Chapter 8
"How do we know that they had children together? If they even did, how do we know those children grew to a child bearing age?" Alandria asked bemused and the newly acquired information.
"There are three birth certificates in the folder as well, two daughters: Odessa Estonia Rambaldi was the oldest, Orë l Estonia Rambaldi and one son: Anton Estonia Rambaldi, the youngest. Anton died at the age of 3. Orë l died at the age of 10." Jack said producing birth and death certificates from the folder to hand them to Marshal.
"Odessa, however, lived to the age of 35. She dropped the 'Rambaldi' part of her name after her mother's death. She had an illegitimate daughter, Mischa Estonia Chekhov, with Alexander Chekhov." Michael finished for Jack.
"That's why no one made the connection sooner. No one knew that Rambaldi had kids, and if they did, they would have assumed that his two kids died young. No one would make the connection between Odessa and Rambaldi because she dropped her father's last name and moved to Moscow." Jack concluded.
"I might be crazy here," Marshal started, "but what if the new part of the prophecy wasn't about Sloane at all. What if Sark is the prophecy's enemy?"
"Think about it, when was the last time we heard anything about Sark?" Michael asked.
A cold chill went down Sydney's spine. From the moment she heard the last part of the prophecy, she had been so sure that Sloane was the Chosen One's enemy; the Prophecy's enemy. She had never once thought to think of Sark. Were was Sark by the way? It was so unlike him to stay low for so long.
(5 years ago)
Sark was in a London apartment on Victoria Street. He had lived here for about a year. Nyah was a bouncy one-year-old, Sark had eluded Sloane and Nadia so far, and the Shari was growing rapidly. Life was great, he was about to celebrate New Years. Sark was planning to have the Shari branch out into France within the next week.
As he looked over to the table he saw the files again. He hadn't looked at them since the night he escaped from the warehouse. He'd like to say that he was too busy taking care of Nyah, and keeping out of reach British Intelligence, the CIA, and Nadia and Sloane to look the documents over, but her knew that wasn't true. It was the mere fact that Milo Rambaldi guessed his name. Rambaldi prophesied that in a few hundred years there would be a man name Julian Sark. If Sark didn't believe before, he sure did now. He opened a rose colored folder that stood out from the others, which were vanilla in color. It read:
Experiment #2:
Using the eggs retrieved by Mr. Julian Sark we have been able to create a new life with Mr. Sark's DNA.
We then proceeded to place this embryo into it's surrogate's mother, Nadia's womb.
The baby grew until 9th month
On December 25th, a baby girl was born.
Sark thought back, trying to figure out whose eggs he had taken. Then it hit him, he had left right as Sydney burned the place down. There were about ten of her eggs in all, and Sark escaped with the surviving tube. Nyah's mother was Sydney! He looked at Nyah as she came walking wobbly over to Sark with a smile on her face. For the first time Sark realized that she inherited her smile from her mother, Sydney.
As he went to sit down to collect himself there was a knock on his door. When he opened the door, the was a woman standing there. This woman was related to Sark's dearly departed Lauren. This woman was Lauren's second cousin.
"Hello Julian," she greeted him.
"Hello Alandria," he replied.