"So you're telling us that it wasn't Nicoli and Irina, that it was Amy and Dan who won the clue hunt. You're all Madrigals, and all the branches were brought together?" asked Hope.

"Pretty much," I answered. "Right after I escaped the fire, by pure luck I might add, the Madrigals contacted me. I joined and have been helping them ever since. Then I was here, just suddenly."

"How do you expect us to believe you? Amy and Dan are dead," Author spat.

"Your history is against you," Hope added.

"But that's just it," Cora spoke up, "it's not her history! It's the Irina's from where ever we are now!"

"Oh gosh," Alistair said suddenly.

"What?" almost everyone snapped.

"If we're here, then where are the ones who belong here?" he asked.

It was silence as the realization dawned on us. They must be in our world.

Jonah seemed to come back first, "This is really bad." His lack of street talk showed just how worried he was.

"But how did we get here in the first place?" Eisenhower asked.

Everyone started talking and yelling things, mostly variations of I don't know. "SILENCE!" Author shouted. Everyone stopped talking instantly. "This is insane and cruel. I don't know why all of you are playing along with this sick joke Irina came up with. Have you all forgotten the things she has done to you? Well I can never forget. Her and that son of hers killed my children. KILLED AMY AND DAN! I will never forgive you for that Irina! What if Nicoli was suddenly gone and you knew the person who did it was in power? How could you ever get over that? Especially if they were coming to you telling you something like this! This is sick and twisted, and JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT YOU!" Tears were in his eyes, emotion overflowing.

My mouth hung open for a minute a water pushed on my eyes also. I collapsed into the chair that was behind me. "I do know," it was barley a whisper that escaped my lips.

Everyone was frozen in shock. "I do know," I broke the silence. My voice a little stronger this time. "You may not believe what I'm telling you, but I ask that you let me finish before you say anything. About eight years ago Nicoli was sick. I wanted to stay with him and make sure he got better, but I was ordered to go on a mission. I tried to fight and delay, but Isabel made me go. I was deep undercover and didn't get to answer my phone. When I got home, the stuffed monkey that he had asked for in hand, I got to hear that my son was dead. I didn't even get to be with him in his last hours," tears were flowing freely by now. "When I joined the Madrigals they showed me one file. One single file that changed everything. Their Lucian spy had got it. It was the file on Nicoli's murder. Isabel had thought he was too much of a weakness for me, so she had that nanny slowly poison him. That's why I had to go on mission. That's why I couldn't be there when he died. The poison she used is so pain full that he was screaming and twisting in pain, and I couldn't be there because I would have recognised it. My son had to die a slow painful death because of me. Because I was his mother. Don't say I don't know about losing children because I do."

Every one's mouths were open, I had never told them the full story. Not like this anyway. "That's tribal," Mary-Todd whispered, no dought imagining her kids having the same fate.

"That's why I did what I did. I used that time machine that Sinead invented to go back and warn myself of what was to happen to Nicoli," I couldn't meet their eyes. "I'm sorry, but I hope you understand."

A/N: DUN DUN DUUUUUUN! That was fun to write! A bit sad, but that's what I think really happend to Irina's son...

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