A/N – I suggest that you download "At The Beginning" by Richard Marx and Donna Lewis from the Anastasia soundtrack and listen to it while reading this. It's just those lyrics and then quotes from the past chapters. It's weird.

You can completely skip this if you wanna.


We were strangers
("Oh, God. Sorry, I was trying to find my way around…")
Starting out on a journey
(Those eyes… the green sorta burned into you.)
Never dreaming
("Oh, I'm Michael Vaughn.")
What we'd have to go through
("I'm Sydney Bristow")
Now here we are
(They're just crushes)
And I'm suddenly standing
(Michael smiled at her and she saw a twinkle in his eyes.)
At the beginning with you

No one told me
(Michael put his arm around her, to hold her up.)
I was going to find you
(He walked her home that day.)
Unexpected
(He chose me.)
What you did to my heart
(They stayed like that for a minute. Just kissing like there were nothing more normal for them.)
When I lost hope
(God, he's even sweet when I can't understand him.)
You were there to remind me
("Honestly I don't know what I was going to say…")
This is the start

And life is a road
("What's wrong with you?")
And I want to keep going
(He just got her name out before she pulled his head down to hers and kissed him.)
Love is a river
('Mother' 'car' 'sister's home' 'Aunt' 'hospital')
I wanna keep flowing
("She was in an accident.")
Life is a road
("She's not gonna make it.")
Now and forever
("I love the rain.")
Wonderful journey

I'll be there
("I hate the rain.")
When the world stops turning
(She felt like a little kid waiting to see if her father would say yes to her getting a toy.)
I'll be there
(They decided they are going back to San Francisco.)
When the storm is through
("I hate this.")
In the end I wanna be standing
(Michael laughed softly and put it around her neck against her will.)
At the beginning with you

We were strangers
("Keep it, and wear it." Michael kissed her.)
On a crazy adventure
("I love you.")
Never dreaming
(A heart with I love you written in it---And Michael's signature next to it.)
How our dreams would come true
(I'll always love him.)
Now here we stand
("Joey's Pizza?")
Unafraid of the future
("Wrong number.")
At the beginning with you

And life is a road
("Sydney?!")
And I want to keep going
(Then he stumbled back a little, almost falling over, but he caught onto the fence again. Straightening up, he blushed from the little show.)
Love is a river
(Trying to get comfortable in the awkward situation.)
I wanna keep flowing
(Was he supposed to bring up the past?)
Life is a road
(It was like they were back in high school, back in her room, reading and practicing French (in more ways then one, wink wink))
Now and forever
("I hate this warehouse.")
Wonderful journey

I'll be there
(It was amazing how she could still make him smile and laugh with just a movement.)
When the world stops turning
(Well, she had been a normal teenager, with a normal life. Now she was just paying the price for all that… normalness.)
I'll be there
("Why me?")
When the storm is through
(Yet, when they started talking they were back in 'tell each other everything mode' as if they'd never missed a day together. She wished they hadn't.)
In the end I wanna be standing
(He'd sent a few letters to her, and she'd done the same to him. But that didn't last.)
At the beginning with you

I knew there was
(His glorious unmoving, non-emotional, doesn't-have-the-ability-to-talk, no past desk. - He loves his desk.)
Somebody somewhere
(He could even picture her writing the letters to him, or talking on the phone, and pushing her hair back behind her ear.)
Like me alone in the dark
("World to Michael.")
Now I know my dream will live on
(Sydney slapped his shoulder playfully.)
I've been waiting so long
("I had a good teacher… you.")
Nothing's gonna tear us apart

And life is a road
("I never got that hug did I?!")
And I want to keep going
(Her eyes shone in the darkness of the warehouse.)
Love is a river
(She held him a little tighter, afraid he would disappear… again.)
I wanna keep flowing
("Try actually doing the mission and you'll see what it's like for the spy.")
Live is a road
("The clasp to my necklace broke.")
Now and forever
("Exactly the same.")
Wonderful journey

I'll be there
(Both wished they really could go back in time.)
When the world stops turning
("When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.")
I'll be there
("I don't know what to say.")
When the storm is through
("But I can't. I can't hate you. That's what I hate the most. God, I love you too much.")
In the end I wanna be standing
(He'd helped her make up her mind about what she wanted most in this world; Him.)
At the beginning with you

Life is a road
("Because I love you too…")
And I wanna keep going
("This feeling doesn't make sense.")
Love is a river
(Soul mates always find each other.)
I wanna keep going on

Starting out on a journey

Life is a road
(Get over it.)
And I wanna keep going
('Sorry Alice, I'm still in love with my high school sweetheart.')
Love is river
(Touching it softly, he looked at both the necklace and his hand that had started shaking uncontrollably.)
I wanna keep flowing

In the end I wanna be standing
("I feel like I'm choking when I'm not with you.")
At the beginning
(Michael was holding Sydney now, and he was never letting go.)
With you