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AU: English is not my native language so please excuse spelling mistakes and other grammar mistakes. Please review and tell me if I have too many and I will try to fix it. This story is not Beta-ed... Please read and review, I appreciate any advice.

This story is set after Snakehead, but does not really follow the books. Some information is changed.

Summary: Alex Rider finds his world crumbling down after his Snakehead mission. His past is a lie and his future is unclear and he finds himself at a loss. Should he ignore what he now know and hope for the best or follow the new path laid ahead…

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Broken past, promising future

It was a very dark and rainy evening. Not many had ventured out this evening, but if you strained your eyes you could just barely see a small figure limping across the road, he looked not more than fourteen or fifthteen years old and yet, yet his eyes looked so much older.

The people on this street knew him as Alex Rider, fourteen year old wonder child turned bad. They all talked about him like that, but Alex did not really care. They did not really know him, no one did. He thought he did but now he had been proven wrong.

He had just found out that his father was not his father, his guardian who was like a sister to him had left him, he was tired, wet and his leg hurt like a B****. And if that wasn't all he was also being followed. At first he had thought it was MI6, but now he was almost sure it was not. That again meant he could not go home so he was heading to a park instead.

He looked up at the pouring sky and he wondered how much longer he could go on like this. He had just a few days earlier gotten back from seeing his godfather die, this by it self did not bother him as much as it probably should, but he had said something before he died. He had told him that John Rider had not been his father. One of John's friends had been. At first he had not believed him, but after thinking it through it made sense.

He sat down on the swing and started swinging at a slow speed. He knew where they where those who followed him, and he hoped they would leave soon. They usually did, they followed him from around 12:00 until 19:00 if he did not lose them and go home earlier. He found it quite odd that they had yet to learn where he lived, when they always found him elsewhere.

He heard something moving by the beginning of the forest and looked over, there where two men there and he knew at once that they where the ones who followed him. Wondered if they where going to approach him and he wondered what he would do if they did. Then he decided that he did not care and swung higher and faster. He felt his mind slip as he lost himself to the rhythm.

******Stalkers POV******

They had been following this kid for a few days already and they could not understand why their boss found him so fascinating. He did not seem like much, just an ordinary kid. He went to school, hung around with one of his friends before he disappeared home they guessed. Their boss had called them and told them to ask the kid a question and they hoped that by meeting the kid they might figure him out. They did not know how wrong they where.

The walked quietly and quickly out from the forest and approached the kid on the swing. He did not seem to notice them as he was sitting there humming as he swung higher and higher. And they found themselves wondering if the kid was quite sane.

"Alex Rider!" one of them called, but the kid did not respond. He just kept swinging and humming, it sounded a lot like London Bridge is falling down. They tried again and again, but the kid did not respond. They even tried touching him, but after nearly breaking a few bones they gave up and they decided to call their boss. They shuddered at the thought; their boss was one you did not want to anger.

"Yes" the voice of their boss slightly accented was silent and deadly through the phone and they both shuddered.

"Boss, we have tried to tell the kid, but he just sits here swinging. We can not get him to respond." They gulped and looked at each other; their boss did not allow failure.

The boss hmmed and after a bit a question broke the silence. "Is he humming? A nursery rhyme?" the uncertainty did not sound right in their boss's voice and they wondered if that meant that the kid was not always like this.

"Yes, boss. He has been sitting here in the rain for an hour swinging and humming." They looked over at the kid, he was still swinging and humming, but now he was staring unblinkingly at them. They both took a step back and gave a startled gasp. In the description their boss had given them the kid had to brown eyes, but now one was crystal blue and the other was chocolate brown. "B boss, we might have the wrong kid."

"What makes you think so?" he asked, his tone was low and dangerous. They gulped again and they saw the kid's eyes dancing insanely in the light of the moon.

"His eyes Boss, they are not the same and he seems insane, he is staring at us Boss. It is quite creepy." They held their breath while they waited.

Then they almost shitted themselves, then their boss was laughing. "Give him the phone" they stared at each other again, but did not question their boss. They seriously doubted he would take it, but they tried anyway.

*********************************Alex POV**********************

The strangers he that he decided to call tweedledee and tweedledum where kind of funny and he loved creeping them out, but he could not help, but wonder who this boss of theirs was. They both seemed quite scared of him and Alex was quite known for his curiosity. Because of this he slowly took the phone they were offering to him, he did not say a word, but silently held it to his ear as he kept staring at tweedledee and tweedledum.

Alex was not sure of what exactly he was expecting when he took the phone, but he was sure that nothing could have prepared him for the voice that gently called into his ear.

"Hello Little Alex, I hear you might have gone insane…"

To be continued….

-Authors note-

This is the first fanfic I have ever written about Alex rider, it is not canon so please bear with me, and please review and tell me what you think….