Title: wistful with a tinge of hope
Author: the littlest dreamer
Warning: Contains human!Yassen. Dialogues are from the books.
Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider at all. No copyright infringement intended.
I decided to continue and do a chapter 2 because this is fun~
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When he next sees the boy, a Grach is held to his head, the boy's finger on the trigger. Perhaps, he muses, he shouldn't have been so amused when the boy declared his ambition.
For a moment, with absolute certainty, he feels that the boy will pull the trigger. Hunter's eyes, staring at him through the boy's, are icy and ruthless. But then the moment passes and he knows Alex will never wilfully kill. He can't.
And with soft, slick words, he convinces the boy of this.
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"I do not kill children."
Yet, swathed in the traje de luces, the boy looks like one more than ever.
Rigidly, he watches the child stand fearlessly, foolishly in the middle of the bullring, unaware that he is going to die that night. He feels a twinge of anger, flaring hotly.
And then he leaves.
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"MI6 know I'm here. They know all about Eagle Strike."
Observing the boy's conversation with Cray, he realises that while it is his resourcefulness which makes him invaluable to MI6, it is his ability to bluff unflinchingly which saves his life.
"He's lying."
And he has to watch Alex dragged away to a death more horrific than being skewered by a bull.
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He is beginning to lose himself. He knows it. He can feel it.
When he hears the alarm—knowing, with perfect certainty, that Alex has escaped—and smiles, he realises that he is already lost.
"Because he's Alex," he says simply.
End Part I
Even shorter drabbles than the previous bit. Half of Eagle Strike. Next half will be in the next chapter. And after that, I desperately want to keep Yassen alive *_* but we'll see if I actually feel like writing anymore. ^_^
Oh and I changed the tenses of the first chapter, cos it feels nicer this way…I'd really appreciate it if you could review and tell me if this tense sounds fine? Oh and was the ending too fluffy? I tried to stay as close as possible to canon :S