This is the longest chapter I've written, thank you for all the reviews and favs!
Disclaimer: I do not own Alex Rider or any other characters affiliated with the series, if I did, I would bring Yassen Gregorovich back to life.
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Alex considered for a moment, and then sighed, "I guess I don't have much of a choice," his voice suddenly developed a steely quality to it, "Just like I never do. Fine, I'll play along, but I can't say that I'll be easy to look after!"
Snake narrowed his eyes and spoke for the first time, "What are you getting at."
Alex smiled mischievously, "I just said that I can sometimes be hard to keep track of."
Mrs. Jones narrowed her eyes when he said this, "Alex," she was speaking in her normal tone again, neutral and all business, the scent of peppermint gently permeating the air around her, "This is serious, one wrong move and you could be in big trouble. If you're planning to fool around, this is not the time!"
"I never said that I was going to fool around," Alex defended himself, "I just said I can be hard to keep track of!"
"Fine, have it your way." Mrs. Jones, sighed, there really was no reason for her to argue about irrelevant things. "Then why don't you head on back home. K-Unit, you will patrol the house in shifts, if anything is to happen, all of you, including Miss Starbright, are to move to a MI6 safe house nearby."
"Got it Mrs. Jones," Fox reassured her, "We won't let anything happen to Cub."
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The group got into a car, provided by MI6, and drove to Alex's house. It was fairly large, and seemed just big enough to fit everybody. When they reached the front door, it flew open. Jack was standing there, a severe look on her face and a worried expression in her eyes. "Oh gods Alex, Blunt just called me and told me about the secu…" She paused when she saw who was with him.
"Hey Jack," Alex wasn't sure how to continue, "Um…yeah…K-Unit, meet my guardian, Jack Starbright, Jack, meet K-Unit. This is Wolf, Fox, Snake, and Eagle."
"So you four are the trained SAS military professionals here to "guard" Alex from one of the worlds top assassins?" Jack looked skeptical, she seriously doubted that this was going to work out and she made no effort to hide her contempt.
"Yes Ja…uh…Miss Starbright, I assure you, Alex will be in perfectly safe hands." Fox snapped.
"Fine," she sighed, "Well come on in and I'll show you where to put your stuff."
She lead the three men up to the two spare rooms upstairs, "I'm sorry, it looks like two of you will have to share a room."
"Actually, we might just use one room." When Jack raised an eyebrow, Wolf hurriedly continued to explain. "In case of an emergency, we need to act fast, close quarters means easier communication."
"Okay, fine with me," then she narrowed her eyes, smirking and added, "But if anything happens to Alex, I will kill you. He's been through a lot this past year and I don't want this to affect him too much, ya hear?"
"Yes Miss Starbright, of course Miss Starbright." Fox kept his composure, even though he didn't really know what Alex had been through, "Don't worry about Alex."
"Dinner will be in half an hour, don't be late." Jack turned to leave and then turned another 180 degrees, "And please call me Jack, Miss Starbright is just too formal." With that, she left.
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Dinner looked delicious; fried potatoes, steak, salad, and freshly baked bread.
"I hope my cooking isn't too bad," Jack was trying to end the uncomfortable silence at the table, "It's a new recipe and I decided to try it out."
"It's great, don't worry about us Mis…Jack," Eagle responded with a full mouth.
"Yeah," Fox added, "You should have seen what they fed us in the army!"
"So," Wolf seemed curious, like everybody else at the table, "Cub…uh…how are you?"
"Fine," Alex mumbled, he wasn't too keen on sharing his personal life with everybody. After his little outburst in Blunt's office, he wasn't too happy he revealed so much.
"You know," Wolf continued, seeming to ignore Alex's sudden glare in his direction, "I don't think I've ever heard you say so much about your life until the meeting, have you finally decided to open up?"
Alex fumed silently, he can get under my skin so much, argh, he smiled innocently "Nope, my little speech back there was completely due to shock and confusion…" Then his face hardened and he became serious, "it won't happen again."
"Why are you so secretive?" Eagle now sounded genuinely curious and Jack was getting the feeling that this conversation wasn't going as planned.
"Um…looks like everybody is done eating," She said purposefully, "Let's clean up."
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Back in K-Unit's temporary room:
"So," Wolf addressed the group, "What are we going to do to find out more about Cub? I think we pushed him too hard today."
"What do you me "find out more"? Why would we need to?" Fox was confused.
"Because," Wolf was getting agitated, was he the only one that actually used their brain around here? "Remember the meeting, Cub said specifically, I can be hard to keep track of. If he gets away and manages to hurt himself, I can only imagine how angry Jones and Blunt would be…and Jack of course."
"So you're saying that we need to know his full capabilities?" Snake said, finally getting the point.
"Yeah, once we know what he can do, we'll know what to expect and if we know what to expect, then we know wha…" Wolf went on with his briefing, but was cut off by Fox.
"Then we know what to do!" Fox was serious though, "How are we going to find out about him, look for a biography on his life or something?"
"Not quite what I had in mind, but close." Wolf was considering, "MI6 would surely have a file of every mission he's been on and they might even have one on family history and his younger years too."
"All we have to do is excess that file then," Eagle was thinking now too, "That shouldn't be too hard."
"What!?" Wolf looked shocked, "Are you just super smart or am I stupid?"
"Well, you have codes to the fil…" Eagle was saying it as if it was obvious.
Wolf relaxed slightly, "I tried that already, the "top secret" files are highly protected."
"Oh, we'll think of something," Snake suggested, "But for now, let's play it safe, we don't want Cub to suspect anything."
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Just outside the bedroom door, a figure moved quietly towards a room at the end of the hall. Too late thought Alex Rider, I've already got a plan.
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I don't really think it's the best, nothing really happened. Although, I think it was necessary to move the plot along. I think I'm finally getting over writer's block, PLEASE say I am. I hope you liked it, if not I'm sorry, I've been really busy lately and I have to cut into homework time to work on this. Reviews are appreciated greatly, actually, on second thought, please review smiles sweetly! If you don't I'll come and haunt you in your sleep glares evilly! (That WAS a joke, please don't take it offensively!)
