Chapter 3:

"Alex Gregorovich-Rider."

Chatter started up immediately as he said that and Tom looked at him with wide eyes.

"Alex I thought your name was Alex John Rider." Alex bit the inside of his cheek, it had once been his name, but that was not who he was any longer.

"Not now Tom, we will talk later."

The bulky man looked at him, his eyes had also widened slightly and he swallowed. Nervousness had all of a sudden common about him. Alex was not surprised, the name Gregorovich was not lightly spoken of. The man was dangerous and well known.

"I have heard of you, you have caused quiet a lot of commotion and even a lot more problems for other people. Never thought I would see you myself, what an honor." The man said, snarling sarcastically. Indeed Alex was never very popular in this world; the damages he had done where extensive and it had hurt many of the peoples' jobs and even killed some.

"I'm glad I'm popular." Alex said, smiling innocently. The man narrowed his eyes, looking like he wanted to hit Alex. This just caused Alex to raise an eyebrow. "You know who I belong to, yet you would dare to try raise your hand against me." The man deflated slightly but he continued glaring at Alex.

His classmates had all fallen silent watching everything with wide eyes. Alex dreaded the moment that they would start asking questions.

"Alex, what is going on here?" The teacher asked his light eyes wide in confusion and he looked very bothered. Alex couldn't blame him, they were finding out more about Alex then they had known about him in the last two years.

"Later." Was all Alex replied. He watched the man take out a computer tablet, writing on it. He would guess it was this that had also shown the man that Alex was nearby. The identity card that had been placed in his body would be picked up on the detectors the moment Alex was with in twenty meters of them. That is why the check points where often held on ports or airports, where it would be easier to pick up on someone trying to slip by. They could not track the device; if such a thing was wanted it would have to be put in separately. Alex was glad Yassen did not feel the need to track him; it would have made him very uncomfortable.

"Number." Alex rolled his eyes, it should already be up on the screen if he had typed in his name right.

"9151218685." The man nodded, huffing he handed over a phone to Alex. This caused Alex to smile and he couldn't help himself but to tease the man.

"What don't tell me you're too afraid to call him?" The man glared.

"For good reasons also." Alex agreed, calling Yassen always made him nervous. He was not sure how the man would react, he hope it would all go without too much blood shed.

Swallowing Alex dialed the number, putting it up to his ear and a part of him begged the man not to answer.

"Yes." Answered a velvety voice and Alex's eyes fluttered shut, it had been a few weeks since he had heard it and he had missed it so much.

"Yassen." He said his voice sounding small and soft. He did not know what it was about the man that caused such a reaction with in Alex.

"Alex," The man sounded surprised. "What is wrong? Are you okay?" For some reason this made Alex smile slightly.

"I am ok." A few seconds of silence followed. How was Alex supposed to explain to him what he had done?

"What is wrong?" The man asked stressing his words.

"There was a school trip; you weren't back so I decided to leave on it… I'm sorry. I'm at a check point. He won't let me pass cause I don't have your approval to be here." Silence again.

"Yassen…"

"Why did you leave with out asking me? We have talked about this. Maybe I should have them hold you for a few days while I take my time getting to you. You apparently do not want to follow my orders; maybe you need the punishment to realize that you can not continue doing this." The words were cold and Alex felt his eyes sting.

"Please don't. I'm sorry."

"Hand over the phone to the Watcher." Alex felt his face had gone pale, handed the phone with shaky hands to the bulky guy. The man took in Alex's expression and swallowed before bringing the phone up to his ear.

Alex did not listen to the conversation, not that it seemed to matter, Yassen was doing the talking and all the bulky guy could do was swallow nervously and say 'yes sir.' It was a funny sighed, but Alex was nervous, because Yassen would come and he knew he had broken his promise not to go anywhere without letting Yassen know and now Yassen would be angry.

Finally the Watcher hung up stuffing his phone away and looking Alex up and down.

"Mr. Gregorovich, said to allow you to stay in the hotel room, a guard will be posted at your door and you will not leave the room until he gets here. You should be happy to have such a lenient master most would just have you put in the holding room. To bad, we don't get the enjoyment of having the famous Alex Rider there." Alex glared.

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