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Chapter 7-Channel Surfing

Sydney repeatidly pressed the up button on the television remote. There was nothing on TV, atleast nothing she was intrested in watching. But she went up and down the channels once more, keeping her mind occupied. The more she focused on the TV screen, the less she focused on Michael Vaughn. She did not want to think about what day it was, she did not want to think about the agency, and she did not want to think about a certain missing agent.

Over the past few days she had hung around her apartment, Sloane had told her to stay at home. For mental health reasons, he had said. He probably was tired of Sydney asking for an update every half hour. He was probably tired of saying there wasn't anything to update about. The agents had hit a brick wall, they had no where left to search. If it was possible for a human to vanish, Caine had done it, and he had taken Vaughn with him.

She had only left the house to go on an occasional jog, to try and clear her mind. On her jogs she would find herself in the park and she would become lost in happy memories. She would sit on a park bench and remember the times she had met Vaughn here. Then she would realize her current situation, and the good memories were replaced by immediate worry and fear. The past few weeks had been the worst in her life. She had thought the worst moment was when she realized Vaughn was married, but this beat it by far. Atleast then she could still see him, talk to him.

Now he was gone.

Sydney's mindless channel surfing was interrupted when the apartment door opened behind her. Startled, Sydney dropped the remote and turned around to see her sister entering with a bag of groceries.

"I got you your favorite ice cream." Nadia said, setting the bags down on the kitchen table. She took out the carton of ice cream and offered it to Sydney.

"No thanks." Sydney said politely, "I'm not really hungry."

"You haven't eaten anything in three weeks." Nadia stated, still trying to hand the carton over to her sister. "And it's ice cream. You can't deny ice cream."

Sydney smiled, trying to reassure her. "I've eaten." Sydney said. It was the truth, she had eaten, just not much. "I'm not in the mood for ice cream right now. I'll eat it later."

Nadia didn't buy it. "Sydney everyone's starting to worry about you." Her tone became more serious. She put the carton of ice cream on the table beside her and walked up to where Sydney was sitting. "Stressing yourself out and worrying is only going to make this situation worse."

Sydney was going to give her usual answer, the one she had given everyone when they tried to offer words of advice. But she hestitated before answering. She was tired of holding back. She was tired of waiting for answers and trying to stay strong. Sydney was tired of keeping everything in. "I'll be honest." she said, the smile evaporating from her face "I'm terrified. Vaughn has been gone for 2 weeks and 6 days now. There's only one day left until the CIA declares him dead. Why? Because they think that 3 weeks is a reasonable amount of time to track him down. Well it's not, and they are going to declare Vaughn dead and I don't know what I'm going to do."

Tears began to pool in Sydney's eyes. Nadia put her hand on Sydney's shoulder as she continued to talk. "Since I've known him, Vaughn has been my rock. He's comforted me when my family problems get bad, when missions go bad. He has helped me out when no one else would. I've relied on him so much and now he's relying on me and I can't do anything to help him. I know he's alive Nadia." Sydney was almost sobbing now, she rested her head in her sister's arms.

"I'm sorry." Nadia whispered,the two remained there for quite some time. Nadia comforted Sydney as best as she could.

All Sydney could think about was in less than a day she would be in a breifing room listening to Sloane's speech on how the CIA did 'everything that they could'. She would listen to him talk and he would say how sorry he was for the loss of Agent Vaughn. A new star would be put up on the wall and Vaughn would eventually move to the back of everyone's mind. Except hers.

She was not going to let this happen.