Okay, here it is. It is my sixth chapter in three days. I am proud. This might be the first fic I ever finish. That would be something special. I'd like to thank my reviewers. You guys are awesome. Mary, you need a new brain. I've been pretty clever thinking of chapter names, haven't I? I sit down for a good three minutes to think of them.

"Bye, Jack. Have a great time."

"You too, Alex. Stay safe and call whenever you need me to come back."

"I will, Jack." Yeah, as if.

Alex and Laura were given a lift to his place from Lionel and Alex had just finished packing his clothes. The whole time, Laura was running up and down the stairs, holding an ice pack to her head. Jack found it quite amusing. Laura just loved stairs.

"Come on Alex!" Laura yelled from the bottom of the stairs. "Let's have a race."

Alex gave Lionel his luggage and walked back over to Laura. They lined up at the bottom of the stairs and counted down to three. Alex took the stairs three at a time in long strides while Laura went one step at a time as quickly as she could. It was a dead tie.

"Oh well," Laura said, walking back to the bottom. "I'll win next time."

They sat in the car and drove off, Jack waving the whole time. She still had twenty minutes until her taxi turned up. The drive over was rather quiet. Lionel kept asking Laura if she was okay. She just smiled and nodded. When they pulled up out the front of their new home for a few months, they both felt nerves flow through them.

Alex was worried about who they would be. Laura was worried that nobody would be home. Lionel took the luggage out of the boot and they walked into the building. Laura came up with an idea.

"Let's have a race. We will race up to the door and the first person there gets to boss the other around for a whole hour. Room 23," Alex didn't like the sound of that. He wouldn't know what he would have to do if Laura won, but he was quietly confident he would win. "Okay?" He nodded. "Go!"

The kids took giant steps up 16 flights of stairs. In the end, Alex beat Laura by half a flight. She was puffing like mad. She was still out of breath when Lionel arrived with Alex's luggage. Alex didn't struggle at all. The running had come in use for a second time that day.

"Do you have a key, Miss?" Lionel asked Laura.

She shook her head and bashed on the door. No body answered. She kept bashing until her hand started to turn red. She slid down onto the floor and pouted. It was a very cute pout. Lionel was about to suggest they leave when the door swung open.

"You?" Laura asked.

A tall, brunette lady was standing by the doorway. She had clear brown eyes and a kind smile. "Me!" she said. "How was your flight?"

Alex was confused. Probably the most confused he has ever been in his life. Laura knocks on the door and asks the person who they are and then they are talking like they hadn't seen each other since a flight. It was enough to make anybody confused.

"It was great, thanks. Um, my name is Laura and this is Alex. We are staying here."

"Oh. Err, come in."

Laura stepped through rather confidently, pulling Alex by the hand after her. "Don't be scared," she whispered. Alex? Scared? Ha! If only she knew what he had been through. Or, you could say, what MI6 put him through. They walked in and Lionel placed the luggage in the foyer before leaving again.

"My name is Jasmine, by the way," the lady said.

"So what are you doing here?" Laura asked.

"Jackson is my boyfriend!" she said, smiling.

"Yeah, that's one of their names," Laura said, turning to Alex and pushing her hair out of her face. Her cut was in full view and looked very bad.

Jasmine gasped. "What happened?" she asked, grabbing an ice pack from the freezer and holding it onto Laura's head.

"Oh, that!" Laura laughed. "I walked in front of a car and Alex pushed me out of the way. He is a hero, you know." This made Alex go red.

"How did you manage to walk in front of a car?" Jasmine asked Laura.

"I just crossed the road and it came from nowhere," she answered.

Jasmine sent her off to the bathroom to wash the blood off her face. When she was gone, Jasmine turned to face Alex. "What really happened?"

Alex wasn't sure how to answer. "Well, I wasn't watching what she was doing. I had pushed the button at the pedestrian crossing, but I don't think Laura knows how to cross a road properly."

"So, she doesn't know much street smart?" Jasmine asked the question with more of a pleading for Alex to say yes than with curiosity.

"No. She hasn't walked up stairs until she got here yesterday, either."

Jasmine sighed. "Well, I am going to kill Jackson when he gets home. I leave for one month and I come back to find SAS have dumped two children with him. Let alone one who doesn't know a thing. Lucky for him I love and know how to look after kids because I doubt he knows how to look after himself for a day let alone two teenagers."

Alex stood in an uncomfortable awkwardness. What was he supposed to say? Oh, there there, it'll be okay? I don't think so.

"Well, I'll let you get unpacked. You might have to share a room with Laura, though. I haven't been here yet and I don't know how many bedrooms there are." She started walking don the hall. Alex followed with his luggage. "Oh, here is a room you can have."

"Thanks." The room was a plain, white squarish room with a large wardrobe and a white-framed bed. He threw his bags in the wardrobe and went to go find Laura.

"Alex!" Laura's voice was coming from the bathroom. He slowly found his way there and was shocked by what he saw. Laura was standing over the basin, blood dripping from her head. It was all in her hair and on her hands. He immediately put a hand over the cut and used his other hand to turn the tap on.

"What did you do?" he asked gently, washing a bit of the blood away. He was no doctor but his training with the SAS had taught him a bit about basic first aid.

"It just started bleeding. I don't know why." Laura had worked herself into a frenzy and Alex was finding it hard to keep her still, which was surprising since Laura was a head shorter. He called for Jasmine and continued cleaning the cut. Laura was still panicky.

"Oh, my." Jasmine's reaction had been something like Alex's – only more feminine. She ran over and held Laura's hair back. "What happened?" The blood flow had stopped but Laura was a mess.

Before Laura could answer, a new voice came from the door. "Holy!"

Alex's blood ran cold.

Yippee! Another chapter. That is six updates in five days. I'm proud. This chapter was easily named on one half, but the other needed a bit of editing. I hope you liked it. Review and I will write 200 words. Every review will get closer to an update! That is my new deal. Most chapters are around 1200 words. I think...

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