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A/N: I updated!! Aren't you all proud of me??? This is the final chapter, but because of the lack of reviews for chap 27 with the exception of Natalie, I am not sure anymore if there should be a sequel. If I get four or more reviews for this chapter, than there will definitely be one! Anyway, here's the final chapter!!
They got to-go boxes for their unfinished dinner, than sped to the Rotunda where Dixon, Jack, and Weiss were standing in a semi-circle, all with their arms crossed, waiting impatiently for Sydney and Vaughn to arrive.
"Now that they have decided to grace us with their presence, I can start. Danny talked. We now have a location as to the whereabouts on Melanie and Molly Bristow, and you will be going at the first opportunity." Dixon briefly explained.
"Wait. Where exactly are they?" Sydney asked anxiously, hiding back grateful tears that they had FINALLY found her daughters, after six years of never being able to see them both side by side.
"They are currently in Switzerland, so we need to move quickly. You leave tonight, and are heading to an abandoned laboratory that was built in the fifties. The people who built it wanted it in a remote location, so the chances of stumbling into any innocent people are very slim. The lab is big, do they could be anywhere inside. Arrest all the Covenant agents you can, and return home. That's all." Dixon said, dismissing them, but Weiss stopped him.
"Sir, you know how Molly supposedly is working for the Covenant? Well, do we return her to Sydney and Mike along with Melanie, or do we arrest her?" he asked, sounding more amused than serious.
"She's just a kid. We're not going to arrest her on terrorist charges. She's young enough that she was probably just doing it to stay alive." Dixon told him, and this time left before anyone else could ask him anything.
"How many people exactly are going with us?" Sydney asked Jack.
"Enough that no Covenant agent can get away, but few enough that the Covenant won't suspect we're there. My suggestion is that you get some rest. Go with Vaughn, prepare the twin's rooms. If I understand correctly, you only have one room just for Melanie." Jack suggested.
Sydney nodded and went with Vaughn to reorganize Melanie's room so that Molly could fit in there, too. "Vaughn." Sydney started. He looked up from moving a dresser to the other side of the room.
"Yeah?"
"I'm sure you'd rather come back here rather than live in an empty apartment. Melanie and Molly would sure like to have their father and Donovan living in the same house as them." Sydney pointed out.
"Actually, I don't have Donovan anymore. He passed away of age. I have a chocolate lab now. His name is Hershey." Vaughn said sadly.
Sydney's hopeful expression was replaced by sadness. "You never told me he died." She pouted playfully.
"It never came up. We had...other things that preoccupied our minds. Still do, actually." Vaughn replied.
"Not for long. Soon we'll have our daughters, and this whole thing will be behind us." Sydney said, dropping the basket of stuffed animals Melanie always kept around and nudging against him, hoping he would get the message.
He did.
"Sydney, why did we ever get divorced?" he asked as he leaned over to kiss her.
Sydney shrugged. "The circumstances, and the whole kidnapping thing. I was angrier than I had when I first realized my mother was still alive. I pushed people away when they were just trying to help, and the last thing I wanted at the time was someone to tell me that continuing the investigation was pointless since she would most likely turn up dead somewhere."
Vaughn pulled away. "You were afraid that I would think that?" he asked incredulously.
"That's what you wrote in the letter. The letter you wrote the day before the divorce was final. You said that there were more important things going on in the world than the disappearance of a child." Sydney said, not being able to believe him.
"Syd, whatever letter you're referring to, I never wrote it." Vaughn pointed out matter-of-factly.
Sydney stared at him incredulously. "Of course you did! It was before the time you were doubled!" Sydney snapped, getting angrier and angrier at him by the minute. Why would he lie about this? He never gave it to her; that had been Danny's doing when he was still doubled as Vaughn, but he couldn't have wrote it. It had been two years ago, and Danny has only been doubled for one year.
"Syd come on." Vaughn pleaded desperately.
"What? What do you want me to do?" she snapped, leaving the room. Vaughn followed her.
"Here me out. They are my daughters as much as they are yours, and I would never try to make you believe that the CIA had a good reason for giving up the case so easily. Yes there are important issues going on that deserves the CIA's attention, but none of that is as important as Melanie and Molly. I expected you to know that. Now I realize that proposing a second time was bad judgment on my part. Maybe now isn't the time to get married. Someday, but not right now. I'm sure you can finish up without me. I need to prepare myself anyway. See you tonight." Vaughn said, hesitated a moment as if expecting her to tell him no, and to stay with her, but when she didn't, he left, leaving a very disgruntled Sydney alone once again.
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In Zurich, Sydney refused to look at Vaughn, knowing she'd either say something she'd regret, or make a foolish decision that would cost an agent his or her life. So she stayed near Jack, while Vaughn stayed with Weiss. An onlooker would think that they were pretending to be in kindergarten with the way they carried on.
"We need to move." an agent pointed out to Jack. He nodded and signaled for them to walk towards their destination. Sydney carefully followed Jack, partly because she didn't want to look at Vaughn and realize just how screwed up their relationship had become.
Luckily Vaughn had the same feelings. As they grew closer to the lab that the Covenant held the twins, Sydney found herself growing very anxious. When the lab came into view, they approached more cautiously until they were just thirty feet from the door. "When we raid this building, you shoot as many people as you can with your tranq guns. No one escapes, understand? Our first priorities are Melanie and Molly, but that doesn't mean we don't make any arrests. Hopefully, by the end of the night, the Covenant will no longer exist." Jack said, intentionally filling the agents with adrenaline so that they had better chances of succeeding.
Everyone nodded their understanding, and when Jack felt everyone was ready, he made the signal for them to go. Everyone stormed inside the building, catching Covenant agents off guard, but Sydney was surprised by the lack of agents. There couldn't have been more than ten inside that she saw. Where were they all? Was it possible that they suspected that this raid would happen?
But that was impossible. If they suspected that, there would be no one here. She heard Sark's voice coming from somewhere below her, and Sydney knew that was where she'd find her daughters.
"I'm heading to the basement." Sydney said in her comm, although Sydney couldn't tell if anyone heard her, but she really didn't care. She found the stairwell leading to the basement in record time and, slowly and carefully, went to rescue her daughters and bring them home once and for all.
That task turned out to be more difficult than she had anticipated. All she heard was Sark. He was talking, but to who? And then she heard it. Molly's voice.
"Julian, this is turning out to be pointless. She isn't talking." she told Sark. Those two sentences broke Sydney's heart. She would've thought that no child of hers would talk to Sark as if he was an equal.
"Patience Molly dear. No one is down here except the two of us not counting your sister. We have all the time in the world." Sark told her.
"Not anymore!" Sydney burst in, her gun pointed directly in between Sark's eyes. Molly paled at the sight of Sydney, but besides that, didn't show any emotion, so Sydney couldn't tell whether she was angry or relieved that she was here to rescue her and Melanie.
"Ah, Miss Bristow. I was beginning to wonder when you would arrive. Great timing I must say. Melanie here, is about to change the world." Sark said, and gestured to Melanie, but Sydney didn't avert her eyes. She had known Sark too long to be fooled by him. It was just a trick so he would get a chance to fight her and/or kill her.
"Let them go. You no longer need them." Sydney said angrily to him.
"See, that's where you're wrong. You're daughters are the most important children on the face of the earth, and you know why?" Sark asked, questioningly.
"Enlighten me." Sydney said coldly.
"As I'm sure you know already, Rambaldi made a prophecy about you Sydney, saying how you would be the one to bring forth his works, but he made another prophecy. A prophecy so huge, that it needed to be in secret, and to find the location of it, you had to match it's coordinates perfectly.
"That's what we were working on for so long. That was what we spent our days working on, trying to pinpoint its location so we could be a step above the CIA, but when we did find it, it turned out to be much more important than who had more Rambaldi artifacts. No, there were two pages. Both had drawings of one girl, but it was kind of odd. It went into detail about how the two girls were to be together in order for the greatest revelation of all time to take place. That was when we found out that maybe, it wasn't one girl, but two. Twins. But they weren't just any twins. They were the daughters of The Chosen One herself. So after we discovered that the twins needed to fulfill Rambaldi's obsession weren't even born yet, we waited patiently for them to be born. When the date arrived explaining when the twins were to be born, we went to the hospital, and managed to kidnap one of the girls. That girl was Molly Bristow. We exchanged the doctor that was originally in charge if their births with one of our own.
"That doctor was to tell you that Molly had died of heart failure. We figured we would get the other twin soon enough. And soon enough we did. We spied on your family for the longest time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to present itself so that we could get the other twin, Melanie. That opportunity showed up when you three went on a picnic when Melanie was four-years-old. You had gone to get a drink, and Michael Vaughn had gone to get the drinks he left in the car. You figured that Melanie would be safe if you had your backs turned on her for one moment, but you couldn't have been more wrong.
"We took her right under your noses, and the beauty of it was that both you and Vaughn blamed each other. We just destroyed your relationship in the process. But as time went on, we found it would be easier if Melanie believed herself to be someone else, so we tried to brainwash her. Unsuccessfully as it turns out. Over the course of time, we tried to conduct simple experiments on her. They were so minute that she didn't even realize it, but we soon learned that it would be a complete failure to try the experiment on just one twin. They needed each other.
"So Cole, Lauren, and myself along with Melanie, traveled to Munich so that the twins could meet each other and get to know one another. We wanted them to trust each other, so in order to do that we reasoned that the logical thing to do would let them go on a mission together. And, not only did it work; it brought them closer with you and Vaughn. They almost got away too, but thankfully we convinced Molly that if we ever got separated, she was to pretend to be a Covenant agent so that the 'project' would be complete. Little did any of us know, that this 'project' would change the world." Sark explained.
"I don't believe you. What you're saying is the most evil and corrupt..." she didn't have time to finish. Her comm went off.
"Syd...out...trouble..." the voice on the other side said. It sounded a lot like Vaughn. Unfortunately the comm was going haywire, and Sydney couldn't understand what was going on except for that there was trouble. Usually with Vaughn, whenever he mentioned trouble, the best thing he wanted Sydney to do was to get out of it.
Sydney took out her tranq gun and shot Sark before anyone knew what was happening. Sydney instantly went for Melanie so she could get her out of whatever she was hooked onto, but was ambushed by Molly.
"Mommy, I'm so sorry! I'm sorry for making you think I had betrayed you, and Daddy, and Melanie, and the CIA! I had to! Sark promised..." she couldn't finish, and Sydney didn't expect her to.
"It's ok sweetie. Nothing is going to happen to you anymore. The bad men are gone." Sydney assured her daughter that she had thought dead for so long.
"Mommy, I can get her out. I watched Sark put her in it." Molly offered and pushed in a code of letters and numbers, and soon the helmet was off and Melanie saw what was going on around her for the first time in god knew how long. When she saw Sydney she ran towards her and embraced her in the biggest hug she could.
"Mommy, please don't leave me again! I was so scared!" Melanie cried into Sydney's stomach since she was too small to reach her shoulder.
"Don't worry. Nothing's going to happen to you Melly Belly." Sydney said, crying as well.
"I saw him Mommy! I saw Rambaldi!" Melanie said as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
Sydney shook her head. You don't have to worry about Rambaldi anymore. I am so sick of hearing that man's name! It doesn't matter. Right now we need to leave." Sydney told her and together, they went upstairs to the first floor, but what they found was the most gruesome thing ever.
The CIA team was laying together in a mass of blood, dead as ever. Sydney shielded Melanie and Molly's eyes and walked around them slowly, looking for Vaughn, Weiss, or Jack in the pile. When she didn't see them, she became hopeful that they had made it alive.
"Good job Agent Bristow. We were about ready to search the entire building looking for these two, but I see you have saved us the trouble. You can hand them to me now." a deep voice said behind her.
Sydney turned around and saw a huge, heavyset man with, what he had left of it, gray hair. He looked like he should've been laying in front of a TV somewhere watching football instead of going on missions looking for innocent children.
Somehow the twins knew him because they cowered by her, whimpering pathetically. "Mommy don't give us to him! He's a bad man!" Melanie whispered to her, but it was loud enough that the man heard her.
"I wouldn't expect anything more or less from you Anna." the man said, laughing evilly.
"My name is Melanie, you big jerk!" Melanie said, now more angry than afraid.
"Oh I'm sorry. Melanie!" the man said with mock fear. Sydney lifted her arm that still clutched the .45 mm gun and shot him in the heart. He looked at his wound, as if surprised that she would actually shoot him.
"You'll be sorry Agent Bristow. You'll see why soon enough." The man said, but then fell to the ground, dead as well.
"Who was that man?" Sydney asked as they made their way quickly towards the door.
"Ben Schol, although he's known as Snake. He's been terrorizing me ever since I was first kidnapped." Melanie explained.
They stepped outside and what they saw made their hearts stop. A team of about fifteen agents, who probably worked for the Covenant, or were another elite group of assassins, were holding Vaughn hostage, and every agent had their guns pointed to Vaughn. To Sydney's horror, they were laser guns.
"Snake has ordered us to kill this man if you killed him. He said if he wasn't out in twenty minutes to kill him anyway. It's been seventeen." One of the agents told her with a snide sneer on his face.
"Let him go. It's not him you want. It's me." Sydney said and let go of her beloved daughters and stepped forward.
The agent sneered wider. "I doubt that you want us to sacrifice you for this man in front of your little girls. But, we have a deal to make with you. Give yourself to us, and we'll release this man but we'll be taking your daughters with you. But if the man stays with us, you are free to return to your home with the twins. It is your choice. But, you only have thirty seconds to decide." The agent said.
Sydney glanced at Vaughn, whose expression said enough. 'Take the girls and leave me be, I'll be fine.' The twins were crying even harder now. She hesitated too long though, for the agent motioned to one other agent and before they knew it, had shot Vaughn in the stomach.
"Too late. Now we're going to kill you all!" the agent said, basically jumping up and down with delight.
"Not really." A voice said behind Sydney and the twins. Sydney sighed with relief. Jack was standing behind her, holding two guns to the crowd, but they weren't ordinary guns. These could take out three people with one bullet.
He started firing at random, killing everyone except Sydney, Melanie, Molly, and maybe Vaughn, but Sydney couldn't tell if he was already dead, which made it even worse than if she knew he was for sure dead.
"Sydney, take the twins and run!" Jack ordered his daughter. He didn't need to tell her twice.
"Come on!" Sydney said and grabbed Melanie and Molly's hands and took off running in a random direction. She only stopped when it started to rain fiercely. They ducked into an alley with what looked like a roof and huddled next to one another. Molly grabbed a blanket that was stuffed away in an old TV box. Sydney wrapped it around the three of them and got as close in as they could.
"Mommy, is Daddy dead?" Melanie asked through tears.
"I don't know honey. I jus don't know." Sydney replied, crying herself. The twins put their heads on either one of Sydney's shoulders at the same time and tried to cry themselves to sleep.
"I'm scared." Molly told her, although it was hard to understand her through her muffled sobbing.
"So am I. But we'll be ok. We will be ok." Sydney said, wanting to reassure her daughters, but failing to reassure herself.
A/N: Did you like it? Remember at least four reviews before I post the sequel!! Tell me what you think!! Is it sequel worthy?
A/N: I updated!! Aren't you all proud of me??? This is the final chapter, but because of the lack of reviews for chap 27 with the exception of Natalie, I am not sure anymore if there should be a sequel. If I get four or more reviews for this chapter, than there will definitely be one! Anyway, here's the final chapter!!
They got to-go boxes for their unfinished dinner, than sped to the Rotunda where Dixon, Jack, and Weiss were standing in a semi-circle, all with their arms crossed, waiting impatiently for Sydney and Vaughn to arrive.
"Now that they have decided to grace us with their presence, I can start. Danny talked. We now have a location as to the whereabouts on Melanie and Molly Bristow, and you will be going at the first opportunity." Dixon briefly explained.
"Wait. Where exactly are they?" Sydney asked anxiously, hiding back grateful tears that they had FINALLY found her daughters, after six years of never being able to see them both side by side.
"They are currently in Switzerland, so we need to move quickly. You leave tonight, and are heading to an abandoned laboratory that was built in the fifties. The people who built it wanted it in a remote location, so the chances of stumbling into any innocent people are very slim. The lab is big, do they could be anywhere inside. Arrest all the Covenant agents you can, and return home. That's all." Dixon said, dismissing them, but Weiss stopped him.
"Sir, you know how Molly supposedly is working for the Covenant? Well, do we return her to Sydney and Mike along with Melanie, or do we arrest her?" he asked, sounding more amused than serious.
"She's just a kid. We're not going to arrest her on terrorist charges. She's young enough that she was probably just doing it to stay alive." Dixon told him, and this time left before anyone else could ask him anything.
"How many people exactly are going with us?" Sydney asked Jack.
"Enough that no Covenant agent can get away, but few enough that the Covenant won't suspect we're there. My suggestion is that you get some rest. Go with Vaughn, prepare the twin's rooms. If I understand correctly, you only have one room just for Melanie." Jack suggested.
Sydney nodded and went with Vaughn to reorganize Melanie's room so that Molly could fit in there, too. "Vaughn." Sydney started. He looked up from moving a dresser to the other side of the room.
"Yeah?"
"I'm sure you'd rather come back here rather than live in an empty apartment. Melanie and Molly would sure like to have their father and Donovan living in the same house as them." Sydney pointed out.
"Actually, I don't have Donovan anymore. He passed away of age. I have a chocolate lab now. His name is Hershey." Vaughn said sadly.
Sydney's hopeful expression was replaced by sadness. "You never told me he died." She pouted playfully.
"It never came up. We had...other things that preoccupied our minds. Still do, actually." Vaughn replied.
"Not for long. Soon we'll have our daughters, and this whole thing will be behind us." Sydney said, dropping the basket of stuffed animals Melanie always kept around and nudging against him, hoping he would get the message.
He did.
"Sydney, why did we ever get divorced?" he asked as he leaned over to kiss her.
Sydney shrugged. "The circumstances, and the whole kidnapping thing. I was angrier than I had when I first realized my mother was still alive. I pushed people away when they were just trying to help, and the last thing I wanted at the time was someone to tell me that continuing the investigation was pointless since she would most likely turn up dead somewhere."
Vaughn pulled away. "You were afraid that I would think that?" he asked incredulously.
"That's what you wrote in the letter. The letter you wrote the day before the divorce was final. You said that there were more important things going on in the world than the disappearance of a child." Sydney said, not being able to believe him.
"Syd, whatever letter you're referring to, I never wrote it." Vaughn pointed out matter-of-factly.
Sydney stared at him incredulously. "Of course you did! It was before the time you were doubled!" Sydney snapped, getting angrier and angrier at him by the minute. Why would he lie about this? He never gave it to her; that had been Danny's doing when he was still doubled as Vaughn, but he couldn't have wrote it. It had been two years ago, and Danny has only been doubled for one year.
"Syd come on." Vaughn pleaded desperately.
"What? What do you want me to do?" she snapped, leaving the room. Vaughn followed her.
"Here me out. They are my daughters as much as they are yours, and I would never try to make you believe that the CIA had a good reason for giving up the case so easily. Yes there are important issues going on that deserves the CIA's attention, but none of that is as important as Melanie and Molly. I expected you to know that. Now I realize that proposing a second time was bad judgment on my part. Maybe now isn't the time to get married. Someday, but not right now. I'm sure you can finish up without me. I need to prepare myself anyway. See you tonight." Vaughn said, hesitated a moment as if expecting her to tell him no, and to stay with her, but when she didn't, he left, leaving a very disgruntled Sydney alone once again.
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In Zurich, Sydney refused to look at Vaughn, knowing she'd either say something she'd regret, or make a foolish decision that would cost an agent his or her life. So she stayed near Jack, while Vaughn stayed with Weiss. An onlooker would think that they were pretending to be in kindergarten with the way they carried on.
"We need to move." an agent pointed out to Jack. He nodded and signaled for them to walk towards their destination. Sydney carefully followed Jack, partly because she didn't want to look at Vaughn and realize just how screwed up their relationship had become.
Luckily Vaughn had the same feelings. As they grew closer to the lab that the Covenant held the twins, Sydney found herself growing very anxious. When the lab came into view, they approached more cautiously until they were just thirty feet from the door. "When we raid this building, you shoot as many people as you can with your tranq guns. No one escapes, understand? Our first priorities are Melanie and Molly, but that doesn't mean we don't make any arrests. Hopefully, by the end of the night, the Covenant will no longer exist." Jack said, intentionally filling the agents with adrenaline so that they had better chances of succeeding.
Everyone nodded their understanding, and when Jack felt everyone was ready, he made the signal for them to go. Everyone stormed inside the building, catching Covenant agents off guard, but Sydney was surprised by the lack of agents. There couldn't have been more than ten inside that she saw. Where were they all? Was it possible that they suspected that this raid would happen?
But that was impossible. If they suspected that, there would be no one here. She heard Sark's voice coming from somewhere below her, and Sydney knew that was where she'd find her daughters.
"I'm heading to the basement." Sydney said in her comm, although Sydney couldn't tell if anyone heard her, but she really didn't care. She found the stairwell leading to the basement in record time and, slowly and carefully, went to rescue her daughters and bring them home once and for all.
That task turned out to be more difficult than she had anticipated. All she heard was Sark. He was talking, but to who? And then she heard it. Molly's voice.
"Julian, this is turning out to be pointless. She isn't talking." she told Sark. Those two sentences broke Sydney's heart. She would've thought that no child of hers would talk to Sark as if he was an equal.
"Patience Molly dear. No one is down here except the two of us not counting your sister. We have all the time in the world." Sark told her.
"Not anymore!" Sydney burst in, her gun pointed directly in between Sark's eyes. Molly paled at the sight of Sydney, but besides that, didn't show any emotion, so Sydney couldn't tell whether she was angry or relieved that she was here to rescue her and Melanie.
"Ah, Miss Bristow. I was beginning to wonder when you would arrive. Great timing I must say. Melanie here, is about to change the world." Sark said, and gestured to Melanie, but Sydney didn't avert her eyes. She had known Sark too long to be fooled by him. It was just a trick so he would get a chance to fight her and/or kill her.
"Let them go. You no longer need them." Sydney said angrily to him.
"See, that's where you're wrong. You're daughters are the most important children on the face of the earth, and you know why?" Sark asked, questioningly.
"Enlighten me." Sydney said coldly.
"As I'm sure you know already, Rambaldi made a prophecy about you Sydney, saying how you would be the one to bring forth his works, but he made another prophecy. A prophecy so huge, that it needed to be in secret, and to find the location of it, you had to match it's coordinates perfectly.
"That's what we were working on for so long. That was what we spent our days working on, trying to pinpoint its location so we could be a step above the CIA, but when we did find it, it turned out to be much more important than who had more Rambaldi artifacts. No, there were two pages. Both had drawings of one girl, but it was kind of odd. It went into detail about how the two girls were to be together in order for the greatest revelation of all time to take place. That was when we found out that maybe, it wasn't one girl, but two. Twins. But they weren't just any twins. They were the daughters of The Chosen One herself. So after we discovered that the twins needed to fulfill Rambaldi's obsession weren't even born yet, we waited patiently for them to be born. When the date arrived explaining when the twins were to be born, we went to the hospital, and managed to kidnap one of the girls. That girl was Molly Bristow. We exchanged the doctor that was originally in charge if their births with one of our own.
"That doctor was to tell you that Molly had died of heart failure. We figured we would get the other twin soon enough. And soon enough we did. We spied on your family for the longest time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to present itself so that we could get the other twin, Melanie. That opportunity showed up when you three went on a picnic when Melanie was four-years-old. You had gone to get a drink, and Michael Vaughn had gone to get the drinks he left in the car. You figured that Melanie would be safe if you had your backs turned on her for one moment, but you couldn't have been more wrong.
"We took her right under your noses, and the beauty of it was that both you and Vaughn blamed each other. We just destroyed your relationship in the process. But as time went on, we found it would be easier if Melanie believed herself to be someone else, so we tried to brainwash her. Unsuccessfully as it turns out. Over the course of time, we tried to conduct simple experiments on her. They were so minute that she didn't even realize it, but we soon learned that it would be a complete failure to try the experiment on just one twin. They needed each other.
"So Cole, Lauren, and myself along with Melanie, traveled to Munich so that the twins could meet each other and get to know one another. We wanted them to trust each other, so in order to do that we reasoned that the logical thing to do would let them go on a mission together. And, not only did it work; it brought them closer with you and Vaughn. They almost got away too, but thankfully we convinced Molly that if we ever got separated, she was to pretend to be a Covenant agent so that the 'project' would be complete. Little did any of us know, that this 'project' would change the world." Sark explained.
"I don't believe you. What you're saying is the most evil and corrupt..." she didn't have time to finish. Her comm went off.
"Syd...out...trouble..." the voice on the other side said. It sounded a lot like Vaughn. Unfortunately the comm was going haywire, and Sydney couldn't understand what was going on except for that there was trouble. Usually with Vaughn, whenever he mentioned trouble, the best thing he wanted Sydney to do was to get out of it.
Sydney took out her tranq gun and shot Sark before anyone knew what was happening. Sydney instantly went for Melanie so she could get her out of whatever she was hooked onto, but was ambushed by Molly.
"Mommy, I'm so sorry! I'm sorry for making you think I had betrayed you, and Daddy, and Melanie, and the CIA! I had to! Sark promised..." she couldn't finish, and Sydney didn't expect her to.
"It's ok sweetie. Nothing is going to happen to you anymore. The bad men are gone." Sydney assured her daughter that she had thought dead for so long.
"Mommy, I can get her out. I watched Sark put her in it." Molly offered and pushed in a code of letters and numbers, and soon the helmet was off and Melanie saw what was going on around her for the first time in god knew how long. When she saw Sydney she ran towards her and embraced her in the biggest hug she could.
"Mommy, please don't leave me again! I was so scared!" Melanie cried into Sydney's stomach since she was too small to reach her shoulder.
"Don't worry. Nothing's going to happen to you Melly Belly." Sydney said, crying as well.
"I saw him Mommy! I saw Rambaldi!" Melanie said as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
Sydney shook her head. You don't have to worry about Rambaldi anymore. I am so sick of hearing that man's name! It doesn't matter. Right now we need to leave." Sydney told her and together, they went upstairs to the first floor, but what they found was the most gruesome thing ever.
The CIA team was laying together in a mass of blood, dead as ever. Sydney shielded Melanie and Molly's eyes and walked around them slowly, looking for Vaughn, Weiss, or Jack in the pile. When she didn't see them, she became hopeful that they had made it alive.
"Good job Agent Bristow. We were about ready to search the entire building looking for these two, but I see you have saved us the trouble. You can hand them to me now." a deep voice said behind her.
Sydney turned around and saw a huge, heavyset man with, what he had left of it, gray hair. He looked like he should've been laying in front of a TV somewhere watching football instead of going on missions looking for innocent children.
Somehow the twins knew him because they cowered by her, whimpering pathetically. "Mommy don't give us to him! He's a bad man!" Melanie whispered to her, but it was loud enough that the man heard her.
"I wouldn't expect anything more or less from you Anna." the man said, laughing evilly.
"My name is Melanie, you big jerk!" Melanie said, now more angry than afraid.
"Oh I'm sorry. Melanie!" the man said with mock fear. Sydney lifted her arm that still clutched the .45 mm gun and shot him in the heart. He looked at his wound, as if surprised that she would actually shoot him.
"You'll be sorry Agent Bristow. You'll see why soon enough." The man said, but then fell to the ground, dead as well.
"Who was that man?" Sydney asked as they made their way quickly towards the door.
"Ben Schol, although he's known as Snake. He's been terrorizing me ever since I was first kidnapped." Melanie explained.
They stepped outside and what they saw made their hearts stop. A team of about fifteen agents, who probably worked for the Covenant, or were another elite group of assassins, were holding Vaughn hostage, and every agent had their guns pointed to Vaughn. To Sydney's horror, they were laser guns.
"Snake has ordered us to kill this man if you killed him. He said if he wasn't out in twenty minutes to kill him anyway. It's been seventeen." One of the agents told her with a snide sneer on his face.
"Let him go. It's not him you want. It's me." Sydney said and let go of her beloved daughters and stepped forward.
The agent sneered wider. "I doubt that you want us to sacrifice you for this man in front of your little girls. But, we have a deal to make with you. Give yourself to us, and we'll release this man but we'll be taking your daughters with you. But if the man stays with us, you are free to return to your home with the twins. It is your choice. But, you only have thirty seconds to decide." The agent said.
Sydney glanced at Vaughn, whose expression said enough. 'Take the girls and leave me be, I'll be fine.' The twins were crying even harder now. She hesitated too long though, for the agent motioned to one other agent and before they knew it, had shot Vaughn in the stomach.
"Too late. Now we're going to kill you all!" the agent said, basically jumping up and down with delight.
"Not really." A voice said behind Sydney and the twins. Sydney sighed with relief. Jack was standing behind her, holding two guns to the crowd, but they weren't ordinary guns. These could take out three people with one bullet.
He started firing at random, killing everyone except Sydney, Melanie, Molly, and maybe Vaughn, but Sydney couldn't tell if he was already dead, which made it even worse than if she knew he was for sure dead.
"Sydney, take the twins and run!" Jack ordered his daughter. He didn't need to tell her twice.
"Come on!" Sydney said and grabbed Melanie and Molly's hands and took off running in a random direction. She only stopped when it started to rain fiercely. They ducked into an alley with what looked like a roof and huddled next to one another. Molly grabbed a blanket that was stuffed away in an old TV box. Sydney wrapped it around the three of them and got as close in as they could.
"Mommy, is Daddy dead?" Melanie asked through tears.
"I don't know honey. I jus don't know." Sydney replied, crying herself. The twins put their heads on either one of Sydney's shoulders at the same time and tried to cry themselves to sleep.
"I'm scared." Molly told her, although it was hard to understand her through her muffled sobbing.
"So am I. But we'll be ok. We will be ok." Sydney said, wanting to reassure her daughters, but failing to reassure herself.
A/N: Did you like it? Remember at least four reviews before I post the sequel!! Tell me what you think!! Is it sequel worthy?