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I don't own any of Alex Rider. I own the laptop that I am typing on but otherwise my parents own the house and everything else so, laptop, you are my only real possession... actually, they brought that too and Anthony Horowitz owns Alex Rider and all the characters. This is a non profit based story.
K unit stood at the door that Alex was currently blocking with Wolf at the front. Alex slacked his arm holding the gun so that it wasn't hidden behind his back and then put it in his trouser waste band.
"I hear we get to baby sit you." Wolf said bitterly.
"And I have to endure you for god knows how long." Alex replied in the same bitter tone.
"Right," Ben cut in, "can we try and get along this time?"
After a long glare they both answered.
"Fine." they chorused.
Ian and John just stood blank faced wondering what was going on.
"Why don't you come in?" Ian said finally.
Alex stepped out of the way to let them in but he didn't lose his glare on Wolf. Wolf led the way in followed by the rest of K unit. The corridor was very crowded by the time they were all in. Each man was carrying a large duffle bag either slung over their shoulder or carried by their sides.
"Alex, take the men up to their rooms and let them settle in." John ordered. Alex gave a small nod and started wedging his way along the wall to get past the SAS men towards the stair case. Ben stepped out of the way to let them pass.
"I haven't finished in Jack's room." Ben called up after Alex.
"I'll do it." Alex cried back down. He led the way up to the spare room and left the men, without a word he headed for Jack's room. He stopped outside the door. It was a silly little thing, he had this feeling of dread as he tried to walk into the room as if something was keeping him from going in. Slowly he walked in and assessed the changes Ben had made to the bedding and the changes that the last group of people had made when they cleared the room.
Back downstairs the three spies felt the release of tension.
"I know you mentioned that they didn't get on, but that seemed a bit excessive." John said.
"Yeah," said Ben rubbing the back of his neck, "they don't like each other much. We weren't too friendly with Alex when we first met. He was a 14 year old at a training camp for the elite. We worked hard to get there and then he just jumped in. It made us kind of upset."
Ben knew he was dulling down the situation largely but he didn't want to admit that he and K unit had been bulling the boy, especially to two spies who could kill him with the slightest movement of their pinkies.
"You said similar to that at the cafe," Ian said getting slightly annoyed, "please expand!"
"Fine," Ben sighed giving in, "we mainly just ignored him and left him be, but Wolf went out of his way to try and get Alex binned. We thought he was some rich man's son who wanted to give the boy a taste of the real world or something. None of us considered a different view. Wolf met him in Point Blanc and I'm not sure his view changed and I met him on the Snakehead mission and apologised."
"And has he forgiven any of you?" John asked before he let his anger out on the wrong person.
"If you hadn't guessed, I seem to have forgiven Ben. As for the others, not so much." said Alex as he walked down the stairs. None of them jumped, but Ben turned to face the teen.
"Will you stop doing that? Honestly, do you enjoy creeping up on me like that?" Ben asked.
"Does it annoy you?" Alex asked innocently.
"Incredibly!" Ben exclaimed.
"Then no, it's too much fun." said Alex with a blank face.
Ben growled and went upstairs to go check on the other men before he headed out and grab some essential things so he could stay at Alex's.
John turned and walked past Ian to go continue reading the file.
"Hey Alex," Ian said with a smirk growing on his face, "want to go see if you've improved in fighting?"
"What do you mean? Do you want to see that I can finally whoop your arse?" Alex replied, returning the smirk.
"You seem so positive you're going to beat me." Ian said in a hurt mocking voice, "Let's put that to the test. I bet a tenner you couldn't beat me!"
"You're on." Alex replied with a small grin.
With that, they both headed to the living room and started moving the furniture to a safe distance. Alex shut the shutters at the window so that no one would peer in during the fight and think it was anything serious. Once they were both satisfied with the cleared area they stood opposite each other and were ready to fight.
Both waited for the other to advance. Ian decided to get the fight going so lunged forward throwing a false punch at Alex's head and then using the other arm to punch Alex's stomach, Alex blocked both and used his leg to try and trip up Ian.
As the fight continued both people found it hard to lay a proper hit on the other by dodging and blocking. The fight continued for about 10 minutes. Each step was silent apart from the odd loud step causing only a slight thump on the carpeted floor, not enough to stir the interest of the men upstairs. John, however, had heard one of the thumps and walked to the sitting room door to see them fighting. He watched curiously from the door stop, watching each and every move. minutest few minutes he moved back to start the third mission report.
Alex landed the final blow by using a SCORPIA strike tactic to get Ian on the floor. Both were panting heavily after the fight, Ian more so than Alex. The fact that he had stayed fighting for 10 minutes was a miracle. His muscles were still a bit weak but not too bad, he had only been frozen for just under two years.
Alex sat down and got his breathing under control.
Ian started laughing and Alex joined in.
"Bloody hell," Ian said finally, "been back five minutes and already owing you a tenner. If I bet against you again I'll be bankrupt before the end of the week!"
Alex just laughed. If felt good to laugh.
"Do you remember that time when you were teaching me to be stealthy?" Alex said already laughing more at the memory, "and I wanted to see if I could sneak up on you and so hid behind the sofa, and when you came in I jumped at you. But you side stepped and I fell through mid air?"
Ian laughed harder.
"No, the best one was when I was teaching you to abseil and you tried to do an impression of Superman when I had loosened your rope slightly and you came smashing down. You went unconscious and then woke up shouting that you were Batman!" Ian laughed again and Alex laughed as well.
"I can't even remember why I change into imagining I was Batman! And anyway, I was like eight." Alex said with a laugh.
"I think you hit your head pretty. Also, you went on about something like how skill full and planned your landing was or something." Ian said laughing harder.
The soldiers and Ben headed downstairs to check out the commotion and saw Alex and Ian rolling on the sitting room floor with all the furniture tucked away. John also came to see why there was so much laughter.
Ben looked incredibly surprised that Alex was actually showing so much emotion. He just walked away shaking his head and went to go and get his stuff from his house.
After a few moments Alex and Ian acknowledged the soldiers standing in the door way staring at them. Alex dropped all emotion from his face.
"Anything funny enough to share?" John said speaking up.
"Just remembering fun times." Ian said with a grin. Although Alex seemed hard on the exterior, he was still Alex on the interior, just buried deep down.