Title – When I See You Smiling

Disclaimer – I own nothing but MV (yeh I wish), I own Roxy Parker and Bob

Rating – PG-13

Author – Lil Aussie Alias Chick

Summary - Syd leaves LA after finding a clue to her missing years, once in Australia fate leads her back to her past. SV

Hey everyone! This is my first Fan-Fic ever, well I've written 2 others but they've kinda been written as I've written this one so I've been too scared to post them but how else am I gonna get any feedback to see if I can actually write, so this is my fav out of them. Anyway I'm 15 and I live in Australia so I've only seen up to Breaking Point and I do not want to know anything so I will kill anyone who tells me anything...lol.

OMG!!! Thankyou everyone who replied, you have no idea how much it means to me to hear people encourage my writing, at the moment I'm not writing much cos I'm on holidays – I know that sounds strange cos I've actually got time now, but I usually do my writing when I'm meant to be concentrating on other assignments and stuff, I write better then, don't know how it works but it does, possibly why all my grades have dropped. Anyway thankyou again to everyone who replied, it gives me inspiration to write.

Lauryn2 – Thankyou so much! I know what you mean, I love it when people add bits about Australia in their stories, unfortunately as you'll read this story isn't focused on Canada but the reason I did add Canada in is cos Jack Bristow was born in London, Ontario, Canada I personally have no idea where that is in Canada. Yeh definitely I like the way your name is spelt, not the same as evil Lauren!

Neptunestar – Thanks for reviewing! – Here you are.

Mary Kate113 – Thankyou! You've given me added confidence in my writing, here it is.

Rach5 – Thanks for the review, glad your liking it, you'll find out soon!

Agent Flamingo – Thankyou so much, I'll keep writing now that I know that people actually think I can write.

MVP Girls – Thankyou! I'm glad that your enjoying this, yeh but it'll get happy eventually; I'm a sucker for SV. Don't ever think that asking questions makes you stupid and yeh so your question will be answered in this chapter.

Chapter 2

Sydney Bristow sat staring out the window struggling to find a comfortable position in the airplane seat; she was finally on her way to her new life, with her children, her children, what were her children like? Syd took out the pictures of her smiling children, they were about 2 and a half years with her son being the oldest according to documents that had been mysteriously sent to her along with her children's pictures, she immediately knew who the father was, they had his gorgeous green eyes, her brown hair and they also had two dimples, from which parent was unknown, her son looked exactly like his father and her daughter looked so much like herself that she hadn't even questioned the authenticity of the papers and started to organise her second *disappearance*. She had taken many precautions to make sure her destination was kept a secret from the people looking for her, she knew that with the amount of false trails she had planted they would be occupied for months.

"Please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts as we are preparing to land" the annoying voice of the pilot floated through the speakers

Syd complied to his demands, minutes later he spoke again "Welcome to Paris, we hope you enjoy your stay, we'd like to thank you once again for choosing to fly with American Airlines"

Syd gathered her things and disembarked from the plane, still in her disguise she looked carefully around the airport for agents that Sydney was sure had been sent to find her, she quickly grabbed her luggage under the name of Catherine Leehay and left her decoy luggage under the name of Sydney Bristow on the luggage rack, her contact was waiting for her at the steps at the front, a risky meeting place but it was the only place he would agree to meet.

"Mademoiselle Leehay?"

"Monsieur Dupier?"

"Sydney how lovely to see you again, although I wish we could have met in better circumstances, here are your papers, for you, your son and daughter."

"Thankyou Edward, you know that this transaction never occurred, not even the CIA or my father can know my new identity"

"We never met," he said leaving

Sydney let out a sigh of relief, she had twenty minutes until her ride was due so she found a bench and started getting acquainted with her new identity, Kristen Maurissa Cassidy, her children would still keep their given names but their last name would change to Cassidy, Lana Michelle Cassidy, she had always loved the name Lana and Michelle was the female version of her fathers name, she thought that he should still have a part in her life, even if Syd was the only one who knew the true meaning. Her son was Alexander (Alex) Michael Cassidy. She liked the name Alex & he had his fathers name too. Twenty minutes later she was seated in the back of a taxi on her way to meet her son and daughter.

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"Mum?" Sydney said her mouth hanging open, what was her mother doing here? Most of all what was she doing with her children?

"Sydney, I know you must have some questions, but I didn't take your children away from you after you were sent away, they were going to keep them & train them, I couldn't bear to see that happen, so I stole them away"

"Who?"

"I don't know Sydney," she said looking earnest

"Gramma is that mummy?" a little version of Sydney said peaking her head around the front of Irina's leg, looking a mixture of scared and curious but mostly just intrigued.

"Mummy?" Mini Michael asked poking around Irina's other leg

"Hey darlings," Syd said bending down to their level and holding her arms out, "I'm your mummy"

"Mummy!" Lana squealed as her and her brother ran to Syd all their fears forgotten

"Lana, Alex, I love you so much, mummy will never leave you ever again, do you forgive me for leaving you for so long?" she said tears streaming down her face

"That's ok mummy, I like gramma, can we see gramma lots? Gramma said that when you come to pick me we might not see gramma lots anymore" she said her lips set in a pout, Syd stifled a laugh at her stubbornness, undoubtedly from her father.

"Yeh I like Gramma too" Alex exclaimed

"I don't know honey? Your grandma is going to move somewhere far away from here, we are going somewhere far away too, you can talk to your grandma whenever you want though" Syd said looking at her own mother for confirmation

"Sweethearts, I love you so much, and I might see you sometimes, not as often as we'd like though, but I'll never forget you and you'll never forget me because you'll have this" she revealed in her hand a simple gold chain with a gold heart shaped pendant with 'My darling Lana, Love your Gramma' and a gold ring on another gold chain with 'My little Soldier Alex, Love your Gramma' engraved in the inside of the ring.

"Thankyou Gramma" Alex said

"Wow it's so pretty Gramma, thankyou" Lana said as she wrapped her arms around Irina

"I love you sweeties" she replied "Sydney, I have Lana and Alex's things ready to go, you need to leave now to maintain your cover, I know you'll take care of them and raise them better than I ever did for you"

"Mu..."

"No Sydney, don't this is my chance to partly redeem myself, now you have to leave this moment"

"Thankyou mum, Goodbye"

"Bye gramma!" The twins yelled to their grandma

Sydney, Lana and Alex hurried out of their meeting place so they could make their plane.

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Sydney had never realised how hard it was to have two children under three, just to go to the airport she had to have a huge bag full of the twins necessities and push the stroller and somehow move their luggage at the same time, plus she had to keep up with the twins constant demands, she was happy once they boarded the plane and the twins promptly fell asleep, it was going to be a long trip & luckily Irina had though ahead and packed a carry-on bag with fun activities to keep Lana & Alex occupied and happy, and giving Sydney time to breathe. When the plane landed she regretfully had to wake the twins up, they trudged along at baby pace while Sydney struggled to hold all the bags, at the luggage carousel she quickly collected the twins stroller and they fell asleep as soon as she had fastened them in, she grabbed all of their luggage and put it onto a luggage trolley, quickly realising the impossible task she had ahead of her she devised a way to hook the stroller onto the front of the trolley and push the trolley and the stroller at the same time. Feeling proud of herself she walked to the front of the airport to find a taxi. Realising that she was severely jet-lagged she decided to go in search of coffee first, looking around she contemplated where to get her coffee from, what type of coffee do they have in Australia? She finally spotted a Gloria Jeans and ordered. She finished her coffee and continued looking for a taxi, she soon found a taxi rank and hopped into the first one, it took five minutes to put the kids into the back and put the luggage and stroller into the boot, without the help of the driver she probably would have taken much longer.

"Where to?" the driver asked "I'm Bob by the way"

"Nice to meet you Bob, I'm S...Kristen," these people were very friendly she thought "um, this is kind of embarrassing but I have know idea, I need a place to stay, and somewhere close to um a where I can organise to buy a house and organise my citizenship, typical immigration stuff"

"What type of price range?"

"Somewhere nice"

"How bout I take you for a tour of the Gold Coast, no extra charge, because I think that you need a bit of help settling in, I'm guessing you don't know anyone here?"

"No, it's complicated why we just showed up"

"That's ok, I know what it's like not to know anyone or the area and have to try and figure it all out for yourself, your uncle Bob here, will help you"

"Thankyou" was all Syd could say, she couldn't believe how friendly everyone especially Bob was, she sat back and relaxed as she began to tour her new home"

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"And here's the last stop for the day" Bob said as he pulled up in front of the Marriott hotel, I really hope that helps and if you need me again here's the number of my cab company, just ask for my number taxi, it's on the back of the card, do you need some help, or will you just let the busboy do it?"

"You've been so kind I can't thank you enough, how much do I owe you?"

"No charge"

"Bu..."

"No buts"

"You just spent two hours taking me around, I have to pay you something"

"No" he said simply, his tone said it all 'I'm too stubborn to change my mind'.

"Ok but next time you can't say no"

"Whatever you think"

"Thankyou again" she said as she stepped out of the taxi, the busboy had already started to take her thing out of the taxi's boot, she opened the back door and took her groggy children out and put them in their stroller, thanking Bob once again she followed the busboy to the reception and organised a room for the three of them, after finally reaching the room and putting the twins down she collapsed on her bed falling asleep immediately, dreaming of Vaughn.

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Syd woke up the next morning to Alex and Lana jumping on her bed, she groggily opened her eyes only to have the twins stop jumping on the bed and envelope her in a big bear hug.

"Mummy! Mummy!" the twins yelled excitedly "Can we go swimming, it's hot"

Syd sat up looking at the excited faces of her children, there was no way in the world she could say no to those faces, none of her extensive spy training could have ever helped her against those weapons.

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20 minutes later they were ready, Sydney was becoming surprisingly quicker in organising the twins and their things. Walking out of the elevator she noticed a group of high school students coming and going out of the ballroom, carrying all sorts of decorations, tables and bits and pieces, her focus left the twins for a split second as she watched all of the carefree teenagers, looking back at her children all that greeted her was the floor. Sydney panicked for a split second then started scanning the room for her children and possible abductors, becoming frantic in her search she didn't notice the girl that was approaching her.

"Are these two your?" she asked Sydney

Preoccupied with her search she didn't catch what the girl had said "I'm sorry what did you say?" turning to face the girl she looked down and noticed Alex and Lana staring up at her with silly grins on their sun block covered faces. "Oh my gosh, where did you find them" she said as she knelt down to hug them

"Well I think they tried to find the pool themselves and they wandered into my direction, I looked around, saw a frantic parent with kids gear hanging off them and I put two and two together" the girl said with a shrug

"I only looked away for a split-second and they were gone"

"I know its that easy, my parents used to put a leash on me when I was younger, I was always running about" the girl said with a smile

"I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Kristen Cassidy and these are my kids Alex and Lana"

"I'm Roxy Parker, that it so cool, twins, I would kill to be a twin"

Sydney internally winced at the end of that comment, some wounds would never heal. "Yeh they're a special couple of kids"

"Well I'm guessing you guys are on holiday from America or Canada?" Roxy asked

"America actually, we've actually moved here but we don't have a house yet, we arrived yesterday, so this is home until we can find a house"

"That's so cool what part of the US are you from? If your interested the people next door have moved overseas and have put their house on the market, it's a really nice neighbourhood and I've heard the neighbours are great" she said the last bit with a sly grin

"That's great, thanks I'll look into it, and we're from LA"

"OMG! My uncle lives in LA, you probably wouldn't know him though, LA is really big"

"Yeh probably not" Syd replied, she wanted to forget about her past "So what exactly are you guys doing here?"

"Oh yeh that, we're setting up for the prefect and school leaders induction tonight, all of us here are in year 11"

"Juniors?"

"Yeh but no one around here says that"

"What school do you go to?"

"Emerson College"

"A private school?"

"Uh yeh" Roxy replied looking self-conscious

"You hate when people ask you that don't you?"

"Kinda, yeh"

"Yeh I did too, I wouldn't have asked but I'm looking for a school for Alex and Lana"

"We go all the way from day-care to year 12 at Emerson"

"That's good, I'll have a look"

"So if you don't mind me asking what do you do and what does your husband do?"

"Um, well I am an English teacher and the twins father is dead"

"Oh I am so sorry, I shouldn't have asked"

"No, no it's alright you had no way of knowing"

"Roxy Parker!" a male voice yelled

"Oops! I better go it was really nice to meet you, just ask around and you'll get the schools number, I hope you send Alex and Lana there." She said to Syd. "Hey guys have fun swimming," she said to Alex and Lana "Bye" she said as she ran off.

"Bye, it was nice to meet you too" Syd yelled after her. Looking down at her kids "ok, ok I know let's go" she said to her kids as she started walking to the pool.

The character of Roxy is based on me, I'm very short and yeh I act like her and stuff and my parents really used to put me on a leash cos as they say it my little feet used to go pitter patter. In Oz at my school we don't actually have a prefect and school leaders induction before the school year starts but for the chronology of this story it had to work that way. The Gold Coast is the best place in Australia – contrary to what you've heard it is way better than Sydney! LOL

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