DUMB BITCH! THE SAFE OBVIOUSLY! " he scoffs. They definitely didn't know who her girlfriends are. She was glad of course, it meant that nobody leaked this (definitely not anymore) safe heaven of her and her girlfriends.
She sighs in relief but that was definitely a mistake she shouldn't make. With how paranoid these criminals are, coming to rich people's home would mean extreme caution. Her sighing got them to think that she had triggered a safety protocol or had called a police (which is impossible since they've been watching her the whole time).
"YOU BITCH WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Her consciousness was fading, answering seemed impossible at the moment.
In a way, she was lucky. That these robbers were dumb as fuck. They didn't know how home security works but too vigilant for their own good.
"FUCK! LET'S GO! SHE DID SOMETHING!" The others starts leaving quickly with his command.
He pushes the chair she was on. She winces as she lands harshly on the floor, her right hand throbing in pain. He crouches and pulls her hair once again.
"You really don't value your life huh. Stupid bitch." A burning pain suddenly burst through her shoulder and stomach.
He stabbed her. So much for luck.
Her eyes pinches close as tears flow from the pain. She grits her teeth as the pain from her whole body to the two big wounds started to burn harder.
The place got quite as they intruders left the house. She was left alone in pain and agony praying to god for her girlfriends to come home quicker from their mission.To atleast see them before she goes.
one last time...
...
Natasha and Wanda were in front of the door of their shared house a bit earlier than always. They wanted to suprise Lucille with an apology present and an actual vacation the next day.
Nat were threatening and begging fury at the same time for a month of vacation. (though she didn't have to since he liked her too much to not allow her the month break. And technically they hasn't had a break since last year anyways.)
Clint was trying not kill her and Wanda as he comforted and reprimanded them at the same time when Nat told him what happened. The others had overheard ( more like peeping the three of them. ) and came forward to reprimand them too. Something about 'Even Steve got time from the world'.
To say their guilt were to the roof was an understatement. It went to the stars.
They open the door quitely expecting to see the same scenery as always. Much to their horror, the place was a big mess. Everything was either broken or thrown around. It was clear the house was ransacked.
Both of them ran around in search of the lean girl. Wanda was trying to tap into lucille's mind but much to her dismay it seemed that she was either knocked out or worse, dead. Goosebumps raises on her skin at the thought of it. It rouses her speed in search of her.
Nat was running from room to room in search of her missing lover. She called the other avengers for help as she was searching for the white-haired girl.
Wanda speedwalks to the kitchen, and there Lucille is, tied up to a fallen chair laying in her own puddle of blood. She ran towards her and gasps in shock.
Nat heard the gasp. Her phone was thrown in her frenzy with the other avengers asking her what was happening when she gasps.
"NAT!WHAT'S HAPPENING?"
"NAT ARE YOU THERE!?"
She ignores their voices as she sees the dried blood surrounding her kneeling girlfriend and the body in her arms. Her eyes widen.
"NAT! nat!..."
Nat scrambled over as what she sees seared into her head. She instantly kneels at the sight of Lucille in her other lovers hand.
Tears were flooding Wanda's vision as she unties her unconcious lover. She set Lucille on her lap as she kept weeping. She checks for a pulse but it has long been gone. Her body was cold.
"Hey, baby you need to wake up please. - she wipes the bloodied hair off her lover's forehead. - Both of us are back...We can go on our vacation now Like we promised. I won't break my promise anymore...i'm sorry..i-i'm really sorry, i am so please.." She sobs harder repeating i'm sorrys to the lover in her lap.
Nat's tears flows harder as she looks at Wanda's state. Her eyes were wide as she looks at Lucille while Wanda tries in vain to wake her up. Slowly she sat down helplessly on the opposite side of Lucille.
"HEY! NAT? WANDA?DO YOU HEAR ME? THE QUINJET'S COMING IN 5 MINUTES! THEY'RE BRINGING CHO! HANG ON!" worried shouts of steve's came through nat's thrown phone. The both of them can barely focus on anything other than their bloodied dead lover.
Nat was too distraught to do anything anymore. It felt like something just violently ripped a piece of her heart. She bows down on lucille's stomach, unable to handle the weight of guilt building on her shoulder.
It all felt too much, too real, too fast. Even with the death surrounding her, she cant comprehend how fast and easy it was for death to take away the things she loves. The way she can't do anything to prevent it. The way there was no chance, no nothing. NOTHING. SHE COULD DO NOTHING. Tears drips lnto Lucille's shirt as her mind spirals deeper and deeper.
A hand removes her from her lover's corpse and engulfs her in a hug. She didnt reciprocate it, too exhausted to even do anything anymore. It was Clint.
"We'll handle it. You guys can go" She heard Steve utters softly. She saw Pietro moving a struggling Wanda away.
They get to the quinjet in silence. All were to shocked to do anything after discovering the crime scene. They're looking anywhere but the body and the two lovers sitting together.
The both of them sat together while leaning on each other as they stare at their lovers body covered in white sheet across them.