{A/N – WOW!! That was a lot of reviews!! I'm hoping for more now!!! For the love of cheese...!! This chapter was extra fun to write and even I wasn't expecting the twist at the end. Any ideas as to where I should go are welcome and will be used if they fit together. So as always please R&R!!}

The room echoed with her words as Jack attempted to register them.

"What are you talking about Laura? Who's this woman and what does she have to do with you leaving me?"

"Did you not hear me? She has everything to do with me leaving you. She... she is me."

"What?"

"Ok." She sat on the edge of the bed and looked up at him. "Have you heard of a Russian terrorist group called the KGB?"

"Of course I ha... what? How do you know of them?"

She paused unsure of what to say and looking at his worried face, she decided to just come straight out with it.

"I'm one of them."

"Laura if this is some sort of sick joke..."

"Its not. Jack just listen to me."

"I don't think I want to." He was getting extremely afraid of what she was going to say next.

"I'm an officer for the KGB. My name is Irina Derevko."

"WHAT?" Jack stood and began to pace. "Then where is my wife? Who is Laura?"

"I'm here too." The truth dawned on him as tears began to form in his eyes.

"You mean Laura's a lie?"

"Not exactly. I was sent here to seduce and marry a CIA officer and then find out information from him about a project that the CIA was producing called Project Christmas. I had to gather as much information on him and then when he was no longer valuable, I was to leave him for some stranger if he was lucky. If he wasn't, I would have to kill him and make it look like an accident."

"You were going to kill me?"

"No. Just listen." Jack shocked and confused moved to sit next to her on the bed. It was still early and the room was filled with darkness. The lone shadows cast dark expressions upon their faces. "I did something I wasn't supposed to. I fell in love with you. I fell in love with our daughter." The memories of the hardships she had to endure upon becoming pregnant with Sydney flooded her mind. "I had to plead for her life when I became pregnant. They were going to drug me and force me to have an abortion but luckily I managed to convince them that it was for the good of the mission that I kept the baby. Jack..." The tears that had been working their way to the surface since she awoke began to trace lines of salty liquid down her face. "For the last two years I've been giving them false information. I've been lying to the KGB and transferring false documents that I supposedly stole from you."

"Laura... Irina... whoever you are just stop. Do you really expect me to believe this?"

"Yes." She whispered looking up at him through her tears.

"How can I? You've just turned my whole life upside down. Our daughters life. EVERYTHING."

"Shhh Jack don't wake Sydney." Jack felt betrayed and hurt. He looked at the woman he loved and realised that she was crying. He wanted nothing more than to rush up to her and hold her until they stopped but instead he opted to conceal his true feelings and take the much easier option of becoming angry and aggressive.

"Like you care. You were going to break her heart. She would have grown up thinking that her mother didn't love her. Didn't care and just left her in the middle of the night without so much of a second thought."

"That's just it. That's what I've been trying to tell you. I couldn't leave. I looked at her and then at you and I couldn't do it. Even if it meant they'd kill me tomorrow, I'd rather have had one more night lying in your arms with our sleeping daughter in the next room than a whole life knowing that I betrayed you."

"You did betray me. Us. How can I believe you? What am I supposed to do now?"

"Well I don't know."

"Why did you tell me? What did you expect?"

"I've told you. I don't know. I thought that it was better that you knew the truth. The person that you've been living with is still me. The weird liking of Russian literature, the quirks and disliking of marmite. Its all me... just not me. There are things you don't know like my past and my family but everything here and now, every feeling and gesture has been complete truth and I wish that you would believe me."

Jack looked down at the woman of whom he thought he knew the best in the world. It turns out that he really didn't know her at all. He looked at her eyes, tired and worn, he looked at her hands nervously fiddling in her lap and smiled. She was the woman he loved. She was still Laura.

"Why are you smiling?"

"Because I've just realised that you are still every bit the woman I fell in love with, you just have a few more layers that I have yet to peel away." He got up and walked over to his briefcase and pulled out a cell phone. He handed it to her and she mentioned that it was damp but she put it in her pocket. "This has a secure untraceable line. Use it to call me if anything seems suspicious. I have to go to work and find out more about my wife." He sighed. "We have lots to talk about but I'll save it for tonight."

"Are you going to turn me in?" She said at almost a whisper.

"I was going to, but you and I both know that I couldn't. That I'm not that kind of man." He turned to leave. "I'll see you later." With that he was gone. He had left the room and eventually the building.

Irina collapsed onto the pillow and sobbed. She felt the whole bed shake as her cries echoed around the room. She lay and thought about the past two hours. Jack had seemed so hurt, so dazed. She knew they were in for a hard time but as long as they were together, she didn't care.

The closer Jack got to the CIA office, the angrier he got. By the time he reached the directors office he was fuming.

"What kind of an office cant even spot a measly little Russian spy when they do a background check?" He shouted as he entered.

"Calm down Jack. What's going on?" The startled man said as he stood up.

"NO I will not calm down William. The woman to whom I have been married to for the last eight years is in fact a Russian spy." William Vaughn stood there shocked at his friends outburst.

"How do you know?"

"She told me."

"What? You mean she turned herself in?"

"No. I mean she told me that she was a spy but she has been feeding them incorrect information for the past few years because she fell in love with me and could no longer betray me."

"Do you believe her?" Jack thought about it for a moment becoming more calm. "Yes. I know she was telling the truth. She had this innocence about her that she's never had before. It was as if she was finally being honest with me for the first time in our relationship."

"Did you just leave her alone?"

"Yes but I transferred a liquid tracer onto her and it should have instantly seeped into the skin on her hand. I'll go and check her location."

"How did you manage that?"

"I smeared it onto a cell I gave her. She either didn't notice or simply shrugged it off."

"Fine. Go and check where she is but don't tell anyone else. Leave it to me. Just give me her real name and I'll check up on her with one of my non CIA contacts."

"Non CIA?" Jack was confused.

"Look Jack. No matter what you say, I know you love her so if she's telling the truth then I see no reason to turn her in and we can find some way to deal with this." Jack left the office hoping that she was in fact telling the truth this time because if she wasn't... he knew she would have to die.

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