The Past Revealed

Sydney's POV

There was silence while I tried to think of what I was going to say to him, when suddenly the door opened again, still our eyes were locked on one another, when Michelle ran towards me and grabbed my leg and screamed "mamma up". I watched the confusion in Vaughn's eyes. I picked her up and looked back at Vaughn.

"Syd…What…?" Said Vaughn.

I tried to think of how I was going to explain everything. I mean so much had happened in the last two years. I wanted to hug him, but the look on his face told me that all he wanted was answers, answers that I don't know how he will handle.

"Syd? What's going on? Where have you been all this time? What is this?" Said Vaughn while looking at Michelle.

I was about to tell him everything when Kendall came in the room and said "Debrief now all of you". Vaughn's eyes were still staring at Michelle then slowly looked at me.

"Agents Bristow and Vaughn, did you not hear me?" said Kendall seeming annoyed

I looked at Kendall and said "yeah I heard you" then I walked out of the room carrying Michelle.

"You can take the child to the CIA daycare…" said Kendall.

"No, she is staying with me."

Vaughn and Weiss both walking quickly behind me and Kendall gave Weiss a death stare for telling Vaughn.

Debrief Room

Kendall stood at the front of the room waiting for everyone to take their seats there were gasps of surprise as they saw Sydney and confusion as they saw her holding a sleeping child.

Sydney POV

I stole a quick glance at Vaughn as he sat next to me then to the opening door, I smile with tears in my eyes as I see who's entering, and I turn to Vaughn. "Vaughn would you mind?" I asked gesturing to the little girl sleeping in my arms

"No, of course not." He said as he stood and I passed Michelle to him, sharing a quick smile and I ran straight into my dad's arms.

"Sweetheart… I've missed you" said Jack

"I've missed you, too dad."

"Jack, Sydney, there will be time for a teary reunion later. Let's get started.

I take my seat next to Vaughn.

"Syd…?" Vaughn said, whilst looking down at Michelle.

"Agent Bristow, let's begin" said Kendall getting impatient.

"As you are all now aware, Agent Sydney Bristow is alive and well, she was captured and held by the Covenant and for about a year has been working as a double agent under me."

"Wait…?" started Vaughn "You've known she was alive all this time and you didn't tell me?" his voice raising considerably, looking down at Michelle afraid he had woken her.

"Agent Vaughn, this is neither the time nor the place to be getting angry. Sydney detail what happen for us."

"I came home from the operation in Mexico City to discover Francie was the double, after listening to a message from Will. I went to me room to retrieve my gun, but the Francie double followed me, realizing that I knew and shot at me." I take a deep breath looking down at the table, I then looked at Vaughn and held his gaze. "We fought, I shot her… three times and I passed out, I mean dead to the world. When I woke up, it was days later I was in a van, strapped to a gurney. There was a man there he told me the body in my apartment was Francie's and they injected pulp from my teeth into the corpse. He injected me with a neurotoxin, I couldn't move all I could do was watch we were at beach…" I stopped for a moment and turned to Vaughn, by the look in his eyes, I could tell he knew. "I saw my father, Weiss, Marshall, Kendall" I took a breath "and Vaughn…"

"I saw that van it was parked right next to my car". Said Vaughn

I nodded, tears filled my eyes as I relived that moment. Vaughn grabbed my hand and held it tight.

"What are you guys talking about?" asked a very confused Weiss

"Sydney was a Santa Barbara" said Vaughn.

"You were at your own funeral?" asked Jack

"Yes" I said, still looking at Vaughn. "He told me, 'the sooner you accept that you are no longer, who you used to be, the easier this will be. Sydney Bristow is gone.'"

"He began brainwashing me, putting me to sleep with a needle in one arm and shocking me awake with a needle in the other. When I refused to cooperate, he withheld food…for weeks at a time. After a while, I decided to play along and become Julia Thorne, a contract killer. I started getting nauseous, so they had a doctor look at me. 'Julia, you're pregnant.' He told me, I was pregnant. As you can imagine, I was shocked." I looked towards Vaughn, who was asking me a silent question, asking me if the child was he's. I couldn't answer that with everyone in the room, so I turned my head toward Kendall and continued. "They actually looked after me, a couple months later, I gave birth to a little girl. I said looking down at the sleeping child in Vaughn's arms. A couple weeks later, I was out in the field, where I managed to contact Kendall, and we met in Tuscany. That's when I decided the only way to keep my daughter safe was for the Covenant to still believe I was working for them, so I became a double agent, once again. I handed over Intel to the CIA, while trying to dismantle them. After awhile, it started to get too much, handling the Covenant, while feeding the CIA information and looking after my daughter. And yesterday, I decided, enough was enough and I came back to Los Angeles."

I was broken out of my memories by the sound of Michelle's crying. Vaughn gently passed her to me, while keeping his gaze on her beautiful green eyes.

"That's all for today. Sydney go settle your daughter down." Said Kendall in his usual tone.

We all got up and left the briefing room, everyone whispering silently to each other as Vaughn followed me, as I walked to where my dad was on the other side of the JTF.

"Dad."

"Sydney…May I?" Jack asked looking at Michelle.

"Of course." I said as I saw Vaughn walking toward his desk. "Dad, I need to go speak with Vaughn. Do you mind watching her for a few minutes?"

"Alright." He said looking at his granddaughter.

I walked over to Vaughn and said "Vaughn…?" he just turned around and hugged me and I just hugged him, we hugged for several minutes I didn't want to let go because I loved him so much finally

When we finally pulled apart, tears were in both our eyes.

"Sydney, I've missed you so much…Vaughn started. As he wiped a tear from my eye, and I smiled up to him.

"I know. I missed you, too."

"Vaughn…we need to talk.

"Yes, we do." He started.

"Vaughn, I know you have a lot of questions…" I said

"Yeah, of course I have questions. "Is she…" He started as he looked over to where Jack was sitting with the child.

I looked at him, nearly falling apart. "Yes…She is."

He inhaled sharply and I saw the emotions flash across his face. "We have a child?" he asked in a giddy voice.

I smiled. "Yeah, we do." Before I could say more, my father walked up to us with a crying Michelle in his arms.

"Sydney, I think she wants her mamma." Said Jack

"No…" I started. "She wants her father." I said as I took Michelle from my dad and gave her to Vaughn.

"Hello, there. I'm your daddy." He said as Michelle giggled at him, and he held her even closer, unaware of anything going on around them. A picture on Vaughn's desk caught my eye. "Dad, can I talk to you?" I asked.

"This way." He said walking in the direction of the flirting corner. "What is it Sydney?"

"Dad, the photo on Vaughn's desk…who is it?

"It's Lauren…" he tried to explain.

"I know her…Why does Vaughn have her picture on his desk?" I asked confused.

"Sydney…Lauren, is Vaughn's fiancée…" he started

"What…" This cant be right. Vaughn's not engaged, he loves me. He wouldn't be getting married to another woman.

"Sydney, I understand this must be hard for you, with Vaughn moving on…" He started

"Dad, Lauren cant be Vaughn's fiancé… she works for the Covenant."