I apologize, its been a while, whoops! Hope this chapter makes up for it :) I'll update sooner though cause its the holidays! Woo! Anyway enjoy the DOM feels (if you follow me on insta then you'll get this joke :) )

Tom - Part 4

As Tom was desperately fighting for its life, Dan, Keri and Aneisha were running down one of the many streets it had taken them to get to the KORPS base when suddenly Aneisha stopped letting out a cry.

"Neish?!" Dan cried turning to face the girl who was doubled over. The moment they'd stopped, Keri had half collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily.

"I'm sorry Dan... I..." Aneisha said buckling to the ground. Dan looked on helplessly, running to guide Aneisha to the wall next to Keri. They both looked shattered, pale and shaking. He was such an idiot. They'd just been fighting non stop for at least ten minutes to have a thirty second break and then he'd made them run again. Of course they were going to be drained...

Keri saw Dan's face drift from the road and back to them.

"We're fine here... I got it covered," Keri smiled slightly.

"But Tom..." Aneisha said trying to get up, but not managing it.

"No Aneisha you can't. Neither can I, Dan go... You have to be there for him," Keri finished as Aneisha slumped back down, too tired to argue. Dan tried to think of something to say a word of thanks maybe but words escaped him and instead he just ran. Over bins and through railing he skipped most of the main roads in an attempt to get back to school quicker. Never had he wanted to see that building more but as he neared the school gates he noticed the MI9 ambulance...

Tom...

Immediately he spotted Frank, using the last of his own energy spurred on by worry to reach him. His mentor looked up at him from biting his nail nervously.

"Keri? Aneisha?" he asked almost straight away as Dan shook his head putting his thumb up in the air.

"They're ok. The KORPS agents gave them a nasty time but Aneisha has the rock and it's safe. Tom?" he asked without waiting for a reply.

"I don't know..." Frank replied. "It's... I mean... It was so out of the blue... I did what I could..." he stuttered, evidently upset and shaken up by the dilemma. Dan didn't know what to think but he'd noticed that something was up. If only he'd said.

"He wasn't feeling well I should have said something, he wasn't paying attention in class and he didn't have any lunch either..." Dan spurred, the words coming out in a long babble.

"I know," Frank replied, shutting him up for a moment. "He came down to HQ and fell asleep... I should have never put him on the mission,"

"It's not your fault Frank," Dan said finally slowing down and sitting on the kerb where the ambulance had been, ringing his hands through his hair. A moment later Keri and Aneisha sprinted towards them, looking tired and hurt but worry the only emotion written across their faces.

"Frank! Dan! What happened?" Aneisha asked as soon as she drew near. She looked paler than before but not completely worn out like she had been previously.

"Is something wrong?" Keri asked worriedly as she slowed, noticing the looks on her team mates faces.

"Tom's been taken to hospital. They don't know what's wrong..." Dan started to explain.

"Can we go and see him?" Aneisha asked quickly.

"Yeah we need to be there for him!" Keri cried.

"Frank?" Dan asked as their mentor turned to them.

"MI9 ambulances have limited space and I needed to make sure you got back safely which is why I'm still here but MI9 have agreed that someone needs to go with him," Frank explained.

"How many people?" Dan asked already knowing the answer.

"One," Frank replied.

"Which will be you right?" Aneisha asked as Frank nodded.

"What about us?" Keri put in.

"You will have to go back to school," Frank replied noticing the looks of shock and annoyance on the young spies faces. "I know, but you have to keep up a cover. No one knows what's happened and in the best interest of national security and Tom, it's best to keep quite. Just for now,"

"Why?" Keri asked.

"Because," Frank started looking up at the girl and then at the rest of the team. "We don't know what's wrong..."

"And the weird space rock that we had to steal from KORPS?" Dan interjected, not letting what Frank had just said sink in yet.

"Put it in one of the safes back at HQ," Frank instructed becoming more in control once more. A black car was came round the corner as the spies moved out of the way. Frank and the others recognized it instantly as MI9.

"Phone us, as soon as you know anything," Aneisha asked, Keri agreeing as Frank nodded.

"And Frank?" Dan asked as he turned again. "Say I'm sorry..." he finished as Frank looked confused for a moment, eventually getting into the car which swiftly drove off as the door was closed.

"Dan? Sorry for what?" Aneisha asked, placing her hand on her best friends shoulder.

"When he- Just before he went... y'know... I snapped at him," Dan started an unprecedented wave of guilt washing over him. "I thought he was just messing even when Frank came on and... I don't know... It's just I feel like it might have been-"

"Dan this was not your fault, no way!" Aneisha cried as he looked up at the girls. Keri smiled at him.

"Come on," she said quietly. "Let's go,"

So with Aneisha and Keri putting their arms over Dan shoulders the three walked quietly back into the school, trying to avoid Mrs King at all costs. They managed to luckily dodge her and reach the caretakers cupboard with ease.

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Down at the base Dans eyes immediately went over to Tom's desk as Aneisha went to put the rock in the safe.

"What's the big deal with this thing anyway?" Keri asked, holding up the grey looking object.

"Well according to the reading it's got some of the elements for a weapon of mass destruction..." Aneisha said grimly, stopping Keri from throwing it up in the air again.

"It doesn't look like one though..." she said thoughtfully as it was locked away.

"It's called a disguise," Dan half snapped half told the other girl as they stepped foreword to Tom's side of the base. The chair was twisted to the right, the keys still with the sweaty fingerprints left on them. Franks notes on the door code were strewn about the room. Keri started to pick them up, Aneisha help her after a while. "What are you doing?" Dan asked.

"Tiding," Keri said, pointing around them to the mess that surrounded the trio.

"Frank would want everything to be nice by the time he gets back," Aneisha pointed out.

"So would Tom, he's always OCD about his desk," Keri smiled, remembering how Tom would always shoo them off his computers. Dan smiled back at her.

"Ok," he agreed, brushing the day old biscuit crumbs off of the computer keyboard and taking down the mission maps from the screen.

"What order do these files go in?" Keri asked as suddenly a beeping noise was heard from the screen behind them. She stood up and turned round just as Stella's face came up on the monitor.

"Agents I have not had a report for the last three quarters of an hour. What's happening?" Stella's brisk voice came through as she looked quizzically at the three of them. Dan looked at Aneisha grimly. She had no idea.

"We've recover the rock and it's in the security safe..." Aneisha started realising the mission came first and that was the only news Stella really expected to hear.

"Good work agents. When was the rock recovered?" Stella asked, not really noticing that something was wrong.

"About twenty minuets ago?" Keri said looking at Dan for conformation as he nodded.

"Why wasn't I notified as soon as the rock was obtained?" Stella questioned giving one of her death stares, particularly to Keri who pulled a face. "Where is Frank?" she finally asked as Dan sighed. He hated thinking about it, let alone recalling it...

"He's with Tom," Aneisha said noticing Dan looking at the floor. Stella frowned, waiting for her to continue. "They're in hospital..." she finally said, the whole thing seeming to become very real all of a sudden.

"Hospital?" Stella snapped. Aneisha knew she was only using that tone of voice out of worry, mainly for Frank she gathered, but it still stunned her into silence.

"Tom collapsed on the job, it was our fault, we knew he wasn't well but we pushed him- I pushed him," Dan started.

"Dan don't..." Aneisha whispered.

"Do we know what's wrong?" Stella asked her voice softer this time, taking control.

"No, Frank was the only one allowed with him to hospital as well but he promised he'd phone with any news," Keri finished. "Me and Aneisha didn't even get to see him..."

"Dan?" Stella asked, hoping for anything information wise that she act on.

"I didn't really see him..." he admitted shaking his head. "I was on comms with him though... I snapped at him and then it went silent... He was the only one who could figure out how to open the door... I thought he was only slightly ill but then I heard him. He sounded so tired... Like he was weak... I don't know it was horrible..." Dan finished, his eyes fixed on the floor, trying not to show how upset he was getting.

"Agents you're exhausted, go and get some rest, please," Stella said picking up on Dan's body language straight away.

"We can't we're still technically meant to be at school..." Aneisha pointed out.

"It's only last period though, art. Shouldn't be too bad..." Keri said as Dan nodded running his hands backwards through his hair.

"Finish school, go home and get some rest. You won't be assigned any more missions today," Stella ordered quietly, her voice softer than usual. "I will notify you of any change at all, weather it's big, small, good or bad,"

"Thanks," Aneisha said as Keri smiled slightly, Dan giving Stella a nod. Stella smiled back weakly and cut of the communications, returning to her normal brisk exterior and striding down one of the corridors of MI9 to make some phone calls. She was used to having to do this with some of the other agents but Tom was sixteen. Something wasn't right and it was making her sick to the stomach...