Title: A lie followed by a secret

Disclaimer: obviously I don't own them. You know that, I know that, ok we all know that.

Rating: PG-13 (I don't think it's that high yet, but later I might use some not so nice words and I just wanted to be on the safe side.)

Review: Any words of wisdom you could bestow upon me to help me improve or if you just like the story would be greatly appreciated. Also reviews help me to post the next chapter. So if you guys like it and want more then I will need reviews to know this. If you give me these then I promise to post another chapter. Ok done now.

Summary: Sydney and Vaughn are having problems. Hopefully they can find a way to work them out.

A/N: Ok this is my first Alias fic. I think there is a possibility that I could have written it better but between work and college life is stressful enough as it is without worrying about every single little detail. However if you guys like it enough I may pay more attention to it and make sure it's up to the best of my abilities. So just let me know what you think. I should be able to post a new chapter daily for at least the first nine chapters. So if you're done reading this now on with the story. Thanks again for reading.














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"Are you ok sweetie,"Francie asked upon seeing how Syd reacted to her question.

"Yeah," Sydney told her as she tried to stop herself from crying," the thing with Kaylie's father is....well to say it's complicated would be an understatement. See, Vaughn was my CIA handler. He's the one who gave me my missions. It didn't take long to realize that I felt something for him, but nothing happened because it was against protocol. Then we had this really tough mission and I almost died. I didn't want to die without telling him how I felt. So we gave into the feelings and breached protocol. I thought that he felt the same way about me as I did about him. He'd said he did, but then a few days later he told me that he thought it was a mistake and that it never should have happened. He apologized and said that he hadn't meant to hurt me, but that he didn't want to be with me and that was it".




Francie sighed. "I'm so sorry, Syd," she didn't understand how any man could do that to her best friend," he obviously doesn't know what he's missing".




"That's just it," Syd said," he does know. He just doesn't care. I mean he said he cares about me. He just doesn't feel that way about me".




"Well he's a fool," Francie said trying to think of something she could say to comfort her friend.




Syd hadn't really paid attention to her last comment. She was lost in thought. "What I don't understand though is if he didn't feel that way about me then why did he say he did that night. I mean if he really cared about me, but not in that way then he wouldn't be with me that way. He would know how much it would hurt me," she let a few tears slip down her cheeks now," I just don't understand Fran".




"Well what'd he do when you told him about Makayla," Francie asked.




Sydney gave her a look," I didn't tell him," she said quietly.




"What," Francie started to yell, but quieted down remembering that Kaylie was with them.




"Well when he told me that he didn't love me he also told me that he was getting back together with his old girlfriend, Alice," Sydney explained," And I didn't know at the time. Then the next time I saw him was five months later and he told me that they were getting married. And the last time I saw him was yesterday when he helped out with the raid on SD-6. I almost let it slip yesterday, but I just couldn't. I don't want him to be with us because he feels obligated. I only want him here it he wants to be, and he doesn't".




"Sweetie I am so sorry," Francie said standing up and coming over to hug her.




"Thanks for listening," Sydney said," I've wanted to tell you for a long time, but I couldn't because of SD-6".




"It's ok I understand," Francie told her," who else knows".




"Just you," Sydney told her," I think my father has his suspicions, but he hasn't questioned me".

Francie nodded understandingly.