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The next morning Sydney woke early with a smile on her face. She rolled over to find Vaughn sleeping soundly beside her. She traced the outline of his face and grinned. She had missed this.

"Hey you." Vaughn lazily opened his eyes and smiled at Sydney.

"Hey." Whispered Syd. They leaned in and both sighed in relief as their lips met. Vaughn hugged Sydney closer, pulling her by her waist. As they broke apart, Vaughn ran his fingers through Sydney's hair and smiled at her. "What?"

"Nothing." Vaughn's smile moved on to become a full-fledged goofy grin.

"That's a something smile." Sydney tried to act serious, but Vaughn's grin became contagious. She giggled and nuzzled her head into his neck.

Vaughn closed his eyes as Sydney moved against him and sighed. "I missed you."

"Oh Michael." Vaughn raised his head to look at Sydney. He sat up a little as he noticed tears in his eyes.

"Hey, hey." He brushed the tears away with his thumbs and kissed her wet cheeks. "What's wrong?"

"It's been so hard…all these years…without you." Vaughn sat back as Sydney pulled herself up beside him, but kept her hand tightly in his. "In high school, when people would ask what I saw of when I thought of the future, do you know what I saw? You. Only you.

"Michael, I loved you so much. I would wake up in tears, years after. Even if I hadn't thought of you for months, there you would be…in my dreams. I've missed you so much Michael, it hurts."

Sydney was now fully crying. Vaughn's face fell as he listened and he hugged her tightly to him. He cradled her in his arms, letting her cry out her sadness. After many long minutes, which seemed like an eternity of sadness to Vaughn, Sydney sat up and wiped her eyes.

"I don't want to lose you Michael. When I lost you before I fell. And if I lose you again, I am going to fall again…and if I do…I don't think I'll be able to get back up."

Vaughn's eyes filled with silent tears and he kissed Sydney full and hard. When he pulled back, tears were falling from both their eyes.

"You don't have to worry Syd, because I'm never going to let you fall." Sydney's face lightened a little at this and she hugged Vaughn. He pulled her back down onto the bed and they fell back asleep, together.

"Syd?" Vaughn grinned and nudged the sleeping woman beside him. "Sydney?"

"Don't frost the pie!" A determined look spread across Sydney's face and Vaughn laughed.

"Don't frost the what? Oh wake up Syd." Vaughn kissed her slobbery on the neck and laughed as she playfully swatted him. "Come on, I've got pancakes."

"Ohhhh pancakes." Said Syd dreamily as she yawned and stretched, finally opening her eyes. "Morning…"

"Morning." Vaughn lightly kissed Sydney on the mouth. "How are you feeling?"

"Better." Smiled Sydney. "Vaughn…I know I said a lot, but…"

"We still have more to talk about? I know." He smiled softly. "I love you Sydney, and I will never let you fall. We'll get through this together."

"Thank you." Sydney's eyes teared up again, but Vaughn quickly brushed them away.

"Come on Syd, pancakes." He helped her off the bed.

"I just wanna freshen up." Grinned Sydney. "Meet you in the kitchen?"

"I'll wait a life time." Grinned Vaughn as he watched Sydney walk to the bathroom in his shirt and boxers.

"If it takes that long to look beautiful for you." Sydney paused at the door to the bathroom, grinning at Vaughn.

"You always look beautiful." Whispered Vaughn. Sydney heard him and blushed. She ducked into the bathroom and Vaughn laughed as he hurried down the stairs.

When he entered the kitchen, he heard his phone ring. Vaughn picked it up out of his jacket and put it to his ear as he began to set the table.

"Vaughn."

"Mike man, please tell me you are alone." Weiss's hurried voice came on and Vaughn grinned.

"If I didn't know any better I'd think you were insinuating something."

"Mike this is not the time." Said Weiss, obviously agitated. "Is Syd with you?"

"Yeah…hey how did you know?" Vaughn switched the phone to his other ear. "I'd invite you for breakfast but you know…"

"Mike, we are in deep shit."

"Eric." Vaughn put down the forks and knives he was holding and turned serious. "What's going on?"

"The CIA has an affirmation that you and Syd were seen talking outside your house last night, then going inside…Mike, SD-6 may have seen you too."

Sydney brushed her hair and smiled at her reflection in the mirror. For the first time since Danny's death, finding out about SD-6…she was happy.

After Noah had left, Sydney had wandered around the park. Watching kids play, adults talk…couples kiss. During all of this time, Sydney had thought about Vaughn. She ran through their time together in high school. The first day she had met him, the day he had kissed her, the prom, the night they had made love…all of this hadn't cleared anything up. Until she had flickered to the night he had come to Washington to find her. The moment when she had seen him through the crowd, when they had met and finally when he had said he loved her. It was that memory that set it straight for her.

It was as if Sydney's heart had burst open and all her feelings for Vaughn had been put in the spotlight. Her overwhelming love for him flooded her body an d Sydney felt as if she could fly.

All fears and doubts had fled from her mind at that moment. Sydney knew Michael Vaughn was the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. He was the man who she loved.

Sydney straightened Vaughn's shirt and boxers on her body and grinned. She skipped down the stairs to Vaughn.

"Michael?" Sydney had halted at the door to the kitchen when she saw him. Vaughn was sitting on a chair, hunched over, elbows resting on knees, hands in head. She slowly walked towards Vaughn and knelt down in front of him. "Sweetie?"

Vaughn looked up and Sydney made a tiny gasp as she saw that worry lines marred his face. He rubbed his face and looked back to her.

"Eric called." He watched her expression. "The CIA saw us last night…they think there's a chance SD-6 saw us too. They don't know for sure, they're sending your father in to try and see if Sloane knows anything, but…"

"Michael…?" Sydney was at a loss for words. So many emotions swirled through her head. Confusion. Anger. Worry. Sadness. Bewilderment. Sydney didn't know what had happened. A moment ago she had been filled from her head to her toes with love and happiness, now…nothing.

"They're coming…" Muttered Vaughn. His head was even more clogged than Sydney's. This morning was supposed to have been the morning they missed nine years ago. The morning that caused the pain and heartbreak. After a night of unbelievable ecstasy with Sydney…it wasn't supposed to end like this.

"What?" Sydney came out of her trance and looked up to Vaughn.

"The CIA, they…" He looked down at Sydney and pain filled his heart as he saw mountains of it looking back at him through her big brown eyes. "They're coming to get you, uncover of course, and take you to a safe house…till we know for sure."

"I…I want to stay with you." Tears leaked down Sydney's face. Vaughn's heart broke and he quickly got up, taking Sydney in his arms and hugging her tightly.

"I know." He whispered into her ear. "But we need to think with our heads, not our hearts. We'll be together soon. Everything will be okay…" Vaughn trailed off as he sat back down, this time with Sydney curled in his arms. The two waited there, trying to reassure each other, for the CIA to come and rescue them.

"Mr. Sloane?" Arvin Sloane looked up as a young man from Security Section knocked on his open door.

"Yes?"

"There's something you might want to see." He walked forward and placed a pile of photos on Sloane's desk. The head of SD-6 picked up the photos and his eyebrows shot up.

"Well this is interesting. Very interesting." Sloane looked over the pictures. They were of a young man a woman and Sloane's eyes lit up in recognition as he glanced over the photos again and again. "Very interesting."