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My family is my choice chapter 4

The Trip

Dan's POV

The next morning 4:15

Quick AN in this chapter code names are used Poseidon - Dan two characters of mine are Athena - Nicky and Ares - James

I'd cried myself to sleep last night. It'd felt odd crying, after not doing it for six years.

Waking up to my alarm, I was still propped up against my bed, knowing I had two options; one, to get up to go to training and school, no awkward questions asked, but I risk injuring myself further. On the other hand I could play hooky and get James to send a letter into school pretending to be Richard saying I'm ill, but then he'd expect me to help them with mission like I did last time, therefore leading to unwanted questions.

Choosing to get on I slowly got up, immediately I felt light headed so I quickly sat down. I tried counting to three silently and then standing up, this worked, then I shuffled over to the wardrobe, grabbed my training clothes and went for a shower. I got dressed, skipped breakfast and started the long walk to the gym where me and my training mates trained.

As I walked up the street there was a boy or should I say man: he was about 7ft, his muscular arms crossed over his chest, he was wearing big black combat boots, black ripped jeans and a black leather jacket with studs on the shoulders. His brown hair was spiked up at odd angles with random blood red streaks in it, he had three piercings in his right ear, one on his eyebrow and two just above his upper lip. When he turned to face me his dark brown eyes studied me, before lighting up as a smile appeared on his stoney face. He was wearing the same clothes as me except I had a black hoodie on and light green, streaks in my hair instead.

I was still a few paces from in when a small girl about 5.5ft appeared next to him. She was wearing long black leather boots, black ripped leggings, a black jacket that clung close to her slim figure. Her night black hair was in some sort of messy bun, punk style with light blue streaks running through it, her make up was done so it was natural except a little bit of extra eyeliner was used to make her grey eyes stand out.

As I approached them she motioned to her watch and said slightly amused "Well, well Poseidon (Dan) 15 minuets late. You've never been late before. Is everything ok?" I just grunted in response as I pushed past them and entered the training centre. Of course though I saw the worried look Athena gave to Ares from the corner of my eye, but I choose to ignore it. It is not there job to look after me. But a voice in the back of my head says 'they have been like your family for years though' I choose to ignore it. For now. It was Monday so my other training mates wouldn't be here so it would be just the three of us plus Chiron our trainer.

Slowly, I turn to face the two and I tell Ares "Tell Chiron I'm doing the punchbag today, will you." He nodded. On the painful walk over I'd figured it'd be the least strenuous exercise for my stomach and chest. To mention of which I feel like complete and utter crap!

7:15 that morning - Dan's POV

I set off fifteen minutes earlier from training than I usually did so I could have a little more time to get to school. It was a slow and painful walk to school and my stomach felt like a war was going on inside of it when I finally got to school. Being about ten to fifteen minutes early, there were only a couple other people in the school yard.

Frank happened to be one, he was on the other side of the yard picking up litter. I wandered over to him.

Frank's POV

I was picking up rubbish in the school yard when Dan came over. Now he generally arrived at this time, nothing unusual about it; he looked different though, I just couldn't place my finger on it. His honey blonde hair was styled it's same way, he had his usual look on which consisted of: moody teenager, untrusting, cynicalness and invincibility all rolled into one. No it was something else, I just didn't know what.

"Heya Frank." Dan said.

"Hi Dan everything ok?" I asked. It was a long shot, I knew Dan wasn't like the other three who tell me when even the slightest thing is wrong. No, Dan just kept it inside, to himself. I guess though when you spend four years in a care home after your mother couldn't handle you, you tend to become a bit... reserved, should I say.

Dan hesitated for less than a split second before saying "Yeah, I'm fine how about you?"

"I'm fine thank you. How was your weekend?"

"Errrrrrr good me, Tom, Zoe and Aneisha went to see Skyfall." Dan said. I smiled at this trust four real teenage spies to be the first to see a spy film! Dan's facial expression slipped slightly, but he quickly plastered it back on. Just then Zoe arrived.

"Hey Zo." Dan said wrapping his arm around her shoulders with a soppy grin on his face. I raised an eyebrow a this, something had obviously happened over the weekend which I missed.

"Hello Zoe." I said.

"Hi Frank and Dan." Zoe beamed and kissed Dan's cheek. The two of them started to talk happily away in their own little world. Dan stood there looking lovingly at Zoe, like she was the only thing that kept him going. I had known Dan since he was ten days old, me and his farther had been best friends growing up. But then there was that incident. The mission ten years ago, the one involving the death of my team including, Hyperia Von Hades, that team also contained Dan's dad. After that Dan's mother couldn't cope with Dan and his little brother Darren and unintentionally had mistreated Dan so when she realised she heartbrokenly put Dan into care while her and Darren moved away. Dan was he was moved to a new care home when he was 12 and then sent to his foster family at the age of 14. In all this time I kept my distance, but still monitored and I have never seen anybody make Dan's day like Zoe.

Aneisha's POV

I watched Tom approach Dan, Zoe and Frank all his attention on his DS, rather than where he was going. Surely enough, he tripped other his own two feet, before going into Zoe who fell back, but Dan managed to catch her. I could've sworn I saw Dan's face scrunch up in pain for a few seconds before he grinned sheepishly. He then said something to the others and stalked off. I walked over to the trio and decided that first I would interrogate Zoe again on what it was like to have her first boyfriend not to mention her first, then I would move onto Dan to do the same, but also try to get anything out of him that he might be hiding from us.

No one's POV

Dan went straight to his locker. It was hurting him to breathe now. Zoe had managed to get her elbow right into his injured ribs. He so badly wanted to go somewhere and curl up in a ball, but that would be weak and that is something Daniel Morgan was NOT. So he must continue.

Dan looked at his timetable until lunch.

Registration

English - BORING BEYOND BELIEF, WOULD RATHER EAT EYEBALLS AND SLUGS

French - WHO NEEDS IT GOT GOOGLE TRANSLATE ON MY PHONE FOR A REASON

Break - YAY ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT SCHOOL, IF I DIDNT HAVE IT I WOULD KEEL OVER AND DIE!

Maths - THERE IS A REASON WE HAVE TOM!

Music - THIRD BEST LESSON AFTER BREAK AND SPORT!

Dan sighed he had written those next to all the lessons on his timetable depending on what the subject was when he was bored in a study period once. Boy, was it going to be a long morning.

With the others

No one's POV

Aneisha was bombarding Zoe with questions, again; Tom was playing on his DS as per usual. They walked into registration to find Dan slumped in his seat with Melissa hassling him. Tom managed to walk into two desks as they made their way over to save Dan.

Dan looked up to see his friends walking towards him. He half felt relieved that Melissa would be fended off, but half scared of what questions they might ask. Aneisha went and sat on the desk opposite, however Zoe sat on Dan's desk while Tom sat heavily down his chair completely engrossed in his game. Dan smiled up to Zoe through his fringe, as he slipped his hand into hers, Aneisha had was talking to Kelly another girl in their class, Zoe smiled down at him. For the first time that day she noticed something was very wrong with him.

Some people wore their hearts on their sleeves, but no matter what Dan wore his in his brilliant blue eyes, that were starting at her now. They were full of pain, distress and even a glimmer of fear.

"Everything alright?" She asked him gently rubbing the back of bigger hands with her thumb. He just nodded in response avoiding her eye contact slightly. Zoe didn't have to be a spy to know he was lying, she just wanted him to tell her what was wrong.

"Are you sure? You don't look right." She persisted. In truth Dan had bags under his eye, was paler than usual, had a cut a above his left eye and he seemed to be trying hard not to move.

"Yeah I'm fine, Zo." Dan sighed a hint of annoyance in his voice as he traced invisible patterns onto the backs of her hands. Not wanting to start an argument Zoe just started to talk to him normally, it was a very one sided conversation with Dan's limited replies which were mostly nods or grunts.

The classroom was utter chaos when Roly charged in, almost sending a desk flying, and shouted "Mr McNab is coming!". There was aloud noise of chairs scraping against the floor as teens dived for their seats, none of them wanting to be in Mr McNab's Monday morning raft. Personally Tom would rather go on a field mission into the heart of a KORPS base itself!

Mr McNab marched in a few seconds later, everyone jumped to their seats. This made the room spin horribly for Dan and his stomach lurch, so he was more than thankful when the Scotsman bellowed "SIT!" Once registration was over Mr McNab left so they were left to wait for their English teacher.

Once again the class erupted in to chaos as soon as the formidable teacher was out of earshot. Zoe turned back to Dan, but he was staring out of the window into a distance land, more secure than any secret prison. Mr Flatly was the classes English teacher surprisingly though when he came in he started handing out forms for a school trip.

"Right, class today's homework is to write an essay about your family! But first I am going to talk to you about the school trip. We are going on a school trip on Friday to Wales. As it will takes around us five to six hours to get there with a we shall be leaving at seven o'clock this Friday evening as to avoid traffic, plus the hotel can't take us till then and then coming back next Wednesday. You must have the permission slip to the office signed by your parents by tomorrow night. Won't this be exciting!" Mr Flatly enthused almost skipping around the classroom giving out forms. The four spies in the class instantly knew it was an MI9 trip; as first it was free, secondly it was a decent hotel. "Oh and three of my past students are coming to help out! Their names are Carrie Stewart, Oscar Cole and Rose Gupta! I'm sure they will make this trip even more fun!" Mr Flatly practically shouted. That was the third reason the spies knew it was an MI9 trip as they were Frank's old team and the forth reason was that their pencil communicators had just started flashing. While Mr Flatly went to find an English book so he could actually start the lesson the four teen spies slipped out of the classroom. Unnoticed of course. Ran down the corridor and went down in the high speed lift to their secret underground base under the sleepy school. Frank, Stella and three more people were there waiting for them.

"Ah team," Frank began "I take it you heard about the trip to Wales?" The four spies nodded "well MI9 had a tip off that the building opposite to where your staying is being used as a weapon store and weapon factory by SKAPULA and some of the weapons are even being stored in the hotel you'll be staying at which has recently gone under new management of an x-KORPS officer." Frank explained.

"To assist you the head of MI9 has enlisted the help of Agent Oscar Cole," Stella took over pointing to a tall pale blond boy who nodded back to the teens "Agent Carrie Stewart" she said pointing to a dark skinned girl with short brown hair and a big smile " and also agent Rose Gupta." She said pointing to another girl with long straight black hair and a warm smile. "However the head has also insisted that you have the help of department MI28. You are to meet the agents from their at 18 00 hours. We will be meeting them at a secret bar for agents set up by MI personal." Stella concluded.

"Wow I didn't know there was a department 28!" Tom, Oscar, Carrie, Rose, Zoe and Aneisha exclaimed. Dan just grinned smugly. He was MI28's fonder and leader, not that he'd tell the others, it was classified information that he was Zeus. But then again he was also Poseidon and Hades so yeah. Frank Stella knew he was a member, but didn't think he was very high in the rankings. He figured though he might as well tell the others he was a member of MI28, but not his rank yet.

"Who are they sending?" Dan asked, even though he was the leader he wasn't told about missions like this to prevent the possibility of a leak and just left Nicky and James to deal with it because A, they had more time and B, they had more experience than him.

Stella replied "Poseidon, Athena and Ares. Do you know them?" Everyone else in the room bar Frank shot Dan a questioning look.

"I didn't know they'd send people so high up! I mean Athena and Ares are Zeus' favourites!" Dan exclaimed, he didn't have to pretend to be surprised because he actually was. How could Nicky and James send him on a mission without telling him!

"Question." Tom began "Dan how do you know so much about them?"

"Follow up question." Oscars butted in "what is with the code names I mean who calls themselves Zeus or Poseidon?!"

Dan tried not to snap at this, he had just turned thirteen and a half when he started MI28 or back then they were known as the WARONES, but instead he answered calmly.

"I know so much about them because I am an agent for them and have been since I was thirteen and the code names are the departments as well as the code names of the leaders. So I am in the Zeus, Poseidon and Hades department." Dan explained with a ghost of a smile, he want going to mention he was the leader of the three.

He will let them figure that out when he kidnaps them.