Title: a helping hand part nine: busted! (9/11)

Author: Jaycee

Disclaimer: These characters are not mine. They belong to J.J. Abrams/ABC/Touchstone. But still, some of them do.

Spoilers: None!

Rating: G

Genre/Category: Vaughn/Sydney; romance/action/adventure

Summary: A new agent comes into the lives of our favorite agents to help them on their new mission.

Tadetsky's mansion

Back on the dance floor

Sydney walked out into the dance floor and started to sway against the music. All the while checking her surroundings to see if anyone recognizes her.

"Sydney, I'll see you later. Be careful." She heard Christine say through the earpiece.

"I will be careful. You too okay? I'll see you later." She replied.

At the back of her head, she heard someone shout, "There! There she is!"

Sydney looked up and saw Tadetsky and his guards glaring at her. "Oh no." She whispered as she ran into the crowd.

"Get her!" Tadetsky bellowed.

Sydney went through the maze of the mansion, knowing that she won't get to get out of the place through the front door or the back door. All she got as an escape route are the windows.

She ran into a room and saw a small window. She examined it and decided that she can fit into it.

Sydney heard the footsteps coming closer. She propped open the window and squeezed herself in. It's a pretty small window so she had some difficulty going through it.

She heard the door opening. Adrenalin pumped through her veins as she finally got out of the house and onto the billionaire's grand lawn. If she weren't on a mission she would have stopped to admire the wonderful gardening that has obviously been used on the lawn.

"She went out through that window. Come on. Move!" One of the guards yelled. Sydney ran through the lawn and saw more guards at the sidewalk.

Looking around, she saw a hedge leading to the neighbor's house. Looking around, she knows that she hasn't any other choice.

She climbed the hedge as fast as she can and dropped into the other side, at the same time that the guards were probably on the place where she was before, since she can hear their voices so close to where she's standing right at that moment.

Sydney looked around, knowing that she can't possibly get out of that place without alerting Tadetsky's guards again. What she needs is another disguise.

She looked around the garden and realized that she's at the back porch. There was a clothesline filled with clothes. "Who hangs their clothes out at night? What if it gets stolen?" She asked herself as she checked the clothing, finding something that would fit her.

Her eyes fell on a long black skirt and a yellow halter blouse. Not exactly her style but it just had to do.

Taking off her clothes swiftly, she quickly put on her new ones, placing her party stuff on the other clothes' place. She then took off her wig and rubbed eyebrows, glad that she thought of using the easy-to-remove dye.

She took a deep breath and looked down at her feet. Her golden stilettos have to stay. Its not like any of Tadetsky's men was looking that close.

Making sure that not one of the occupiers of the house noticed that she's there, Sydney quietly went out of the house through the front gate and walked the other direction.

At that time, the guards ran into her almost knocking her down. "Hey!" She exclaimed, clutching her bag tightly.

One of the men stopped and turned to look at her. "We're sorry, miss. We're looking for a woman. Did you see someone running by here?" He asked kindly and he smiled at her, revealing a set of perfectly white teeth.

Sydney smiled back. "I'm sorry. No I didn't see anyone running past here. I just got out of my house." She leaned closer and whispered, "I'm on my way to see my boyfriend. My parents don't like him."

The man looked at her and nodded understandingly. 'Good! He bought it.' Sydney thought.

"I know what that means." He answered as he moved away a few inches from her in the mention that she has a boyfriend already. 'Good. He's starting to get on my nerves.'

"I'll let you go now, or else you'll be late." He said, and smiled as he followed the other men.

"Thanks. And I hope you find whoever it is your looking for." Sydney called out with fake sincerity. 'Not.' She added to herself as she walked towards her car and started to call Dixon.