Title: Secrets and Lies
Rating: PG
Summary: When Sydney is injured on a mission and Vaughn discovers she hasn't been entirely truthful with him. S/V.
Disclaimer: I don't own Alias; I'm just borrowing the characters. Some dialogue is borrowed from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, also doesn't belong to me.
Authors Note: This is my first fan fic, so feel free to tell me if it sucks. Please Read and Review with any comments, suggestions and criticism is VERY welcome. Thanks to everyone who has left reviews. It inspires me to write more, some keep em coming. I am trying to make the chapters longer, so please bear with me. This might be my last update for a while because I'm starting school again on Jan 29th and I'm in Yr 12, so guaranteed there'll be heaps of work!! L
Chapter 9:
Sydney was transferred out of ICU three days later. The doctors told her she still to restrict her movement, this frustrated her immensely. Vaughn was still a constant fixture in her room, even after she told him to go home, he stayed. That changed after she literally ordered him to go back to work, stating that at least one of them should be earning some money. Weiss was also a frequent visitor, who spent many hours joking with Syd. As the days went by she cried less and less about losing her baby and Vaughn had stopped talking about the baby altogether. Although he was there daily Syd and Vaughn rarely talked. Deep down he was still upset about her not telling him and she could see the hurt in his eyes but never mentioned it.
Vaughn returned to work two days after she was transferred. On his first day back he approached Kendall with Sydney's request for her mother to be able to visit her in hospital. Kendall promptly refused, just as Vaughn expected, so he approached Devlin about it. He explained the situation and Devlin said he would consider it. A happy Vaughn re entered the Ops Centre and headed towards Irina's cell to tell her the news.
Upon hearing the rise and fall of the bars, which lead to her cell, Irina looked up expecting to see Kendall looking for another argument. She stood up and made her way to the window, preparing to respond to Kendall's constant allegations, threats and insults. He seemed to think that because she was in a cell he had some kind of power over her. As the figure slowly approached the window she was silently relieved when she realised that it wasn't Kendall, that it was Agent Michael Vaughn. She stood there puzzled as to why he would be visiting her unless….. before her mind jumped to conclusions, as it did so frequently, she decided to wait and see what he had to say. He stopped in front of her. "Hello Irina" he said quietly not making eye contact.
"Hello Agent Vaughn, why are you here?" she replied getting straight to the point "Has something happened to Sydney?"
"No" he answered too quick for her liking.
"Then why are you here?"
"I came to tell you that Devlin is considering your request to be allowed to visit Sydney in the hospital."
"But Kendall said it wasn't possible for me to leave. Why would Devlin be any different?"
"Because Sydney herself asked to see you and since she is unable to leave the hospital we'd have to take you to her."
"I thought that Sydney was still in a coma?"
"She woke up five days ago, Weiss was coming to tell you but Kendall told him you weren't to have visitors, and he said he'd tell you himself. Obviously he didn't."
Irina turned toward the security cameras and yelled "I WANT TO SEE DIRECTOR KENDALL NOW!!!" Vaughn stood there with a puzzled look on his face. Moments later when Kendall came strolling towards her cell Vaughn quickly excused himself and ran off to watch this on the cameras. Apparently the other Agents in the Ops Centre had the same idea because when he reached the bullpen everyone was gathered around the monitors watching what Weiss had dubbed 'Kendall vs. Irina Round 21'. Jack entered the room in time to catch the beginning of the argument. It started with Irina throwing accusations at Kendall, then he responded with more accusations, this went on for several minutes until Kendall forgot why they were fighting and then he just started throwing insults at her followed by threats of solitary confinement, transfer to Camp Harris and other such things. By then Irina was sick of him and just started threatening him, "When I get out of here they'll be finding your body for weeks." After about fifteen minutes of solid yelling Kendall stalked away leaving Irina yelling after him "That's it leave you weak son of a bitch, go and cry to your mommy, wimp." This had no effect on Kendall who kept walking and after he was out of sight she slowly sat on her bed. By the time Kendall was back in the bullpen everyone was back at their desks acting as if they hadn't been watching them fight. He walked into his office and slammed the door loudly. Once he was in his office everyone moved to start gossiping and Weiss pulled out his chart he had made, at the top it said "Kendall vs. Irina' and down the sides there were numbers signifying the round number and a second column had the heading 'Winner' and next to each number there was a name indicating who they thought had won that round. It was unanimous amongst the Agents that Irina had won that particular round. Vaughn studied the chart and noticed that Irina had won most of the fights. After Weiss recorded the victor of the latest 'round' he filed the chart away again and began his work.
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