A/N: Hey everyone!!! It takes soooo long for my muse to come up with something. Oh, well. I don't own Alias or anything associated with it. I don't do this for money, yadda, yadda, yadda. Oh and I also don't own the song "Baby Got Back" but wouldn't that be cool if I did?
Last Time……..
"Look Jack, I don't want you, I want Sydney." Danny leaned forward in his chair. Jack was quiet waiting for Danny to continue. "You know that I love her Jack. She was, and still is, my everything, but I have a problem."
"What? That you're evil?" Jack interrupted.
"No, actually, it goes by the name of Michael Vaughn. You do know that he and your daughter are involved?" Jack nodded. "Well, if he's there by her side then I can't be."
"What do you want me to do? Break them up? Play the disapproving father?"
"No. I want you to kill him. No, I'm sorry that would be rude of me to ask you to kill the man your daughter loves. I want you to bring him to me so I can kill him myself. That way, she does not blame you for killing him, just bringing him to me to kill."
Jack shook his head. "You want me to bring Mr. Vaughn to you so you can kill him and break her heart?"
"Yes." Danny said leaning back in his chair.
"And how do you suppose I get him here? He would never go willingly."
"That's where my associate comes in. Oscar send him in."
Jack turned toward the door and his eyes widened as a familiar voice floated to his ears.
"Well, well, Jack. Never thought I would see you captured."
And Now……………………………..
At the sound of the voice Jack sat up straighter. He knew that it could only belong to one man. One stupid man.
"Sark." Jack acknowledged the younger man. "Well, this just keeps getting more interesting. How do you suppose that Mr. Sark here will help you with your plan?"
"Sark here has…" Danny was cut off by Sark.
"I can speak for myself." Sark stated.
"By all means." Danny said while motioning with his hand to take over. Jack looked between the two and noticed something in Sark's eyes. Anger? Annoyance? Jealously?
"We sent a note to your beloved CIA that stated that we would return you for a ransom of thirty million dollars. Of course you and I both know that the CIA does not negotiate with terrorists. That's why we sent them another note. You see, I have always been fascinated with Rambaldi and his works, but you know that don't you? There is one piece, one part of his masterpiece that nobody knew about."
Jack cut him off at this point. "How is that possible? We collected everything."
"Almost everything. When Rambaldi drew up his master plan for his works he left out one thing."
"What is it?"
"We recently became in possession of another one of his works. Another small book."
"What's in this book?"
Sark continued as if Jack had never spoken. "There is one problem. It's in a box and that box is locked. It needs a DNA sample from your daughter."
Jack's gaze never left Sark. "Why can't you just use me?"
"You know for a fact that a daughter has components of both the father's and mother's DNA." Sark stated looking him in the eye.
"You tested my DNA to the box already." Jack stated realizing what had been done.
"You're very smart! Also so quick with the thinking! That's what I loved about you Jack. I admired you so much that I was actually looking forward to you becoming my father-in-law." Danny stated with a smirk on his face. He suddenly became serious again. "But then your daughter had to tell me about SD-6. And of course I couldn't just let that go now could I. So I called and left a message. I honestly was hoping that she would leave town with me when you bought those plane tickets for Kate Jones and me. But she didn't so I had to do something."
"So you need to get to Sydney and get blood or a hair sample." Jack sat up straighter. "You could just go to L.A. and do it."
"That's why we need to get rid of Michael Vaughn." Danny said "You see Jack, your Sydney's father, protector, yada, yada, yada. But now that you're out of the picture, the young Mr. Vaughn has taken the title of 'protector' from you. And we need Sydney unprotected."
"And that's where killing Mr. Vaughn comes in." Jack said realizing their twisted plan.
"You don't have to kill Mr. Vaughn, just get him away from Sydney." Danny replied.
"Well that makes all the difference." Jack replied sarcastically. He looked between the two men and realized that, despite his experience, he had no choice in the matter. He suddenly thought of something. "I can help you."
Sydney's House
Sydney had just finished packing and was in the process of trying to zip up her suitcase. Trying, being the operative word. She had almost got it closed when there was a knock at the door. She gave up her pursuit of closing her suitcase to answer the door. On the other side was Vaughn.
"Hey." Sydney said inviting him in.
"Hey." He said giving her a small kiss.
"Is everything o.k.?" Vaughn asked. Sydney looked up at him and saw the worry wrinkles etched on his forehead.
"Yeah, it's just that I can't get my suitcase to close. Can you try?" She looked up at him and showed a small smile.
"Yeah, sure." He replied already on his way to the open suitcase. He tried the zipper and it would not budge. "I think you packed too much." He said looking at it.
"I did not!" She replied knowing that she needs everything that was in there. Hairdryer included.
Vaughn once again tried the zipper and once again it would not budge. Remembering an old trick that his father taught him he sat on her suitcase and tried the zipper again. This time it closed.
"Thank you." She said walking over to him and giving him a reward kiss. Vaughn looked at his watch and looked back up at Sydney.
"We have to go." He stated. Picking up the suit case and grabbing Sydney's hand, they headed out the door and out to the car.
Operations Center
Sydney and Vaughn walked in to the Operations Center and straight into the conference room hand in hand, oblivious to the stares that they were getting. They took their seats with Weiss and Dixon opposite of them. As Devlin walked in, took a seat, and began.
"Thank you for being on time everyone." He started. "We have gotten another message and…" He was cut off by the sound of the song "Baby Got Back." Everyone looked around.
"Sorry! That's mine." Weiss stated as he pulled his cell phone out of his pocket. "Weiss." He answered. Weiss looked up suddenly and took the phone from his ear and looked at Sydney. "It's for you." He handed her the cell phone and she put it up to her ear.
"Hello?" Sydney said.
"Well hello Sydney."
"Danny?"
Cliff hanger. Well, what did you think? Please let me know by sending a review!