Well, I just wrote the next TWO count them TWO! Chapters!
I think I'm going to stick with this layout. This POV thing. I just prefer it better.
I have decided to add a new character to my story. They're new, but I didn't make them up. Any guesses?
If you want to go ahead and guess before you read, go ahead and guess and come back and read this chapter. Just leave a comment telling me your guess.
Do you all really like this story the way its going? I'm thinking about writing another story that takes place during season 2. I LOVE those stories. The season 2 stories.
Oh and for those of you wondering if Sydney is pregnant in this story, if I haven't said already, I don't really like the idea of her being pregnant. Sorry.
It just kind of ruined this season.
So, if I do add the pregnancy, it won't be until the end of the story. Unless I have a change of hear
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Well, heres chapter 9 enjoy!
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Chapter 8
The next morning, we awoke to the sound of an alarm clock going off. “Damn that alarm clock.” I said as I shut the thing off. I laid back down and faced Vaughn. He was smiling at me. “What’s that look for?” “I was just admiring at how grouchy you are in the mornings.” “Ya, your saying that now. Just wait. A year from now, I’ll still be like this, and you won’t like it so much.” “I’m sure I will.” “Whatever.” With that, I got out of bed and hopped in the shower.
Thirty minutes later, I was busy drying my hair when Vaughn came into the room. “Syd, we need to get to APO now. Your father just called and said it was urgent!” “felgercarb! What else could go wrong?” “I don’t know, but it sounded like some major S*** was happening.” “Ok, I’m done lets go.”
As we rode over there, I wondered what could possibly be so urgent to get over there so fast.
As soon as we got here, we headed straight for the conference room.
This had better be good. I thought as I sat down next to Vaughn. No sooner than I have sat down, my father came into the room. “Before we get started, I would like to introduce our new agent, Thomas Grace. He has agreed to become a permanent partner to APO.” “Dad, do you really think its wise to have someone new just jump right into what we’ve been working on for nearly a year? No offence.” I said to Tom. “Non taken.” He replied. “Agent Grace has all the qualities for the jobs ahead.” “What exactly is the job?”
“Our current job is Sark. He has been seen in the streets of Algeria. He went to a table and sat for close to an hour before, we suppose, an associate of his showed up. We believe that Sark is still looking for Rambaldi’s Sphere of Life. Now, we don’t know what his agenda is at this point, but we believe, since his former employer has been killed, that he is trying to reconstruct The Covenant.”
“Wait a minute. His employer was killed? I thought Mom was “The Man.” “No, she was not. The information about “The Man” came from a source we all known prisoner of ours.” “Katya.” “Yes. According to Katya, “The Man” is, or was, Elena Derevko.” “Wait a minute. Elena is dead?” came from Weiss. “I thought she got away.” “No she didn’t. When Irina was trying to get the necessary information from Elena, Elena told her to cut one wire. After that, Irina put a bullet through her head, and told Sydney to cut the other wire.”
I was still in disbelieve. “So, after five years of trying to find out just who “The Man” is, we finally find out who they were. And to learn this from Katya from all people? Dad, can we really trust her? Maybe she was just lying to us to get us thrown off the trail?” “I’m sure. I had someone sitting near the meet with Sark. He recorded the conversation and during the meet, Sark said that his employer was dead. Somehow, he found out about Savogda. Soon after we came back, I tasked a team to go back to the Oransky building and collect the Rambaldi artifacts. We have acquired all the Rambaldi artifacts that have been stolen.”
“Great. Now we have the biggest collection of Rambaldi artifacts again.” I said sarcastically. “Sydney now is not the time to be smart. Our job is to take Sark into custody. To do that, we are going to use bait.” It became clear to me. “You want to use the sphere to bring him out from hiding.” “Indeed. Sydney, Vaughn, Weiss and Grace, you will be going on this assignment. Dixon, I want you on comms. I expect a plan by 1500 hours. You’re dismissed.”
I walked back to my desk to start on a plan to capture Sark. I have been working for nearly an hour before I felt someone in my presence. “Hello. Sydney, isn’t it?” “Yes, Tom right?” “Yeah.” “So, what brings you to APO?” “I have been working for the CIA for nearly 10 years. I was about to quit cause of what I had been doing. I was always being sent on recon assignments. Then, I got an offer to join an elite black-ops section. I wanted to have some sort of challenge, so I took it without question.”
“That’s kind of how I joined APO. I had left for about two years, and came back and worked for close to a year, and decided that I had too many personnel connections with where I was currently working, but I didn’t want to move. So, I got the job offer from Chase, and I thought that I needed to serve my country the best I can. But, I was sort of tricked. Turned out that my archenemy actually requested that I join. Along with Vaughn, Dixon, and my father. So much for my plan. Actually, I like working here better. Your not as cramped as you are at the rotunda.” “I know what you mean.”
There was an awkward silence. “So, uh, I was actually wondering if you would like to maybe catch some lunch. I know I’m new here, but that’s the thing, I’m new here, and I hate having to eat alone. It’s like High School all over again.” “Well, you could join Vaughn and I for lunch.” “You and Vaughn? Oh, I was actually hoping just for you and I.” I tried not to laugh. “Tom, your really nice, and sweet. But I’m already spoken for.” I said as I held up my left hand. “OH. Oh. I’m so sorry. Congratulations. Who is the lucky guy? If you don’t mind me asking.” About that time Vaughn came over and gave me a gentle kiss.
“Hey honey. You have any ideas for lunch?” “I was thinking about that nice little café down around the corner. Do you mind if Tom joined us? I figured it could be nice to show him around and for us to get to know our new partner.” “Oh, I didn’t know you two were even dating. I don’t want to be a burden.” “Oh no, I insist you join us. We need to get to know each other sooner or later. And since we are going on a mission together in the next couple of days, I prefer sooner.” “Sure, come on join us. I believe I’m having to drag Weiss along with us anyway.” “Ok.”
About that time Weiss walked up to us. “What about having to drag me along? I can walk perfectly fine Thank. You. Very. Much!” “Oh Eric, we were just joking. We know that you would follow us even if we didn’t ask you.” “You don’t know that.” Vaughn and I gave him a stern look. “Ok, Ok. So maybe I would come. Is it a crime for me to hang out with my two best friends that I’ve known forever?” “Well, you’ve known me for only about six years. You’ve known Vaughn for nearly twenty years.” “Ya, ya. Whatever. Lets just go.”
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Fifteen minutes later, all four of us were seated with our food and just chatting.
“So Syd, do you mind if I call you Syd or would you prefer me to call you Sydney?” “Syd is fine. Everyone else calls me Syd, even though they’ve all practically known me forever.” “Well, about that, just that little bit you told me back at the office, about how you came to join APO, it sounds like you have a lot of history. Also, you said that your boss was you arch enemy. I thought our boss was your dad? Am I missing something here?”
“Well we might as well tell him everything that’s gone on since I walked into your lives. I started working for the CIA, or what I thought was the CIA, when I was nineteen. Seven years after working for what I thought was a black-ops division of the CIA, my boss, Arvin Sloane, killed my fiancé because I told him about where I really worked. So, then he went after me. My dad came and rescued me. He was the one to tell me the truth. So I went to the real CIA to bring them down. That’s where I met Vaughn and Weiss.”
“Ah, yes. The red, bozo hair. I remember when our Syd walked in. With her swollen jaw, red hair, and pissed off!” Weiss said while laughing. “Ugh, don’t remind me.” “Well, I happened to like the red, bozo hair.” Vaughn said. “Thats when I became Vaughn’s asset, and he, my handler. When, I was six, my mother had died in a car wreck. Truth be told, she didn’t, and her name wasn’t Laura, it was Irina. Irina Derevko.” “Wait a minute! Irina Derevko is YOUR mother!?”
“Yes.” The three of us said in unison.
“Woah. That must have been hard learning. Learning that the woman you idolized killed lots of people in cold blood. Including twelve CIA agents.” “Including my father.” Vaughn said. “Wow.” “Yeah.” “So anyway, with the help of my mother after she turned herself in, we brought down The Alliance.” “Where they FINALLY, and I mean FINALLY, showed their undying love for each other!” Said Weiss. “Shut up Weiss!” Vaughn said. “Yep, right in the middle of SD-6. They sucked each other’s face forever!”
“Anyway, yeah, that was when we started dating. Sloane escaped, so did my mother and Sark. So we were trying to track them down and arrest them. In the end, Sark was the only one we captured. Irina disappeared, and Sloane eventually got pardoned by the state.” Continued Vaughn.
“Thank god I was missing when that happened.” “I’m confused. I thought you said you left?” “Well, actually I was kidnapped by the Covenant for two years. Apparently I did get away eventually, but decided to become a double agent for the CIA instead of coming back. I think that was the biggest mistake of my life. I have no idea why I did that.” “Because you saw me with Lauren the night you contacted Kendall.”
“Who’s Lauren?” “Lauren was a Covenant spy, sent to marry me. Why I was so foolish to move on so soon after Sydney’s death still is a mystery to me. I lost faith. And I will NEVER make that mistake again.” “I was wrong to say that about Vaughn.” “No, it’s the truth. I did, and I’m sorry. I love you.” “I love you too.” He leaned down to me and captured my lips with his.
“Oh, come on! Guys, not in front of the new guy, especially me!” “Sorry Weiss. Won’t happen again.” “Like hell it won’t” Weiss said under his breath. “What was that?” Snapped Vaughn. “Nothing, nothing at all.”
“So, after we learned Lauren was the mole, I went after her, but Katya, Sydney’s aunt, stabbed me. So, Sydney thought Lauren stabbed me, and she went after Lauren. Because of my rouge op, Foster had the hospital guarded. But thanks to my best bud here,” Vaughn said while slapping Weiss’s back. “I escaped and went after Sydney. I got there at the right time. As soon as I got there, I saw Lauren take a gun and was about to shoot Syd. I yelled ‘stop’ and Lauren had her gun to Syd, while I had mine to Lauren. She made me lower my gun, but she was too dumb to turn away, cause the first chance I had, the gun was back in the air, and I ended up killing her. So after that I had to have a month of psyche eval, I was offered to work for APO.”
“While Vaughn was in DC, I went to Wittenberg, and learned that my father killed my mother. Turned out, Elena tricked my dad into thinking my mother had a hit on my life, so he killed her. But, it wasn’t my mom. It was a double of her, by using the Double Helix Program. I learned I had a sister about a year ago, and now here we are.”
“Wow, that’s a lot of history. What’s Dixon and Marshall have to do with all this?” “Well, Dixon was partner at SD-6, and Marshall was in charge of the technical stuff.” “Just a word of caution, Marshall tends to ramble a lot.” Weiss said as he leaned over to Tom. “Oh I know, I ran into him after the meeting this morning.” “Shut up, Marshall’s a sweetie.” “To you.” “Still.”
“Well, I think that’s all you need to know about us for this mission. Should there be anything we need to know about you?” Asked Vaughn. “Oh, nothing much. I’ve been field rated for nearly eight years now. I’ve gone on dozens of missions, reconnaissance, Alias, stealth, enough to know how to deal with the problem at hand.
I checked my watch. “Hey guys, we need to get back before my dad gets mad at us.” With that, we headed back to APO to begin our mission.
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