See chapter one for the disclaimer.

Author's Note: Thank you to all of you who reviewed the first chapter. If anything is unclear about this chapter please tell me and I will make the necessary changes.

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Chapter 2

Sidney Vaughn and her husband walked into Director Kendall's Office and sat down on the plain black chairs available to them in front of his desk.

"Good, you're both here. I have some news regarding your parents Sidney." He brought his hand closer to his in a clasp and continued. "We managed to recover the evidence form the cave where we had thought your father had blown up in. There was no sign of your father being anywhere in the vicinity of it when it blew up. In fact, we found Sloan, alive, and he informed us that Jack had thrown the bomb in there and had managed to flee before it exploded in there faces."

The couple shared a curious look. Could it be that her father was still alive? If that were true it was too good to be real. She had seen how much damage he had taken due to the bullet wound. He needed to have gotten medical attention very quickly to have been able to have survived, and wouldn't he have made contact by now if he still was alive?

Kendall went on, "even more startling were the results we received from your mother's autopsy. The body we have may physically look like Irini Derevko, but it most certainly is not. In reality, we believe it to be one of her sisters, Elena, or as she is also known, Yelena Derevko. I know that it I might be hard to believe this bit of news since she was supposedly killed by your mother during your mission in Moscow, but the DNA matches the one have under her name."

Sidney took a moment and absorbed all the information she had just been given. "What you are telling me is that there is an extremely high possibility both my parents are alive somewhere? Maybe even together? That is just crazy. Why would they do something like this? It does not make any sense. What reason did he have to run away? My mother I understand, but him?"

She stood and went to stare out of the window leading to the rest of the office. Why would her father not have contacted her yet if he was still alive? What had made him do this? Did he think she would not be able to handle the truth if he had told her?

She knew her father had kept in contact with her mother this past year, at least, but she had not one iota of an idea of what their relationship had been like or if it went past the one phone conversation she had eavesdropped on. Had they been secretly meeting as she had suspected or had they just talked on the phone? Why had they even talked on the phone in the first place?

She had given up on her parents ever getting back together when she had learned her father had killed her mother. Given that it was only a clone and her mom was still relatively safe, at least from him. Now that that both were most likely still alive and possibly working together Sidney found herself bringing her hopes up again. Even though it illogical, she had pictured this exact occasion many times ever since she was little girl and to have it happen three times in a lifetime was just too much. Sidney had grieved for her mother and father more times than any child should. Hopefully this would be the last, until her parents died of natural causes, like old age, and not from trying to one up the other.

Because of this Sidney would catch herself looking at her parents whenever they were interacting when her mother was a guest of the CIA, and later in Moscow. She would try and find any spark of what she used to witness when she was a little girl and would come upon dancing in the living room after she was supposed to be asleep, or the time she ran into their room one morning to find them in the midst of passionate kisses.

After the meeting with Kendall Sidney and Michael Vaughn picked up their daughter Isabelle and drove home. On the way they discussed what had transpired at the meeting.

"Sid, do you really think it's possible that both of your parents are alive. I know Irina has cheated death a thousand times before, but Jack? You saw how much blood he had already lost. For him to have been able to run out of that cave fast enough he had to have had a lot of strength and speed and I doubt if at that moment he would have been able to have done that. And your mom, I know that she would not have let anyone take her DNA again, she would have managed to really kill her sister before she let the woman do anything to her again. This whole thing seems a bit far fetched."

Sidney sighed. "What with my parents isn't far fetched. A year ago I would have agreed with you a hundred percent, now, I'm not so sure. My parents had been keeping in contact with each other this past year. I caught him calling her sometimes and even picked up the pone one time that she called him. I didn't say anything because I figured he knew what he was doing, but it did seem weird."

They had arrived home and brought the baby inside settling her down in her crib for the night. After moving to the living room she continued.

"One night I went over to his place after work to make sure he had enough to eat and wasn't letting his laundry stack up to the roof as he likes to do when I heard him on the phone. I didn't want to disturb him, but I was way too curious to walk away so I put my ear up to the door to get a better idea of what was being said. I couldn't make out everything but I knew he was making plans with a woman to meet up with her. Before he hung up I heard him say 'I love you sweetheart, I'll see you soon.'" Then he hung up.

There was a moment in the conversation where I thought I'd heard a distinct 'Irina', but I chalked it up to me being overly sensitive at the moment because I had been missing her. Now I am not so certain that I should have chalked it up to oversensitivity and should just have gone with my gut feeling. I really believe they have been meeting up this last year, it explains a lot that's been happening."

Vaughn was quiet as he contemplated what Sidney had said. "I did notice you dad coming back extremely happy, much happier than he should have been, coming back from recon trips. Do you think your mother might have been around, you know, to help him make sure he got in some exercise?"

He raised his eyebrows up and down a few times which earned him a slap in the back of his head.

"I do not want to get that image into my head again. No child should have to picture their parents in that position. It's enough that I already have en extensive knowledge of what my parents do and that they have come close to, of not have done, something of the kind on some of the missions they have had to go on. I mean my mom's sole objective at the beginning of my parents relationship was to get in his pants to get more information out of him." She shuddered. "Please try and keep that type of comment to yourself next time any of the kind come into your brain."

Sidney and Vaughn did not think of her parents for the remainder of the night, instead they focused on being the family they had wanted to be for a long time. They had to clue of what was to happen in the weeks to come.