A/N: I had more time than I expected, so I'm writing this now…I hope to
have more soon too. Thanks for all your reviews!!!
Chapter 5
Will paced around his house, frantically trying to process the information he had just gotten. His cell phone had rung about five minutes ago.
"Will Tippin." He answered.
"You can't drop the story." The scrambled voice on the other line stated.
Will was familiar with these calls and this voice by now.
"I have to. It's not safe anymore. I can't risk it."
"You have to." Said the creepy voice.
"Listen," said Will, "They've threatened my family and my friends, I can't risk it. If anything happened to my parents or Sydney…" Will trailed off.
"Sydney Bristow," said the voice, "is a piece of the puzzle."
"What? I know I've never mentioned Sydney before, how do you know who she is?" Will questioned with a mixture of panic and anger.
"Sydney Bristow, Kate Jones, Eloise Kurtz. They are all the same." Said the voice.
"How are they the same? Because they are all women? This doesn't make sense."
"Sydney Bristow, Kate Jones, Eloise Kurtz." Repeated the voice. "They are all your link to SD-6."
"Is Sydney in trouble? What is SD-6? Please. You have to tell me if Sydney is in trouble." Will begged, but the line was already dead.
Will was starting to get very anxious. He knew that he shouldn't, but he had to find out. If Sydney was in trouble, he had to help her.
He got into his car and went over to her house. He knew that she was on a business trip, and wouldn't be back until later that day.
He walked up the pathway and knocked on the door, trying to see if Francie was home.
"Francie?" Will shouted. "Francie, are you there?"
When he received no reply, he took out the spare key that he had and opened the door. He walked inside, and checked around to make sure that no one was there before going into Sydney's bedroom.
The room was neat, obviously she had cleaned before she left. He didn't even know where to begin. He started in her closet. He opened the doors and looked around for anything out of the ordinary, but finding nothing, he moved over to her desk. He shuffled around some of her school papers, before walking to the other side of the room. There was a suitcase on the floor, which he thought was odd, since Sydney was on a trip. He opened up the suitcase, but it was empty. When he closed the top, something shiny caught his eye. It was the nametag on her suitcase. He didn't really think much of it, and he sat down on the ground, still fingering the nameplate. He couldn't believe how sneaky he was being. He was breaking Sydney's trust by snooping around, all because some creepy voice had said her name. His strange informant was probably just trying to make him squirm. He looked down at his hands, which were still holding the tag. He did a double take, and looked at it more clearly.
"Kate Jones." It read.
'What?' Will thought to himself. He had no idea what was going on. Was his source right? Was Sydney really Kate. If so, then where did Eloise Kurtz come in? Then something clicked in his head, and he finally understood. He just needed some questions to be answered. As if on cue, the front door opened. Will ripped the nametag off of the suitcase and walked angrily into the living room.
Sydney was just walking into the door. She was exhausted from flying all day, and all she wanted to do was take a bath, and then go see Vaughn. She was startled to see Will walking towards her, but she recovered quickly.
"Hey Will." She said cheerfully. "What are you doing here?" when she received only a glare from Will, she questioned him. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, just a little confused." Will said, almost eerily. "Care to explain to me just what the hell this is?" Will raised his voice as he slammed the nametag into Sydney's hand.
Sydney's heart sunk, and her stomach bottomed out. She could not think of a single thing to say. "Whe—Wha—Why—" was all she could get out.
"That's okay, you see, that you can't answer, because I already figured it out. Your Sydney Bristow," Will started, speaking condescendingly, "maybe," he added. "But your also Kate Jones, which would explain why Eloise Kurtz had to play Kate Jones when she came to meet me, because the real Kate Jones, who died seven years ago, is now you." He finished. "Did I get that right?"
Sydney couldn't say anything. She thought that maybe she should apologize, but she didn't even know where to begin. "Will—" she started, but he cut her off.
"As I said earlier, I have a few questions." He began. Sydney just nodded her head. "First, why are you both Sydney and Kate? Second, why all the lying? And last, what is SD-6, and what do you have to do with it."
The first two questions Sydney expected, but the third just blew her away.
"Wh-What?" she stammered. She could feel tears welling up in her eyes.
"What do you have to do with SD-6?" Will said again, but he had softened somewhat. "I don't even know what it is, all I know is that its not something good, and you have something to do with it. And so do Kate Jones and Eloise Kurtz."
Sydney knew that she had no choice now but to tell him. She couldn't even think up any good lies now, and he wouldn't believe any of it anyway. So she told him.
"Okay, I'll tell you. And this is so hard for me, so please don't interrupt." Sydney began, looking down at her hands. "SD-6 is an agency, of sorts. I work for them, not a bank. Freshman year, I was recruited for them, to work. They told me that I was going to be working for the CIA. I trained and worked, and became an agent. The business trips that I go on are missions for SD-6. Last year, I found out that SD-6 wasn't part of the CIA, but a separate agency, part of an alliance, and alliance that I thought I was fighting against. I thought I was working for my country, but really, I was working against it. I went to the CIA, and now I'm a double agent for the CIA. My main priority is to take down SD-6, by gathering enough information so that the CIA can shut them down. Kate Jones is one of my aliases. Eloise Kurtz was an agent told to play her." Sydney finally looked up.
Will was stunned, he couldn't believe what Sydney had just told him. Words like 'double agent' and 'missions' were floating through his head.
"I can't believe this." Will said.
"I know, it's a lot to take, and there are a lot of thinks that have to be done no that you know. But— "
Will cut her off again. "I just have one more question."
"Okay." Sydney said.
"How did you find out that SD-6 wasn't a part of the CIA?"
Sydney's eyes immediately welled up. "That was the last thing. Right after Danny proposed, I told him what I told you, well, before the CIA came in. I told him that I was a CIA agent. I didn't want to start off my marriage with a lie, and SD-6 found out and…" Sydney trailed off, tears running down her face. "I tried to get out of SD-6, but they told me that they'd kill me, so I became a double agent."
Will had gone from shocked, to sad, to furious all at once.
"SD-6 killed Danny." Will said. It wasn't a question, it was a statement. "SD-6 killed Danny because you're their agent. Danny died because of you." He said, looking right at her.
Sydney started to sob, and attempted to take Will's hand. "I'm so sorry." She said, unable to control her voice. "Please, I didn't want any of this to happen."
Will pulled away from her and stood up. "Everything makes sense now. I can't believe this. Danny. You. I have to leave." Will started to walk away.
"Will no!" Sydney shouted after him. "You can't leave, it's too dangerous."
Will just shrugged her off and got into his car. He pulled away and drove off.
Sydney closed the door to her house, and fell to the floor sobbing. She couldn't believe that Will had said that Danny was dead because of her. It had taken her so long to believe that it wasn't true, but if Will thought it too… Vaughn. She had to see Vaughn. She couldn't lose another one of her friends because of her own carelessness.
***
Sydney walked into the warehouse a half an hour later. She was still shaking from her encounter with Will, her face red from crying.
Without even seeing her face, Vaughn knew that something was wrong just by the way she was breathing.
Wordlessly, Vaughn walked up to her and took her into his arms. She sobbed fully, not keeping anything in. Vaughn hugged her tighter, trying to absorb her pain. He was terrified. He didn't know what was wrong, and that scared him beyond belief. He had never seen her this upset.
Sydney finally began to calm down and she sank down on to a crate, utterly spent.
They sat in silence for a few minutes before Vaughn finally asked her "What happened?"
The tenderness of his voice, mixed with the love and concern in his eyes almost made Sydney forget what a mess her life was. Almost.
"Will." She stated. "He found a nametag of mine that said Kate Jones on it."
"Oh." Said Vaughn, already knowing where this was heading.
"I don't know how he did it. He put everything together. All the pieces that he could at least. So I told him." She expected Vaughn to yell at her, or be disappointed or do anything, but all he did was nod, understandingly, and urged her to go on. "I told him everything. I told him what SD-6 was. I told him what I do there. I told him that there was no bank, no business trips, only stealing, fighting and killing. I told him about the CIA. Everything. And finally, he asked about Danny, and I told him. I told him what SD-6 did to him."
Vaughn nodded again, hating to see Sydney in such pain. "What did he say?"
"It was awful." Sydney said, starting to cry again. "I could see him mentally putting everything together, and then he just starting yelling. He told me that Danny was dead because of me, and then he drove off, and I couldn't warn him."
Vaughn had turned from feeling for Sydney, to wanting to strangle Will. How could be so insensitive? Didn't he know Sydney at all? Sydney loved Danny, and Vaughn finally thought that she was getting over that fact that she couldn't have done anything to save Danny, she could only make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Sydney collapsed into his arms again, shaking with sobs. He tried to soothe her, rubbing her back and repeating, "It's not your fault" into her ear. She finally stopped crying and gained enough composure to sit up.
"I have to make sure that nothing happens to Will. I can't lose another person to SD-6. I won't." she said this with such conviction, that Vaughn overlooked his anger at Will in order to protect Sydney.
He pulled her back into his arms and kissed the top of her head. "Don't worry," he said gently, "I'm not going to let anything happen to Will, or anyone else." He assured her.
"Thank you." She said softly, holding on to Vaughn even tighter.
To be continued…
Ahh…my fingers hurt. I have a lot more to write, and I promise to do it soon. Thanks for sticking with this everyone!! Thanks for all your reviews!!
Chapter 5
Will paced around his house, frantically trying to process the information he had just gotten. His cell phone had rung about five minutes ago.
"Will Tippin." He answered.
"You can't drop the story." The scrambled voice on the other line stated.
Will was familiar with these calls and this voice by now.
"I have to. It's not safe anymore. I can't risk it."
"You have to." Said the creepy voice.
"Listen," said Will, "They've threatened my family and my friends, I can't risk it. If anything happened to my parents or Sydney…" Will trailed off.
"Sydney Bristow," said the voice, "is a piece of the puzzle."
"What? I know I've never mentioned Sydney before, how do you know who she is?" Will questioned with a mixture of panic and anger.
"Sydney Bristow, Kate Jones, Eloise Kurtz. They are all the same." Said the voice.
"How are they the same? Because they are all women? This doesn't make sense."
"Sydney Bristow, Kate Jones, Eloise Kurtz." Repeated the voice. "They are all your link to SD-6."
"Is Sydney in trouble? What is SD-6? Please. You have to tell me if Sydney is in trouble." Will begged, but the line was already dead.
Will was starting to get very anxious. He knew that he shouldn't, but he had to find out. If Sydney was in trouble, he had to help her.
He got into his car and went over to her house. He knew that she was on a business trip, and wouldn't be back until later that day.
He walked up the pathway and knocked on the door, trying to see if Francie was home.
"Francie?" Will shouted. "Francie, are you there?"
When he received no reply, he took out the spare key that he had and opened the door. He walked inside, and checked around to make sure that no one was there before going into Sydney's bedroom.
The room was neat, obviously she had cleaned before she left. He didn't even know where to begin. He started in her closet. He opened the doors and looked around for anything out of the ordinary, but finding nothing, he moved over to her desk. He shuffled around some of her school papers, before walking to the other side of the room. There was a suitcase on the floor, which he thought was odd, since Sydney was on a trip. He opened up the suitcase, but it was empty. When he closed the top, something shiny caught his eye. It was the nametag on her suitcase. He didn't really think much of it, and he sat down on the ground, still fingering the nameplate. He couldn't believe how sneaky he was being. He was breaking Sydney's trust by snooping around, all because some creepy voice had said her name. His strange informant was probably just trying to make him squirm. He looked down at his hands, which were still holding the tag. He did a double take, and looked at it more clearly.
"Kate Jones." It read.
'What?' Will thought to himself. He had no idea what was going on. Was his source right? Was Sydney really Kate. If so, then where did Eloise Kurtz come in? Then something clicked in his head, and he finally understood. He just needed some questions to be answered. As if on cue, the front door opened. Will ripped the nametag off of the suitcase and walked angrily into the living room.
Sydney was just walking into the door. She was exhausted from flying all day, and all she wanted to do was take a bath, and then go see Vaughn. She was startled to see Will walking towards her, but she recovered quickly.
"Hey Will." She said cheerfully. "What are you doing here?" when she received only a glare from Will, she questioned him. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, just a little confused." Will said, almost eerily. "Care to explain to me just what the hell this is?" Will raised his voice as he slammed the nametag into Sydney's hand.
Sydney's heart sunk, and her stomach bottomed out. She could not think of a single thing to say. "Whe—Wha—Why—" was all she could get out.
"That's okay, you see, that you can't answer, because I already figured it out. Your Sydney Bristow," Will started, speaking condescendingly, "maybe," he added. "But your also Kate Jones, which would explain why Eloise Kurtz had to play Kate Jones when she came to meet me, because the real Kate Jones, who died seven years ago, is now you." He finished. "Did I get that right?"
Sydney couldn't say anything. She thought that maybe she should apologize, but she didn't even know where to begin. "Will—" she started, but he cut her off.
"As I said earlier, I have a few questions." He began. Sydney just nodded her head. "First, why are you both Sydney and Kate? Second, why all the lying? And last, what is SD-6, and what do you have to do with it."
The first two questions Sydney expected, but the third just blew her away.
"Wh-What?" she stammered. She could feel tears welling up in her eyes.
"What do you have to do with SD-6?" Will said again, but he had softened somewhat. "I don't even know what it is, all I know is that its not something good, and you have something to do with it. And so do Kate Jones and Eloise Kurtz."
Sydney knew that she had no choice now but to tell him. She couldn't even think up any good lies now, and he wouldn't believe any of it anyway. So she told him.
"Okay, I'll tell you. And this is so hard for me, so please don't interrupt." Sydney began, looking down at her hands. "SD-6 is an agency, of sorts. I work for them, not a bank. Freshman year, I was recruited for them, to work. They told me that I was going to be working for the CIA. I trained and worked, and became an agent. The business trips that I go on are missions for SD-6. Last year, I found out that SD-6 wasn't part of the CIA, but a separate agency, part of an alliance, and alliance that I thought I was fighting against. I thought I was working for my country, but really, I was working against it. I went to the CIA, and now I'm a double agent for the CIA. My main priority is to take down SD-6, by gathering enough information so that the CIA can shut them down. Kate Jones is one of my aliases. Eloise Kurtz was an agent told to play her." Sydney finally looked up.
Will was stunned, he couldn't believe what Sydney had just told him. Words like 'double agent' and 'missions' were floating through his head.
"I can't believe this." Will said.
"I know, it's a lot to take, and there are a lot of thinks that have to be done no that you know. But— "
Will cut her off again. "I just have one more question."
"Okay." Sydney said.
"How did you find out that SD-6 wasn't a part of the CIA?"
Sydney's eyes immediately welled up. "That was the last thing. Right after Danny proposed, I told him what I told you, well, before the CIA came in. I told him that I was a CIA agent. I didn't want to start off my marriage with a lie, and SD-6 found out and…" Sydney trailed off, tears running down her face. "I tried to get out of SD-6, but they told me that they'd kill me, so I became a double agent."
Will had gone from shocked, to sad, to furious all at once.
"SD-6 killed Danny." Will said. It wasn't a question, it was a statement. "SD-6 killed Danny because you're their agent. Danny died because of you." He said, looking right at her.
Sydney started to sob, and attempted to take Will's hand. "I'm so sorry." She said, unable to control her voice. "Please, I didn't want any of this to happen."
Will pulled away from her and stood up. "Everything makes sense now. I can't believe this. Danny. You. I have to leave." Will started to walk away.
"Will no!" Sydney shouted after him. "You can't leave, it's too dangerous."
Will just shrugged her off and got into his car. He pulled away and drove off.
Sydney closed the door to her house, and fell to the floor sobbing. She couldn't believe that Will had said that Danny was dead because of her. It had taken her so long to believe that it wasn't true, but if Will thought it too… Vaughn. She had to see Vaughn. She couldn't lose another one of her friends because of her own carelessness.
***
Sydney walked into the warehouse a half an hour later. She was still shaking from her encounter with Will, her face red from crying.
Without even seeing her face, Vaughn knew that something was wrong just by the way she was breathing.
Wordlessly, Vaughn walked up to her and took her into his arms. She sobbed fully, not keeping anything in. Vaughn hugged her tighter, trying to absorb her pain. He was terrified. He didn't know what was wrong, and that scared him beyond belief. He had never seen her this upset.
Sydney finally began to calm down and she sank down on to a crate, utterly spent.
They sat in silence for a few minutes before Vaughn finally asked her "What happened?"
The tenderness of his voice, mixed with the love and concern in his eyes almost made Sydney forget what a mess her life was. Almost.
"Will." She stated. "He found a nametag of mine that said Kate Jones on it."
"Oh." Said Vaughn, already knowing where this was heading.
"I don't know how he did it. He put everything together. All the pieces that he could at least. So I told him." She expected Vaughn to yell at her, or be disappointed or do anything, but all he did was nod, understandingly, and urged her to go on. "I told him everything. I told him what SD-6 was. I told him what I do there. I told him that there was no bank, no business trips, only stealing, fighting and killing. I told him about the CIA. Everything. And finally, he asked about Danny, and I told him. I told him what SD-6 did to him."
Vaughn nodded again, hating to see Sydney in such pain. "What did he say?"
"It was awful." Sydney said, starting to cry again. "I could see him mentally putting everything together, and then he just starting yelling. He told me that Danny was dead because of me, and then he drove off, and I couldn't warn him."
Vaughn had turned from feeling for Sydney, to wanting to strangle Will. How could be so insensitive? Didn't he know Sydney at all? Sydney loved Danny, and Vaughn finally thought that she was getting over that fact that she couldn't have done anything to save Danny, she could only make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Sydney collapsed into his arms again, shaking with sobs. He tried to soothe her, rubbing her back and repeating, "It's not your fault" into her ear. She finally stopped crying and gained enough composure to sit up.
"I have to make sure that nothing happens to Will. I can't lose another person to SD-6. I won't." she said this with such conviction, that Vaughn overlooked his anger at Will in order to protect Sydney.
He pulled her back into his arms and kissed the top of her head. "Don't worry," he said gently, "I'm not going to let anything happen to Will, or anyone else." He assured her.
"Thank you." She said softly, holding on to Vaughn even tighter.
To be continued…
Ahh…my fingers hurt. I have a lot more to write, and I promise to do it soon. Thanks for sticking with this everyone!! Thanks for all your reviews!!