Ok, so it will probably help if people read On the Hunt before they read this as it has all of the back story and references to things and characters from the previous story. But you dont have to, I'm sure things will make sense... I hope hehehehee... Ladies and Gentlemen! Children of all ages!! *drum roll*
Chapter One
“Dad.”
“Go Sydney, I’ll be fine, you have to go.”
“Dad, don’t do this, please, there has to be another way.”
“There isn’t, the NSA and CIA can’t be trusted, as long as you’re free you can get to the bottom of this, Sweetheart you have to go.” Jack took hold of his stubborn daughters face in both hands and looked deep into her eyes as they swam with tears.
“I’m scared.” Sydney whispered as the plane on the tarmac behind her began to start up.
“I know honey, me too, but you’ll be safe that’s all that matters right now.” Jack lent forward and kissed her forehead, pushing her hair back from her face his own eyes begging her to believe him.
“Sydney!” it was her mother, dashing over from the plane as best she could with her injury.
“Sydney, sweetheart we have to go.” Irina breathed as she came up to them.
Sydney looked to her mother then back to her father her eyes uncertain and scared, for all of them, then she did some thing rather uncharacteristic, she leaped forward and hugged her father fiercely.
“I love you dad.” She whispered.
Jack held her tightly and took a deep breath, breathing in her scent, “I love you Sydney, more then anything.” He said realizing he had said this within ear shot of his wife who simply looked worried, her long tangles blowing about her face.
Sydney pulled away from him and smiled sadly, she looked over to her mother who smiled and nodded.
There wasn’t anything more to say, Sydney knew what she had to do, what she had to do to stay alive, to stay three steps ahead of the people who had done this to her, not just to her, but to them, to her parents, her friends, she had to make this right and to do that she had to go.
She smiled, took one last look at her Father, squeezed his hand one last time then made a dash to the plane trying to hold back the flood of tears she wanted to cry.
Irina watched her daughter jog to the plane and made sure she was safely on board before striding over to her husband, taking his face in her hands and drawing him into a deep and intense kiss that could have stopped time for all she knew, she couldn’t hear the plane, couldn’t feel the wind or the cold, only the warmth of his touch, the tenderness of his lips.
Jack took his wife gently by the shoulders and pushed her away breaking the contact that sent bolts of electricity throughout his body and sent his pulse racing.
“Jack.” She breathed his name and her fingers ran through his hair, behind his ears.
“Be safe Irina.”
Very rarely had Jack seen her cry, he could count all the times he had on one hand, right now she was doing her best to keep her emotions contained and under control.
“Come back to me Jack.” She whispered interlocking her fingers with his and drawing his hands to her stomach locking him against her.
He kissed her gently and pulled his hands back pressing her body to his, “I always do.” He whispered into her hair, despite the roaring of the plane she heard him.
“Now go, protect Sydney, keep our daughter safe.” He lent his head on her shoulder and breathed into her ear.
Irina dreaded to pull away from him, half of her screamed for her to run to the plane, to do as he said the other half the louder half screamed for her to stay, to protect him, to fight beside him.
The last few months had been like time travel, going back to a time when they had been happy. Together they had been a passionate couple and over the days and weeks they had spent together searching for their daughter that passion had been reignited, the closeness, the intimacy that she now realized she craved from him. She didn’t want to loose that, loose him again.
“Go Irina.”
She couldn’t, wouldn’t move.
“GO.” He hissed pulling away from her and taking steps back.
She starred at him, her hair flying about her face as she starred into the endless eyes that had both loved and hated her. Holding back her tears she turned and fled to the plane.
Irina climbed aboard and shut the door behind herself checking it was secured she headed down the single aisle and saw Sydney curled up on a chair her jacket wrapped around herself starring out the small window.
She felt a twinge in her chest and knew it had more to do with the heart ache she saw on her daughters face then the bullet to the chest she had taken.
She walked towards Sydney and stopped at her seat watching her daughter for any sign she was going to speak, the plane began to move underneath her and she sat down next to her daughter wanting so very much to comfort her but waiting for Sydney to make the first move.
“Everything is just so wrong.” Sydney said quietly as the plane began to gather speed.
“I know sweetheart.” Irina said softly.
Sydney turned to look at her mother and for the first time really understood what her parents had done for her, her mother had risked her life, her freedom to find her, she had risked everything on the faint hope that Sydney really hadn’t been killed in that house fire. Her father had risked his standing in the CIA, his life to find his little girl.
He had partnered with the one person on earth he said he would never trust again and Irina had risked her credibility as the Man, as the head of a criminal cartel there were certain things you didn’t do, joining up with your CIA husband on a wild goose chase was one of them.
“Mom what are they going to do to him?” Sydney asked eyes filling with tears as they felt the plane take off.
“I… I don’t know.” Irina said honestly as she felt her own emotions boil and flow over the wall of control she had spent years building.
Sydney felt her eyes burn and turned her body in her chair to hug her mother, almost launching herself on the older woman.
Irina let her daughter crush herself against her, ignoring the searing pain it brought to her chest, she had withstood greater pain in Kashmir, she could handle this.
“We’ll make everything alright Sydney, I promise.” She whispered holding her daughter gently running her hands up and down her back.
“How?” Sydney hiccuped.
“I don’t know yet, but your father and I didn’t spend all this time looking for you to be stopped now, we are going to find the people who did this, we’re going to find out why they did this… and we’ll make them pay for taking so much from you.” Irina promised.
Sydney smiled and pulled away from her mother, remembering the wound to her mothers’ right side she realized she had been crushing her mothers’ rib cage.
“Mom, did I hurt you?” she asked quickly seeing her mother shift her weight a little.
“No sweetheart.” Irina brushed her daughters’ fringe away from her face and smiled at her.
Sydney smiled and took a breath trying to calm herself.
“Rest Sydney, get some sleep, you’ve been through a lot.” Irina instructed gently.
“I’m not tired.” Sydney shook her head.
“Sweetheart, I know what its like to go through months of intense torture and starvation, sleep; regain your strength.” Irina smiled warmly.
Sydney took a deep breath and nodded, her mother would know what it was like.
“OK, I’ll sleep… but…” She didn’t seem to be able to finish her sentence.
“But what?” Irina asked softly.
“But only if you stay with me.” She whispered.
Irina felt her heart swell and her eyes filled with tears of joy, she took hold of her daughter again and smiled “I’m not going any where.” She said softly into her daughters’ hair.
“I love you Sydney.” Irina held her as she felt her daughter shift her body to get comfortable.
“I know mom, I know.” Sydney said softly, Irina wasn’t hoping for an ‘I love you too’ she knew that was asking too much from her daughter, but maybe, one day.
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Jack watched Irina run to the plane and felt a pull in his stomach, the two women he loved more then anything else in the world had just come crashing back into his life and now they were flying out of it again.
He heard tires crunch and sirens scream and cursed softly, the plane had to take off, he turned to face the oncoming authorities and looked to where Zena had fallen, he blinked and looked again. She was gone, there was a pool of blood but she was gone.
Jack watched the cars come towards him and smiled as he heard the plane roll down the run way.
Police officers swarmed around him and demanded he put his hands on his head, he turned away to watch the plane shoot into the sky and put his hands on his head. When they slammed him to the ground and he split his lip he didn’t resist. Let them arrest him, they weren’t getting Sydney or Irina.
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“Sir, we’ve apprehended Jack Bristow.”
“Finally! You managed to do something right, I want him and that murdering ex-wife of his in shackles and….”
“Sir, we only apprehended Jack Bristow; we believe Irina Derevko managed to flee the jurisdiction before we were able to close down the air port.”
Lindsey looked up at the assistant who was visibly shaking and scowled, “Do we have any idea where she might be going?”
“No sir; the flight plan wasn’t filed and the plane has… disappeared off radar.”
“Planes don’t just disappear!”
“They do when Irina Derevko is aboard.” Kendell said barging into the room.
“What the hell are you doing in my office?”
“You arrested Jack Bristow.”
“Yes, I have.”
“Why?”
Lindsey narrowed his eyes and smiled darkly, “Treason, he was seen in the company of his Ex-wife, that’s enough probable cause for me to arrest and detain him.” He smiled triumphantly.
“Good luck getting him to talk, you might as well ask for blood from a stone.” Kendell smirked and left the office.
Lindsey growled and glared at the assistant, “I don’t care what it takes, find Irina Derevko!”
Heheheheh an appetizer my lovelies, a mere appetizer hehehhheheehhe more to come!! Read review and enjoy!
Chapter One
“Dad.”
“Go Sydney, I’ll be fine, you have to go.”
“Dad, don’t do this, please, there has to be another way.”
“There isn’t, the NSA and CIA can’t be trusted, as long as you’re free you can get to the bottom of this, Sweetheart you have to go.” Jack took hold of his stubborn daughters face in both hands and looked deep into her eyes as they swam with tears.
“I’m scared.” Sydney whispered as the plane on the tarmac behind her began to start up.
“I know honey, me too, but you’ll be safe that’s all that matters right now.” Jack lent forward and kissed her forehead, pushing her hair back from her face his own eyes begging her to believe him.
“Sydney!” it was her mother, dashing over from the plane as best she could with her injury.
“Sydney, sweetheart we have to go.” Irina breathed as she came up to them.
Sydney looked to her mother then back to her father her eyes uncertain and scared, for all of them, then she did some thing rather uncharacteristic, she leaped forward and hugged her father fiercely.
“I love you dad.” She whispered.
Jack held her tightly and took a deep breath, breathing in her scent, “I love you Sydney, more then anything.” He said realizing he had said this within ear shot of his wife who simply looked worried, her long tangles blowing about her face.
Sydney pulled away from him and smiled sadly, she looked over to her mother who smiled and nodded.
There wasn’t anything more to say, Sydney knew what she had to do, what she had to do to stay alive, to stay three steps ahead of the people who had done this to her, not just to her, but to them, to her parents, her friends, she had to make this right and to do that she had to go.
She smiled, took one last look at her Father, squeezed his hand one last time then made a dash to the plane trying to hold back the flood of tears she wanted to cry.
Irina watched her daughter jog to the plane and made sure she was safely on board before striding over to her husband, taking his face in her hands and drawing him into a deep and intense kiss that could have stopped time for all she knew, she couldn’t hear the plane, couldn’t feel the wind or the cold, only the warmth of his touch, the tenderness of his lips.
Jack took his wife gently by the shoulders and pushed her away breaking the contact that sent bolts of electricity throughout his body and sent his pulse racing.
“Jack.” She breathed his name and her fingers ran through his hair, behind his ears.
“Be safe Irina.”
Very rarely had Jack seen her cry, he could count all the times he had on one hand, right now she was doing her best to keep her emotions contained and under control.
“Come back to me Jack.” She whispered interlocking her fingers with his and drawing his hands to her stomach locking him against her.
He kissed her gently and pulled his hands back pressing her body to his, “I always do.” He whispered into her hair, despite the roaring of the plane she heard him.
“Now go, protect Sydney, keep our daughter safe.” He lent his head on her shoulder and breathed into her ear.
Irina dreaded to pull away from him, half of her screamed for her to run to the plane, to do as he said the other half the louder half screamed for her to stay, to protect him, to fight beside him.
The last few months had been like time travel, going back to a time when they had been happy. Together they had been a passionate couple and over the days and weeks they had spent together searching for their daughter that passion had been reignited, the closeness, the intimacy that she now realized she craved from him. She didn’t want to loose that, loose him again.
“Go Irina.”
She couldn’t, wouldn’t move.
“GO.” He hissed pulling away from her and taking steps back.
She starred at him, her hair flying about her face as she starred into the endless eyes that had both loved and hated her. Holding back her tears she turned and fled to the plane.
Irina climbed aboard and shut the door behind herself checking it was secured she headed down the single aisle and saw Sydney curled up on a chair her jacket wrapped around herself starring out the small window.
She felt a twinge in her chest and knew it had more to do with the heart ache she saw on her daughters face then the bullet to the chest she had taken.
She walked towards Sydney and stopped at her seat watching her daughter for any sign she was going to speak, the plane began to move underneath her and she sat down next to her daughter wanting so very much to comfort her but waiting for Sydney to make the first move.
“Everything is just so wrong.” Sydney said quietly as the plane began to gather speed.
“I know sweetheart.” Irina said softly.
Sydney turned to look at her mother and for the first time really understood what her parents had done for her, her mother had risked her life, her freedom to find her, she had risked everything on the faint hope that Sydney really hadn’t been killed in that house fire. Her father had risked his standing in the CIA, his life to find his little girl.
He had partnered with the one person on earth he said he would never trust again and Irina had risked her credibility as the Man, as the head of a criminal cartel there were certain things you didn’t do, joining up with your CIA husband on a wild goose chase was one of them.
“Mom what are they going to do to him?” Sydney asked eyes filling with tears as they felt the plane take off.
“I… I don’t know.” Irina said honestly as she felt her own emotions boil and flow over the wall of control she had spent years building.
Sydney felt her eyes burn and turned her body in her chair to hug her mother, almost launching herself on the older woman.
Irina let her daughter crush herself against her, ignoring the searing pain it brought to her chest, she had withstood greater pain in Kashmir, she could handle this.
“We’ll make everything alright Sydney, I promise.” She whispered holding her daughter gently running her hands up and down her back.
“How?” Sydney hiccuped.
“I don’t know yet, but your father and I didn’t spend all this time looking for you to be stopped now, we are going to find the people who did this, we’re going to find out why they did this… and we’ll make them pay for taking so much from you.” Irina promised.
Sydney smiled and pulled away from her mother, remembering the wound to her mothers’ right side she realized she had been crushing her mothers’ rib cage.
“Mom, did I hurt you?” she asked quickly seeing her mother shift her weight a little.
“No sweetheart.” Irina brushed her daughters’ fringe away from her face and smiled at her.
Sydney smiled and took a breath trying to calm herself.
“Rest Sydney, get some sleep, you’ve been through a lot.” Irina instructed gently.
“I’m not tired.” Sydney shook her head.
“Sweetheart, I know what its like to go through months of intense torture and starvation, sleep; regain your strength.” Irina smiled warmly.
Sydney took a deep breath and nodded, her mother would know what it was like.
“OK, I’ll sleep… but…” She didn’t seem to be able to finish her sentence.
“But what?” Irina asked softly.
“But only if you stay with me.” She whispered.
Irina felt her heart swell and her eyes filled with tears of joy, she took hold of her daughter again and smiled “I’m not going any where.” She said softly into her daughters’ hair.
“I love you Sydney.” Irina held her as she felt her daughter shift her body to get comfortable.
“I know mom, I know.” Sydney said softly, Irina wasn’t hoping for an ‘I love you too’ she knew that was asking too much from her daughter, but maybe, one day.
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Jack watched Irina run to the plane and felt a pull in his stomach, the two women he loved more then anything else in the world had just come crashing back into his life and now they were flying out of it again.
He heard tires crunch and sirens scream and cursed softly, the plane had to take off, he turned to face the oncoming authorities and looked to where Zena had fallen, he blinked and looked again. She was gone, there was a pool of blood but she was gone.
Jack watched the cars come towards him and smiled as he heard the plane roll down the run way.
Police officers swarmed around him and demanded he put his hands on his head, he turned away to watch the plane shoot into the sky and put his hands on his head. When they slammed him to the ground and he split his lip he didn’t resist. Let them arrest him, they weren’t getting Sydney or Irina.
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“Sir, we’ve apprehended Jack Bristow.”
“Finally! You managed to do something right, I want him and that murdering ex-wife of his in shackles and….”
“Sir, we only apprehended Jack Bristow; we believe Irina Derevko managed to flee the jurisdiction before we were able to close down the air port.”
Lindsey looked up at the assistant who was visibly shaking and scowled, “Do we have any idea where she might be going?”
“No sir; the flight plan wasn’t filed and the plane has… disappeared off radar.”
“Planes don’t just disappear!”
“They do when Irina Derevko is aboard.” Kendell said barging into the room.
“What the hell are you doing in my office?”
“You arrested Jack Bristow.”
“Yes, I have.”
“Why?”
Lindsey narrowed his eyes and smiled darkly, “Treason, he was seen in the company of his Ex-wife, that’s enough probable cause for me to arrest and detain him.” He smiled triumphantly.
“Good luck getting him to talk, you might as well ask for blood from a stone.” Kendell smirked and left the office.
Lindsey growled and glared at the assistant, “I don’t care what it takes, find Irina Derevko!”
Heheheheh an appetizer my lovelies, a mere appetizer hehehhheheehhe more to come!! Read review and enjoy!
