Title: The Vaughn's

Author: AnnaSun

Summary: Adventures with the Vaughn family. Sequel to 'One wedding and a near funeral'

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimers note: I don't own Alias but I do this fanfic

Chapter 8: Blue tinge

Sydney opened her eyes. She was in her house when she was five years old. She was sitting at the top of the stairs playing with her dolls.

"Where are you Sydney?" Dr Barnett asked.

"In my house. I'm at the top of the stairs playing with my dolls." Sydney replied.

"Have a look around. Can you see the key?"

Sydney began to look around the bottom of the house.

"I can't see one." She replied.

"Okay keep looking. What room are you in now?"

"The kitchen. I'm heading upstairs."

"Okay Sydney." Dr Barnett replied.

Sydney made her way upstairs when she froze. Her Mother was standing on the landing. Sydney hadn't seen her Mum in ages and froze, a tear dropping from her eye.

"What do you see Sydney?"

"My Mum. She's in the house." Sydney whimpered a little.

"Remember nothing can hurt you. Non of this is real." Dr Barnett reassured.

Sydney walked passed her Mother into her room and began to walk about and go through the boxes. On the fifth box she opened there was a large key.

"I've found the key. it's in a brown box."

"Okay good work Sydney. I'm going to count down from three when I get to one I want you to open your eyes. One, two, three."

Sydney opened her eyes.

"I know where the box is. It's on the chest of draws in my bedroom at home. I'll go home and get it."

Dr Barnett smiled and Kendall walked in.

"Good work Sydney."

Sydney drove home and when she arrived at the door she found that it was slightly ajar. When she went inside she found the place was a wreck. Someone had been in there. She went to her bedroom and found the box empty. Danny had received the key. She raced back to the JTF building to speak to Kendall.

"Danny has the key. He raided my house and has it."

"Okay. Here's what we are going to do. Danny has just been seen on the beach of LA. He must be going to active the device. I want you to head down there and stop him. Get your gear on."

Sydney nodded.

"I'll get right to it."

Sydney got into her gear and started to drive off to the beach. She arrived to find lots of people sun bathing in the heat of the sun. Danny was nowhere to be seen. She started to scan the area for any signs of Danny. She thought of giving up when suddenly she spotted him by the rocks. She began to walk over, holding her gun.

"Hello." Sydney greeted.

Danny turned around.

"Sydney its so nice to see you. How have you been?"

Sydney glared.

"You were supposed to be dead!" She shouted.

"I know. What a shame." Danny laughed an evil laugh.

Sydney walked over and slapped him across the cheek.

"You son of a bitch!" She cried.

Danny didn't care and laughed.

"Sadly I have the key so you can't stop me now."

Sydney tried to attack Danny but he's men appeared and shot Sydney with a tranquilliser dart. Danny escaped to the ocean.

Sydney woke up tied to a chair. She tried to move but found she couldn't. Danny's guards where nowhere to be seen so she stood up and moved the chair to the other side of the room. Putting pressure on a valve, managed to break apart her hand cuffs. Just as she was set free Danny's men came into the room and immediately launched their attack on Sydney. Sydney set a round of kicks in one of the men's faces and sent him to the floor. The second man collapsed when she kicked him in the stomach and head. The third kicked Sydney in the stomach leaving her winded but she fought back and soon he was on the floor also. With all of them down she headed to the sea to get the key.

Being a fast swimmer she managed to catch up with Danny very easily. She tried to get the key off him but it was hard to tackle him underwater. She managed to punch him a few times and blood started to form in the water where she had punched his nose. She got out her gun and pointed it as his head. She wasn't quick enough and he kicked her in the stomach that sent her backwards somewhat. She fell on a rock in the water and gashed her arm. Blood started to flow from the cut and the water started to go a crimson red colour. Sydney lunged forward but Danny grabbed for her oxygen mask and ripped it off, sending it to the sea bed below. Sydney knew that even with all her training she could never hold her breath underwater for long time. She pulled the catch on her gun but Danny flew round and hit her with his oxygen tank that sent her flying backwards. She hit her head hard on a piece of jagged rock. Blood began to pour from the cut. With one last try she trigged the gun with sent a bullet straight into Danny's head. His head jerked backwards and horror shone over his face. He dropped the key and Sydney grabbed it, placing it her pocket. Danny sunk to the sea bed below. Sydney realising she didn't have much air left tried to reach Danny's air supply but couldn't reach it as Danny was sinking fast to the floor. Sydney panicked and started to make her way to the surface. She gasped as her head bobbed out of the water and back under. She started to swim back to the shore. She was feeling extremely dizzy and her head hurt. The cut on it was bleeding profusely. Her arm was stinging and was bleeding too. She made it nearly to the shore when her head started to sink dangerously underwater. She couldn't keep her eyes open and felt extremely ill. She started to go into shock and soon her eyes closed and she fell into unconsciousness. Her head sunk underwater.

Vaughn had a shorter day at work so he was spending the afternoon with Madi on the beach. She was building sandcastles.

"Look Danny I built one." Madi said smiling widely.

"So you did Sweetie." Vaughn added a flag to the top of the sandcastle.

Madi giggled.

"Let's do another one Danny."

"Okay." Vaughn agreed.

Suddenly there was a lot of shouting as a body was dragged from the waters. Vaughn heard the commotion and he and Madi raced down the beach. Nothing could prepare Vaughn for the slight hr saw in front of his eyes. Madi looked down in shock.

"Mummy?" She asked very quietly.

Vaughn bent down to get a better look at Sydney. He gasped when she noticed Sydney's lips were blue…

To be continued…

AN: I managed to update before I go on holiday. Yay! I was a bit disappointed about how this chapter turned out. Hope you all don't think the same way. What do you think of this chapter? Was it good? I'm not good at fight scenes so I tried my best. I hope you like this chapter.