Sofya awoke a few hours later in what appeared to be a holding cel. She cursed herself for getting shot by someone she had onder control. She should've known that the whole sister-thing was just a way to stay alive.
For a moment she wondered why Julian hadn't come. He must have realised that she wasn't coming out. Unless they had captured him too. Before she could finish her thoughts, someone entered her cell.
"Hello ms Derevko, could you please sit down ?" Dixon asked
Sofya didn't move a muscle and kept staring at the agent that had just entered her cell. "Jack Bristow"
Dixon looked up suprised. "What ?"
"I'll talk to Jack Bristow and only to him.Plus the condition that I can see my mother. She's also in your custody I presume ? That are my two demands so you can go and talk about it with your superiors and then I'll tell you everything you need to know" Sofya said calmly
Dixon masked his suprise of her calmness and left the room. He walked over to where Jack, Sydney, Vaughn and Kendall were watching the conversation on the monitors.
"Well, what are we going to do ?" he asked
"There's no chance in hell that I want two Derevko women in the same room." Kendall answered
Sydney turned to him. "We don't have a choice, if we don't let her see mom, she isn't going to talk."
Kendall sighed. "What do you think Jack ?"
Jack looked at Sydney before answering. "This could be a benefit to the CIA too. We could learn from the conversation"
Kendall nodded. "And about her other demand ?"
This made Jack silent, he didn't look forward to interrogating the daughter of his ex-wife. What even bothered him more was that he might be interrogating his own daughter, a daughter that Irina might kept from him. "I'll do it"
"Alright, not that I like this but get her out of the room and take her to Derevko's cel." Kendall told Vaughn
Vaughn nodded and entered the holding room with cuffs in his hands. Sofya was sitting on her chair, when she saw who entered she smiled.
"Well aren't you a looker ? Are you here to take me to the torture room where you can break my spirit and make me tell everything I know " she asked laughing
Vaughn couldn't help but smile. "I'm here to take you to your mother, some see that as torture"
Sofya laughed and stood up from her chair. "Good observation Agent….?"
"Vaughn" he said while cuffing her
"Nice name."
He led her out of the room. Sofya took a good look around and made some mental notes about their equipment. They stopped before bars and Vaughn took off her handcuffs.
"Your mother is in there, just walk through the bars. She's behind a window of glass." He said
Sofya nodded and walked through the now opened bars. In a matter of seconds, she saw Irina Derevko sitting on her bed looking at her coming in.
"Hello mother" she said in a cold voice
Irina stood up from her bed and walked to the window. "Sofya, what are you doing here ?"
Sofya laughed, her sarcasm evident. "Cut the crap mom, we both know that you have something to do with this. After twenty-one years, the CIA finds me and not only that but they know exacly who I am ? I find it very hard to believe that you didn't help them."
Irina just smiled. "How have you been ?"
"You mean after my mother disappeared on me two years ago ? Fine, taking orders from Khasinau who knew where you were but didn't want to tell me, then taking orders from Sloane who I dispise but unlike you I can swallow my pride to do what is needed." Sofya said her voice getting colder with the second
"And Sark ? How has he been ?" Irina asked softly
Sofya remained silent and just looked hard at her mother. All the hate and anger that she was feeling towards her were coming out.
"Sark has nothing to do with this but let's talk about someone else. How about Sydney ? Is she or is she not my sister ?" she asked on the verge of yelling
"She is your sister. Seven years older than you" Irina replied
"And Jack Bristow ?" she whispered
Irina smiled but said nothing. Sofya slammed her hand on the window. "Goddamnit mom, let's be honest with each other for the first time in our entire lifes. Is he my father ?" she now yelled
"You don't have to yell, my little one" Irina said softly in Russian
Sofya calmed down. "Sydney told me you married him for information, when you were KGB. She wasn't planned and she said that I was probably his daughter too. Is she right ?"
"Sofya, will it make a differance if I told you that he is your father ? Do you expect that you'll be welcome in his life ? That he'll accept you as his daughter ? As I told you at your sixteenth birthday, that man hates me and because he doesn't know you and only sees you as the daughter of the woman that betrayed him, he'll hate you too." Irina explained
Sofya said nothing and looked up as agents came to retrieve her from her mother. She let them take her without comment and sat down on the chair in the same holding room she was before. She didn't even look up as Jack entered the room.
"Are you ready to talk ?" he asked in a cold voice
She didn't answer but looked straight ahead. Jack sat down and pressed the record button. Suddenly Sofya spoke.
"Who's watching ?" she asked sternly
"Your sister, Agent Vaughn, Kendall, Dixon and Weiss" he answered without being suprised that she knew they were being watched. He looked up to her.
"We'll start with your name and age" he said
Sofya took a deep breath. "Sofya Tatjana Derevko, 21 years old"
"At what age have you started spionage ?"
"Trained since I was six, active duty since fifteen" she replied emotionless
"Your partner in the missions ?"
"Sark"
Jack looked up at her monotone answers, she was so much like Irina and yet also so much like him. "What is your relationship with Sark ?"
"We're partners"
"Is that all ?" he pressed the matter
When Sofya didn't answer, he moved on. "What is your involvement with Sloane ?"
"I work for him, against my will but it's needed"
"Why is that ?"
"He has many Rambaldi artefacts, I need them to figure out what his complete prophecy is and what the device is that he had been working on" she said still with a cold voice
"How did you come to work for him ?" he asked
"Is she right ?" she interuppted him
Jack looked up, knowing exacly what she meant but didn't know what to answer her. When he didn't replie, she spoke again.
"I'm okay with it if she is, I mean you just met me and I am Irina's daughter it's not like you owe me anything. You didn't even know I existed nor did I know that you existed for sixteen years" she said keeping her cold appearance
"She told you I was dead ?" he asked
Sofya nodded. "Car-accident, at my birthday she informed me that you were still alive but that you didn't want to see me. That you'd kill me at first sight"
"She was extracted from our marriage with a car-accident." He said mimicking her tone
"I think I've told you enough, you can put me behind a glasswall like an animal
so that your agents can come to look at me like in the zoo but if they do tell them to bring some peanuts" Sofya said looking at him sharply in the eye
Jack stood up. "Whatever Irina told you, know this: if I had known of your existance then I would've done everything in my power to get you out of the hands of the KGB and everyone who had sick plans with you. I would've brought you here and raised you the best I could", he paused and watched her expression,"But I didn't know and you can't expect me to immediatly accept you as my daughter and to care about you. At this moment, you're nothing more to me than any other criminal I've interrogated"
Sofya took a deep breath still looking at him, his words had stung deep. She had finally met her father and now it appeared her mother had been right after all. She watched him get out of the room and when the door closed, she allowed one single tear to escape from her eye.