I don't own Blindspot or any of these amazing characters….
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Okay...I'm posting this now because tomorrow I doubt I'll get a chance. Well, that and because it's ready.
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Weller pulled his gun and stood ready, Reade beside him.
"Open the doors," Weller told Patterson.
She overrode the emergency protocol and suddenly Kurt was looking into the eyes of a man he'd believed was dead.
"Hands up!" Reade told him.
Roman didn't argue, but did as he was instructed, "Where is she?"
"You don't get to ask the questions," Reade insisted, moving forward and slipping on the cuffs.
Kurt looked down at the bag sitting at his feet suspiciously.
"What's in the bag?" he demanded.
"Nothing of value," Roman told them, "It's just money."
"Why bring it here?" Reade asked him, moving him off the elevator while Kurt knelt down to inspect the bag.
"I was attempting to trade it off for the case at the warehouse," Roman explained, "But things didn't quite go as planned. I need that other case."
"Well, we're going to need an explanation," Reade countered.
"Then let's go," Roman insisted, "My sister doesn't have that much time."
Once Kurt verified there wasn't any explosive in the bag, he picked it up and took it to Patterson, she could scan it for hidden tech.
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"I can't believe he just walked in here!" Rich told the others looking through the glass that separated them from where Roman sat waiting for the interrogation.
"He's up to something," Patterson worried, looking over at Kurt.
"We just need to figure out what," Kurt looked over at Reade.
"Well, we aren't going to do it in here," Reade agreed and he and Kurt moved toward the interview room.
"This is exciting," Rich told Patterson.
She didn't answer, but her eyes were riveted to the man currently cuffed to the table.
Kurt entered first and the calm demeanor of the man before them began to grate on his nerves. He was sick of Roman's mind games.
Pulling out a chair he sat down and simply studied the face of the man that had brought them so much pain.
"How are you not dead?" Reade drew his attention.
"I'm not who you think I am," The man told them.
"Then who are you?" Kurt demanded.
"I'm Ivan," The stranger said, "Roman's twin brother."
Kurt shot a look at Reade.
"Roman didn't have a twin brother," Reade denied.
"You're wrong," Ivan insisted, "I was taken to a separate facility, but I lived."
"Why are we just hearing about you now?" Kurt demanded.
"From what I understand, Jane wouldn't have remembered me and I wasn't a part of their life for over twenty years, why would you know about me?" Ivan asked him.
"So if you lived such a separate life, why are you here now?" Reade demanded.
"I was approached by Roman just over two years ago," Ivan explained, "He knew about the Zip poisoning and he knew that I was a scientist. He explained what he needed and I could hardly turn my back on all that was left of my family."
"Did you find a cure?" Kurt felt his heart race as he asked that question.
"Not yet," Ivan denied, "I was able to slow down the progression somewhat, but I still haven't been able to stop it completely. That's why I need that other case, all my research was in the bag and Roman made me promise I wouldn't stop looking before he died."
"How did you lose the case?" Reade asked him.
"The people that Roman was working with helped themselves when they heard he was dead." Ivan explained. "They were blackmailing me and I can't help my sister without the information in that case."
"You think we have it," Kurt realized.
"You must have it," Ivan insisted, "Where else would it be?"
Kurt closed his eyes. The only person that could tell them where that case was hidden was beyond their reach.
"We need to check out your story," Kurt told Ivan as he pushed back his chair.
Reade followed suit and Patterson met them as they exited the room.
"Do you think he's telling the truth?" She asked them.
"I don't know," Kurt denied, "But if he is, we need to find out what Remi did with that case."
"How do you plan to do that?" Reade demanded.
Kurt didn't answer. The truth was he had no idea.
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Kurt opened the door to their apartment and Alice walked by him still clutching the doll Rich had given her.
"What do you want to eat?" Kurt asked her, placing the keys at the end of the bar.
"I don't know," Alice told him.
"There's a vegan place not too far from her that serves some killer vegie burgers," Kurt told her.
When her nose scrunched up in distaste he smiled at just how cute she was.
"Not interested?" Kurt smiled.
"Could we get a pizza?" Alice asked him.
Weighing the odds of Jane's Vegan diet with Alice's ten year old pallet, Kurt caved.
"Pizza it is," He agreed, "Want a milkshake with that?"
"Do they have Strawberry?" Alice asked him with a twinkle in her eye.
"Strawberry of course," He agreed moving over to the phone.
He watched Alice walk around the apartment picking up things and looking out at the view.
"Should be here in a little while," Kurt told her, "You want to shower?"
"Sure," Alice agreed awkwardly.
"I'll show you where you can get a change of clothes," Kurt led her back to their bedroom and showed her Jane's side of the closet. "I'll be in the living room if you need anything."
"Thanks," Alice watched him go.
Kurt went to the kitchen and poured himself a drink. He was so exhausted, but even when he tried to sleep he couldn't.
He sat on the couch when suddenly there was a knock on the door he looked over at it with a frown. It was too early for the food to be here. Setting the drink down, he walked over and pulled the door open.
"It's about time you called me," Sara scolded as she and Sawyer walked in.
"How'd you get here so fast?" Kurt asked her, giving her a grateful hug.
"When my very independent brother calls me for help," Sara told him, "We drop everything and catch the next flight out."
"She took me out of school!" Sawyer told him with a little grin.
"I've been waiting to hear from you since Allie called me…what took you so long?" Sara ranted.
"It's been a little busy," Kurt reminded her.
"Where's Jane?" Sara looked around in concern.
"Well," Kurt looked over at Sawyer in concern, "She's actually Alice right now."
"So she still thinks she's ten?" Sara verified.
"Yeah," Kurt admitted, "She was asking for her Mother…so of course I immediately thought of you."
"Yeah," Sawyer agreed, "She's a pretty good mom."
Sara swiped at him playfully.
"I brought my newest video game," Sawyer told Kurt, "Maybe Alice can play it with me while you're at work."
"Sounds great buddy," Kurt ran his hand affectionately through his Sawyer's hair.
Watching his nephew take their cases to the spare bedroom, Kurt looked over at Sara quietly.
"How are you really doing?" She worried.
"I'm a mess," Kurt admitted. "I'm tired, but I can't sleep. I want answers right now, but nobody seems to have any and my ten year old wife is showering in our bedroom."
"Oh…Kurt," Sara pulled him back against her. "I'm glad you called me."
"I know you love Jane just as much as I do," Kurt told her, "And I need someone to watch out for her while I'm trying to figure everything out."
"I won't let you down," Sara assured him.
"I know," Kurt agreed, his arms tightening around her, "I missed you."
"You too," Sara told him.
The pizza arrived and Kurt willingly gave Sawyer his milk shake. Watching his nephew teach his wife how to play his newest video game, Kurt smiled.
"You are both just what I needed," He told Sara.
"That's what families are for," She took his hand and squeezed it.
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Kurt arrived back at the NYO before dawn.
"Where's Alice?" Reade worried when he saw he was alone.
"She's with Sara," Kurt told him.
"Sara's in town?" Reade stopped walking and turned to Kurt.
"Yeah," He admitted, "I called her from the hospital when I realized that Jane thought she was Alice. She and Sawyer flew out on the next flight. They got her last night."
"How long is she staying?" Reade asked him.
"She told me as long as I needed her." Kurt admitted.
"I'm going to give her a call later," Reade told him, "See if she wants to go out to dinner."
Kurt didn't say anything. He'd been against his sister getting involved with Reade, but after everything he'd been through with Jane…he still wouldn't change anything. Whatever they had to face was worth it, if that's how his sister had felt about Reade…who was he to protest?
"I'm sure she'll be happy to hear from you," Kurt told him.
They entered Patterson's lab and walked over to her, "What'd you find out?"
"Ian did have a twin brother named Ivan." Patterson confirmed, "He was taken to a separate facility for training. That's why Sheppard never got her hands on him."
"Why a separate facility?" Kurt asked her.
"It was an experiment," Patterson explained, "Since they were twins…separating them, but putting them through the same conditions allowed them to study how much of their responses were a result of conditioning and how much were genetics."
"That's sick," Reade protested.
"Yeah," Patterson agreed, "They were real winners."
"What happened to Ivan if he wasn't liberated from the orphanage?" Kurt asked her.
"He was liberated," Patterson explained, "But he was adopted by loving parents. He went on to become a scientist."
"How did he get involved with Roman?" Reade asked her.
"Roman hunted him down," Patterson explained, "Once he told him what was going on, Ivan willing agreed to assist him in finding a cure."
"So Roman is dead," Reade insisted.
"It appears so," Patterson said.
"Then let's go get Ivan and see where he's at with his cure." Kurt suggested.
"Bring him in here," Patterson told them, "Rich and I will do whatever we can to help him finish."
"Will do," Reade confirmed.
Patterson watched them go with a worried expression.
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Kurt walked over to the glass wall separating him from Roman's twin. Standing there he flashed back to his interactions with Roman.
When he saw him, Ivan stood up and walked over to the glass.
"You know we don't have time for this," He told Weller.
Kurt walked around and opened the door for him.
"So I guess I checked out?" Ivan asked him as he joined him.
"Patterson said so," Kurt confirmed.
"Where is Remi now?" Ivan asked as he followed Kurt back to Patterson's lab.
"She's at home with my sister." Kurt admitted.
"We need to get her over here," Ivan protested, "I have a shot I can give her. It won't cure her, but it will slow down the progression of the disease, hopefully until we can come up with the cure.
"Did you use this on Roman?" Kurt asked him.
"Yes," Ivan confirmed.
"What were the side effects?" Kurt asked him.
"It helped him with the headaches and loss of consciousness, but he still experienced hallucinations and paranoia."
"The paranoia was probably not a result of the disease." Kurt said frankly.
"So you think Roman was crazy?" Ivan asked him.
"No," Kurt denied, "He was controlled all of his life by a woman that didn't have his best interest at heart. He was paranoid because he had to be to survive."
"That's pretty generous after everything he's put you through," Ivan said with a little smile.
"I've seen the struggles that both Roman and Jane faced," Kurt told him, "What Sheppard did to them, everything that happened at the Orphanage, it changed them. They are physically stronger, but emotionally fragile."
"I would have thought you'd hate Roman," Ivan admitted.
"I hated what he put us through, but I understand why he did it. That's the best I can do," Weller admitted.
"You're a good man," Ivan told him.
"I'm a man that loves his wife," Kurt corrected him.
"So it would seem," Ivan agreed.
The entered Patterson's lab and she looked up as they walked over to her.
"Patterson this is Roman's twin brother Ivan." Kurt made the introduction.
"Hi," She greeted him.
"Where's Rich?" Kurt asked her.
"He's sleeping in his "office"" Patterson said making air quotes.
"Do you have the bag?" Ivan asked her.
"No," Patterson denied, "Remi took the bag and hid it before she reverted back to Alice."
"Without the bag…" Ivan worried.
"I've been trying to narrow down the search perimeter based on the places we know Remi was and the time between when we knew she had it and when we know she didn't. It gives us a ten block radius for her to have hidden it."
"That's too large an area," Ivan protested.
"Well," Patterson looked over at him in frustration, "That's what we currently have to work with."
Ivan held up his hands in surrender. "Understood."
"Is there anything in the bag that can help us?" Patterson asked him. "A phone we can trace. Chemicals that would leave a signature? Anything?"
"No," Ivan denied. "I have some information stored on a laptop, but even if I had left it on, it would be dead by now."
"We need to narrow it down," Kurt urged them.
"We could bring Alice in and see if she can remember anything," Ivan suggested.
"She doesn't even remember being Remi," Kurt said in frustration, "How is she going to remember something she did as Remi?"
"Maybe we can help her remember," Ivan suggested.
"No," Kurt denied, his face intense. "Nobody is doing anything to make her remember."
"It was just a suggestion." Ivan back peddled at Kurt's empathic protest.
"Bring her in," Patterson suggested, "I'll show her the search radius and ask her if anything seems familiar."
"I'll bring her in." Kurt agreed reluctantly.
After he's gone, Ivan walked over to Patterson and looked at her data.
"I know who you are," She said out of the blue.
"What?" Ivan turned to her.
"I took a blood sample," Patterson turned to look at him, "Even identical twins have variances. There are sites of genetic divergence…a different number of the same gene called number variants."
"I know that," Ivan admitted.
"See that's just it," Patterson explained, "You and Roman don't have that. You are both identical in every way."
"Why do you think that is?" Ivan asked her.
"Because you are Roman," She told him.
"If you really believed that," He said seriously, "Telling me about it while we stand this close together in your empty lab seems foolish."
"I'm not foolish," Patterson told him, "If anything were to happen to me…you would go down too."
"If you think that I'm Roman why are you helping me?" He asked her, "He tried to have you killed."
"You're the best hope we have for saving Jane," Patterson told him simply.
"That's not the only reason," Ivan realized.
"That's the only one that matters," Patterson stopped what she was doing to look over at him. It's the only one she would let matter.
"Good enough," Ivan let it go.
