Or Alex experiencing a well-known phrase understood a lot more literally than it's a norm. Written for Spyfest 2019 week 4

It started with Alex Rider's disappearance. It continued when unassuming SAS soldier, Lynx, surfaced. It ended with a mission and the downfall of an espionage empire. (AWOL rewrite)

Walking into a trap was even worse than being bait, but Alex did it anyway. AKA the one in which Alex and Yassen have a lot of unresolved issues. For SpyFest 2019, Week Three.

Written for Spyfest 2019 Week 3. Prompt: "Alex's best punchline to a villain." Let's be real, Blunt is the actual villain in the series. Why wouldn't Alex eventually have a line for him? Also: mild spoilers for "Alex in Afghanistan" if you haven't read it. You can understand the story w/o it, though.

There are differences in the way different people react to a speech. Or Alex giving a very needed piece of advice. Written for Spyfest 2019, week 3.

Alex gives Ben a small talk on life. For SpyFest 2019 Week 3.

"If I've ever delivered a 'cool pre-arse-kicking one-liner' to any sort of 'villain' I've ever 'faced down' in a 'battle for the fate of the world itself', it's not springing to mind at the moment." (For Spyfest 2019, Week 3)

(Spyfest 2019) Alex Rider, in a mission gone wrong, gets shot nine times through the lung, heart, organs- and falls to the ground dead. Then, seven months later. He comes back. Or: The story where Yassen Gregorovich, reluctantly, saves the world.

Written for Spyfest 2019 week two. Prompt: "There's one secret everyone takes to the grave." Set in The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Pongnosis. This is a slight AU set in the time Alex is recovering from his bruised ribs at Malagosto. Alan Blunt retired early, but it was cut short.

Alone in the dark is like an invitation for your deepest fears to come and play. Written for Spyfest 2019, Week 2

This is the very first lesson Alex teaches Ben: spies don't have secrets. They can't. For SpyFest Revival, Week Two.

Yassen never told anyone how he felt about the Riders. But his actions speak volumes about his feelings. For SpyFest 2019 Week 2.

"You're a handsome boy, aren't you Alex?" Mr Blunt asked him enquingly. Alex blinked slowly. Though he wasn't entirely sure what he had been expecting, this certainly wasn't it. He didn't say anything. "We have a problem Alex. One which we think you may be rather good at solving." Alex is sent to infiltrate an underage prostitution organisation.

Alex feels like he's falling apart with the weight of too many secrets. He goes to Yassen for help. For SpyFest 2019, Week Two.

Here's a fact to start off with: Alex Rider should be dead. (for Spyfest 2019, Week 2)

Alex is unintentionally reminded of an event from his past that he realizes Ben can never know about - at least, not the details. Written for SpyFest 2019 week two.

Everyone has different coping mechanisms for dealing with the weight of classified information and horrific experiences, both common things in their line of work. One day, Alex learns how the SAS soldiers are taught to cope and finds a bittersweet surprise. One-shot. Written for Week 2 of SpyFest 2019.

When we kill someone, we kill a little piece of ourselves too. It's a shame nobody told Alex that something comes to fill up that space. For SpyFest 2019

No one has ever asked the sergeant of Brecon Beacons exactly how he names his soldiers. For SpyFest Revival, Week One.

On a medically leave, Wolf expected nothing out of the ordinary; however, Wolf would be shocked to learn of what would happen on a boring, normal hunting trip. Or not so normal. He could never had imagined of meeting his namesake up close. But he did. And he has something to say to one disrespectful "hunter." WRITTEN FOR SPYFEST 2019

It was said that the name you got upon your arrival to SAS selection was never purely coincidental. Or the three times K-Unit interacted with their animal namesakes. Written for Spyfest 2019 Week One

Summary: Written for Spyfest 2019 Week 1. Prompt: "A SAS soldier meets the animal he was named after." In other words, Eagle meets a golden eagle. No slash. No romance. Just a man and an eagle.

Ben never thought he'd be the type to take home strays, but if there was one thing Alex was good at, it was proving people wrong. For Spyfest 2019, week one.

She pulled out her pen and flicked through the pages, marking the changes that she felt necessary. It wasn't until the final page that she paused and returned to the beginning. Looked at the SCORPIA representative, examined the datasheet carefully, and picked up the phone... [1K ONESHOT]

James' Christmas Gala was the highlight of the fashionable types in his particular part of the world. The rich, the famous, the successful. The beautiful, the sexy, the gorgeous. Also Alex, when he could make it. [1K ONESHOT]