Title: Unexpected

Author: Ren201

Spoilers: up to season 3.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Alias!

Author's note: This is something I've been thinking about and it would be great to know what people think of it.

It was mid afternoon on a Sunday and Sydney was sitting in a debrief about her recent mission in Mexico City two days ago. Sydney had started to see it as a relief when she came in to work on the weekends, it meant that she was closer to finding out about her 'death' and there were always less people around. It was becoming more of a regular occurrence and to Sydney it meant that she didn't have time to dwell on the past.

While sitting in the debrief round, Sydney noticed all the usual faces, and even a few new ones. As Dixon started talking about the mission, Sydney felt uneasy, something about the mission hadn't felt right. From the moment she had stepped into the club, she had the feeling that she was being watched. Not just by anyone though, she felt as if she knew who it was, but she couldn't put her finger on who it was. Even though she had successfully completed her mission, she still couldn't shake the feeling that it was set up.

Her mission was simple. She was to extract a member of a new terrorist group, who contacted the CIA and informed them of his status within the organisation and wanted to bring down the organisation by becoming a double agent. The plan was that it would look like the agent had meet Sydney in a club and the two would leave together. From there, Sydney, along with another CIA agent would escort the informant back to LA to meet with her superiors and authenticate his story. Everything about the mission had been perfect. There were no problems and they arrived back at the JTF exactly as planned.

When Dixon finished the debrief and dismissed everyone, she still couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong. She wasn't sure if it was the mission itself, or if it was the man she extracted. All she could think about was the person who kept staring at her in the club. She wasn't sure if she was being paranoid or if she knew him. Whoever it was, he was in disguise, but she recognised him, she was sure she did. Sydney tried to put the thoughts to the back of her head and instead decided to go and talk to Weiss who was finishing off some paper work. As she walked over to his desk, the building suddenly blacked out and she walked straight into Weiss.

"Hey, sorry Syd. What's going on, do you think we should go and find..." Weiss stopped mid sentence, as gunshots echoed through the corridors.

Both Weiss and Sydney immediately ran over to their desks. Sydney fumbled through her draws until she found what she was looking for, she grabbed her gun, shoved some extra bullets into her pocket and attached a small knife to the inside of her boot. As she stood up, she realised that the sound of gun shoots had entered the main office where everyone was currently situated.

Before she knew what was happening, she was being overpowered from behind. Sydney immediately went into fight mode and attacked the person behind her, preparing for the fight that was ahead of her. Just as she threw a kick at her attacker, the lights started to come back on, and Sydney realised that she was surrounded. As she looked around the circled of men around her and mentally took in their size, how many there were and their positions. She pointed her gun at the man in front of her and in return she had 6 guns pointed back at her.

Just as she was about to start her attack on the group, she heard a familiar female's voice cry out in pain. She peered past the man standing in front of her, only to see a heavily pregnant Carry being hit across the temple by a masked man. As Carry fell to the ground, half a dozen agents caught her before she hit the ground. Sydney suddenly noticed that everyone who had been in the office had been apprehended and disarmed in a matter of minutes. It was obvious that no one had expected the attack and by the time they had prepared themselves, they were already down. As she looked at the small group of agents she saw that there were about 20 of them and there were, from what she could see, about 15 men, including the ones surrounding her. As she took in her surroundings, she noted that all of the men were well-armed and ready to fire to the sign of any trouble.

As Sydney looked into the small crowd, she saw that everybody was there, and no one had managed to escape. She was interrupted from her thoughts from one of the men in front of her.

"Put down gun. Don't make us hurt any of your colleagues." The man said in a heavy Russian accent while pointing another gun at a new agent, who from what she could tell, was easily intimidated and looked like she was about to cry. Sydney threw her gun out of the circle and watched as most of the men followed the action with their eyes. Sydney saw her chance and took it. She instantly attacked the group with instantaneous kicks and punches. Sydney managed to take down 5 of her attackers before she noticed another man approach her from the corridor that connected the main office area to the outside world. As she took down the sixth person, she turned her attack towards another man who had barely recovered from her previous attack on him. As she was about to lunch her attack on the person, she felt a sharp pain in her neck and she quickly turned to see who had inflicted the sharp, numbing pain. Shock filled Sydney's system as she saw who it was.

Everyone in the room had been so shocked with Sydney's sudden attack on the hostile group that none of them noticed that the remaining guards weren't firing, instead they stood there watching the spectacle, as if they knew what was going to happen and had been ordered not to interfere. Every one had been so captivated by the fight taking place in front of that they didn't noticed the appearance of the man who had hit Sydney with a tranquilliser dart.

As Sydney looked at her new attacker, she was so overwhelmed with what she saw that she couldn't move; she couldn't breath for fear of what she saw. As the cluster of CIA agents watched Sydney's reaction to the new threat, nobody understood what was going on. The only agent who recognised the man was Dixon. Sydney stood there in shock for another second as she let a single tear fall down her face. Suddenly Sydney felt the butt of a gun hit her across her temple.

Before Sydney past out, she looked into the eyes of the man in front of her and whispered painfully,

"Danny?"

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