Title: Esoteric
Summary: A woman goes to the CIA offering information on Rhambaldi, but only if she can speak with the agent she has a drawing of. (Femslash in later chaps)
Disclaimer: I don't own Alias or any of the characters from the show.
Rating: PG (will be PG-13 later on)
A/N: Set after Crossings but AU after that.
After leaving the woman who claimed to be Rhambaldi with two armed guards Sydney had reported to Dixon, who along with her father, Vaughn and Lauren Reed had been watching the interview via the cameras in the room.
"We need to contact Kendall immediately." Dixon informed her before she could speak.
"You actually believe her?" Sydney blurted out. "Rhambaldi was a man who lived over four hundred years ago…"
"When Sloane was pardoned he handed the CIA something they could take as a sign of good faith. It was a sample of Rhambaldi's DNA. The very fact that this woman knew of the DNA sample forces me to call Kendall. This woman may not be the real Rhambladi, but she might be a descendant. A DNS test will show us exactly who we are dealing with." Jack explained to his frustrated daughter.
Within a few hours Kendall had been informed and the DNA sample of Rhambaldi had been compared with the woman who sat patiently in the interview room.
When Kendall was handed the results he stared expressionlessly at the paper. Eventually he spoke the agents gathered in Dixon's office. "The DNA results show that the DNA sample from Milo Rhambaldi matches exactly that of the woman in CIA custody. She's genuine. Milo Rhambaldi is neither male nor dead."
When Kendall and Dixon entered the interview room they found the two armed guards unconscious and their guns missing. "We can't let that woman escape custody!" Kendall growled as he hit the emergency button located on the wall of the room.
Sydney had been taken from the CIA building by an armed escort, due to Kendall's fears of why Rhambaldi had presented herself to them in order to get to Sydney. Inside a CIA armoured car she sat in the back seat with three armed agents accompanying her to a safe house. Usually Sydney would have objected to being babysat and taken out of the loop, but she could still feel the fear she had encountered from being near Rhambaldi and with all of the danger Rhambaldi had caused her encounter in the past Sydney had agreed with Kendall that a safe house was the best idea.
As they drove down a derelict road en route to the safe house another car slammed into their side. Sydney was jerked forward and her head whacked off the chair in front of her.
The two agents on the right hand side where the car had hit were unconscious and only the driver and Sydney remained conscious. Sydney scrambled to undo her seatbelt and she grabbed the driver's gun from his holster. When the back passenger door opened Sydney turned to face Milo Rhambaldi with the gun in her trembling hands.
"You won't shoot me Sydney. The CIA would never allow it." She held out her hand for the gun.
"The CIA would rather I shot you then risk allowing me to fall into your hands." Rhambaldi nodded and then allowed an admiring smile to spread over her lips.
"You're an amazing woman Sydney, and your intelligent. With all intellectuals comes curiosity. The CIA has no idea why you were in my manuscript, neither does the Covenant or Arvin Sloane. I can make everything clear to you if you will allow me to."
She held out her hand for the gun once more and Sydney begrudgingly handed it to her. "Thank you." Rhambaldi smiled before bringing the butt of the gun down to Sydney's temple and knocking her out. "I hope you can handle clarity Sydney, because you're not going to like it."