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A/N: This story is S/V so all you loyal Sydney/Vaughn's out there, don't think she's going to fall for Danny again. Anyway, here's chap 20!
"How can this be?" Sydney asked her dad as soon as three agents went back into the interrogation room to escort Danny Hecht to a cell.
"It's entirely possible that he was somehow extracted from your house after you left to see Sloane. Obviously he hadn't been killed, and was nursed back to health, where he was recruited by some organization. But I cannot tell you a certain answer until we get some answers out of him." Jack told her, starting to stand up, but Sydney put her hand on her dad's arm.
"Dad, don't go to hard on him." she said, forgetting the fact that her old fiancé now worked for the bad guys.
"I'll try. But...I can't promise you anything. We do need some answers, and I have a feeling he has most or all of them." Jack replied, and gently pulled his arm out of Sydney's grip and left to go to Danny's cell.
Without warning, Sydney started to cry. Everything was happening so fast. Melanie and Molly's safe return to her, realizing Danny was alive, and was doubled as her ex-husband. Was Michael Vaughn even alive? God she hoped so. She wanted to tell him she was sorry. Sorry for taking everything out on him, sorry she had never given him a second chance, sorry for not saying sorry earlier.
She left the Rotunda and made her way back to the hospital and unlocked the room where Melanie and Molly were, but they weren't there.
"Excuse me, where are the two little girls who were in here?" she asked anxiously to a passing doctor.
He smiled. Molly Bristow woke from her coma. She's just getting checked up, and Melanie's with her. You can see them if you want. They're just right through there." He said and pointed to a door behind the doctor's desk.
Sydney thanked him and opened the door. A young female doctor was talking to Molly, checking her pulse and heart rate and making sure she wasn't too fearful. When they realized Sydney had entered the room Melanie said excitedly, "Molly woke up!"
"That's good. Could you please excuse us for a moment?" Sydney asked the doctor. She nodded and left.
"Girls, what I'm about to say may surprise you." she said as soon as the doctor had closed the door.
"What? Where's Daddy?" Molly asked, looking around.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Daddy...isn't himself at the moment." Sydney said, trying not to let them see the tears that were making their way to the surface.
"What do you mean?" Melanie asked, looking at her for answers.
"Well...there isn't an easy way to explain this. Daddy was doubled." Sydney said, thankful for the twins being young enough they couldn't really understand it.
"What does that mean? He was cloned?" Molly asked, looking confused.
"In a way. Another man changed his appearance to make himself look like Daddy. He...was the one in the hospital." Sydney tried to explain.
"He was? But then where is Daddy?" Melanie asked, sounding fearful.
"That's what we don't know yet, but we're working on it. For the meantime, Mommy needs you two to be really brave, ok? Can you do that?" Sydney asked, surrendering to the tears.
"Yeah Mommy. We'll be extra brave. And when you find out who was cloned as Daddy, kill him because he stole Daddy's life!" Melanie said.
Sydney laughed. "We can't do that. He has some stuff that might be able to help us find Daddy." Sydney said. And it wasn't just the fact that he could prove to be valuable to the CIA, but the fact that he and Sydney had a history. A history Sydney wasn't keen on remembering.
What you need to do is go home with Grandpa for me while I go talk to the bad man." Sydney said.
"But you just got here! You can't leave us again!" Melanie complained. Molly nodded her agreement.
"I'm not leaving you! I'm going to try to find Daddy." Sydney promised.
"Ok. But only if you find Daddy and kill the bad man as soon as you're allowed to." Melanie said. Sydney smiled.
"I'm going to drop you two off at Grandpa's house and I'm going back to talk to the bad man. And then we'll celebrate your return." Sydney promised. After she checked Molly and herself out of the hospital she dropped the twins off at Jack's house and went back to the CIA.
Once again she showed her badge to the guard in charge of the prison, walked by Lauren's cell and went into the one at the very back with the isolated room that was soundproof and had extra security.
As soon as she entered the cell, she was bombarded with emotions she hadn't felt in several years. Seeing Danny's face breathing the same air as her, looking into her eyes without being dead...it was a different feeling, but somehow, Sydney was getting used to the fact that maybe people who supposedly died weren't really dead.
"So...you're alive." Sydney finally said, trying to stay all business.
"Yeah. That time...I wasn't dead in the bathtub. I was only unconscious. That blood...it wasn't all mine. That guy shed some of his own blood. Some of it was paint, too." Danny said, trying to inform her of how he stayed alive.
"I'm not here to talk to you about how you're alive after all these years. I don't want to catch up on our personal lives with you. I want to know why you were doubled as Agent Vaughn." Sydney said.
"Sydney, don't do this. Don't torture yourself. Just because you're now realizing I'm alive and am a bad guy doesn't mean you have to be ice cold to me. I'm here to talk if you need me." Danny said, looking desperate for an ounce of the same feelings he and Sydney had once shared.
"No! You pointed it out already! You're a bad guy! I don't have normal conversations with bad guys! I'm here for information. Why were you doubled as Michael Vaughn?" Sydney demanded.
Danny sighed. "Need to know, I'm afraid. All I can tell you is that SD-6 or whatever they were called changed their minds about me and saw me as an opportunity. They took me out of the house after you left and took me to an SD-6 safehouse. There they nursed me back to health. At the time I had lost enough blood it resulted in amnesia. I had amnesia. I couldn't remember a damn thing. They led me to believe I was an agent of SD-6. They told me it was a branch of the alliance and that I was on a mission to retrieve a Rimbaldi artifact, but my team was ambushed. All the agents I was supposedly on the mission with was killed and I had been captured. They had tortured me until an emergency extraction team rescued me and brought me back to LA. When the Alliance was brought down for good, I this guy who I never met called Arvin Sloane arranged for me to be brought to this group of people in development of being an agency. They were called the Covenant, and told me I was now an agent of the Covenant. Now here I am, with my old love." Danny said.
"That still doesn't explain how you were doubled, or why." Sydney pointed out.
"Later. Right now I want to hear about you. How are you?" Danny asked, sounding like he had back at the house they had shared.
"That's absolutely none of your business, although now that you ask, I guess I can tell you that I have two daughters. Twins." Sydney said.
"Really? Congratulations." Danny said, sounding sincere.
"Enough already! Danny, please tell me why you were doubled." Sydney said, frustrated tears coming out.
"Ok, ok. It was a Covenant thing. They had stolen Project Helix from the people who developed it. Seeing it as an opportunity they told me I was going to be doubled, but they had no idea who to double me as. To make a long story short, they wanted to know what the CIA knew, so they doubled me as this guy called Michael Vaughn. I wasn't too thrilled about it until I realized he was romantically involved with you." Danny said.
"How long have you been doubled?" Sydney demanded.
"A year." Danny answered.
"Where is Vaughn?" Sydney asked.
Danny sighed. "I was afraid of that. I don't want to tell you Syd, I really don't. But, since he means the world to you, I guess I'll tell you that he's in Sweden. Alive and perfectly healthy. The only problem is that he's in a heavily guarded Covenant prison." He said.
"Good. Thanks for telling me that. But, the CIA is going to go to Sweden to get him out of there, and you will be going with us." Sydney said, fixing him with the coldest stare she could muster.
A/N: Chapter 20. Sorry for the late update but we had Mother's Day stuff to do. And I was watching the 2nd season because my parents have been hogging the computer. That's excellent news to me. My family has discovered digital photography. Oh joy! :(
A/N: This story is S/V so all you loyal Sydney/Vaughn's out there, don't think she's going to fall for Danny again. Anyway, here's chap 20!
"How can this be?" Sydney asked her dad as soon as three agents went back into the interrogation room to escort Danny Hecht to a cell.
"It's entirely possible that he was somehow extracted from your house after you left to see Sloane. Obviously he hadn't been killed, and was nursed back to health, where he was recruited by some organization. But I cannot tell you a certain answer until we get some answers out of him." Jack told her, starting to stand up, but Sydney put her hand on her dad's arm.
"Dad, don't go to hard on him." she said, forgetting the fact that her old fiancé now worked for the bad guys.
"I'll try. But...I can't promise you anything. We do need some answers, and I have a feeling he has most or all of them." Jack replied, and gently pulled his arm out of Sydney's grip and left to go to Danny's cell.
Without warning, Sydney started to cry. Everything was happening so fast. Melanie and Molly's safe return to her, realizing Danny was alive, and was doubled as her ex-husband. Was Michael Vaughn even alive? God she hoped so. She wanted to tell him she was sorry. Sorry for taking everything out on him, sorry she had never given him a second chance, sorry for not saying sorry earlier.
She left the Rotunda and made her way back to the hospital and unlocked the room where Melanie and Molly were, but they weren't there.
"Excuse me, where are the two little girls who were in here?" she asked anxiously to a passing doctor.
He smiled. Molly Bristow woke from her coma. She's just getting checked up, and Melanie's with her. You can see them if you want. They're just right through there." He said and pointed to a door behind the doctor's desk.
Sydney thanked him and opened the door. A young female doctor was talking to Molly, checking her pulse and heart rate and making sure she wasn't too fearful. When they realized Sydney had entered the room Melanie said excitedly, "Molly woke up!"
"That's good. Could you please excuse us for a moment?" Sydney asked the doctor. She nodded and left.
"Girls, what I'm about to say may surprise you." she said as soon as the doctor had closed the door.
"What? Where's Daddy?" Molly asked, looking around.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Daddy...isn't himself at the moment." Sydney said, trying not to let them see the tears that were making their way to the surface.
"What do you mean?" Melanie asked, looking at her for answers.
"Well...there isn't an easy way to explain this. Daddy was doubled." Sydney said, thankful for the twins being young enough they couldn't really understand it.
"What does that mean? He was cloned?" Molly asked, looking confused.
"In a way. Another man changed his appearance to make himself look like Daddy. He...was the one in the hospital." Sydney tried to explain.
"He was? But then where is Daddy?" Melanie asked, sounding fearful.
"That's what we don't know yet, but we're working on it. For the meantime, Mommy needs you two to be really brave, ok? Can you do that?" Sydney asked, surrendering to the tears.
"Yeah Mommy. We'll be extra brave. And when you find out who was cloned as Daddy, kill him because he stole Daddy's life!" Melanie said.
Sydney laughed. "We can't do that. He has some stuff that might be able to help us find Daddy." Sydney said. And it wasn't just the fact that he could prove to be valuable to the CIA, but the fact that he and Sydney had a history. A history Sydney wasn't keen on remembering.
What you need to do is go home with Grandpa for me while I go talk to the bad man." Sydney said.
"But you just got here! You can't leave us again!" Melanie complained. Molly nodded her agreement.
"I'm not leaving you! I'm going to try to find Daddy." Sydney promised.
"Ok. But only if you find Daddy and kill the bad man as soon as you're allowed to." Melanie said. Sydney smiled.
"I'm going to drop you two off at Grandpa's house and I'm going back to talk to the bad man. And then we'll celebrate your return." Sydney promised. After she checked Molly and herself out of the hospital she dropped the twins off at Jack's house and went back to the CIA.
Once again she showed her badge to the guard in charge of the prison, walked by Lauren's cell and went into the one at the very back with the isolated room that was soundproof and had extra security.
As soon as she entered the cell, she was bombarded with emotions she hadn't felt in several years. Seeing Danny's face breathing the same air as her, looking into her eyes without being dead...it was a different feeling, but somehow, Sydney was getting used to the fact that maybe people who supposedly died weren't really dead.
"So...you're alive." Sydney finally said, trying to stay all business.
"Yeah. That time...I wasn't dead in the bathtub. I was only unconscious. That blood...it wasn't all mine. That guy shed some of his own blood. Some of it was paint, too." Danny said, trying to inform her of how he stayed alive.
"I'm not here to talk to you about how you're alive after all these years. I don't want to catch up on our personal lives with you. I want to know why you were doubled as Agent Vaughn." Sydney said.
"Sydney, don't do this. Don't torture yourself. Just because you're now realizing I'm alive and am a bad guy doesn't mean you have to be ice cold to me. I'm here to talk if you need me." Danny said, looking desperate for an ounce of the same feelings he and Sydney had once shared.
"No! You pointed it out already! You're a bad guy! I don't have normal conversations with bad guys! I'm here for information. Why were you doubled as Michael Vaughn?" Sydney demanded.
Danny sighed. "Need to know, I'm afraid. All I can tell you is that SD-6 or whatever they were called changed their minds about me and saw me as an opportunity. They took me out of the house after you left and took me to an SD-6 safehouse. There they nursed me back to health. At the time I had lost enough blood it resulted in amnesia. I had amnesia. I couldn't remember a damn thing. They led me to believe I was an agent of SD-6. They told me it was a branch of the alliance and that I was on a mission to retrieve a Rimbaldi artifact, but my team was ambushed. All the agents I was supposedly on the mission with was killed and I had been captured. They had tortured me until an emergency extraction team rescued me and brought me back to LA. When the Alliance was brought down for good, I this guy who I never met called Arvin Sloane arranged for me to be brought to this group of people in development of being an agency. They were called the Covenant, and told me I was now an agent of the Covenant. Now here I am, with my old love." Danny said.
"That still doesn't explain how you were doubled, or why." Sydney pointed out.
"Later. Right now I want to hear about you. How are you?" Danny asked, sounding like he had back at the house they had shared.
"That's absolutely none of your business, although now that you ask, I guess I can tell you that I have two daughters. Twins." Sydney said.
"Really? Congratulations." Danny said, sounding sincere.
"Enough already! Danny, please tell me why you were doubled." Sydney said, frustrated tears coming out.
"Ok, ok. It was a Covenant thing. They had stolen Project Helix from the people who developed it. Seeing it as an opportunity they told me I was going to be doubled, but they had no idea who to double me as. To make a long story short, they wanted to know what the CIA knew, so they doubled me as this guy called Michael Vaughn. I wasn't too thrilled about it until I realized he was romantically involved with you." Danny said.
"How long have you been doubled?" Sydney demanded.
"A year." Danny answered.
"Where is Vaughn?" Sydney asked.
Danny sighed. "I was afraid of that. I don't want to tell you Syd, I really don't. But, since he means the world to you, I guess I'll tell you that he's in Sweden. Alive and perfectly healthy. The only problem is that he's in a heavily guarded Covenant prison." He said.
"Good. Thanks for telling me that. But, the CIA is going to go to Sweden to get him out of there, and you will be going with us." Sydney said, fixing him with the coldest stare she could muster.
A/N: Chapter 20. Sorry for the late update but we had Mother's Day stuff to do. And I was watching the 2nd season because my parents have been hogging the computer. That's excellent news to me. My family has discovered digital photography. Oh joy! :(