CHAPTER.6:

A/N: I don't really mean all that stuff I say in the end A/N, but most of it I do. :D

2004

The phone called, Syd didn't take her eyes of the TV-screen.

"Hi?" She asked, still also listening to the TV.

"Syd. It's me. You told me to call you. What the hell are you listening to?" He asked her.

She was curled up on a very comfy looking sofa, with a blanket thrown over her.

"ESC. Most of the songs were horrible, but I liked Iceland. That guy was very, very cute The song was a bit boring, but he had charm. Didn't really like the russian one. I thought you said you'd be home by now." Syd told him, pouting, as she was watching the country before russian giving their votes.

"What's ESC? I got detained. Don't worry, I'll be home tomorrow." He asked her, having no idea what she was talking about.

"Eurovision Song Contest. You watched the qualifying round with me on Wednesday. I thought it sucked that Denmark didn't get through when so many awful songs got through. It was the best one there. Can I talk to you later? We're about to give them our votes." She told him, as she hanged up on him and turned up the TV.

"Okay. Two points for Jonsi." She said, as she saw Russia give Iceland two points. But Monaco had given them 5.
2023:

"Yes? Hello?" Irina said into the phone.

"Hello, this is Lauren. I just wanted to tell you something. Viola probably told all of you that she quit the training in Australia." Lauren told her, waiting for an answer.

"Yes.Why?" Irina asked, slightly annoyed.

"Well, she didn't quit. She got kicked out. Too much of a troublemaker. And could you ask Julian what happened last year in Australia. Something did. She met this man she trained with, and told everybody in the room. Told them all about her, and he told her what happened to three of them. She got this faraway look on her face." Lauren told her.

"Why are you telling me this? Does it sound like I care?" She asked Lauren.

"Just thought her father wanted to know she got booted out! Don't you find it at all interesting? " Lauren asked, annoyed that Irina didn't care.

"No. Not really. I she did not want us to know, she did not. Do not bother me again unless it is something important. I know you do not like my daughter but you should get over it. It has been years since it happened." She told Lauren, before hanging up on her.
"Who is this?" A red-haired woman asked Sydney, as she held a heart-shaped locket on a silver chain.

Sydney just looked at her, almost as if she was trying to look through her.

The red head was holding Sydney's opal-colored crystal locket. Julian had given her it to her the day after Viola was born. Inside was a picture of a two year old grinning.
2.february,2004, Italy:

It was their first mission after viola, who just turned 6 months old the day before, was born. It was what her mom called it, 'an easy job.'

Just got to this ball, Julian snatches something from a study while Syd swaps some artifact (that they didn't need in the first place) for something her mother needs from some man.

Syd, getting bored waiting for this man, started to play with her locket. For now there was no picture. She hadn't come around to put one in it. It hung from a black velvet choker

She was wearing all red; red silk gown. Red Jimmy choo leather sandals. Beaded silk clutch, red surprise! Well, the one thing that wasn't red and that was her silk shawl. It was pink.

She wore little jewelry; just her choker with the locket, pearl bracelet and 18k white gold pearl and diamond bezel drop earrings.

She once again looks in the direction her husband went, not so long ago and then looks over the dance floor. There at the entrance, was her father. She hadn't seen him for ages, not since before Viola was born.

She walks to him, and then they walk outside.

"Jack, what are you doing here?" Syd asked him, furious but suspecting that he was the man her mother meant for her to meet. Irina was at home, watching over Viola. May was there but Sydney felt safer knowing her mom was there too.

"I was supposed to meet someone here to swap artifacts with someone from The Man's organization. What are you doing here?" Jack asked her.

She just rolled her eyes, Great! Just great, mom! She thinks, annoyed at her mom.

"I guess I'm your contact. Lets get this over with." She told him. The artifact was so small, it fit in her beaded clutch. It was nothing important. CIA seemed to think so, but it wasn't.
2023; Back to Syd

"Again, I ask you, who is this?" The red head asked, annoyed that Syd wasn't talking.

"Can't you just find out? Do I have to tell you anything?" Syd asked, smirking. Even though, she was handcuffed to a table.

For that she got a punch in the face. That woman was strong, especially if you couldn't defend yourself.

"Arrrrggghhhh!!! Why must you be so annoying? I'm asking you a simple question. You're just like da…" The red head said, before stopping herself.

Syd's head snapped up to meet the red heads aqua blue eyes. She knew she had seen this woman somewhere before.

"Oh, my god!! SAM?" Sydney asked the red head. Last time she had seen her, was when she (Sam) was 10, back in England. 1994. Nicholas.

"Yes. Didn't surprise me that you didn't remember. You only killed my dad. I, at 10, was told by one of his staff that he wouldn't be coming home. Foster home after foster home. They said I was too closed off and violent. Wouldn't you too be like that if your mom left you when you were only 2 and when you heard that your dad had been killed by someone you trusted and cared for, MIA!" Sam almost yelled, as she punched Syd again.

Blood flowing from Syd's split lip and nose. Sam was going to say something, but she was interrupted by a knock on the door.
"This is impossible! Where could they be?" Viola asked, frustrated. She was both pissed because they were getting nowhere and her dad had just told her what Lauren told Irina. What a BITCH!!

She was missing SO much out of school, but she had to help find her mom.

As she sat and thought who could've done this. Where her mother could possibly be, etc. She toyed with her necklace.

It was a 14 kt. gold & diamond zodiac pendant on a chain. Her astrological sign in diamond stars on the front. Her name and birth date engraved in the back.

Her mom got it a month after she was born, but she wasn't allowed to have it until she was 13. She loved it, and took very good care of it. Never took it off.

Except for once, back in Australia. Where everybody knew her as Viola Lucas. But when she was kicked out, after she came back home the first thing she did was put it back on.

She never showed anyone the backside.
To Be Continued…

A/N: Wrote most of it when I couldn't sleep, when I was up in the country with my family. Used stuff from the May issue of In Style (U.S.A Version). It had Jennifer Garner on the cover. I love to use stuff from Magazines.

Stuff, just for a laugh really, below =

= Chetta B by Sherrie bloom & Peter Noviello. Don't know if they make it in red. $ 525

= Don't know if they make it in red. $ 445

= Santi. No if they make it in red. $ 152

= Bajra, Shirise, $ 185

Stuff I wrote the day after the ESC.

okay, I have to say something; ESC SUCKS!!! But so does Scandinavia and RUV (our public TV or whatever you call it). We get 2 points from Russia and 5 from Monaco, didn't expect that. But neighbor countries give us almost no points, Sweden never gives us any points. Denmark gave us I think 2. Idiots. And Norway 2 or 5. Finland something. Basically we landed in 19 place (out of 24) with 16 points. Ukraine won with 280 points, they were good and deserved it. But RUV are so fg cheap. Usually we, the nation, pick the song but now they just makes some of their people choose. Idiots. I told my parents the minute I heard the song that we were dead, everybody defended the song and said it was okay. Icelandic people are soooo patriotic, it's really annoying. But the people that decide these things are idiots.