"Mr Sloane?"

"Yes?"

"There's a disturbance in the Tech room."

Sloane frowned. "What sort of a disturbance?"

Dixon looked out of the doorway back to the room. "It seems Sydney is being held hostage by Vaughn."

Sloane rushed out of his office and within thirty seconds had reached the Tech office door, where Marshall stood, holding a broken tech piece Sloane had needed done for a mission the next say. Marshall was avoiding his eyes, but Sloane could see the beads of sweat dripping down his face.

"What the hell is happening here?"

Jack, Dixon, Nadia and Weiss crowded behind him with worried expressions on their faces. "Where is my daughter?" Jack asked angrily.

The office's windows were just sheets of silver as Vaughn had pulled all the blinds down.

Everyone stared at Marshall. "Umm .. I guess …"

Suddenly the office door opened, and Sydney exited, her business suit crinkled and her top button undone. Vaughn followed her, his hair slightly more ruffled than usual and his tie on an angle.

Sydney stopped, staring at everyone. Jack looked away as Weiss smiled, giving Vaughn the thumbs up. Sloane cleared his voice as Marshall turned around and stared at the pair.

"Sydney, Vaughn my office immediately."

Jack and Dixon moved out of the way, Jack's face a mixture of embarrassment and disbelief.

"I have no idea what gave you two the thought that this building is some kind of a hotel, especially the Tech room, but if any of you do anything like this again there will be consequences. I am highly disappointed in both of you. I thought you realized how serious this job is, I however was obviously mistaken." Sloane motioned with his hand that it was ok to leave and as Vaughn and Sydney both stood up, Vaughn caught her eye and winked at her. "Sydney, stay a moment please."

He waited until Vaughn had left and closed the door before standing up, walking around his desk and standing in front of Sydney.

"This whole incident seems highly uncharacteristic of you, Sydney. Is there anything you want to tell me? Anything at all?"

"No. Everything's fine. Sorry for the disturbance."

Sydney went to the bathrooms where she met Nadia standing in front of a mirror washing her hands. "Syd," Nadia said when she walked in, "what the hell is wrong with you? Your Dad saw!"

"Nadia," she said disgusted, "We didn't … you know. He …" she went over to the hand dryer and turned it on, the loud noise blocked out everything else as she went up to Nadia and whispered, "He threatened me. I know he's a double agent and all I need to do is prove it."

Nadia's eyes widened. "How do you know?"

"Sark told me."