Title: REAPER

Author: Egyptian Kat

Rating: PG

Summary: It would take me two years of amnesia to realize that no matter what I did, I was the reaper.

Chapter 8: Oblivion

RECAP

Neither heard the door open.

"Michael?" a teary voice called out.

SS

With the sound of Lauren's voice, both battered lovers broke the kiss instantaneously.

"Laur?"

"Michael.what are you doing?" she ask, attempting to block out the image of her husband kissing another woman.

"Lauren.please let me explain." Vaughn attempted.

"No.no..I knew this was going to happen..I knew that you still loved her. Please, spare me, don't try to apologize." She cried.

"No, I have to. I have to tell you."

"Fine then, let me hear it. Tell me how you don't love me; how you love her now." Lauren said bitterly, her British accent growing stronger with the emotion.

"No..it's not that...I've always loved Sydney. I fell in love with her the day we met. I loved you too..it's.it's just that..well, I was never IN love with you. I'm really sorry Lauren."

A look of pure hate descended upon Laurens pale features. "Well then, Michael, Sydney, I hope that you two hate a wonderful life together." She said, before forcefully opening the door and exiting the room. A sharp band fallowed her, leaving Sydney and Vaughn alone.

Vaughn sat down and took in a deep breath.

"I'd like to say I'm sorry.but... to tell you the truth, I don't think I can right now." Sydney said calmly.

"No.It's ok. You don't have to be sorry. You're with me now. We love each other, that's all that matters now." Vaughn replied, leaning forward and giving Sydney another searing kiss.

"I love you." Sydney said again.

Vaughn smiled. "I love you too. But I really have to lie down."

Sydney laughed. "Ok my savior."

Sydney watched as Vaughn carefully stood up and made his way back over to his bed, pulled back the covers and with a look of hidden pain, climbed back in.

"I missed you." Vaughn said, settling back into the sheets.

Sydney rolled over so that she was facing Vaughn. "I missed you too."

And with that Sydney Bristow and Michael Vaughn drifted off to sleep.

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The room was a stark white compared to the black of the suit and pants she still donned.

"Sydney dear, you're awake." A familiar voice said through the haze.

A great fear and hate struck Sydney in the gut, causing her to sit up and look for the man whose voice belonged. The room was large but the speaker was easily found.

"No.what the hell do you want with me?" she asked defiantly.

"It's funny that you ask." He told her. She didn't answer; instead she started at him and tried to sense possible escapes.

"It's no use darling, there's no escaping."

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I sat up in bed quickly. The pain immediately shot through my legs, due to the pain, I was forced to lie back down.

"Sydney? Are you ok?" Vaughn asked, suddenly very, very close to her head. This closeness of his cause Sydney to abruptly start and almost topple off the bed, luckily, Jack was there to save her.

"Hold on Sydney." Jack said, lifting Sydney gently back onto the bed.

"Thanks dad. Um.How long have I been sleeping?" She asked, pushing herself into a sitting position.

"About eight hours. The doctor...The doctor called me. He told me..your news." Jack stuttered. Sydney bowed her head in acceptance and almost unnoticeably passed her hand over her stomach.

"I...I didn't know." She finally said. "I wouldn't have...I wouldn't have tried to, to kill myself if I had known." Sydney told both Jack and Vaughn. The serenity that sleeping had brought was quickly washed away when her tears started falling again. But she felt as if she had to tell them what had been eating at her sense she had returned, so, she continued. "I admit that I noticed some weight gain..but..but I pinned it on...on my missing time. I didn't know what I had done during that time, so I dismissed it. I wasn't.. I'm not even due for another week." Sydney told them. "The signs where so obvious! They where there, right in front of my eyes, but they where so easy to ignore." She cried.

Vaughn and Jack exchanged sorrowful looks. "It's ok Sydney, we understand, what happened was in the past, you can't help what happened." Jack attempted.

"But that's the thing dad." Sydney told them quietly, "I could have stopped it all. I could have prevented everything. I could have stopped myself from getting hurt, from having Vaughn be there, endangering him, ruining everything for him and..and for everyone else."

"Sydney.please, calm down. You need to stop blaming yourself. You couldn't help it. You felt like there was no way out.

"I didn't *feel* like there was no way out dad, there *was* no way out."

"Sydney, you know that's not true." Vaughn said, holding her hand in his."

"No I know that it wasn't true." Sydney attempted to smile.

All three of them sat there in their silence for a few moments. perfectly content in each other's presence. Each of them sitting there thinking how much the other meant to them. Finally Sydney spoke up.

"Did the paternity test come back by any chance?" She asked.

"Yes. The doctor called the room. He told us to call him when you where awake so that he could deliver the results to you in person." Vaughn told her.

"Can you call please?" She asked.

"Of course."

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I sit her watching the doctor speak to me. I see him mouth move, but all his words to me are lost; lost in the bliss I feel. I look down to the test results he handed to me. I can't help but not smile. I don't try to hide the smile that feathers my face, showing everyone watching how happy I am. I laugh to myself. I'm sitting here in a hospital bed with two broken legs after an attempted suicide laughing; and smiling. I try to remember the last time I smiled. 'It's been a long time.' I conclude to myself.

I sit her and feel the tight grips of the two most important men in my life. I can feel the strength in each hand; I can feel the love that each one has for me. I can feel the memories from the fathers hand; I can remember when he used to hold my hand as a little girl. How I used to hold on tight to his hand; onto my mothers hand and laugh when the swung me high into the air between them. I can feel the memories from Vaughn's hand. How his hands used to run seductively over my body, making me shiver with anticipation. I can remember how he used to hold me with those hands; hold me like the was trying to protect me from the dangers of the world.

I look back down at the paper that sits in my lap. I look at it and wonder how that white piece of paper can hold so much importance to so many people. I think of how with just a simple press of a button that piece of paper tells the paternity of my child; the child that lays safe and innocent in the warmth of my womb. I'm forced to smile again.

I read the paper again for about the millionth time. I look at the crisp black letters are printed neatly on the stark white of the paper.

I think I have all the words down to memory. It says:

DNA Test to the Fetus of Bristow, Sydney A.

DNA of fetus ran against the DNA of:

Sark, Julian

Sloane, Arvin

Vaughn, Michael

Walker, Simon

DNA paternity results of the fetus belonging to Bristow, Sydney A.:

Agent Michael Vaughn

I smile again as I see his name in clear black and white..no gray this time.

A/N: Soooo... What did you think?

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