Chap.22- Sigh
Vaughn had hurriedly kissed Lauren goodbye and had backed out of the driveway. He was preparing to turn out into the main street when he saw Sydney waving him down. Slowing to a complete stop, he rolled down his window.
"Hey." Sydney said, bending down so that they were at eye level.
"Hey." He answered her.
"Are you going to the office right now?"
"Yea."
"Can you give me a lift?"
"Sure." He answered, not questioning her reason and opening the trunk for her to put her suitcase in. Vaughn heard the trunk slam shut and Sydney walked around to the passenger side and buckled in.
"Thanks."
"No problem."
They had only traveled for five minutes when Vaughn reached out to turn on the radio, desperate for any sound in the car. He looked over to his right at Sydney and she was staring straight ahead, her body still and unmoving except for the breaths she took. Inhale. Exhale. Vaughn reached back out again and turned off the radio.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, the concern reflecting in his voice.
Sydney shook her head and the silence dominated again until she suddenly spoke.
"My dad knows."
"Knows..." Vaughn trailed off.
"That I'm pregnant."
"What? He's not pulling you off the mission?" Vaughn asked, incredulous. He knew that Jack would do anything possible to protect his daughter. Anything.
"I begged him not to."
Vaughn sighed in exasperation and he turned his attention from the road to Sydney again.
"Sydney! Why do you have to be so goddamn stubborn?"
"You have no right to lecture me, Vaughn."
"I'm not lecturing you. I'm telling you the truth!"
"I don't need you to tell me anything! Did you hear that Vaughn? I don't need you. I don't need you to lecture me. I don't need to you to help me in anyway. I don't need you to protect me."
"What the hell! I didn't say that you did. I never said any of that! Dammit, Sydney. You don't listen to anybody! You don't think! Did you ever think about what your dad would do if you told him you were pregnant? Did you ever think that what you told him would put the lives of everybody on this team in jeopardy? He wouldn't care who he would have to sacrifice to save your life."
"I didn't tell him." Sydney said fiercely.
"What? Syd, if you're thinking that I told him, I'm telling you right now that I didn't."
"I know you didn't, Vaughn." Sydney said, her tone softening. "Scott did."
"Maybe your husband should think about what he's saying and who he is saying it do before he says anything." Vaughn snapped his anger and irritation flaring.
"That is not fair! He doesn't know the consequences! Scott has nothing to do with this!"
"He has EVERYTHING to do with this."
Sydney looked at Vaughn with narrowed eyes.
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
"Nothing."
"No, tell me Vaughn! What are you implying? Are you saying that it's wrong that Scott would want Jack to know that he's going to be a grandfather? What if Lauren was pregnant? You wouldn't keep it from Bridgette!"
"Don't bring my mother into this, Sydney. That is completely different."
"Your mother is part of this agency too!"
"Her status and your father's are different on so many levels."
"Just answer me, Vaughn. If Lauren was pregnant would you keep it from your mother?"
"No, Sydney. I wouldn't keep it from her. But the situation is different. And I will never have to tell her, so it doesn't matter." Vaughn said firmly, as he pulled into the parking spot and set the brake. He pressed the button to open the trunk and got out of the car.
Sydney got out after him and slammed the door shut. She grabbed her suitcase that he had set down on the cold, concrete floor of the underground parking lot.
"What do you mean?" She asked softly, careful to not let her voice echo. Their eyes met and she held his gaze. "What do you mean?" she repeated.
"Lauren can't have children." He said and shut the trunk. He turned on his heel and left her standing next to the shiny black car.
Ana looked from Sydney to Vaughn and then back to Sydney again, the confused expression upon her face mirroring her thoughts. She looked over at Mark and James who were absorbed in a computer game. They both looked up and shrugged, turning their attention back to the game, despite Ana's protests. She tapped Sydney on the shoulder.
"What happened?" she asked.
"We had a fight."
"You and Vaughn?"
"Not just me and Vaughn. Me and my husband, too."
"Was it bad?" Ana asked, wincing herself as she asked the question.
"Very."
A crackling noise came over the intercom and the pilot's voice filled the cabin.
"We're approximately fifteen minutes away from our destination. If you'll please shut off any electronic equipment, return the seats in their full upright position, and buckle up, we will start to descend."
Mark and James glumly shut off the laptop and buckled into their seats like two petulant little boys.
Sydney sighed as she looked over across the cabin at Vaughn, who was sitting next to Mark and James. She had sighed because she remembered what had happened the last time they were on this plane together.
Author's Note: Hey! I know I know. It was a pretty short chapter and it also took me forever to get up, I'm sorry! I'm just really confused right now with how I'm going to write everything out without it being too long or too short.
It's Sunday, which means, Alias! Whoo....EXCEPT that we viewers will be introduced to Mrs. Vaughn. Grrr....it almost doesn't make me want to watch it. Key Word: ALMOST....but not really.
You know what was really cool? I actually talked to a reader on AIM, like forever ago, but still. Anyways, the person told me that they had a blackout in Australia when Alias was on and it was after the one when Francie dies, so I told her that I would give her the spoilers for that episode: "CIA Agent Jim Lennox is in bed with his partner, Emma Wallace. She tells
him that she'd like to go back to Fiji. He agrees and they kiss. When he
goes into the shower, she frantically types an email: "Abort operation.
Lennox is a ." Lennox hits her before she completes the message. Sloane,
whom Lennox has called to say he'd been compromised, tells him to make it
public. Wallace, strapped with C-4, is thrown from a van onto a Berlin street. In L.A., Vaughn tells Syd that Marshall and Dixon are being debriefed and
Sloane is now on Interpol's most wanted list. He also tells her that he
broke up with Alice. Weiss introduces Christine Phillips, a new
clandestine services grad from Langley who will observe for the next few
months. They all watch as Wallace appears on the news singing "Pop Goes
the Weasel." The agents watch in horror as Lennox remotely detonates the C-
4, killing Wallace. Shortly thereafter Kendall briefs the staff, saying that Wallace's mission
had been to gain the trust of Dr. Enzo Markovic, a scientist developing a
technology known as Helix, to determine if it was a weapon. Enzo was
believed to have gone to a secret lab in the Serena del Sol Resort in Cayo
Cancho, off the Dominican Republic. Lennox is believed to be held there or
dead. Sydney and Vaughn's mission is to acquire intelligence and bring
Lennox back home. Vaughn picks up Syd at her apartment. They kiss and she introduces him to
Francie, who thinks they're going to a finance conference in New York. Syd
gets a strange vibe from her. At the resort, they force Enzo's security chief to reveal Lennox's
location. Syd interrupts Lennox's torture and beats his two inquisitors.
His eyes were affected so she blindfolds him and leads him away while
Vaughn acquires the Helix files. When Syd is attacked by a guard, Lennox
removes the bandage, risking his eyesight, to shoot him. Back home, the
CIA gives Lennox a clean bill of health Under questioning, Lennox explains that while he and Wallace were working
for Enzo as freelance security experts, the discovered that he was working
for someone else. Lennox was going to hack the database in Cayo and
transmit the data to Wallace in Berlin, but he was caught before that
could happen. Sydney is shaken when he also reveals that he and Wallace were engaged. Phillips analyzes the tape of Wallace's death and, due to static on the
tape, determines that the detonator was within a block of the explosion.A
sympathetic Syd visits the grieving Lennox at a safe house. He kisses her, vbut quickly apologizes.Two men appear and accost Lennox. He beats them but
then Syd subdues him because the men are government agents who want to
take Lennox into federal custody. At the CIA, Jack reports that Helix is a new gene therapy that can reshape
a patient's face and body. The only way to determine an actual identity is
through an ocular scan - this flaw was purposely built into the procedure.
Lennox, he says, was the first test subject to be doubled, meaning Lennox
may actually be Enzo. Vaughn then places Lennox at the scene of Wallace's
murder. Syd is dubious, believing Lennox's grief to be authentic. Lennox's scan checks out okay, and he's shocked when Syd tells him he's
been doubled. They learn that Enzo brought Helix to Poland. Syd and Lennox
are to find it, download the schematics and destroy it. At a railroad depot, they disable the guards and break into the freight car
where the technology is hidden. Lennox reads data and learns that another
person has been doubled. Vaughn receives a frantic call from a man
claiming to be Lennox, who says the man the CIA rescued is really Enzo.
This Lennox says the ocular scan is merely disinformation and that he's
approaching the freight car and will destroy the technology. Vaughn notifies Syd of the predicament. Jack tells her to disarm both men
and they'll figure out the mess once they're both in custody. She makes
Lennox handcuff himself to the freight car. When she leaves, he breaks his
hand in order to slip through the cuff and picks up a gun. Syd confronts the second Lennox, but the first one appears. They're in a
standoff. Syd threatens to detonate Helix. The second Lennox reacts and
tries to shoot Sydney. The first - and real - Lennox shoots and kills the
phony. Sydney destroys Helix. At the CIA, Lennox prepares to go to Fiji - he's never been there; he and
Emma were going to go on their honeymoon. Later on in Syd's apartment, she
and Vaughn fall into bed. But they're being observed through a camera
secretly installed in the television. Francie watches - she's the other double." Taken From:
Vaughn had hurriedly kissed Lauren goodbye and had backed out of the driveway. He was preparing to turn out into the main street when he saw Sydney waving him down. Slowing to a complete stop, he rolled down his window.
"Hey." Sydney said, bending down so that they were at eye level.
"Hey." He answered her.
"Are you going to the office right now?"
"Yea."
"Can you give me a lift?"
"Sure." He answered, not questioning her reason and opening the trunk for her to put her suitcase in. Vaughn heard the trunk slam shut and Sydney walked around to the passenger side and buckled in.
"Thanks."
"No problem."
They had only traveled for five minutes when Vaughn reached out to turn on the radio, desperate for any sound in the car. He looked over to his right at Sydney and she was staring straight ahead, her body still and unmoving except for the breaths she took. Inhale. Exhale. Vaughn reached back out again and turned off the radio.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, the concern reflecting in his voice.
Sydney shook her head and the silence dominated again until she suddenly spoke.
"My dad knows."
"Knows..." Vaughn trailed off.
"That I'm pregnant."
"What? He's not pulling you off the mission?" Vaughn asked, incredulous. He knew that Jack would do anything possible to protect his daughter. Anything.
"I begged him not to."
Vaughn sighed in exasperation and he turned his attention from the road to Sydney again.
"Sydney! Why do you have to be so goddamn stubborn?"
"You have no right to lecture me, Vaughn."
"I'm not lecturing you. I'm telling you the truth!"
"I don't need you to tell me anything! Did you hear that Vaughn? I don't need you. I don't need you to lecture me. I don't need to you to help me in anyway. I don't need you to protect me."
"What the hell! I didn't say that you did. I never said any of that! Dammit, Sydney. You don't listen to anybody! You don't think! Did you ever think about what your dad would do if you told him you were pregnant? Did you ever think that what you told him would put the lives of everybody on this team in jeopardy? He wouldn't care who he would have to sacrifice to save your life."
"I didn't tell him." Sydney said fiercely.
"What? Syd, if you're thinking that I told him, I'm telling you right now that I didn't."
"I know you didn't, Vaughn." Sydney said, her tone softening. "Scott did."
"Maybe your husband should think about what he's saying and who he is saying it do before he says anything." Vaughn snapped his anger and irritation flaring.
"That is not fair! He doesn't know the consequences! Scott has nothing to do with this!"
"He has EVERYTHING to do with this."
Sydney looked at Vaughn with narrowed eyes.
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
"Nothing."
"No, tell me Vaughn! What are you implying? Are you saying that it's wrong that Scott would want Jack to know that he's going to be a grandfather? What if Lauren was pregnant? You wouldn't keep it from Bridgette!"
"Don't bring my mother into this, Sydney. That is completely different."
"Your mother is part of this agency too!"
"Her status and your father's are different on so many levels."
"Just answer me, Vaughn. If Lauren was pregnant would you keep it from your mother?"
"No, Sydney. I wouldn't keep it from her. But the situation is different. And I will never have to tell her, so it doesn't matter." Vaughn said firmly, as he pulled into the parking spot and set the brake. He pressed the button to open the trunk and got out of the car.
Sydney got out after him and slammed the door shut. She grabbed her suitcase that he had set down on the cold, concrete floor of the underground parking lot.
"What do you mean?" She asked softly, careful to not let her voice echo. Their eyes met and she held his gaze. "What do you mean?" she repeated.
"Lauren can't have children." He said and shut the trunk. He turned on his heel and left her standing next to the shiny black car.
Ana looked from Sydney to Vaughn and then back to Sydney again, the confused expression upon her face mirroring her thoughts. She looked over at Mark and James who were absorbed in a computer game. They both looked up and shrugged, turning their attention back to the game, despite Ana's protests. She tapped Sydney on the shoulder.
"What happened?" she asked.
"We had a fight."
"You and Vaughn?"
"Not just me and Vaughn. Me and my husband, too."
"Was it bad?" Ana asked, wincing herself as she asked the question.
"Very."
A crackling noise came over the intercom and the pilot's voice filled the cabin.
"We're approximately fifteen minutes away from our destination. If you'll please shut off any electronic equipment, return the seats in their full upright position, and buckle up, we will start to descend."
Mark and James glumly shut off the laptop and buckled into their seats like two petulant little boys.
Sydney sighed as she looked over across the cabin at Vaughn, who was sitting next to Mark and James. She had sighed because she remembered what had happened the last time they were on this plane together.
Author's Note: Hey! I know I know. It was a pretty short chapter and it also took me forever to get up, I'm sorry! I'm just really confused right now with how I'm going to write everything out without it being too long or too short.
It's Sunday, which means, Alias! Whoo....EXCEPT that we viewers will be introduced to Mrs. Vaughn. Grrr....it almost doesn't make me want to watch it. Key Word: ALMOST....but not really.
You know what was really cool? I actually talked to a reader on AIM, like forever ago, but still. Anyways, the person told me that they had a blackout in Australia when Alias was on and it was after the one when Francie dies, so I told her that I would give her the spoilers for that episode: "CIA Agent Jim Lennox is in bed with his partner, Emma Wallace. She tells
him that she'd like to go back to Fiji. He agrees and they kiss. When he
goes into the shower, she frantically types an email: "Abort operation.
Lennox is a ." Lennox hits her before she completes the message. Sloane,
whom Lennox has called to say he'd been compromised, tells him to make it
public. Wallace, strapped with C-4, is thrown from a van onto a Berlin street. In L.A., Vaughn tells Syd that Marshall and Dixon are being debriefed and
Sloane is now on Interpol's most wanted list. He also tells her that he
broke up with Alice. Weiss introduces Christine Phillips, a new
clandestine services grad from Langley who will observe for the next few
months. They all watch as Wallace appears on the news singing "Pop Goes
the Weasel." The agents watch in horror as Lennox remotely detonates the C-
4, killing Wallace. Shortly thereafter Kendall briefs the staff, saying that Wallace's mission
had been to gain the trust of Dr. Enzo Markovic, a scientist developing a
technology known as Helix, to determine if it was a weapon. Enzo was
believed to have gone to a secret lab in the Serena del Sol Resort in Cayo
Cancho, off the Dominican Republic. Lennox is believed to be held there or
dead. Sydney and Vaughn's mission is to acquire intelligence and bring
Lennox back home. Vaughn picks up Syd at her apartment. They kiss and she introduces him to
Francie, who thinks they're going to a finance conference in New York. Syd
gets a strange vibe from her. At the resort, they force Enzo's security chief to reveal Lennox's
location. Syd interrupts Lennox's torture and beats his two inquisitors.
His eyes were affected so she blindfolds him and leads him away while
Vaughn acquires the Helix files. When Syd is attacked by a guard, Lennox
removes the bandage, risking his eyesight, to shoot him. Back home, the
CIA gives Lennox a clean bill of health Under questioning, Lennox explains that while he and Wallace were working
for Enzo as freelance security experts, the discovered that he was working
for someone else. Lennox was going to hack the database in Cayo and
transmit the data to Wallace in Berlin, but he was caught before that
could happen. Sydney is shaken when he also reveals that he and Wallace were engaged. Phillips analyzes the tape of Wallace's death and, due to static on the
tape, determines that the detonator was within a block of the explosion.A
sympathetic Syd visits the grieving Lennox at a safe house. He kisses her, vbut quickly apologizes.Two men appear and accost Lennox. He beats them but
then Syd subdues him because the men are government agents who want to
take Lennox into federal custody. At the CIA, Jack reports that Helix is a new gene therapy that can reshape
a patient's face and body. The only way to determine an actual identity is
through an ocular scan - this flaw was purposely built into the procedure.
Lennox, he says, was the first test subject to be doubled, meaning Lennox
may actually be Enzo. Vaughn then places Lennox at the scene of Wallace's
murder. Syd is dubious, believing Lennox's grief to be authentic. Lennox's scan checks out okay, and he's shocked when Syd tells him he's
been doubled. They learn that Enzo brought Helix to Poland. Syd and Lennox
are to find it, download the schematics and destroy it. At a railroad depot, they disable the guards and break into the freight car
where the technology is hidden. Lennox reads data and learns that another
person has been doubled. Vaughn receives a frantic call from a man
claiming to be Lennox, who says the man the CIA rescued is really Enzo.
This Lennox says the ocular scan is merely disinformation and that he's
approaching the freight car and will destroy the technology. Vaughn notifies Syd of the predicament. Jack tells her to disarm both men
and they'll figure out the mess once they're both in custody. She makes
Lennox handcuff himself to the freight car. When she leaves, he breaks his
hand in order to slip through the cuff and picks up a gun. Syd confronts the second Lennox, but the first one appears. They're in a
standoff. Syd threatens to detonate Helix. The second Lennox reacts and
tries to shoot Sydney. The first - and real - Lennox shoots and kills the
phony. Sydney destroys Helix. At the CIA, Lennox prepares to go to Fiji - he's never been there; he and
Emma were going to go on their honeymoon. Later on in Syd's apartment, she
and Vaughn fall into bed. But they're being observed through a camera
secretly installed in the television. Francie watches - she's the other double." Taken From: