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Chapter 6
She slumped into her bed, welcoming the sudden feel of comfort as she closed her eyes slowly, falling into a well-needed sleep.
**dream**
She's walking down the beach with Vaughn on a beautiful Sunday morning.
"I love you Sydney." Vaughn said suddenly, stopping for a second to look at her reaction.
She smiled and returned, "I love you too."
They kept walking for a bit when Vaughn stops. Looking at him with a confused look on her face he tells her, "I can't forget protocol." Then he just started to walk away, towards the spot they had just came from.
**end of dream**
Her alarm clock woke her up just in time. She was positive that she did not want that dream, or nightmare, as she described it, to continue.
After getting ready for work, she walked into the kitchen. But she was quickly reminded of the current situation, finding the kitchen empty. Settling for a bowl of cereal, she headed to her room when a note attached to the refrigerator caught her eye. Balancing the bowl in her left hand, she slipped the note from under the Garfield magnet Will had insisted on getting and read,
'Hey Syd,
Went to work, I'll be home around 9:00.
-Will'
She gave a weak smile and was glad that Will could go back to work and not spend all day on the couch worrying about Francie. Seeing her Fruit Loops becoming soggy, she decided to eat something later and gently dropped the bowl into the sink. She quickly brushed her teeth, grabbed her keys off of the counter and left for work.
~~
Slowing down as the yellow light preceded into red, she heard her pager go off. Knowing she'll have enough time, she takes her right hand off of the wheel and turns her body slightly to fish out her pager. The green digits showed- 'Vaughn. Warehouse. B.B'
She smiled to herself as she remembered her and Vaughn making up codes for when they paged each other. B.B stood for Black Bird, which was 8:00pm. R.B stood for Red Bird, for emergency meetings, and the last one was her idea, Y.B. She thought it'd be funny to have Y.B mean Yellow Bird, just meaning a simple 'Hey.'
"Everyone needs a 'Hi' sometimes!" she recalled, defending her idea when Vaughn had simply started shaking his head and chuckling to himself. The message became a mental note in her mind and she realized that the light was green. Looking in the rearview mirror, she could see people starting to get irritated as Sydney just stayed in her same spot and she quickly obliged.
***Credit Dauphine***
'This job is so predictable sometimes' Sydney thought to herself, as she walked to her desk. 'Do a few missions a week, sit at a desk the rest of the time, and go through hearing Sloane go on and on about Rambaldi.' She thumbed threw some folders when she heard a door being slammed shut. Looking up, she saw Sloane walking over to her quickly, with a 'don't mess with me or I'll kill you' look plastered on his face.
"Come to my office right away." he stated flatly, turning back around to go back.
She got up after setting a few folders in a messy pile on the already unorganized desk and walked oddly slow to the door leading into the room. Sloane was fiddling around with some things on his desk, impatiently waiting for her arrival. Getting enough courage to turn the knob, she went for it and boldly walked in.
"Why don't you have a seat Sydney." he asked, gesturing his hand to the chair, but she knew it wasn't a question.
She pulled the chair back a bit and questioned, "What's going on?"
"The bag you received in Italy was a false."
It was hard for her to act surprised, when her counter-mission was to get the false bag to SD-6, but she quickly pulled it off with a purposely stuttered "What?!"
"Exactly, so we need you to go to Bangladesh and retrieve something that is very important to me." he said simply, pushing an envelope towards her.
"Here are some pictures of what I need you to get. You will be given your alias later on. You leave in two days."
She grabbed the folder and took the pictures out. The pictures revealed a beautiful gold necklace, with an ocean blue crescent moon hanging off of the silver. Sloane must have saw her reaction, taking note of widened eyes.
"Very stunning, isn't it?"
Alls she could do was shack her head in agreement, slipping the pictures back into the envelope.
"Ok, that is all I needed to see you about. Goodbye."
Noticing that it was not Sloane who was leaving, but her, she got up and walked out of the door.
'Two days, well, today's Thursday…Oh my gosh! The hockey game is tomorrow!' she was shocked that she would have allowed herself to forget something like this. But she was still wondering if it was a good idea to go. 'Tonight I meet Vaughn at the warehouse, I'll remember to bring it up then. And also thank him for suggesting the auto-body shop he knew of that I could get my car fixed at, he said that their 1 hour or less statement was true. And to my relief, it was.' giving herself a satisfying nod, she sat back at her desk to continue her almost always, predictable job.
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"6:30PM, just enough time to go visit Francie." she told herself, seeing the clock in her car. 'Lucky for me, the hospital isn't too far from here, so that means I have enough time to see Francie, quick drive home, get out of these heels, and see Vaughn on time.'
It was the same nurse behind the desk as it was before, when Sydney came to see Francie. She began to say "I'd like to see my frie-"
"Room 341, straight down the hall, third one on the left." the nurse said without putting her head up.
"Uh…thanks." she said, wondering how the nurse could've known that it was her. Starting to walk down the hall towards the door, she saw the door leading into Francies room suddenly open and at least three nurses came out
with a doctor, surrounding the bed Francie was on.
Her heart dropped as she heard the doctor state commands and the nurses quickly follow, she half-walked half-ran over to the stream of people and pulled a nurse aside.
"What's going on?!"
"I'm sorry but you'll have to wait until later to find out, but right now we need to get this woman into surgery." the nurse said quickly, peering over Sydney's shoulder to see everyone already halfway down the hall.
"I'm very sorry miss, but you may wait in the waiting room until we know exactly what has happened. Dr. Phillis will be with you afterwards to fill you in." and with that, the nurse ignored Sydney's gaped mouth and ran over to the elevator the others had just occupied.
Chapter 6
She slumped into her bed, welcoming the sudden feel of comfort as she closed her eyes slowly, falling into a well-needed sleep.
**dream**
She's walking down the beach with Vaughn on a beautiful Sunday morning.
"I love you Sydney." Vaughn said suddenly, stopping for a second to look at her reaction.
She smiled and returned, "I love you too."
They kept walking for a bit when Vaughn stops. Looking at him with a confused look on her face he tells her, "I can't forget protocol." Then he just started to walk away, towards the spot they had just came from.
**end of dream**
Her alarm clock woke her up just in time. She was positive that she did not want that dream, or nightmare, as she described it, to continue.
After getting ready for work, she walked into the kitchen. But she was quickly reminded of the current situation, finding the kitchen empty. Settling for a bowl of cereal, she headed to her room when a note attached to the refrigerator caught her eye. Balancing the bowl in her left hand, she slipped the note from under the Garfield magnet Will had insisted on getting and read,
'Hey Syd,
Went to work, I'll be home around 9:00.
-Will'
She gave a weak smile and was glad that Will could go back to work and not spend all day on the couch worrying about Francie. Seeing her Fruit Loops becoming soggy, she decided to eat something later and gently dropped the bowl into the sink. She quickly brushed her teeth, grabbed her keys off of the counter and left for work.
~~
Slowing down as the yellow light preceded into red, she heard her pager go off. Knowing she'll have enough time, she takes her right hand off of the wheel and turns her body slightly to fish out her pager. The green digits showed- 'Vaughn. Warehouse. B.B'
She smiled to herself as she remembered her and Vaughn making up codes for when they paged each other. B.B stood for Black Bird, which was 8:00pm. R.B stood for Red Bird, for emergency meetings, and the last one was her idea, Y.B. She thought it'd be funny to have Y.B mean Yellow Bird, just meaning a simple 'Hey.'
"Everyone needs a 'Hi' sometimes!" she recalled, defending her idea when Vaughn had simply started shaking his head and chuckling to himself. The message became a mental note in her mind and she realized that the light was green. Looking in the rearview mirror, she could see people starting to get irritated as Sydney just stayed in her same spot and she quickly obliged.
***Credit Dauphine***
'This job is so predictable sometimes' Sydney thought to herself, as she walked to her desk. 'Do a few missions a week, sit at a desk the rest of the time, and go through hearing Sloane go on and on about Rambaldi.' She thumbed threw some folders when she heard a door being slammed shut. Looking up, she saw Sloane walking over to her quickly, with a 'don't mess with me or I'll kill you' look plastered on his face.
"Come to my office right away." he stated flatly, turning back around to go back.
She got up after setting a few folders in a messy pile on the already unorganized desk and walked oddly slow to the door leading into the room. Sloane was fiddling around with some things on his desk, impatiently waiting for her arrival. Getting enough courage to turn the knob, she went for it and boldly walked in.
"Why don't you have a seat Sydney." he asked, gesturing his hand to the chair, but she knew it wasn't a question.
She pulled the chair back a bit and questioned, "What's going on?"
"The bag you received in Italy was a false."
It was hard for her to act surprised, when her counter-mission was to get the false bag to SD-6, but she quickly pulled it off with a purposely stuttered "What?!"
"Exactly, so we need you to go to Bangladesh and retrieve something that is very important to me." he said simply, pushing an envelope towards her.
"Here are some pictures of what I need you to get. You will be given your alias later on. You leave in two days."
She grabbed the folder and took the pictures out. The pictures revealed a beautiful gold necklace, with an ocean blue crescent moon hanging off of the silver. Sloane must have saw her reaction, taking note of widened eyes.
"Very stunning, isn't it?"
Alls she could do was shack her head in agreement, slipping the pictures back into the envelope.
"Ok, that is all I needed to see you about. Goodbye."
Noticing that it was not Sloane who was leaving, but her, she got up and walked out of the door.
'Two days, well, today's Thursday…Oh my gosh! The hockey game is tomorrow!' she was shocked that she would have allowed herself to forget something like this. But she was still wondering if it was a good idea to go. 'Tonight I meet Vaughn at the warehouse, I'll remember to bring it up then. And also thank him for suggesting the auto-body shop he knew of that I could get my car fixed at, he said that their 1 hour or less statement was true. And to my relief, it was.' giving herself a satisfying nod, she sat back at her desk to continue her almost always, predictable job.
~~~~~~
"6:30PM, just enough time to go visit Francie." she told herself, seeing the clock in her car. 'Lucky for me, the hospital isn't too far from here, so that means I have enough time to see Francie, quick drive home, get out of these heels, and see Vaughn on time.'
It was the same nurse behind the desk as it was before, when Sydney came to see Francie. She began to say "I'd like to see my frie-"
"Room 341, straight down the hall, third one on the left." the nurse said without putting her head up.
"Uh…thanks." she said, wondering how the nurse could've known that it was her. Starting to walk down the hall towards the door, she saw the door leading into Francies room suddenly open and at least three nurses came out
with a doctor, surrounding the bed Francie was on.
Her heart dropped as she heard the doctor state commands and the nurses quickly follow, she half-walked half-ran over to the stream of people and pulled a nurse aside.
"What's going on?!"
"I'm sorry but you'll have to wait until later to find out, but right now we need to get this woman into surgery." the nurse said quickly, peering over Sydney's shoulder to see everyone already halfway down the hall.
"I'm very sorry miss, but you may wait in the waiting room until we know exactly what has happened. Dr. Phillis will be with you afterwards to fill you in." and with that, the nurse ignored Sydney's gaped mouth and ran over to the elevator the others had just occupied.