Title: Hold Me Now
Author: Allie
Summary: Post ep for Snowman
Spoilers: Masquerade and Snowman
Classification: S/V, Angst
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Sydney, Vaughn or anything Alias related. Too bad because if I had control….
Author's Note: I got this idea after watching "Snowman". Then Creed's One Last Breath came up on Winamp and I couldn't resist. This is kind of a songfic, I inserted a few lyrics to set the mood.
"One Last Breath" – Creed[Please come now I think I'm falling, I'm holding on to all I think is safe. It seems I found the road to nowhere and I'm trying to escape.]
"I killed him."
"I know." Vaughn nodded. He had already gotten the intel.
"One day I made love to him, the next I killed him." Those words struck Vaughn. Made love. Sydney had been intimate with Noah. His heart dropped to his feet.
Vaughn chastised himself for being selfish. Sydney was feeling a range of emotions right now and needed him more than ever. He put his hands on her shoulders and squeezed. She began to sob and leaned into him, burying her head in his chest. He held her for what seemed like an eternity.
[So please come stay with me cause I still believe there's something left for you and me.]
"Just once I want something normal." She said in between sobs. Sydney looked up at Vaughn with desperation in her eyes. "Can you give me normal?"
He didn't know what to say. What was normal anyway? To them this was normal. Meetings in warehouses, countermissions, fighting an unseen evil. Lying to everyone they knew, including themselves; that was normal.
"I want to Sydney. I would do anything to make our lives different, but I can't. Not yet." He pulled her closer; her sobs had turned to whimpers and every sound she made was breaking his heart.
[I yelled back when I heard thunder but I'm down to one last breath.]
"Please Vaughn, do something," Sydney said desperately. "Help me before I lose myself."
[Hold me now, I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking, that maybe six feet ain't so far down.]