SOOO SORRY! that I haven´t been able to upload for some time but school started and I´ve been busy but here is now the 10th chapter!

Chapter 10

Day 15 and a new round of ignored homework thanks to yesterdays change of event. Alex had now even more to catch up to. Suffocating a sigh, Alex sat down in the grass in the same place he sat yesterday. Wolf hadn´t said who was going to 'help' him that day and even if he had liked it, Alex hoped that it wouldn´t be Ben. The hickey that he had on his collarbone had been seen by Tom who had given him one of his weird smiles but said nothing. Alex got the tugging feeling in his stomach that Tom knew more than he let people know.

"CUUUBB! What´s with the sour face, well don´t worry moa and Lynx here will make it better." Did God hate him that much? Now if not earlier he would never get his homework done, in time. Alex could almost see the angry faces of the teachers when he told them that he hadn´t done it. If it continued like this, he would be thrown out from the school and then there would be no one to stop MI6 from making him go on longer and more dangerous missions than now. Jack would be sent back to USA and then there would be no one, well Tom but…

"The answer to that is, you´re my problem," snapped Alex. The words had barely left his mouth when he wished he hadn´t said them. K-Unit had been much nicer to him than he ever could have thought and thanks to Eagle and Lynx, his classmates' hadn´t had enough energy to pick on him. He was lucky that Eagle didn´t take many things seriously. With Lynx, he couldn´t say, but he seemed to be a relatively nice person who didn´t get angry easily.

If Alex just had wanted to maim the two men a bit earlier that day, it was not even half as bad of what he wanted to do now. It took all of his will power not to kill them or anything else that had to do with them getting hurt, very badly. Alex was just on his way to do something that he knew he wouldn´t regret but it wouldn´t make the situation better, when he saw Snake coming their way giving his two team members a disapproving look.

"You have a phone call in the Sergeants office. By the looks of it, I don´t think there will be much homework done for you so…" Doing some weird hand gesture Snake turned around, starting to walk back to where he came from. Alex picked up his things and headed for the Sergeants office, the only one that called him was MI6 so he wasn´t in a very high spirit when he entered the building. Muttering Alex didn´t even knock on the door before he stepped in, facing a slightly angry Sergeant.

"Couldn´t you have been a bit faster? Here, Blunt is on the phone." Sitting down in his big chair the Sergeant let his gaze wander over the boy that stood in front of him. Looking not too pleased with the other man, not that the Sergeant could blame the boy. Even he got angry by the man´s cool and very annoying manner.

"NO, what would anyone think if I just suddenly disappeared, are you nuts?" Pulled back from his thought´s with the sudden outburst, the Sergeant looked wearily at Alex, who looked like he could kill someone. Which was a good sign that you should stop whatever you were doing to piss him off, because yes, the Sergeant knew what Alex was capable of doing. Not only did he know about all the missions that had been completed but even of the SCORPIA training, even if the latter had been quite hard to squeeze out of Blunt. He waited until Alex had put the phone down before he spoke, it was better that the phone was out of range before Alex could even think of do something with it, like throw it at the wall.

"What did he want?"

"I´ll be going on the mission two days from now." Sighing Alex took the chair on front of the Sergeant. "Only problem is, my class will suspect something weird is going on."

Alex wasn´t sure for how long they had been brainstorming, in the end they had to go with their first idea. Fake hurt, oh how the word made Alex annoyed. Now if not before people would think he was weird and a klutz. Then again, it was his only chance to get away without any weird rumors or things happening. The problem was just, how was he going to fake it, the Sergeant had promised that he would talk with some of the Unit´s that kept an eye on the school kids so that they knew what to expect. Taking out his books (again) trying to do some studying (try is the keyword), Alex found himself unable to concentrate. There was just too much running around in his head and it distracted him, especially as yesterdays little episode kept on playing in his head.

"Alex, you look like a tomato." Almost falling over when he was disturbed in his thoughts by a soft breath in his ear and a pair of arms sneaking themselves around his waist.

"Ben, what are you doing here? Shouldn´t you, be with the rest of K-Unit?"

"Alex haven´t you yet learned, you´re a part of the Unit so technically I´m with my Unit, even there´s only the two of us." Alex didn´t need to see the man´s face to see the satisfied smirk on the older man's lips. Sometimes you really could wonder how the man fit into MI6 and SAS; he was happy and cheerful but not so much that it became annoying, (cough Eagle & Lynx cough).

Turning Alex let his lips brush over Ben´s, but what started as innocent turned fast into a heated kiss. With Alex pinned to the ground and Ben on top, much like the day before. Not that they got too far in the process before they heard a choked, 'O MY FUCKING GOD, CUB; FOX?' Breaking apart, they saw a baffled Eagle and a stone looking Snake not too far away. Staring at them with big eyes, Alex didn´t know where from the weird thought came from but suddenly Alex was happy that it was only Snake, Eagle, and not someone else, which could have ended badly.

"Why hello, Eagle, Snake what are you doing here?" Scowling it seemed as if Snake had gotten back his voice.

"Could ask the same of you Fox," Snake asked. "You do understand that this could cost you your job don´t you?" How he hadn´t seen the signs, Snake wasn´t happy and he knew that if the Sergeant found out or Wolf it wouldn´t end happily.

"Do you have a problem with this?" Ben looked weirdly at Snake while he gestured at himself and Alex. Snake was baffled; then again, it probably looked a bit like it in Fox´s eyes. Not that he had a problem, for god´s sake, he was fucking Eagle after all.

"Of course he doesn´t or else he wouldn´t be fucking Eagle." The muttering coming from Alex was so low that a trained ear even would have a problem hearing but Ben had always had sharp ears. It took a few minutes for the words to sink in but when they did, Ben had a hard time not showing his shock. He had know the two other men for a long time and never had anything they did pointed that they would be sleeping together and how Alex knew it was even a bigger mystery. Okay maybe not that big as, Alex seemed to get into the weirdest of situations, it wouldn´t take Ben by surprise if it was that Alex had walked in on them much like they had done earlier.

"Okay I´m not even going to ask how you know that Alex, but we are totally forgetting why you two came and interrupted."

"Well the kiddies ending their study session and just so that you know Wolf is pissed to the bone, that D something guy pissed him of pretty well. Not that he got away with it and now has to run the assault course twice the time everyone will do it." Eagle looked mighty happy about it. Alex too felt how he had to restrain himself from letting a small smirk show, it was totally right what Dean got. He had made Alex life a living hell since he had started on going on missions for MI6. So why should he care? In addition, two more rounds were nothing compared to what real soldiers had to on regular basis.

Never had he laughed more, the more he thought about it the funnier it got. He wasn´t the only one either, the way Snake described what Dean had tried to do, the more pathetic view Alex got of Dean. Trying to make wolf angry is not something you strive for to do, and then almost pissing your pants (in Snake´s opinion) in fear of what Wolf was going to do, well you could say that Dean would never do it again.

Back at the mess hall stood Wolf and Lynx with D-Unit. None of the men looked pleased and the student´s weren´t doing homework but talking crap and gossiping about what Alex was doing. The only one that wasn´t interested in their conversations were Tom who actually was trying to do homework. Because of the fact that he wasn´t trying to piss them off he had gotten the chance to sit inside of the mess hall while doing homework, so that he wouldn´t be annoyed by his classmates. On the other hand, that was what Lynx told the others, but in reality, Tom and Lynx were talking and joking trying to 'outsmart' the other one. Not very clever, but there wasn´t much else to do.

"Did we miss something?" The way Ben smiled wickedly at Wolf made the other man scowl shooting Snake and Eagle dirty glares. The two men didn´t take it seriously, even if Wolf looked angry and probably were but they both knew that he wouldn´t hurt them in any way as long they belonged to the same unit.

"No you didn´t but next time don´t take so long." The gruff response was still enough for them to shut up. Turning to Alex Wolf, gave him an annoyed glare. "The Sergeant has been very kind to tell me that you are going on a mission in two days and are suppose to 'get hurt enough to be sent to a real hospital'." The way he let, the words roll off his tongue, in a vain attempt not to sound irritated Alex knew that he wasn´t very happy with it. Feeling a bit angry Alex bit back a snarky remark, it wasn´t as if it was his fault that Blunt suddenly wanted him to go on that god forsaken mission to the Amazon earlier than expected. Not an experience he would want, all the problems he would find there… the mere thought made him shudder in disgust. The thought of the hospital stay afterwards was probably the worst. At least there would be no language barriers as he spoke more than just a few languages fluently like, German, French, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Irish, Polish, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Greek, Italian and some random African dialect.

Completely ignoring Wolf´s statement, he looked around, not seeing Tom anywhere.

"Where´s Tom?"

"He´s inside, trying to do his homework." The way Lynx put the words made Alex raise his eyebrow. Tom never did his homework, especially not if someone wasn´t there watching him. And the chance of him starting now, was just too much for Alex.

Inside the mess hall, Alex found Tom juggling with three potatoes while he stood on one leg on the chair. Looking like he had the time of his life, while the chef was watching with a small smile on his face, taking the small antics, with a good portion of humor.

"When you stop juggling would you be a dear, and not put the potatoes back from where you took them Tom. God knows what there has fallen on the floor." Throwing them in the trashcan Tom jumped of the chair, grinning at his best mate.

"Don´t be such a bore Al, live a bit." Winking Tom walked past Alex and out almost being hit by a flying chemistry book that Hanna had so graciously thrown in a small fit of rage. Now sporting, two extra runs on the assault course, with Dean as her only company.

---

Coming back from the mess hall, after they had eaten their evening meal, Alex told Tom about his mission. Happy that his best mate didn´t get angry or anything, to be left alone with angry soldiers and annoying lazy childish school kids was not exactly popular. Turning the whole thing into a joke telling Alex that he should get a tan now when he had the chance, it wasn´t everyday you got to see the Amazon.

The only problem left was now how he would get an injury, bad enough to get way from there but still not hurt himself.

Life sucked if you were Alex Rider at the moment.

REVIEWS!! Please...?