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Chapter 4- Ooh Child

"It was sent to your private e-mail Marshall?" Vaughn asked, the confusion apparent in his voice.

"Yeah." Marshall was clearly as confused as everyone, which usually wasn't the case.

"Agent Vaughn, Agent Bristow, Jack tells me you were at the beach with Agent Weiss?" Sydney, despite her best efforts not to, blushed.

"Yes sir, well I was there with my two friends, Francie Calfo and Will Tippin, and we ran into Vaughn and Weiss there."

"So, did either of you see his captors?"

"No." The word hung in the air, Kendall was clearly waiting for an explanation.

"We were getting..." Sydney was aware of how juvenile her next statement would sound, "drinks." Why say cotton candy, it's not like changing that fact would have an effect.

"I see." Kendall was making connections which Sydney didn't want him to make, but there was nothing she could do.

"Where was Weiss when he was taken?"

"With my friends Will and Francie."

"Okay, we will start there, Sydney, question your friends, Jack, I want you to get in touch with your contacts at the airports and car rental places, I want to find the paper trail! Marshall try and find out something about the origin of that e-mail!"

"Um…sir, my friends still think I work at a bank, when Vaughn and I left, we told them we were going to the police, therefore, I don't think I should be the one to question them, send Dixon posing as a police officer."

"Fine, Dixon, question Agent Bristow's friends, see if they know anything. Agent Vaughn and Agent Bristow, you go and question other people from the beach and the surrounding area posing as detectives for the LAPD, I want to meet back here in two hours and I want to have a lead." Everyone left the briefing room and went to work. Jack sat down at his desk and began to make phone calls, no one was ever sure how Jack got as much information as he did or had as many contacts and connections as he did, but he got the job done, and seeing him work like that, made Sydney more confident that they would find Dixon. Marshall went to his office and began to trace the e-mail, Vaughn, Sydney and Dixon all headed in their separate directions.

Vaughn and Sydney sat in Vaughn's car.

"Syd, what did those messages mean?!"

"Vaughn, I have no idea, but its so weird. Special messages were sent to you, my dad and I, and the entire e-mail was sent to Marshall??! It doesn't make any sense!"

"Okay we can figure this out, your message said, 'nothing is as it seems'…okay that's totally vague!" Sydney tried to laugh but was thinking too much. Vaughn was exhausted and could tell Sydney was as well, they had both been working so hard. They had taken down SD-6 and the Alliance, their goal for so long but everything was still just as hard. If felt like the hadn't accomplished anything. Vaughn clicked on the radio and the soothing melody filled the car.

Ooh Child, things are gonna be easier

Ooh Child, things'll get brighter

Vaughn reached across the car and the back of his fingers against Sydney's cheek. She kissed the back of his fingers and they both knew that everything would be okay, but how? Sydney wanted to comfort Vaughn, she could tell he was worried about his friend.

Someday, when your head is much lighter

Someday, we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun

Someday, when the world is much brighter

However, she knew that the only thing that would truly comfort Vaughn right now was results.

"Okay, well what about your message, 'greetings from the dead.'"

"Well, then it could be from anyone who has died."

"Helpful."

Ooh Child, things are gonna be easier

Ooh Child things'll get brighter

Ooh Child, things are gonna be easier

Ooh Child, things'll get brighter

"Syd, I think the problem is that separately they are really vague, maybe we should be looking at them all together."

"Yeah." But they were both too mentally exhausted to keep thinking, so they let the end of the song fill their heads.

Ooh Child, things are gonna be easier

Ooh Child things'll get brighter

Ooh Child, things are gonna be easier

Ooh Child, things'll get brighter

And you just wait and see

It's gonna be, what you want it to be

'Cause I love you

Ooh Child

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