Hope

Sydney gradually looked up and felt her heart fuse back together. There he was. She let out a breath of relief. Vaughn was okay. Well, not completely, but he was still here at least. Vaughn was resting on the steering wheel just like Sydney had been a few moments ago. Syd had come to warn him but she couldn't bring herself to get out of the car. Finally, Syd slowly opened her car door and got out.

At that moment, Vaughn gradually looked up. It was almost as if he had felt her presence. However, he was still oblivious to the fact that she was standing right there next to his car. He closed his eyes and tried to pull himself together, but he was having a very hard time. She felt so close. Vaughn took a deep breath and looked to his right. He jumped at what he saw. There she was again, for the second time that night.

Syd knocked on the window of his car door. She tried to grab his attention, but he didn't seem to believe that it was really her. She saw him look at her with that same longing look of the time before. She saw him whisper her name and it just about broke her to pieces.

Vaughn shook his head as if to clear his mind. It couldn't be her. He put his head in his hands and began to sob once again.

Syd leaned on the glass, wishing she could comfort him. She wanted to let him know that she was alive and all right. She could tell that he thought that she was just a vision. Right now, there was nothing she could do to convince him that it was truly her. Syd walked back to her car, blew Vaughn a kiss, got in, and drove away.

It had felt so much like her. But it's not possible because she's dead. Vaughn had "seen" her before, but she had never felt that real. No, it can't be. She is never coming back. I spread her ashes at sea. But before, yeah I had seen her and talked to her and she had answered but her voice was just in my head. The sound she made when she knocked on my window was not just in my head, someone had been there. Just who? No, I won't even think that. Sydney destroyed Markovic's machine and all of his research. She couldn't be a double it wasn't possible. No one knew how to do it except Markovic and he was dead. He didn't even want to imagine someone else taking the form of his darling Sydney. But, Sydney being alive, he just couldn't grasp it. Project Helix seemed to be the only thing he could come up with to explain this "Sydney". The real one, his true love, was gone and never coming back.