Title: The Vaughn's

Author: AnnaSun

Summary: Adventures with the Vaughn family. Sequel to 'One wedding and a near funeral'

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimers note: I don't own Alias but I do this fanfic

Chapter 1: A day for Madi

"I'm not going!" Sydney and Michael's daughter, Madi cried.

She was hiding under the kitchen table wearing her blue dungarees and green lace up shoes. It was going to be Madi's first day at school and she didn't want to go.

"Come on Sweetheart." Sydney said, bending down and peering under the table.

"No!" Madi cried.

Sydney reached out to her daughter and tried to envelope her into a hug but she pulled away and burst into tears.

"Oh Madi its okay." Sydney reassured.

Madi curled up into a ball and cried louder.

"Madi, Daddy and I have to go to work in a moment and you need to get ready for school."

"I'm not going!" Madi shouted.

Vaughn came downstairs and walked into the kitchen.

"Good morning honey." Vaughn greeted Sydney with a warm smile and a kiss on the lips.

"Morning Michael how did you sleep?" She asked him.

"Very well. What's all that crying I can hear? Is Madi alright? Has she fallen over again?"

"No…no she hasn't fallen over. She's worried about school. She doesn't want to go in." Sydney replied

"Awww poor thing. I'll go talk to her." Vaughn smiled at Sydney.

Vaughn made it over to the table and bent down until her could see Madi. She was hunched up inside, her eyes all red from crying.

"Hi Madi. Mummy tells me you don't want to go to school. Now why is that?"

Madi sniffed and wiped her teary eyes.

"I'm scared." She admitted.

"I'm sure you are Sweetheart. I was scared on my first day at school too. School can be fun though. You get to play games and learn doing fun activities." Vaughn replied.

"What if the big boys get me, Daddy?"

"If they do you can come and tell Mummy and I and we'll sort something out. There's no need to worry. They'll be lots of kids starting today your age and I bet they're just as scared as you."

Madi let out a small smile.

"Promise me that Mummy will be there to pick me up after school?"

"I promise. Mummy even said she'd buy you a big ice cream if you go to school today. How does that sound?" Vaughn asked his daughter.

"Yay I-scream! I want chocolate flavour."

"Okay I'm sure Mummy can do that for you. Shall we go get your coat and school bag?"

Madi nodded and dried her eyes.

Vaughn was helping Madi get her coat on as Sydney came into the room.

"Thanks for getting her to come out from under the table."

"That's okay. Glad I could be of some help." Vaughn replied smiling.

He bent over and shared a kiss with Sydney.

"Ewww yuck! I saw that." Madi shouted.

Sydney chuckled and bent down and gave her daughter a tickle.

"Everyone ready to go?" Vaughn asked.

Both Sydney and Madi nodded and soon they were in the car driving off to their desired destinations.

After Madi's first birthday Sydney had gone back to working as a field agent whilst Vaughn took up a job of coaching a local hockey team, which he liked very much. They had had to get a childminder to look after Madi some nights after school when they were both working straight into the dark hours of the day. Madi had hated Emma at first. She had cried and screamed the first week Emma had come round and Emma nearly decided to leave and look after another family's children. Now Madi liked it when Emma was round. They spent many hours playing games or watching television together especially Madi's favourite film 'Beauty and the Beast.' She had seen it over five times now and enjoyed it time and time again.

Sydney had gone to the JTF building to work and do some filing. Today she wasn't needed out on the field so she could spend time catching up on her emails and doing some filing. Vaughn was busy coaching a new hockey team of young boys all hoping to be professional hockey players one day. He loved his job. Both Sydney and Vaughn had been worried to leave Madi at school. After hearing her saddened cries in the morning they worried if she would make it through the day without crying again.

Sydney made it to her desk and sat down switching on her computer. Suddenly she felt the presence of someone behind her back. She turned around in alarm to see her Dad standing there.

"Good morning Sweetheart. Its good to see you." He said to her.

Sydney stood up and enveloped her Dad in a hug.

"Its good to see you too. How are you?" Sydney asked.

"I'm very well thank you. Did my Granddaughter get off to school okay this morning?"

"In the end yes. It was a struggle and she cried a lot but in the end Michael managed to get her out from under the table."

"That's good to hear." Jack replied, "I shall better let you get back to work. Goodbye."

"Bye Dad." Sydney smiled and kissed him on the cheek.

Since Madi had been born Jack and her had become stronger. He was proud to be called Granddad and loved Madi to bits. Sydney sat back down and got on with her typing. She was on the third line when she heard the doors to Marshall's gadget room bust open. He came flying out and crashed into her.

"Sorry Syd- er Agent Bristow."

He looked at her nervously and then shouted "Someone's hacking into the system!"

On hearing the alarm Sydney quickly shut down her computer. Kendall came into the room.

"What's going on here?" He asked Marshall.

Marshall was standing on the spot flapping about in panic.

"My…my computer just shut down and I think. I think someone is hacking into the systems!"

Kendall looked over at two men who were standing in the doorway to his office.

"You two shut down the main power supply now!" He ordered.

The two guys rushed off and soon the main power was switched off.

Marshall made his way back to his office when something caught his eye. A cup of spilt coffee lay across his keyboard and the keyboard was fizzing.

"Oh God! Oh God! Not the coffee. Oh God!"

"Is everything okay now Marshall?" Kendall asked him.

"Sir no need to panic I spilt coffee over my computer. Look at it fizz!"

Kendall sighed.

"Make sure you don't spill coffee again Marshall." Kendall warned.

"Yes Sir. Sorry Sir"

"Madi stop whining." Sydney said to her Daughter.

Madi had made it through the day and was being awarded with a big chocolate ice cream.

"I want my I-Scream now!" Madi shouted.

"Its ice-cream sweetheart and if you don't stop whining I'll not get you one."

They were inside the shopping centre and stopped at an ice-cream stand so Madi could have an ice cream.

"Can I have chocolate sauce?" Madi asked Sydney.

"What's the magic word?" Sydney asked her.

"Please."

"Good girl and of course you can."

Madi jumped up and down and soon was licking her ice cream.

"Why don't we take a look in the toy store whilst you eat that." Sydney suggested.

"Okay." Madi replied and licked her ice cream.

Around her lips she had chocolate all over the place.

They walked into the shop and began looking around. After a while Sydney started to smell something. Smoke.

Both Sydney and Madi didn't have time to react when the whole shop filled up with smoke and one side was on fire. Sydney grabbed her daughter and through the screams of the other shoppers tried to find a way out. She was coughing and was starting to fight for oxygen. Madi was crying loudly and starting to choke as well. Suddenly there seemed no way out and Sydney and Madi were stuck behind some flames. The only way passed them was to jump. Sydney used her spy skills and managed to jump over. She put her arms out to her daughter who jumped over as well, however catching her arms on one of the flames. Sydney had no time to tend to her daughters wound and she raced onto the steep grassy bank behind the building. She ran as far away as possible from the burning building and collapsed on the ground her daughter along side her. She could here the sounds of the fire engines and ambulances turning up. All she thought about was her Daughter and Vaughn. She just wanted to be in Vaughn's arms. Safe. Forever.

To be continued…

AN:/ Due to upcoming exams the next chapter may not be posted for a while. I hope you will enjoy it when it's up. Thanks for reading!