Chapter 9

"Jack?" Nadia said with a look of bewilderment. She pushed up from her seat and started to pace the room. "But he said he was my father. He was adamant about it."

"Mom, didn't you have an affair with Sloane?" Sydney said stepping more into the room. "Isn't there a chance he's her father."

A look came over Irina's face, a look of anger; she pushed away from her seat and when spoke the tone of annoyance in it.

"Is that what he has been saying? Nadia, Sydney, I have never had an relationship, affair or anything at all with that man. He may have been Jack's friend then I could not stand him"

"Then why has he lied? Why?" Nadia said trying to make sense of what had happened, this sudden change which had occurred.

"That's what I'm asking myself now." Irina said walking passed one of the seats. "Nadia what was the first thing that happened when he meet you. Did he do something?"

"He injected me with some Rambaldi fluid. He wanted me to reveal the location of the sphere of life. Oh he…" Nadia choked at the end she had realised what he had done.

"The hourglass" Sydney whispered, some of the pieces had started to fall into place for Sydney."

"The what Sweetheart?" Irina asked

"The hourglass, it was a Rambaldi artefact used to reveal to the father of the passenger her location. I think now that Sloane orchestrated it to so Dad was their seeing that he is her father and not him."

While Sydney had released that, Nadia was getting incensed and she spoke out.

"He used me. He made me believe that he was my Dad. The bast……."

"Nadia" Irina said heading to her" Nadia, keep calm please. Slone should not have done that and that will be something that will be sorted out. But for now."

Irina turned and walked away and headed to the chair she had placed her jacket on, picked it up and pulled it on."

"Mom, where are you going?" Sydney asked wondering whys he had done that.

"To Speak to Jack. He deserves the truth that Nadia is his daughter as well. And Nadia deserves to know her real father."

"Do you want me to come with you?" Sydney said heading to Irina, she was worried about this was going to end.

"No, stay here. Look after your sister. I needed to talk to Jack alone."

"Jack! I know who I have slept with, and Sloane is not one of the people." Irina said walking past his desk yet again.

"I don't believe you."

Their conversation had been going around in circles for a while, neither given up their stance.

"I'll say this one more time." Irina was getting exasperated at the situation. "I have not and never will sleep with Sloane. I was sleeping with one person when I fell pregnant with Nadia and that was you which makes you Nadia's father. So Jack, why do you not believe me?"

Because Irina you have made it your life's work to lie."

Irina stopped and looked at Jack in the face.

"I have never lied to you about Sydney and I am sure than hell not going to start now."

"Sydney is my daughter, I'm not denying that. But Nadia differs to Sydney so much."

"Katya and I may not look the same but we are full sisters, the same as Nadia and Sydney are."

"Then I want proof Irina, I want a DNA test."

"No, I do not want to put her through anything more. She's being through enough. Believe me she is your daughter and all she deserves is a normal life.

"Were I am supposed to start?"

"Just do what you can Jack" Irina said resuming her pacing "That's all I think Nadia wants from you. But Jack there is more important things that we need to worry about at the moment. The girls are in trouble and then there is Sloane he needs to get some payback."

"Payback?"

"For lying and deceiving Nadia and for putting her and even Sydney through torture. He may be your friend, but"

"Ex-friend Irina. And you're right he deserves this. And I know exactly how to go about it."

"So do you believe me now?" Irina said stopping again.

"I'm still not a hundred percent sure, but I know Nadia is a wonderful woman and anyone should be proud to call her daughter and I would. For the moment Irina I trust you for the good of girls but that is it."

Nadia was sitting on the couch, a position that she hadn't moved from in a while. The thoughts in head were going at breakneck speed, again in her life another earth shattering day, something which was now coming a regular occurrence.

Sydney walked away from the kitchen a tumbler of Whiskey in her hand that she was taking to Nadia.

"I thought you might need this" Sydney said offering the glass

"Thanks" Nadia said taking the glass from her and took a big sip from it

"What are you thinking about?" Sydney said as she placed herself on the sofa next to her

"Just how that recently my life seems to have got stranger and stranger"

"Unfortunately being a child of Irina Derevko and Jack Bristow will never lead to a normal life. We're fated to always lead strange life's. You just have to get used to it."

"How can I do that? I'm not sure I can live with life changing experiences every day."

"It's not like it is everyday. And you don't have to go through it by yourself. There's me, Mom and Dad."

"It seems strange to think of Jack as Dad" Nadia said shaking her head slightly

"Well that's who he is. Your Dad and mine as well. My problem at the moment is what she's going to do to Sloane when she sees him. I don't want her to jeopardise her current standing."

"I don't care what she does. He lied to me, tortured me and kept on lying, because of him I may have never found out who my father was actually."

Their was a knock on the door which took Nadia out of her line of thought.

"That Should be Eric" Sydney told Nadia " I called him for you. I thought you might want him."

"Thank you Syd" Nadia said standing not before kissing her sister on the cheek.

She walked to it and pulled it open, but it wasn't the person she had been expecting. She brought her right hand up and slapped him around the face.

"You lied to me. You said you were my father."