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Chapter 8
Vaughn's POV
I was discharged from hospital a week later, and my first task was to file for a divorce. Lauren and I were over, and if she could face it, then too bad.
It took me long enough to work out that there was no one for me, besides Sydney Bristow. I love her so much and as soon as the divorce was finished, I am going to marry her.
That is what makes me get up in the morning. The idea of waking up next to Sydney everyday, sleeping in on Sundays, and having kids, little Sydney's and smaller versions of me running around our ankles.
I moved out from Lauren and my home and moved in with Weiss. As much as I would have loved to move in with Sydney, but Lauren didn't know that we were back together.
Dixon asked me to come into the JTF on Monday morning, for a meeting with him and Sydney.
I arrived at the JTF at 9:30 and I was ushered into Dixon's office as soon as I entered and I saw Sydney sitting on the couch looking at her nails.
She looked up when she heard the door shut and she smiled when she saw me. She stood up, walked over to me and kissed me lightly on the cheek. "Hi" she muttered
"Hi to you too" I said smiling.
"Am I interrupting something?" Dixon asked walking into his office closing the door behind him.
"Nothing at all" I said, "Okay Dixon, what can we do for you?"
"You and Sydney will be sent to Australia"
"Australia, why?" I asked.
"Well Jack has set a mission for you, but we are really sending you away so that things can settle down here with Lauren"
"Hang on let me get this right, you are sending Sydney and I away to Australia on a fake mission, so that you can let things settle down with Lauren"
"Well that was the idea"
"And you are trying to tell me that Jack Bristow, Sydney's dad, the guy who believes that no one is good enough for his daughter, gave you the idea?" I asked not believing what Dixon said for a moment.
"Can I say something?" Sydney asked.
"Yes" Dixon said.
"I talked to dad, and he understood everything. He has even set up the plane tickets, accommodation and entertainment"
"Are you sure that Jack Bristow set this up?" I asked Dixon one last time.
"Yes"
"Okay then" I headed to the door, "By the way I think that it is a great idea"
"Glad you approve" Sydney said smiling at him.
I walked out of Dixon's office and headed to my desk. I had just logged onto my computer when Lauren came up to my desk.
"Go away" I said not looking up from what I was doing.
"But love..." Lauren started.
"Don't but love me" I said starting to raise my voice, "Lauren we are over, we have been for awhile. And don't start giving the crap that you love me and we were meant for each other"
"But Michael" Lauren said grabbing my arm.
I shrugged her off and turned from the computer screen and looked at her dead in the eye, "It's over Lauren; it's been over for along time" I paused, "Ever since you started sleeping around."
Lauren looked at me with disbelief.
Lauren's POV
He knew. He knew that I was sleeping with another man. But did he know who the guy was? Did he know that the baby was never his?
"Michael, please." I said pleading, "You have to understand."
"Understand what?" he asked bitterly.
"It meant nothing, I always loved you, and I still love you."
"You don't mean that."
I looked around the office, and noticed that most of the people had stopped whatever work they were doing. "Michael lets finish this later. Come home and we can talk about it then."
"No, we are talking about it now and this is the facts Lauren. We are over. You ended it without even knowing it."
"No, Michael, please don't do this we can still be together. We just need to fix some things up"
"No Lauren. Face the facts. I don't love you anymore. I never loved you. You were a rebound. You forced me to marry you..." I opened my mouth to say something, "Don't say anything, you did force me to marry you. I was still mourning the death of Sydney and you just barged in. You started sleeping around. You expect me to believe that you were carrying my child, when it was someone else's child."
So he did know. I groaned this was not how it was supposed to work out.
Sydney's POV
I was over the other side of the office when the argument between Michael and Lauren started. I stood back for awhile, but when I came into the conversation. That was when I drew the line.
I walked over to Michael and Lauren and butted in on the conversation. "Excuse me, nut I would appreciate it if you don't involve me." With that I turned on my heel and walked off to Dixon's office.
I knocked once, didn't wait for an invitation to enter, and opened the door. "Dixon, you should go outside and stop Lauren or Vaughn before they kill each other."
"What's going on?" Dixon asked standing up from his desk.
"Lauren is digging into Vaughn and Vaughn is just feeding Lauren the facts, and if you still want her to believe that no one knows her secret then I suggest you'd better get out there."
Dixon groaned and left his office, I followed him out and he walked up to Michael and Lauren. "Okay guys lets break this up. We have a debrief in 10 everyone who is required to be there, be there." He looked around the room, "The rest of you, back to work."
Michael stood up from the computer and walked towards the conference room. "Vaughn" I said running to catch up with him.
He stopped, and looked around the room to see where Lauren was. "What happened to Michael?" he asked grinning.
"We are at work, your soon-to-be-ex-wife is still around, and she doesn't know we are together, yet."
"The sooner we have enough information against her, the better."
We entered the conference room and took a seat next to each other. I dropped my hand and Michael grabbed it.
Dixon entered the room a few minutes later, followed by Lauren. She sat on the other side of the room and glared at me.
Dixon cleared his throat. "Sydney, Vaughn" he started looking at Vaughn and I, "we have information that a Covernant operative, Hailey and James Goodhew. James is a known operative of the Covernant. The question is, is Hailey. Sydney and Vaughn you are going to Australia for a month, in that time you will become friends with the Goodhew's and find out as much information as you can. You will be posing as Amanda and Daniel Whitington, a married couple moving from America through Daniel's work. Your plane leaves in two hours. Marshall will take you through op-tech."
People started filing out the conference room and Marshall stood up and walked over to Michael and me.
"Ok, well has anyone seen James Bond Die Another Day, when James Bond and that evil dude are racing on the ice? And the sun is melting the ice, and then the lady is stuck in the ice hotel and it's melting around her and then she..."
"Marshall have you got a point?" Michael asked.
"Oh yeah, well this is a watch" Marshall said holding up a watch, "anyway, it's a lot like James Bond's, I actually based it on it. And this..." he said holding up a lipstick, "is a lipstick, and you know how you go in and you put it on your lips" he demonstrated putting on the lipstick, "But this thing is something that you wouldn't want to put on your lips because you'd go boom!"
I looked at Marshall, "Ah would you explain how that works."
"Oh yeah, well I was getting to that. Well you apply it to any sort of metal or glass and stand back and boom! It blows through anything."
I laughed uneasily, "That's great Marshall is there anything else?"
The rest of the op-tech debrief went smoothly, we with a few bumps. Marshall started talking about Star Trek and Star Wars.
Michael and I left JTF office at 11, and we headed back to my house. When we got inside I started packing my essentials. The CIA had given me the clothes that my alias would wear. As I went through them I found Chanel, Christen Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci.
"Well they didn't mind spending money on this assignment" I commented.
"Huh?" Michael asked looking up from a gun he was inspecting.
"Never mind" I said shaking my head going back to looking at my clothes and make up the CIA had given me before we left.
I felt a hot breath on my neck and turned into Michael's embrace. I rested my head on his chest and smiled up at him.
"Now what did you say before?" he asked me.
"It doesn't matter" I broke from his embrace. "Ready?"
"All set" I shook my head and grabbed my suitcase. "What?"
"Nothing" I said.
"It's not nothing. If it was nothing you wouldn't have shook your head at me"
"You're just a dope"
I walked out to my lounge room and set the alarm. "Hurry up and get out of here before the alarm goes off, it costs me 150 dollars every time they come out"
Michael walked out the door, I locked the door, we got into the taxi waiting outside and arrived at the airfield 20 minutes later. I got the suitcases out the boot while Michael paid the driver.
A pilot came up to me and asked if we were Mr. and Mrs. Whitington. I smiled sweetly and nodded. The pilot took our suitcases and walked off to the plane. I looked at Michael.
"Are we already playing the Whitington's?"
"Not that I know of. Why?"
"It's just the pilot just asked if we were them"
I could almost see the wheels turning in Michael's head. "I think I'll call Dixon"
Michael walked off with the phone pressed to his ear. I stood on the tarmac waiting for Michael to finish his phone call. He returned ten minutes later not looking happy. "What?" I asked.
"Lauren's leaked info again. She's changed pilots."
"What?"
"Yeah, Dixon said that we should just go home, wait 20 minutes and he will get another plane organized"
I nodded and Michael's hand moved to the small of my back. He lead me to a taxi, we got in and headed back to my place.
Traffic was light so it only took us fifteen minutes to get there. I got out the car and my cell buzzed.
"Yeah"
"Sydney" it was Dad.
"Hi Dad"
"Dixon just called me, you will have a plane ready to leave at midnight" I looked at my watch, 9:30.
"Ok thanks Dad"
"Be safe" the phone went dead.
Michael looked at me, "What did he say?"
"We have a plane to leave at midnight, no aliases"
He nodded. "Boarding time?"
"11:30 I guess"
"I'll see you then" he walked off in the dark.
A/N-well...I hope you like this chapter. As promised S/V did happen, more next chapter. Please review, its really great when you do. PLEASE REIVEW