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She stumbled down the corridor, stopping outside a room, she looked in to find Sierra slumped over the couch. Obviously knocked unconscious in a struggle, the slight rise of her chest was a reassuring sign that Sierra was still alive.

"Dad!" Sydney called out, knowing this blew her cover, but Syd knew her father was in this building. A gunshot rang down.

"NO!" Sydney screamed she raced down the hall and into a room, she found her father soaking in a puddle of his own blood, with Sloane hovering over him with a gun in hand. "NO!"

Sydney jolted up in her bed, a cold sweat trickled down her spine, and she got an icy chill.

"Syd?" Her sister, Sierra, was standing at the foot of her bed a look of concern on her face. Sierra was living with Sydney while she was settling and accepting her new life in America. Sydney pulled her covers up and around her body.

"I had a nightmare."

"The one where you find Dad murdered?" It had been two weeks since Jack had exchanged himself for Sydney and Sierra, and so far there was nothing on what condition he was in, or where he was.

"Yeah that one." Sierra offered her a sleeping pill, that the doctor had prescribed both girls, and a glass of water. The girls had trouble sleeping recently and the CIA doctor had prescribed them some sleeping pills, both were determined to find their father. In the past two weeks in their odyssey to find their father they had grown closer to one another, and reluctantly closer to their mother. Though it was easier for Sierra to grow close to her mother, she was still hesitant on the grounds that her mother was an international terrorist. In Sydney's case, it was fear of being betrayed again, but after loosing her father, despite the fact that her mother was a terrorist, she didn't want to loose her again either. Sydney glanced at her clock 2:01 A.M.

"Why are you up?" She asked groggily waiting for the pill to take effect.

"I heard you scream." Sierra answered nonchalantly curling up on the chair near Sydney's bed, draping a blanket over her legs.

"I'm sorry to wake you, you can go back to bed."

"No big, besides it about lunch time in Rome."

"You've had the longest case of jet lag I've ever known of." Sierra shrugged as she picked a book off of Sydney's nightstand.

"Ever since middle school I've suffered from sleep deprivation, I've learned that I can operate on very few hours of sleep, a job hazard I'm afraid to."

"Hmmm…. What did you tell Francie?"

"That I should have never asked you to watch those scary movies with me, Vaughn and Weiss." It had been hard adjusting to their new life style with Francie. They told Francie that their dad was on an extensive business trip in Chicago, in Sierra's scenario, she was a little difficult to explain. They had deliberated over an explanation for several hours, they had though of having Sierra stay with someone else, but sooner or later Sierra and Francie's paths were going to cross. Sierra ended up being a cousin from Jack's side of the family that recently moved to the LA area that was the most logical alias. The sleeping pill was beginning to take effect, Sydney's eyelids were growing heavy, and the last thing she saw was her sister leafing through one of their mother's books.

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