Title: Defining Betrayal
Authors:AmandaC / VRyan
Rating:PG-13
Summary:An email causes Jack discomfort.
Pairings:Jack/Irina
Chapter One
Jack Bristow thumbed his keyboard absent mindedly. Upon reaching his inbox he noticed a number of unread mails. He opened them one by one. Eventually reaching one with an emboldened subject headline, "How's The Toaster". Shock registered on his face momentarily before his usual expression replaced it.
He opened it he knew it was from her. He warred with whether he should report it or not and opted for the latter.
He read its contents "So Jack, how are you? I know I'm taking a risk sending this but I need to know Sydney, Jack I'm worried"
He smiled remembering the last time he had seen her. It had been one of the most difficult missions for him. He remembered sending the girls to the camp to free her. Part of him wanted her to rot there. And part of him still loved her despite all she had done to him. He remembered the punch she had thrust upon him and how in that moment he agreed subconsciously that it was justified. He had shot a duplicate Irina believing it to be her. He figured what vexed her was not the fact that he shot her. But the fact that he could possibly think that she would order a hit on her own daughter.
Jack had sat on the plane and listened whilst Irina Derevko catalogued the hell her sister had put her through. He watched as finally she broke down whilst recanting the events. It had affected him, he would never out and out admit such but it had.
Irina was a strong woman and he knew that to be and understatement. She was also extremely beautiful. That had been his downfall, her beauty, her charm. The biggest draw for him when he had met her was the air of mystery that she exuded it surrounded her like an invisible cloak and drew him to her.
She sat steps away tears staining her cheeks holding onto her eldest daughter. He knew in that moment that the Irina in front of him was not same woman he had previously known. He felt an inexplicable urge to approach her, to comfort her. But he couldn't it wasn't in him to.
He did speak to her when she suggested a mission to destroy the Mueller Device. Finally recognizing the sense her argument had made and agreeing to undertake the mission. Soon after that they had been diverted to Langley and Derevko had been taken into custody. Bristow watched as she signed the agreement she would be returning to C.I.A custody once the mission was over. He saw something in her eyes in that moment, she apologised for her affair with Sloane. He found it funny that after all she had done that was the one thing she was apologizing to him for. He had told her as much. He had watched her as she helped Nadia put on her parachute, watched her as she jumped from the plane.
End Chapter One