Title: Consequences
Summary: Sydney is forced to deal with the consequences of wanting her enemy
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 chapter contains F/F.
Chapter Nine
When Lauren woke up early the next morning she felt a weight on her chest and opened her eyes to see Sydney's sleeping form half lying on her. Lauren was in paradise. She had spent the night with Sydney and the CIA agent was still there when she woke up. It hadn't been a ploy or a trick; Sydney had wanted to be with her.
When Lauren looked over to the door she lost her smile. Kendall stood at the open door looking in at her. "Sydney." She nudged the other woman as she pulled the blanket over them. "Syd, wake up." Sydney groaned and nuzzled into Lauren's neck.
"Five more minutes." She moaned as though it was an average day waking up beside her ex's wife.
"Jack and Vaughn know you're here." Kendall explained. "It's not safe anymore." Lauren sighed and ran a hand through her messed up hair.
At the sound of Kendall's voice Sydney's eyes shot open and she sat up to see him standing by the door.
"What's going on?" She demanded to know and looked at Lauren with a look of anger that sent shivers down the blonde's spine.
"I abducted you under Kendall's orders. I'm not NSA…I'm with project Black Hole. My job was to infiltrate the Covenant and work with you as a double agent. I married Michael Vaughn because the Covenant told me too, I didn't tell him about it being a job because Kendall told me not to. The Covenant planned on abducting you again in an attempt to try to convert you, Kendall ordered me to abduct you on your last mission…It was to keep you safe."
"We need to get you to another CIA safe house before the Covenant find you." Kendall informed them before leaving the room to allow them to dress. Sydney avoided Lauren's gaze as she dressed and seemed to regret her actions from the previous night.
"Sydney, I protected you because I love you…"
"I don't know you." Sydney's anger finally spilled over her cool exterior. "Everything I have ever known about you is a lie. You took Vaughn from me and didn't even want him. You made me have these feelings for you and then you took you away from me. I don't know who you are." She went to walk out the door and was stopped as Lauren grabbed her arm.
"Do you want to know who I am Sydney? I'm the girlfriend you had for over a year until you wiped every memory of me you ever had. I was the one you fell in love with while you grieved over Michael Vaughn, the man I was forced to marry was the one man I hated most in the world because he had you. Even when you wiped your memory and returned to the CIA you still had memories of your love for Vaughn…you had nothing for me." Lauren's eyes were brimming with tears and Sydney stood in a stunned silence as she took in the information.
"Sorry to interrupt you luv." Kendall walked in carrying a tranquilliser gun and shot Lauren where she stood. He turned it on Sydney and the last thing she saw was Sark peeling off a latex mask of Kendall's face and remove a voice alternator from around his neck. "It hurts to be used Lauren. You'll regret it."
