Disclaimer: I don't own Alias.
The Post Party
"Royalty coming through. Bow to my awesomeness." Weiss teases making his way through the crowd towards Nadia.
He hands her the glass of apple juice.
"Thanks." She smiles kissing him lightly.
"What's wrong with you? You're not having a drink." Sydney teases.
"No. For some reason I just don't feel like it." Nadia answers.
"Eric, Nadia, Sydney. Pleasure to see you again." Sark says joining them.
Sark and Sydney hug, he lets his arm stay around her shoulder.
"Don't be coy you two. After the stuff you confessed to at the pageant." Eric teases.
"Simply a ploy to ruffle Mr. Vaughn's ego." Sark explained.
"The look on his face was priceless." Sydney added.
"So you two haven't done anything." Nadia says unbelieving.
"Not a thing." Sark replies.
"I don't believe it." Nadia says.
"Me either." Weiss adds.
Nadia's phone rings and she looks at the caller id."It's Dr. Strauss. I've got to take this."
"Is everything ok?" Weiss asks.
"Yeah. It's just the results of my checkup." She says walking away.
Meanwhile Jack Bristow is sitting on the balcony of his home a glass of amber liquid in his hand. He takes a sip of it and looks out at the sparkling lights of downtown. He hears the door slide open but doesn't bother to see who it is.
"What is the first thing they taught you in AA. Never use liquor to drown you sadness." Irina's voice says behind him.
"It's apple juice." He answers.
She sits down in the chair next to him taking the glass from his hand. She takes a sip then gives it back.
"Told you." He says.
"I just wanted to make sure." She replies.
They sit for a moment in silence before she pulls out a black case.
"I need to show you something." Irina says pulling out the nine millimeter he used in competition.
"Didn't we fight about that last night." Jack sighs.
"Yes, we did. But I studied the guns earlier today and found this." She says pointing to the engraved initials.
"These are the guns I bought you. Someone went back and crudely turned I.D into E.P." she points out.
"So."
"So, that's one less thing we have to fight about."
"Irina. I'm tired of fighting. I've apologized more times than I can count. What more do I have to do."
"You have to tell me about Hong Kong."
"Why does it matter? What's done is done."
"I just need to know."
Jack sighed heavily.
"Fine. I was in briefings at the embassy all day. Afterwards I wanted a drink really bad, so I went to a bar down the street. I was sitting there with a glass of scotch about to drink it when I thought about you. I put the glass down and was about to leave when Elizabeth came in. She called me a punk for letting you stop me from drinking. So to prove to her that I was the same I knocked back a couple shots with her." He started.
"And?"
He took her hands in his and brought them to his lips.
"Before I say this. Know that I love you dearly." He said.
Irina nodded.
"After a few hours both of us were completely wasted, so we took a cab back to the hotel. I went to my room and she followed me. She tried to come in but I told her no. Then she started kissing me and touching me and my body got ahead of my mind."
"So you slept with her."
"No. I'm not going to lie, I almost did. I had to use the bathroom and when I saw myself half naked in the mirror, it sobered me up for a moment. All I could think about was that I was about to break your heart again. And I couldn't bear the thought of seeing you in as much pain as it caused you when I slept with Katya. So I went back out to tell her to leave but she had passed out. I pulled the covers up on her, packed my things and took the first flight home."
Irina snatched her hand away from him.
"Irina. Please."
"Don't. Not right now. Just don't ." she said walking back inside.