Sorry it has been so long since I updated, I have been really busy. I have some bad news, I'm wrapping this story up probably within a chapter or two. Sorry. But I have some other S/V shippiness on all of my other Alias fics!
"Tomorrow." Vaughn told Sydney. They were standing in the hallway, getting ready to go to their post in the room.
"What's tomorrow?"
"The last day of the take down," He said.
Sydney squealed with glee. "Really?" She asked.
"Yes, really."
"Finally." She admitted. "It has been so long."
"And the Alliance falls too."
"So I don't have to enter the Witness Protection?"
"No."
"This is a really good day." Sydney said, giving Vaughn a kiss.
"And it is getting better." He answered back. Sydney pulled him in for another kiss. They heard foot steps in the hallway, and the two lovers quickly pulled apart.
"So, I was thinking we should give them showers before they get released back into civilization." Sydney said, business like.
"I agree." Vaughn said. The agent looked at the two, and passed by. When he was out of ear shot the two burst out giggling.
"I know that was pulled out of my butt, but that sounded good."
"What did?"
"Giving them all showers. I mean, have you been in that room lately?"
"Is this morning lately. But that is where we have to head now."
"So what do you think Mr. Boss?" Sydney asked as the two headed to their shift
"I think that you should take all the girls to the girls room, and I'll take all the guys."
"What about reinforcements?"
"There are a couple idle agents we can recruit just to transport them."
"Ok."
Vaughn picked up his walkie talkie, and spoke clearly. "Attention idles. Bring folds to gym." He said.
"Nice code. A second grader could figure it out."
"It wasn't code. It was an abbreviation."
"Ok." Sydney picked up some blindfolds off the table, and walked into the room. Vaughn did the same.
"I NEED ALL THE WOMEN OVER HERE!" Sydney yelled.
"WHY? Are you going to tell us something like SD-6 is going to fire us?" One of them joked.
"No, I'm going to let you guys take showers." Sydney said. She immediately had a line in front of her. She smiled.
"What do you know that we don't?" Nancy asked.
"Everything."
"What about us?" Dixon complained.
"Agent Vaughn will take the men." Sydney said. Dixon called everyone else over, and soon everyone was ready.
With the extra help, the group was marched to the locker rooms (don't forget this was in an old school). The locker rooms were next to each other. Each gender was led into the respective rooms. Sydney followed the women in, while Vaughn the men, and took off their blindfolds. They were ecstatic to see something other than the interrogating room, and the big room for three to seven weeks. However, they quietly got undressed, uneasily I might add, and stepped into the showers. Sydney sensed the uneasiness, and told them that she would be waiting outside the door. The locker rooms had their own secluded hallway, and so Sydney went out to wait in the hall. Vaughn was already leaning up against the wall. He quickly straitened up, and went to greet Sydney.
"Kicked out too?" Vaughn asked, giving Sydney a quick peck.
"No, it was awkward in there. They still don't trust me all that much. You got kicked out?"
"Guys don't appreciate other guys watching them take showers."
"Oh."
Vaughn put his arm around Sydney. Sydney came in closer and sighed. "I was thinking that during the beginning of my break, I could run over to the video store and grab a video for us to watch during our break." Vaughn suggested. Sydney smiled up at him.
"That sounds nice."
"I hoped so." Sydney curled in closer to Vaughn. They heard a door slowly squeak open. The two quickly scrambled to positions next to the locker doors. A head poked out of the women's locker room. It was Jessica, she held in her hand a small note.
"Uh Sydney, this is for you we think. It had a rose attached but it was on the floor, and Alex, well, she stepped on it, and out of anger ripped it up and trashed it, but we were able to save the note." Jessica kindly said.
"Thanks." Sydney reached over and recognized the handwriting on the front as Vaughn's.
"Does your boyfriend know you're here?" She asked.
Sydney felt trapped. She couldn't tell the truth obviously, but she couldn't say that she was seeing Vaughn, no, not until the take down was over. She couldn't say that she didn't have a boyfriend; everyone already knew that she did. She couldn't say that her boyfriend didn't know she was here, she couldn't explain the note then. "Yeah, I was able to call him. This just looks like something from a florist." Sydney said, waving the note around like it was just a card from the florist. Vaughn, who couldn't see the drama, had to turn the corner from trying so hard not to laugh. Sydney saw this and quickly followed Jessica into the locker room. She turned towards all of the women in there. "You guys read this?" She asked astonished.
"How could you tell?" Alex innocently asked.
"I'm a trained spy, I can tell when a seal has been broken and then steamed back in place." She said. "You guys should too."
"It was very sweet." Nancy said.
"Where did you find a guy like that?" Jessica asked.
"At a club." Sydney half honestly said.
"Is he cute?"
"What is up with the Spanish Inquisition?"
"You have been here for a while too. New news is big news. And we call this big new news."
"It's no news that I have a boyfriend."
"But it is news that he's that sweet. So, is he cute?"
"Very."
"He is so sweet." Alex said, she handed Sydney the remains of the rose. "Sending you a white flower like that."
"He really is."
"What is his name?"
"I can't tell you guys."
"Why not?"
"National security."
Jessica snorted. We're going to be stuck here for the rest of our lives. I don't think that national security is an issue."
Sydney bit her lip. She wanted to tell her friends that the next day that they would be out. She wanted to tell them that everything is going to be alright. There was an awkward silence in the room. Alex had said the magic words. "I'll just be outside if you guys need anything, or if you um, try to escape." Sydney didn't need to say anything more. She just left everyone there.
Outside she found her escape. She hadn't had a chance to read the letter yet. "Ten to one odds that that was a bit awkward." He said wrapping his arms around her.
Sydney felt safe. "Just a little. It wasn't bad until Alex said something about being there the rest of their lives."
Vaughn suddenly became worried. "What did you tell them?" He pushed her away to look her eye to eye.
"Relax, I told them nothing more than I'll be out here, if they needed anything or tired to escape."
"I'm sorry Syd. It just, they can't know."
"Which is why I told them nothing. Now, what were you telling me about a movie?" Sydney pulled herself back into Vaughn's arms.
"What do you want to see?"
"Anything but an adventure. They seem a little closer to life."
"Agreed."
"So a comedy?"
"Sounds good. No one else has break then."
"So it will be just us?"
"Yes."
"Mmmmm. That sounds nice." She turned around, and gave Vaughn a tender kiss.
"Mmmmm. You should give me more of those."
Sydney smiled. "Later, now I want to read your letter."
"You don't have to."
"Embarrassed Agent Vaughn?" Sydney teased, as she opened the letter.
"No, but you are supposed to read it in front of the writer."
"Well, I'm going to." Vaughn had given in. Sydney unfolded the paper and began to read it out loud. "Syd."
."Ok, that's it, I need to leave."
Vaughn pushed Sydney away, and went to the other side of the hall. Sydney smiled at his shyness, and stayed there.
She raised an eyebrow "Why?"
"Ever been too critical of your work?"
"Yes."
"Well, if I hear you read it out loud, I would probably go on and on about how I could make it better, and ruin the whole thing for you."
"Ok, if it would make you feel better, I'll read it to myself."
"Thank you." Sydney unfolded the letter, and leaned against a wall. She smiled as the words began to form poetry. But it wasn't the poetry one sees in school.
Syd.
If there is one thing I have strived to do in all my life, it was find someone. Someone to make me smile, to make me laugh, to let me love. I was disappointed to find that it wasn't you. In you, I found someone more. There is no word love at the intensity that I love you. Seeing you walk into a room, doesn't make me just smile. My whole heart leaps out of my chest, and smiles. I never thought I would find someone, someone as sweet as you, that makes my whole day better, by just giving me the most beautiful smile. With every fiber I have, I love you.
Love always,
~V.
Sydney felt tears fall down her cheeks, as she saw Vaughn look up at her. "Now look what you did, you made me cry." She joked.
Vaughn laughed. "I'm sorry. Did you like it?"
Sydney ran over to the other side of the hall, and gave Vaughn a kiss. "I loved it. I love you too."
"I'm glad you approve." The two stood there, side by side. Sydney leaned up against Vaughn for support. They stood there for ten minutes before Vaughn decided to break the silence. "What are they doing in there?" He asked, looking at the locker room doors.
"Vaughn, besides the interrogation room, that is the only place they have been for a long time. Give them some more time."
"Ten more minutes. We still have a schedule to keep."
"I'll inform them." Sydney said, she pushed herself off the wall, and went into the locker room. The girls all looked at her.
"I see someone read the letter." Nancy said.
"Your mascara ran." Alex explained.
"So come on spill."
"I can't. But you guys have another ten minutes." Sydney did say. She turned to leave, but Jessica stopped her.
"Sydney, why don't you stay here for now? We want news of the outside world." She said. Sydney was glad for some female company and gladly sat on the bench and began to tell them what had happened in the news since they had been captured.