I don't own Blindspot or any of these amazing characters…
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Okay…This is a really short chapter. Sorry. I am also going to be on a mini writing hiatus because I will be out of town. Don't hate me! If I get a chance to update I promise I will…if not, I'll be back in July. I didn't intend for this chapter to end here, but life happens. Hope you enjoy it! :)
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Fortunately, they didn't need to run. Keaton returned with the paperwork Kurt had insisted on. It was with a sense of relief that Jane signed the document.
The interview with Keaton took hours. Jane answered every question she could. He asked her the same questions over and over until she was ready to collapse.
"That's enough," Kurt insisted sitting next to Jane.
Looking into Jane's weary face Keaton asked one last question.
"What's wrong with you?"
"The Zip is poisoning me," Jane admitted.
"What?" It was so far from what Keaton had been expecting to hear he didn't know how to respond.
"It's poisonous," Jane repeated, "Unless we can find a cure…"
"We're going to find a cure," Kurt finished for her.
"Is there anything I can do?" Keaton asked them.
"Yeah," Kurt said, "Next time you have questions, could you just come ask without all the threats and warrants?"
"Fair enough," Keaton agreed, "If you remember anything else."
"We'll let you know," Jane said wearily.
They left the interview room and the first person Keaton saw was Ivan.
He stopped in his tracks, "I might have a few more questions."
"That's Roman's twin brother Ivan," Kurt explained, "Roman is dead."
"Twin brother?" Keaton asked skeptically.
"He's the one helping us with the cure." Jane explained.
"He's a scientist?" Keaton verified.
"Yeah," Kurt agreed.
"Convenient," Keaton said suspiciously.
"Roman tried to kill us," Jane reminded him, "Do you really think that if that were actually Roman he would be here willingly…helping?"
"I see you're point," Keaton agreed, "Why didn't you ever mention Roman's twin?"
"I thought he died with our parents." Jane explained, "He was sent to another facility. Sheppard knew about him, but Roman and I had no idea. It wasn't until Roman was going through Sheppard's papers after her arrest that he even knew to look for him."
"Is he like you?" Keaton asked her.
"He was raised in a training facility," Jane admitted, "But he was sent to live with a scientist when he was liberated, we went home with a terrorist."
"So not like you," Keaton verified.
"Nobody is like Jane," Kurt insisted, "She's one of a kind."
The way he made her sound special, instead of ruined, made her heart clench. His unwavering faith humbled her.
"These papers of Sheppard's…" Keaton looked over at them hopefully.
"Their whereabouts died with Roman," Kurt admitted.
Reade walked over when he saw them.
"Everything okay?" He worried.
"We're all done here," Keaton agreed.
"No," Reade denied, "We need to talk about Tasha."
"I've already told you," Keaton was adamant, "She isn't working to the CIA. Whatever she's doing, she's doing it on her own."
"Aren't you the least bit worried about her?" Reade demanded.
"She's a big girl," Keaton reminded him, "I'm not her father."
"Nice," Reade looked angry.
"Look," Keaton rubbed his neck, "I'm actually trying to help you. If I start investigating what's going on with Tasha and she's doing something illegal, then I am legally bound to arrest her. By walking away, you and your…unique team can figure out what's going on and stop it if it needs to be stopped."
That was the first time that Reade actually believed that Tasha was literally off book.
"Fair enough," Reade let it drop.
Keaton left and Kurt and Jane looked over at Reade, "What now?"
"I need to see if I can find Tasha," Reade told them, "You probably should bring Jane up to speed on Tasha and Blake."
"I remember," Jane admitted. Her eyes full of pain.
"Jane," Reade didn't know what to say.
"I'm dealing with it," Jane admitted.
"Why don't you go get some real sleep?" Reade suggested.
"Because I know where Roman and I were when I Zipped him." Jane explained.
Seeing Jane's pale face and weary features Kurt shook his head, "You're not going. You need to lie back down. Tell me where it is and I'll get it."
"You can't go without backup." Jane protested, "This is a known Sandstorm medical facility, we don't know who might be there."
"It's abandoned?" Reade verified.
"It was three years ago," Jane agreed, "A lot can change in three years."
Neither of them argued that.
"I'll take Rich or Patterson," Kurt assured her.
"I'll go," Ivan told them.
Jane turned to look at her brother's twin and was struck anew at just how alike he was not only in appearance, but mannerisms.
"Kurt?" She looked up at him.
"We'll be fine," Kurt assured her.
Jane wanted to argue, but she knew there was no way she could keep Kurt safe feeling as bad as she did right now.
"I might go lay down in the cell…" She relented.
"Come on," Kurt placed a supportive arm around her, "Let's get you settled and then well head out."
They took a detour to Patterson's lab and Jane gave her the coordinates. While she checked the satellite images for any activity, Weller escorted Jane down to the cot.
"You need to be careful," She worried.
"We will," Kurt assured her.
"No," Jane clarified, "You need to be careful."
"What are you trying to tell me?" Kurt asked, cradling her worried face and looking down into her eyes.
"Ivan…" She hesitated, "He's been separated from Roman for most of our life, but he talks the same, acts the same…everything is the same."
"Do you think its Roman?" Kurt worried.
"It can't be," Jane insisted, "I was there when he died!"
"Are you sure it wasn't a hallucination?" Kurt worried.
"No way," Jane denied, "It was real."
"Then he has to be Ivan," Kurt said gently.
"Just promise me you'll be careful." Jane insisted.
"I'll be careful," Kurt assured her.
"Love you," Jane whispered.
"Love you, too," He leaned in and this kiss was more reverent than passionate.
"Get some sleep," He insisted, pulling the cover up over her.
She watched him go with a worried expression. She hoped they weren't making a mistake.
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Ivan looked over at Weller while they were driving, "So…I guess you and my brother didn't exactly get along."
"Roman needed his sister and he looked on me and the team as the people who were taking her away from him," Kurt admitted.
"Were you?" Ivan asked him.
"No," Kurt denied, "Jane came to us without any memories, she fought really hard to become the person she is today. When she found out she had a brother, she was determined to find a way to bring him with her. The problem with that was Roman did remember. He hated the FBI and everything we stood for. He would never have agreed to come in if she hadn't zipped him."
"Unfortunately, an associate of Sheppard's had abducted Patterson during the attacks. Jane was forced to lie to Roman so that he would be willing to help us find Patterson. She didn't want to lie and she worried about what was going to happen if he remembered. When he did, he tried to kill her."
"Even with the attack still fresh in her mind, she still fought for him, but Sheppard was able to liberate him and he joined her again. When we stopped Sheppard, your sister had the chance to take Roman down, but she couldn't. He was still her brother and she still loved him even after all that. You know the rest."
"I know that Jane loves Roman," Ivan admitted, "How did you feel about him?"
"I saw the good in him," Weller admitted, "I wanted for him to choose to stay with us like Jane had."
"So you liked him?" Ivan said in surprise.
"I did," Weller admitted, "He, however, must have really hated me."
"I don't think it was that easy." Ivan denied.
"I think his actions in the past year have been pretty telling," Kurt insisted.
"I think you represented everything he wanted, but could never be." Ivan admitted.
"Well, it hardly matters now," Kurt said wearily, "Losing Roman was one of the biggest regrets I have in my life, but I learned a long time ago, what you want and what you get are not always the same."
"Was Patterson okay?" Ivan changed the subject.
"Sheppard tortured her for hours, but she wouldn't give them any information. She's a pretty tough cookie. They ended up knocking her unconscious and implanting a listening device in her tooth. She became an unwitting mole for Sandstorm and when she realized what was happening it changed her. She left the FBI and moved to Silicon Valley, she only came back when she realized Jane needed her help."
"I want to be a part of Jane's life," Ivan admitted.
"When she lost Roman, she lost a part of herself," Kurt admitted, "I think she would love nothing more than to have a relationship with you. I'm glad to hear you want the same."
"Patterson thinks I'm Roman," Ivan blurted it out.
"Are you?" Kurt asked him watchful.
"What if I were?" Ivan asked him, "Would everything you just said change?"
"No," Kurt denied, "But I can tell you that lying to these women, you'll regret it. If you are Roman, you need to tell us. The relationships you want deserve the truth, without that, you really only have an illusion that can disappear."
"You sound like a man that learned that the hard way." Ivan noted.
"I almost lost your sister when I lied about Avery," Kurt admitted, "I wanted to spare her the pain of loss, but as Avery's mother, she deserved to know the truth. By the time I was strong enough to admit what happened, she felt not only loss, but betrayed. I won't make that mistake again."
"Noted," Ivan agreed.
"So…" Kurt looked over at Ivan with a piercing expression, "Are you Roman?"
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