Title: Secrets and Lies
Rating: PG
Summary: When Sydney is injured on a mission and Vaughn discovers she hasn't been entirely truthful with him. S/V.
LA:
Sydney Bristow walked slowly into the dimly lit warehouse where her Michael Vaughn, her handler and boyfriend, sat waiting for her to arrive. She greeted him with a quick kiss. "Hey, what's new?"
"We're going to London."
"Why?"
"Kendall wants us to retrieve a disk from one of your mothers contacts. He thinks it has information about the Alliance that could help us take down their operation. Derevko said that there's only ever one guard patrolling at a time so you can get in when the guards change shifts. The disk is kept in a drawer next to the computer in the office."
"When are we going?"
"Plane leaves in an hour."
LONDON:
Sydney walked slowly around the corner of the house. The Guards had just changed shifts and Sydney was waiting for him to come into view so she could take him down. She was just about give up and break into the house when she was attacked from behind. Vaughn was walking behind Syd and he could hear her fighting with the guard. He was waiting for the fighting to stop so he could follow her in when he heard two gunshots. He ran quickly around the corner and stopped as he saw the guard dead with a bullet wound to their head. He was relieved momentarily until he saw Sydney lying on the ground on bleeding from her abdomen. He quickly took his shirt off and covered her wound with it as he used his radio to call for an Ambulance for Sydney. After what seemed like hours but was only minutes an Ambulance arrived to take Sydney to the Airfield where they would be flown to LA. As they loaded Syd into the Ambulance Vaughn quickly ran into the house and retrieved the disk. He returned to the Ambulance and held Syd's hand the whole way to the airfield and then all the way back to LA, the whole time talking to her saying that 'she's gonna be ok and that he loved her'.
LA:
Sydney was rushed to Surgery as soon as she arrived at the hospital. Jack had been informed of what had happened and was waiting at the hospital for her to arrive with Vaughn. Jack and Vaughn spent hours pacing up and down the waiting room while they waited for Sydney to return from surgery. After many hours the Doctor finally emerged from theatre.
"She's very lucky. We found the bullet lodged behind her rib cage just below her right lung. We were able to remove it but it caused severe internal damage. If she had have arrived here 10 minutes later, she would have died. She's been moved to Intensive Care now and you'll be able to see her for a few minutes."
"Is she awake?" Vaughn asked.
"No, she should wake up in the morning though. I suggest you both go home and get some rest. She'll be asleep most of the night and you can see her in the morning."