Damn finally I am finished with this chapter. Sorry it took so long. It's 3003 words though. So it's not exactly short.
I hope you read, enjoy and leave a reply.
Disclaimer in first chapter
Last chapter, to refresh your memory : (Chapter. 16 : Sun)
"No, Yuli let me in." Syd just looked at him, it freaked him out when she did that. Yikes, no emotion in her eyes. Nothing. "Come on, I've known the kid since she was born. She knows me." He tells her, smiling a bit and shrugging his shoulders, "So, your the father?" He asked Julian, just before Yuli herself walked in to the room.
Chapter. 17 :
"Yes, It seems so. Why?" Julian asked the annoying man in front of him, he could also swear that he had seen this man before. The man ruffled Yuli's hair and she just smiled at him.
"Oh, just wondering. I guess she's got the eyes from you. I've known her forever, and before Simon, you and me used to work together, didn't we, "Asya"?" He asked her, using his hands to make quotation marks around the name she had gone by the last nine years.
"Yeah, what's your point?" She asked him, looking for all to see bored out of her wits, but really she hoped he wouldn't start on one of his "adventures" with her. He'd been cracked before her mother hired him, but usually when it came to getting something done, he did it.
"None. Just saying. And by the way, I don't know how to tell you this...Who am I kidding? Simon's dead. Killed when she sent him out to a solo-mission." He told her, letting himself fall down on the couch. Syd's eyes grew as large as saucers.
"What? He was killed? How?" She asked him, compleatly ignoring Julian and Yuli.
"Just something gone wrong. Shot in the back. Nasty. Didn't get all the gory details. Shame." He told her, smiling at that last bit, and she just had to roll her eyes.
"So, Blondie, who do you work for?" He asked, turning his attention on Julian, who Yuli was looking at with intrest. So, he was really her daddy. She thought maybe her mom was just telling her that. She knew her mom had just been protecting her and all, but she really wanted to know her real dad.
"That's non of your concern, Cole. She probably already told you, anyways. So stop your games and go now." Syd told him, standing up and crossing her arms over her stomach and having that face that said 'don't fuck with me'.
"All right, all right. I'm leaving. Lighten up." He told her, standing up and walking towards the door. "She won't like this, you know." He said, before walking out the front door. Sydney just rolled her eyes, and was tempted to stick her tounge out at him.
"I need to get away from here." She told Julian, later in her room, grabbing her cloathes and Yuli's. Taking her suitcase from it's place under the bed. He stood just inside the room, watchin her getting ready to flee.
"What? Your going back to her, just because she sends someone to get you?" He asked her, thinking maybe what that Cole guy said affected her more than she let on.
"No, I'm not going back there. Just not here. I don't want to risk Anya and your mom." She told him, as she zipped up an overstuffed suitcase. Knee ontop to force the thing to stay closed while she zipped the whole way.
"Mom, where are we going?" Yuli asked her, as she asked from the doorway. The brown haired nine year old stood there holding her stuffed animal, a bunny called Buffy, against her chest.
"Don't know, Sweetie." Syd told her, truthfully, since she really had no idea.
"Have you thought about the U.S?" Julian asked her, and she looked at him like he was insane.
"Why would I go there?" She asked him, as she yanked the bag on to the floor and hit it with a loud THUD.
"Well, maybe you two could come and stay in the same place as me. A flat just became available on the floor above me recently and as far as I know is still not been rented." He told her, looking into her eyes with a hopeful glint in his eyes.
"Julian, I'm not ready to go back. It's in the past, and I just don't want to go back to that. What would I say if I bumped into someone I knew, you know? Oh, hi. Long time no see. What have I been up to? Nothing much. Just killing some people for some stuff by some stupid 500 and change year old lunatic." She told him, reminding him of the elephant in the room and he looked at the ground.
"It's okay. I'll find a place. Don't worry, really." Syd told him.
Few Days Later:
Julian was back home. Picked up Sark from Adam & Jaci, promising them that they would do something together this week. Maybe Danny could join them, too. That it'd been too long since they all got together and did something fun. Just the four of them.
When he was walking out of the building he lived in, that morning, he saw a moving truck in front and guys removing furniture from the back of it. Walking past him and into the lobby.
Guess that flat is no longer available. He thought, as he made his way to his car. After that he didn't really dwell on it anymore that day. For some reason, he was suddenly drowning in paperwork.
But when he had just gotten home, and was out of his work-suit, there's a knock on the door. He goes to the doors and on the other side stands Syd. Clad in jeans and black halter top. Plus, bare feet in cheap flip-flops and holding a cup in her hand.
"Hi, Julian. Can I get a cup of sugar?" She asked him, holding up the cup, smiling.
"What? What are you doing here? I thought it was too risky or something." He told her, as she walked into his place and went for the kitchen.
"That's all been sorted out now. But really, do you mind me getting some of your sugar? I haven't really gone shopping and well, need some stuff in my kitchen. We only ordered take-away." She told him, as she poured sugar in the cup. Also picking up some milk and coffee.
"Umh, so it was you moving in this morning?" He asked her, while mentally slapping himself. That question was easily answered.
--I need to know if you were real
'Cause I've been known to get it wrong--
"Yup. That was us. I remembered you talking about that flat and when some problems were solved I jumped at the chance to get it. What? Aren't you glad to see me?" She asked him, pouting playfully.
"Yes, of course, I'm glad to see you. I just wasn't exspecting...this." He told her, pointing to her in his kitchen holding a cup of sugar, coffe and milk.
--I can't remember how it went
You looked like everything I wanted--
The Next Day; Saturday:
"I'm telling you, that dog is a menace to society." Jaci told Danny, as they reached Julian's apartment door.
"What are you talking about? Maybe he just didn't like staying at your place. He's used to more freedom than what he had at your place. You know, you could almost say for sure that you didn't like dogs." Danny told her, a bit playfull, but still a hint of serious as he knocked on the door that had the letter 7 on it.
"I do not dislike dogs, just..." Jaci was saying, when the door opened and in front o them stands Syd. In sweats, that green T-shirt that was formerly Jualians, bare foot and hair in a messy ponytail.
"Hi, umh, is Julian here?" Adam asked, who hadn't said a word since the argument about Sark had started in the lobby.
"yeah, come in. He's in the shower." She told them, as she stepped aside and they all walked into the apartment. They get to the living room and see a brunette girl sitting in front of the TV. In powder-blue PJ's with pearl white clouds. Some clouds had cows with purple spots, who were feasting on a few of said clouds.
She clutched a bunny. White, long ears. Pink hat with a yellow/purple flower. Seemed knitted but like machine knitted or something. Had also on a purple tank-top with a yellow/pink flower in the middle of it.
Sark lay in front of the chair she was sitting in. He looked like he was sleeping, but raised his head and looked at Jaci with suspicion.
"Well, I'm gonna go back to the kitchen. I was making coffee." She told them, before walking in the kitchen's direction. The door to the bedroom was wide open and they could clearly see the bed. All rumpled and messy. Jaci raised one eyebrow and looked at her husband with a questioning look on her face.
He just shrugs ad then they hear someone open a door. They look to the left and see Julian walking out. Dressed in jeans and T-shirt. Slightly damp hair.
Two Hours Earlier :
Julian was having a great dream when someone woke him up by jumping on his bed. He cracks one eye open, and sees Syd looking at himfrom where she sat. Dressed in sweats and HIS T-shirt.
"What?" He mumbles into his pillow, as she started bouncing a bit. Still sitting, but almost squirming.
"Saturday, sleepy head. Wake up, Wake up." She tells him, poking him in the shoulder with one finger.
"Right, Saturday. Day for sleeping in. Go back to your flat or something. I want more sleep." He told her a bit grumpy. He just wanted to sleep today. But it seemed that she wasn't going to let him, since only a minute later she pokes him again in the shoulder.
"What?" He asked her, annoyed, as he opened his eyes and saw her face like centimeters from his. Mouth went compleatly dry in the matter of a few seoconds and he swore he saw golden flecks in her brown eyes. She snuggled up close to him, burried her head in the crook of his neck and it was like that for a few minutes.
He was almost asleep again, with Syd in his arms, but then practically jumps out of bed. Leaving a laughing Sydney behind in the bed. He's rubbing at the place where she'd pinched him on the inside of his arm.
"Would you please stop. I'm trying to enjoy a lazy saturday." He told her, getting a bit annoyed now but probably wouldn't get more sleep since now he was too awake.
"Please, get up and get dressed. Me and Yuli will be watching TV while you do whatever you do in the morning. I'll make coffee later, okay? Hmm." She asked him, puppy eyes on full blast and biting on her lower lip, looking utterly innocent for anyone to see.
But he knew better, she was far from innocent, but the look still did the job. He caved and got up. He saw how her eyes shined childishly. They said ; Victory.
He rolled his eyes and started on his morning ritual. Syd stayed behind on the bed and rested her eyes a bit, sure that had been fun and all, but she was up at like 5 AM that morning so it had a bit draining as well.
"Hi, guys. Have you been here long?" Julian asked the three sitting in his living room, being stared at by Sark. What was up with that dog? Why the hell was he just sitting there, looking at them like that?
"Not that long." Danny told him, but his eyes were on the Tv. Yes, he was the childish one. He loved cartoons and he wasn't afraid to admit it. Jaci stood up and walked over to Julian.
"What's Sydney Bristow doing here? I mean, it is her, right?" She asked him, just as Syd came from the kitchen with 5 cups. Two in one hand and three in the other.
"I didn't know how, or if, you drank coffee. So, umh, I just brought cups for you. If you want some, it's in the kitchen." She told them, as she handed Julian his cup of coffee and took a sip of hers.
"I guess your all pretty shocked to see me again, huh? After all these years." She aked them, slightly amused at the looks on their faces.
"Yeah, umh, what are you doing here?" Adam asked, his friend had been devastated after she left like that. He did not want that to happen, ever again.
"Well, just taking a vaction. Visiting an old boyfriend." She told them, smiling brightly and taking another sip of coffee.
"What the hell happened to you? How come you just disappeared into thin air?" Jaci asked, not being able to shut up about that any longer. Julian looked at Syd and wondered if she'd actually tell them the truth.
"No one knew this around us, but my parents were going through an divorce and the day we left was the day the divorce was final. Don't ask me why it had to be so damn dramatic. That's all my mother's fault." She told them, rolling her eyes at the end.
"I went to some schools in europe, found it wasn't for me and dropped out." She told them, but the truth was that she actually never did more school. As soon as Yuli didn't need her 24/7, Irina started her training. The first few years Yuli was most of the time in the care of a nanny, but she was to young to remember that.
"Then I kinda started working for my mom. And have for the last almost 10 years." She ended on, telling them what she had been up to in very vague details. Well, no details actually. Julian was a bit confused, but it made sense. She couldn't really tell them what she had been up to.
"Is the kid yours, Syd?" Adam asked, because no one had yet brought up the kid watching TV. Well, had been watchin TV, who now stood beside Syd and poked her in the side with one finger.
"What, Yuli?" Syd asked her, as Yuli looked around her like it was the first time she realized they had company. They noticed how with her curl, brown hair her ice-blue eyes stood out. They looked like they gave of this glow.
"Can I go back up now? I want to get some cereal and he doesn't have any. I checked." Yuli told her mom, and the rest of them heard this underlying accent when she spoke.
"All right, sure. Do you want me to go with you?" Syd asked her, and they all figured that Adam's question had been answered.
"Yes, please." She said, very politely. As they walked to the front door, Yuli motioned Sark to follow them. He stood up, looked at Julian and then followed the two women. When they were gone, all eyes went to a slightly flustered Julian.
"Again, that was Syd, right? I mean, what the hell? She just decided to drop by nine years later?" Jaci told him, trying to wrap her brain around all that had just happened.
"Yes, it was her. Okay? She was busy, like she said. The school and her mom's business." He told them, trying to justify it.
"Yeah, right. I don't believe for a second that she went to school where ever she was. Might have been a bit difficult with a newborn child." Jaci told him, as she picked up Buffy, that Yuli had forgotten there.
"She's yours? I mean, did anyone else notice the eyes. That was not normal blue. Kinda like your eyes, but hers were eerie." Danny told them. He didn't know why but something about her eyes creeped him out.
5th Floor, 6th apartment (Syd & Yuli's place):
Sydney poured milk over Yuli's cereal, and when she was putting it back to it's place in the refrigerator she notices that from where she keeps the sharp kitchen knifes that one was missing. But she didn't give it much thought, probably just got lost in the move or something.
A Week Earlier:
"Well, well. Look what the cat dragged in." Cole told her, in that annoying teasing voice of his, when she showed up at her mom's place in russia.
"Shut up, you idiot. Is mom here?" She asked him, as she walked in with a sleeping Yuli in her arm.
"Just saying, miss not-coming-home-till-I-want." He told her, holding his hands up in mock-surrender. "But yeah, she's here."
"You know, you're such an a..." Sydney started, when they both saw Irina enter the lobby.
"Still bickering like teenagers?" She asked them, smiling. They brought out the immaturity in each other, she found it highly amusing.
"Hi, mom. Well, I'm back. Not because you sent Ren over here to get me, but because I'm worried about Vaughn. I don't really know what to do." Syd tells her mother, as they walk to a living room on the first floor and Syd puts Yuli down on a couch.
"Don't worry about him, I have a mission for you. Sydney. I want you to move back to America. Get back into that old circle of friends again." She told a somewhat intrested Sydney.
"Why and it's not like I can just pop up again. This is just so weird, Julian told me right before I left Italy that I should come to the U.S and that there was an apartment up for rent in the building he lives in." Syd tells her, as she sat down next to her daughter.
"I want you to find out if Lauren Reed is a covenant agent. Her mother is pretty high up in it, but I don't know about her daughter." Irina told Syd. Her mom had a determined look on her face that said that there was no way that Syd was NOT doing this mission.
"Oh, please. Lauren? That blondie, cousin of Kate's? Yeah,right." Sydney told her, chuckling.
"You never know. Not everything is as it seems." Irina reminded her daughter.
So, what ya think? There's another twist appearing soon.
Lyrics from Vertical Horizon CD Everything you want.
To Be Continued...
