Our rendezvous didn't
happen when you would think that they would. Two such people as us,
me and Irina. I never thought that I would trust her again, not after
she used me against the CIA, betrayed me as Laura Bristow. But what
else could I do, no matter how I convinced myself otherwise, on some
level, I loved her and that could never stop.
We met in the park,
in broad daylight. Exactly what nobody would expect. She always asked
about Sydney. Irina did love her, but Sydney could not see that. All
she could see was that Irina had betrayed her, but in reality, Irina
only did what she thought was necessary to protect her.
Sydney never could
forgive Irina, and it broke both of their hearts. If only Sydney
could see Irina as the woman she was, instead as simply an enemy of
the CIA.
People think that I
killed her, but I could never do that. My beautiful Irina, she
protected Sydney as I never could, but then she also protected Nadia.
With the two of them fated to kill each other, Irina was so confused
she couldn't think straight. That was why I faked her death, to get
her away from all of this, so that she could be a person, not the
cold-blooded killer she had to be to survive in this underworld.
Her alias was
Andrea. She lived in a small townhouse nearby, nobody would suspect
her to stay so close, and so we were safe. I could see her and she
could live a normal life, though I suspect that she got back in to
the business, a person such as Irina never could stand to be normal,
but in reality I didn't care which side she worked for, as long as
she was working for Sydney's protection.
I might seem
different. Irina has changed me. She loves me and that is something I
have never had. Even as a child, my parents never loved me. I buried
myself in my work. Irina was my best friend, my lover, and my wife.
Today was different
though, we weren't meeting as lovers. This was business. Someone
was on to us. Someone knew.
