Title: Consequences
Summary: Vaughn, Sydney and Lauren deal with the consequences of Senator Reed's death in different ways.
Disclaimer: Sadly I own neither Alias nor any of the characters.
Spoilers: Set after 3.17 'The Frame', but AU after that.
Rating: PG-13
A/N: This story contains non-graphic F/F and M/F.
Chapter TwoWhen Sydney walked into work on Monday morning, after a mysterious few days of vacation, she was faced with two choices. She could either go to Dixon and ask for an assignment, passing Lauren working at her desk in the process, or talk to Marshall on the other side of the room. Unfortunately her decision was made when Lauren saw her and walked up to her. "Can we talk?" Sydney nodded with her gaze anywhere but on the blonde in front of her.
They went into Marshall's empty office and Lauren drew the blinds before turning to Sydney. Sydney's mind went blank. She'd taken her vacation to avoid Lauren and the awkwardness that she was currently encountering. "Lauren I..." Lauren's lips pushed against hers silenced Sydney. She struggled to break the contact and managed to back away from Lauren, right into the wall.
Lauren tried to lean into her again but Sydney resisted and pushed her away. "What the hell are you doing?" She shouted. Lauren's soft features formed into a mischievous smile.
"Why else do you think I wanted you on your own?"
"To talk?" Lauren laughed at how child like and naïve Sydney sounded and advanced closer to her so she was almost pressed against Sydney. She caressed Syd's cheek and caused Sydney to flinch away.
"I swear if you touch me again I'll scream." Sydney knew she sounded feeble and helpless; not like a highly trained CIA agent, but she had no other option. Lauren grinned as she traced the outline of Sydney's lips, the ones she wanted to feel against her own so badly.
Syd screamed at the top of her voice and exhausted all of the air on her lungs. Lauren backed away from her as the door burst open and valiant Vaughn came running in to help his precious Sydney.
"What's wrong?" He was blustered from running into the room and his concern for her was sickeningly all over his face. Sydney's mind scrambled to find something to reply with and years of deceit and improvisation came up with the reply, "I thought I saw a cockroach." A small smile touched Lauren's lips as the lie came out and when Lauren and Vaughn left even Sydney wondered why she'd lied? She shrugged it off putting it down to wanting to protect Vaughn.
Later that day after a successful three hours of avoiding the blonde Sydney sat down in the briefing room and waited for the others to join her. Usually Lauren and Michael sat on the other side of Sydney and Vaughn tried not to let stray glances towards her be noticed by Lauren, this time Lauren sat beside Sydney and Michael and Weiss sat opposite them with Jack and Dixon standing.
"Sark's up to his old tricks again. He's meeting with a contact concerning a list of CIA agents working inside the Covenant. Syd I'm sending you on a counter mission to retrieve the list. Weiss, you're on the comms. You leave for Rome in two hours." Sydney was blissfully happy at the prospect of avoiding Lauren by not being in the same country as her.
An hour Later Sark's phone began to ring and he picked it up promptly. "I've just been told about your plans tonight."
"The CIA knows? Well I'll just have to take counter measures." Sark replied.
"I think I can help you there." Lauren hung up and boarded her plane to Rome.
