This is an Au story. Sydney is fifteen years old and Micheal is seventeen years old. Sydney doesn't know that her dad works for the CIA. They are at a summer camp for the first chapter at least.

If the formating looks weird, it's the computers fault.

Chapter 1

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One hot sunny day, in a place not to far from LA, a girl with shoulder length brown hair, parted into two braids, jumped off of a bus. The girl looked around for a few seconds until she spotted a rapidly growing pile of luggage underneath the shade of a tree. She found her bags and waited for her name to be called, asigning her to her unit. As she waited

she thought she felt someones eyes on her. She slowly turned her head

from left to right looking for the person who was starring at her. 'Aha' she thought when she found the person. A boy, with medium brown hair with bits of blonde in it, and vivid green eyes, was intently looking at her. She watched as his eyes went from her feet up her body to her head and then to her eyes. Their eyes meet, and for what seemed like minutes they looked at each other, green melting into brown.

"Sydney Bristow!" The girl snatched back her eyes from his and looked for where the voice had come from. A tall young woman with short brown hair and dark green eyes was the owner. Sydney walked up to her.

"Hi, I'm Sydney."

"Hi Sydney, I'm Mandy. I'm your camp consuelar for the next week."

Sydney was the last of her group to arrive so they headed off to their cabin.

The cabin was down a path shadowed by trees, with a stream near by. It looked like you would expect a cabin to look, on the outside. But on the inside it was decorated in pastels and looked like something out of a magazine, although the bunkbeds sort of faded the magazine look. The curtains were made of beautiful gauzy material and matched the spreads folded at the ends of all the beds. Sydney looked for a bed that was towards the corner of the room and wasn't considerably noticable, so that she would be able to have some peace. Sydney saw the perfect bed, and was dissapointed to seeanother girl walk up and put her suitcase on it. Sydney made a decision and walked towards the girl.

"Hi. I was wondering if you would consider sharing this bunk with me?"

The other girl, twisted a strand of her almost black her with her fingers, and let her dark blue eyes linger on Sydney for a moment, considering.

"Sure. As long as you don't mind having the bottom bunk."

"That's fine with me." Sydney replied, prefering the bottom over the top anyway. "By the way, my name's Sydney." The other girl introduced herself as Angela. "Nice to meet you Angela." Sydney then started unpacking her bag into a very nice loking dresser.

When the girls were all finished unpacking Mandy gathered them at the center of the room wich was furnished with leather couches and fluffy pillows. 'This is definately not what I was expecting this camp to be like.' Sydney thought, impressed.

"Okay here's the plans for the rest of the day. We can relax and get to know each other until six, then we go have dinner at the mess hall, and after that the 15-17 age groups will be meeting at the campfire circle. So why don't we go ahead and introduce ourselves?" There were eight girls in the group including Sydney and Angela, the others were Carly, Breigh, Halley, Talissa, Charlotte, and Leah.

~~~ Later that evening ~~~~

It was after dinner and the girls were heading back to their cabin to get their flashlights and jackets. While the other girls went inside the cabin Sydney stayed outside and walked over to the stream. She looked at the athletic river, jumping and running all over the place. It reminded her of her father. He was always off somewhere or another, though when he was home he spent all his time with his daughter, bringing her exotic gifts from all the places he'd traveled to.

**** Flashback ****

"Sydney?" Her father said, knocking on her bedroom door.

"Come on in, dad." Sydney replied. Her father peeked his head in before coming fully in.

"I'm afraid I have some bad news Sydney." He Spoke to her with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"What? What is it?" Sydney asked concerned, a million thoughts rushing through her head.

" It's just that we won't be able to go to Austalia this summer after all. My company is sending me to Japan for a summer seminar, and if I go It could mean a promotion." Sydney looked at her father with a disappointed look on her face. "I'm sorry Sydney. I Really am, but there is no way out of this. Believe me, I've tried."

"That's okay dad. I understand." And she did, his work was very important to him. He always made plenty of time for her though.

"I promise this christmas I'll take three weeks off, and spend it all with you however you want." Sydney smiled at him and said

"That would be great dad. I can't wait." So with that Sydney was being sent off to several different summer camps, staying with friends and neighbors inbetween. Awaiting eagerly for her father to come back.

**** End of Flashback ****

Sydney sighed, she hadn't seen her father since the beggining of June and wouldn't see him again until the end August right before school started, and it was only the beggining of July now. How could she last another month without talking to him? The postcards he sent, though with beautiful pictures on the front, were rare and few. Sydney decided she had better start getting her stuff before she ran out of time and headed back towards the cabin.

A/N I had written this a little differently, but when I started typing it, it just went of on it's own direction, I think I like it better though. So what did you think? good, bad, okay? let me know!

P.S. If anyone is interested in being my beta reader let me know. I need someone to check my grammer and spelling.

Thanks,

Chey