Chapter 10
Irina looked like she wanted to curl up in a corner. “Jack I’m so sorry I...”
“Don’t Irina. That was Kendal on the phone. The results are in on the blood test. It seems as though, Irina, you were right.” said Jack.
“What!?!” shouted Jordan “I am not a bloody freaking Russian.” With that Jordan stood up and headed towards the bathroom forcefully saying “I’m taking a shower.”
Irina busted out crying. She had never cried like that before. Jack cautiously sat down and pulled her into an embrace. He wanted to know what had broken this woman. She was so strong, but Jordan saying she hated Russians must have over done it. He also wondered if she was upset over the conversation between Jordan and Irina over him and Sydney. Did Irina have a heart?-he thought. For five minutes Jack didn’t know what to say. She continued to cry. He looked at Sydney, who looked back at him with a blank stare. “Irina....you need to get some rest, come on its late.” All Irina could do was nod. They slowly made their way to the bedroom. He pulled back the covers and got in. As Jack turned to leave for the couch, Irina said “Jack, will you stay with me? I don’t want to be alone.” Jack nodded. He laid down beside her and she came closer and put her head on his chest. Within minutes she was asleep, and Jack was pondering over more questions about his newly found daughter.
A half an hour after Jordan went into the bathroom she came out with puffy eyes wearing scooby-doo boxers and a short black spaghetti strap. “I’m going to bed, which one did you call?” she asks Sydney.
“You can have the one on the right. Do you want to talk?” Sydney says. Jordan shakes her head and goes to bed. Sydney quickly follows suit.
Somewhere in the middle of the night, Sydney woke up to find Jordan thrashing around on the bed. She was shouting “No, No, Annika”. Sydney jumps out of bed and tries to restrain Jordan, but ends up getting kicked in the stomach. “Mom,” Sydney yells in distress. She hears the rumble of feet and within seconds in come Irina and Jack. “Help me,” she says “She won’t stop moving.”
Irina grabs the lose arm, while Jack pins down her legs. Suddenly, Jordan sits up in a yell. She looks at the three of them, and wipes the sweat from her forehead.
“What the bloody hell are you doing?” asks Jordan
“You were having a nightmare and wouldn’t stop thrashing” Syd replies.
“And so that gives you permission to touch me?” she asks. Jordan looks closer at Syd’s face and sees the hurt in her eyes. “Look, I know you had good intentions, but the doctors say I need to play them out for therapeutic process.”
“Why? What happened?” Syd asks. Jordan ponders the though of telling them, but instead gets up and goes over to the mini bar. She slowly takes out a beer. “Can you hand me one too ‘cuz you have some powerful legs?”
“Oh I’m so sorry...I didn’t know. Look I didn’t have a beer before I went to bed, so I got to sleep with a nightmare.” She quickly hands Syd a beer. “Where did I...?” Syd pulls up her shirt to show a red mark on her abdomen. “Sorry” Irina walks over and examines it.
“That will turn into one nasty bruise,” says coldly Irina. “Now give us an explanation for your nightmares like your sister asked you for.”
Jordan sighs, sit down on the bed, and then begins, “I was on an undercover assignment in Chicago like I told you. My partner and I, Annika, were to become close to Moriarty, the ring leader. Annika and I were his girls. We took care of his son, Nicky. Our covers were blow, we still don’t know by whom, and we were tortured. Annika was beaten to pulp, and then.....and then.........” Jordan starts to have tears in her eyes.
“What?” asks Jack in a gentle voice.
“She was raped and then shot. They continued to try to get information out of me. They gave me a tattoo, as a form of torture, then kicked the s*** out of me. They left me in an alley to be found by my contact. The tattoo keeps me from doing any undercover gang work because it says I’m from a certain gang. It also keeps me from going back for Nicky, because they would shoot me on the spot. Dammit, it hurts like hell to leave him there with that sexist pig, but I legally can’t do anything.”
“Who would do something like that to a child?” asks Sydney.
“Actually, I know of a number of people who would like no better than to kill me painfully, but hey that’s the job description.”
“So you made a connection to this Nicky kid?” asked Irina.
“Yeah, I guess I did. I mean he called me mom, even though I’m not biologically his mother. I taught him how to dance, how to shoot, how to dress, even how to write. Now he’s with his so called dad, learning that the only thing a woman is good for is her ass. Bloody wanker. Do you know what it is like to bury the two people you loved the most in the whole world in less than a year....it hurts like a b*tch. It takes a lot out of a person.”
“It also hurts to care for a person you can never touch again” said Irina. Jordan nodded.
“But it hurts worse to be used, chewed up, and spit out. A man uses the word *love* selfishly.” With that Irina cracked up laughing.
“You have some spunk, kiddo” said Irina.
Jack looked confused “By the term *girl* do you mean a relationship?”
“If you mean *Did I have sex with him?* The answer is yes” Their was a look of pure terror on Jack’s face.
“Jack she is my daughter after all. This whole story sounds like us in a way.”
Jack ignored Irina’s comment “Does your grandmother know what you do with MI-6? Does she care that a princess shouldn’t be exposed to a life that could get her an STD, let alone pregnant?”
“Well this princess is her own legal guardian, which I’m sure when we get back to the states you will want changed. This princess also gets a shot every 3 years for all the STD’s known, including AIDS and HIV, we Brits have well advanced technologies at MI-6. Oh, and this princess had surgery to stop her from getting pregnant until she wants to. Now, if you will excuse me, this princess is tired.” said a fuming Jordan.
Jordan then turned towards the bed, when she heard a faint beeping sound
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so this is definantly longer.........so it's like friday.....and crossing jordan is coming back on the air after half a season.........whoopie!!!!!!!!!! oh and of course their is Alias which should be a great next episode....... :lol: ^_^
