Chapter 15 : Alice In Wonderland
Disclaimer in the first chapter
The stuff before the first part of the lyrics is from the end of chapter.14. Lyrics from Everything with Lifehouse.
"You...took a shower?" he asked, one eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, I had spent how many hours on a plane and then some time with this black haired wig. And in this heat? I didn't wanna get smelly." She told him, as she took out the norah jones CD and instead turns on the radio.
-and how can i
stand here with you
and not be moved by you
would you tell me
how could it be
any better than this-
"So, umh, I was going to go..." Julian started, but was starting to get a bit uncomfortable. He was going to say that he had made plans to go out with Danny tonight. Like Danny had told him "celebrate that they were both single again" Julian had just rolled his eyes at him and said sure.
"Where is Francie? I thought you two lived together." Sydney told him, as she looked around the living room and didn't notice anything very Francie-like things.
"The engagement is off. Actually it happened because of a message you left on my answearing machine." He told her, one hand rubbing the back of his neck.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I really didn't think about what would happen if she heard it. It was done in a hurry." She told him, as she looked at sark lying on the floor, but looking from Julian to her with intrest.
Julian's cellphone rang and they both looked in the direction of where he had put it down, near the front-door. It rang a few times more, and still he wasn't sure if he should answear.
"Are't you going to get that? It might be important. I promise not to listen." She told him, as she went and picked up the phone. Handing it to him, smiling.
"Hello? What? Wait a second." He told the person on the other end, as he looked at Syd and then stepped outside the apartment.
When he stepped back into the flat, a few minutes later, both sark and Syd where gone. Julian looked into the kitchen, bathroom, balcony, living room, office and at last his bedroom. On his bed lay a sleeping Sydney, by her feet was a sleeping sark.
He closed the bedroom, and went to the living room. He turned the Tv on and sat down on the couch. But he wasn't really watchin Tv, just thinking if he really should go to whereever Syd wanted him to go with her. Off course he wanted to see his daughter, but who knew if this wasn't just all a trap.
-you calm the storms
you give me rest
you hold me in your hands
you won't let me fall
you still my heart
and you take my breath away-
Julian woke up on the couch. He stood up and stretched a bit cat like. He walked to his bedroom and pushed the door open, and just saw Sark still sleeping where he had slept all night. No sign of Sydney ever having slept there.
Julian rolled his eyes at the dog. He knew Syd had been his first owner and everything, but he had been Julian's dog for 9 years. You'd think the dog had some loyalties. Sark raised his head up and looked at Julian in the doorway.
She had been gone for a few hours. Sark stood up and got of the bed, walked past Julian and into the kitchen. He was probably hungry. Julian left the bedroom, went to get sark and himself some food. But Sark came to him with something in his mouth.
"What's that?" Julian asked, as he took what seemed to be a ticket of somekind from him. Yuck, it was a bit wet. It was an airplane ticket to Italy.
Later that day : Danny's place
"I'm coming. I'm coming. Jesus. What's the ru... Hey, Julian, what's up?" He asked his partner, who had his dog on a leash and looked kinda in a hurry.
"I was just thinking, can you maybe take care of Sark for me for a few days? Because since I'm on a break I am going on a bit of a vaction and I can't take him with me. Just take him right now, because I'm going today. In a few hours." Julian told him.
"Umh, sure. But why the rush, still?" Danny asked him, as he took the leash and some of sark's things.
"Oh, just want to get there as soon as I can. You know, get as much out of it as I can." Julian lied to him, as he walked towards the stair.
"Okay. Have fun, I guess." Danny told him, before he closed the door. Wondering about his friends weird behavior.
After dropping Sark of at Danny's, he went back home and packed some cloathes. He also grabbed Syd's bookthat he still had (The lost king of France: the tragic story of Marie-Antoinette's favorite son). Didn't know what he was going to do with it, but he took it anyways.
When he walked out of the building, the doorman told him he had a lovely sister. Julian only smirked at that comment. Sydney, his sister? First of all, disgusting and second, that was kinda smart of her.
Airport:
Julian was waiting for his plane to board and just now started to really think about what it meant if he got on that plane. Could her really be a father? He had already missed 9, almost 10 years, of his kid's life. He was starting to have some doubts. This morning he just felt like he had to do this. But now with nothing else on his mind, he wasn't so sure.
He saw a family in front of him, and wondered if they could ever be like that. Then his cell-phone rang, he looked at who was calling and saw it was from Danny.
"Hello?" he said, still looking at the small family in front of him.
"Hi. Listen, man, you might be on vaction but I'm not. Right now, I have a temporary partner untill you get back and they just called me. I need to leave, today. So, is it okay if I drop Sark of at Adam Jaci's place?" Danny asked Julian, who came crashing back to reality and looked away from the now leaving family.
"What? Umh...yeah, sure. Take care. Don't do anything stupid." He told his best friend/work-partner.
"Me? Stupid? Those two donot belong in the same sentence." He told Julian, grinning as Julian rolled his eyes.
"I have to go now. Bye" He told his friend, as they started to board his plane. On the way there, he just thought how stupid it was of him to thinkg they could be a normal family. He was an CIA-agent, and she was seemed to work for her mother. At least from what she had told him the day before, accident or not. He didn't know. How could that ever work, if neither one quit their job?
He was at least going to enjoy these few days they had together. But after that he wasn't so sure wha would happen. The future would have to wait . He was going to enjoy the present.
Italy:
Jack was watching the house that Julian had disappered into the nigth before, no one had come or gone since then. He was starting to wonder if he hadn't just really gone on vaction. He remembered the place though, he had come here with Laura before Syd was born. One of her oldest friends had at least then lived her in the summer, having it passed down from her mom who had gotten it from her mom who was italian but married this russian man and moved to russia. He snapped out of the memory, when he saw the front doors open.
Out stepped a brunette dressed in a white and red sun-dress, she wore a hat with a large brim (i have no idea) and sunglasses. She had a small bag hanging of her shoulder. She seemed to be waiting for someone. He had no idea who that could be, or he was just lying to himslef. Not wanting to admit who that was.
Then he sees Julian walk out the door, leading a young girl. She was probably close to ten, but no older. She had wavy brown hair and a was dressed similar to the woman waiting for them. Who was on the phone now, she did not look pleased. She held the phone in one hand, and her hat in one.
She turned around and took her sunglasses of. He's shocked and it was pretty hard to shock him. He takes a better look, and yes, that woman looked like an grown-up image of his long-ago missing daughter.
She had finished her phone call now, and had crouched down next to the girl. Telling her something, and hugging her, before she stood up and put her hat on Julian. Making the little girl giggle. Then she talks to Julian a bit and then puts the sunglasses back on and walks to a car parked in the driveway.
Julian now crouched down in front of the girl and seemed to be asking her something. She points in a direction and he stands back up.
Then he notices someone else come out of the house holding a basket. She was young, black haired, all that he had seen in the video footage from when someone matching that description had visited Julian three days ago.She hands him the basket and then hugs him, before also crouching down to look into the younger girls eyes.
She talked to her a bit, and then started to tickle her. That went on for a bit before Jack saw Valeriya, Laura's friend, come out and say something to the black haired girl so she stopped tickling the younger girl. Then she just smiled at Julian and seemed to tell him something before making a kinda 'shoo' gesture.
Making Julian and the little girl start walking in the direction she had pointed earlier. He was holding the basket, and the little girls hand. When Jack was sure that they were out of sight, he headed for the house. He rang the doorbell and the black haired young woman from earlier answeared.
"Hey, Ju... Umh, yes, what can I do for you?" She asked, standing there dressed in jeans, T-shirt and barefoot. He looked over her shoulder and saw Valeriya coming towards the door.
"Hello, Jack. Anya, it's okay. Please, come in." She told her daughter, who stepped aside and let Jack in. He followed her to a living room, and Anya was hot on their trails.
"So, how have you been? It's been years since we saw each other. With me moving here a few years after Laura's disappearance and all." She told him, as she sat down on a couch and Anya sitting down beside her. He sat down in a chair overstuffed with pillows.
"I've been fine. I was just wondering what my long lost daughter was doing here." Jack told her, straight out. No pretending.
"Well, she's hear because she had an argument with her mom. And we're always ready to take her in." Val told him, smiling as she told him.
"And your son? What's he doing here?" He asked, seeing what was coming but denying it.
"He's here on a vaction from his work. Why? He's not doing anything wrong." She told him, a bit annoyed. Why wouldn't he be here? This was his family.
"Just wondering. I thought that when Sydney disappeared he lost all contact. Out there you all looked like one happy family." Jack told her, who usually didn't even waste any strength at hiding his feelings but did now, so that he didn't sound bitter.
"He did. Don't go blaming him for knowing about her all these years, because he didn't. Only me and Anya have known." Val was sayin when Anya cut in by saying ; "I've only known for two years, since my father was killed. Mom's known for 9 years." Her mother didn't see the need to tell him that, but there was no harm done.
"And the kid. Who's kid was that?" He asks and from behind him he hears a voice he hadn't heard for what seemed forever. "Mine. She's mine, Dad." He turns around, and sees his daughter in her white red sun-dress.
"Hi, Dad. Long time, no see, huh?" She tells him, a attempt at a smile on her face. He stands up, walks to her and hugs her. She isn't sure what to do at first but then hugs him back.
"Where were you?" Jack asked her, as he looked at his fully-grown daughter.
"I have to go again. Was just dropping something off, before going to the park.Nice seeing you again, Dad." She told him, not even aknowledging his question When she had left, Jack looked at Val and Anya.
"She probably went to meet her mom." Anya said, before her mom pushed her a bit and gave her a stern look.
"Laura, really?" He asked, thinking a bit back before they went away. Val sighed and told him, again, that they had some big fight over something and that's when Syd brought Yuli here.
"Yuli? That's her kids name? And where is the father?" Jack asked, refusing for some reason that Julian could be his grand-daughter's father.
"It's short for Yuliana. Russian female form of Julian. That should tell you who the father is. Is that all? It's not like we're busy or anything, but something tells me Sydney is not going to want you still here when the three of them get back." Val told him, as her and Anya stood up. Jack stood up too, and they walked to the front door. As he was about to go, Anya asked him : "What are you going to do?"
"Nothing, for the moment. She's not wanted, at least not to my knowledge. They just thought she was some small time criminal in that botched mission of Julian's. They have no intrest in her, right now." He told them, before opening the door and walking to his car that was parked a few houses down. He had hid in a house across from them, it seemed the owners were on a vaction or something like that.
Earlier : Irina's hotelroom
Knock! Knock!
Irina answears the door, dressed perfectly as always. She sees Sydney on the other side, dressed in her white red sundress. She looks her daughter over and then raises one eyebrow, looking Syd straight in the eyes.
"It's a good, sunny day. We were going to a park. Okay?" Syd told her, annoyed at her mother's attitude.
"How sweet." Irina tells her, a mocking smile on her face.
"What do you want?" Sydney asked her, looking at her mom with frozen brown eyes.
"We, or more you, might have a problem. Micahel Vaughn's alive." Irina told her daughter, who snapped her head from where she had been looking out a window to her mother's face.
"How? I know I killed him. Mom, he can't be. Are you 100 percent sure?" Syd asked her, shocked as she sat down on a chair.
"Yes, I'm sure. He's working for the alliance, again. This time he seems to know who he's actually working for. He's changed, Sydney. I don't think you and Yuli are safe here anymore. I don't think Julian is safe, either. He might not know about Yuli or him, but he's been looking for you. And I don't think he's looking for you to talk." Irina told her, with what seemed real emotions (worried, apprehensive, etc.) in her eyes.
Park :
Sydney walked to the park and finds Yuli Julian sitting on a bench. Yuli was holding a book, and telling him something wit a lot of hand movements. So much that she almost dropped the book a few times. He laughs a little, a few times. For awhile she just stood there, watching father daughter.
She smiled at the picture perfect moment, as Yuli looks in her direction and jumps from the bench. Practically throwing the book to Julian. She runs to her, with him walking behind her smiling, as Yuli jumps into Syd's arms. Syd carries Yuli in her arms to where Julian stopped.
"She was reading Alice in wonderland for me. Tells me it's her favorite book. Isn't it your favorite, too, Syd?" He asked her, as he held up a copy of Alice In Wonderland, that also had 'Through the looking glass' and 'the hunting of the snark'.
"Yes, we both love it. At home, I have a first edition of it that Mom once gave me. But we usually use that one to read." Syd told him, as they sat down on the bench from before. Yuli put the book, which Julian had handed her earlier, into the basket Anya had given them before they left for the park and took out an apple to eat.
"So, how was that meeting of yours?" Julian asked Syd, as they watched Yuli having fun and eating her apple at an amazing rate.
"You know, I can't really tell you. And I wouldn't but this might concern your safety, too. You remember my ex, Vaughn, right?" Sydney asked him, bothered by the fact that Vaughn was still alive.
"Yes, I vaguely recall him. Why are you bringing him up now?" Julian asked he, because it'd be so typical that something like an ex-boyfriend would spoil the great day he had been having so far.
"Well, he used to work for the L.A branch of the Alliance, but like most of them, he thought he was working for the actual CIA. His partner was Noah Hicks, but Noah knew the truth. Plus, he was an assassin called the Snowman. You know, because he liked to use a icepick. My employer once hired him to do this one job with me, and we ran into Vaughn..." Syd was telling Julian, when Yuli came up to them, smiling and tugged on Syd's hand.
"Can we get some ice cream?" She asked them, her baby-blue eyes looking at them, hopeful. Syd looked at Julian, and he just shrugged his shoulders. They'd finish this later.
"Sure, Yuli. What kind do you want?" Syd asked her, as their daughter squealed with joy. Syd laughed, as she took her hand and Julian picked up the basket.
5 years ago 2008 :
Noah fought of Vaughn, as Sydney got what they came for. Well, Vaughn and Noah came first and then Sydney, and then the fighting started when Vaugh realized Noah's "betrayal to the CIA". As She turned around, Noah was about to kill Vaughn.
"NO!" Sydney half-yelled, and both men looked at her. She went under a new name and changed eyecolor, thanks to color contact lenses, but deep down she was still Syd. And Sydney A. Bristow could not see her former boyfriend, who she had loved at one time, killed.
Noah saw her eyes and backed of. He knew who was behind that mask, well he thought he did, and you did not want her angry at you. But Vaughn didn't and attacked her. She's quick to overpower him, grab Noah's dropped ice pick and stabbed him.
His eyes go impossibly wide and she realizes what she's done. She takes her mask of, and looks down at him with watery eyes. He looks at her blonde hair and grey eyes.
"You don't have brown eyes, anymore. You know, the left one was more brown than the right one?" he said, slightly laughing before stoping because it hurt.
She rolled her eyes and said : "Your impossible." As she remembered when they first had this discussion, when she was wearing Julian jacket that had the flaming red stitches. Back when everything was normal, or as norma as they got, and simple.
"Asya, we have to go. Now! I hear someone coming." Noah told her, as he tugged on her arm to get her to stand up. She grabbed her mask and pulled it over her head, becoming Asya again. Asya Derevko didn't care about anyone. Her mother would be so proud.
To Be Continued...
A/N : I seem to be back on track with this fic. Which I love because, I seriously want to finish this fic. And I might have been lying when I said that chapter 15 was the last chapter cause obviously it's not. :lol:
So, I hope you enjoyed it and please, where ever your reading this reply/review. :p :d I'm a junkie and I need my fix. lol :lol:
I tried to have some fluff. There was fluff, right? The park scene. :d Well, ch. 16 is gonna be fluffy (and probably cheesy). I've got most of it planned. lol. Planned fluff. :p sorry. It's like 8:16 am, and the second disc of LotR : The two towers extended verion is playin with commentry (I think the one with peter jackson and some other people. Not really listening). lol.
That thing in the end about here eyecolor was kinda umh, lol, coming back to this thing in chapter. 4 : Red stitches. Though I think maybe chapter 17 is gonna be the end. I'm so not sure, lol, but If I could (cause plot!bunnies are pure evil) write a sequel. Would anyone want to read it? I'm not sure what would happen, but I have some vague ideas. lol.
It only took me about a week or so to write this chapter. Yay for me. lol. Anyways, off to PM you (if your on the PM-list, off course :p), plot and write chapter.16. But maybe I should actually post the chapter first. hmm, I think that'd be a good idea. (sorry, I'm in a weird mood. Was re-reading a fav. Trory of mine called Pride Prejudice by Laura.)
Dru, Iceland
(Way too hyper for this early in the morning, but had a huge glass of regular, sugary coke.. But yes! The damn snow is all gone and I'm hopin no more 'till next winter. I loath the cold, wet and white stuff now. :angry:lol:)
