Chapter 2 Yea I know it's hella long but eh.
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Irina woke with a start, then the pain returned and with it the memory of what had happened. She tried to stand her legs wouldn’t lift her. She tried for a half hour to stand but every time she got closer to standing up she would fall back to the cold damp ground of the cell she was being held in. Just as she was about to give up her assailant walked smugly through the door.
“I see you’ve realized that you can’t stand. I took the precaution of giving you a bit of the same substance you injected me with when I was your captive,” Katya smiled down at her sister. “Just so you know, I did it so that you wouldn’t try to attack when I came it. Not so you couldn’t escape. Because well, you’d be dead before you even got out of this room if you tried.”
“I always expected you to be the one to betray me Ekatarina. I actually knew you would it was just a matter of when. But why would you betray me for these scum? And why would you show me such disrespect as to keep me in this cell. Did I not show you compassion when you were my prisoner?” Irina inquired
“Irina I didn’t betray you. You betrayed the plan. The day you turned you back on Nadia was the day you signed your death warrant. Sydney was not your true daughter she was a daughter conceived of pretenses and false love. She is not your daughter, Sydney Bristow’s mother died in a car accident two decades ago. Your responsibility is to Nadia, she was conceived for a reason, and she is what is important. She holds greater possibilities than the American. The covenant is dedicated to the passenger and will do all that it takes to provide the proper outcome when it is time, that is why I almost shot Sydney. So you see sister it is my duty as a sworn member of the Followers of Rambaldi and as head of the Covenant to remove any obstacle in the way of our endgame, namely you, I’m sorry. Not for what I have done, but that you won’t live to see dawn. Goodbye Irina.”
And with that Katya left her sister to die. Irina continued her attempts to stand up until the moment the guards came to take her to execution. They wheeled her down a hallway darker than her cell. The small bit of light in the hall came from a small window. Irina noted this, knowing that it was her only means of escape. “At least Katya has been generous enough to give me death by lethal injection.” Irina thought. The room where she was to die was almost as dark and as cold as her cell. It contained a simple gurney with 6 straps to hold the flailing bodies. Irina sensed the moment Katya entered the room.
“Leave us. I will call you when we are ready.” Katya said to the doctor, leaving only her, Irina, and Katya’s personal guard.
“Do you have any last words for me sister?”
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Yes I do,” Irina snapped,
“in the years that you have known me, even when we were children, have you not noticed the most important thing about me?”
“And what is that?” Katya asked refusing to be pulled in by Irina’s deception.
“I am left handed." Irina said simply as she reached for her left ankle.
Katya didn’t understand her comment, but Vlad, Katya’s guard knew exactly what she meant, because he was the person that unarmed her. He had gotten her gun on her waist and even checked her right ankle but he had never thought to check her left. He knew that if he survived this he would definetly be out of a job. Vlad reached for his G36 but by the time he reached it he already had a bullet between the eyes. Katya was caught completely off guard when her sister pulled the PPK from her ankle holster, but she was even more shocked when Irina stood up with no problems.
“I knew that one day I would be in a predicament like this Katya. That is why I had the antidote placed in my system to over-ride the substance after two hours.” Irina said with her usual sense of self. Katya knew she was screwed, but she might have one last chance to take Irina out.
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You think you are so much smarter than me don’t you? You think you are better than me, just because you got away from daddy before I did. Just because you could always handle yourself on the street like a boy. Well Irina those days are over. I am more powerful now.” Katya stalled as she made her way toward Vlad’s gun. Irina knew instantly what was happening, but she let her sister continue.
“You think that because you fell in love with the American, all these years later you owe him something. But it's not just that is it? You still love him. But I suppose that doesn’t matter does it?” Katya continued finally reaching the gun and picking it up as inconspicuously as possible.
“I guess it doesn’t matter now Ekatarina. Now I know I’m scheduled to die in moments but could you do me a simple favor?” Irina asked training her gun on Katya’s right shin. Katya shook her head yes thinking it would be a simple request. But Irina was not simple in any way.
“You are going to walk me outside right now. And then you are going to walk back inside with out me. Do you understand this or must I beat it into you.” Irina commanded. Katya had no intention of letting Irina leave the building alive.
She leveled the gun at Irina’s chest and pulled the trigger, but Irina even with her wounded side was quick and dodged the gun. She brought her foot up and kicked the barrel of the gun to Katya’s face leaving a burn across the her right cheek. Angered Katya dropped the gun and charged Irina full on catching her sister in the gut and driving her on the gurney. The corner of the gurney hit Irina right where she had been stabbed but, her addrenaline prevented her from feeling the emense pain. Pissed Irina brought her knee up into Katya’s stomach several times until Katya fell to her hands and knees.
Irina stood up and saw her sister in the best position she could have hoped for. Irina brought her foot up swiftly to her sisters midsection causing her to become air-born, at the same moment Katya vomited a mixture of partially digested food and blood. Katya swung her legs around knocking Irina’s out from under her, with Irina on the ground Katya went for the G36 again. She picked it up, and still on the ground turned around to shoot but Irina was nowhere to be seen.
Katya stood up and knew instantly where she was, Katya turned around to stare her sister in the eyes, so she would have the satisfaction of knowing she was the last thing that her traitorous bi*ch of a sister ever saw. Irina was ready for Katya’s turn and didn't give her a chance, she pistol whipped Katya across the face so hard that it knocked her unconscious.
With the opposition out of the way Irina headed out the door. She ran down the hall back tracking to her cell. “Yes,” she thought as she rounded a corner and saw the window from before. “I just hope the drop isn’t that far.” When she was 20 feet away a guard came around the corner behind her.
“Stop Ms. Derevko. I will not hesitate to shoot you.” The guard bellowed angrily. Irina didn't even look back but knew he was lying , Katya would have his head, literally, if he killed her. That was an honor that she now would take herself.
Irina aimed at the window and shot it out, then she spied something she hadn’t seen before, an emergency fire hose. She knew what was about to unfold, she shot the glass casing that housed the hose and it fell to the floor. Running faster now she rolled when she got to the hose. In one fluid motion she picked up the hose and looped it through her belt.
Just as she reached the window the wall besided her exploded on the impact of a bullet. Irina turned as she leapt out the window opening fire. Everything was slow motion for the next two minutes. She watched the guard’s hands clamp his neck where the bullet had hit him. Then all she saw was concrete and glass rushing past her, three stories later she hit the ground with a heavy thud.
From the window she heard the screams of covenant officers, and the discharging of guns. Irina looked around, "I know this place," she thought, "but why can't I place it?" She ran as fast as she could for 20 or some blocks, she wasn't sure they eventually jsut blurred together. She would have continued to run also but what she saw made her stop dead in her tracks.