Disclaimer: I do not own Alias, J.J. Abrams gets that pleasure.
A/N: Thanks so much for the reviews! I love getting them. It just makes me want to write more and more! Anyway I won't keep you from the cliffhanger for any longer! Have fun reading! Sorry about all the exclamation marks throughout the story! I got a bit carried away! Let me know if there is anything you don't understand!
Hannah.
Fran Black- Thanks heaps. I love Vaughn too!
Total Vaughn lover- Yeah, well it does take a while to write a chapter, but I'm trying really hard!! I promise! Katie is innocent afterwards as well don't worry!
"Shhhhhh, what is it baby?" asked Syd, rushing to Katie's side, "Tell mummy what's wrong."
Katie just kept on screaming and screaming so Syd put her hand on her daughter's forehead.
"Katie, sweetheart you are burning up!"
Vaughn then came running out of the bathroom with a white towel around his waist.
"What's wrong?" He asked in a worried tone.
"I dunno she just started screaming and her temperature is soaring! Why didn't I notice that something was wrong before? Vaughn, what do we do?"
"Syd this is not your fault! Just nurse her now, I'll go and call the doctor!"
"Okay, and Vaughn, please hurry!"
Vaughn quickly put his suit on and ran out to the kitchen to call the doctor. Sydney rocked Katie in her arms as she realized that she still wasn't completely ready. She then thought to herself, "I don't care if I am ready or not, I just want my baby to be okay!"
"Okay, the doctor will be here in five minutes," said Vaughn rushing into the room, "how is she?"
"She has settled down a little bit but she won't stop crying! Can you take her for a while please? My arms are killing me! Plus you're better with her!"
"Syd, you are a great mother! Don't ever doubt that okay! You seemed to have calmed her down! Just sit with her and I'll go and get her dummy."
Vaughn ran into Katie's room and grabbed the pink dummy out of the white, wooden crib.
"Here," he said handing Sydney the silencing device.
She smiled at him," What would I ever do with out you?" She shoved the dummy into her daughter's mouth.
Apart form a couple of little outbursts, Katie had stopped crying and slowly dozed in her mother's arms.
"Vaughn, can you please take her? I need to finish getting ready for work!"
"Fine!"
She carefully handed Katie to Vaughn and hurried to put her shoes on and apply just the right amount of blush to her cheeks for it to look natural as well as putting eyeliner lightly around the edges of her beautiful chocolate brown eyes.
As she was filling her drink bottle in the kitchen, the doorbell rang. She opened the door hoping it was the doctor.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Harries. I'm here to see your daughter right?"
"Yeah, Katie. Actually she only just fell asleep. Come this way."
Sydney led Dr. Harries into the bedroom.
"Vaughn, this is Dr. Harries. Doctor this is my husband, Michael."
The two men shook hands and smiled at each other acknowledging each other's presence. Vaughn still had Katie up against his chest, but he soon laid her down on the bed.
"Okay," said the doctor, lifting up Katie's shirt and Singlet, "Lets see what's going on here." He listened to her heart through his stethoscope, looked in her ears and eyes (kinda hard cause she was asleep) and finally checked her temperature. He finally came to his conclusion.
"I think your daughter just has a mild case of the common flu!"
"Oh, thank god!" Exclaimed Sydney, "I was so worried that it would be something much worse!"
"So what can we do to make her better?" Questioned Vaughn.
"Well, apart from the occasional dosage of Panadol, you just need to make sure that she gets lots of rest and stays warm, other than that you just need to let the body do the fighting for its self."
"Thanks you so much doctor!" said Vaughn, leading him towards the front door.
"No problems, if you need anything, don't hesitate to call me, okay?"
"Yes, for sure! Thankyou, bye!"
As the happy parents stumbled back inside, they saw the clock hanging on the kitchen wall.
"Oh my gosh!" Said Sydney, "It's already 10:30! Vaughn, can you ring work and tell them we will be a little bit late."
"Yeah, you take Katie out to the car and I will pack her bag."
"Yeah, okay," she replied, raising her daughter from the bed. She grabbed her water bottle and handbag off the kitchen bench on the way out the door. She buckled Katie in her car seat and put a blanket over her sleeping structure. Sydney kissed the little tuff of silky brown hair and ran her hand across the hot forehead of her sick little daughter.
"You'll be alright sweetheart," whispered Syd, closing the door and getting in her side of the car.
A few minutes later Vaughn walked out the front door with his briefcase in one hand and Katie's baby bag in the other. He opened the back door of the car and put them both down on the seat before getting in the drivers seat.
"I hope the day-care doesn't mind that Katie is sick," said Vaughn.
"Oh my god!" Said Sydney suddenly.
"What?" Questioned Vaughn.
"I just realised that I'm being put back on as a field agent today! I told them the 29th of January and that is today! Ahhhhhh!"
"Syd what happens if we are both out on an assignment? What will Katie do?"
Sydney sat and thought hard as Vaughn pulled out onto the busy streets of Los Angeles.
"She could stay with Mum and Dad!" She said, finally coming to a conclusion.
"Syd, do really think that would be a good idea?"
"Vaughn, I know what she did to your father was horrifying but she has changed now! I know she has, trust me."
Vaughn thought, the stress lines on his forehead clearly showing.
"Okay, I trust you with my life... So you better be right!" He joked.
The rest of the trip to day-care was silent, apart from the music playing quietly in the backround.
Vaughn pulled into the gravel driveway of the centre and stopped in the miniature car park. Syd got out of the car and walked around to the other side where Katie was still sleeping. As much as it pained her, Syd knew that she had to wake her daughter.
"Katie, darling," she whispered, touching her face, "Time to wake up honey."
Katie stirred and slowly opened her bright green eyes, which mirrored her fathers.
"Mummy," she muttered, her arms out stretched.
"Yes, hello darling," Syd replied, lifting her out of her car seat. In the meanwhile, Vaughn had got Katie's baby bag out of the car and walked around to meet Syd.
"Hi sweetheart. How are you feeling?"
"Hot, Daddy."
Katie wrapped her arms around her mother's neck and rested her head on her shoulder. Vaughn placed his hand on the small of his wife's back and guided her through the centre doors. After they got Katie settled in and organised a pick up time, Sydney and Vaughn ventured back to their sparkly blue Mercedes.
"Well, this has been an eventful morning hasn't it?"
"Yes it has... And you handled it perfectly!"
A/N: Sorry it took so long but I was busy doing schoolwork and yeah so I apologise profusely! Please tell me if you like it or not!! Thanks!
Hannah