Chapter 5

Vaughn walked into the CIA building and was greeted with looks of sympathy. Great, thought Vaughn, now everyone knew what's going on. He walked into the conference room and sat down in a leather seat. He watched as everyone slowly came in. Weiss first sat down next to Vaughn, then Jack, Dixon, Marshall, some other agents and finally Loren. Loren, she and Vaughn had dated for a few months but in the end he couldn't handle it. He couldn't' get over the feeling he was cheating on Sydney even though she was gone. Now he knew that feeling was right.

"Good morning everyone. As most of you already know the assassin we have been trying to ID for the last few months has turned out to be one of our own. Sydney Bristow" Dixon told the room, making a few people gasp.

"Miss Bristow was presumed dead until just a few days ago when this picture of her was taken" Dixon pressed a button and the picture from the warehouse came up on the screen. "I know this is a big shock for most of you but we need to move on"

"Dixon" Weiss asked "What do we know about what happened in that time? I mean Syd's been dead, missing for over 2 years what's happened to her?"

"That's what we want to find out. I want all of you to do anything that you need to find out where she is and what happened to her" saying that he took the files off his desk and stepped out the room. Slowly everyone filed out, the last was Vaughn he got out of his chair and looked at the picture on the screen and sighed then walked out of the room.

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Julia was in her apartment in Rome, sitting down over a large table. In front of her were schedules, blueprints and everything else she needed to plan her robbery. She sighed it was too much work for her to do alone; she needed someone else to help her. There were very few people Julia actually trusted and one of those people was Simon Walker. She had to Covernent to thank for their…relationship. He'd been assigned as her partner and she'd gotten closer to him, they made a good team. They even dates on and off for the last two years, right now they were off. But even when they weren't dating he was always ready to do a job with her, mainly because she didn't come cheap and Simon always got a good cut. She sighed and picked up her phone dialing in Simons number.

"Hey Simon, It's Julia I've got a job for you…"