Title: Esoteric
Summary: Sydney learns what four hundred years of preparation means to her destiny.
Disclaimer: I don't own Alias or any of the characters from the show.
Rating:PG-13
A/N: Thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far.
Chapter Five
"What do you want with me?" Sydney asked as she sat with Rambaldi staring at her admiringly.
"You're more beautiful than I could have ever imagined." She replied as she caressed Sydney's cheek. "And you have the most adorable ears." Sydney pulled away.
"I asked you a question Rambaldi!" Rambaldi sighed as she stared off into the distance.
"I am sick of everyone calling me Rambaldi. Please, call me Milo. And what I want Sydney is you. Over four hundred years ago I had my first vision of you. Ever since that day I strived to make my vision true, to fulfil the prophecy I have seen and now with your help I finally can. We are so very close."
"Why do you want me?" Sydney repeated. Milo Rambaldi smiled at the beautiful woman before her.
"I want you to have my child."
"What!" Sydney shouted. "For a genius scientist well ahead of your time you seem to have a problem with biology." Rambaldi laughed at Sydney's objections.
"Of course I can not make you pregnant, not directly anyway." She smiled as someone opened the door and entered the dimly lit room. "But I prepared everything over the centuries Sydney and now all of my work has come together and both the chosen one and the deliverer are born and ready to reach their destinies."
"Who is the deliverer?" Sydney choked out as a man neared the light cast from the bedside lamp.
"I told you we were truly destined to work together." Sark's British accent filled her ears and she shook her head.
"NO!" She shouted in disgust. "There is no way I am having a child with that…psychopath!"
"You have no choice." Sark objected coolly. "Over four hundred years of planning will not be lost simply because you feel like sulking because your destiny isn't what you wanted."
"Screw you!" Sydney shouted angrily.
"That is generally how children are made Sydney." He smirked at the look of indignity and horror that spread over her face.
"I would rather kill myself than let you touch me Sark." She practically growled.
Rambaldi sighed and put her arms around Sydney. "Julian will not touch you my sweet, you're mine, not his." She smiled as Sydney relaxed in her embrace. "After all this is the twenty first century, sex isn't the only way to bring a child in to the world." Sark frowned at not being able to have Sydney.
"Why Sark?" Sydney asked.
"I saw him in my vision, he was telling you that he believed the two of you were destined to work together, and I agreed. He is strong and intelligent, skilful and charming and he has power in his blood. Some who learnt of my need for Julian tried to stop me, they slaughtered his ancestors, but luckily the only life spared was that of Julian's great, great grandmother, Anastasia Romanov."
"By modifying Julian's contribution to our child I can transplant some of my own D.N.A into our child. It will have all of my power and abilities. Between the three of us we can make the greatest human being that ever lived!" Rambaldi beamed as she held Sydney and Sark sat beside her. "And I will finally have the family and child I have strived to achieve for over four hundred years."
"I'm sorry." Sydney whispered in her ear as she pulled Sark's gun from his holster. She shot Rambaldi in the chest and aimed the gun at Sark.
"Sydney, don't do this. You're destroying your destiny…your soul mate. Rambaldi knows the two of you are meant to be…you're the only one who can't see it." Sydney shook her head.
"I already have my soul mate!" She snapped. Sark scoffed at her.
"Who? Vaughn? He's weak and he stays with his wife when he could have you!"
"She has me!" Rambaldi shouted before striking Sydney over the back of the head, knocking her to the floor. Sark took the gun and he and Rambaldi carried Sydney from the room to a small laboratory with an operating table in the centre.
"You're contribution has been prepared, I've added mine to it." Rambaldi explained as she and Sark restrained Sydney down to the operating table. Now it just needs phase three." She caressed Sydney's cheek before kissing her. "I'm sorry you don't want this, but you really don't have a choice. You will love our child though and we will be a family." She smiled and kissed Sydney one last time before starting.
When Sydney woke up she was back in Rambaldi's bed with Rambaldi lying beside her. "Good morning." Rambaldi smiled. "How are you feeling?"
"Nauseous." Sydney replied and almost jumped out of bed in shock as she looked down at the large bump that was her stomach.
"How long was I out? Three months?" Rambaldi gently pushed her down so she was lying comfortably again and explained.
"Sydney, our child is very precious. It's not like other foetuses. Within three months you'll be the proud mother of our child, after that the child's growth will be normal, but in your womb it grows three time as fast as a regular child. No one believed it could be done…I guess I proved them wrong." She kissed Sydney before rising out of bed. "Is there anything you need?"
"A gun, any kind as long as it has at least one bullet." Sydney replied. Shocked at how her body had been used and violated with a child she had no desire for.
Rambaldi sighed. "You'll feel different in three months. I know you'll love our child, because it's who you are Sydney. There is no way on this earth that you would not love your own child."
"This thing is not my child. It's an experiment and an abnormality. It shouldn't exist!" Sydney shouted, letting all of her pent up anger explode out. Milo Rambaldi looked pained by her outburst.
"You don't mean that Syd. We both know it."
"I don't love you." Sydney simply replied bitterly. "You made me feel like you were all I had, but that isn't true. I have someone so important to me, someone I love so much that you could never understand."
Rambaldi frowned. "Sydney if you try and hurt out child or leave me then you will have nothing left. I will tear your lover limb from limb. Is that understood? You see Sydney, I am Milo Rambaldi, I see everything and if you betray me I will kill the only person you have left to love and I will make you watch as she dies."