chapter 2

changes

The air was cold and it blew on you like winter wind. Edyn could feel the goose bumps rising on her skin, she crossed her hands over her arms trying to stay warmer than she was. Alex on the other hand was thankful he remembered to bring a jacket, he used to forget all the time and he was miserable, but toasty warm now . He felt bad for Edyn, she was wearing hardly anything, she must be freezing but he was not going to give her his jacket, he didn't care how cold it was.

"Hi, how can I help you"? The lady at the front desk asked looking at Edyn like she had just killed a puppy; she awkwardly looked at her feet trying to avoid the cold stare of the lady. "gosh, everything is cold in here!" she thought to herself .

"Edyn". Alex said before leaning against the counter and studying her; he caught her eyes and held them for a moment until Edyn got uncomfortable.

"Go on up." the lady said bluntly but loudly. They walked to the elevator. Alex was leading. He pressed the button to go up and held it for a moment, something clicked two times then he let go and the doors opened instantly. They stepped in and the doors shut fast behind Edyn, she took a deep breath like she was getting ready to say something but before she could start a white mist sprayed into the air causing her to start coughing uncontrollably. Alex instantly snapped his hand over her mouth and plugged her nose, it took a few seconds but the mist disappeared. Alex took his hand off Edyn's face, and she took a deep breath causing her to start coughing again, she coughed the whole way up; when she finally stopped her eyes were watering and he couldn't see, she stumbled to the office and tripped over the step in the hallway. Mrs. Jones and Mr. Blunt watched from the open door. Alex got an evil smile on his face and quietly snickered.

"You couldn't have told me about the step?" Edyn asked.

"I thought it would be funnier this way." Alex said laughing.

"Oh, well was it?" Edyn asked finally able to see again.

"Yes, it was thank you." Alex smiled.

"Oh it's on!" Edyn challenged.

"Want to go?" Alex asked.

"Yeah, lets go!" Edyn yelled, as they sized each other up. They both got into position ready for a fun sparing competition. Alex grinned at Edyn squeezing his eyes shut and showing as many teeth as possible, causing Edyn to laugh.

"Wait, wait I need a photo of this" she smiled turning Alex towards the camera she saw a few minutes ago, she posed next to him knowing they could get a picture of that sooner or later. "OK, enough fun, lets finish what we started." they got back into position.

"Wait, wait" Mrs. Jones yelled running towards them "We need you kids in perfect condition for camp or its going to be hell for you two" she said pointing at them "now c'mon let's talk" she smiled at Edyn.

"Ha ha, she likes me better" Edyn said grinning at Alex. Alex replied by sticking his tongue at her. "Your such a child." Edyn whispered as they entered the office. Mrs. Jones was already sitting down behind the large desk that once belonged to Mr. blunt who was now standing by the side, he almost looked as if he was going to tip over.

"Have a seat." Mrs. Jones said pointing to the chairs in front of her desk, it was warmer in the office, but Edyn still thought that there should be icicles hanging from the ceiling. The room was bare with one window at the back, obviously reinforced so nothing would get out, you could probably stand with your ear against the window and you would hear nothing. The desk was brown with two manila folders on it, they were both very full of papers and photos and disks. There were many filing cabinets in the room with more folders on other agents and workers none as full as the ones sitting on the desk. The door was closed softly as they walked in, but there was no one there, it must have been automated, the door was most likely just like the window.

"So Edyn, how have you been liking London so far?" Mrs. Jones asked.

"I haven't been anywhere yet, after all I just got in. Although I can tell you that the Chinese food is amazing, better than America." Edyn smiled, she talked way to mature for her age, but then again she was way to mature for her age. They both were.

"Good, I like hearing things we have are better than America's." Mrs. Jones said.

"Anyways, what are we here for?' Alex asked.

"I am sending you two to Brecons Beacons, k unit is going too, so don't worry about that."Mrs. Jones said "when do you start school?"

"Late September." Alex mumbled knowing they will be there for a while.

"Good, you leave next Thursday." Mrs Jones added.

"Yep." Alex said dragging Edyn out the door, not giving her time to say anything else.

"She likes me better than she likes you." Edyn bragged.

"She doesn't like you better, your just really little. Wait till your my age, you'll be just another agent." Alex explained.

"How old are you?" Edyn asked.

"Sixteen." Alex answered.

"I'm not gonna live till I'm sixteen, I'll be lucky if I make it to thirteen." Edyn mumbled.

"Why do you say that?" Alex asked.

"Do you know why I'm here?" Edyn questioned.

"Yes, I think I do" Alex said.

"OK, tell me why I'm here." Edyn said.

"You messed up with the CIA, but you were too good to let you go back to your normal life, so they sent you here." Alex explained.

"Ha ha, not even close, there was an extremely powerful terrorist organization after me, the CIA knew so they hid me away for months, when they thought it died down they let me go, so I went home to find them parked in front of my house, holding a button. They blew up my house with all my family inside, so I ran from the CIA and the terrorists, the CIA found me after two months and they told me they dealt with the terrorists and that they weren't gonna bother me anymore, so they took me back and they were going to send me to live with foster parents. I ran the first chance I got, when they found me that time they were done with me, so they were gonna "get rid of me" MI6 heard about this and took me, and now I'm living with you guys in London." she explained. They had made it to the car and they stood outside just watching each other for a while, waiting for someone to say something, but neither of them knew what to say, it was all too much.

"Well, that's no fun is it." Alex said.

"Most people just say sorry when they hear about that."

"I got sick for saying sorry and people telling me sorry."

"Why would people tell you sorry? You're life is perfect."

"Kay." Alex mumbled hoping for the subject to change.

"Thanks, for not making a big deal out of it." Edyn said climbing into the car. Alex said nothing he just nodded and climbed in himself. No one said anything the whole way home, Alex was beginning to think just the car rides were awkward, he was not looking forward to the drive to Brecons Beacons it was going to be a long quiet drive, k unit would probably go down the day before like they normally do, Alex sighed a sound that everyone was used to in the house.

"What?" Wolf asked looking in a mirror to see Alex sitting in the back seat looking uncomfortable squished between Fox and Eagle; all three of them were sharing two seats so Edyn could have her own. It would only be like this till Edyn was comfortable with everyone, then they all would be fighting each other for more room.

"Nothing."

"You don't look comfortable." Wolf mocked.

"Oh really? cuz I'm super comfy, ya know squished between two grown men, both trying to see who can squish me more, they probably put money on it." Alex was cut off.

"I want in" Edyn said.

"how much you gonna bet?" eagle asked.

"Lets see" Edyn said pulling her wallet out" I got 450, but its American money"

"That's fine, we can exchange it at the bank." snake said.

"Which bank?" Alex asked.

"Well I bet that the Royal and General Bank is also a real bank, there is always people in there" Fox added.

"How much do you have?" Wolf asked.

"I don't know, all the money my parents had, but I don't know how much that is. They never told me and its all at a bank back in America." Edyn explained.

"I think you can have it transferred to a bank here." Snake said.

'Well I will have to do that sometime" she finished as they pulled up to the driveway and all piled out of the car and raced to the house. It had started sprinkling, but looking at the clouds it was gonna be a stormy night. Alex shivered not looking forwad to the storm, they had always messed him up, since Cornwall; it was raining alot harder than before once Wolf finally got the door unlocked. Alex had to unlock to door once or twice, he shook his head rembering how hard it was with four grown men pushing him and each other all trying to get in first; he still doesn't know why they all want to get in first, maybe its a game or something. It was almost pouring once he got inside and settled down, it was going to be a long night of movies and warm milk. He looked around and saw Edyn looking just as horrid as he imagined he looked. He heard the first clap of thunder and the first flash of lightning, he watched as Edyn flinched he looked around the room to find all four men looking at her not even trying to hide it.

"C'mon Edyn" Alex said, standing up motioning for her to follow, "lets get you unpacked." She climbed off the big chair she was curled up on "hold on" Alex said kindly as he quickly got a glass of milk and put it in the bottle warmer he found while cleaning out the attic for some extra money a few months back. It was better than the microwave, it worked twice as fast and he didn't have to worry about the milk being too hot. He put some microwavable popcorn in the microwave knowing he could heat two glasses of water in the same time it took to cook one bag of popcorn.

"You are very manly" Edyn said sarcastically seeing the warm milk and the bottle warmer.

"You know what" Alex said grinning at her "I think" he said as he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder "You need to be spun"

"Put me down" she giggled "Oh lord!" she laughed burring her face into Alex's shirt, he stopped spinning her right when the microwave went off she stumbled up the stairs to her new room. Alec collected the milk and popcorn as quickly as he could; he had both glasses of milk in one of his hands and the bag of popcorn in the other, he opened her door with his elbow.

"Change of plans" Alex said "get in something comfy, we are gonna watch movies." Alex ran to his room and slipped on his favorite red plaid pajama bottoms, he just left his white t-shirt, "it was clean so why change it?" he thought. He headed down stairs almost forgetting the milk and popcorn, when he got down there, Edyn was sitting and chatting with wolf.

"Where's the rest of k unit?" Alex asked.

"They all went home, its too late for them to stay and just "hang", but I am pretty sure they are lying, being only 20:00" Wolf said as Alex went to put in the first movie, they got through Goodfellas, The Untouchables and the Godfather, falling asleep during Mafia. Alex jolted awake in a startle, he looked at the clock 04:02 he sighed it was four in the morning, he looked around and Edyn was asleep at the other end of the couch, Wolf was gone, he must have gone to bed. Alex walked over to Edyn scooping her up in his arms, she didn't wake up and try to kill him which he was half supervised half relieved about. He carried her up to her room and set her on her bed he couldn't find a blanket so he just left her, too tired to look harder. He stumbled into his room and pulled his shirt off before collapsing onto his bed.

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Hey guys, so chapter one got great feedback! Sorry it took me so long to add this chapter, I didn't really have anything to type on, but I fixed it so I will most likely start updating more, probably not as much as I would like but i have school finals coming up so I will be really busy with that but I will update as soon as possible. Also, this story has like no plot, at all. So I am open to any suggestions you might have just PM me. thanks, third chapter will be up soon.(: