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Sydney went home and cried that night. She didn't show up to work the next day, and when both Sloane and Sark called, Sydney just threw her cell phone into the wall. She hadn't picked up her other telephone and radio, and a dent was very apparent, where her strong arm continuously threw things at the wall. She curled up underneath her blankets all day and cried.
She didn't move from her bed the next day either.
Or the day after that.
She wasn't blamed. Will agreed that he would feel the same way. His heart would hurt the same way Sydney's did. "He would have married her even if I had never disappeared." She sobbed into Will's shoulder when he stopped by.
"Sydney. We were all so drunk, we barely could have remembered our own names. I almost married some random woman named Janet, until her husband came and stopped us. Hell, Eric got married. True his wife got it annulled, but it was one very drunken night, and Mike just got caught up in it, and unfortunately for him, the woman he hooked up with was Alice. It's not a happy marriage."
"I wouldn't have made a difference."
"You would have made a huge difference."
"Oh yeah?"
"First, we went to Vegas to get Vaughn plastered on purpose to make him forget about you. If you hadn't disappeared we wouldn't have needed to get him plastered. He was miserable throughout most of the trip anyway. You were never far from his head. He even called Alice, Sydney at the alter, but only the priest noticed. He wrote a note for us to read later, that's the only reason we know. Alice still doesn't know. We were just so drunk. Besides, Sydney, by the time we went to Vegas, you and Vaughn would have been married, that was just so obvious, and the wedding wouldn't have been legal."
"That didn't help Will."
"I'm sorry Sydney."
"Will?" Sydney said, looking deep into her friend's eyes. "I heard something from Sa- someone, about him and Alice trying to have kids. If they are so unhappy why do they want kids?"
Will only laughed. "Sydney, I don't know who told you that, but it isn't true. Vaughn has been begging for a divorce for months, I don't know why he would want to have a child with Alice to complicate things. Sydney, he doesn't even sleep in the same bedroom. He chose to sleep on the couch."
"It hurts to breathe when I'm around him. I feel betrayed."
"Step one."
"Excuse me?"
"To recovering."
"What, admitting that that I don't function. Its more like back to square one, when I still worked with SD-6, and we couldn't be together. Its all the same feelings. I get dizzy when he talks, the way he moves makes me want to faint. But with all of this love I feel, there is anger. I am so mad at him. Why?"
"Sydney, you got to calm down. Come to the gym with me."
"No."
"Come on, take out this anger out on a boxing bag, rather than just bottling it up."
"Fine." Sydney reluctantly got dressed for the first time in three days, and left for the gym with Will. She entered the gym to see Vaughn standing there in his suit and tie, not ready to work out, but to talk. She just turned around and left.