Chapter 2: Meeting again
In the meantime Vaughn woke up in his apartment at 8.45 and was grateful that he actually got some sleep. He had only arrived back in L.A late the early night and the moment his head had touched his pillow, he had fallen asleep.
He slowly got up and went over to the bathroom to take a quick shower.
Ten minutes later he was dressed and started having breakfast.
He didn't need to go back into the CIA till tomorrow morning and he didn't have anything else to do, so he decided to go to the mall and buy some extra shirts for his stay in L.A.
Vaughn finished his breakfast and went over to his car. He drove off and arrived at the mall about twenty minutes later.
A few hours later he had found everything he needed when suddenly someone caught his eye.
It was a tall woman with long brown hair and she looked a lot like Sydney, but he wasn't sure.
He walked over to her but he stopped in his tracks when he saw that a little girl was calling her "mommy".
Sydney and Cassie were standing in front of a tiny stall with toys.
"Mommy?"
"Yes Cass?"
"Could I please have such a ball?"
"Sure. Which one do you want?"
"The red one. I love red!" Sydney picks out the red ball and pays for it.
"Here you go. But no playing with it inside OK?"
"Yes mommy!" But she doesn't listen and loses it.
"My ball! Mommy! I lost it!" She starts crying.
"Honey, it's OK!" Sydney looks up and sees that someone is coming over to her with the ball.
But she doesn't pay a lot of attention to the person himself.
"Cassie it's alright, see that mister over there picked it up for you!"
The man walks over to them and says to the little girl "I saw you dropping the ball so I picked it up for you." Sydney recognized his voice and looked up. It was Vaughn.
Cassie looked up too and dried her tears. "Here you go" and he handed her the ball.
"Thank you Mister." She went over to him, hugged him and gave him a little kiss on the cheek. He was surprised and all he could say was "You're welcome."
She then turned to her mother. "Look mommy! He gave me back my ball!"
Sydney had watched all of this and felt a pain in her heart.
"Yeah he did." Then she turned to Vaughn. "Thanks!"
"No problem."
"Come on honey, we have to go!"
"OK mommy! Bye!"
"Bye!" Sydney grabbed her daughters' hand and said a quick goodbye to Vaughn before they walked away. Vaughn couldn't stop staring at them. After a little while he saw that Sydney looked back at him. Their eyes meet and they both saw the longing and pain in each others eyes. Sydney then walks off more quickly and Vaughn is left behind with a lot of questions.
Authors note: Thanks to everyone who reviewed!! It really meant a lot to me!
I hope you'll let me know what you think of this chapter…Good or bad.
The next chapter is almost finished but I don't think I will be able to post
it before next week…
--Ms.MV--
