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I've been working really hard on this story
I'm gonna start changing it up soon I'm glad you guys liked it

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After the 'zip lining' incident and the surprise during combat training, the day went by smoothly. Finally it was dinner time. This was the meal that the soldiers most anticipated. Due to procedures, they had to have something edible and cheap, tonight it was fish. (I don't know much about fish, but for the sake of the story let's say it's catfish and breacon beacons wants to serve it) There was a variety of green vegetables on the side as well as a nice big glass of milk. This was one of the better meals and Wolf suspected that they were showing off for the new arrival.

When Alex entered the mess hall, he stuck up his nose and sniffed. His eyes widened and his face did something suspiciously similar to a smile.

"Guessing you like fish" Snake was watching the boy keenly. Alex noticed his slip, put on a blank face, and stared at the wall. Snake smiled, the unit got in line for their rations. They were quickly noticed by everyone in the mess hall. Everyone was eyeing Alex with differnt expressions, some looked curious while others looked shocked and some even looked angry.

"Look at that! K-Unit's landed themselves on babysitting duty!" This came from a large man with brown hair. Eagle muttered 'Bear' so Alex assumed that was the man's codename. Wolf, Fox, Eagle and Snake all stiffened, Alex took that as a sign of them not liking tht man. The large man left his table and walked over to the group. He got up close to Alex and smirked down on him, Alex had to fight the need to growl at him, he understood why the others didn't like Bear, he didn't either.

"What do you want Bear?" Demanded Fox. He stood a bit closer to Alex, ready to defend the kid, the others did the same even Wolf.

"I want to know why you have a fucking boy scout following you around." He pushed slightly on Alex's shoulder. Alex heard Eagle growl a bit at that but none of them moved yet. Alex never took his eyes off the man in case he had to defend himself. "What are you doing here little boy? Did mummy and daddy not want you laying around the house?" Alex sent the man a glare and turned back around to the line, the man was egging him on, he wanted Alex to start first, and Alex knew it.

"Come on Bear, that's hardly fair. You don't know his story." Why was Snake being so nice to Cub? Alex looked from the corner of his eye at Snake, despite sounding nice Snake looked ready to throw a punch, Snake was no small man, and you defiantly did not want to get on his bad side. Bear was too dense to see this.

"Well I can damn well guess, and it ain't looking too hot for him." He grabbed Alex's shoulder and spun him around to face him. Eagle stepped foward but Fox stopped him, Alex could defend himself, they've all seen it. Alex started making a small growling noise in the back of his throat and he narrowed his eyes. "What are you going to do? Growl me to death?" Bear was not amused. Alex blinked a couple of times and the growling stopped.

"Shove off Bear" surprising it was wolf who said it. Wolf may not like the kid, but he was still apart of his unit, and no one messes with his unit. Bear let Alex go and sneered at Wolf, Wolf was also someone you don't mess with.

"Whatever Wolf" Bear turned around and headed back to his table, but not before giving the unit a look that said 'this isn't over'.

The rest of the soldiers in the room went back to eating and talking. All tension in the room deflated and K-unit went back on line. The unit received their food, and went to sit down at their reserved table, the only one with five chairs. Alex pushed his chair to the very end of the table and slowly began picking at his food. The others would glance at him every now and then but wouldn't say anything. What he really seemed to enjoy though was the milk and fish. He drank his milk in just a few large gulps, and the fish disappeared just as quickly. He pushed the vegetables around on his plate.

"You not hungry?" Snake had scooted his chair over next to Alex's. He shrugged and went back to moving the green beans around on his plate. "Here" Snake pushed his untouched milk over towards Alex. "I don't like it anyways." Alex gave the man a smile, revealing his dimples, and grabbed the milk.

All too soon, the small bonding moment was over, but Snake made a promise to himself to always give his milk to the young boy.

Dinner was over in a flash, and the units headed back to their cabins for some 'quiet time' before bed. Fox was lying on his bed reading a book about the birds of England, Snake was talking with Wolf about different ways to treat bullet wounds and Eagle was knitting what suspiciously looked like a red sweater. Cub sat on his bed, watching Eagle closely. The ball of yarn at his feet slowly unwinding. Every now and then, the boys eyes would dart down to the ball and then back up to the man's knitting needles.

"May I help you?" Eagle said looking up from his cardigan. Alex shrugged and looked at the ball of yarn again. Eagle laughed quietly. Reaching under the bed, he pulled out another ball of black yarn and tossed it at the boy. "Here ya go"

Alex's eyes went wide, he batted it once cautiously before picking it up and continuously throwing it around. At one point, the ball rolled off the side and under the bed. Alex jumped off and dove under the bed, desperate to be reunited with his play toy. The rest of the unit looked on in awe.

"There has got to be something wrong with that boy" Wolf muttered under his breath. Alex eventually became aware of his unit watching him. He quickly tossed the ball back to Eagle and sat Indian style facing the wall.

Eagle put ball on the bed behind Alex's back, "here, you can keep it. Black's not really my color." Alex refused to move, Eagle smiled at the kid.

Wolf leaned over to Snake once they were back at their bunks.

"You sure the kid ain't mute?" Wolf asked. Fox seemed interested as well, Snake thought for a moment then shrugged.

"No idea" He answered honestly. "It might just be that he's afraid to talk or doesn't trust us, or he's just not talking to annoy us. From what I've noticed it might be both." Fox nodded as he looked aver at Alex who hadn't moved from where he was sitting.

"I didn't know you cared about the kid Wolf," Fox smirked at Wolf. Wolf growled, but there was a slight shade of pink to his cheeks that Snake and Fox both caught.

"I don't give a damn about that brat, I just don't wanna get binned because the brat won't call for help," Wolf reasoned as he stood. "Anyways, lights out!" he called loud enough for both Eagle and Cub to hear. They all got into their bunks except Alex, who still hadn't moved, the ball of yarn unmoved. Wolf sighed and switched off the lights and climbed into his own bunk.

Once the lights were out and the others were settled Alex finally moved from his seat and crawled under the thin cover. He took the ball of yarn and hid his new toy under his pillow, then laid down and fell to sleep.

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Ok I've been on spring break for the past three days and will be going back to school next week
I won't be able to update as often then so I will apologise in advance

I'm happy people are liking the story
the original autor also said that it's coming out awesome so I'm happy

Please keep Reviewing they help keep me on track on the updates
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-Wolfy