ALMOST 730 DAYS

(WITHOUT YOU)

"Three nights starting today. Probably the best phone call i've ever made. I'll pick you up after debrief,ok?

bye"

Those were the last words i said to her. Not "I love you" not "Thank you ", not anything slightly meaningfull. I always walk her inside, but that night... that night i didnt. Dont know why, but i didnt- i just kissed her and left. It's like the ten thousand time i've thought of this, and i cant find an explanation I cant stop thinking that if i only walk her in, if i only had gotten there sooner. I got there soon enough to save will, but there were no trace of syd. She had vanished into thin air. Will filled me up on what had happened. We save allison too and she is in CIA custody. We have interrogated her and sark a million times. Sark says he told us everything, allison wont talk. Will tried to make her understand, but it was useless. We interrogated them together and separately, we tried to put them against each other and nothing. Nothing. Just dead ends.

It had been 2 months since sydney had dissapeared and Vaughn felt he couldnt take it anymore. He just wanted to die. he walked through the days like a ghost, with no purpose or direction. And he wasnt the only one. Jack also felt lost. This had brought them closer than they ever thought they would be. Jack was becoming a second father for Vaughn. Syd's apartment was still like she left it. No one had the heart to let it go It was like accepting she wouldnt be coming back.

CHAPTER 2

Vaughn stepped into sydney's apartment very carefully.like entering a sanctuary He had been there a million times. Searching for clues he never found. He sat in the couch rememenbering the first time he was there. When she said to him she was thinking of getting a new couch. He wanted to go with her to buy it. It seemed so long ago. The apparment was just like she had left it. No one was living there, but vaughn still paid the rent, and all the bills.just waiting for her Her esence was still there. He had rescinded his apartment's contract. He was moving here.

Jack was at the Ops Center, he had just left a meeting with kendall. Kendall told him to focus. Jack didnt go on missions, unless it was to search for Sydney. He had asked this and Kendall agreeed, he was to distracted to go anyways. Jack had just received a new lead about Sydney. He had to called Vaughn to tell him about it.

Vaughn sat on her bed,remembering

He had been there a million times. With her, vaughn felt like a teenager again. It seemed like forever when they lay there talking about graduation. But he remembered every detail as if had happened yesterday "On the almost 3 years ive known sydney. I had never been so scared fot her" Vaughn thought. "Where is she? I ve asked myself that a million times and ive followed a million leads just to find dead ends. Is she alive? Well? Who's got her? Sloane? Irina? Are they working together? Do they even know? What am i thinking, of course they know. It shows how little they care. I thought Irina truly cared about Sydney. After all, she is her mother. But nothing. Ive tried to contact her, to ask her help, and nothing. She wont even talk to me. I guess she never cared. It was all part of her plan, whatever it was, or is." Vaughn lay there, thinking about sydney and he fell sleep. He hadnt slept synce sydney's dissapearence. He couldnt. The little sleep he got was full with nightmares. He had been there for 5 secs, or so he thought when his beeper went off. It was Jack. Vaughn didnt wanted to answer. Jack probably had another lead that "seemed real". He said it with every lead. And Vaughn was getting tired of looking with no results. He was wondering wheter or not to call jack when the phone rang. Not his cellphone, but the house phone. Who could be calling?

he picked it up,scared "Hello?" He said into the speaker "Hello, Mr. Vaughn I heard you were looking for me"