Title: Timeless Wonderings

Author: Nicole

Summary: Takes place right where The Telling ended, including the last lines of The Telling. When Sydney comes back to find out that two years have passed, she finds out that her life has been shattered and she must find out what happened during her missing two years and find a way to pick up the pieces and live her life. Will eventually be S/V

Author's Note: Okay so I'm taking a different turn on the finale besides Stalking JJ. I was sitting reading a book and this idea came to me, I guess I can blame my muse - Lexie.

Spoilers: all of season 1 and season 2 (through The Telling)

Pairings: some S/V in the beginning (but more later on), Vaughn/Kylie

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Sydney knew something was wrong by the crushing look on Vaughn's face. "Vaughn?" she asked.

Vaughn looked anxious as he brought his left hand up to rest on his face, forgetting what lay on the ring finger of that hand until it was too late to withdraw it.

Sydney stared at his hand with tears in her eyes and asked the question she knew she would regret later, "Vaughn why are you wearing that ring?"

Vaughn had dug himself into a hole, and there was only one way to get out of it: the truth. "Sydney, since that night you've been missing, you've been missing for almost two years."

He looked up and saw the look of disbelief and the tears starting to pour down her cheeks. He couldn't stand seeing her this way, looking so defeated and broken. "Syd?" he asked, "Please say something."

She looked up and he saw the look of defiance in her eyes, she asked the question again, this time with a hard edge to her voice, puncuating each word, "Why...are...you...wearing...that...ring?"

He met her gaze, "It was two years Sydney...two years. What did you expect me to do, sit around and mope forever?"

Sydney laughed bitterly, "I can't believe I ever loved you," she replied.

"We thought you were dead," he told her, "Doesn't that mean anything to you?"

"Did you find my body?" she asked sarcastically.

"No," he said, "But..."

Sydney interrupted him, "No buts about it Vaughn. You should know that unless you find a body, it's never over - and even if you do find a body it's not always over," she replied.

She quickly stood up from her sitting position and headed for the door. "Where are you going?" Vaughn called to her retreating form, "The CIA plane is ready to leave to take us back to LA."

She stopped, turned towards him sending icy daggers shooting from her eyes, "I'll find my own way back to LA."

Vaughn got up to follow her, "Sydney, Sydney wait," he called out to her, but by the time he reached the door she was already gone.

TBC...