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Alex and Ben walked towards Smithers office. They knocked but got no response. Knowing that attempting to get in to leave the phone on Smithers desk could probably cause a large explosion or something just as deadly they wisely walked away and headed for the cafe a couple of doors down from the bank.
"I saved your arse on that Snakehead mission!" Ben said finally.
"At which point?" Alex asked curiously as they cued up with their sandwiches and drinks.
"Do you remember that nice cage fight you visited?" Ben asked.
"I could have gotten myself out of their... probably" the last part was said in a whisper.
"What about when you set of the tracking device in your shoe and I came and took you away from being sold piece by piece. I mean you'd have to be blind to think that I didn't save you then!" Ben said with a grin as he handed some money over to the lady at the till. They walked over to a quiet corner that had no people nearby even though due to the time of day the cafe was quite empty. Alex had once told Ben about how they had been planning to take his eyes out first on the island.
"I would have to say that that was one of your worst puns you have ever come up with. You should really stop trying. And as for the rescue mission to get me, you just happened to be the operative that they assigned. They could have sent anyone." Alex said finding a small amount of enjoyment in annoying Ben, almost as much fun as taunting terrorists and criminals.
Ben took a large bite of his tuna, mayo and salad sandwich and then attempted to speak.
"I would sway dat dat was a gweat pum!" Ben attempted. Alex raised an eyebrow and Ben swallowed and repeated, "I said, I would say that that was a great pun"
"What was a great pun?" said a voice behind Alex.
Ian and John brought up two seats to the circular table.
"I'm just insulting Ben's bland sense of humour." Alex said with a shrug as if implying that he did this often and in truth, he did.
"You killed Ash." John said staring straight at Ben. It was a simple plain statement.
"Didn't you listen to the dead SCORPIA agent when he said that my partner killed Ash? Ben is my partner." Alex said as if killing was as simple a conversation as the weather.
"I did." Ben answered ignoring Alex's previous comment.
"Do either of you guys want any breakfast seeing as neither of you have any money?" Alex asked not too keen to sit through a conversation including Ash and his death.
"Yeah sure." said Ian understanding Alex's discomfort and Ian and John gave Alex their requests.
Alex walked off.
"I walked into the room knowing that all inside were my enemy. I saw him lift the gun on me and fire so I fired back." Ben explained.
"Was Alex there?" John said. He guessed that the boy was according to the assassin's words.
"Yes" Ben answered, "I was barely conscious because I had been shot. Alex and Major Yu exchanged a few words and then the man on the floor started to speak. I tried to stay conscious so listened to the conversation. The man explained that he had been the one to plant the bomb. He also explained that he had been working for the enemy the whole mission. Somehow Alex seemed to know this. He said something about how all his gadgets went missing apart from the ones no one knew about and how everything always went wrong and so on. After I heard that he was Alex's godfather I felt guilty. I still do sometimes." Ben admitted.
"Don't," John said bitterly, "the bastard betrayed me and my wife, his country and then my son. I want to kill the bastard!"
"Unfortunately," said Alex coming towards the table with more food, "he's already dead and I don't remember him having a grave to dance on either."
The men took their foods and sat eating in silence until Ben's phone rang. He walked off and muttered quietly into it for a few minutes before rejoining the table.
"Well that was Jones," he explained, "and she just explained the arrangements for the next few weeks or more. She's not sure if there will be more assassination attempts so you can go to a safe house or stay at your house but that is more risky and you will be accompanied by an SAS team and myself."
"I want to stay at the house" Alex said.
"I think, three spies-" Alex glared at the man "four spies and an SAS team can handle any problem, I think the house in Chelsea will be fine." Ian put in. In all truth he wanted to see if the house had changed much.
"The house it is then." John joined in seeing no reason to object.
Alex became very thoughtful for a second and then spoke up.
"Which SAS team?" he asked Ben. Ben started fiddling with his watch strap slightly.
"Well, Jones wanted someone you knew..." Ben started and cringed waiting for a response.
Although Alex knew who Ben was implying he had to check and hope the he was wrong in his assumption.
"Which team?" he said more slowly.
"K unit." Ben said.
Alex let out a sigh and said in his most sarcastic voice, "Oh brilliant."
"Wasn't K unit the team who came into our room? The one who we found out we both knew?" Ian asked.
"Yeah, that one" Alex said annoyed.
"Don't you get on with them well or something? You seemed fine at the hospital." John asked.
"Let's just say we aren't best friends or anything." Alex said sourly.
"Wait how did you know K unit?" Fox asked after missing the earlier explanation.
"I was there when Wolf and Eagle joined and saw their trials and Ian worked with your unit when you were on the team" John explained.
"I thought you seemed slightly familiar." Ben said to Ian.
"Ben was in K unit though, you don't seem to have a problem with him." John said.
"Yes but let's just say that Ben apologised for his... reactions towards me." Alex explained.
"Would you care to elaborate?" John asked.
"Not particularly. Now can we go home, I need a shower" Alex said and then walked off.
"..."
"Don't worry," Ben said, "he's normally like this."
"Would you mind expanding on his... brief explanation?" Ian asked.
"Well, Alex was put into K unit for a fortnight or near enough and, well, we didn't really like the idea much at the time and kind of made that very obvious to him." Ben explained trying to put it in the kindest light possible so he wouldn't get his head bitten off. With that he went after Alex and left the other two to follow.
They had an hour before K unit was supposedly turning up and after a shower both Ian and John sat at the kitchen table to read Alex's file.
'Agent Rider was asked to come into 'the bank' after the death of his uncle and an incident at Striker and Sons' the file started. Ian and John looked at each other questioningly, 'After that he was gently persuaded to join-'
"WHAT?" John shouted out outraged.
'Gently persuaded' the file said.
Ben and Alex ran in both armed with their fire arms up and ready. When they saw there was no threat they lowered their guns.
"Care to explain the outburst?" Alex asked as though he didn't have a gun in his hand or anything of the sort.
"Care to explain what 'gently persuaded' means?" John countered.
Alex walked over to the file and read the line and actually laughed. Ben walked forwards and read the line. He had read Alex's file since they were partners and all but he still found the line amusing.
"You said they blackmailed Alex." Ian said to Ben.
"You didn't tell Jones I was the one who said that did you?" Ben asked.
"Yes..." John answered not sure what was going on.
"Damn, I probably wasn't meant to tell you and all." Ben said.
"Would you care to explain what they're going on about?" Ian said smacking the file with the back of his hand.
"They threatened Jack's visa and the house and money and a crappy boarding school since they were my guardians." Alex explained and then remembered a question that had been bugging him for since Ian died, "Why did you leave me in the hands of the devil by the way? I mean why didn't you make Jack my guardian or something in your will?"
"What do you mean they were your guardians?" Ian asked. John glared at his brother.
"I mean that when I woke up after being drugged and taken to Wales to start training and they discussed my future, why did they say that according to your will you had made 'the bank' my legal guardians. Did you think it was a joke or something, did it amuse you as much as it amused you to train me?" Alex spat.
Ian was taken back at how annoyed Alex looked. Anger was too much emotion for Alex to show so he only showed annoyance but his voice was angry.
"Ok, that is a lie. I put Jack as your guardian and as I explained to Mrs Jones and your dad, I wanted you to protect yourself. As you've seen this life can catch up to you when you're least prepared." Ian explained and Alex gave a small nod of understanding, "Also, if, when I told you what I did, if I told you, I thought that it was possible you might want to join this career and I wanted you to survive out of skill and not luck which might one day run out."
Alex nodded and accepted the answer, "Fair enough." he said and walked off to prepare a room for John in Jack's now spare room and the other spare room for the SAS. Due to space shortage it was possible that Ben would have to sleep on the floor of Alex's room but he had a large room and had no problem with the idea.
John and Ian went back to reading the file and Ben went to help Alex. He knew where everything was and so started on Jack's room. He knew that Alex was never too keen to go in there and when it had been cleared out to give things back to Jack's family Alex had let MI6 do it and stayed in his room.
The doorbell rang just as Ian and John were near the middle of the Point Blanc mission file and Ben had almost finished Jack's room while Alex had just finished the spare room.
At this point Ian and John were even more furious at MI6. What the hell were they thinking about any of this? Honestly.
Everyone dropped what they were doing and walked over to the door. This was a house full of spies, the people upstairs couldn't hear the people downstairs and vice versa so were not aware that the others were planning to get the door. John signalled Ian not knowing that Alex was doing the same with Ben to stay quiet. They met up by the stairs and Alex walked forward to answer the door leaving Ben on the stairs and John by the rails with Ian behind him. Alex had his gun behind his back when he opened the door. He slacked slightly as he opened the door.
"K unit." he said bitterly.