A/N- Keep up the reviews guys, the more u review the faster I write! Sry it's been so long but teachers seem 2 like givin ya a lot of homework in the last term of school. One more week 2 go! Yay!

Chapter 12

Sydney and Vaughn walked out of the debrief room hand-in-hand, and walked to up to Kendall and the group who were standing in the same spot as they had been before Syd and Mike left for a bit.

"So have," Kendall was stopped short as Sydney interrupted.

"When's the mission?" Sydney asked with her arms crossed over her chest.

"You all need to be at the airport at 0600 on Thursday, a week from today. You'll leave to Australia where the diamond is located, more specifically South Australia." (I'm a south Aussie so I'm sayin it's here lol)

"Fine, I'll see you then. Mike are you coming or do you have to stay?"

Michael looked at Kendall, not knowing the answer himself. Kendall simply nodded his head and waved his arm in a 'go' gesture.

The couple walked out of the building and into the car, followed by an almost silent drive home. Sydney usually talked to Vaughn non-stop, and she basically always told him her problems. Only him. It had been that way practically since they first met. He remembered her apologising to him in the warehouse, saying how sorry she was that her mother killed his father, tears streaming down her face. He had wrapped his arms around her then as she cried into his shoulder. That was the first time he had held her.

He remembered when she walked into the CIA office, and walked up to where he was working. She had been completely soaked, her mascara running from both the rain that had been outside and her own tears. Neither of them said a word, they didn't need to. He walked up to her and they hugged each other, right in the middle of the office, neither of them caring if anyone walked past and saw them.

There were so many other times like that.

Why is she being so distant now? She's hardly said a word to me since we left the office. Vaughn thought to himself as they arrived in front of their home. They walked up to the front door and Mike opened it, holding it for Sydney to pass through first.

Sydney walked into the lounge room and lay down on the couch, closing her eyes briefly before staring at the ceiling. Vaughn opted to lean against the wall opposite her.

"Syd, is there something else bothering you? Besides the mission?" Michael asked, genuinely concerned.

"What? The mission isn't enough to bother me this much?" Sydney said, her tone coming out quite harsh.

Vaughn wasn't expecting that. She didn't usually snap at him for practically no reason.

"All I meant was that you seem a bit too worked up and upset over a mission, I thought maybe there was something else." Vaughn said, his tone also coming out harsher then usual.

Sydney sat up on the couch and looked Michael in the eye. "Yeh well that's easy for you to say. You're not doing the mission, you'll just be sitting on a chair telling Eliza and I what to do, must be real hard." Sydney snapped back, the last four words dripping with sarcasm.

"You know what? I am so sick of this. What do you think your better then me because your more of a field agent then I am? I've been on missions too Sydney, and giving instructions and having to make quick decisions which could endanger your agents life isn't as easy as you think! Especially when your agent doesn't even pay attention to you!" Vaughn shot back, obviously implying that Sydney was the agent the agent that never paid attention.

"What is your problem?! You were the only handler I ever listened to! I got you a freaking promotion! I could have been put on probation for going out with you but I still did!"

"Oh please, you wouldn't have been put on probation. They would have needed you in the field. I would have been put on probation, and you know it. And don't ask me what my problem is when you're the one who started this argument! I asked you a question because I was concerned about you!"

"I don't need your concern!" Sydney yelled back at him.

"Fine, don't have it then." Michael said in a slightly lower tone. "I'm outta here."

"Oh yeh, just walk away. That's you, too afraid to do anything right?" She shot back.

"Your full of it you know that? What the hell have I been too afraid to do for you? Huh? Tell me." Vaughn said as he stopped and turned back to face her, glaring directly at Sydney.

"Let's see, it took you absolutely forever to break up with Alice, how long did I have to wait for that? A year or so? Hmm, what else.." Sydney practically yelled at him.

"That's crap! I broke up with her the moment it was safe for us to be together! And it's not like I was the only one dating someone during that first year!"

"What are you talking about?!"

"Oh, come on Sydney. Did you seriously think I didn't figure out what was going on between you and Noah? God I cannot believe your throwing this Alice thing in my face. I broke up with her for you! The easy solution would have been to stay with her! I wouldn't have been breaking protocol, I would have been able to sleep a bit better at night, she doesn't go on missions. I was up at night every time you were on a mission. I couldn't sleep until I knew that you were safe! For God's sakes, I don't know what the hell you want from me! Oh and by the way, I won't be sitting on a chair with a com-link for this mission, I have already been assigned to assist both you and Eliza." Michael replied, sounding angrier then ever. The anger slowly drained out of Sydney and her face relaxed as she realised how unreasonable she was being.

"Mike, I,"

"Don't." Michael said, cutting her off. "Just don't. I need to go.somewhere, away from here." He couldn't bring himself to say away from her. Even when they were fighting he couldn't hurt her that much, and he knew that would hurt her. He closed the door behind as Sydney sank down to the floor, tears escaping from her eyes and bouts of sobs overtaking her. She couldn't believe what had just happened. They hadn't had a fight like that since, well, ever. That was the worst one they had ever had. And she was already overcome with guilt. She didn't mean any of what she said, she was just getting to stressed out about this mission thing, and blew things way out of proportion. A new wave of tears ran down her cheeks as she buried her face in the side of the couch to muffle her cries.

A/N- Well this chapter was for all of you guys who wanted some angst. What will happen next? Review and I'll write up another chapter so you can find out!