Title: Beyond all limits

Summary:

Disclaimer: I don't own alias, I only own the characters you don't know.

Timeline: AU after the first one

Rating: R

A/N: It's taken a while for me to update, as I haven't been able to sign in to my account due to technical problems.

As Sydney kept watch over the CIA staff her gaze travelled to where Sark, Vaughn and her father sat on the other side of the room with their hands bound. "Who would you like to murder today?" Sydney looked over to where the question had came from and found Sark staring at her, pure hatred and disgust shining through his eyes.

"Shut up." Sydney growled.

"You murdered Elliot, she was my…our mentor. She told you how to survive and for the umpteenth time in your life you let her down."

"Shut up!" Sydney strode over to him and pulled him up by his collar. "You don't know a damn thing Sark!"

She let go of him and he fell to the floor with a satisfying thump, but he hadn't finished. "I know one thing, she loved you more than anything else in this world." Sydney paused on her way back to the wall she had been leaning on, her fist tightening in rage.

"I know." Sydney muttered in defeat before walking briskly out of the room.

She slumped down against a wall far away from the main room where Sark and the others were being held and began to let silent tears slip from her eyes. She wasn't sure how long she could try and keep it together.

It was a few hours later that Lauren contacted Sydney on her radio. "The program is almost complete, come back to Marshall's office A.S.A.P." Sydney took a deep breath and did as she was told.

When she arrived in Marshall's office Lauren took hold of her hand and led her to the computer where Marshall was typing away. "It's in place." Lauren beamed and removed Sydney's .9 mm from its holster and placed it in Sydney's shaking hand.

"This is the last thing Sydney. I promise. After this there'll be no more lies, no more death, just the two of us living happily ever after…"

"No." Sydney's lower lip quivered as she looked deep in to Lauren's eyes. "It doesn't have to be like this. The password will change, he won't be able to crack it…"

"He'll find a way." Danny cut in from the other side of the room. "It's the only way Syd."

"Shut up!" Sydney pointed the gun towards him. "You're not in charge here Danny." Sydney's pleading eyes turned towards Lauren. "Please, just let him live."

Lauren looked torn as she looked between Sydney and the computer screen. She sighed as she pulled out her own gun and fired two bullets in to Marshall's chest.

Sydney's legs buckled beneath her as Marshall fell forward on to the computer screen, his eyes closing and his last breath escaping his lips. She sat on the ground, silent; her eyes wide open staring at the body of her once long time friend.

"We're finished here." Lauren instructed Danny to get the mercenaries as she knelt down beside Sydney. "It had to be done Syd."

Sydney stared past her, with silent tears staining her cheeks and her eyes wide in shock. It took both Danny and Lauren to carry Sydney out of the CIA building and in to the van they had arrived in. She remained staring silently at nothing all the way back to their home and as Lauren placed her in their bed with a cup of hot, sugary tea beside her she was terrified that she'd broken Sydney again.

As she held Sydney in her arms she wanted to stay there forever, comforting her lover, but Danny needed her for when they contacted various authorities throughout the world to give them a demonstration of why it would be a good idea to cooperate with them and give them all their demands, so she reluctantly let go of Sydney and went with Danny.

Rotunda, CIA

Jack, Sark, Vaughn and another CIA agent sat in the briefing room as Dixon informed them of what their mission consisted of. "Langley has given us permission to try and obtain the device to which the passwords for the program are sent to. If we fail there will be cataclysmic consequences. Lauren Reed and Daniel Hecht could cripple America's economy in seconds. We need to be cautious on this one people. We've located her base of operations, satellite surveillance has shown it is heavily guarded and Danny and Lauren run the program from a master computer in a basement below the mansion, the only way in is with a key card and combination, only three people have that combination. Lauren Reed, Daniel Hecht and Sydney Bristow. Langley wants them alive if possible, but you have full permission to shoot to kill. You leave in an hour. Good luck."