Alex lay in his bunk and stared up at the ceiling, ignoring Eagle's constant talking, Wolf's death glare, and Snake's Scottish accent echoing around the hut as he sang some American song. Ben was going to be gone for the next week so he had no one to talk to and he was bored out of his mind. Bear, who had joined the unit three months ago after Ben left for MI6, walked into the hut covered in mud and miserable.
"Damn Sergeant made me run the assault course four bloody times!" he moaned, collapsing onto the floor so he didn't get his bed muddy. Wolf and Bear were soon falling into a discussion about how awful the Sergeant was, then if there was any news of Ben, then damn secret keeping MI6, then how they hated secrets in general, then, inevitably…
"Cub, why the hell are you here? Hasn't your rich daddy gotten tired of punishing you yet?" Bear asked with a chuckle. Every time they were bored it fell to this and Alex was sick of it.
"Be a bit hard judging as he's dead." Alex said frostily, glaring daggers at them before turning his attention back to the ceiling.
K-Unit stared at him in shock, Snake was the first to recover, "God Cub! I'm so sorry, we didn't know."
Alex just shrugged, he was used to people apologizing for his parents' death, it had become standard procedure for him.
"So, you live with your mum then?" Eagle asked uncertainly, as if nervous that Alex's answer would make him feel worse.
"She's dead too." Alex said in an emotionless tone, just staring up, refusing to look at them.
"Shit Cub." Bear whispered, guilt flooding his eyes, how often had he directed rich parent cracks at the kid? A hundred? A thousand?
"Do you live with a relative?" Snake asked in horror, hoping against all hope that Cub didn't live in an orphanage.
"Used to live with my uncle, then he died. Then I lived with Jack, my housekeeper, but MI6 deported her." Alex said, pulling himself into sitting position and leaning his head against the wall.
"MI6? Why is MI6 involved with customs?"asked Eagle, confused beyond belief, why was Military Intelligence involved with what should have been Custom's job?
Alex just shrugged and turned around, he was done talking to his unit, if the conversation moved any further it would turn to his job and he didn't trust K-Unit enough to tell them about that.