KAliasGirl
Cadet
Unraveling Truths
Chapter 1
Summary: Sydney dealing with new information from her missing two years and the fact that her Parents are involved.
Couple: S/V of course
Gender: AU
Author Note: this is a new story I am working on I hope you like it
Kelli
Sydney was thrashing and rolling round the bed; Vaughn had to tighten his grip around her waist so she wouldn’t fall out of bed. After a few more minutes of tossing and turning, Sydney bolted upright in bed. As he'd done so many nights since they were officially engaged and he'd moved in here; Vaughn held Sydney as tightly as he could, running his fingers through her hair. At last, she calmed, and he asked his usual question.
"What were you dreaming about, Sydney? Please tell me, maybe it will help you stop having them all the time. You've been like this for months now. Please."
Sydney studied Vaughn's face in the dim beams of moonlight that streamed in the window. She saw how much he wanted to help her, how worried he was. All of a sudden, she couldn't bear keeping the secrets from him anymore. She reached out and gently took his hand.
"Okay," she whispered hesitantly. “ I have been dealing with some other information about my missing two years that involves my father. I just haven’t had the heart to tell you it’s just too horrible.”
“Sweetheart, I thought we promised no more secrets if this relationship was going to work. I love you, you know you can tell me anything”
“ I know Vaughn, but this information also protects my mother. I found out that she took her old contacts from 'The Man' organization and created The Convent as a revenge plan against my father. I guess she brain washed me and conditioned me to become Julia Thorne. And the way she finally broke me was to threaten you and my father; if I didn’t give in she would kill my father and then kill you. So I gave in to their demands and became Julia Thorne to protect the people that meant the most to me."
“ Oh God, sweetheart, I knew Irina Derevko was evil, but I never thought in a million years that she would hurt her daughter to get back at your father and wreck our lives in the process.”
At this point Sydney broke down in Vaughn arms as sobs racked her body.
“ Shhh, baby. It's ok, lets go back to sleep, sweetheart. I promise we will deal with this more in the morning.”
“Ok, I love you, Vaughn.”
“I love you too, Sydney, so much. Now go back to sleep honey.”
Vaughn gently rested Sydney's head on his chest and they drifted back to sleep in each other’s embrace.
The next morning Vaughn woke before Sydney and moved out of bed so as not to wake her. He knew after last night's revelations that she needed rest; now that she was finally peacefully sleeping after many months of nightmares. Vaughn entered the kitchen to cook some breakfast and call the office to tell them neither he nor Sydney would be in today. Vaughn set up the griddle to make French toast. Then he went over to the phone and placed a call into Dixon.
“ Director Dixon”
“Dixon, this is Vaughn. I wanted to let you know that Sydney and I are both taking a personal day today and won’t be in.”
“ Vaughn, is Sydney all right?”
“ No; she has been dealing with some information that none of us knew about. I can’t tell you about it over the phone but right now Sydney and I just need to deal with this.
“All right Vaughn, you two may take the day off.”
“Thanks Dixon. By the way, could you tell Jack that Sydney and I need to see him as well; right away.”
“ Will do Vaughn.”
“Bye Vaughn”
“Bye.”
With that Vaughn hung up the phone and finished up serving breakfast and headed to wake Sydney. As Vaughn reentered the bedroom he found Sydney hysterically sobbing in her sleep. He set the breakfast on the nightstand and ran to wrap Sydney in his embrace.
“Shhh sweetheart, it's ok. Wake up baby, you're fine; you're safe. I promise you, you're safe. I won't let anything happen to you, I promise.”
Vaughn couldn’t get Sydney to wake up, so he just let her latch onto him like a child. All of a sudden Sydney jerked out of Vaughn’s embrace and backed up against the headboard.
“No, please no, I will do what ever you want. Just don’t hurt me or them.”
Vaughn just gently went up to Sydney and wrapped her back in his embrace.
“Honey you have to wake up so I can help. Please, sweetheart, wake up.”
Just then Vaughn felt her start to awaken in his arms. “ Vaughn? Is that you?” “Syd, it’s me honey; I’m here. “
"I was afraid they came after you.”
“No one's after me. Syd what’s going on? When I came in you were crying hysterically and wouldn’t wake up.”
“ Vaughn, what I am seeing in my nightmares is not just my mind, they are flashes of what happened to me.”
Vaughn sat on the edge of the bed waiting for Sydney to elaborate on the flashback. Sydney is visibly shaking and tears are streaming down her face.
*Flashback*
“I am strapped to a metal bed with my ankles and wrists in restrains and I am fighting against them; but they are only cutting deeper in to my flesh and I have a gag in my mouth so I can’t scream. The room is completely dark. All I can think about is getting back to you. Then all of a sudden there is a burst of light, I turn my head at the bright light because I am used to the dark. Then I hear a person walking to the end of the bed.
“Hello sweetheart”
“Mom? Let me go. What do you want with me?”
“Sydney, you are going to work with me.”
“Never! I will never work with the likes of you”.
Sydney saw her mother was seething with anger at her last statement.
“Oh, but you will; or your life, as you know, it will never be the same; my dear daughter”.
With that Irina turned on her heals and left Sydney in the dark once again. Sydney was not scared at her mother’s veiled threat. She just knew she had to find some way to get out of there wherever ”there” was and back to Vaughn.
*End of Flashback*
As Sydney finished recounting her horrible flashback she buried her head in Vaughn’s chest. Vaughn was crying also about everything Sydney had been through, and that he couldn’t protect her from what happened to her, or the pain she was going through; at that very moment it just broke his heart. He had Sydney cradled in his embrace and was rubbing her back slowly while cries still wracked her body. He didn’t know how long they stayed in that position but all of a sudden he felt Sydney pull back from his embrace. Sydney looked at him; to him she looked as if she was going to break down at any moment again.
“Sweetheart, what’s going on?”
“Vaughn, I can’t”
“Can’t do what, Syd?”
“I can’t explain these flashbacks to anyone but you; it’s too hard and too emotionally draining. Not even to my father, it’s just too hard.“
“Sweetheart, you don’t have to. Would it help if I went to you father about this on my own? I asked Dixon to have him come over when I called him to tell him we wouldn’t be in today.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, he should be here any minute. I have suggestion”.
“What?”
“What if you were to write them down and I showed them to your father. They can be Tolstoy long if need be, and the only people that will see them are your father and I.”
“I like that idea.”
“Good”
Sydney took out a blank notebook from her nightstand and began writing while Vaughn sat beside her with his arm around her waist. When all of a sudden there was a knock at the door.
“Syd, I will be right back, ok? That’s probably your dad.”
Sydney didn’t even look up from the notebook she was concentrating so hard on remembering every detail.
“ Ok Vaughn.”
Vaughn left the bedroom and went to the front door. The minute he opened it he noticed the very worried look on Jack’s face
“ Vaughn”
“Jack”
“Dixon said you and Sydney weren’t coming in today and that you needed to see me immediately”.
“ It’s Sydney”.
“Michael, is my daughter alright?”
“No, Jack, she not. She has been having nightmares for months now. After the latest one last night she finally broke down and told me what they were about. Turns out she has found out new information about her missing two years and has been dealing with this information on her own.”
“ Why didn’t she come to us sooner? We could have helped her deal with this.”
“Jack, I really don’t know why she didn’t come to us sooner. I think the information she learned put her in so much shock that she didn’t know how to deal with it herself, let alone tell us about it.”
“What exactly did she learn Michael?”
“She said that she couldn’t speak about this again so she is writing it down in a journal as we speak. As soon as she has finished it she would like to see you and have your read the entry. Jack it’s just to horrible to recount again.”
“ I need to see her.”
“She is in the bedroom. Just be gentle with her please Jack. It breaks my heart to see her like this. I never thought someone could survive so many traumas like she has.”
“Vaughn you may not understand this, but I love my daughter to the depths of my very soul. I never intended for her life to turn out like this at all.”
With that last statement Jack turned and headed to the bedroom. When he entered he found Sydney sitting on the bed with the journal up against her chest. Jack slowly went to her and kneeled in front of her so as not to startle her.
“Sydney, sweetheart, it’s daddy.”
To him Sydney looked like the child he use to cradled in his arms when she was sick or had a bad dream while growing up. He just wanted to help her and wrap her in his arms and shield her from any more in her life. Jack moved up to sit beside her on the bed and put his arm on her shoulder.
“Sydney, Michael said you have something you need me to see. May I please?”
“ Daddy I’m not sure you can handle what’s in here I barely can, its earth-shattering.”
“Sweetheart I can handle what ever it is, trust me”.
“ Ok daddy, here you go.”
Sydney finally handed over the journal and Jack opened to the front page and began to read. After fifteen minutes Jack finally finished reading and looked up at Sydney with a horrified and vengeful look in his eyes.
“ She did this. She stole two years of your life for her own end game and ripped you away from everyone you loved.”
“Yes”
“ She will pay, if it takes to my last dieing breath she will pay Sydney. I promise you.”
With that, tears started streaming down both their faces. By this point Jack pulled Sydney into his embrace they melted into the comfort in each other’s embrace.
End of Chapter 1
Well, if he was with Lauren, she would be doing SO much worse..