AN: So guys, this is my first FanFiction. I hope you like it. If you find the time and you want to, please review so that I know what you think. Also, many thanks to the my Beta MegaDiary123, who is just awesome.

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Third person's POV

"What the hell happened here?", May eventually asked the question everyone was thinking of but none dared to say out loud.

They were all staring at the building in front of them, or at least what was left of it. Being the only one in the whole block that had collapsed, it looked like a bomb went off but for some reason nothing else was affected by it.

"Well, that's what we are here to find out, right?" Coulson came and stand next to her, his eyes never leaving the ruins.

"Like always" Natasha and Clint said in unison as they were, as carefully as possible, cleaning rocks and bricks from the road. "Well, come on" Natasha shouted back to the two who had yet to come closer. "We aren't going to find anything anytime soon if you just stand there!".

Coulson smirked and looked to his partner. "Reminds me of you" he said while walking to join the two agents. May just Rolled her eyes and joined the party.

The peculiar state that the building was in, compared to the rest of them, was the reason why S.H.I.E.L.D. had gotten involved.

That's why they treated it like every other 0-8-4 mission. See if they'd find anything out of the ordinary and report it. If they were lucky they would find the reason for the collapse, but their hopes weren't very high. Always considering the state of the building, the chances of finding anything useful were nearly zero to none.

So, slowly but steadily, they continued their way to the centre of the ruins. At one-point Natasha and Clint raised a big chunk of stone, or at least tried to since it was unexpectedly heavy. But they did get a chance to look underneath in case they found something. Anything would be better than the absolute nothing they had managed to collect so far. No information and no evidence. So, when Nat saw a glimpse of a dark tunnel, she took the chance. She rushed in, leaving only Clint to support the heavy rock who quickly released his grip and the stone fell back to its place trapping Natasha underneath.

"Hey, Nat! Can you hear me?", Clint was basically screaming having forgotten that they had the comms on.

"Yeah, Legolas, I can hear you" she snorted back. "Now shut up before you make me deaf. I'm trying to work here". She took her flashlight out and after a few tries it was switched on. She made a mental mote to remember and change the batteries.

"Agents, what's your status?", Phil could be heard from the comms, his professionalism coming to surface the moment he lost Natasha from sight. "You okay?"

"I'm fine, sir. I found this tunnel that I'm following, it looked relatively safe and I'm smaller than Agent Barton so I decided to check it out".

She could hear Phil sigh from the other end of the line and in her minds eye May was rolling her eyes for her 'impulsiveness and stupidity', as she would call it. "Stay safe. We are working on lifting this rock and we'll come find you. Call in if you find anything and if the comms don't work… well, then shout. We'll keep an ear out for you".

Natasha was only half paying attention to what she was being told, it was mostly protocol after all. Her attention was to the corridor ahead. It didn't seem very stable and she didn't wanna risk it falling on top of her.

But then, she found a door at the very end of the corridor and having nowhere else to go, she decided to try her luck. There was no handle and it was made out of stone. She tries pushing, softly at the beginning and harder and harder once she decided that it was safe and the roof wouldn't budge.

Frustrated that nothing was working she started examining her surroundings. The closest thing to a way in was the bottom right corner of the door which was broken. Probably it broke while the rest of the building was falling.

Natasha laid on the ground trying to peek from the not-so-big hole that she managed to find and used her flashlight to shine inside.

"Shit!", she exclaims once she looked inside. "Guys, get in here now!", she all but screamed to the others and without knowing if it was the right move she started digging. She could faintly hear the rest of her team asking what happened or if everything was all right, but she focused at the task at hand.

She was almost finished when May and Coulson came up behind her.

"What took you so long? And where is Clint?", she asked never taking her eyes of her target.

"We came as fast as we could, and he is outside keeping watch in case anything happens. Now what's wrong?", May's voice was heard.

"There is a person in there" she replied as she finished her digging. "Finally!", she exclaimed and made a move to go in only to be stopped by May.

"I'll go" she demanded but Natasha didn't have the patient or the time for that.

"I'm smaller than you and I can get in there faster" she tried, but could still see the hesitation in May's eyes. "We don't have time for this" she added, a careful and quiet whisper. "You wanted me to take initiative, this is me doing so. Now let me go". Even though she didn't mean to, it came out as a small threat and May eyed her carefully before releasing her grip. Natasha nodded slightly and quickly got back to work.

Once she was inside she focused on the hand that was coming out of the stone debris from all around. With all the gracefulness she could master, she started unburying the person trying not to cause any more damage.

She could hear her heart beating in her ears. A sigh of relief escaped her once she spotted a face and immediately supped the girl's pale cheeks in her palm. She brushed the hair out of her closed eyes and then pressed two fingers to her throat, releasing the breath she didn't know she was holding once she found a pulse. A pulse that was weak, but a pulse nonetheless.

"It's just a girl" she whispered to herself and pulled the child's body in her arms to get her out of that place.