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 Six
Sydney found herself strapped to a medical bed with sharp looking instruments on a table beside her. "Fuck." She cursed as she pulled against her restraints. She looked over to where Lauren stood in the doorway, a mischievous grin on her face. "Good evening Agent Bristow."
"I'm not an agent." Sydney snapped back. "I'm not CIA, not Covenant, not anything."
"You're rogue Sydney. You have no organisation to belong to. Your actions aren't for the greater good; they don't help the CIA or your country. They're selfish, vengeful actions and that makes you no better than me Sydney. I'm giving you a chance to be happy again Sydney, with me. We were happy as a family with Danny, we can be again, me, you and Elliot."
Sydney laughed and shook her head at the blonde. "You really are stupid Lauren. I would never join you. You're pathetic. My family may be screwed up but a family with you and that traitor would be far worse!"
Lauren sighed and picked up something from the table beside them. When she brought it closer to Sydney she could see it was a needle. "Sodium Pentathol." Lauren informed her. Sydney eyed the blonde coldly as Lauren inserted the needle into her restrained arm.
"Lauren…with or without a truth agent I will always tell you the truth…and the truth is you're a bitch."
Sydney felt the tangy taste of copper in her mouth after Lauren struck her and laughed. "You were right though Lauren, my actions are vengeful, and I enjoy making the people who hurt me suffer. But one thing I'm going to enjoy most in my life is killing you."
Lauren smiled at the comment, which brought a scowl of confusion to Sydney's expression. "Sydney, you want to be careful you're starting to sound a lot like Julia Thorne…oddly the first time we met you threatened to kill me."
"It's not a threat Lauren." Sydney replied. "It's a promise."
Lauren shook her head and then, much to Sydney's disgust, kissed the ex-CIA agent. The kiss was harsh and forced and when Sydney would not respond Lauren bit Sydney's lower lip, the one she had originally drew blood from and then pulled away. "Did you enjoy that?" She whispered huskily into Sydney's ear.
"…Yes." The chemicals forced inside Sydney's body betrayed her and Lauren grinned. "But the next time you so much as touch me I'll break every bone in your body one by one…and right now I can't lie." Lauren struck her again.
"Don't fight me Sydney, I'm not the weak little follower I used to be. I'm someone you don't want as an enemy." She stormed out of the room leaving Sydney alone and still restrained with the Sodium Penathol still in her system.
Sydney lost track of time in the dimly lit room as she lay restrained and desperate to escape. She wasn't sure whether she'd been there hours or days, but as she heard someone come in the room and walk beside her she turned her head to face the person who had interrupted her solitude and thoughts of various ways to kill Lauren.
"You look so different." Sydney ignored the woman who was speaking to her. She heard the scrape of a chair moving across the floor as her visitor sat down beside her. " Actually you don't, you have the bad-ass Julia Thorne look again. I guess Julia finally killed the cute and loveable Syd, huh?" Sydney refused to acknowledge the woman beside her.
"Syd, I didn't kill you fiancé and I didn't tell Lauren where you or he lived. She knew from the start. She watched you for months after you left. I joined her a few months after you left. I just couldn't cope, I broke down and she was the only one there for me…that's something you should understand. You know we tell each other this lie every night before we sleep and every morning when we wake up. We say we love each other…when we don't because neither of us ever stopped loving you…we're just something to take the other's mind of the pain of loving you."
When Sydney didn't respond the woman stood up to leave. "Almost everyone who has ever loved me has been hurt or died because of it…you and Lauren won't be an exception Elle…but I'll kill you quick."
Elle smiled weakly and nodded. "Thank you."
She grasped Sydney's hand and whispered in her ear. "There are security cameras in here, you'll have two minutes to break out before Lauren or any guards can reach you. Go to the CIA ask Kendall to inform you about Project RO-DC."
When Elliot left Sydney felt she had placed a small switchblade in her hand and set about cutting the restraints that held her. If it was a trap then Elliot would regret giving Sydney the knife, she'd use it to tear out Lauren's heart before Elliot's eyes.