Sark looked at April. She appeared to be taking it well. Learning that your mother is a Russian spy, is not that easy of a thing to handle, but Sark could tell that April was masking the way she really felt. Maybe she wanted to put up a front and pretend like this wasn't bothering her. Although he didn't think that this was a typical way for April to act. Over the past couple of days he had come up with his own evaluation of April's character and he had figured her a person who would display her emotions more openly, definitely not someone who would compartmentalize.
April turned away to look at Sark, not looking in the eyes of a newly discovered aunt. "Did you know this?"
"No, I'm afraid I did not," he replied, looking directly at April. He too, avoided the eyes of Irina Derevko.
April sighed. She honestly did not know how to deal with this. Maybe it was because she had a feeling that her mother never really loved her father or that something had always seemed off in her life. She didn't know how to put her head around the prospect that her life was manufactured by someone she had never even met.
Silence had spread over the room. No one spoke. There seemed to be some type of understanding between the souls of the room that the first person to talk should be April, because she had just been introduced to the tangled world of lies and deceit that Irina Derevko and Julian Sark knew all too well.
"Dad," Sydney Bristow said getting her father's attention, as he just finished up signing some governmental documents.
"What is it Sydney?" he responded with his usual cool tone, but heightened alertness now that he was speaking to his daughter.
"Do we have any leads on April and Sark yet?"
"No, but we did confirm that it was Sark involved in the shooting on the Madrid highway. We managed to get traffic camera images from the nearest turnoff exit of the highway."
"Well that's something," Sydney sighed, disappointed. She was beginning to get anxious. She needed some destination in mind that would lead her to April and Sark.
Jack rubbed his daughter's shoulder, "We'll find her, Sydney. I know you are worried about her. Being in the hands of a terrorist is not something I wish upon anyone, but April is a Derevko and I do not put it by her that she cannot handle herself."
Sydney looked down at the rotunda floor specked with white and was hoping that April was okay. She knew Sark's capabilities and even if April is a Derevko, there are many chances that she might not be able to handle Sark. "I don't want April to get hurt."
"No one does."
The silence of the room was beginning to get to April once she thought that she was getting a handle on things. "Okay, my question is: Irina, do you know exactly why the Covenant wants me?"
"According to my contacts no. The little that I have heard consists of the mere plot that the Covenant wants you for some reason."
"Great, so no one in this room, or any of the people that either of you know, have any idea what this mastermind evil organization wants with me. This is so frustrating. Why do I have to be thrown into all of this? I do not know anything. You could search my mind for hours and you would not find anything, only things of little concern that would in no way shape or form would help me in my dilemma." This speech was nothing more than April's thoughts told aloud to the rest of the people present in the room.
Interrupting no conversation within April's quarters, a telephone rang. Sark easily reached into his pocket, pressed a button, stepped outside of the room and began talking to someone in a language that April had no idea what to decipher as.
Leaving April and Irina alone, Sark had allowed some room for a heart to heart between the two of them.
"April," Irina said taking April's hand into her own. "These things take time. Julian and I will find out why the Covenant wants you and we will put a stop to it."
April sighed. She wanted her aunt to be right. She wanted to know why the Covenant wanted her. She just didn't have the patience that time called for. April wanted to go home, but she didn't know if she had a home to go to. The home she had known for her better twenty-one years of her life was a lie, a fake. It didn't exist. All April could say was, "Thanks."
Irina stood up off the bed and walked out the door. Irina couldn't say anything. She knew that April's world had fallen apart. Nothing she had known would ever be the same as it once was. Seeing April's face, made Irina wonder about what Sydney looked like when the same thing had happened to her. From first hearing about April Winthers, Irina knew that she would not be easy to coerce into the espionage world. April would fight it. April would fight anything that'd threaten her. There is that definite potential in April Winthers to bring down anyone that stood against her.
A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. But I hope you all liked the new one. Let me know! Thanks!