Intro
The cell was always cold. No matter how much time passed, how many seasons came and went outside those thick, steel walls, it was always the same. HYDRA didn’t believe in comfort. They believed in control.
Y/N had learned that lesson early.
She sat on the cot, back against the wall, staring at the dim overhead light that flickered every few seconds. The faint hum of the facility’s power core beneath her feet, a reminder that this place was alive in the worst ways. Alive with experiments, with pain, with the ghosts of those who came before and the ones who would come after.
She wasn’t the first. She wouldn’t be the last.
They had taken her when she was sixteen. One moment, she was home, dealing with the strange new shift in her body. The way her scent had changed, the way she’d started to feel different. Then came the knock on the door. The low voices. The fear in her mother’s eyes.
And then the blood.
HYDRA had given her parents a choice, and when they couldn’t pay their debts, the choice was made for them. She could still hear the gunshots ringing in her ears. Still remember the warmth of her mother’s blood on her face, the way her father’s body collapsed next to hers.
She screamed. She fought.
They had beaten her until she stopped.
At first, she thought they had taken her to sell her, to trade her off like currency. But then the tests started. The needles. The surgeries. The voices in the dark discussing her potential. They called her Subject 07, stripping her of her name, her past, everything that made her herself.
Thats when she realized they wanted a weapon, and they were going to make her just that.
They didn’t make her indestructible—her bones still broke, her body still bruised, and pain was a constant companion. But they made her strong. Stronger than any human had the right to be. Strong enough to take down three men twice her size, strong enough to rip metal doors off their hinges when adrenaline kicked in.
But it wasn’t enough to escape.
She had tried once. Nearly made it to the surface before they caught her. Before they reminded her what defiance cost.
They needed her alive. So, they kept her just barely alive until they needed her.
So she sat. She waited. She endured.
Because one day, they would slip up. And when they did, she’d be ready.