A/N: Oooookay doooookay. Hee. Anyway, I'm besides this going to be the most evolving chapter so far (a load happens, be prepared:holds up fingers: Boy Scout:smacks Vaughn muse for being so damn hot: Err...yeah. :D) I'm also going to be linking this story to Alias in another way, the songs. So what I need is some requests for songs that have been on Alias, and I'll figure out where they will fit. I've got a couple planned so far, from S2 and S3. If you're that desperate to know (oh God, don't be too desperate! Hee, hee)...start reviewing. :whistle:

Now come on reviewers! And gracias to vaughnloveralwaysandforev for reviewing!

Also, putting this up now, don't know if I'll be able to update Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. I gotta work tomorrow, Thursday help my aunt and uncle move, Friday might be an off day (dunno yet)..Saturday I work, and Sunday I should be going to the Cardinals game! And..also a 4th of July party. :)

Now on with the chapter, enjoy it!

"So are you going to do it?"

"I don't know yet," Sydney said, pacing around her room, her cell phone clutched in her right hand. She finally caved in, flipping the cell phone and dialing a number.

"Hello?"

"Noah!"

"Sydney!" Noah said, surprised, but managed to cover his voice up. "How are you?"

"Good, you're coming home tomorrow, right?" She asked, glaring at her sister, who was sitting on her bed, watching Sydney.

"Yeah, should be home in no time!"

"Babe, I'm sorry, I won't be able to see you tomorrow at the airport," She sighed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Don't worry about it, Syd. I know you're busy, parents and everything. I'll drop by tomorrow after I get unpacked?"

"Sure!" She smiled. "See you tomorrow."

"Alright, love you."

"You too," She said, both of them hanging up afterwards.

"So?" Nadia asked, looking at Sydney.

"He bought it," She sighed, looking away. "I can't believe were doing this, you know how I hate lying to him."

"Hello, Syd!" Nadia was close to hitting her sister. "You're surprising him, hell, we all are!"

"Let's not give him a heart attack, okay?"

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"Why did we bring them?" Sydney asked, frustration in her voice, to Francie and Nadia.

"Will and Eric wanted to come! Welcome home Noah, it's a big thing nowadays," Francie said with a smirk.

Both guys looked up from the magazines they were reading when their names were called.

"How delayed is his flight? Jeez," Will growled, engrossing himself back into the magazine.

"Come on, girls," Francie announced, standing up and pulling Sydney and Nadia up with her. "Let's go have a little talk," She said, and then looked to Will and Weiss. "You two keep a lookout."

"Oh fun," Eric muttered as they started to walk away. Sydney looked back and shot him a death glare.

"So Sydney," Francie said as they made it to the bathroom. "How was Friday, since you really didn't talk when you came home."

"Yeah, I did that to avoid this. But, he was really, really nice. And I guess you two already know about the kiss," The other two nodded. "It was," She looked at them as they stared at her. "It was amazing."

"I knew it! We could both tell during that game!" Nadia squeaked.

"I guess that was the awkward part, you guys could watch us whenever you wanted to!"

"Yep, you two looked very comfy out there," Francie pointed out.

"Yeah, and if the guy wasn't already nice enough, after the game, you know how sometimes there can be idiots? I was the brunt of it, and finally Michael just got really pissed off and scared the shit out of this one drunk."

Both Francie and Nadia sighed in happiness.

"Boreeeeedom," Will yawned as he stretched his legs out, looking up at the flight screen. He jumped up when seeing a certain flight made its arrival. "His plane's here."

"Finally," Weiss grumbled, tossing his magazine to the side and also standing. They made their way through people and to security, both stopping dead in their tracks at what they saw.

There was Noah Hicks, standing with another woman at the security gate, giving her a lingering kiss.

"You see what I see?" Weiss asked, dumbfounded.

"Oh yeah, oh shit," Will mumbled, scratching and craning his neck to the side. "I don't think you would greet a family member like that."

"Uh, what should we do?" Weiss was still stunned by what he saw.

Will turned from shock to anger in seconds. He grabbed his cell phone, flipping it open. "The bastard," He stared at Noah, before going through the menus on his cell, and then held it up, taking a picture. He saved it, and closed the phone again.

"Photographic evidence?"

"Aren't you the genius?" Will snorted, grabbing Weiss by the arm and going back to their original seats, snatching their magazines and heading off to where the girls took off to.

"Dude, you are not doing this," Weiss mumbled as they walked quickly in the direction. Will smacked him hard in the arm as he saw the three girls walking towards them, mentally telling Weiss to put on a face.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Francie greeted as they met with the two boys.

"Sorry, Syd," Will began, and Weiss looked at him. "Will's flight was delayed. I checked, they had to stop in Kansas. The lady said it would be another six hours."

"Oh, great," Sydney sighed. "Guess we should go, there goes our plans for a surprise." She said as they all began to walk to the exit of the terminal. Weiss walked with Sydney in front as Will dragged Nadia and Francie behind.

"You two listen," He began quietly, looking to Sydney to make sure Weiss had her occupied. "That was a lie. We saw Noah," He saw Francie's eyes light up, both shook his head furiously. "He, he wasn't alone," He mumbled out as he took out his cell phone, going through the menus and to bring up the picture he took earlier. "He was kissing this woman."

Nadia looked at the picture first, then Francie and Will. "That could be his relative."

"Oh hell no," Will growled lowly. "Seriously, this went on for like a minute. Now, no relatives would even act like this."

"I knew it," Francie sighed, looking at Nadia and Will, who both showed puzzled expressions. "I told Sydney awhile ago that he wouldn't be spending all that time with his family. I mean, being away for that long and saying that? I can't believe she bought his excuses the whole time."

"Did you ever tell her about that?"

"Yes, and she didn't really think about it, at all."

Nadia sighed. "Great, this is just one happy go lucky world."

"When should I tell her?" Will asked.

Francie smacked him upside the head. "You don't tell her."

"What about Mike?"

"Oh God," Francie's jaw dropped, remembering the game. "This is not good."

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The next morning, Sydney woke up, hazily, she might add. She looked around at her surroundings: Will and Francie sleeping on the couch bed, and Nadia sleeping on the loveseat. She shook her head, too fast for her own good, and groaned loudly. She looked out the backdoor, seeing Weiss sleeping on a lawn chair. Now she remembered what happened. Since Nadia got a hold of the airlines, of course, which was a lie, she told Sydney that the flight would be even later than expected, at least 2 in the morning when it would arrive. So she, Nadia, Francie, Will, Eric, and Michael went to Sydney and Nadia's house, deciding to watch movies until the hours of the morning. But Eric decided to mix things up, have a drinking game, but Michael was the only one who declined, he had hockey lessons early in the morning.

'Not like he really needs it,' Sydney thought to herself as she got off the loveseat, making her way to the kitchen to see her mom cooking up a storm. "Mom!"

"Hey sweetie," Irina greeted, continuing to cook. "Did you notice Eric outside?"

"Yeah," Sydney laughed, taking a seat at the breakfast bar. "I'm going to let him sleep before I order Will and Michael to wake him up."

"Michael?" Irina asked, suddenly stopping her buttering of the bread to look at Sydney.

"Oh, forgot to tell you about him. Michael Vaughn, he moved here from France recently, seriously nice guy. He's on Weiss and Will's hockey team, and fit in with us perfectly."

"That's great! How's Noah doing?" Irina asked, and started on the food again.

"Good," She mumbled out. He was basically the reason she felt shitty this morning. "His flight was delayed, a lot, probably came in sometime during the after hours."

"Well, it's good to hear that he's finally home. Traveling all around this summer probably wore him out."

"I bet," Sydney yawned, resting her head on the table, but she shot up when someone knocked on the door. She sprinted for the door, stopping only to unlock the door and swing it open, to see a smiling but sleep deprived Noah standing on her porch.

"Syd!" He said, happily, as she wasted no time and jumped into his arms. "I'm so sorry I didn't come by last night, flight was delayed."

"I heard, but its okay, you're back!" She smiled, placing a kiss on his lips.

He looked at her, showing confusion. She knew? He decided not to say a thing and played along. "Back for you," He smiled, setting her down. "I'm guessing everyone's inside?" He asked after looking at the cars in the driveway.

"Yep, we had a little fun last night after we figured out you'd be gone."

'We? Who the hell else knew?' He asked himself. "Did Weiss get you guys drunk?"

She held up her thumb and index finger, distancing them apart, while showing a dimpled grin. "Just a little bit."

"And I missed that? Damn," He pouted, as she led him into the house. They went into the living room, Sydney surprised to see everyone, apart from Weiss, awake.

"Thanks for waking us up, Syd," Will mumbled, not even acknowledging Noah. "You run like a damn elephant."

"I do not," She frowned, and then looked to Noah. "He's back!"

Nadia mumbled something to herself, but all three exclaimed at the same time, "Welcome back!"

"Thanks," Noah smiled, taking a glance at the backyard. "Wow, you weren't kidding."

"I never do!" Sydney said proudly and went into the kitchen. All three that were now awake glared at Noah, who was looking at Sydney. Will thought of fifty different ways he could kill the man right now, smiling as he went through all of them in his mind.

"Breakfast is ready!" Irina announced from the kitchen, and just like that, everyone, still excluding Eric, sat at the large breakfast bar, eating in an instant. "Noah, glad you're back."

"Me too, didn't want to miss a great meal," He smiled, with a mouthful of food to add into the charm. Sydney squeezed his cheeks, hard, nearly making him lose his scrambled eggs.

"Who wants to wake Weiss up?" Sydney asked, and everyone groaned in response.

"Why don't we just let him sleep out there?" Nadia asked while taking a bite of her sausage.

"Because I plan on going swimming today and I don't want to have that big lug ruining my day," Sydney complained.

"Fine," Will growled as he stood up, grabbing a sausage eating it, before heading out to the backyard. Everyone else, including Irina, looked out the windows, watching as Will carefully dragged the lawn chair to the end of the pool, placing it horizontally against it, and leaning the lawn chair to the pool. "WAKE UP!" He shouted as loud as possible, and Weiss did, jumping up only to fall into the pool. Everyone busted out into laughter as he walked back inside and took a seat at his original chair, and continued eating like nothing happened.

Weiss opened the door to the house a few seconds later, stomping towards the kitchen, soaking wet. "What in the hell was that for?"

"You're the one that decided to sleep out there, genius!" Sydney responded while trying to hold in her laughter, in which she failed miserably.

"Go get yourself cleaned up, Eric," Irina said, holding a grin to make sure she didn't laugh. "I don't want this house to be soaked."

"Thanks," He pouted, going to the bathroom. Once he was out of eyesight, the kitchen was filled once again with laughter.

Eric came back a few minutes later, still damp, but sat next to Nadia, giving her a gigantic hug, which was met with a scream and some lethal punches to his arms. He noticed Noah and smirked, before starting on his food. "So, Noah, how was the trip back?"

"Torture, delays all over the place. I swear if my family wouldn't drag me all over the world I would never step on a plane again."

'Another lie,' The four that knew the truth all seemed to think at once.

"Yep, delays suck," Weiss said. "On my only family trip to New York, on the way back we had to stop in Kansas. Booooooooring," He stressed. "I heard you were stuck there." Nadia shot Weiss a look and nearly died on the spot.

Noah choked on his drink. Now what the hell was going on? Were they just out to get him? "Yeah, the place, not fun, at all. And being there with the parents made it that more enjoyable," He sighed, praying they would buy it.

Instead of Nadia wanting to kill herself, now she wanted to kill Noah. The man wasn't bad at lying, but anyone could tell he was slipping.

"You could've called," Sydney whined, but then smiled, leaning on his shoulder, which made Will sick, his thoughts from earlier coming up quickly.

"I know, I'm sorry, the cell was dead. I forgot to charge the battery on the way back."

Slit off his head and put it on the wall of 'Cheating Bastards'? Now Will was about to lose it.

"Payphone?" She pouted, looking up to him.

"I'm sorry," He mumbled.

Letting Syd drown him in her own pool after she saw the picture? One step closer.

"It's okay," She smiled. "You're here, it's all good now."

Noah stopped instantly, standing up and nearly making Sydney fall off her chair. "Oh God, I just figured out I have to talk to my boss! I'm sorry, Syd," He said, giving her a quick kiss on her cheek. "I'll probably be gone all day; he'll have me working like a nut."

She looked at him, her eyes rimming with unshed tears. "You just got home."

"I know, I wish I could use that excuse on my boss. I'll call you later, promise," He said, rushing to the door and leaving.

"I'm sorry," Sydney mumbled, burying her head into her hands as she let the tears flow. Both Francie and Nadia were at her side, rubbing her back soothingly.

Maybe a nice fist to the face would serve the prick good? Will sighed, rubbing his forehead.

The doorbell rang, and none of the teenagers made any move to get it, in spite that it would be Noah. Irina read them like a book and walked over to the door, opening it.

"Hello there," She greeted to a young man.

"Hi, um, uh, I'm Michael Vaughn," He said, awkwardly.

"Oh, hi!" Her interest peaked as she brought him inside immediately. "I'm Sydney and Nadia's mother. They're in the kitchen."

"Thanks," He smiled. "Nice to meet you, you have two wonderful daughters."

Irina smiled as they began to walk to the kitchen. "Thank you, you seem like a very nice man from the way Sydney was describing you."

He tensed up, but immediately relaxed. "I don't think I'm as bad as Weiss or Will," He joked.

"Oh, that reminds me, Weiss is a bit cranky this morning. Something about getting thrown into the pool," Irina smirked before walking away towards the study. Michael continued his walk towards the kitchen.

"Mike!" Weiss jumped up, walking towards Michael.

"Whoa, no...Absolutely no hugging," Michael warned after seeing Weiss was still wet.

Sydney's head shot up at the mention of Michael's name. She took in a deep breath and began to hastily wipe the tears, as Francie and Nadia went over to greet him.

"So let me guess," Michael said as he said hi to Francie, Nadia, and Will. "You guys got wasted and had to stay over."

"Probably a smart thing you left," Sydney said as she turned around in her seat. "I still don't know what Weiss mixed in those drinks."

"And that will be my secret," Eric added in with a smile plastered on his face.

Sydney gave Michael a look, scanning his full body. She noticed he had on his swimming trunks along with a tight Dodgers t-shirt. For a moment she didn't even think of what happened just ten minutes ago. "I guess you remembered what we offered last night."

"Yeah!" He smiled, running a hand through his rustled hair. "Who wouldn't take the opportunity to kick ass while the others are suffering from hangover?"

"That reminds me, we have to set up the volleyball court!" Nadia shrieked as she grabbed Eric's arm, dragging him to the basement to find the pool volleyball set.

"Let's go get on the swimming suits, Fran," Sydney said as she and Francie headed up the stairs, leaving Michael and Will by themselves.

"Come on, you've got to try their mom's food," Will said, referring to Irina's cooking. He took his place and began to eat, while he handed Michael an empty plate and let him start on the food. "Not too much, though, once you start you seriously can't stop. It's like those damn Pringles," Will went off into mumbling the signature Pringles line, once you pop you just can't stop.

"Alright," Michael agreed, throwing some sausages and bacon on his plate, and sat next to Will. "So how'd things go last night?" He asked while stuffing himself with food.

"Yood," Will said just before he swallowed the food. "We were all pretty freaking wasted. Weiss ended up sleeping outside and on the lawn chair."

"Explains why he's wet," Michael said with a laugh.

"Oh he's going to kill me sometime, I know it," Will said, and had the thought of telling Michael about Noah, but knew that Nadia and Francie would be the ones accused with his death if he spilled anything.

"You know it's not good to get your asses kicked in the pool after you just ate," Francie said with a grin as the two girls passed by and went outside, both wearing bikinis and holding towels. Weiss was already in the pool, trying to assemble the volleyball set all by himself, since Nadia was getting ready.

"Weiss, no, don't do that!" Sydney shouted as she threw the towel on one of the chairs and jumped into the pool, swimming to where Eric was and helping him set up. Both Will and Michael walked outside, in just their trunks, along with Nadia who was shaking her head at her not-so-into-it-at-the-time boyfriend.

Michael, however, was watching Sydney in the pool. He was caught off guard and brought back to his senses when she started to scream and shout angrily at Weiss.

"Gosh, don't you know how to set it up! Oh, there's no point in even trying, GAME ON!"

At her announcement, everyone was in the pool. Vaughn and Will decided to pair up with Sydney, who was intended on knocking Eric's brain loose with a well placed ball to the head.

After three games, a load of trash talking, Weiss getting his head hit, Sydney's team easily won.

"That's not fair; we have Eric on the team!" Francie complained. "We want to trade Eric for Sydney!"

"What?" Will asked, his face priceless as his mouth was wide open.

"Alright!" Sydney said happily as she swam over to the girls' side. "Now it is time to whip ass."

"Finally!" Nadia said happily as Weiss gave her a glare.

After another long three games, the girls won, 2 to 1.

"Weiss! I swear you need to learn how to play volleyball!" Will said as he went underwater.

"I do know," Weiss pouted.

"Okay, let's have a real game then, Sydney and me versus Will and Francie." Michael announced, and everyone agreed. "Sorry Nadia."

"No problem, I need a rest anyway," She said with a grin as she got out of the pool, the same time as Weiss as they both went inside to get drinks.

"Bristow and Vaughn versus Tippin and Calfo?" Will grinned. "Oh, let's beat 'em, honey."

"In your dreams!" Sydney snorted as she served the ball, right at Will.

After three games that Sydney and Vaughn won, Francie was so frustrated that she was about to kill Will. "Gosh Will! You're almost as bad as Weiss!"

"And you're yelling at Weiss about not knowing how to play?" Michael asked while laughing.

"I am better than him," Will growled as he got out of the pool.

"Poor loser," Sydney laughed as she saw Will mumbling off in his own crazy language.

Francie looked at Will before looking at the Sydney and Michael. "I'll take half of the blame."

"Nope, its okay, we're allowed to suck every once in awhile," Sydney said, a smirk on her face. Michael nearly choked trying to hold onto laughter when he heard this.

"Oh, thanks Syd!" Francie yelled mockingly as she climbed out of the pool. "Really supportive, you are."

"That's what friends are for," Sydney chuckled as she positioned herself to sit on the ledge.

"Aw man," Michael sighed. "We made them leave with our superior volleyball skills!"

Sydney looked at him with a shocked face, before she fell into the pool from laughing too hard. She came up out of the water, coughing slightly then forcing herself not to grin too wide. "Superior, well, I guess I can say that, but they just flat out stink."

"I heard that Sydney!" Weiss yelled from inside the house.

"I was hoping, my conscious!" Sydney yelled back and looked at Vaughn, who was grinning at her. "What?" She could feel her face begin to warm up.

"Nothing," He smiled, continuing to look at her.

'Oh God,' Sydney said to herself, looking to Francie and Will who were looking at the two. She shot them both a look; they got the message and took off inside the house. She could hear faint arguing inside the house between the two couples, mainly Weiss and Will.

Michael looked as the two took off inside the house. "And we scare people away, gosh, we're horrible," He joked.

She didn't hear the joke, only her throat as she tried to clear it. She shook for a moment, feeling as if the temperature fell in seconds, but it was summer, Los Angeles, hot weather, she tried to maintain her composure.

"Vaughn, we have to talk."

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