Black Widow (2014 series) #18

Black Widow, injured by an explosion and falling through ice, revives and fires her sting at the surface. She heads toward the glow and finds the Prophet awaiting her with a knife. She rises behind him, struggles for the knife until it plunges into the ice; she scoops up a shard and stabs Prophet in the throat, killing him. Her work done, she contacts Winter Soldier to come and pick her up. He offers to take her anywhere so she can recover from the trauma but she insists on going back….

At SHIELD HQ, Maria Hill tells Natasha how much she is needed. Nat quits and thanks Hill for everything she has done but she turns in her belt and walks out….

Natasha meets with her lawyer Isaiah Ross in Central Park, telling him she is thinking of going sailing and tells him to keep Liho, her cat. She surprises Isaiah by asking if he thinks she would make a good mother; he responds that she is such a driven person she would be the best at whatever she chose to be. She thanks him for everything he’s done for her and give him a hug, startling him again. She then promises to talk to him soon….

Natasha stops by Avengers Tower to find Captain America (Sam Wilson) tossing around a baseball and Hawkeye shooting at it with arrows. Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is there too when Nat stops by. She is welcomed back on the team but explains she may be hard to find for a while. She calls Isaiah and asks to have the cat back….

She goes sailing in a quest to keep anyone from getting to close because they might find out who she really is and no one will ever know her full story….