Thanks for all of the reviews: Oh I know this is random but I received an email asking about Love Lies Bleeding. You see I work in a nursery (when I'm not at college) and there is this beautiful summer poinsettia that gets this long bright red dripping flower. It is called Love Lies Bleeding. I thought it would be an appropriate name!

Tigger817: hey your new! I hope you read love lies bleeding, this fics prequel. I'm from New York so the riot isn't working…but I have written multiple letters

Agent phoenix: thanks! Personally I though Love Lies Bleeding was really good and everyone seemed to agree. This fic is a little harder to write because it deals with Syd and Vaughn as old people…well not like ancient but not that young, and a teenager which, although I am teenager, find it very hard to write about them.

Trickster's Queen of War: thanks for sticking through with me. I hope you like this fan fic as well.

Jason: are you new too? Or did you read Love Lies Bleeding and just not comment? Thanks for the review

Katie: I believe were the first to comment on Love Lies Bleeding so I'm very partial to you! I hope you like this fic!

Neith4Weiss: Thanks…you are probably one of my most verbal reviewers…don't worry Eric Weiss is mentioned in this story several times! Yes I had to put in the dumb bank story. Sydney even carried it into the fourth season when she joined APO and told Weiss her new job was at a bank.

Shanko911: I'm glad someone took my advice and read Love Lies Bleeding before reading this. I received an email for someone who was all like I don't understand what is going on in your story who is Erica? And I was like umm dude I told everyone it is a sequel!

Sasha: Thanks so much! It will get more intense like Love Lies Bleeding as well

Chapter Three: Lying to You

"Oh My God"

Erica looked at both of her parents in disbelief…they were spies? Spies who worked for the CIA.

"What else aren't you telling me?" Erica demanded.

Her mother looked sheepish as she explained the events that had occurred that afternoon. She was on a mission to gather Intel and her alias had been that of Brigid Peterson, a redhead.

"I didn't have time to take off my disguise, sweetie, that's what you walked in on."

"There are other things too that we have to tell you, truths about your family, Erica." Her father said, gesturing to a chair. "It is probably best that you sit down for this"

As Erica plopped down on the chair, Vaughn began his story.

"I was adopted by the Vaughns, your Grandpère and Grandmère, when I was a little baby. My biological father was a French count who sired three sons, each adopted into a different family. Danny Hecht, me, and Julian Sark. We didn't know we had brothers until the Count died and we were recruited into this special sect that followed Rambaldi prophecies. Rambaldi was a fifteenth century prophet. In his prophecies, he spoke of the movement of two great families, one that bears all males and the other that bears all females. My family is one line, the other—"

"Family line is mine" Sydney interrupted. "My mother and her two sisters."

"Yes, and the prophecy predicted that when the bearer of the females, your Grandmother Irina, has only two daughters instead of three, then the eldest shall bear the reincarnation of Rambaldi"

"Me?" Erica asked in disbelief.

"Yes" her mother answered, "but there is more. I was recruited into the CIA after the murder of my fiancé, Danny Hecht, and your father assigned himself as my handler in order to fulfill the sect's order to protect me. But our families already had a history, Irina had killed Bill Vaughn. Irina was a Russian spy who married my father Jack to spy on the US government. She was extracted when I was six, and we thought she had died. But she didn't. It turns out Irina had an affair with Sloane and got pregnant with Nadia, my sister. I had also been missing for two years…two years in which your father got married to a woman by the name of Lauren Reed. She was a double agent and cheated on your father with none other than Julian Sark. After your father killed her, another Rambaldi prophecy was set into action. It claimed that the Chosen One, me, and the Passenger, my sister, would fight and one will kill the other. We did fight, when Nadia was under the influence of a drug and she eventually slipped into a coma and died."

Vaughn stepped in for Sydney when he saw her eyes getting teary.

"Your mother and I got engaged and went on vacation to Santa Barbara. I had stopped working with the sect when your mother had disappeared and they had disowned me, but wasn't finished with me. They extracted me in Santa Barbara and left evidence that not only was I dead but I was a double agent. Your mother found out around the same time that she was pregnant with you. The sect made plans to kidnap Sydney and sacrifice her when she gave birth to you, because the prophecy stated that you had to be baptized in the blood of your kin. I offered to take Sydney's place as the sacrifice and they accepted. Now when we were being held in the castle in France, our close friend Eric Weiss had set out to find us. He did and he was killed right in front of us. That is why you are named Erica, after him. After you were born, they prepared to sacrifice me. Unbeknownst to the sect I had been communicating with Jack and Irina through emails. I made plans for them to save you and your mother, not necessarily me because it was too risky. On the night of the sacrifice, your grandparents opened fire, effectively saving mine and your life. But when we tried to escape, Jack was shot and his blood spattered all over you. He died from his wounds, but the sect had managed to escape and considered you Rambaldi Incarnate since Jack was your kin."

"The mission I went on" Sydney interrupted "was to gain Intel on the sect. We have received information that they are stalking you down and trying to kidnap you. We won't let that happen. Your father and I love you very much and we won't let them hurt you."

Erica sat stunned, looking at her parents. And then she said the first thing that came to her mind.

"Did you ever consider going on Dr. Phil?"

Yes I know this chapter was a summary of every thing that has happened, but Erica needed to know. The next chapter gets a lot better with the return of an old character!