Chapter 21
"What is my daughter doing here?" Vaughn asked again.
"Well Considering I'm here. She's five and it's Saturday, So where else is she supposed to be." Sydney replied sarcastically.
"Very funny. What I meant is what she doing here in the operations centre?"
"I'm not sure if you really need to know this. Considering you don't give a shit about anything involving me most times."
"Sydney cut this behaviour out. If something is affecting you it affects her as well, so I need to know."
"Just my past coming to haunt me again that's all. Finding out my Dad and Katya got it on, was bad enough for one day. But then it being followed by and Echelon report mention the chosen one being under surveillance."
"Jack and Katya. Together? Really?" Vaughn suddenly realised what the rest of the sentence had been. "Echelon. Report. Chosen one. Surveillance. Oh god. Syd, I'm so sorry"
"Save the pity. I don't need it."
"You say I shut people out after Weiss died, but you, you've being doing it for longer than I have."
"You don't see the reason, why I have to shut things out. I let people in and nearly enough straight away something happens which changes my life for ever. My mother, my father, my sister. My aunts. You, Weiss. Laura. And the endless list of moments which have happened. My Aunt and my Dad, SD-6. The truth about my mother, My Aunts, My Sister. Laura's kidnapping. God even Danny. All this and more. So do you need to wonder why I shut things out. It's to save myself more heartache."
"Don't shut me out. No matter what's under the bridge I want to help. To ease some of the burden. So let me help you."
"I'm not sure If I can trust you."
"Because no matter what has happened between us. Laura is my daughter and I'm not going to help her. So is there anything I can do Maybe look after Laura for a few days. Run some errands."
"Actually looking after a few days would be great. It's going to be tough. And at least if she is somewhere safe it's one less thing to worry about. If you don't mind"
"It's okay. I don't mind."
Sydney looked over at Nadia, as what Dixon was doing she was pretending to be busy to get away from the tense situation in front of her. "
"Nads, can you get Laura for me?"
"It'll be my pleasure. Oh, Syd by the way, Mom and Jack are on their way." Nadia said before moving off. Happy to be away.
"Are you sure you'll be okay by yourself?" Vaughn asked
"Michael, go look after out daughter. As Nadia has already said My parents are on the way. I'll be okay until they get here."
Just then, the atmosphere in the rotunda changed. The shuffling of paper. The coughing under breaths. The looks of people in Sydney's vicinity. And she knew this could only be caused by one thing. Irina Derevko. Her mother. 7 years had passed since this has first kicked off. And many people had come and gone. They knew of the legend but many had never seen her before.
Sydney turned around and the assumption was correct.
"Actually change that, There here." Sydney commented