[It had been so intentional with Red Room, the way they'd been cut off, had their choices taken from them and their identity, their family, everything. An army to fight for a cause, but that would never have a place in the world they'd helped create.
She wonders if it would sting less if hadn't been intentional, or if it was easier when there were people to blame. She'd been the victim of ambitious, greedy, cowardly men. Andy had been the victim of time.]
You can only move forward, right?
[Making an attempt to be philosophical about it.]
Connect who you are now with... I don't know. The people who can still see a little bit of who you were then?
[Natasha wonders if that makes sense. She feels it with Yelena, though, someone who'd been the same place, and who'd known Natasha as someone other than the Black Widow.]
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She wonders if it would sting less if hadn't been intentional, or if it was easier when there were people to blame. She'd been the victim of ambitious, greedy, cowardly men. Andy had been the victim of time.]
You can only move forward, right?
[Making an attempt to be philosophical about it.]
Connect who you are now with... I don't know. The people who can still see a little bit of who you were then?
[Natasha wonders if that makes sense. She feels it with Yelena, though, someone who'd been the same place, and who'd known Natasha as someone other than the Black Widow.]