Snake entered the ward and was greeted by a cheery wave from the end of the wardroom.

"Fangs, finally someone to talk to."

"Fangs? You must be very bored."

"What's wrong with Fangs?"

"Nothing I just think Snake is better."

"Whatever. Scoff?"

"1830." He told him. Eagle's expression changed as he crossed he good arm and pouted.

"So I've got delicious infirmary food then... great."

"You'll eat just the same as we do, Egg."

"Egg, where did you get that from?" He said frowning at Snake in confusion.

"Eagle, Eg, Egg? I don't know."

"You'll learn from the master one day." Eagle said grinning. Snake laughed and replied: "And who is that exactly?"

"Me!"

"Whatever. What time do you get out of here then?"

"2200. Observation." Responded eagle holding up his left hand doing bunny ear quotation marks.

Snake laughed.

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Fox stayed in the room waiting for the hour to pass. It seem to take forever and a day, especially when his stomach started to rumble. Finally, the hour was up and there was a single, short beep from each of the chambers. A doctor came in and took them out of their chambers. They were taken back to a ward to rest. Fox followed. Fox sat beside Alex's bed. He was tired but determined to wait for Alex wake up from unconsciousness.

Twenty minutes later, Alex's eyes opened and he looked around.

"Ben?" He said quietly. Ben's head snapped round when he heard the young boy's voice.

"Yes, Alex."

"Where am I? What happened? Wait am I in the Brecon Beacons?"

"Slow down Alex, you're at Crickhowell in the Brecon Beacons, yes."

"What happened?" Alex positioned himself so he was sat up; he looked over to his left and saw Tom. "Tom!" He scrambled out of his bed sheets and went over to him.

"What are you doing here?" He asked quickly.

"Some men came into my house they bound my wrists and gagged me. Then everything went black. When I woke up I was in a cell, there were no windows and no way out. Then the man came again, these two guards dragged me out and into this room, inside there were four boxes, Alex... two boxes had names on them, Alex... your uncle and dad are alive. That's all I remember before the white smoke and then nothing."

"That's impossible, my dad died fourteen years ago. Ian died a year and a half ago. I saw his car; there were two bullet holes in the side. Yassen Gregorovitch killed him, he told me himself, on top of the roof, where he said to forget him. He wouldn't kill me." Alex blurted out all too quickly.

"Really? A highly trained Russian assassin didn't want to kill you." Tom responded.

"How did you know he was Russian?"

"The name gives it away." Tom chuckled and Alex laughed too. "Your dad and Ian are next door."

"Maybe he should rest first." Ben cut in. Alex turned round to Ben.

"Ben, I haven't seen my dad for fourteen years and I miss my uncle, even if he wasn't around much."

"Fine." Ben got up from the blue chair that was beside Alex's bed and followed Tom and Alex into the room that was next door. Alex opened the door quietly. The two men inside were talking to each other, they looked up as they saw Alex enter.

"Alex?"

"Dad!" He ran forwards and hugged his dad lovingly. Tears ran down Alex's face and he sobbed quietly into his dad's shoulder. After a few minutes Alex pulled back and John looked into his son's eyes.

"What did they do to you Alex?" Alex didn't answer. "MI6 turned you into a weapon didn't they?" Alex nodded.

"Never failed a mission."

"And how many have you done?"

"Eight." Alex's voice was quite whereas John's was becoming louder and louder.

"WHAT! Ian's been gone for under two years and you have done eight missions." A look of disgust was cast over his face. "I'm going to have a few words with them. Couldn't you have just said no?"

"They threatened Jack's visa. They were going to send her back to America"

"They blackmailed you?" Ian said and Alex turned to face his uncle, he nodded and turned back to his dad.

"Where's mum, is she alive?"

"She went to a safe house in Yorkshire. She'll be fine. MI6 don't even know she's there."

"They told me you were dead." Alex's brow furrowed.

"That's because they didn't know I was alive or Ian for that matter." Alex sighed deeply before sitting on the chair. "It'll be alright Alex, I promise." John smiled gently at his son.

All four of them were allowed to go home in the morning, so Alex went back to his room, Tom and Ben following. They both climbed into their beds.

"How are the others?" Alex asked inquisitively.

"Eagle was shot in the shoulder, but he's fine apart from being very annoyed, complaining as usual. Wolf and Snake are fine."

Tom fell asleep instantly and started to snore quietly. It took Alex a lot longer to fall asleep, he was slightly afraid of sleeping in case he had a nightmare. Heavy eyelids closed and Alex, too, was sleeping soundly, with Ben watching over them and the slept before falling asleep himself in the chair between the two beds.

When morning came, Ian and John came into the boys' room to find them still sleeping.

"Ben!" John whispered harshly, shaking his shoulder.

"Hmm..." He murmured, waking up and squinting his eyes in the callous light.

"You might want to go back to your billet with the others, it'll be scoff soon." John told him. Ben nodded and stood up from the chair and stretched.

"Bye. Then, he reached for his beret and tucked in his camouflage shirt into his combat trousers, then tightening his blue belt he left the room and made his way out of the infirmary and back to his billet where he found two sleeping bodies in the two lower bunks.

"Wolf, Snake. Scoff in fifteen minutes." He said loudly. They woke immediately and drearily heaved themselves out of their beds, they changed quickly, putting their berets on last of all and they wandered over to the scoff house. It smell lovely, as usual it was a fry up.