You don't know that I never went after innocents. I went where I was told for a long time, and I did what I was told. I didn't—[She cuts off. He's so serious about this, and it would be very easy to make something up, tell him that she was just a girl in a bad situation, that she got out as soon as she could and never looked back.

But he deserves the truth.]

I was a lot older than eleven when I realized I didn't like what I was doing.

You don't get to be the Black Widow because you show mercy, Dick, or because you're honorable. Even now, I'm not exactly the nicest part of the team. I'm the person who kicks people off buildings or dangles them off the subway platform because Captain America isn't going to.

And there's no amount of playing the hero that's going to get the red off my hands.