Furtive Fragments
Chapter. 1
by : Dru
Disclaimer in chapter. 2
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just a big klutz today." Elle, a 23 year old woman with slightly wavy brown hair, told the young man she had bumped into on her first day of her new job and blushed. She couldn't help it, he was hot. Like short brown hair, grey eyes that looked like liquid silver and just had that comfotable feeling around him.
"It's okay. I was just not paying attention where I was going either. Not all your fault." He told her, and aww, it was sooo cute.he blushed too. How cute is that?
They both bent down took get the things they both had dropped. Elle noticed it was pretty much the same things. Could he be the new person that Sydeney, her handler, told her about? God, she hoped so.
"So, umh, you work here right? What would you otherwise be doing here." The hot guy asked, and he was like so adorable with whole 'umh' thing. He might look hot and all, but he had this sorta geeky-ness around him.
"Yeah, my first day is today. Is your handler by any chance Sydney Bristow?" Elle asked him, because when she got into work earlier Sydney was there and talked her and told her that she had another person to 'handle'. She hoped Syd stuck that dorky looking boyfriend of hers, and left this guy alone to be handled by her.
Okay, Elle, mind out of the gutter, please? Think about work. What you were supposed to do. She thought to herself, and picked up the papers she was supposed to give Sydney's half-sister, Nadia.
"Yeah, actually she is. How did you know?" He asked her, and picked up some stuff he had dropped. Looked like some technical junk for the guy who made all the gadgets.
"Well, she's mine...too. And she just mentioned you this morning. Is this your first day, too?" She asked him, as he kept looking around the main area of APO.
"Yeah. Like first ever, but I have an cousin already working here. His name's Marshall. He does all the cool technical stuff. Umh, I totally forgot to ask you your name and tell you mine. I'm Ryan flinkman." He told her, and tried to extend his hand in her direction for her to shake.
"Ops, where are my manners. I'm Gabrielle Felicano. I'm not related to anyone here, as far as I know. But then I was adopted, so who knows." She tells him, before shrugging her shoulders and shaking his hand. Ryan though she had a beautiful smile. He blushed some more and she looked at the floor.
They just kinda stood there untill Weiss, their handlers's dorky boyfriend's best friend (Try and and say that three times fast) came up to them. He was such a clown at time, according to Sydney about her half-sisters boyfriend.
"Are those the files that Sydney sent to give Nadia like 5 minutes ago? Because well, Nadia is in a bit of a testy mood today and is getting a little irratated. And guys, the new flirting corner is over there." He told them, as he took the files from Elle and pointed them in the direction of some hallway.
"Sorry, Weiss. Umh, have you seen Sydney?" Elle asked, and looked at Weiss. Totally ignoring Ryan now, not because she was a bitch or anything. Just well, she didn't feel comfortable right now to look at him. She always seemed to get like that around guys. An all girls school for 12 years could possibly do that to you.
"Yeah, she's talking to Marshall. But I think she wanted to talk to you. Both of you. Imagine her, a handler." He told them, before walking away, kinda chuckling.
"Umh, Sydney. You wanted to talk to us?" Ryan asked, as he poked his head into Marshall's working place and saw her there. Laughing about somethin his cousin had obviously told her, or maybe shown her.
"Yes, I did. Is Gabriella here too?" She asked, the brunette came into view and then the 23 year olds stood in the doorway looking a bit out of place even though they were dressed pretty much like anyone here and had the ID badges and all. First day jitters.
"I'm so sorry to throw you in the deep end of the pool at your first day on the job but in 5 minutes there's a briefing and two are needed there because this will be your first mission. We need someone with a new face since this enemy is an old friend of ours." Sydney told them, as she tucked an errant lock of chocolate brown hair behind her ear.
"Oh, sure. It's okay. I understand, don't you, Ryan?" Elle asked him, and looked at the brunette who was helping his cousin with something on the other side of the room.
"Uhuh." Was heard from him, before he realized what he'd said and stood up. Slightly embaressed. What a professional answer.
"But who's the old friend?" Elle asked her, but doubted that she'd know who it was. But maybe she would, I mean, she had been an analyst for like a tiny bit.
"Oh, umh... Just wait for the briefing." Sydney told her, and walked away. Ooookaaayy, that was weird. Elle thought, as her and Ryan followed her out but then went their seprate ways.
"Yes, mom. I'm all right...Don't worry so much...Actually, I'm packing for my first trip...Mom, I work for a bank. How much trouble could I get into?" Elle told her mom, as she rolled her eyes and was taking some stuff from her big suitcase and putting it in her smaller one.
It was just normal for parents to worry about their only childs. Her mom had always been so protective of her. At one time though she had been suffocating Elle and so she ran away from home. But that didn't last more than a few weeks, and she didn't really even leave the state. She just got a tattoo on her hip.
Her dad (well, her adopted dad) died like a year later. She was adopted at 5. So, she never really knew him that well. But her mom was the greatest. And she had always provided her with everything she needed. She ran a very sucessful natural aromatherapy comapany.
When she was younger she used to travel with her everywhere. Not that she missed much school or anything, she was great at catching up and such. And not like she didn't get homework on said trips. She said 'goodbye' to her mom and hung up the phone.
"Who were you talking to that sounded so worried about you?" Someone asked Elle, from behind her. She turned around and saw Nadia. You know, Elle couldn't really say that they were that alike. But maybe that was because they just had two seperate dads.
"Oh, my mom. She's so protective of me. She's just worried because I now live on the other side of the country. I guess, she thought I would like take over from her when I got older or something." Elle told her, and shrugged her shoulders as she zipped her bigger suitcase closed and stuffed it in a closet nearby.
"Just a mom? No father?" Nadia asked her, as she sat down on the couch to watch some tv for a bit. She was pretty hyped, her first mission. She just hoped she wouldn't screw anything up.
"My dad died when I was almost 6. I was adopted at 5. So, I never really knew him that much." She tells her, but isn't looking at Nadia but family guy on tv. Her favorites were the baby and the dog.
"Oh, adopted. Do you know anything about your real family?" Nadia asked her, as she sat down beside the brunette and noticed this kinda old looking bracelet she was wearing. The engraved side of the heart-shaped plate happened to be up, and Nadia wondered what the letters 'A.S.L' could mean.
"Nope. Nothing, not like I'm ever eager to find out. I mean, they gave me up for adoption. Why should I want to go back. It was their decision. I'm perfectly happy with my life." Elle told her, but Nadia noticed that when she said that she fiddled with the white gold bracelet.
"So, do you know what those letters stand for?" Nadia asked her, stearing away from that conversation. Something told her that if she could get information on her family, she wouldn't say no.
"No, I have no idea. My mom gave it to me when I was 15. Said that they had gotten it with me. That they were told to give it to me when I would understand and take care of it, or something like that. I once totally freaked out in school when I was 17 because I took it off once before gym class, and then I couldn't find it. But turns out it just fell behind a radiator.I don't know how it got there, but again, I was never popular. Probably someone playin a prank on me." She told her, before getting back to watching the tv and stopped fiddling with it. Just put a hand over it.
She was still wearing her grey pinstriped suit pants, but her jacket had fallen to the floor from where she threw it on a chair as she came in from the early dinner she had with Sydney & Vaughn (can you say trouble is brewing there?), Nadia & Weiss (how adorable are they?) and Ryan (he's such a cutie).
She really liked them all but man, at times it was like she did something that made them uncomfortable and she swore she didn't do anything rude or anything. So, she had been a bit apprehensive for the rest of the dinner after the second time.
To Be Continued...
A/N : This will have some Sark, but that'll be in like chapter 3. I've just been a bit uninspired and such about Alias. But maybe Vaughn's leaving, so a big just YAHOOOO! to that. Hehe. Dru