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Chapter 11

"My mother," I said practically shouted.

"Yes." He simply stated.

"I don't understand.... when... how did she contact you?"

"She contacted me, around 25 minutes ago via e-mail, she has...." I interrupted him, standing up.

"She could be leading us into a trap. You can't seriously believe her? I can't believe after everything....." I was literally screaming at him.

"SYDNEY!" He shouted, "She has given us some valuable intelligence. If want Vaughn back safe, this is our only tangible lead. Now, please sit down and let me discuss the intel."

"Fine." I say sitting down. I sit in silence for the rest of the briefing, as my father tells us of the intel he received and discusses the various options that were available to us for rescuing Vaughn. The intel indicates that Sloane has taken Vaughn back to another one of his hideouts in Hong Kong.

"Sydney, Agent Weiss you will be part of the task force that will be going to Hong Kong to rescue Vaughn. I will stay here at the JTF to co-ordinate the operation."

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I wake up and open eyes, trying to adjust to the light. I sit up and I realise I am on a bed in what looks to some sort of cell. I suddenly became aware of the pain in my neck, where I had obviously been hit.

The door to the cell is a steel door with a little voice hole, I decide to see if I can get anyone's attention by shouting through it;

"Hey, is anyone out there?"

I realise then that my voice is just being projected back into the room. I turn around and lean against the cold metal door, I tilt my head sidewards and glance upwards noticing a small, discreet security camera in the top corner of the room.

They are obviously watching me, whoever they are. I wave frantically at the camera to get someone s attention, I want answers.

After a few minutes I conclude that my efforts have been futile or someone may come and see me, either I go and sit on the bed, to wait. I lean against the wall and my mind drifts to Sydney. Suddenly, I begin to worry, not for me but for her. I wonder what she thinks has happened to me, or whether she even knows or cares. She's probably to wrapped up in Christopher to care, I think bitterly.

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After the meeting, we are given forty minutes to get ready for our flight to Hong Kong. All the agents involved in the mission are collecting their gear that they'll need from the storage room. Weiss is silently collecting his gear next to me, when he suddenly speaks up;

"We are going to get him back."

"I wish I had your confidence." I sigh inwardly and continued, "Maybe this is one of the full circle things...."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean this whole thing started with me waking up in Hong Kong, in a way Vaughn getting kidnapped was my fault."

Weiss puts his arm around me, "It wasn't your fault, they needed him to make this exchange.... possible and they would have found a way to..."

"If I hadn't told him.... let me go off... he may not have....."

"We'll get him back." Weiss said confidently. But what about me?

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I hear the unlocking of the steel door to my cell. The door opens to two men walking in, whom I can only presume are guards. They come over to me with a pair of handcuffs and restrain me to cuff me to the bed posts. They both move and stand on the opposite side of the room, as they do that a familiar figure walks through the door.

"Sloane"

"Mister Vaughn, it is good to see you again, it has been a long time."

"Cut the bullshit! Why am I here?" I shout.

"You are Mister Vaughn to help us in our quest to get something we want."

"I am not helping you. You took Sydney all along and you...."

"I what Mr. Vaughn, I never told you that I didn't have Sydney, you just...."

"You son of a bitch, how you can stand there and justify ruining her life..." He interrupted me.

"I didn't ruin her life, I gave her a chance to fulfil the prophecy, it is your life and others that were ruined."

"How dare you!"

"Mr. Vaughn, you will not be here any longer than you have to be. We will come and collect you when the time comes."

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We are two hours into our to Hong Kong, and as the moves on the more apprehensive I get. I keep feeling like something bad is going to happen. Weiss came over to sit next to me, with a cell phone in his hand.

"Hey, that was your father." He said with slight hestiation in his voice.

"Yeah? What did he want?"

"There is a slight change to the mission specs..." he says trailing off.

"What do you mean a slight change?"

"Well....erm....we will be...er..meeting....." He mutters.

"Spit it out."

"Your mother is meeting us to help co-ordinate the...." I interrupt him.

"What!? My father authorised this? How could he? He shouldn't....." I was babbling.

"Sydney, calm down I am sure your mother just wants to help." He says putting his hand on my arm and then I see it, the cell phone. I grab it from Weiss, I need to speak to my father, he just can't do this.

After about five minutes on the phone to him, which I spent silent as he was explaining to me why this was taking place and how it would be better for the mission.

I sat back down next Weiss, "What he'd say?"

"That she'll be an asset to this mission, that she could be pivotal in getting Vaughn back."

"Well if she helps getting Vaughn ba....."

"I don't trust her." I interrupted.

"You might just have to."

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I had a short nap on the plane to Hong Kong, whenever I tried to sleep. I just kept thinking of what Sloane could be doing to Vaughn, why my mother has come out of the woodwork. I finally succumbed to sleep because of tiredness.

When we arrived in Hong Kong, we were taken to a hanger at the airport were we would gear up and go over our mission plan. A car with blacked out windows, pulls up outside the hanger, as we arrive there. The car door opens and someone gets out whom I'm not sure I wanted to see again.

"Mom."

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TBC.....................