Again, I'm so so soooo sorry!

Don't hate me?

Chapter 2:

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This was the first thing Alex heard when he came to. He could take an aducated guess and say that he was no longer in the ally and now in a hospital. Alex slowly stretched his fingers and toes to make sure everything worked. He stifled a groan at his sore body and pushed the pain to the back of his mind. Alex's eyes fluttered open and took in the crisp white ceiling and the antiseptic smell of the room he was in. Slowly sitting up, his chocolate eyes met a pair of ice-blue ones. Alex finally made a sound, as he started coughing. The man with ice-blue eyes and salt-and-pepper hair offered a cup to Alex. He nodded his head in thanks, not trusting his voice, and took the cup. After chugging the water, Alex finally stopped coughing. Then the questions began as the salt-and-pepper haired man started talking.

~X~X~

Gibbs' POV

Gibbs was surprised when the boy woke. He was told it would at least be another day because of the sedatives they gave him during surgery. Plus, the only Gibbs knew the boy was actually awake was from the miniscule change in the EKG*. When the boy started coughing, Gibbs handed him the cup and waited till he was finished to question him, but the teenager got in a question first.

"How long was I out for?"

"A day. We found you in an alley near the dead Marines yesterday morning."

"Damn." The kid frowned.

"What's you're name kid?" He asked the blonde haired and brown-eyed teen.

"What's yours?" Blondie asked.

"I asked you first."

"And I asked you second, what's your point?" The kid smirked.

Gibbs sighed, " NCIS's Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Call me Gibbs."

The kid snorted at his name,"NCIS? What's that stand for?" Gibbs didn't realize the boy was biding his time, trying to figure out if he should tell the truth or not.

"Naval Criminal Investigative Services. Name, now."

"Fine. The name's Alex Daniels."

Alex's POV

Alex decided to lie to the salt-and-pepper man and used Ben's last name instead of Rider. It was the name giving to him on the mission, with Ben acting as his father. Then it hit Alex- the mission! He had completed the mission yesterday night, killing the 2 Scorpia agents that had infiltrated the Marines, but an innocent Marine was caught in the crossfire. He had thought Alex was just a protection-less kid and tried to help him and look where that got him. Dead, just like everyone else he knew who tried to help.

Breaking away from those thoughts, Alex realized he needed to call in and report to the CIA. Fuck. Suddenly, his body was racked with another bout of coughing. His old bullet scar was hurting and his stomach was on fire. Gibbs apparently seemed to notice that and pressed the button for the doctor.

An awkward minute later, a doctor came in.

"Hello..." the doctor trailed off, looking for a name.

"Oh, uh, it's Alex." he told him.

"Well Alex, I'm Dr. John Smith. I'm honestly suprised you're up. We weren't expecting you to be awake for another day..." The Doctor then rambled on about what happened to Cub but he ignored the Doc. Soon Alex became impatient though and cut him off.

"When can I leave?"

Dr. Smith was a bit startled at his abruptness but regained his composure quickly. "In a few hours, I s'pose. Just need you to have a doctor look at the stitches and blah blah blah every now and again once you're discharged."

Gibbs cut in, "We can do that."

The doctor left soon after that. "So, Marine huh?" Gibbs was startled but didn't show it.

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"Well, the posture and body language, but mostly the coffee."

"Lot's of people drink black coffee."

"Not like the Marines do." Alex was actually going off of expirience because after Ja-... she passed, MI6 threw him into so many different government agencies and places like that and the Marines happened to be one of them along with Mossad.

"So, Alex, got any family we can call?" Alex's face darkend for the quickest of nano-seconds before it went back to his normal mask. Even Gibbs didn't catch it.

"My dad- you can call him. Ben Daniels." Alex spewed off the phone number for the phone Ben was given on the mission. Soon, Gibbs left to make a few phone calls and Alex slipped back into troubled sleep.

OKAY OKAY, I'M THE SHITTIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. I'M SOOOOOO SOOOOO SOOOORRRRYYYYY. SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY PLEASE DON'T HURT ME. I ACTUALLY STARTED CRYING WHEN I READ THE REVIEWS CAUSE I REALIZED I WAS- ER, STILL AM- THE WORST PERSON IN THE GALAXY AND AM GOING TO ROT IN HELL OR TARTARUS. I HONEST TO GOD AM JUST MAKING UP THIS STORY AS I GO.

SSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYY

-LOVE,

Ghost