No fluff in this chapter Sloane and Sark are still in hiding. Freplica making an appearance.

Chapter 5
It was nearly 11 when Francie finally came through the door. Will was sitting at the kitchen counter wolfing down take out pizza.

Will lighted up when he saw her. He hadn't' seen her for the whole day and had tried to keep himself busy by doing odd things. He took a napkin and wiped his hands and mouth then stood up to greet Francie.

He leaned in for a kiss, she just stood there, taking it all in.

"How was the restaurant?"

"It's doing good." Not that she had spent her whole day at the restaurant anyways. She checked the stash of mail to find that it was considerably lower.

"Did Sydney come by and pick up her mail before taking off again?" with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Oh yeah, Syd moved out." Will announced with a huge grin on her face. But it was soon wiped off when he saw that Francie didn't' have the same reaction. Instead it was more like horror.

"What?!" she cried horrendously. She pushed him out of the way, and made her way to Sydney's old room. True to his words, her bedroom was empty, all of the usual wall hangings were striped off and all that was left was the bed situated in the middle of the room.

Francie made her way back to a confused Will.

"Wait a minute, Francie, shouldn't' you calm down a little and think about this. You should be happy. She's finally moving on." Will asked questionably.

It was as though Francie hadn't listened to anything Will said, "How could you let this happen. She didnt' even talk to me about it? Friends for that long and she didn't' even bother to tell me?"

"Well, she did come early, with Vaughn hoping to catch you, but you had left. She packed her stuff up and left in the early." Will still didn't' quite comprehend why Francie was acting this way.

"Vaughn. Huh." To Will it seemed that she was mad at Vaughn for taking her dear Sydney away.

Will couldn't' take any one of this. "You know, since the day that Sydney brought Michael home, it seemed that you had a problem with him. You kept yourself distant from Sydney. Maybe you should have talked to her about it before instead of spazzing out now. Why are you acting like this? I mean, this was inevitable. Can't you see Francie? Sydney's in love."

Francie grabbed her keys off the counter and rushed to the door, "I've gotta go."

"Wha.." but before Will had a chance to reply, the door slammed shut.

Will threw up his hands in defeat. He never could understand girl stuff. If they had a fight, they should talk about it, not drag it out. He wasn't told of what was going on between Francie and Sydney, but he could sense that things weren't the way they were ever since Sydney brought Vaughn home.

He just sat back down on the stool and finished eating his pizza. Alone.

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Francie rushed out of the house, anxiously pulling out her cell phone form her purse. She went to her car and sat in. She had news to tell.

"Yes?" the voice on the other side answered someone in the world.

"Its about Sydney."

"What about her? Have you done what I had expected you to do?"

"She moved out."

The body of the voice sat up in his chair, "So what are you saying, is that you haven't met up the expectations that I told you. I told you to keep an eye out for her. You weren't able to do that."

"I promise, I'll figure something out." Francie was starting to get anxious. She knew what this man was capable of.

"Then get to it. If you have no use for me, then there's not reason to keep you around. You should be aware of that." With that the line went dead.

Francie hung up her cell phone. She sat in her car for some portion of the night. Silently cursing Sloane and plotting ways of earning back her credit with him

***

[In some hideout in some place of the world]

"Who was that?" Sark asked as Sloane placed the phone down.

"Our new asset. It seems that she has used up her worth."

"How do you want me to handle it?" Sark asked. He hoped it would involve a lot of blood. Hiding out hadn't fulfilled his need for action.

"Not yet. It is still too risky to make any drastic movements. If we're seen, our whole cover could be blown. No. Just let it drag out. I still want to see if our asset can find a way to make herself useful."
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meh, this chap wasn't so great

TBC