Becoming Laura
by
Chris AndersonDisclaimer: Alias is the property of other people, including J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot productions.
Written for the Theatrical Muse 'farthest from home' challenge.
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In terms not of distance but of things far less tangible, that first journey from Moscow to the United States was the longest trip she had ever taken. She boarded a plane in Russia under an assumed name she would never use again. She left Irina Derevko behind in the Motherland, and that fake but flawless set of travel papers ash in the wind. She became then the woman who would be Laura Bristow, whose sole driving purpose then was to become Laura Bristow.
She believed for a long time that she had come back from that journey, physically, spiritually... But the truth is that she never did. She is now so many years and so many secrets from the woman who stepped onto that plane in Moscow, that there is truly no returning from that journey. Her years in America changed her, changed everything about her.
Those years made her a wife, a mother, a teacher, a lover, a killer. To this day she is sometimes many or all of those things, and sometimes none. But of all the hundreds of thousands of miles she has traveled over the years, of all the distances she has crossed, no journey can ever compare to the long strange path to becoming Laura Bristow.
It is the only journey she has taken from which she has never truly been able to return.
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