A Flood of Emotion

As Sydney drove away from Vaughn's house, she couldn't help feeling betrayed. Tears were streaming down her cheeks as she wished she could seek comfort in his embrace. She missed everyone so much, Francie was gone, Will was in Witness Protection, how her father was she didn't even know, and Vaughn, she missed him the most. Syd had longed to up to him and tell him that she was okay, that she was alive. However, her new employers would kill them both if she did. Sydney had known that coming back, but she still just had to see him.

Seeing him with that woman just about ripped her heart out. Vaughn had given up on her; he didn't have as much faith in their relationship as she thought. He had moved on and she was all alone. Anger caused her to drive faster; she needed to take her mind off all that had happened. Even though for a split second it seemed like he was looking right at her and he knew who she was. It must have just been her imagination because the woman quickly dragged him into his house and he didn't put up a fight. Sydney rummaged through her car, grabbed a CD, and quickly put it in. That was a mistake.

There's so much life I've left to live And this fire's burning still When I watch you look at me I think I could find the will To stand for every dream And forsake this solid ground And give up this fear within What would happen if they ever knew I'm in love with you

Cause I'd surrender everything to feel the chance to live again I reach to you I know you can feel it to We'd make it through A thousand dreams I still believe I'd make you give them all to me I'll hold you in my arms and never let go I surrender

I know I can't survive another night away from you You're the reason I go on And now I need to live the truth Right now there's no better time From this fear I will break free And I live again in love And no they can't take that away from me And they will see

I'd surrender everything to feel the chance to live again I reach to you I know you can feel it to We'd make it through A thousand dreams I still believe I'd make you give them all to me I'll hold you in my arms and never let go I surrender

Every night getting longer and this fire's getting stronger baby I swallow my pride And I'll be alive Can't you hear my call I surrender

I'd surrender everything to feel the chance to live again I reach to you I know you can feel it to We'd make it through A thousand dreams I still believe I'd make you give them all to me I'll hold you in my arms and never let go I surrender

Right here Right now I'd give my life to live again I'll break free Take me My everything I surrender all to you Right now I'd give my life to live again Break free Take me Every night I surrender all to you

During the song, Syd had quickly pulled off the road. She couldn't take it anymore. Everything had been perfect, the Alliance was gone and she and Vaughn had been together. If they had known about her love for Vaughn, they would have killed her. It had been perfect for a while, and then the Covenant decided to mess with her life. She was back to where she was during the days of SD-6 and she couldn't love him. The Covenant would kill them both if she did anything about it. She had no one. Syd leaned over the steering wheel and allowed herself to cry. She wished she could feel his arms around her again. The song summed up her life completely. Syd would give anything to be back in the past. Little did she know that Vaughn was doing the same thing in his car.

Sydney kept replaying the scene in her head. That woman, she looked so familiar. Maybe Sydney was trying to make her seem bad because she was where she should be, with Vaughn. Where had Sydney seen her before? Oh my god. Syd remembered seeing her talking with Oleg during one of her torture sessions. It was one of the moments Sydney had desperately tried to forget. She had pushed the experience to the back of her mind. Seeing Lauren Reed again brought everything back. The woman was a part of the Covenant.

* The song is Celine Dion's I Surrender