Author: AmandaB9@aol.com

Fandome: Alias

Rating: PG-13

Timeline: AU for Counteragent

Disclaimer: I don't 'em.

Chapters: There is more if you want it.

Shipper: Vaughn/Sydney Romance/Angst

Summary: What if Sydney took the higher, moral road and decided she couldn't send Sloane off certain to death - therefore killing Vaughn?

Feedback: Yes please!

Warning: High Angst and Character Death



Chapter 1 - Inner Turmoil

Sydney's POV:

Oh God, I can't handle this.

My father is right. There is another choice. There is always another choice. No matter how much we hate to even think of the other choice, it is there.

To not kill Sloane.

To let Vaughn die.

When did I become in charge of people's lives? When did I receive the power to suddenly decide which person gets to stay alive and which doesn't?

A trade off of life and I am somehow the trader.

Someone has to die. That much is certain. Wheater it is an evil man who kills or a good man who saves is the only difference.

If I keep thinking of it like that, I can almost even not feel guilty. Pretend there is just one choice like I told my father.

But in my heart I know there isn't.

I am no God; far from it. So who am I to send anyone, even Sloane, into a death trap?

No one; no one but a stupid little girl with a growing crush and too much power over the life of another person.

And I know my father is right. I know that I can't do it.

I can't be held responsible for Sloane. I can't kill him. Even if it isn't my hand that kills him I'll know it was my fault. And that's all that really matters, if I know and can still live with it. I can't.

I guess that's good, it means that I am not Sloane or Sark. Not yet.

So I'll stay on the thigh road and basically kill Vaughn.

Oh God, I can't handle this.

=(Amanda(=