Chapter 36

Sydney looked down at the floor. She was in a make And break situation. Technically a no-win situation. Tell Laura the truth and maybe lose her or not tell her and lose her. Knowing herself personally what happens as a child affects them so much when the were adults.

"Mommy. Tell me." Laura said again

Sydney gave a look at every other person in the room. What was just about to be said would have an impact on them as well. All of them had a part in this story. Her Mother, Her sister, Her father.

Both of parents just mouthed at Sydney and told her to get on with it. The only person to say anything was Nadia. She vocalised what Sydney knew that here parents were thinking.

"Sydney. She's your daughter, If she needs to now, she needs to know. It's being dealt with once. So it can't hurt us again. And we all knew in the back of our minds that it would have to come up at some point."

"Baby. It's a complicated story. But I'll try to explain it somehow" Sydney said looking at her daughter. A sincere tone in her voice.

"Laura, this whole story starts many years ago. Before even I was born My mother, your Grandmother. Didn't originally come from America, she came form a Country which then was called the USSR. The USSR and America didn't get on then. So when she was working for her Government, they decided to send her over here to get some information. This was from your Grandfather Jack. You see. You were right he doesn't work with planes. He works for the Government. Or basically the C.I.A. The same as your Aunt Nadia and once apon a time, me. I used to be C.I.A"

"C.I.A" Laura whispered. She knew all about the C.I.A. Her father had mentioned it to her. But know she knew her family were part of it. It made everything completely different.

"What do you mean you used to be?"

"That's one thing that is the truth. That I'm a teacher. I left. I had enough. And decided to do what I always planned to do. Teach."

"So, what happened when Grandma Irina came across? What did she do?"

"Your grandma came across under the guise of a student at the sane college you grandfather was at. But there was thing different. The name she was using then, was Laura not Irina. My parents started to see each other, and after a while made the decision to marry each other. After a few years my mother found out she was pregnant with me. You see for me the first 6 years of my life was normal, nothing was different. But it was. Mom was passing on information about the work my father was doing to her government. It was then in 1981 that my life changed for the first time. My mother died in a car accident or so I thought. It was over twenty years later that I found out differently. That firstly she wasn't who she said she was. She was a spy and her name was not Laura but Irina Derevko and then the even biggest shock. That she was alive. Not so long after that she came back into my life."

"Is this how I got my name? How I ended up with Laura Irina?

"Yes, I named you after the two parts of the one person I admire the most. My mother. The mother I had as a child and the one I have now."

"What about Aunt Nadia how does she figure into all this? You haven't mentioned her yet."

"She comes later. My mother came back and turned our lives around in the short time she was with us before she disappeared again. Not long after that, I had a life changing moment again I went missing. And when I came back two years later everything has changed. Your father had got married to Laura. I was in permanent danger with people after me. And finding out that I had half sister that I never knew existed. After that my mother came back into all our lifes"

"How did she come back?"

"Before Lauren died, she told me something. That my mother was being held prisoner. So me and you father and your Grandfather went to India to rescue her. But there was another revelation from this. It was my Aunts who were holding her. That's reason why I don't get on with them."

"Is this the whole story? Is there anything?"

"There is some things I haven't mentioned to you. I not keeping any secrets from you by keeping this but there is a few details which I don't think you're old enough to hear."

"Mommy?"

"Yes baby?"

"Has all this madness stopped now?"