Chapter 12
Ok, breathe. It's only Dixon, your old partner and friend. So he's your boss now, he'll understand, he know's that family is important. That I can't carry on this way. Going away from day, fighting for my life, then coming home and pretending that everything is normal. Seeing Vaughn all the time, a daily knife to the heart, as I know if all that had happened had not happened we would have been married. Time to get moving, say it and get out.
All them interviews paying off finally. A teaching position, as an English teacher in a high school in Beverly Hills. A fresh start for me and Laura. A place where nobody will know my business. What had happened to my family, to me, just enough person in the crowd. Not a spy, not the chosen one, finally just plain old Sydney Anne Bristow.
Sydney walked up to Dixon's office door and knocked on it.
"Come In" Dixon said from inside
Sydney walked in and went across to one of the black couches and sat down.
"So Sydney. What can I do for you?"
"I've got some news for you."
"Syd, the last time you said you had news for me, you were pregnant. Are you again?"
"No, I just wanted to tell you this before you got the letter I've sent. I've decided to leave the C.I.A. Enough is Enough now. It's time to move on."
"Is there anything I can say to make you change your mind?"
"Not really. I need sometime out. Spend some real time with my daughter instead of jetting of every where. Hold down a job in the real world. I've spent over 15 years in intelligence and look how much has changed in that time. Working for SD-6, finding out the truth about it and then bringing it down. My mother being dead, to a Russian spy, to alive and captured to escaping and now being permanently back and together with Dad. From only child to older sister. From being just myself to being a mother. I need space from all of this as much as I can. To do something else."
"What are you planning to do?"
"It's already planned. I've got a teaching job lined up for September. I'm finally going to use my graduate degree, especially considering all them years of study to get it."
"I, all of us will miss you. But I'm glad your following your heart, doing something you'll enjoy. But Syd know this, no matter what you'll always have a place here."
"Thank you Dixon. Thanks for understanding what need's to be done. And you never know I may decided to take you up on your offer one day."