Sydney ran past Weiss and straight into Michelle's room and suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks, shocked by the sight in front of her.
Vaughn's POV
As we ran into the room, the first thing we saw was blankets thrown crumpled into a heap, toys everywhere, the dressing table on the floor, but Michelle was no where to be seen. As I watch in a state of shock, Sydney walks over to the mess on the floor and picks up a teddy and sinks to the ground and bursts into tears.
I walk to Sydney and held her tighter than I have ever held her, which just made her cry harder.
I cant believe this, I only found out I had a daughter this morning, our daughter and now she's gone. I cant lose her now, having Michelle and Sydney in my life has made me happier than I've ever been before. I don't even notice Weiss's movements in the room, looking for anything suspicious.
"Vaughn…" Weiss says, as he points at what looks like a syringe that still containing some traces of liquid. "I'll go and call Op's." he says.
I look up at him and he gives me a sympathetic smile and says "we'll find her."
"Yeah…" I say, as I look down to Sydney and give her a kiss on the head. "we'll find her, Sydney. If it's the last thing I do, and I'll kill the bastards that took her from us." We sit there for what seems like hours but is merely a few minutes, when Weiss re-enters the room telling us that their on their way. I simply nod and focused back on Sydney, only to be interrupted a few minutes later by a pissed off looking Jack Bristow storming into the apartment.
"Sydney, what's going on?" he says.
She slowly pulls away from my embrace and runs toward her father, who was standing at the door.
"Dad…They took her…They took my baby." She cried.
"It's alright, Sydney, we'll find them and bring her back home."
"Uh…Mike, the team's here, they need to search the room and Kendall wants to see all of us, and you know how Kendall doesn't take no for an answer." Weiss said.
"Yeah, we do." I say
Before I knew what was happening we were entering the garage at the JTF, we rush up to
Kendall's office but before any of us could say a word Kendall started his little rant.
"I warned you, Agent Bristow, I told you this would happen if you came back to Los Angeles." Kendall yelled as he walked around his desk and stood next to Sydney.
Sydney looked up at Kendall and slapped him right across the cheek "Don't you dare say that to me, you will not speak to me like this is my fault. The Covenant has my daughter" there was a silence for a minute until Sydney finally spoke again.
"I quit" she said as she walked out of the room. Everyone watched as she walked off. I was ready to run out of the room after her when Jack grabbed me by the arm and said "give her a moment" there was another silence when Kendall said "if she wants to quit, so be it, but she will be unable to help in the search for her daughter".
Everyone looked at Kendall, he then walked over to the door and turned around and said "I mean it". With that he walked out of the office leaving Jack, Weiss and myself in the room looking at each other.
Sydney's POV
"I can't believe that he is blaming me for this, she is my daughter I would never do anything to put her in danger, maybe I shouldn't have come back" I kept saying to myself. I sat in the bathroom inside a toilet cubicle and cried, I don't know how long I was there but I knew I had to go and find my daughter, so I walked out of the bathroom and down the corridor back to the Rotunda. As I arrived back I saw my dad and Weiss standing next to Vaughn at his desk. I suddenly realized that so much has happened to him today.
Dad saw me standing there watching them and signaled for me to join them. I walked over and Vaughn looked up at me, and I could see in his eyes that he was devastated that Michelle was gone and that he is determined to get her back.
Vaughn's POV
I sat on the chair feeling a wreck, I saw Sydney coming towards us so I tried my best to compose my feelings, the last thing Sydney needs is for me to be weak and useless, she needs me to be strong for Michelle and that is what I am going to do.
"Sydney, I know this is not the time for more bad news but Kendall informed us after you left the room, that if you quit the CIA, you will be unable to help in the search for Michelle." Jack says softly.
"What? There is no way that I am not helping to search for my daughter." Sydney yelled and everyone in the Rotunda turned around to see what was happening.
"I'm sorry Sydney, but there is nothing I can do about that because he is the Director, if you want to help look for Michelle than you must not quit the CIA". Jack replied softly and with a touch of sadness in his voice.
Sydney stood there thinking for a moment and she finally looked like she had turned into agent mode. "Ok do we have any leads?"
"No Sydney, nothing yet" said Jack turning himself into agent mode once again. At that moment Marshall runs up to us and says "We may have a lead".
Marshall's POV
I sat in my office going through all information regarding Sydney trying to figure out who would want to take a small child; the thought sickened me to my stomach. If some one tried to take my mini Mitch… On one of my other computers in my office, which had airport surveillance on it, I saw a woman get out of a car near and airplane and take a little girl (whose head was covered with a blanket) out of the back seat and board the plane. Then I thought to my self I know this woman then it clicked to me and I said "Oh my god" out loud and ran out of my office.
I saw Mr. Bristow standing over with Vaughn, Weiss and Sydney, so I ran over there and said "We may have a lead".
"What is it Marshall?" Sydney asked anxiously.
"I was looking through all the information that I had about you and your daughter, like I do because I want to help find your daughter. It makes me sick to my stomach that someone would want to take a small chil…" I started to say as Mr. Bristow cut me off.
"What is the lead Marshall?" he demanded.
"Oh yeah, well ok… I looked over at the computer which was displaying airport surveillance and I saw a woman get out of a car and get a child out of the back seat. I didn't see the child's face because she was covered in a blanket, but I saw the woman." I said again as I looked at the photo on Vaughn's desk.
"That is the woman in the footage". I said
Everyone's eyes followed mine and looked at the photo. Sydney said "Lauren has my daughter? That stupid b. I swear I'll kill her!"
