I am ssssssooooooooooooooo sorry!! I know this took me forever to update. I had noooo time to work on this except when i stole a couple minutes. I am soooo sorry! This chapter had me in complete writers block too, so i might not be as good as my other ones, you tell me! review if ya want!

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Two weeks passed. Every morning as Alex left his room, he saw her there across the hall. She was leaning against the wall, arms crossed over her chest and a smirk across her face. Alex would scowl at her and shake his head. She would push herself off the wall, still smirking and walk out the doors. Finally after two weeks Alex could put it off no longer. He was almost completely healed. He sighed and went to the door. There she stood, leaning against the wall same smirk, same crossed arms.

"FINE!" Alex shouted at Raina. Her smirk just got wider as she once again pushed herself off the wall. She unfolded her arms and skipped to the door. It was all Alex could do to keep from bursting into hysterical laughter.

"You coming spy-boy?" She asked playfully. Alex just nodded, not trusting himself to open his mouth. When Alex arrived at the door Raina was still waiting for him with her hand on the door.

"But, Raina,"

"Yes?"

"I think the skipping would make people a little suspicious." Alex pushed past her and out the door laughing quietly to himself; Raina was at his side instantly. Her smile turned to her more familiar scowl. Alex couldn't help chuckling to himself; this earned him a death glare from Raina and light punch in the arm.

They arrived at the field and started training; today they were working on strategy and finding a way when there appeared to be none. They worked the usual amount of time then the class headed of to breakfast, Alex stayed behind. Am I really desperate enough to try this far fetched idea? Just as he thought it he answered that yes he was; he had been here for a month and a half, which was long enough. It was time to leave.

Alex sighed he didn't want to be beaten again, but that was the key part. Alex shuffled back to his room and lay down on his bed making sure to keep an eye on the clock. Time passed slowly, Alex used the time to think.

I wonder if Jack is ok, I sure she's worried sick about me! This is all MI6's fault if they had just let me be in the first place then I would be home!

Oh yes Alex? Would you be home? No because how many times have you stopped people from killing school kids, just, like, you!

Oh shut up! Every time he tried to think that annoying little voice named "Reason" was never far behind. Alex had no idea how long he had been thinking he looked at the little clock on his bedside table, he was already ten minutes late for the afternoon session. It would have to do. Alex stood up and left the room, he headed to the field where his class was waiting for him.

"About time, spy-boy," Raina said so only he could hear, "I thought I was gonna have to call in a search party." Alex rolled his eyes, he could not figure out what this girl wanted from him. First she said "break the rules" and now she was telling him he had done broken the rules too well. Alex began teaching, it wouldn't be long now.

"Okay listen up! Today we'll be working with tactical thinking. Now listen carefully, no matter how hopeless a situation seems there is always a way out. You just have to open your mind to the possibilities, all of them, no matter how far fetched they might seem. You need to keep in mind that-"

"Excuse me Alex I was wondering if I could have a quick word with you?" Alex turned and looked into Dr. Veritas' almost perfect façade.

"Of course, Raina, take control, you know what to do." Raina scowled, but nodded and turned back to the class. Her façade was better than Dr. Veritas', Alex turned and followed Veritas. While they were walking Alex saw something in the bushes near the water, a glint of red but as soon as he had seen it disappeared. Veritas rounded a corner and walked into the space between two buildings. Only then did it occur to Alex that they were alone, Veritas had probably reprimanded the men for massing in one motion, Veritas stopped and turned to face Alex.

"Alex, Alex, Alex I simply do not understand you. You have just healed from your last punishment and then you break the rules again! Do you not learn from your mistakes? Do you enjoy pain? What is it that makes you so determined to cause yourself agony? Is it pride? Your natural instinct to rebel?" Alex said nothing as he looked straight into the man's eyes. The man looked back and for a second was silent, lost in the strange boy before him. For a moment neither man nor boy spoke finally Alex took his chance.

"Why do I keep breaking the rules? Might I remind you I never asked to be brought here I was kidnapped by a mad man and sold in an auction like a slave. I came here drugged and only submitted to your demands under torture and threat of death. I was fitted with an ankle bracelet that sends volts of electricity through me like a dog. I am forced to comply with your every wish. Well Dr. Veritas, I am not a slave, just a victim to adults like you who want to run and or ruin my life. I have seen more than most old men will ever see, I have been captured and put to gun point too many times to count. So here is my question to you Veritas, why do you get such pleasure in torturing a fourteen year old prisoner who has no hope, no way to escape and no friends? What happened to you as a child to make you enjoy torturing school kids?" Veritas' face had been slowly turning purple the whole time, with Alex's final words he finally snapped and lunged at Alex. This time Alex was ready, He jumped aside and let Veritas hit the ground hard, Veritas was winded but got to his feet again instantly.

Veritas stared at Alex and they began to circle each other, the black eyes met the brown. Veritas lunged again trying to land a blow on Alex; Alex blocked it and pounded out a series of punches all were blocked by Veritas, when Alex momentarily stopped Veritas took his chance and attacked again.

"So you're actually going to fight me yourself instead of using a dumb remote!" Alex taunted, Veritas stopped suddenly and looked at Alex like a thought had hit him like a ten thousand pound whale.

"Well since you mentioned it," Veritas said with a smirk that made Alex freeze where he stood. Veritas reached into his pocket and pulled out the remote. Breathing hard Veritas brandished the remote in Alex's face.

"It's quite a shame actually, Alex you could have been of so much use to us. Instead you chose to show your pride, and now you will die. Goodbye Alex Rider." Alex stared defiantly at Veritas. It was finally happening, after all those close shaves and brushes; Death had finally had enough and was going to take him now.

Suddenly a blur of black and white came from nowhere and tackled Veritas. When Alex looked again Raina was standing above a prone Veritas with a gun pointed in his face. Alex walked over to Raina to thank her but never got a word out.

"You stupid idiot!" She slapped him across the face with the hand that wasn't holding the gun.

"Ow!"

"Why didn't you stick to the plan?! WE COULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF HERE BY NOW!! BUT NOOOO YOU JUST HAD TO GET ALL REBELIOUS ON ME ON THE LAST DAY OF YOUR CAPTIVITY!! YOU COMPLETE ASS HOLE!!" Raina slapped him again when she was finished ranting.

"Okay, Okay! I made a mistake!"

"Yes you did so now we have to leave now instead of tomorrow. Because if I leave him alive he'll tell everyone what's going on and if I kill him people will wonder where he went! We have to leave now!"

"I know! You think I wasn't prepared with a backup plan all this time? I've been prepared to leave for a week but I couldn't figure out how to get the chain off."

"Well I found out how to do that yesterday!" Her eyes turned back to Veritas, who had risen to a kneeling position, and she cocked the weapon.

"Where is the key?"

"Wha-" Raina hit him with the butt of the pistol.

"Where is the key?"

"What key?" He was hit again with Raina's pistol.

"The key to Alex's anklet!"

"There is no key!" Alex felt his heart sink at those words, Raina hit Veritas again. The man now had a cut above his left eye.

"I'm going to ask one more time," Raina said dangerously slow. Her pistol now rested between Veritas' eyes, an inch off his flesh. "Where is the key?"

"You really think we were stupid enough to make a key for that bracelet? No! The only way to remove that tag is if 'the key' voluntarily gives it to you!"

"Well what is it?" Veritas said nothing, but he glared at Raina. Raina was unmoved and glared back before hitting him again.

"What is it?" Again Veritas said nothing and was rewarded by another blow. "WHAT IS IT VERITAS, I HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY AND I HAVE NO PATIENCE FOR YOU!!" To prove her point Raina readied the gun to fire.

"Alright! Alright." Veritas said sounding broken.

What a coward. Scorpia would be ashamed of this if they knew. Their men are supposed to be hard to break but that was surprisingly easy. Alex thought as he surveyed the broken man in front of him. Veritas gave a small hopeless chuckle.

"You're going to shoot me whether I tell you or not." Raina narrowed her eyes and brought the tip to rest on Veritas' forehead. "You have ten seconds before I pull this trigger." Veritas looked down at the ground.

"Blood."

"Excuse me?"

"Blood, the key is blood."

"Whose blood?"

"Mine."

"Thank you." Raina lowered the gun slightly and pulled the trigger. The single shot reverberated through Alex's mind a hundred times. The seconds seemed to pass like hours. Veritas looked down at the blood spreading across his chest like a river then back at Raina. Finally his dying gaze landed on Alex and he smirked; feebly he reached down to the ground and picked up the remote. Alex was so frozen he didn't comprehend what was going to happen.

For the last time Veritas pushed the button, Alex again writhed on the ground in torment. An evil smile spread across the face of the dying man, the boy suffering was his last sight. When he could hold it at bay no longer death took him and he toppled, dropping the remote. The Electricity coursing through Alex stopped immediately; Alex sat up and looked at the dead man. For the entire time Alex had known him he had been nothing but evil, and evil he had died.

Well there it is. Ilook foward to seeing what you thought of it. review if ya want!

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