Becoming Ian – An Alex Rider fanfiction
Disclaimer: I do not own Alex Rider.
Summary: Alex Rider has a secret fear. Drabble and angst alert. Character death.
There aren't many things in this world that Alex Rider is afraid of. He has saved the world more times than he cares to remember and met more evil, twisted villains than he can count. He remembers each of his missions vividly, he even gets nightmares from them, but he knows they will fade in time. They do not scare him. His secret fear is of becoming his uncle.
He thinks back to Ian's funeral with second hand regret. His uncle had no real friends and very few colleagues. He and Jack were the only ones who knew him as Ian. The others knew him as Agent Rider or Sir.
Alex remembers all the times his uncle left him to fend for himself, even before Jack came. It strengthened him, he knew, but he questioned why he needed the strength of an adult when he was still a child.
As Alex Rider lay on the cold concrete, his blood oozing out of the bullet wound in his chest, he realised he had once again failed to escape life's little ironies. The one thing he swore he would never be, he was. He had realised his secret fear. He had become his Uncle Ian. He lay down his head and slipped away from this world.
.THE END.
A.N. I know, I know, how could I do that? (Sob) Please R&R. Sorry it's so short.
