A/N: Hey readers. How's it going? Okay I don't know how long it has been since my last update but I know it has been a long time! (about 6 months!) Someone even asked me if it was still active. I'm really sorry! I'll try to update quicker, I might try to update once a week. So again thanks for all the reviews and sorry that it took sooooooooooo long. Little bit of humor in this chapter.
After Sydney had calmed down, Vaughn went to check with the pilots.
"Hi guys, are we on track?" There was no answer or movement from either of them. "Guys?" Vaughn span their chairs around to find both of them dead.
"Syd!" Vaughn yelled, " I think you better come and see this!"
"What is it?" Sydney walked into the cockpit, "Oh my god!" she gasped, "How?"
"I don't know, but I'm not gonna find out until we land this plane."
"Well, when was the last time you flew a plane?"
"Ahh, not lately but we can do it together."
"Yes, we can."
Sydney and Vaughn both grabbed a body and carefully dragged them out into the main part of the plane. The two then took their seats in the captains chairs.
"We are currently at 30,000 feet."
"We need to bring it up a bit."
Slowly easing the nose of the plane up, they recover to the appropriate height.
"Do you want a drink hon?" asked Syd after a couple of minutes.
"Yeh, that would be really nice thanks. While you do that I will try and contact the Australian Airbase Officials (A.A.O)."
"Okay," she said simply, walking out of the cockpit.
As she approached the bar fridge, she noticed a cockroach crawling across the floor.
"Eeew. Gross," she muttered to herself. As she grabbed out two bottles of water, she noticed another squirming across the bench-top, then another when she opened the cupboard.
"What is this?" Syd asked herself. She carried the water back to Vaughn in the cockpit.
"Vaughn, this place is infested with cockroaches! They are everywhere out there!"
"That is what bug spray is for Syd," he said in a matter-of-factly way.
"Alright smarty pants!" Sydney handed Vaughn his water. He kissed her and ran his hand down her arm. "Thanks sweetie."
Syd smiled and sat down in her seat next to him, "That's okay."
"Okay, well I talked to the airbase officials in Australia and they are gonna guide us to the airbase we are supposed to land at."
"Well, I'm glad one of us knows what we are doing! Do you have any idea how long we have till we get there?"
"Yeah I do actually"
"Well…."
"Oh, so you want me to tell you do you? Why didn't you say so? What will you give me to tell you?"
"Vaughn don't be a jackass!" Syd laughed.
"Well, I was going to tell you but I don't think I will now!"
"Okay."
Syd walked over to Vaughn, her hips swinging and lips pouted and sat on his lap.
She started whispering sexily in his ear in another language.
"Shame I don't have any idea what language you are speaking let alone what he hell you are saying!"
She just smiled and started kissing him all over his neck and face. Then something came over the radio.
"E.T.A. two hours, OVER!"
"Yessss!" exclaimed Syd, raising her arms in glory.
"God damn it!" laughed Vaughn.
Syd kissed him once more before climbing off him and making her way back over to her chair.
After a few minutes of silence Sydney's voice came out of nowhere, kind of startling Vaughn.
"I miss Katie! I want her to be here with us!" She groaned.
"Syd, honey, if she were here with us she would be in more danger than anywhere else. She is safer there with your parents."
"Yeah I know but I just wish that I could hold her in my arms!" Syd pulled her legs up against her chest and hugged them.
"Syd…. Come here sweetie!"
Sydney got out of her chair and went over to Vaughn, squatting in front of his chair.
He cupped her face in his hand.
"Now listen, Katie is going to be fine and we are gonna have fun on this mission. Okay?"
"Yeah," Syd muttered, looking at the ground.
"Hey! Okay?" He said forcing her head upwards to meet his gaze.
"Yeah, okay," she said smiling.
"How is you head by the way? Has the panadol started to wear off yet?"
"No its fine, I never thanked you for that!
They shared a passionate kiss before the plane started to shake violently. Things started falling and glass smashing in the back of the plane.
"Okay, this is getting ridiculous!" said Vaughn, grabbing Sydney's arm so she didn't tumble over.
"What is happening?"
"I'm guessing we've been hit again," he said, running out of the cockpit.
Sydney clicked a few buttons obviously knowing what she was doing, despite claiming not knowing what she was doing just minutes before.
The plane continued to shake as she struggled to keep it from going down.
"Syd there is a fire in the back luggage shaft!"
"Yeah and this plane is going down whether we like it or not!"
"Okay, think, think, think!" Vaughn said to himself.
"Okay and while you are thinking I'm just gonna try and save our lives!"
Letting go of the controls, Sydney picked up the radio and started yelling distressed calls of help into it, the A.A.O. replying with instructions of what to do.
"They said that the only thing we can do is parachute down, give an approximate coordinate and follow any road we can find till they find us."
"Okay, I'll grab some stuff from out the back and meet you at the parachute cupboard in five!"
"Okay, but be careful!"
"I will, you too!"
Vaughn raced around collecting anything he thought they needed. Then he stopped, remembering the picture of Katie that was in the back of the plane where the fire was.
He raced into the back and lucky enough, the bag had toppled over, the picture being flung across the floor towards the door so he could grab it straight away and run back out. He stuffed all the things into a small bag he had found in the seating area of the plane and ran towards the cupboard where Sydney was almost done putting on her parachute vest.
As the fire spread into the section that Sydney and Vaughn were in, the plane soared towards the ground gaining speed as it went.
Pressure was building up as the pair raced towards the dry, dusty and quite uninviting countryside. (NO OFFENCE TO ANY AUSTRALIANS, I AM ONE TOO!)
"Okay, on the count of three jump, okay?" said Vaughn.
"Wait," said Vaughn," We need to get the radio!"
Syd ran to the cockpit, which had also been engulfed in flames. She fought her way through the heat and grabbed the Radio off the chair that luckily had not caught on fire!
"Ready?" queried Vaughn, grabbing her hand.
"Yeah, lets go!"
A/N: Okay, all done hopefully you all liked it and I promise to update as soon as I can.
Please Review! Have I still got the touch? Let me know!
Hannah