Alex was sitting in his room listening to his music trying to get his mind off of what happened. The song changed to Here without you and suddenly Alex couldn't breathe. The walls were coming closer and he felt claustrophobic. Their current guardian, Fox, was out with the k-unit and his twin brother, Shane, grocery shopping. It was weird sort of but fox couldn't go shopping without snake to tell him what they need to get nutritionally, eagle insisted he go because "they wouldn't get the right foods for eagles to eat", wolf said that he needed to supervise the whole situation being the unit leader and all, and Shane just wanted to get out of the house for a while.
Since Jack died a year and a half ago, Alex and Shane have been living with the K-Unit. Alex had tried to live with the pleasures for a while but both parties just couldn't handle the living conditions. Once Alex and Shane has been reunited and settled in with the k- unit, Alex had been called for another mission. Shane was extremely upset with MI6, they had promised no more missions for Alex, but apparently the world needed him one last time. So when Alex came home from that mission, bruised and broken mentally and physically Shane didn't know what to think.
The day, or rather night, Alex came home was quiet the shock. Shane had gone to bed along with the k-unit and was sleeping quite soundly. Shane didn't know what woke him first but when he turned over in his sleep he nearly crushed the second person in his bed. Said person woke with a start and rolled over onto the floor making a sound thump. The person scrambled to a corner and threw his hands around his head. Shane couldn't see anything because of how dark it was so he moved to the light switch and turned on the light. Alex. He was finally home but something was wrong. His usually strong, good natured brother was trembling in a corner cowering from him. As if…as if Shane was going to hurt him. No this was not good, not good at all.
"Alex?" Shane asked, while taking a step towards him, however Alex was still unaware of his surroundings and just tried to move impossibly further into the corner.
"Shhhh Alex it's just me I promise your safe, you're no longer there ok?" Shane took another step towards his brother. His hands were up in a non-threatening way. Alex had moved his hands away from his head slowly and looked at his brother, however, it was unfortunate that at this exact moment K-unit slammed the door open and rushed in with guns out all pointing to Alex in the corner. Alex's eyes became wide and he scrambled to the furthest corner away from the k-unit, gasping really fast, hyperventilating.
"Guys its ok, its Alex, put the damn guns away" Shane said in an authoritative yet soothing voice so not to scare Alex again.
"Alex? Its ok the pack"-it was a nickname Shane had given them from his first encounter with the unit-"is just a big group of goofs. They aren't going to hurt you I promise ok? Alex just looks at me, Alex please" Shane said however Alex just shook his head. Shane took this as a queue that he was finally getting through to Alex a little bit, so he crouched down onto his knees and sat in front of his brother.
"Alex?" Shane asked once again. Alex lifted his head slightly saw who was sitting in front of him and lunged forward into the arms of his brother, clutching the sides of shane's shirt. Shane instinctively wrapped his arms around him to comfort him. Shane began to feel his shirt getting wet and knew that Alex was crying. And he started to comfort his brother. After a while Shane was able to persuade Alex into Shane's bed and go to sleep. While Shane was lying next to his brother who was curled up next to him Shane remembers that the pack had come in, hmm they must have left at some point in time, but it really didn't matter anymore. Alex hadn't said one word to him, not one. A few more days went by and Alex still hadn't talked to him, or anyone for that matter so the pack and Shane decided that they needed to take him to a psychologist to figure out what was wrong.
PTSD the doctors called it, it was the explanation as to why Alex wouldn't talk. Alex wouldn't look anyone in the eyes and didn't like to be touched, well, with the exception of his brother. Alex wouldn't be living still if Shane wasn't there to help him through whatever he was going through.
His big brother duty is what he called it. Shane was older by about two hours. Shane was a natural birth and had been a healthy 7lb 2once bouncing baby boy, however Alex got stuck in the birthing canal and had to go into emergency sea section. Alex came out smaller then Shane, 5lb 3onces with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, and fluid in the lungs. In the end Alex came away healthy just smaller. To this day Alex is still smaller than his brother. Alex and Shane are identical twins. The only way that they are able to tell apart from each other is they're size. The two had been inseparable since their birth. Crying whenever apart and complete best friends.
.Alex had nightmares almost constantly that woke up the entire house. But the only one who Alex would allow to comfort him was his brother. That was pretty much the only time that Alex made noise. The brothers slept side by side on the same bed. When they went to sleep Shane would lay on his back and Alex would lay his head on Shane's chest. Shane would run his fingers through his hair soothing alex to sleep. Alex was always touching some part of Shane to insure that he was still there. Wherever Shane went Alex went as well, except for today.
Alex put on his running shoes and kept his iPod on. And Alex ran.
Thump thump thump thump thump thump
Alex didn't know how long he ran must have been a while because the next thing he knew he was standing in front of an old restaurant. One that Alex happened to know was at least 20 miles away from the house he shared with k-unit. This restaurant was familiar though….
Oh…OH this is the place that jack had taken them to when it was their birthday and Ian was out on "business" Alex was heartbroken, while Shane was just fine with it. Ian had promised to take them out for lunch then go to see the old car show that was in town.
Alex had been going through a phase of obsessing over cars. So when Ian presented him with tickets to go see the car show Alex had been so incredibly excited he hadn't stopped talking about it while shane couldn't have dreaded more shane hated looking at old cars, what was the point? But if Alex wanted to do it then Shane would suffer through it. Next year was going to be Shane's turn to choose where they would spend their birthday. But then Ian said that he wasn't going to make it. Jack seeing Alex on such a horrible mood on his birthday decided to take them out. Jack took them to this particular restaurant insisting that they had the best donuts ever…Jack had never before been to this place and neither of the boys new this, placing full faith on their housekeeper they followed her in. The food was cold, the pastries rack hard, and the service sucked, but Alex and Shane had had the best birthday that day simply because jack had tried to make it special. The entire time they had laughed about nothing and talked about everything.
Alex had to get out of this place right this second it was breaking his heart all over again. So looking forward Alex started to run again.
Alex didn't know when he started to cry, nor did he know where he was. He can't do this alone anymore. His whole suffer in silence wasn't working the way he wanted it too. Almost automatically his hand reached for his phone and dialed his brother.
The pack was checking out of the grocery store when Shane's phone started to ring. He pulled out his phone from his pocket and checked the caller ID. It was Alex, wait it was Alex…he didn't talk so Alex usually just texted fox whenever he needed something. Maybe Alex just butt dialed him or something.
He pressed the button "Alex?" Fox asked confused. "Alex?"
"Shane…" the whispered reply came through and instantly fox was concerned, for Alex to be talking something must have happened.
"Alex what's the matter buddy?" Shane said instantly worrying the team behind him. Shane looked at for who turned around and looked pointedly to wolf that had the smart phone that held the tracker of Alex so that when things like this happened they could find out where Alex was.
"Shane…" Alex said again, almost on replay.
"He is about 40 miles away in what looks like the middle of nowhere." Wolf told fox.
"Hang on buddy we are on our way ok just stay where you are ok?" Shane said into the phone.
"Shane…" came the reply. That's when he heard the sniffle that told fox that he was crying.
After Shane ended the call, they quickly paid for the groceries loaded the car and sped off to find Alex.