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. Due to my GCSEs coming up I haven't had much time to write and may not update too much for the month until my exams are over.

Chapter Seven

"Sydney?" The ex CIA agent stopped dead in her tracks as she heard Lauren's voice behind her. She'd snuck into Lauren's dark room a few hours after she'd freed herself and went to the bed to attack Lauren when the door had opened and the lights flooded the room revealing Lauren standing by the door.

"You're dead." Sydney growled with rage and lunged towards the other woman. Lauren had not spent hours being restrained to a chair and spent most of her energy trying to break free, unlike Sydney, so she easily moved from Sydney's sloppy attack.

Sydney tried to punch her once she regained her balance and Lauren easily blocked punch after punch with little effort. "I warned you Sydney." She hissed as she grabbed Sydney neck and slammed her head off a wall. "I'm not the weak little lackey I used to be."

Sydney groaned, as she lay dazed and confused on the floor. "I…will…kill you!" She grunted as she gasped for air. "Even if it kills me!" She lunged for Lauren's midriff and knocked her to the ground. She straddled her and desperately scanned the room for her knife. As she felt cold steel biting at her stomach she looked down to see Lauren holding the knife to her.

"Do it!" Sydney shouted as she stared hard into Lauren's eyes. "Kill me, but just give me one last request."

"Anything." Lauren muttered as she looked into Sydney's broken soul through her eyes.
"Tell me."

"Tell you what?"

"Did you kill Calvin?" Sydney choked on his name as tears flooded her vision. Lauren sighed as she looked adoringly at Sydney. She leant down to whisper in her ear as she sliced Sydney's stomach causing a deep gash.

"I created him."

Sydney cried out in pain and confusion. "What?" Lauren rose to her feet and pulled Sydney up, causing her to yelp in pain and blood to spill to the carpet. "History has a cruel way of repeating itself Syd." Lauren sneered. "I set it all up. Calvin works for me, I sent him to seduce you and then I faked his death."

"Why?" Sydney wept as she leaned against Lauren just to stand and Lauren gladly embraced her ex lover.

"I wanted to break you." Lauren whispered in her ear. "I needed to destroy you again, make you as helpless as when you came back to me, it was the only way…I never imagined how dark it would make you Syd. You're so perfect now. You're tainted and you're just like me. You can't deny that anymore."

Sydney looked horrified at Lauren. "You…you…" Sydney banged her fists against Lauren as the blonde tried to restrain her. Sydney slumped to her knees and hugged Lauren's legs, pulling her closer. "I give up."

Lauren's grinned and called out to the guard who had been waiting by he door. "Come in here." She took out a gun from a holster on her shoulder and handed it to Sydney. She pulled her to her feet and stood behind her, keeping her on her feet.

When the door opened Calvin West walked in and looked surprised at seeing Sydney and the gun. "Laur-" Sydney fired mid-sentence and delivered a clean shot to the centre of his forehead. She dropped the gun to the floor in defeat and turned to slump into Lauren as she wept.

"Shush sweetheart, it's all going to be ok. I'm going to look after both of us now. I promise I won't let anyone hurt you ever again."

"Elliot." Sydney murmured. "She helped me get free. She betrayed you. She told me to go to Kendall and mention project…"

"RO-DC. Rogue Operative Deep Cover " Lauren interrupted. "I know. I've known for some time, but I needed her until I had you…now I can deal with her."