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Chapter 5 New deals, alliances, and roommates
Vaughn's POV
I stared at the woman before me in the blue Wal-Mart smock. She wore a red shirt and black pants. Her black hair may throw off some people., but I had a gut feeling that I was staring sat Sydney. This woman wore eyeliner and a little bit of makeup, but I had been with Sydney for too many missions, seen her in too many disguises. I saw her look up at me, stopping in mid-sentence when she saw me. She continued though as if she didn't know me at all. I grabbed her arm as she turned towards the cash register. Which caused her to stand facing me.
She stared at my arm before attempting to release her arm form my grip. My knuckles turn white because of the strength of my grip, my I keep it tight.
"Sydney, what are you doing here?" I ask in a whisper.
She looks at me confused and cocks her head to the side. "Who the hell is Sydney? Look, I don't know who you are but rape is a crime, so I'd suggest you get yours hands off me especially since the manager is looking." she demanded in a mixture of a Spanish accent and a slightly Hawaiian accent , this time succeeding in shrugging off my grip as she continued to try and close the lane.
This is you last chance Vaughn, I reminded myself. Grabbing her arm again I repeated the question. "I know your Sydney, now tell me, what the hell are you doing here?"
I turned around, still gripping Sydney's arm, to come face to face with the manager.
He eyed my grip on Sydney and his eyes went wide. "Look sir, I'd appreciate it if you took your hand off my worker and stop harassing her. I've been watching you guys, she has done nothing wrong. I will have security escort you off the premises and you'll be lucky if she doesn't press charges. Now, you can either come willingly or you can't bet your ass, that I'll press charges. Now, you sir." the manager started, turning to Weiss.
"Were you apart of this situation?" he asked.
"No, sir, I simply came to purchase some items." Weiss told him, holding a few miscellaneous items that a guy would buy.
"Did he put his hands on you?" the manager asked.
"No, but I wouldn't be surprised if that man had tried to molest him too." Sydney told him.
"Ok, sir, you may go." the manager told Weiss. "As for you sir, please come with me."
I gulped as the manager led me pass aisles into some room.
Destiny's POV
I finished closing up the aisle and began to lock the cash register when I noticed Weiss had come back.
"Look, I'm very sorry about what my friend did to you-" Weis started.
"That creep was your friend?" I prodded keeping up the charade.
"Yes, look, but, he just hasn't been the same since the love of his life passed away. You, have a similar bone structure and he's in denial,. He's looking for anything to prove what happened that day was a lie and that she is still a lie." Weiss apologized.
"Well, you know what? It's not my fault your friend is obsessing over some dead woman, he didn't need to go harassing me about it. Now, please leave before I report to the manager that you lied to him and that you were apart of this." I threatened.
"I'm sorry, look if there's anything I can do to help you-" Weiss started.
"Well, how about you get out of my face!" I demanded putting away the last few things and pulling the key out of the cash register.
"Ok" Weiss said putting his hands out in defeat and walking away.
A few seconds later I heard the sound of feet walking towards the cash register. "I thought I told you to-" I looked up only to see a pissed off Sark staring back at me.
"What did he do now?" he asked staring at my arm where a light mark was beginning to form.
"Nothing, I don't wanna cause a scene, look, I gotta clock out. Wow, looks like you have a lot of stuff." I noted, referring to his cart full of toys and other accessories.
"What can I say? My inner child is only 7." he joked.
"and girly too." I added.
"I gotta go to another cash register then, see you love." he said, giving my a gentle kiss.
Vaughn's POV
I listened as I heard the manger talk about lawsuits and things like that. The CIA is not going to like this. I mentally chastised myself. Oh well, the CIA will take care of this, as long as I can prove to them that it really is Sydney. They'd love to have her back too. How could I prove that it's Sydney. I signed the paper and exited out of the room with 2 guards accompanying me. I had to get in my car and drive out of the parking lot before they started to even attempt to take their eyes off my car. They had to get my fingerprints and everything.
Sark's POV
Good, Sydney knew that I had had children's toys, but didn't know what they were. Nor, did she see that some were for her. Since I had gotten my ride from Brett, there wasn't a problem about having two cars. Which reminded me, I needed to get a car down here for me. I wanted to take the wheel, but I didn't know jack about where to find things. I looked over at Sydney, as she drove, and I noticed something different about her. The look in her eyes was the same look that I had in my eyes every time I got behind the wheel, like adrenaline was flowing through her veins and as if she wanted only to go faster. I wondered if Angel, would share that trait with us one day. It took only a few minutes for us to reach her house.
"It's not the best, but it gets me places. You should take her out for a spin sometime." Sydney told me walking towards the door.
"Angel or the car?" I asked jogging up to the door.
"Both" she told me, opening the door. "Lock the door."
I closed the door behind me, before locking the top, the bottom, and the chain.
"mommy!" I heard a voice call and I saw Angel running towards the door and Sydney. Sydney picked her up and gave Angel a hug.
"what's poppin' baby?" she asked.
"Popcorn! Kinsley made me popcorn! You can have some, and so can daddy." Angel spoke in her soft voice.
"Kinsley?" I mouthed to Sydney.
"Her babysitter." she whispered.
She jumped down from Sydney and into my arms.
"I'm gonna go change, ok baby." she told us walking towards the hallway.
"Ok." Angel and I answered at the same time.
"Angel, I wanna show you something," I told her. "But, we gotta put it in your room, ok?"
"Ok." she answered and we walked towards her room.
She sat on her bed, expectantly. I opened the bag of presents and dumped out hers on her bed.
"wow" she murmured, her eyes full of desire over the objects. "Whose birthday is it?"
"Yours." I told her smiling. She looked at me confused and I explained myself. "what I mean is that these are all the presents from previous birthdays that you never got from me, ok, and the rest are just random toys I hope you'll like." I told her. She ran up to me and hugged me.
She jumped into the pile of toys and began to carefully open one. Her eyes sparkled as she saw penguin. "How did you know?"
"I guess I just have ESPN." I joked.
"It's ESP, isn't it?" Angel cocked her head to the side. I noticed that she took the other toys and put them in the bag and put it beside her bed.
"you're a very bright young lady." I told her putting an arm around her.
"I'm a girl silly" she joked.
"My bad. Hey, how come you didn't open any of the other presents?" I asked.
"well, that way, every morning when I wake up, I'll have a new present to look forward to for awhile. It'll help me feel happy if you leave." She told me staring at the ground.
"I sat on the bed and hugged her. "Love, I'm not leaving. I'm staying here; you're stuck with me, you got that?" I asked, tickling her.
"Yes." she giggled. "I got that. I'm just don't wanna move again and lose friends."
"Well, you wont have to worry about that." I told her.
"Sark!" Sydney called from the doorway, after opening the door.
"That's what you changed into?" I asked. She was wearing the same thing except she had taken off her shoes and the smock.
"Hey, I have to go back to work in an hour." Sydney defended. "Angel, do you have any homework to do?"
"No, they didn't give us any, since it was early release." Angel told Sydney.
"Your dad is gonna take you to the park today then." Sydney told Angel.
"Really?" she asked. "Cool! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Can we go to McDonalds after? Can we? Can we? Can we?"
"Of course." I answered her wondering where this park was. I could find McDonalds, Brett had showed me. I kinda knew most of the town since it was a relatively small town especially compared to Los Angeles. "We'll go after mommy leaves, ok?"
"k!" she answered. "I'm gonna go get the popcorn Kinsley popped!"
"is she still here?" I asked.
"No, she left after we got here. Come, I wanna show you your room." Sydney told me, taking my hand and leading me away from the room.
"Wait, first, I wanna give you your presents." I told her.
Sydney's POV
"You bought me presents? You shouldn't have." I beamed and opened the presents right there on the ground. He had gotten me, a Sterling Silver necklace, 3 movies, 2 DVDs, 1 tank top, 2 shorts, 1 pair of jeans, 1 bathing suit, 1 flip flop, suntan lotion, a portable tv, and 1 t-shirt.
"You'll see the rest of your present of Saturday. So, clear your schedule. Tell Brett he can come if he brings a date. Don't worry about Angel, where we're going, we'll all have fun, promise, now where's my room?" I reassured her.
"This way." she led me to a room and opened the door, after unlocking it.
I stared at the room, looking it over. "but, isn't this your room?" I asked, noting the pictures and accessories.
"Now, it's both of ours." she told me, smiling nag wrapping her arms around me.
Vaughn's POV
I had finally realized who I could call. Dialing a number I waited for them to pick up.
"Hello?" they greeted.
"Hello, I have a proposition for you. You find legit information on a woman named Destiny Anderson and see if you can connect her to being Syd." I told her.
"What's in it for me?" she asked.
"Well, you remember how you couldn't have a child, well, what if I could hand over a child to you, would that work?" I asked.
"What do you get in all of this?" she questioned.
"If it's Syd then I'm gonna bring her back where she belongs." I told her.
"You mean back in the CIA?" she asked.
"Exactly, so do we have a deal?" I asked.
"Sure." she responded.
"Pleasure doing business with you Lauren." I told her before she hung up.
It's a good thing that I remembered that Sydney was living with some child. I don't know whose it is or if she adopted the child, but oh well, the child will only be another reason for Sydney not to rejoin us. It's for the best of all of us. Syd belongs with us, jut as Lauren should have a child. Sydney will thank me later for this. I hope…
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