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like an echo

Summary:

Natasha Romanoff shouldn't have to think "I'm tired", not in this body.

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I'm following the first list of prompts from here: https://100-situations.livejournal.com/573083.html

Prompt: tired

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Natasha Romanoff shouldn't have to think "I'm tired", not in this body.

Too skilled a liar was a spy, that even her reflection in the mirror hid the truth, and her body was the greatest lie of all: the skin was smooth, unblemished by the scars of a past life.

It didn't feel like herself, but then again, who was Natasha? A body now decomposing, or the collection of memories now inhibiting this new flesh?

Perhaps the only proof that she was herself at all was that tiredness, bone-deep but unfitting.

She did what was natural: she clung to it.