Title: New Years; New Lives

Author: Lauren Alexa

Rating: PG- PG-13

Summery: On New Years eve everything falls apart.

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Disclaimer: Alias and all of the characters blong to JJ, ABC, and Bad Robot productions. I don't have any money anyways. So don't sue.



Chapter 1 New Years; New Lives

5:30p.m. December 31, 2004

Francie, Will, and I sat together on my couch watching the logs burn. We were starting our New Years celebration early, since I had to fly to China in a few hours. After four years this double agent thing was really starting to get annoying. Not only had the missions gotten harder, they had gotten longer.

Last year we had almost brought an end to all of this spy crap. But, Sloane had taken that chance away. Vaughn and I had gone on a mission to retrieve a disk. We didn't know what was on the disk, but it was rumored that it would bring an end to SD-6. We had brought the disk back and Vaughn had taken it directly to the Marshall clones in the tech office. I had gone home with, what Vaughn had told me was a glow. The glow didn't stay for more than an hour.

I received the Joey's Pizza call around ten that night. Francie had moved out a while back, so it was up to me to pick up the telephone. I had rushed to the warehouse expecting to hear we were going to raid SD-6. What I heard was that there had been a fire in the LA office. Almost everything was destroyed, including the disk. Devlin would not reveal who had started the fire, but I figured it was Sloane. Judging by his "glow" the next morning, I was correct.

All of a sudden I was shaken out of my reverie. Francie had gotten up and turned the CD player on. Christmas music was emerging from the speakers. Emerging loudly, I might add.

"Don't you think it's a bit late for Silent Night, not that it wouldn't be nice." I mumbled under my breath.

Francie laughed. "C'mon, Syd! Get in the holiday spirit!"

That's pretty hard with my life. I thought.

Before I could reply to Francie, Will had shoved a glass of Champaign into my hand.

"Let's have a toast!" He announced. It was his way of brightening the room.

Francie raised her glass and seeing my best friend's faces I followed suit.

"To a new year of friends, family, and hopefully less work for Syd!" We clinked glasses.

Smiling, I commented, "Amen to that."

Laughing, Will, Francie, and I fell back to the couch. There was only one thing missing from this moment.

The telephone rung, and I leaped up to get it. I looked at the caller ID and I almost laughed. Speak of the devil.

Instead of Joey's Pizza, I heard, "Syd, SD-6 has been put under new leadership. Sloane has been assasinated."