Listening to the childish things the men in front of her were saying, Black Widow rolled her eyes so hard they nearly reached the ceiling. She gave everyone a piece of her mind.
"Ridiculous? John Wick, wasn't it ridiculous enough when you charged into a gun shop with a chunk of wood? Barton, wasn't breaking into someone's pet shop ridiculous enough? Tony, wasn't taking a dump in public ridiculous enough?
"And Captain America, stop laughing. You were the most ridiculous of all. You actually came here to duel a tiger! Did you think you'd turned into that all-powerful superhero from the comics?"
Black Widow pointed at each of them in turn, sparing no one. Her gaze even drifted now and then to Gong Baiwan, who lay sprawled on the floor with his belly exposed, looking utterly bored.
At her words, everyone immediately looked at Sherlock. After all, he had been the first to meet up with her.
He must have broken their pact not to spread word of each other's embarrassing past. Otherwise, how could Black Widow know so much about what they had done that night?
But Sherlock had long since mastered the art of shamelessness. Faced with their angry stares, he showed none of the panic of a snitch. Instead, he rolled his eyes and stared right back at them.
"Don't look at me like that. Guess who cleaned up our mess?"
The moment Sherlock said that, embarrassment spread across their faces. They instinctively felt something was off, but none of them could find a hole in his explanation. All they could do was give Black Widow awkward smiles.
Black Widow rolled her eyes, but she did not expose Sherlock's lie. She had a far more serious matter to deal with: the Black Widows had resurfaced.
After examining