Chapter 26
"Thank you." Sydney said slamming the phone down and quickly following with "For nothing"
This was the tenth phone call she had made and each one had gone increasingly less helpful than the other. Everyone she talked to seemed to know nothing or were feigning knowing nothing. But it wasn't that she could ask them outright that she was been watched but just drop hints about surveillance and the chosen one.
"Sydney, any luck finding any helpful leads yet?" Dixon asked
"No, nothing apart from the usually back chatter of Rambaldi. This is crazy. Either my contacts are covering for someone or they are extremely dumb."
"Hopeful, this will be some help. Both your mother and you sister have been on the phone. And they've come out with possible suspect, it seems it could be Olivia Reed."
"Lauren's Mom? Dixon I think I would of noticed if she was around. Anyway isn't she under surveillance?"
"Sydney, first thing she hasn't been spotted since the time we saw them together discussing the restoration. She dropped of the radar screen and hasn't been seen since."
"She disappeared, why didn't the C.I.A try to get her back under surveillance. What was the reason?"
"She wasn't the agency's top priority then. Despite the connection to Laura she was only a small fish. And there was much more serious business to get through like bringing down the covenant."
Jack came across the room towards them. His face like thunder. A look Sydney knew all so well from her childhood. A look that she knew meant bad news."
"Honey, I have some troubling news, I've spoke to my contacts, and it seems that the person who is interested in you is Olivia Reed."
"So it wasn't just a coincidence?"
"Darling what was that?"
"It seems like that Mom and Nadia have come to the same conclusion from speaking to Sloane and my aunt's But I'm just wondering why nobody has noticed her. She was a member of the Covenant and a senator's wife for god's sake."
"That's where it gets more disturbing It seems she has gone under full facial surgery. It means she could look like anyone. There's no way to tell who she is"
"What about Marshall's exo-cam?" Sydney asked remembering the mission to find Lange that she had used it on. "There must be some record of her face. An X-ray or something, that we can compare it to."
"Sydney, that's all well and good saying we can use it to identify her. But we need to find her first before we confirm it's her"
"Dad, it's her. I can feel it. I will find her and she will pay. If someone comes after me they come after her too. And no-one can threaten her in that way."
"Sydney, it's not going to be that easy. It could be anyone. But more than likely someone new in your life. Like a neighbour?"
"No new neighbours. They faculty where I work but they have been all vetted. There's only person I can think of and it can't be her. She's too nice to be"
"Who is it?"
"Laura's teacher. Mrs Dillon. She started a couple a months ago and when I came to see her she knew a awful lot about me. Why didn't I pick up on it."
"Sydney. Don't kick yourself if it is true. But we need to find it out first if it is here. So Sydney let use your plan. Get Olivia's X-rays and the exo-cam and find out if it is."
"Marcus, can you get Marshall to break out the cam. It's time to do some recon. To help me cure my little problem So I can finally be Sydney Anne Bristow not the chosen one."