Vaughn's POV
I'm back here… I'm back in the same place I had been. Alone and confused and sure as hell not going anywhere.
Except now I'm a CIA agent… I've been one for the past two years. I'm not a field agent… I'm barely even a guy who works at a desk… all I do is help out… I like logic and that's what they needed… a 'logical' guy. Devlin was an old 'friend of the family' so he asked for me to be recruited the minute I turned 18 (literally). I said yes of course.
I'm back in Los Angeles. Jackie, Aunt Sara, Uncle Ben and Melanie were still in San Francisco. I moved back two months ago… Eric and I became best buds again… everything was pretty much normal…
Except I miss Sydney…
"Michael!" Jackie knocked hard on the wood door. She was the annoying kind of person, who knocked and rang the door-bell a million times.
I opened the door and smirked. "The point of me moving back to Los Angeles and getting my own place was to get away from the likes of my annoying little sister."
She slapped me playfully and then walked into the house… not that she cared if I invited her or not.
"It's pouring out there… oh and nice place." She smirked and spun around to get the whole view. Pictures lined the walls. Some were of me and Jackie, just Jackie, Aunt Sara and Uncle Ben… and there was one picture that I loved. It sits on my dresser. Me and Sydney with Donovan right in front of us. That was taken the day we left. 'I love you'
"I like it." I muttered as she looked around at the pictures, various objects and the books on the bookshelf.
"I still can't get over the fact that you are a CIA agent… just like dad…" She smiled at me excitedly.
"It's been a month. For one month I've lived here and been a CIA agent… Get over it." I laughed and picked my sister up, spinning her around.
She laughed and hugged me tightly, then smiled softly, still hugging me. "They would've been proud."
I swallowed my tears and smiled. "I know… they would've been proud of you too." I pulled back and she laughed. "Really." I pushed her brown hair behind her ears. "Your sixteen now… one of the highest in your class and… and the best little sister a guy could ask for." She laughed and slapped me again, playfully.
"I love you Michael." She kissed me on the cheek. "But I gotta run in the rain, down to my friend's house…"
"Love you too Jackie." I watched her run back out into the rain, still smiling and spinning. She had always loved the rain… she reminded me of someone…
Sydney's POV
I'm not ready for this… I'm not ready to become a double agent and lie even more to my friends…
For two weeks I've known that SD-6 isn't CIA. Two weeks out of the year I've been a field agent out of the two years I've worked here.
"You okay?" Dixon turned his chair around to look at me.
I sighed and smiled slightly. "I'm fine… just tired." I rolled my shoulders, trying to get a crick out. "Donovan was up most of the night… I gotta take him to the vet."
"Oh." Dixon smiled and nodded to Sloane's doors. "He's waiting for us in the briefing room."
I groaned as I stood up. "Do I have to?" I whined like I used to when I didn't want to go to school.
"Yes you have to." Dixon pushed me into the room and into the seat next to him. I smiled slightly at my father who was across from me. In the past six years, he and I have grown to an understanding of each other… I have one person to thank for that.
"Everyone here?" Sloane looked around the room just as Marshall came bouncing in.
"Sorry I'm late. I had the computer TV on and there was a documentary on monkeys… it was a repeat, but I left the copy of my tape at my sisters house and I probably won't ever see it again on account that she is a neat freak and throws out anything that's not hers…" Marshall babbled on and on until finally he sat down next to my father, and shifted uncomfortably.
"Okay." Sloane clicked a switch and a picture popped onto the screen. "This is Pierre. We have found out from him that there is another Rambaldi book and that no one besides us and himself know about it." Sloane looked over to me and Dixon. "Your next mission is to find this book. Supposedly it is hidden in the Andes in Argentina… Where you found the Rambaldi journal." He slid two black folders towards us. "You leave in two days."
"Another trip?" Will plopped next to me on the sofa, Francie sat on my other side. "Another trip?" He repeated. Francie nodded in agreement.
"Yes. Guys it's my job. It has been my job since two years ago." I kept looking at both of them. I looked up at Donovan when I heard him bark and I smiled. "I gotta take Donovan for a walk, so I am going to go…" I was interrupted by the phone ringing.
Francie leapt up and grabbed the receiver. "Hello?" She waited for a minute then squinted. "Sorry, wrong number." She held the receiver, just looking at it and then hung it up. "Someone asking for Joey's Pizza." She shrugged.
That was my cue… My father and Devlin briefed me on Joey's Pizza… I better get out of here. "I'm gonna go for a run…" I got up and grabbed Donovan's leash and he bounded over to me.
"Be careful… it was raining before and the weather cast said it might drizzle a little." Will warned me as I head to the door.
"I'll be fine…" I smiled and pulled Donovan out of the house. The ground was a little wet from the rain… I heard the teenagers next door and their stereo was blasting a song.
Nobody loves the rain
Can't stand it
We know we've seen it before
Baby, handle it
Baby, what did we tell ya before
About chasin' those waterfalls
Yeah
Nobody loves the rain
Can't stand it
We know we've seen it before
Baby, handle it
Baby, what did we tell ya before
About chasin' those waterfalls
Yeah
Michael hated the rain. I smiled at the thought.
I miss him.
Vaughn's POV
I pulled my sneakers on quickly, all the while listening to Eric go on and on about my new agent. I was finally getting an agent of my own. No more 'desk job'.
"Ok, she's had a rough time…" Eric frowned as I stood up. "She's worked for SD-6 for two years. After a year she became a field agent. Two weeks ago her best friend Travis found out about SD-6 and they had him killed." I moved to the door and Eric followed me outside. He continued as I locked the door. "Her father told her about SD-6 and how they aren't CIA. Then she came to the CIA office and filed to become a double. Her statement was long… really long."
"Tolstoy long?" I muttered a short joke.
"Seriously man." Eric opened his car door as I leaned against the hood. "This girl knows what she's doing."
"Fine… but I gotta go meet her now." I gave a small wave then headed to my own car. I watched Eric drive away and then started my own car.
After five minutes I decided I need something to drown out my thoughts, so I turned on the radio.
Nobody loves the rain
Can't stand it
We know we've seen it before
Baby, handle it
Baby, what did we tell ya before
About chasin' those waterfalls
Yeah
Nobody loves the rain
Can't stand it
We know we've seen it before
Baby, handle it
Baby, what did we tell ya before
About chasin' those waterfalls
Yeah
I smiled and leaned back; listening as the song ran through my brain on my way to the warehouse I was supposed to meet my agent.
Getting out of the car I felt the rain start and suddenly it was poring. I ran to the door and slid inside the doorway. I spun around to watch the rain fall for a minute and then I went into the small cage in the back.
It was quiet so I thought that no one was there as I threw down a folder and a small camera that was for the agent.
"Can't stand the rain." I muttered louder then I intended to.
"It's not that bad… not as bad as snow… or hail." Someone called from the back of the cage.
I spun around and felt a shock that I never thought was imaginable.
"Sydney?" I exclaimed.