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I need to yap about Quinn so here I go

Sometimes I wonder if she ever feels complete and utter disgust about herself, and knowing her, she does. You see, Quinn knows how she is. She knows she’s horrific and rotten from the inside and out - and to be honest if Hydra hadn’t had taken her then she’d still be a useless, good for nothing daughter in her family. Not as useless as her gambling father, but useless enough to disappoint her mother.

“Cariño mío, eres muy amado.” Her mother would whisper to her every night before bed as she was tucked in. A simple kiss on the forehead was all Quinn needed, and a few words of love was enough to put her to sleep.

Quinn hadn’t had that sleep in 5 weeks, 16 hours and 30 minutes. It’s been five weeks and 16 hours and 30 god damned minutes since she was dragged out of her bed by her good for nothing gambling father who had debts to pay to the Hydra affiliates he gambled with. So far, they’ve been injecting her every 7 hours with what they call super soldier serum, and they’ve been handing her a gun and forcing her to shoot whoever and whatever they say.

Quinn Isabel Nieves. Your name is Quinn. Quinn. You’re 16… you’re 16 born November 5th 1994. It’s the year 2010. 2010. Quinn Isabel Nieves. Quinn because it means intelligence and wisdom… your mom Alma named you that. Alma Nieves.

All of these words were an endless cycle. After every 7 hours and dissociative episode of doing whatever they told her to do, she’d fall back into these same sentences again… and again and again and again.

Quinn. Quinn. Your name is Quinn. You were born on November 5th 1994 in the Bronx of New York City.

How long do you think it takes for a rat to die of rat poisoning? On average, it takes a rat to die 2 to 7 days after being poisoned. Well, that was wrong for statistics! Because it’s been 4 years, a total of 208 weeks, and a mass total of 35040 hours. Minutes don’t matter anymore.

It’s the same fucking routine every single fucking day. Get that serum and don’t bother screaming because you’ve already fried your lungs out the first two years, they’ll give you a gun, suit you up, and throw you out in the cold forest of Ukraine and tell you to hunt another bear. Or a bird. Or a dog or wolf or cat if you manage to find one. The rules were simple and it’s shoot straight to the skull. Once that’s done, bring it back and pray you get something good for once, maybe a change of food. Then, they’d sit you down and force feed you whatever information they had on everything Hydra related and you had to had to learn it all to a T because they will test you on it all later.

Do you know how quickly the average human can shoot a target with a bullet? Well, I certainly don’t! And she doesn’t either. She isn’t the average human. No, she’s their Dahlia. Their Black Dahlia. Have you ever heard of the Black Dahlia murders? The term “Black Dahlia Murders” refers to the bloody and unsolved murder of an Elizabeth Short, an aspiring young actress in Los Angeles in 1947. Her body was severely mutilated, severed and horrifically bloody. That’s what Quinn was best at doing to her targets, so I guess it was fitting.

Your name is… Quinn.

The Black Dahlia.

You are… the Black Dahlia.

It’s been 7 years. 365 weeks. 61320 hours. Her handler had to get replaced because Dahlia was attacking the last one more frequently than before, so here came Viktor Winterhoff, a scientist from Germany and aspiring neo-Hydra organizer. Quinn didn’t care which handler came and which went. As long as she was a running machine, that’s all they needed.

Your name isn’t Dahlia.

Your name… your name is—

Quinn. Quinn… Nieves?

It’s been 11 years. God knows the weeks and the hours.

Last question I’ll ask of you: how long do you think it takes for bears to hibernate? Well, it can span from 3 to 7 months. It takes them 2 to 3 weeks to wake up.

So reset the clock. It’s been 32 minutes and 48 seconds since The Dahlia killed her handler, the guards, the backup guards, and destroyed everything in the bunker.

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