It took me longer than I would have liked, but I did finally get a new chapter written. And another one well on the way. Tell me what you think. Drop a review!
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"*Who was your date?*" Rosa immediately asked. Sydney had barely stepped into the apartment, and already Rosa was questioning her.
"*Why?*" Sydney was reluctant to share all of the details.
"*Please, you are killing your best friend here.*"
"*Just someone.*"
"*He's not just someone, he is someone you really like.*" Rosa could see through Sydney. She could see that he made her happy. Sydney paused before she hung up her coat to think. She smiled as she realized how right Rosa was.
"*Yeah. I felt like I knew him before, and it turns out I did. And I remembered why I like him so much.*"
"*See, you really like him.*"
"*There was this immediate attraction, and I couldn't explain it. Aside from the fact of how handsome he is, there was something more than a physical attraction.*"
"*Are you ever going to tell me how you knew him?*"
"*Maybe.*"
"*Please?*"
"*Maybe.*"
"*Why not now?*"
"*Because there are other things I need to work out first.*"
"*What is that supposed to mean?*"
"*It means that I am going to eat some ice cream, and watch something on tv."
"*Was the date that bad?*"
"*Oh no, the date was,*" Sydney didn't know how to react to the date. She enjoyed the food, and walking through the plaza a lot, but she wasn't sure how well she liked what she was told. She liked that she knew her past, but it was so out there, that if she didn't know better, she would have thought that Vaughn had made it all up. A CIA agent? Her? A double agent? No way. An English literature teacher, well, that wasn't so far fetched. Married? She knew, but to someone so handsome, that was great. Sydney thought for a minute on how to describe her evening. "*The date was, well, the food was really good, and it was nice to walk through the plaza just talking.*"
"*But…*"
"*No buts.*"
"*There has to be a but. Like despite how much you like him, there is still a part of you that thinks he's a creep?*"
"*I said there were no buts.*"
"*So did you at least have a good time.*"
"*Yeah, I guess.*" Sydney picked up the now prepared bowl of ice cream and walked to the couch, and sat on it. Rosa knew that was the point that she was to stop talking. She sat down on the opposite end, and watched the late night comedies that were on with Sydney. Sydney finished her bowl of ice cream, and stared into it for long minutes.
"*You know, staring at an empty bowl won't fill it.*" Rosa joked.
"*I know.*" Sydney looked back up at the TV. She was unusually quiet, as joke after joke was used. While Rosa was laughing so hard she was crying, Sydney sat there, unwavering. "*My name is Sydney Bristow Vaughn.*" She quietly said, as Rosa calmed down from a good laugh.
"*What did you say?*" The smile still there.
"*He told me my name was Sydney Bristow Vaughn.*" Rosa's smile quickly faded. She picked up the remote so that she could have a serous talk with her friend.
"*Sydney?*"
"*Yeah.*"
"*And you believe him.*"
"*Yes. I do. He had pictures, and everything. There was no reason to not trust him. My heart remembered that I knew him, it was my head that forgot.*"
"*Sydney Bristow Vaughn. That is a cool name.*"
"*Bristow was my maiden name he said.*"
"*That was your husband.*"
"*Yeah.*"
"*Why didn't you tell me this earlier?*"
"*I don't know. This life here is all that I know. Then in two days, everything changes. I don't know how much I can take.*"
"*I'm still here.*" Sydney looked over at Rosa and smiled. "*So, I assume he told you about your past life.*"
"*He did. Do you want to hear about it?*"
"*Of corse!*"
"*Ok, bear with me, I only found this out today, and there are a lot of details missing, but this is what I remember from tonight. Lets see, my mother died when I was young, my father was often away for business, so I was basically raised by a nanny. I went to college wanting to be an English Literature teacher. It took me almost 11 years, but apparently I became one. I was recurted by some secret alliance to do spy missions. I was engaged to a man named Danny. Told him about being a spy-*"
"*Wait! You were a spy?*"
"*Yeah, and apparently that is how I got here, and with the name Jessica English. Michael wouldn't tell me any more than that for now.*"
"*That is so cool.*"
"*I guess, things just got complicated.*"
"*How so?*"
"*Well, when that spy place I worked for, SE-7 I think it was, no that's not it, SD-6, that's it, found out that Danny knew, they killed him. I ended up turning on them, and worked for the CIA to take them down. That is where I met Michael. It was really complicated. Something about my dad really being CIA, my mother not being dead. Anyway, Michael skipped over that part, the details. But he and I met in secret to discuss work stuff, and apparently we loved each other then, but couldn't do anything about it.*"
"*Ohhh a secret love affair.*"
"*Kinda, he kept emphasizing that we never acting on our feelings. SD-6 was destroyed, we hooked up. Got married, had one daughter. Alexandra. I began working for the college there, while doing an occasional mission for the CIA. Was doing one for them when I ended up here. The rest of the story you know.*"
"*Except for one variable.*"
"*What?*" Rosa stared at Sydney. "*Oh, Juliana? Well, she's definitely his. The same vivid green eyes. He showed me a picture of Alexandra, and they look so alike.*"
"*Wow. That is a lot for you to take in.*"
"*He even asked me and Juliana to go back with him tomorrow, I turned him down.*"
"Good for you. It would be too early. You just re-met the guy today. And he's already asking you to go away.*"
"*Thanks, I needed someone to tell me I did the smart thing.*"
"*You did.*"
"*Now comes the hard part.*"
"*What part?*"
"*The part where I decide what to do about all this.*"
"Oh, that part.*"
"*Yeah. I really need some advice right now.*"
"*My advice?*"
"*No, the person's behind you. Of course yours.*"
"*Let me start by saying that I have no idea what you're going through. I've never had my whole life erased, have to make a new one, then have someone and tell you that your new life is wrong. So, I'm going to go with the whole you like Michael thing.*"
"*Right now, any advice I will gladly take.*"
"*Call him.*"
"*That's it? That is your advice?*"
"*What, I told you I didn't know what to say.*"
"*I would, but tomorrow he and everyone else is going back to Los Angeles.*"
"*You are from Los Angeles? As in America?*"
"*Apparently.*"
"*Are you going to call him?*"
"*Now?!?!*"
"*Well yeah, I gave you advice, and now you should act on it.*"
"*He has to get ready to leave.*" There was a cry from Raquel's bedroom. With Luis working the night shift, it was just her and Rosa. Rosa stood up to go tend to her daughter. She paused at the door.
"*Jessica, sorry, Sydney, I don't know what else to say. But you need to trust your heart. Do what your heart tells you, not what your head tell you to.*" Rosa left Sydney all alone to her thoughts.
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