Chapter 13
Wow, I'm an Aunt. I have a little niece. The cutest thing ever, a baby which look so much like Mom and Syd and maybe even me. Barely 24 hours old and she's already changed everyone's lives. Mom and Jack beaming so much, playing the proud grandparents. Syd and Vaughn like the had been parents for years. And me enjoying having a new relative for my ever expanding family.
Nadia was standing by the window of the NICU, watching baby Laura. Stuck in an incubator. Needing that extra support until she was a bit older.
"Hey Baby, something on your mind?" Irina asked her daughter.
"Nothing Mom"
"Nadia, someone who doesn't know you, would know there was something on your mind. Your staring into space."
"It's nothing Mom. I'm not sure I should discuss it with you anyway."
"I've told you already that anything on your mind you can discuss with me."
"Ok Mom, I've been thinking this recently and now with the birth of Laura I've made a decision. I want to see my father."
"Why didn't you want to tell me this? You know that my father is not my favourite person, but when all is said and done he is still your father. And if you want to see him it's your choice."
"But I thought you would be upset, me wanting to see him like that. Like I was snubbing you for him."
"No Baby, He's part of your family and it's your decision if you want to see him."
Irina then proceed to take a deep breath and turned to face Nadia fully intending to say something of importance.
"And if truth be told I've been thinking the same thing myself. It's been almost a year since all this blew up and you haven't gone to se him once. Their must be things that need to be discussed between you two."
"There is but I'm still not sure, after what he has done I should never want to see him again, like what you have done with my Aunt's"
"Nadia, listen to this carefully from someone with a lot of experience of this. Don't use what that person has done as a reason not to see them. You right I'm doing that with my sister's. But I know down in my heart that one day and probably soon I will have to face them again and try and solve what has happened between them. So if you want to see your father then you see you father."
"I didn't realise you felt like that about Katya and Yelena. You know how I am feeling."
"That's not the issue at the moment. Do you want to see you father or not?"