Title: Life through a lens
Author: AnnaSun
Summary: Something happens to Sydney. Will she look at Vaughn in the same way again?
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimers note: I don't own Alias but I do this fanfic
Chapter 1:
"Vaughn what are you doing awake?" Sydney asked from the sofa.
"The same goes for you." Vaughn replied and kissed Sydney on the forehead.
"I couldn't sleep."
"Me neither."
Sydney turned off the television she was watching and stood up pulling Vaughn into a hug.
"What's this for?" He asked.
"I love you." Sydney nuzzled her head into the nape of Vaughn's neck.
Vaughn pulled away and took Sydney buy the hands, a worried expression plastered on his face.
"What's wrong?" Sydney asked.
"I'm worried about you Syd. All week you've been sitting here at God know what hour. You really need to get more sleep."
Sydney sighed.
"Its so hard. Last week…the shooting…Agent Harper…dead…If only I…"
"Syd." Vaughn interrupted her "It wasn't your fault. Julie…Agent Harper she went against the mission guidelines. She stayed in the building too long. You wouldn't have got her out before Dego shot her."
"But I could have protected her." Sydney replied, tears in her eyes.
"Syd listen to me. You need to pull yourself together. What happened was in the past. If you don't get some sleep soon I think you should see Dr Barnett."
"Vaughn! I'm not seeing that woman. I just need a little grievance time. Like with Danny. I'll be fine."
Vaughn eyed Sydney cautiously.
"Vaughn I'm fine!" Sydney protested, "Let's go back to bed okay?"
"Okay." Vaughn took Sydney by the hand and let her back to their bedroom.
Sun was streaming though the window into Sydney and Vaughn's room. The open window meant the curtains were blowing in the wind a bit. Sydney stirred in her sleep, turning over in her dream like state. She moved closer to Vaughn and pulled him closer, draping her hand over his body. She loved it on their days off when they could sleep in forever and never have to worry about getting out of bed so early. Vaughn turned over and met Sydney's beautiful face. She opened her eyes and smiled at him, her dimples creasing.
"Hey Beautiful." Vaughn said, kissing Sydney.
"Hey. Sleep well?" She replied, stifling a yawn.
"Lovely but you look like you could do with sleeping for longer."
"Nah." Sydney replied "I'll sleep some more tonight."
Vaughn smiled at her.
"Today." Vaughn said, "I'm going to make you pancakes with maple syrup. How does that sound?"
"Delicious."
"Come on then." Vaughn said, "Get your dressing gown on and I'll start cooking."
Sydney got out of bed and put her dressing gown on. She watched as Vaughn put his on to before they made their way into the kitchen area.
"How many do you think you can eat?" Vaughn asked her.
"Don't know." Sydney replied, pouring herself a glass of orange juice.
"How about 3?" Vaughn suggested.
"Sure." Sydney replied.
Vaughn made the pancakes and placed them on the table where he and Sydney began to eat them. Vaughn squirted some maple syrup onto Sydney's nose and started to lick of off. Sydney giggled.
"You know your nose looks much better when it has syrup on it."
Sydney giggled as Vaughn licked the rest of the syrup off.
"So what do you want to do today?" Sydney asked.
"Not sure. Something fun. It's been ages since Kendall has granted us time off and together.
"I think the bald man likes to work us too hard."
"Yeah." Vaughn agreed.
Sydney walked over the sofa and plonked herself down. Vaughn came and sat with her and they cuddled. Sydney laid down with Vaughn on top of her, their legs sticking out the end of the sofa. Vaughn took Sydney's shirt off and began running kisses across her stomach.
"Stop it." Sydney giggled, "That tickles."
She pushed Vaughn's head away but he continued doing it with Sydney giggling ever so often.
Sydney's head was jerking back and forth and her body was trembling. In the mist of her nightmare she woke up in a sweat and woke Vaughn up.
"Hey." Vaughn said soothingly.
Sydney shot up from the sofa still thinking she was dreaming. Vaughn laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Syd it's over now. You're okay. It was just a dream."
Sydney looked at him, sweat dripping down her face.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Vaughn pushed slightly.
"I dreamed about Dego. I tried to save Agent Harper…I tried but she still died."
A tear slipped passed Sydney's eye.
"Syd listen to me it wasn't your fault. You can't go on grieving for the rest of your life."
"No I can't." Sydney agreed. "I just wish I could shake the incident from my mind."
"Just give it a few more days and you'll be fine."
Sydney nodded smiling.
"I thought we were going to do something fun?" Sydney asked.
"Yes but we fell asleep on the sofa. Did you know you talk in your sleep?"
"I do?" Sydney asked.
"Yeah something about melons."
Sydney laughed out loud "Melons!? I really said that?"
"Yep." Vaughn replied. "Where you dreaming about melon's too?"
"No I was dreaming about Dego."
"Are you sure?" Vaughn said grinning.
"Shut up Vaughn!" Sydney said and playfully threw a cushion at him.
"Hey watch it Agent Bristow."
A moment passed and Sydney stood up from the sofa.
"Come on let's go somewhere. How about ice-cream at the beach? Its scorching out there."
"Sounds good to me." Vaughn stood up and planted a kiss on Sydney's lips.
Sydney and Vaughn made it to the beach and parked the car in a shady spot in the car park. The beach was busy with children running here and there with their buckets and spades and ice-cream. Sydney lead Vaughn to a quiet end of the beach near some rock pools.
"You want to go crabbing?" Vaughn asked Sydney.
"Okay." Sydney replied and they started to look for some crabs in the rock pools.
"Wow." Sydney said as she proudly held up the biggest crab she'd ever seen.
"Wow indeed." Vaughn said.
Sydney studied the crab for a while and then placed it back in the water. Vaughn smiled at her as they continued to look for more crabs. About fifteen minutes later Vaughn and Sydney decided to head up the beach to buy ice-creams. Sydney was following Vaughn when a wasp started to buzz around her. She waved her arm about trying to make it fly away. The wasp got angry and stung Sydney on the arm.
"Oh great!" Sydney shouted.
Vaughn turned around to see Sydney rubbing her arm.
"What's wrong honey?" He asked her.
"A wasp just stung me."
"Let me see." Vaughn said as he made his way over to Sydney.
She showed him her arm that was already beginning to swell up.
"Come on let's find the first aid tent and see if they've got any cream you can put on it." Vaughn suggested.
"Okay good thinking." Sydney replied scratching her arm madly because of the itching.
They made it to a first aid tent where Sydney was given treatment for the wasp sting.
"That better?" Vaughn asked her as they left.
Sydney nodded.
"Its starting to stop itching now."
Vaughn smiled and his pager went off.
"Oh great Kendall wants us in."
Sydney groaned and they headed back to the car.
"The reason I called you in today on your day off was because we have a new lead on Dego." Kendall said.
"So what does this mean?" Vaughn asked.
"Well I want you two to go on a mission. Dego has been seen with the Rambaldi artefact and I want you to get it. Sydney you will be posing as Annabel Richmond a librarian and poet and Vaughn you will be her husband Mickey Richmond. I want you to get into the library in France and interrogate him about the whereabouts of the Rambaldi artefact. Get ready. Your plane leaves in an hour."
Sydney exited the room with Vaughn in tow.
"What a way to ruin our perfect day."
"Well I don't call getting stung part of our perfect day." Sydney replied.
"Yeah how is that?"
Sydney showed Vaughn her arm.
"Looks like the swelling's gone down."
"Come on let's get ready." Sydney said.
An hour later Sydney and Vaughn were sitting on the plane that was taking them to France. Weiss' voice came over Vaughn's comm link.
"Hey man you and Syd doing okay?"
"Yep we're fine Weiss." Vaughn replied smiling at Sydney.
"I'll be right here in the comfort of the French van watching you both kick but while I spin my yo-yo."
"Sounds cool man. I got to go the plane's going to land."
"Bye." Weiss replied.
The plane landed and Sydney and Vaughn left the plane.
"Remember I'm Annabel Richmond and you're my lovely husband Mickey."
Sydney kissed Vaughn on the lips.
"I love you." She said.
"I love you too. Let's go kick some butt!"
They entered the library and headed for the top floor where Dego was supposed to be.
"Mickey what's your position?" Weiss asked through the comm link.
"We've heading to Dego's office now."
"Copy that." Weiss replied
They found him in his office through a maze of passageways.
Sydney opened the door.
"How did you get in?" Dego asked Sydney.
"I came to speak with you."
"Who are you?" Dego asked.
"I'm Annabel Richmond and this is my husband Mickey. I'm a poet and a librarian. I've heard this is library is one of the finest."
"Yes." Dego said "I own the place. Shull I give you a guided tour."
"Please." Sydney replied.
Dego guided them downstairs and started to show them the books. After the third book Sydney rammed into Dego and forced him against the wall, pushing a gun to his head.
"I know you have leads on the Rambaldi decided where is it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about?"
"Yes you do you son of a bitch!. How dare you kill Agent Harper."
"Agent Harper…Oh Sydney Bristow back for revenge."
Dego studied Sydney's face before head butting her in the head. Sydney stumbled backwards and was caught by Vaughn.
"I don't think this is a good idea." Vaughn said.
Sydney didn't listen and lunged back at Dego.
Dego moved closer to the wall.
"Don't move. The Rambaldi device is in this room but if I click this switch a bomb will be set off."
"Syd this is too dangerous." Vaughn said "We could get killed."
Sydney ignored Vaughn, planning something in her head. She threw her gun across the floor and Dego turned to look at it. Sydney quickly kicked Dego that sent him to the floor. Vaughn raced off to find the Rambaldi device. He found it quicker than he thought and was ready to go.
"Syd come on let's go!" He shouted.
"In a minute." Sydney called, kicking Dego again so he fell to the floor.
Once he was down Sydney ran with Vaughn to the exit. Sydney stopped on the way out to see some information on one of the computers.
"Vaughn you go ahead I'll just print this out. Dego's unconsciousness I'll be a quick as I can."
"Syd I'm not leaving with out you…I can't."
"You're going to have to." Sydney said already looking at the information.
Vaughn stood for a moment then rushed out the building.
Sydney started to print out the information un a where that Dego had woken up. He staggered quietly over to the other side of the room. Sydney heard him and spun around.
"Dego!" She shouted.
Dego laughed bitterly and walked towards the switch.
"Don't!" Sydney cried "If you touch that will both be dead."
"No Sydney you'll be dead. I've got a trigger that can activate it. I'm making a run for the exit."
Sydney lunged forward to tried to wrestle the trigger off Dego. She got him to the floor and tried to pull the trigger off him but he was strong and fought back. He pushed Sydney to the other side of the room and smashed her against the wall then he pushed her under a table before pressing the trigger. He made a quick getaway out the building just as the huge explosion was set off. Sydney screamed and then there was silence…
To be continued…
AN:So now you've read the first chapter what do you think? Coming up in the next chapter did Sydney survive the explosion and what happened to Dego?