D: See previous chapter.

An: Here it is! Told you it would be quicker than my previous updates! I'm on summer break so, NO SCHOOL!! Yeah!! Okay, hope you enjoyed the last chapter, I love making up their pasts. Please review and tell me what you all think, or to just say hi or something!! Anything will do!! Enjoy!

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Over the next couple of days Julia and Lena were slowly healing over the loss of their parents, while the Bristow family as slowly putting their lives back together. Sytory immediately moved in with Sydney since Will was away, not to return for a couple weeks. He was visiting his family. Lena and Julia stayed in a CIA safe house.

By a week past, they all attended the funeral of Lena's father and Julia's mother. But the worry was still out for Yelena, Irina's sister. Lena held hope that she would return. She knew her mother would try to reach her somehow. And she did. In a peculiar way.

"Uh..Syd? When did you get a kitten?" Vaughn commented one morning, carrying in an impossibly small Siamese/tabby kitten from the doorstep that fit in one of his hands. It had a bell on it. Shaped in a horseshoe.

"How cute! Can we keep it?" Sytory asked, taking the kitten.

"It says...HER nave is, L.N.A.?" Sytory looked confused. Sydney took the kitten and gazed at it with Vaughn looked over her shoulder.

"My cousin! It's from my aunt! She'll know what it all means." Sydney exclaimed, it all dawning on her.

By that afternoon, they knew exactly where she was and had a team sent to extract her, at a horse ranch they'd vacationed at when Lena was younger. Lena cried for hours with relief that her mother was okay. Now she could live again. In order for Yelena to believe them to be the good guys, they brought a non- traceable phone to have Lena talk through. By that night, she got the call and cried as she spoke to her mother, telling her it was okay. And all about her new family not going into detail. By dawn, the extraction team pulled up in the JTF HQ.

"They're here." Eric announced to Irina, Jack, Sydney, Vaughn, Sytory, Lena, and Julia. They were all surrounded around the main center, around Sydney's desk. Sydney eyed Vaughn motioning towards her mother and father's clasped hands. Vaughn just smirked, raising an eyebrow.

"Now it's YOUR turn to meet a long lost aunt." Lena commented to Sydney, nervous. Then 5 agents escorted in Yelena, parting just in time for her to see her family and Lena to see her. She jumped up and ran to her mother, crying her eyes out.

+"My father..my father, mama, he died! And I thought I'd lost you too. Mamashka, I was so scared!"+ Lena cried. Yelena just held her crying and soothing her only child. Irina stood shakily, stepping tentatively towards HER baby sister. Yelena looked up then and saw Irina and knew it was her.

+"Reena!? Is that you?!"+ Yelena said, in a shocked whisper. Irina nodded.

"My baby sister! How can I not remember YOU!?" Irina said, coming up beside her.

"I thought you DIED! They all thought..in the fire!" Yelena whispered. Irina just shook her head no, smiling. Then they hugged and kissed, giggling exactly the same.

"They could almost be twins." Jack commented. Irina brought her sister to meet everyone.

"People used to think that..us being twins, but then Reena sky rocketed. It was hard to tell that we're only 11 months apart. I, as you can imagine, came as quite a surprise." Yelena said.

"So...you know how old I am? The orphanage just guessed and said I was 8 years old when I was found." Irina said, thoroughly curious.

"My gosh no. You weren't quite 6 years old yet. A few months shy. Your birth date is April 7th, 1958." Yelena said, always being very good at remembering dates.

"Wow mom! You're like...45 years old! Way to go dad! Rocking the cradle!" Sydney joked, smiling through tears. Yelena looked up to Sydney and the VERY similar but younger version of her and looked shocked.

"Mom? You're her daughter?" Yelena asked, looking to Irina for acknowledgement.

"Yes. These are MY daughters, Sydney and Sytory. This is your aunt sweeties." Irina said, tears still present.

"Hi..aunty." Sytory said hugging Yelena, then Sydney.

"To have them both..it's SO good to see them together. Gosh, I NEVER imagined I'd be introducing BOTH of my babies to my baby SISTER! It's unbelievable!" Irina said as she looked at all the loving faces around her. Her FAMILY.

That night NO one slept, stories being told back and forth between the two reunited sisters, the new sisters, the new cousins, etc. And Vaughn got to be a part of it all, Sydney constantly holding his hand unconsciously; Jack never glared once. And Sydney noticed how comfortable Jack and Irina were around each other. Like they were an older married couple. Sydney AND Sytory watched on in amazement. They went through their sad moments when referring to Yelena's deceased husband and Julia was there also referring to her mom. All in the main bullpen of the CIA JTF HQ.

Finally, by 2:30 am, Sydney was bout passed out in Vaughn's lap. Lena WAS in her mom's lap. And Irina had her head on Jack's shoulder, closing her eyes. Everyone hoarse. So they called it a night, Irina being led by Jack to her room, Lena, Julia, and Yelena with an escort to their safe house, and Sytory with Sydney and Vaughn back to her house.

"Where am I staying? I can't stay with you in your room forever..I'm sure you'd rather have THAT to wake up to in the morning!" Sytory said, raising her eyebrows at Vaughn, causing him to blush. Sydney smirked.

"No, I'd love you all the same. But Will isn't home yet, he told me he wouldn't be home till late tomorrow. You could still stay in his room tonight. We'll figure everything out soon enough. He's always at Francie's most nights when he is home anyway." Sydney said, raising her own eyebrows, then frowned.

"Syd? What is it?" Vaughn said, noticing her mood change.

"Hmm? Oh, just...she's been acting..odd lately. Just, weird." Sydney murmured, shaking it off.

So they retired for the night, Sytory in Will's room and Vaughn with Sydney since it was so late for him to leave. And Sydney rather enJOYed his company anyways.

Later on in the late morning, Sydney was jolted awake to an ear- piercing scream followed by another yell. She bolted up, instantly grabbing the gun under her bed and rushed to Sytory, Vaughn on her heels.

"Sytory!!...Will?" Sydney sputtered, then dropped her gun, thoroughly bewildered at the stark white sibling huddled in the corner and a gaping Will. He swallowed then pointed to Sytory.

"Uh..there's someone in my bed! I-I think she belongs to you!" Will said in a breathy voice.

"Yes Will. This is Sytory...my sister." Sydney said, exhaling as a boxer clad Vaughn took her gun from her hand and sleepily left to put it away with his own.

"Y-you...have a SISTER?! Since..WHEN!?!" Will exclaimed.

"Oh..a couple weeks ago. She's been staying in my room most of the time but..we got back so late, Vaughn was tired, he stayed over...I didn't realize you'd be home THIS early! I'm SO sorry Sytory, you okay sweetie?" Sydney asked, crouching near her. Sytory just stared at Will, transfixed. Will finally came out of shock.

"So..a little sister..well, hi. I'm Will Tippin, Sydney's room mate and best friend. Nice to meet you." He said gentlemanly, reaching to her to shake her hand. She took it, still in a trance, a goofy grin spreading on her face.

"Hi." She squeaked out. Sydney's eyes bulged out as she watched her BABY sister checking Will out as he walked away from her.

"He's cute!" Sytory whispered, smiling at Sydney. Sydney gaped, completely floored.

"Oh brother! I-I'm NOT ready for this! The BIG SIS role!" Sydney said, helping Sytory up.

"You okay?" Sydney asked once more, going over to the now pants clad Vaughn in the doorway.

"Yeah. Just startled me. But I don't mind at ALL." Sytory answered, Vaughn snorting trying to hide his smirk so Sydney wouldn't result to violence with him.

"What a wake up call!!" Sydney said as she climbed back to bed with Vaughn.

From then on, Will stayed with Francie, happy to give his room to Sytory. To Francie, she was the cousin of Sydney's who she'd never met before that needed a place to stay while in the states for school. Over the next couple of weeks, everyone got closer learning about each other. Julia eventually was adopted by the CIA and placed into Yelena's care since the two girls were close already, no point splitting them by putting Julia into foster care. They got back to singing again, with help from the government, they were back into the studio with all their band and musicians brought over from Russia.

Irina continued to get closer to Jack, constantly showing Kendall and all how she just wanted a normal life, being with her two daughters, sister, and niece. She was a completely new person, answering questions right off the bat, providing more and more information. She had Sytory's birth certificate brought from its hidden place in Russia.

Also, Sydney and Will both started noticing more and more that how odd Francie kept acting. So much so that Sytory 'accidentally' mentioned it in front of Jack and he grew concerned, planting a seed that maybe Francie wasn't who she seemed to be. Upset as she was at the thought, Sydney couldn't shake that there was something to the idea. Her and Will began watching her closer.

The 'Francie' clone took notice to this suspicion and informed Sloane that they were getting suspicious of her behavior, no matter how hard she tried to pull it off. He didn't like that his plan was beginning to fail.

In the meantime, 'Open Mic Night' is approaching, one of the biggest nights in Francie's whole restaurant, but the clone Francie doesn't show it, practically solidifying Sydney and Will's belief that something was up.

One day after the couple of weeks, the CIA got a huge lead on Intel of an Alaskan based operations of Sloane and Sarks and were sending in a raid on it. Sydney definitely came along, as well as Vaughn with Jack at base ops, reporting to them over com. They had to trek over ice glaciers and snow (think music box ep.) to the hidden building encased in the frozen mountain. But when they got there, they weren't expecting all the complications they ran into. They weren't expecting it to turn to chaos. There were more of Sloane's men then anticipated and more updated styles of security. Like self-sealing chambers and rooms.

Sydney was following a man down and down into the mountain entering in a chamber, the floor pure ice. It was the glacier floor. The man ran through a small door opposite the room and hit a button, causing the doors of both sides to close shut; 2 feet thick with no way out. Sydney tried to get back to the door she'd gone through, but didn't make it in time.

"Dang it! Base ops this is Mountaineer, I've been closed in..some kind of basement chamber. Followed a suspect in, but was sealed in before pursuing him." Sydney reported, her breath coming in clouds of white. It was much colder here. Her com crackled.

"Mo.n...r..d...yo..hr...wh...Mo.." it sputtered. Sydney frowned, taping her earpiece.

"Hello?! Base ops, do you read me? Boy Scout? Anybody?, this is Mountaineer, do you copy?!" Sydney yelled. Just fuzz greeted her.

"Great. I'll turn into a Popsicle now." She mumbled, beginning to check out her new home. She surveyed both doors, trying to find a way out, with no success. Then she saw an odd storage container, about as big as an industrial freezer. She walked over checking the whole thing out before reaching the handle to check if it was open. Curiosity made her lift up on it to see inside. She lifted the up the lid only to find...more ice. She was looking at what looked like the hug chunk of ice, completely filling the compartment. There was something with in it though, catching Sydney's eyes as she leaned closer squinting to make out the large object. She let the lid drop open and used one hand to rub the top of the ice to brush away the ice clouds.

She saw a hand.

She gasped deeply, a hand coming to her mouth as she shakily wiped away where the face and head would be.

What she saw when she wiped the surface away will forever haunt her for the rest of her life.

She immediately went into hysterics, screaming on the top of her lungs as her legs gave out. She suddenly leaned over retching, her whole world shattered, she stumbled away to the farthest corner she possibly could, curling herself into the tiniest ball and cried her eyes out, the tears practically freezing on her cheeks she just sat there, staring straight forward, murmuring to herself.

"No...No...No.." completely in a trance.

Vaughn was making his way through the maze of corridors and hallways down to the basement where Jack had said Sydney had been before she got cut off. He made it to the door, eyeing it with trepidation. It was going to be quite awhile before they could get through that. Any type of blast could collapse the whole mountain of ice on them or sink them into the freezing water. He felt his heart tighten suddenly making him gasp for air. He grew hysterical.

"Lets go!! MOVE it!! Get to work on that door! Get it open!" he hollered to whoever was around. He was already having trouble keeping his com link open to Jack. They were too deep.

"I'm comin' Syd." He whispered, praying she was all right.

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An: there's the next chapter, this time with a bit of a cliffhanger!! HEHE!! Please review and tell me what you think!! Oh, and I TOTALLY don't know geography and such, so I made all that stuff up about how Alaska's climate and stuff is, so don't kill me if it isn't accurate. The next chapter will be up soon! But faster if I get reviews that motivate me!! I love getting them!! (Who doesn't?) Thanx!