"Wha, who, whe…" Lily stuttered at them and they just stared back at her. She stopped and took a deep breath; she got a chance to look around at them all. On the far right was a rather large man with dark skin, he wore a leather jacket that she guessed must've meant he was boiling in it and large sunglasses. When he smiled at her hungrily he revealed gold teeth, to his left was the complete opposite of him; a small, skinny, pale man with a few scratches above his left eye.

"Hello Lily," the man that took a step forwards was one that looked as though he wasn't Mediterranean like the other two, he looked like an English man completely at odds with the Spanish heat. His blonde hair was plastered to his forehead from sweat. His suit seemed uncomfortable as he tried to walk to her, she took a step back. "I-"

"Where's my daughter?" Lily talked over him. He smiled at her and gestured to the man next to him, the one Lily had not been paying attention to. He looked oddly familiar, with brown hair and bright brown eyes, he was English too, Lily could tell straight away. She looked to him and he looked down; Eva was hidden by a sofa; holding onto his hand, she looked happy enough.

"Lily, as you-"

"Give her to me," Lily said, paying no attention to him, he moved forwards and hit her face with the back of his hand, she stumbled backwards but made no noise. Just held a hand to her cheek and looked at him with angered eyes.

"Don't interrupt me, it pisses me off," he said to her and looked down at Eva who had begun struggling against his underling's hand when she saw him hit Lily and was beginning to shout to go to her mother. "Are you both so alike?" He moved to Eva, "didn't you see what happened to your mum after she interrupted me?" He said quietly and knelt down beside the girl, she stuck out her tongue at him.

"Eva, Párelo y sea todavía." Lily said quickly; stop it and be still. Eva immediately put her tongue back in her mouth and stood still, knowing that her mother was serious when she spoke in Spanish to her. The man turned back to her and smiled.

"You really don't remember me?" He said to Lily who again took in the blonde hair and hazel eyes, she shrugged.

"I used to work with your husband," Lily noticed that he clenched his fist, "til he got me deported that is." He smiled at her and held out a hand which she did not take, "Brad Amnias." He winked at her.

"Hello," Brent said in a sing-song voice that everyone had become too used to be annoyed by it. There was a murmured greeting that went through out the group. Alpha Force were sat in their usual places they took in their "canteen" it was an underground bunker, a naked light bulb hung low from the ceiling, it's light illuminated half of their faces. Cigarette smoke swirled through out the room, killing the sweet perfume that lingered on the girl's skin. "Put that out Paulo," there was shared laughter.

"It's not me," Paulo said and nodded to Alex who moved forwards, out of the shadows and pressed the cigarette against the table to put it out. Brent was surprised by this but didn't show it, he merely smiled in thanks to Alex who nodded.

"Alright," Brent said and slammed his briefcase on the table in the usual dramatic way he did. He took a gadget from his pocket and pressed a button, Alpha sat up straighter as they heard the door lock. "So you can't escape," he winked at Li who smiled; obviously such a charming man meant no harm. "Who wants to play a game?" Alpha could sense this was a test and so leant in a little. Brent took out an empty green bottle and placed it in the middle, he spun it and it landed on Li. She smiled in a shy but welcoming way that meant them grin, only Alex looked slightly concerned by this. "Oops," Brent turned the bottle, "that was meant to land," he stopped at Alex, "here." Now the entire group was sure something was wrong. "Truth or dare Alex?" Brent said and Alex grinned in a sly way.

"Dare." Everyone laughed at the off hand way Alex talked; that way they remembered whenever they used to play this game.

"I dare you to tell them," he pointed at the group, "the truth about what you did to Brad Amnias." There was a deadly silence. The group looked to Alex who was staring at Brent as though trying to work him out. "Well?" Alex shook his head in a way that showed it was nothing big.

"It's illegal to discuss work outside the office." He shrugged and sat back as though it didn't bother him but everyone could see from the way he looked at Brent that something was seriously wrong. Brent nodded consolingly.

"You need persuading?" He said in an almost babyish voice. He turned around and turned the TV on that was on a table, after adjusting the channel everyone peered around Brent's frame and recognised the place and person immediately.

"Is that…?" Li said, hardly daring to believe the turn of events.

"What've you done?" Alex said and stood up; he kicked his chair away from him and the sound of metal crashing onto the floor made the group jump. "What've you done?!" Alex moved faster than anyone anticipated until he had Brent pinned against the wall by his neck.

"Alex!" Hex and Paulo shouted and ran forwards to prevent him from harming Brent.

"What the fuck have you done?!" He shouted again and it took both Hex and Paulo to restrain him. He gained some satisfaction in seeing the fear in Brent's eyes.

"Alex." Li whispered and he turned around to the screen. Paulo and hex dropped his arms and he hung is head as though he'd already killed Brent. "They've got Eva." Li said fearfully and surprisingly Alex turned calmly to Brent.

"You're pretty stupid," he said scathingly to the man who was straightening his tie and rubbing the back of his neck. "Locking yourself in a room with me-"

"He's not that stupid." Alex stopped as he heard a voice he'd hoped he'd never hear again. He turned back to the screen and was silently praying that it wasn't true but he saw, stood in front of Lily who was tied to a chair and gagged was his old colleague, Brad Amnias.

"Brian Adams," Hex said suddenly, everyone turned to him and he looked shocked, "it's an anagram of Brad Amnias." Everyone took a moment but as Alex realized such a simple trick he soon became angry again.

"So I guess that makes you the stupid one this time Alex!" Amnias laughed for a long, long time until he was out of breath and each laugh sounded painful. "Tell them then," the man on the screen took out a knife and put it to Lily's neck, everyone was surprised to see Lily made no attempts to move away, in fact they could swear she was smiling slightly from behind the white cloth hiding her mouth. "Tell them how you screwed me over!" He shouted at the screen and as he did a small figure beside Lily that was sat on the floor curled up to her leg at the sound of his screams.

"Eva," Amber whispered after a minute of silence as they guessed who the small figure belonged to. They all turned to Alex who really had no choice but to tell them.

"Let me speak with Lily," he said to Amnias who, for some bizarre reason, acted as though he were entertained by the situation and couldn't wait to see what Alex had to say to her.

"What's one more lie eh?" He said happily to Alex before removing the gag from around Lily. As he did this in a slightly eccentric manner, the others guessed he must have a fragile or already broken mind. Lily took a deep breath for air as the cloth was removed, Amnias took it from her and smelt it with a look on his face as though- "I can taste her lips practically," he said happily and it took all of Alex's self control not to say anything back.

"Lily?" Alex said quietly and she looked at him, still they could see she was smiling. "Why...why're you smiling? Don't say I told you so or any other rubbish because this is seri-"

"I'm smiling because if my two year old daughter, who is tied up and bound by the way at my feet, sees that I'm upset and out of control, she'll be in an even worse condition than she is now." She said the entire sentence in one breath.

"That's worse than I told you so," Alex said jokily and he and Lily laughed for a moment, but he could see as she looked at the screen that her eyes glassed over. "Lily be strong-"

"I am," she closed her eyes and took a breath, "I am." She wasn't, she'd never been so scared in her life; she'd had a gun pointed at her before but nothing compared to this: being handled by this madman. "Well," she tried to think of something to say but nothing came to her.

"Are you and Eva OK?" Alex said, also making small talk. She smiled.

"Well I've sort of been through this before, this is Eva's first time waiting to be rescued and I think she's coping-" There was a muffled shout from Eva as the child finally paid attention to the screen. Alex reached out to her and felt his had hit the heated glass of the TV screen.

"I'm so sorry." He said and Lily shrugged.

"There's no point thinking about what we should've done when we should be focusing on what we could do." Alex nodded.

"I love you." His voice became quieter and for a moment Lily did not respond.

"I know." Was all she could say.

"Awww!" Amnias shouted and walked back into view, "that's so sweet." He smiled and Eva and Lily, "but I'm afraid it's also the end of your conversation." He bound lily again and she stared at the screen ahead of her although no one could tell if she was paying attention to what she was seeing. After the man was done with her he picked Eva up and the girl immediately began to try to wriggle free but he did not let go of her.

"Let her go or I swear-"

"You'd swear Alex?" Amnias put on a look of exaggerated distress, "oh anything but that please." He laughed and Alpha could hear others laughing in the background. "Really?" He asked, "Emmet's blue eyed boy would swear at me if i hurt his little girl?" He turned Eva to face him and the sound of her muffled screaming made Amber put a hand to her ears; wanting to hear no more. "But daddy won't come running!" He said in a babyish voice, "no,no,no. He didn't come for me or his best friend and he won't come for you either!" He laughed at her.

"Jesus, Brad," Alex whispered in a horrified tone that made Alpha terrified; they'd never heard Alex sound scared, "what happened to you?"

"Me?!" Amnias laughed again, "tell them." He indicated to the people around Alex, "or your whore of a wife gets this," he held up the knife, "in her gut. And that wouldn't be too nice," he said to Eva.

"When Brad and I were working with MI5," Alpha turned to Alex who'd hung is head in shame and it took them a moment to realise he had begun the story, "there were three of us; Brad," he indicated the the TV screen and Amnias waved at them, "me and a guy called Scott. I trained with him often when i was with the SAS; he worked in the field and me and Brad were in the offices. We did all our missions together and they both became my best friends in and out of work." Alex sighed and thought of how to go on. "One day...one mission, we had to," he chose his words carefully, "get rid off a foreign agency; a number of linked spies. Anyway, that was my twelfth mission as head of Special Ops and I got arrogant-

"Arrogant," Amnias shouted at the screen with a laugh, "like his fucking shit's made of gold." He said quietly.

"Yeah," Alex nodded and no one was sure if he was actually listening to Amnias, "that bloody big headed." He sat down in the chair nearest to him and rubbed his eyes. "It was on that mission that everything that could've gone wrong, went wrong. It doesn't matter exactly what happened but both Brad and Scott were in the field that day and when the time came the foreign agents gave me a choice; hand over our agents already captured by you and we won't kill Scott or Brad." Alex sighed as he relived those moments, some of the most painful he had ever had to endure. "In the end I ordered the execution of Scott...like i pulled the trigger. And Brad, they didn't kill him-"

"They took me home," he said and they all looked back to the screen, "treated me like something they found on the bottom of their shoe, like a child they never wanted, like a bloody animal!" He screamed, "and when i came back oh Alex what did you say when you saw i lost my mind?" He put a hand to his ear to listen to Alex's reply.

"I told them Brad ordered it-"

"HE TOLD THEM I ORDERED IT!" The man's voice broke, "the bloody cheek; after all I did for you!" He shouted at Alex.

"Like what?" Alex said, suddenly angry and Brad did that thing when someone tries to think of something cool to say but can think of nothing and stares at you with their mouth open, he gestured to Lily.

"Like, not fucking your wife." He said as though it were obivous.

"That's a favor?" Paulo asked and Amnias snickered.

"I think we're all missing the point!" He said loudly, "Alex, the good, moral, handsome, clever, soldier that everyone thought he was, was no more!" He sounded like a magician and Li smiled in confusion at him. "He blamed me, and the crazy one got deported. While he stayed on, an inquiry was launched!" He said dramatically, "but no...they could find nothing on their favorite because guess what?" He paused for effect, "there was no said mission; it was never meant to happen, Alex orchestrated it all himself." The man sighed, "well now you know what a dick your friend is," he addressed Alpha and again there was silence for a good few minutes.

"What do you want Brad?" Alex said, "give me my daughter and wife-"

"oh, oh, oh!" He pointed an accusing finger at Alex, "you know what i want; compensation!" He smiled at them, "you're all going to steal something for me." He waited for a moment, "what, no gasps? No outcries? Fine, whatever." He finished lamely, "but I'll tell you more about that later; there are other secrets to unveil!" Alex looked up as he said this but the man grimaced, "don't think you're so special Alex, I'm talking about the others in your group. And judging by the looks on your faces I'm guessing you've all kept the juicy stuff to yourselves?" He nodded knowledgeably. "OH I KNOW!" He shouted excitedly and put Eva on the floor, "I'll tell you a secret first and then you tell me one!" He said and ran to the screen. "You wanna know how I found you all again? Not really a secret. Sorry Li, by the way, making you find them all, just wanted to watch you suffer." He smiled at her, "no, no, not a secret but a surprise!" He said and looked around in a weird sense of paranoia, "I used this guy!" He beckoned someone forwards and the brown haired, pale boy walked into view, "I didn't have to bribe this one; came of his own free will!" He said and the boy, who was younger than Alpha, glanced quickly at the screen.

"You son of a bitch." Hex whispered and they all looked at him and them back to the boy he was staring at; a vague sense of familiarity came to them. Amnias shook his head.

"Don't talk to him like that," the blond haired man ruffled the boys hair, "or at least don't talk about your mother like that Hex."

I have no idea where the last part came from, just thought "hey- lets throw someone else's family into the mix!"...It's Hex's little brother for those of you who are still wondering.

There was SO much bad language in this chapter...as well as Amnias being a crazed freak...dunno why i wrote him like that...he reminds me of another character from somewhere- can't say who though, don't remember!

Anyway, please review if you like where this is going!