Chapter 5
Vaughn breezed into Weiss's office on Tuesday morning and took a seat while looking at his frazzled friend expectantly.
"You do realize that we leave for Munich in like 6 hours? Why are you so calm?!" Weiss asked. "If this goes wrong, we could screw up the whole takedown of SD-6!"
"Come on it'll be fine," Vaughn answered dismissively. Weiss just stared at him open-mouthed trying to figure out who this guy was. The Michael Vaughn he knew would be up all night planning out every detail, forehead covered with permanent wrinkles, freaking out that they didn't have enough time. In fact, now that he thought about it, Vaughn had been like that ever since right now. And there could only be one reason for that.
"Alright, what did it say?" Weiss sighed
"What did what say?" Vaughn asked innocently.
"Come on man, you know the e-mail she wrote you? That's the only think I can think of that would make
you act like this," Weiss replied.
"Oh, that," Vaughn said grinning. "Well remember how I asked her if she wanted to meet? And then she wrote me back, not mentioning it at all?"
"Yeah, and you totally freaked out by reading too much into it," Weiss smirked.
"I got an email from her saying how she does want to meet me, and we are going to dinner Thursday night," Vaughn finished with a grin.
"Aren't you cutting it a little close?" Weiss asked. "We don't get back to LA till 6 on Thursday."
"I'll have just enough time to change before meeting her for pizza," Vaughn answered. "Look, I have to finish some stuff before we leave, so I'll talk to you later," and he left Weiss alone in his office.
Wow, maybe I won't have to play matchmaker, Weiss thought.
Meanwhile:
Sydney sat grinning at her computer; she was going to meet him! All she had to do was make it through the mission, and it was off to meet her dream man! It was weird, this feeling she had. She felt like she was back in high school going on her first date. Yet she felt different. Like this guy was going to be different than anyone she had ever met. That part scared her a bit.
What if my expectations are too high?
A few hours later
Sydney, Vaughn, Weiss, and the rest of the ops team sat quietly on the cargo plane making its way to Germany. They were all going over in their heads what needed to be done. Syd and Vaughn would go into the building, and retrieve the intel, while the rest of the team did surveillance.
This is it, Sydney thought. This will be the end of SD-6 forever. The end of my life of lies, and the beginning of normalcy. I just hope we don't screw it up.
