For disclaimer see part 1
bWhere I Belong…Chapter 6bWhen Sydney parked her car outside the warehouse and saw his was already there, nerves took over and she couldn't get out of the car she just sat clutching at the steering wheel. She caught sight of motion out of the corner of her eye and was instantly alert but when she turned to look she saw it was Vaughn staring at her from the entranceway to the warehouse. She realised how silly she must look and took her hands off the steering wheel noticing her knuckles were red and slowly got out of the car.
Great Sydney you're a big tough ex-CIA agent and here you stand trembling before the man you love she thought sarcastically to herself. Taking a deep breath she regained her composure and walked towards him. He was wearing a suit but his tie was loose and the shirt was slightly un-tucked his hair was messed up from him running his fingers through it obviously he was a little nervous as to why she wanted to meet him too.
"Hi" She said unsure of her welcome
"Hi" Vaughn replied drinking in the sight of her, she had died her hair a deep red colour and had a tan she looked amazing in a tight fitting pair of jeans and a white t-shirt. They walked in silence until they reached the cage where they used to have their meetings. Sydney pulled herself up onto one of the crates and he leaned against one opposite her, they just stayed like that for a while watching each other and remembering old feelings flooding their senses.
"Well, you're probably wondering what I'm doing back in LA" Sydney said breaking the silence
"Yeah I'm a little curious" Vaughn said with a little smile and Sydney laughed the tenseness between them disappeared
"First off I'm gonna have to tell you the reason I left" Sydney said looking him in the eye and trying to convey with her expression that she was sorry for the way she left things with him, he just looked at her and the uneasiness returned. "Well, I found out something and I panicked now looking back on it admittedly I didn't handle it very well but as I say I panicked and I didn't know what to do, the day before I left I discovered that I was pregnant!" Sydney said the last word very quietly but Vaughn heard it
"You were what? Why didn't you tell me, wait was it even mine?" Vaughn asked shocked he ran his hand through his already messy hair.
"Of course it was how can you even ask that, what kind of person do you think I am?"
"Someone who couldn't even be bothered to tell me I'm a father"
"I wanted to but I didn't want to stay around SD-6 it would have raised too many questions"
"You could have told me I would have come with you or we could have gone in to Witness Protection until they took the Alliance down" Vaughn's anger was giving way to sadness
"I know I told you I panicked I'm not saying its an excuse but I wasn't thinking rationally" An uneasy silence fell over them finally Vaughn sighed and said in a wistful voice
"I'm a father?"
"Yeah, you have a son his name is Matthew, Matthew William Jonathan" Sydney smiled "I have some pictures if you wanna see them" Sydney delved around in her bag and pulled out a little brown envelope she always carried with her. There was the picture from her first ultrasound, one of her and Matthew in the hospital when he was 3 days old, Matthew sat on the stairs at 3 months then other occasions throughout the last year.
"He has my eyes" Vaughn said staring at the picture in awe then a thought crossed his mind "Where is he now?"
"Well that's kind of the reason why I'm back in LA"