Chapter 17
I survey the room. My whole family around me. My daughters on my right, my sisters on the left and my husband next to me. So many different personalities and feelings in the same room. But linked together through my blood. A bond that is threatening to disable it's self.
"Where is Barnett?" Jack muttered to himself drawing Irina out of her musings
Irina leaned across and whispered into Jack's ear.
"What are you muttering about?"
"Saying where Barnett was, she's late and I want to get out of here asap. I'm still trying to work why I'm here" he responded back to him.
"Because you want to sort this family out once and for all."
"What family at the moment? It's a house of cards that has toppled. Look Irina, look at us. Sydney looks like she wants to kill someone. Nadia's throwing daggered looks. One of you sister's is looking at you intensely. And the other, well the other one the looks she's giving me are starting to worry me. So is this your idea of a family"
Before Irina could respond she was interrupted.
"Sorry, I'm late. Seeing I already know the full story, why don't we skip to the chase. So who wants to start." Barnett said breezing in.
The silence in the room was deafening.
"Come on, you all here because you need to talk. So let's talk. Mrs Bristow would you like to start. What do you want to get out of these sessions?"
"A family who can go into a room with out arguing or maybe just forgiven each other for what they have done especially what Katya and Yelena have done.
"That's a load of rubbish Mom, why should we forgive them after their rampage against us. My kidnapping and attempted brainwashing. Your imprisonment Mom, Nadia and Katya impersonating you. All this little infractions building into one big thing which can't be forgiven."
"Sydney, when did you become such an unforgiving person. That you won't listening to any reasoning behind anything, but you still forgave Irina" Katya questioned.
"Because she's my mother, she brought me into the world. What have you ever done? The first time I ever meet you, you were in your garb as an officer of the SRV, that's bad enough, then you try to kill me. And you Yelena you headed an organisation who held my mother, and used my sister. So forgive me if I don't give a damn about anything that involves you."
"Sydney, can't you maybe see the flipside to this. Without out involvement you would never got to see your Mother again, have your parents back together or even found out about your sister. So maybe you can see that we benefited you somehow." Yelena said trying to counter Sydney's words.
"Yelena, how could you know what may of occurred if things had happened differently. Maybe I would of found Syd and Mom. The orphanage may have had me down as being without any relatives. But nobody in this world can not have a relative no matter how thin the links could be. I could of searched for them my selves. As it was I knew who Mom was in relation to the Spy world. I just didn't know her link to me. There is so many variables which could of played out. So you saying that this could only happen because of you has no grounding in reality." Nadia chucked into Yelena's face.
"Jack?" Barnett jumped into trying to steer them away from where the conversation was headed. "You've been quite, is there anything you want to add."
"Not really, but this. That these women are not to be trusted, Especially that one." He said gesturing at Katya.
"Jack, our night of passion wasn't good for you. As it was for me and it seems you've been like this to me for a while."
Shock realised over Sydney and one word came out explosively.
"WHAT!