Ashqua

Summary : There's a new prophecy about a little girl...

Chapter 1

Vaughn's POV

Yesterday was the second anniversary of her disappearance, she was back for only three months before she went missing for the second time. It was supposed to be a simple mission, but in this business nothing is that simple, we were in the house of one of Irina's informant Stanislas Kriev, I was breaking-up the alarm while she was supposed to walk in the safe, but an unknown reason had changed the plan, someone had come into the office where she was. I've only heard Sydney telling me that she was caught and to get out of there. Of course I didn't listen to her, I couldn't bring myself to let her there so I ran up to the office only to find it empty, I tried to call her but it was useless, plus there were guards that were into the corridor not far away from me so I was obligated to leave the house. Once in the plane when I saw the faces of Jack, Weiss and the other agents I knew it was too late, they were hearing the voice of Kriev telling to his men to kill her because he couldn't get anything from her, then the sound of the bullet before the silence filled the room, it was the end Sydney was dead. After that episode my life was hell, I was feeling guilty, because I couldn't save or do something to protect her, at first I took a long leave from the CIA and I traveled around the world for almost four months before returning to L.A. At my return my problems caught me, the first one being Lauren, our couple wasn't working for a moment and me being away didn't help it, the second was my return at work, I was always haunted by the spirit of Sydney just like the first time she disappeared but I could handle it. I was still thinking about Sydney when my cell rang, it was Lauren telling me to come at the JTF as soon as possible, I didn't understood why but I did it.

The first sentence that came out out of her mouth was :

"We have her."

"Who?" I asked completely lost.

"Sydney."

"What ? If this is a joke it's not funny, she's dead and you know it."

"Ho, no she's not dead, she's in perfect health you can believe me, and if you don't you just have to look at this screen."

She turned on the screen and what I saw let me speechless, Sydney was sitting on a chair and an agent was talking to her but she wasn't paying attention to him, finally I turned toward Lauren.

"How can it possibly be, we heard her being tortured and killed?"

"You heard her scream and the sound of a shot but you didn't see it."

"I don't understand, if she wasn't dead then where was she all this time?"

"With her mother, Irina Derevko, we don't know the whole story only that she was living with her, one of our agents was working undercover for her mother, it's him who told us where we could found her and with how many bodyguards."

"This can't be possible, it's a nightmare."

"Sorry to have to tell you but it's more than real, an agent from Langley will be here tomorrow for the interrogation."

"Can I go... Can I see her?"

"I don't know, it's not." Seeing the look on her ex-husband face she nodded.

I was standing in front of the cell, looking at her, she was still the same woman that in my memories except one thing, she was stronger than before, I mean she was looking at the agent as he asked her questions smiling, but not answering. Finally I came in and told him to let us alone, what he did.

"God, they didn't understand that I don't want to talk to anyone, especially you." she said as her smile got bigger.

"This is what you have to tell me, it's the first time we saw each other in three years and all you have to say is that you don't want to talk to me, then fine but you are going to listen me. When you were caught I went looking for you, but I didn't found you so I went to the plane where I heard everything, after that I was feeling guilty because it was you and not me, and that I couldn't have saved you. At that moment..."

"Please stop I've heard enough, what do you want me to do? Tell you that I'm sorry, that I regret what I did? Because if it's the case you're wasting your time, I don't regret it, I don't regret the time I've passed with my family, I didn't have anything in L.A for me anymore."

"Ho, so you decided to fake your dead again."

"Again? You think that the first time I disappeared willingly?..."

"Sydney!" a voice called her.

"Weiss." she said as she hugged him. "It's good to see you, I've missed you."

"Me too, hey you look great, apparently having a mother who's rich agrees with you, mainly your wardrobe."

" Always so funny, at what I saw."

"Yeah. But you're the only one who laughs to them, apart from Marshal."

"If you have forgotten, I'm still here." I said.

"Don't worry, you're hard to forget, where's my father?"she told him clearly unhappy.

"On the way, he told me that he had settled all the things, you don't have to worry."

"Ho thank God."

"Weiss can you get out of here, we still need to talk." he said impatient.

Weiss looked at me, then at Sydney who nodded. After he left us, she went to sit on the chair.

"Now that Weiss is gone what do you want to tell me that you hadn't already told me because I'm tired?"

"What happen to you, you're not the same person, you act like a heartless woman like ..."

"Like my mother, that's what you were going to say, isn't it, and you are right, like we said, like mother like daughter. Now I think we are finished here I don't have anything to say, tell it to your superiors, I'm not going to betray my mother."

"They have a mole, so your help isn't necessary."

"This is what you believe but my mother isn't a stupid person, it's not in her style to tell all her secrets to her Lt's, even more to their second in command."

Before I could say something she had turned her back, witch meant that the conversation was finished. As I was walking in the corridor I saw Jack who was heading for the cell. The curiosity being the most powerful (? I don't if you say it in English) I went looking at one of the screens that was just outside the cells, but I don't know why I couldn't hear what they were saying, all the screen was showing was Jack and Sydney talking before he took her in his arms and she had wiped a tear.

In the cell

"Sydney!"

"Dad, ho god thank you, you are here."

"Yes, Weiss called me when he heard about you." He took something from his pocket, only to reveal a bug killer. "We have two minutes before they notice something."

"So everything is in place?"

"Yes, I called your mother and took her to France."

"Okay, did she ask questions?"

"Of course, do I need to remember you her age? Your mother told her that you were on a business trip, in the meantime she'll live Elise, don't worry she's used to it, she already lived with her for more than a year."

"I know but I can't prevent me from being worried, it's something I would do for the rest of my life because of Rambaldi."

"I know and me too, after all I love her and she's my gra..."

"I know dad, you and mom love her, but this prophecy, the Convenant and me being stuck here... I can't do anything to protect her, and I can't do anything from preventing her... Ho god what I'm going to do without her?, who's going to protect her?"

"Sydney, I know that I'm going to repeat what I've told you earlier, she's safe and no one is going to harm her, so for the moment try to focus on you and let me worry about her well being."

"Okay," she said smiling."But I don't think I can stop worrying about her."

"Me too, after all she's my gran..."

"I know, I believe that when you start having this feeling you have it for all your life."

"Yes, but I need you to focus on the interrogation that we'll have tomorrow, they are sending an agent from Langley do it."

"It 'll be okay, I know how to handle that sort of things. Please tell her that I love her and I'll miss her."

"She already knows that."

"Just like she knows that her grandfather and grandmothers love her."

"Yeah..." he was cut by the sound of the bug killer telling them that their time was finished.

TBC ...

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