A week later
"No, I don't believe it, you were a turkey in a thanksgiving play?" Piper laughed, almost falling off Sydney's bed. She was spending the night in an effort to get some peace and quiet from here sisters. Sydney wasn't helping much.
Sydney laughed harder and managed to say, "Yes, I was and turkeys are legitimate animals, they're birds."
Piper managed to laugh harder at Sydney's remark. Ever since Sydney had seen that documentary on birds the week before, she hadn't let a conversation pass with mentioning a bird of some sort. Wiping the tears from her eyes from laughing to much, Piper calmed herself down, for the most part, "So, completely off subject, but are you ever going to elaborate on that weird phone call you and I had last week."
"Are you ever going to elaborate on exactly where you and Leo stand?" Sydney countered, avoiding Piper's question.
"I asked you first." Piper replied, refusing to let the subject drop.
Sydney took and deep breath and glanced over at her door to make sure it was closed, "Okay, last week my dad said he knew your dad through work." Piper nodded, telling Sydney to go on, "And you said that your dad had never worked with an airplane parts company which is what my dad has done for like ever."
"So, they could have met through clients or something like that."
"That's what I thought," Sydney agreed, "But then I thought back to something that Lauren said to me like six months ago. She said it was too bad that I didn't really know what my father did."
"So you think that she knows something?"
"Maybe, but I think her father knows more." Piper took on a confused look, so Sydney explained, "My dad and her dad are colleagues which is why I have to have dinner with the Reeds every month."
"Wait," Piper interrupted her, "You have dinner with Lauren?"
"It's not like I want to go," Sydney defended, "Anyway, I think that her father would have something that would explain what the hell my dad was talking about. But it would be in his office...and..."
"Hold on," Piper interrupted Sydney again, "So you want to break into the Reed mansion and snoop around to prove that your dad is lying to you."
Sydney nodded, "Yeah, why is that a problem?"
Piper shook her head, "No, I was just curious. So when do you want to do it?"
"Tonight." Sydney answered simply.
"What?!" Piper half yelled.
Sydney threw a glance at her door, "Shhhhhh, I don't want my dad hearing. So are you coming with or not?" Sydney headed to her closet and pulled out two completely black outfits.
Piper took one of the outfits, "Yeah, yeah, I'm in." She grumbled, heading to the bathroom to change.
Miraculously, the two girls made it out the house without Jack noticing and into Sydney's now working car. Sydney tried to be as quiet as possible when she was backing out, hoping that if her dad did hear her, then he would think that they were just going out for a late night drive.
"Are you sure no one's home?" Piper asked, glancing at the huge mansion in front of the car.
Sydney nodded, and put away her cell phone, "I called three times, no answer. Besides, I think Vaughn said that the Reed's were going to Washington for the weekend." Sydney got out of the car, followed by Piper. "Come on, we have to disarm the alarm system first."
"And how do you propose we do that?"
"With this," Sydney pulled out a slim silver box, "It's a code descrambler, it will find the code and override the system."
"Where did you get that?"
"Marshall gave it to me for Christmas a couple years ago. I have no idea why but I'm glad he did." They reached the alarm panel on the outside of the house and Sydney hooked up the descrambler to the system. Three minutes later, the system was deactivated, "Thank you Marshall." Sydney whispered, opening the back door. "Come on the office is this way."
Sydney led Piper through a maze of hallways to Senator Reed's office. Clicking on her flashlight, Sydney motioned to the desk, "I'll check there, you look for a safe." Piper nodded and clicked on her flashlight as well. "Hey I found something."
Piper headed over to the desk, trying to see what the folder Sydney was holding said, "What is it?"
"It's a CIA mission debrief." Sydney answered, flipping a page.
"How do you know?"
"Because it says 'CIA mission debrief' at the top." Sydney answered, sarcastically, showing Piper the words at the top of the page. "And my dad's name is in it."
"And...?" Piper asked.
"And so is your dad's." Sydney shot back at her.
Piper ignored the harsh tone on read the line Sydney pointed to. Sure enough, there was her dad's name, and Sydney's dad's name listed under a section marked agents. "What does this mean?"
"I have no idea," Sydney said, moving to place the folder in her shirt so they could smuggle it out of there.
But before she could a flashlight momentarily blinded the two followed by the words, "You are under arrest for burglary , you have the right to remain silent..." Blah, blah, blah, we all know the rest. Both Sydney and Piper let out a sigh as the cops came into the room and handcuffed them. Someone must of have seen them or they had tripped a second alarm.
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Piper threw Sydney, who was sitting next to her, a nasty sideways glance. Sydney pretended to ignore it and slouched in the hard wooden chair at the police station more. The cops had gotten a hold of the Reeds, who said they weren't going to press charges but Sydney's car had been impounded and they had to wait for Jack to come and pick them up. She expected him to be angry because that was basically the only emotion that he showed.
And sure enough, Jack came into the police station, looking like he was about ready to kill someone. "Come on," He said to the two girls. Piper forgot her anger towards Sydney, seeing the look on Jack's face. He was angry enough for the both of them. "I think I'm raising a good daughter, one that knows the difference between right and wrong and then I get a call in the middle of the night from the police who say they caught my daughter and her friend breaking into a senator's home." Jack ranted as he drove off from the police station, "And I said, 'that's not possible, my daughter's in her room.' So I go check and do you know who I found in your room, Sydney?"
"Vaughn?" Sydney answered, sarcastically with a smile, "Hopefully a naked Vaughn." (A/N: Ah, a naked Vaughn. That is a very beautiful thing.) Piper suppressed a giggle when she said this.
"What?!" Jack yelled, swerving the car, and almost hitting a tree.
"Dad, chill, I was just kidding. Besides Vaughn has a girlfriend." Sydney tried to calm Jack down and avoid another mishap with the police in the same night.
"We will talk about that later, right now you have some explaining to do."
"And so do you." Sydney said, remembering what she had found in Senator Reed's office. "Like what the hell your name is doing on a CIA mission debrief."
Jack almost swerved the car again but managed to still claim control over the car. He didn't say anything for the longest time, and when he did, all he said was "Piper, I'm taking you home." When he reached the Halliwell residence, he insisted that Sydney follow Piper in with him. Sydney grumbled something and reluctantly followed Piper and her father into the home.
Victor was waiting inside the front door, surprised to see Jack there. "Jack, what's going on?"
"Besides a run-in with the police?" Sydney mumbled, angrily.
"Sydney that's enough," Jack snapped, "Sit, both of you. We have some things to talk about." Piper and Sydney exchanged glances and sat down on the couch. Sydney was clearly pissed and was going to stubbornly stick to it. A nasty trait she had inherited from her mother. "To put things simply, I work for the CIA, as does Victor." Both Sydney and Piper's jaws dropped.
"You what?" Sydney found her voice first.
"I am an agent with the CIA." Jack repeated.
Sydney furrowed her brow in anger and confusion, staring at her father. He had lied to her. Sure, they didn't get along very well, more like at all, but she had always been honest with him. She thought he had been the same. She liked the honesty between the two of them, and now that she found out that he was lying to her, she hated him. "Well, that's just great." She half-yelled, jumping to her feet, "I hope you're happy with the fact that you've been lying to your only daughter." Before anyone said anything, she ran out of the house.
Jack made the move to follow her, but Piper stopped him, "I think she needs time alone." Jack nodded, and sat back down.
Victor turned to Piper, who was still in shock but handling it much differently than Sydney. "Piper, you can't tell anyone what I really do, not even Phoebe and Paige. Especially Phoebe and Paige." Piper nodded her agreement, still confused but somehow relieved that she finally knew why her father had gone on so many business trips in her lifetime.
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Sydney stopped running. She had been running for what felt like forever and still didn't feel far enough away. It started to rain on her the second she stopped running, Just great, she thought, looking around to see where she was. She was surprised to see where she was. She couldn't have run that far, could she? Sighing, she ran up to the house in front of her and rang the doorbell. She heard some fumbling of someone dragging themselves out of bed, and a faint voice saying, "1:47 in the morning, this had better be good." The door opened and the other party stopped it's mumbling, "Hey."
Sydney smiled a weak smile, and asked bluntly, "Can I come in?"
A/N: Like I said before, week and a half without my updates. I'm still sooo sorry. I don't really consider it a vacation because like Sydney says, "It's not really a vacation if you're forced to go." Stupid parents, they say I spend way to much time on the computer. Liars, plain and simple liars.
Leo/Piper24/7- Okay, so I put up like chapter nine before I got the chance to read your review. My stupid computer was messing with me. So sorry I missed you the last time and i hope you liked the Leo/Piper chapter. And sure, I will share the money if it appears magically in my pocket. Who says flattery can't get you anywhere? And I am cruel. : )
charmedchick07- that is a good question and I'm sorry that i have been neglecting Phoebe and Cole. I just had one inspiration for the other characters after another and well accidentally forgot about Phoebe and Cole. But more is going to happen between them if you know what i mean.
p3charmed4eva- I want to know if the bleach thing works too. i have a whole lot of stains on my white shirts from all the caffienated drinks i drink. Maybe i should give up the caffiene so my white shirts wont get stained any more, nah i have a better idea, get rid of the white shirts. yay, no more problem.
Lost darkness- And I hear that in the nut house, you dont get access to the internet. so that would not be good would it. I hope that your violent personality doesnt attack you while i'm gone. i'd hate to cause violence between personalities that i dont know.
Princess Pinky- Who says that they won't have any magic. grrr. there I go again, giving things away, so I'll just shut up about that now. I thought it would it be good to have a fic with Paige dealing with life cause I see so many with Prue and no Paige and I like Paige more than Prue. And I can't write a fic without some form of humor, so I'm very very happy that you like it.
Charmed-angel4- Yes, poor Phoebe and her datelessness. She'll get some eventually. And me hope that you liked the Piper/Leo chapter. Now for the Sydney/Vaughn, Cole/Phoebe, and Prue/Andy. I've got my work cut out for me.
x3Tinkerbell07- Yay, no deaths threats. That's good, I like living. And I like writing, so I'm not really working myself into a hole trying to update so fast. So what if I get no sleep, it's summer. I don't have to be anywhere. I love summer. It's a great concept. Now if only they would get rid of the concept of school.
soccerstar11-5- You rock too! My family has to pry me off the computer when they want on. Usually I dont go anywhere and they have to go to the old crappy computer that is super slow. I am so mean to my family. Oh well, they have to love me. It's the law.
syad yniar- See, I'm bringing Alias lots and lots of new people. My fic is doing more than just entertaining, it is drawing people to watch Alias. And you have a twin? I wish I had a twin, that way I could fool people into thinking that I was my twin and not me. I don't think that makes any sense but it does to me and that's all that matters. Hehe.
If I missed you, I am so sorry but I won't be able to respond until I get back. I still have to pack. Eeck! See you all in a week and a half(around there) and I expect lots and lots of reviews when I get back. Love ya all!
Ooh, who noticed the time being 1:47? Like I said, Rambaldi is everywhere! Who can guess who's house Sydney's at? I dare to you to guess.