Title: Beyond all limits
Summary: Sequel to Skeletons in the closet. With nothing to lose Sydney seeks revenge.
Disclaimer: I don't own alias, I only own the character you don't know.
Timeline: AU after the first one
Rating: R
A/N: This is set after skeletons in the closet, if you haven't read it you'll be lost.
Chapter Five
People often said the best place to hide was in plain sight. In Sydney's world, one of espionage and the latest technology, fifty feet under the ground would be plain sight. She needed Lauren and Elliot's attention. So she found a way to get it.
Two weeks after she had fled the CIA building she had tapped into their computer system and communication records. She knew of every mission that The Order under went, she knew of every operative who became known to the CIA and after two weeks of endless surveillance and research she finally intercepted a communication between Dixon and a CIA agent.
Lauren was going on a mission. No lackeys or backup, just her. Sydney prepared for two days before the mission started. She trained harder, slept less and ran through every possibility that could occur on the mission.
Finally when the day came she arrived at Lauren's destination earlier than her and booked a hotel room to change in. She looked at herself in the full-length mirror that sat in the corner of the hotel bedroom.
At the age of thirty-two Sydney Bristow was still the thin young woman she had been, but now her body was more toned with muscles and she gave off an air of danger. Her hair was shorter and simply pushed into a ponytail without any effort or style.
She wore faded jeans and a shirt with a sweater wrapped around her waist and sneakers on her feet. She no longer wore suits or high heels, or extravagant clothes. She wore black a lot. Whether it was to mourn her fiancé or to dress as she felt she didn't know. She felt no desire for bright and happy clothes.
In her old life she would dress up to enter the party of Lauren's target, but that was the old Sydney. She dressed in black cargo pants and a vest complete with a plain black hooded sweatshirt. She hid a ski mask in her pocket and place what she needed in her backpack.
She slipped into the party undetected through a ventilation shaft and into a large kitchen where she hid in a pantry until the coast was clear and she made her way to the study of Stewart Valcin.
She typed in the access code required into a panel next to a handless door and it opened to lead Sydney into a small room with a laptop sitting in the centre on a desk. She hid under the desk and waited for an hour for the time Lauren was due to arrive.
The door opened and Sydney knew someone accessing the computer through the tap, tap, tapping of keys that could be heard from under the desk. Then the computer beeped and the CD-drive opened. As she heard it close Sydney rolled from under the desk, knocking down the woman standing in front of it.
Sydney pulled her gun out and found she was pinning down a young woman who was not Lauren. Lauren must have been tipped off Sydney was on her trail. She didn't have long to think as the door opened and a dozen armed security guards entered the room and surrounded her. She dropped her weapon and put her hands in the air as she rose slowly to her feet allowing the operative Lauren had sent to get to her feet.
Standing at the door with her arms crossed and a smug grin on her face Lauren relished at the thought that she had finally caught Sydney Bristow. "I was informed that you were looking for me."
Sydney grunted as she was pinned to the floor by two guards and handcuffed. She remained silent as she was taken from the home of Stewart Valcin, an associate of The Order, and hauled into a car, blindfolded and restrained. The guards remained with Valcin and Lauren's operative left in another car leaving Sydney alone in the passenger seat of Lauren's Mercedes.
"I've missed you Sydney." She spoke to her as she drove. "It hasn't been the same without you getting in the way, being the virtuous little agent." Sydney remained quiet.
"I didn't want to leave you at that asylum, Danny made me. He always used to give the orders, well now I do. I get what I want." Sydney's silence was aggravating her. "I watched you in your new life for the first few months. When I found out you were marrying that…chef. Of all things you get engaged to a man who could never protect you, could never live up to what you needed. There was so many times when I saw you with him that I wanted to kill him for touching you. You should have been mine. Not Danny's or Vaughn or Calvin's, mine!" Sydney could no longer keep her silence.
"Calvin was a far better person than you could ever be and I loved him! You could never come close!" The car came to a sudden stop and Sydney struggled as she felt herself being dragged closer to Lauren and then Laurens lips crushed against hers. Sydney was pushed away as she gasped for breath and Lauren laughed.
"You kissed back." She said smugly. "I see part of you is still screaming to be Julia Thorne."
"Most of me is screaming to kill you slowly and painfully while you scream for mercy, and I think the majority's going to win." Sydney sneered. Lauren laughed as she drove again.
"I used to scream for you Sydney, you always had a way of making me scream your name and now you're going to scream mine, but it won't be as fun for you as it was for me."