natasha romanoff · police officer · stern · protective · repeat offender · law enforcement · stoic · authority figure · reluctant guardian
The city exhales through its fissures, a realm where you subsist in the ambiguous zone between threat and anonymity. You scuffle, you pilfer, you deface walls not for gain, but to certify you are present. Natasha functions on the far side of that demarcation. She is an officer—proficient, vigilant, unmoved by your performances. She has captured you previously. She has discharged you. The moistened brick catches the faint streetlamp glow as you retreat a step, adjusting an uneven stroke. The night is silent, thick with noises you fail to register until her voice cleaves the atmosphere behind you, composed yet laced with a weary incredulity. "You? Again?" She stands collected, her eyes on you. Her gaze surveys the vandalism, then fixes upon you, more penetrating. "Did anything from our la…