Chapter 16 – Blast
Germany.
Home of beer and bratwurst.
The German football team and at one time the Berlin wall.
But it is now also the place where I first had to go in the pursuit of my mother after her escape.
The passive tracker which my father had planted had worked the way it was supposed to.
Tracking her to Stuttgart, to the building she was infiltrating and to Sark as well.
We thought we had struck the jackpot.
That the whole plan was going perfect..
Until.
The transmitter stopped transmitting.
How?
We don't know.
Did she find it somehow?
Removed it?
Shorted it?
Something we won't find out until someone could ask her.
But at that time it wasn't that important.
It was important that the plan was screwed.
Without the tracker we were going in blind.
By the time we got in, she could be gone.
And if she managed to get away, she could end up anywhere in the world.
Taking us back to Square one and leaving her and Sloane to do whatever they were planning to do.
It didn't end up that way.
It ended up with my mother doing something unexpected.
Sydney runs down one of the corridors of Brucker Biotech, Vaughn by her side as well.
"What about Derevko?" Vaughn asked Sydney. So far they had lost Sark and they weren't planning to lose him as well.
"She's got to be here." Sydney said in response.
"Sydney!" called out Irina to get her attention
They hear her voice and turn round to face her. Irina's eyes fixed on Sydney.
"Dad, I see her!" Sydney says through her comm.
Irina turns away and starts to run with Sydney and Vaughn in quick pursuit
"We're going after her! She's exiting the building!" Syndey says again through her comm..
With only 4 seconds left on the bomb, they exited the building. Both looking around to see if Irina was there.
When the bomb then exploded. Leaving them running for cover.
She called out my name.
Used herself as bait to get us out of their.
To stop us going any deeper into the building but to get us outside where it was safe.
But why did she do it?
Was it
an act of love?
Guilt?
Remorse?
Or just one of the many unexplained things that my mother does.
But no matter.
She kept me safe.
Me her daughter and also her enemy.
It's not the first time and I don't think it would be the last.
Is this the reason why all my missions involving my mother's organisation have not ending up with me with serious injuries or dead.
Had she warned them to leave me alone? That they would be consequences if they did.
My mother has said she wants to keep me safe, but maybe in a twisted sort of way that sometime in the future she would be the one to kill me.
But for that moment in time.
I was granted a reprieve.