Chapter 37

There was an eerie silence throughout the room. No-one wanting to be the first to utter a word.

This moment had been a long tome coming. The first time the whole of them had been in the same room. A family in some kind of way. Be it blood related or just stuck there in a eerie way due to a flimsy connection. The people seated in this room. The majority of them were able to make anybody tremble. But yet has the proud and strange privilege to call them family.

This meeting had been one mean feat. Extremely tough to arrange. Dixon on the request of Sydney had organised and had to pull a load of strings and favours in to get it to happen. Two terrorists who due to their pardon agreement were not supposed to have contact with any other prisoners but yet they were seated their. One ex-terrorist. Two of the CIA's newest prisoners. 3 Agents of the C.I.A. One ex agent, a 5yr old girl. And Arvin Sloane.

"Okay. I know that must of you don't' want to be here. There's no love lost between the majority of you. This was Sydney's idea to have you all here. And I agree with her. We need this time to lay some of this stuff to rest. After this, so be we can all go are own separate ways if we so feel it." Irina said to room. Assuming a almost powerful demeanour.

"Rina? Why are me and Katya here? I though that what occurred between us had been resolved?" Yelena asked

"It has between us. But not with Sydney." Irina responded back to her. "You see all of you, no matter what you have carried out to us, think you have a distinct reason to do so. But you haven't. All of you decided to screw around with my family to reach your end."

"Irina, it's not like that with me. I've always had the uppermost respect for your family. Especially Nadia and Sydney." Sloane said in response to Irina's statement

"Arvin. I don't care about your intentions. If I could go back and erase that moment I would. But it happened and a t least I got something good out of it. A beautiful intelligent woman which I can call my daughter. You may think that what you've done was not wrong but justified. Injecting Nadia with Rambaldi fluid. Using your daughter to try and kill me and Sydney. Bringing Sydney into the intelligence world."

"I may of recruited her into SD-6. But I never planted the seed which inspired her to take that path. Her father did."

"Sloane. Don't you dare bring my father into this. I'm very much aware of what he did. And yes at one time I was angry at him. That he may of pushed me into being a spy. But who knows I might of made that decision by myself. Especially considering who my parents are."

"Sydney. All you ever see is the black and the white of it all. What about the sahdes in the middle. The grey."

"So I take things I see at face value, But so do the majority of the rest of you. You look at me. Mom or Nadia and straight away peg us as something. Our connection with the prophecy's, our whole past is just fodder for you. Me and Nadia talked about this year's ago, about not seeing each other as our parts in the prophecy, but as a person in our own right."

Sydney turned to her Aunt's deciding herself to use this time to vent some feelings.

"Aunt Katya, Aunt Yelena. Out of all these people here. Out of all the ones that have caused me problems. You are the ones I can never truly understand. How you could hurt your own blood so easily. I still can't get past what you did, you stole two years of my life. Mom, maybe trying to forgive you which I'm fine with. But not me, not at the moment. Maybe one day yes. Maybe the family can be properly reunited, but not at this moment."

Sydney then turned to face someone else.

"Claudia. I'm so glad your hear. And Laura's here. Because this is it. You've finally burnt your bridges with me and my family. Your never going to see Laura again if I have anything to do with it. You've been against her before she was even born. And against my own common sense. I let you see her. You've constantly gone behind my wishes for her. Telling her about my mother. And just a few days ago trying to use her for payback against me and my mother. Vaughn, I'm so sorry you have to hear this now. But Claudia you are a bitch. I hope you rot in hell for what you've done."

Everyone heard a small voice starting to speak, stuttering slight Laura said

"Can I say something?"