Title: For One So Small
Pairing: S/V, Eric/Nadia
Timeline: Sort of AU. Takes place after Season Four except Nadia didn't go all psycho crazy. But no Season five because I want this to be happy.
Summary: Special thanks to Katie who suggested this story plotline! Sydney goes on a mission to New York. After a run in with the members of the Law & Order SVU, team she finds a baby girl…what happens next? Read more!
Disclaimer: You know the drill; JJ owns everything Alias related, no matter how much I digress. I don't know who owns Law & Order SVU but it's not me. Because if I did? Well let's just say I wouldn't be in debt.
Rating: T for mushy gushy stuff and thematic elements and child endangerment.
Chapter One: My name isn't Michael Vaughn
Sydney's arm reached out in her bed, expecting to hit into a warm lump.
But there was nothing but a cold expanse of sheet. She rolled over and looked at her cell phone.
14 missed calls. All from him. 14 new voicemails. All from him.
"Baby, please. Just pick up. Honey, let me explain. I love you Sydney. I don't want to hurt you. Sydney, please, just call me back, or answer my calls."
Delete.
"Sydney, I know you are ignoring me. Weiss told me that Nadia told him that you cry at night. I want to be there for you Sydney. Please just pick up. I swear I will explain everything to you. Sydney, I love you. Let me help you and hold you when you cry."
Delete.
"Syd. Please forgive me."
Delete.
"Joey's Pizza."
Delete.
She couldn't hold back the tears anymore. The only person she thought she could trust, the only person she told everything to, had lied to her. He had betrayed her. Sydney laid on her bed crying. She missed him so much; she wanted to be with him. But she didn't know if she could go back to him. And then the baby. She had been late and ecstatic. She figured that she tell him when they were in Santa Barbara. Her doctor confirmed the miracle pregnancy, so she had prepared a little gift to give him. A baby bottle with the date they met on it. But she lost the baby in the car accident. And she had lost Vaughn.
He was still alive, but she had lost him anyway. His name was Scott Relarn. He had been adopted by the Vaughns' when he was a year old and his name was legally changed to Michael Vaughn. But that didn't matter. What mattered was that he had lied to her about his true intentions. He was a bad guy.
Sydney heard her doorbell ring and groaned as she remembered that Nadia had gone out for the night. Sydney pulled herself out of her bed and lightly ran her fingers through her hair. She padded to the front door and swung it open.
Three seconds later she regretted the fact that she hadn't looked through the peephole.
Michael Vaughn was standing on the stoop.
"Sydney…"
She tried to slam the door shut but his hand prevented it.
"We need to talk, baby."
"About what? And don't call me baby."
"Sydney, just stop and listen to me, ok? It's killing me that I can't be with you. It destroys me that you are upset and I'm not there to hold you. Why are you so angry Sydney?"
"Why am I so angry? You lied to me! I don't even know who the real you are!"
"Sydney, I am the real me. Just because I was adopted and that I worked for French intelligence doesn't change me. Bill Vaughn will always be my real father and you will always be the one I love."
"French intelligence? What the hell?"
"Yes, I was a double agent. My mission was to train a new agent to become eventually part of the French intelligence."
"And that agent was me?"
"Yes"
"I can't believe you. You manipulated me, you lied to me!"
"No I didn't Syd. I dropped the mission and left French intelligence about two weeks after I met you. Then I told the CIA what I had done. They forgave me and granted me clemency because of my father."
"Did my father know?"
"Yes. And your mother. She told me to tell you the truth. I was in contact with them after we received evidence that my father might still be alive. They asked me to do a few missions for them and I complied. The CIA said it was ok. I stopped however right before we went to Santa Barbara. I didn't want to lie to you anymore. Weiss and Nadia know too, I told them yesterday."
"Why did you lie to me?"
"Because if I didn't, we would have ended up like this. Fighting, angry at each other. I can't stand it, Syd. I told you the truth because I didn't want our marriage to be based on lies."
"Yeah I couldn't deal with my baby growing up with a lying parent."
Vaughn stilled and Sydney immediately cursed herself and wished she could take her words back.
"What baby?"
"It doesn't matter, Vaughn."
"Are you pregnant Syd?"
Sydney began to cry and Vaughn wrapped his arms around her, a familiar gesture. She tried to push him away but he held tighter and murmured words of comfort. Sydney felt herself give in and she buried her face in Vaughn's chest.
"Are we going to be parents, Syd?"
"Were. We were going to be parents. I—I was going to tell you in Santa Barbara. But, I—I l—lost the baby in the car crash."
"Oh Syd. Oh baby. Oh my God. Sydney. Baby, I'm sorry."
Vaughn gently rocked her as she cried into her chest.
"I'm so sorry Vaughn. Our baby."
"Shh, honey its ok. Everything is going to be ok."
Sydney looked up at Vaughn. He was crying lightly too. She gently wiped away his tears.
"Vaughn, I love you."
"I love you too, Sydney."
"I still want to marry you."
"Really?"
"Yea."
Ok we start the mission to New York next chapter. This chapter was pretty much just setting the scene and Sydney's state of mind for finding the baby.