Ok. This is my first Alias fic. Well, actually I did have one before, but they took it off because for some reason I must have had something in it that I shouldn't have. Well, anyway, here goes. Oh and there might be some Sarkney in here I'm not sure, we'll see in later chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Alias. If I did I would know David Anders and I would always be staring into his wonderful blue eyes. Plus, anyone that is not in the show is a person of my own creation.

Nothing is Ever Easy

Chapter 1

Sark and Sydney Encounter

Sydney walked down the hallway and saw Jack Bristow sitting in his office. She walked to the door and knocked. He motioned for her to come in. She opened the door and took a seat. Her father's desk at APO was almost as big as the one he had back at the CIA, but of course, bigger.

"What would you like, Sydney?" asked Jack shuffling through his paperwork.

"Dad, I know that I have told you this before, but I don't really think we should trust Sloane, especially of all the things he has done," said Sydney watching her father put away certain files that she recognized.

"I know, Sydney, but I have already decided and we'll keep a good eye on him. Ok?" Jack kept clearing off his desk until Sloane knocked on the door.

"Jack, Sydney, I need you both to come to the conference room immediately. Thanks," said Sloane turning around and walking towards the conference room where Sydney could already see Weiss, Marshall, and Vaughn already waiting.

"We'll talk about this later, but right now I guess we have a meeting to attend to." Jack got up and walked out of the room. Sydney followed shortly after wondering if this was another mission that Sloane was going to put her on.

When she walked into the room she noticed that he had a picture of Julian Sark already on the screen. Oh no, she thought, he is not making me go after Sark now! Is he?

"Have a seat, Sydney. As you can see the Covenant has Sark doing another mission for them. This gives us the opportunity to bring him in. I want you to be the one to do it." Sloane points out as she sits there wondering why he wanted him to do it.

"You're saying that you want me to do it alone?" asked Sydney.

"Yes, you will leave in 5 hours. You will be going to London. For the rest of you, you will have to be here when she reports in and help with anything that she asks for. You all may go now." Sloane turns off the screen and leaves the room and starts towards his office. Sydney and the others leave and go to their desks to get the preparations for the mission that they are about to do.

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Later that night, Sydney's on the plane on her way to London. She's going over the mission over in her head. She can't believe that they are making her pretend that she left APO and is now wanting to join the Covenant. That means she'll be close to Sark. As much as she hated Sark she actually was kind of looking forward to seeing him. She started to drift to sleep when the picture of Sark came to her head and his blue eyes stuck out. Wow, he has such beautiful blue eyes. Sydney thought right before she fell asleep.

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She woke up from the sound of the plane finally landing in the airport. She got up when the plane came to a stop and grabbed her things. She walked out of the plane and descended the stairs. The sky was a bright blue. There wasn't a cloud in sight. She put her sunglasses on and walked to the airport entrance. When she walked in she got greeted by a man with the name Sydney Bristow on a thing of cardboard. She guessed that he was going to be her driver to the car rental place. Sloane had insisted that she take a limo to the rental place because then she wouldn't have to take a taxi. Sloane knew how much she hated taxis.

The driver's name was Edward Preston. He grabbed her things and took her to the limbo. When he got her things in the trunk he opened and closed her door for her. He drove her to the rental place and went to the next destination that he was supposed to go to.

She got a new black Mercedes for her rental. She loved it! She then drove to the hotel that she was going to stay at for a while. When she got there she called Marshall.

"Hey, Marshall, I just got to the hotel. So what's next?" Sydney had to know what she had to do next because they only told her where she was going and what the plan was to get Sark into custody or even more of the Covenant.

"Now, you have to set up an appointment with Sark. You have to tell him that you left our organization and you want to be in his. Then you have to see if you could get enough trust from him to be able to move in with him. Ok?" Marshall said as quickly as he could get the words out of his mouth.

"Ok, thanks, Marshall." Sydney hung up her cell phone and grabbed the hotel phone. She got the number out of her suitcase. They had given it to her just in case they had to make her call from the plane. Luckily, she didn't have to. She was going to set the meeting for the next day in the afternoon so she could get some sleep. She had to really get rid of her jet lag. She took the phone and dialed. It rang eight times before she heard the familiar voice that she both longed and hated to hear.

"Hello?" Sark said in his wonderful English accent.

"Hi, Sark, it's Sydney Bristow. I know that this is weird that I am calling you, but do you think I could talk to you sometime tomorrow around 3pm?" Sydney asked hoping he would say yes.

Sark couldn't believe his ears. From the time she had said hi he knew exactly who she was. He loved the sound of her voice and really wanted to see her, but he could tell that she was up to something and he could only think of one thing to say. "Why?"

"I was hoping you wouldn't ask that question. Well, anyway, it's why I want to talk to you. It's important and I want to tell you in person." Sydney hoped that would be enough for him to meet her.

"Fine, we'll meet at Big Ben at 3pm and from there I'll take you somewhere we can talk in private." Sark was glad that he accepted her offer to meet her.

"Ok. See ya then." Sydney hung up the phone and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

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A little bit after 2pm, Sydney left her room and headed to the elevator. When she finally made it to the lobby she went outside to find that it was raining. She ran to her car and quickly got in as fast as she could. I'm going to have to buy an umbrella before I go to Big Ben.

She drove to the nearest store and went in to buy a black umbrella. When she left the store she opened the umbrella and walked back to her car. After she closed the car door, her cell phone rang.

"Hello?" Sydney asked as she started to drive away.

"Where are you? So did you get an appointment with Sark?" asked a familiar voice that Sydney knew as Michael Vaughn.

"I'm going to Big Ben where I am to meet with Sark. Does that answer your question?" Sydney said as she saw Big Ben coming up. She was so glad to hear Vaughn's voice.

"Yeah that does. Well, I got to go back to work. Good luck with Sark. Love you, Sydney"

"Love you too. Bye." Sydney hung up the phone and parked her car as close to the clock as possible. She got out of the car, opened her umbrella, and looked to the clock and saw that Sark was already there waiting.

Sydney noticed that he was wearing all black including his umbrella that he was holding in his right hand. She walked over by him and just smiled. "Black must be popular for an umbrella, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess. Anyway, you're lucky, you were almost late. Come on, I made a reservation at The Ritz. We don't want to be late. There we can talk about whatever you want." Sark said as he led her to his car. When they got to his black Jaguar he opened and closed the door for her and got in the driver's seat. He got in, started the car, and headed towards where the restaurant was located.

They drove in silence thinking about basically nothing important, trying not to think about each other and how they were enjoying sitting in a car next to each other. As Sark pulled into the parking lot the rain stopped and the sun started to show itself between the little cracks in the clouds.

When they were seated Sark ordered the finest wine that they had. During their wait Sydney told him about why she wanted to join the Covenant. "The reason why I left them in the first place was because they weren't sending me on any missions that I would usually go on. They started to treat me like I was too old to do what I'd like to do. Well, I know that you are probably thinking that I'm doing this with APO to take you and the Covenant down, but I'm not. I am truly out of contact with APO. My father even turned on me so please, let me be in your organization."

"Well, Sydney, that was impressive. I thought you'd never ask. The Covenant has wanted you in the organization for so long. Well, at first I did think you were still with APO, but now I truly do believe that you have left. Tomorrow I will call them and arrange for a meeting with one of our members that could help you out. Now let's forget about that and talk about what else you are here for. I just know there is something else you're not telling me." Sark finished his sentence when the waitress came over to take their order. When she finally left, Sydney turned back to Sark to tell him about her feelings for him.

"Ok. Ever since I first saw you I had felt attracted to you. When I couldn't take it anymore I knew that because of the betrayal I just had to see you. To be honest Sark, I almost think that I love you. That is the reason why I am here talking to you, but now I think it was a mistake because I am really going crazy seeing you again." Sydney hoped that what she said was good enough for him. "You know what? I made a mistake coming here. I really got to go." Sydney got up and left the restaurant before Sark could even open his mouth to respond.

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Later that night, Sydney lies in her bed thinking about how stupid she was to leave Sark there. She was here for a mission, not for herself. It was all an act and she made it real. When Sloane called her back she told him what had happened and he wasn't too happy about it, but he told her that she had to get another chance the next day. She told him that she would call Sark in the morning to apologize and see if he had talked to the Covenant yet. She had hung up the phone and got ready to go to sleep. She had a long day ahead of her.

As she started to drift to sleep, she saw Sark's beautiful eyes glowing.

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