Family Ties 2: Forever

Chapter 4


Not one of the men he worked with in the Army had known and not one of his mates in the SAS knew either. He'd had forged medical reports to get in the army, more forged medical reports to get into the SAS, saying that he had been shot on a tour, but was 'fully capable of working in stressful and strenuous situations'.

It wasn't like Alex to get nervous, at all. Ever. But that was what Harry saw in front of his, slumped down against a toilet cubicle, a nervous man, fear in his eyes. Harry crouched down so he was beside his team mate. He looked at him, though said nothing, he had a gut feeling Alex wanted to talk and he would allow that. Talking was good. That's what his psychiatrist had always said those several times before.

"Urm..." Alex started. He didn't really want to tell him everything that would take too long. "I don't think you'd believe me." He told Harry.

"I'll believe anything you tell me Al. There are mad things in this world and don't I know it." He chuckled briefly before motioning for Alex to carry on.

"Before all this; the SAS, even the army, I had a job. I worked for the government doing special jobs other people couldn't do because of their age."

"You were a spy?"

"Yeah." He really would believe anything. "I was fourteen."

"****me!" He exclaimed.

"They blackmailed me into doing the missions. A result of one got me shot, the scar on my chest. My real parents were killed when I was very young; I was looked after by my uncle and housekeeper. My uncle worked for them and was killed. It was then that they hired me. I was fifteen when they had my housekeeper killed. I had run off by this time, I'd been told Scorpia had killed her." Alex winced, the pain of the memories being dragged up from rock bottom.

He could feel hot tears running down his cheeks as he picked up Jack's lifeless dead body.

"Help!" He cried. "Somebody help me!"

"Thanks." He said, suddenly, withdrawing from his thoughts. Harry smiled a little and stood up, tapping Alex on the shoulder.

"Any time, Al. Go tell the Colonel about the interrogation." Alex got up from the floor and dusted himself off. Both of them left the bathroom together and made their way over to the Colonel's office.

"Sir, apologies for earlier." He said.

"I hope you're not going to be a liability to this operation Rider." He told him sternly.

"Not at all, Sir." He told him confidently.

"So, Mr Granger."

"Dubravko Brajković, Sir." Alex interrupted and received a glare from the officer.

"What did he tell you?"

"He said that the people he worked for didn't tell him anything about where the nuclear bomb was going to be placed. I am surprised that Scorpia hadn't killed any of them already."

"And what do you know of this Scorpia?" he inquired.

"Sir, they are a very skilled terrorist organisation. Sabotage, Corruption, Intelligence and Assassination. I am unable to give you much information, Sir, but they are powerful. I suggest that we look at all the main political landmarks in London. Downing Street, Houses of Parliament etc." The officer gave him a nod and Alex looked back at Harry who was stood at ease behind him.

"You may go." He said. Both of them left the small office and started to walk back down the corridor the main communications room.

"How do you know so much about Scorpia then?" He asked.

"I've gone up against them, defeated them and been part of them." He stated bluntly. Harry stopped dead on his feet and started at Alex.

"Right…" He said. "Well I'm so listening to you in future." He joked. Alex chuckled and they entered the communications room. There was a general buzz of phones, computers and chatter when they entered. Obviously they had all received the order to search the political landmarks. Screens were showing the different landmarks and their CCTV footage. It was being fast-forward through the past few days to see if any suspicious came up. Anyone looking out of place, anyone looking too in place.


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