((Thanks for your reviews... And do you realise that Australians are deprived of season premieres! Geez, we have to wait AGES for the new season of Alias to start. Feel sorry for me, lol!))

Jack and Vaughn had frozen in their spot.

They were trapped.

Vaughn began to back into the room they'd come out of, still carrying Sydney in his arms.

Jack tried to follow, but Sark threatened to pull the trigger.

"How nice.. you found each other," smirked Sark.

Jack grunted, and took a few steps back.

"What do you want with us? Why'd you bring us here?" demanded Vaughn. As he yelled, Sydney started to wriggle.

"Nothing, particularly.. but you seem to be the key to something I want, Mr Vaughn." Sark grabbed for something in his pocket. "Do you recognise this man?"

He threw a small photo towards Vaughn. Jack bent down cautiously, picked it up, and showed it to Vaughn. Vaughn stared at the photo for awhile.

"It's an old photo of my father," he struggled to say.

"Right you are." Sark said, smiling. "And your father was a very intelligent man, who was unfortunately killed by my late boss."

Vaughn stared blankly at Sark. Where was this going?

Jack continued to take a few more steps back into the medical lab.

"You see, there was a certain... diagram stolen from an British museum about.. oh.. 30 years ago. This diagram was a peice of the Rambaldi puzzle... and if we can find this peice. I believe it will hold great riches, and rewards for us."

Sark flipped his gun upside down, and caught it.

"You're saying my father stole it?" questioned Vaughn, his arms getting tired from carrying Sydney.

"Right you are again. And we needed to find it.. He was a common man, so we ransacked your chalet, thinking he may have just left it lying around somewhere. But no, he hadn't.. we found your Grandmother's jewels..."

"You thieving...!" yelled Vaughn, this time Sydney falling through his arms, and landing on the floor.

"Oh my god.. Im so sorry Sydney!"

Sydney murmured, opened her eyes and tried to stand. Vaughn helped her up.

Sark laughed. "Poor baby Sydney... Can you turn your attention back to the man who has a gun pointed at you?"

Sydney lent against Vaughn, eyeing Sark. "What... happened?" But she soon closed her eyes again. So, so, so, tired.

Vaughn didnt hear Sydney. "What did you do with my Grandmother's jewels?"

Sark's grin never left his face. "They have some lovely inscriptions. They've helped us greatly. There was just one thing missing..."

Sark gasped as bullets flew through him and his men. The two men next to him fell to the floor in heaps, but Sark remained to stand. Jack had found a gun.

"You....." Sark choked. "Stop it!"

Sark began to fall, but he tried to lean against the wall.

Jack laughed. "Go to hell," he spat, and he shot Sark again.

The three of them watched as Sark fell on the floor, lifeless.

"Come on!" ushered Jack, running past the bodies.

Picking up Sydney again, Vaughn followed Jack.

"That was a narrow escape," Jack said to Vaughn, as they hurried down the corridors. "Which way - left or right?"

Vaughn stared down each hall way. He'd gone left before, and that had been a dead end, hadn't he?

"Neither!" yelled a voice, from behind.

"What?" said Jack, turning around and banging into the end of a gun that was pointed at his head.

"You're not going anywhere," smiled Noah, his grin now matching Sark's.

"Get out of here!" Jack yelled to Vaughn, who was standing metres away, and had a clear line of escape.

"Jack, we're not leaving with out you!" Vaughn called back, but he started to move away anyway.

"GO!" commanded Jack.

Noah glared at Jack. He was contemplating whether to turn and shoot Vaughn and Sydney, or to keep his gun pointed at Jack. Noah glanced down at the gun in Jacks pocket. Jack would shoot him when he had the slightest change..

Vaughn was still watching Jack and Noah.. his eyes lit up when he saw someone else approaching.

"Give me your ---" Noah growled at Jack, grabbing him by the collar. He let Jack go as pain seeped through his neck.

"Argh!" Were his last words before he too, lay lifeless on the floor.

"So many dead people today," commented Eric, who had shot Noah. "I passed the bodies on the way in."

Vaughn smiled at his friend.

"Hey Mike, You didn't think I'd do nothing when I heard you didn't make it to the airport."

"Let's get out of here before anyone else tries and stops us," said Jack, pulling his gun out, just incase.

Vaughn kissed Sydney lightly on the forehead.

"Vaughn?" she murmurred.

"Yeah?" he said to her, as they walked.

"Did I hear my Dad's voice?" she said to him quietly.

"You certainly did," Vaughn said smiling. Jack heard this and he came up and took Sydney's hand.

"I've missed you Syd, I've missed you."

((Hmmm... the first draft of this I had Jack die trying to save Sydney again. But I thought that was too mean, lol!))