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I'm entirely open to ideas, but Alex's time at Hell ended in the last chapter.

Don't worry there will definitely be more of Jack, Tom, and Sabina, but for now that's all I'm saying.

How are the lengths of my chapters? Too long, too short?

Disclaimer: Annabeth talked to her half-brother Anthony Horowitz and made him give me the rights to Alex Rider, but then Zeus got mad and took them away. Still don't own anything.

Chapter 5

Alex and Ben were on their way to the Creators' compound in Copenhagen, and Alex was looking over the file that Mrs. Jones had given him. This would be his first mission where he wasn't pretending to be someone else, and it gave him an odd sense of relief. He was infiltrating their ranks, and his cover story was that he was sick of MI6's lies-that part wasn't a lie-and that he had decided he wanted revenge, because if they hadn't recruited his uncle and father he would still have a family.

Ben was using essentially the same cover story, except he was saying that he wanted revenge because MI6 had lied to him and manipulated him, and had eventually gone too far by kidnapping his girlfriend.

As they drove, Alex asked the older spy about his father and uncle, and he was quite happy to oblige Alex. "They were both extremely good fighters," he said, taking his eyes off the road occasionally to look at Alex. "They were fast, too- which was why they were so good at the obstacle course. In fact, I'm surprised you managed to get a better time than both of them. Your father was very protective- he talked about you and your mother sometimes. Your uncle had a bit of a temper sometimes, and he was always quick to defend your father. He was not someone you wanted to get on the bad side of. Your father looked almost exactly like you, except for your eyes. He had bright blue eyes, so you definitely inherited those brown eyes from your mom."

"Did you ever meet her?" Alex asked, excited to finally be learning more about his parents. "My mom, I mean."

"Yes, actually, I did," the older man smiled at Alex's enthusiasm. "We had a house that the whole unit would use when we were off-duty, and your mom stayed there with us whenever we were there. She was an extremely good cook, and the only reason that the house didn't look a college frat house."

"But I thought you guys were all neat and tidy?" Alex asked, amused. "Military precision and all that."

"One would certainly hope so," Ben grinned. "Without a grumpy sergeant performing regular cabin checks, we became very messy. Her feminine presence certainly helped, but none of us are exactly neat freaks. Everyone in K-Unit loved her, although not quite in the way that your father did. She was kind, but she wasn't afraid to stand up for herself, or to get into the middle of a fight to separate us. She did constantly nag us to clean up, but it turned out that a mother hen was exactly what we needed. She got quite used to taking care of our various injuries, too."

"She reminds me a lot of Jack," Alex said softly, remembering Jack complaining about the amount of bandages that Alex went through yearly.

"Jack?" Ben raised his eyebrows. "You never mentioned having a girlfriend." Alex's cheeks instantly turned fire-engine red as he thought of Sabina.

"She's my secondary guardian, not my girlfriend," Alex clarified. "Uncle Ian hired her as a sort of babysitter, because he was always leaving on 'work vacations' which I now realize were missions. She's an American, and she could probably teach a first-aid class by now, because she's dealt with so many of my injuries."

"So if she's not your girlfriend, then who is?" Ben inquired, tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. "Your cheeks turned pretty red when I mentioned the subject, so there's obviously someone."

"Sabina Pleasure," Alex said with a small smile as he thought about her. "After crushing on her for a year, I finally got up the nerve to ask her out. I met her when I saved her dad from a plot, and she's been used against me in the past, so she's definitely one of my weaknesses. She lives in California, but we video chat. A lot."

"So this is the person you were texting the entire month we were in Hell," Ben said knowledgeably. "You know that you shouldn't be texting her during the mission, right? They'll most likely be tracking all our texts and calls, and if they discover that she's your girlfriend they could use her against us if they find out we're double agents before we stop them from destroying the world. And, considering your track record, they most likely will." Alex nodded, disappointed that he wouldn't be talking to Sabina for a while.

"It's good to know that you do have some weaknesses," Ben added. "I was beginning to think that you were invincible."

"Far from it," Alex rolled his eyes. "I get caught on every mission, remember?"

"Well, yes," Ben agreed. "There is that. Speaking of that, how about we try to break that habit on this mission? I don't know about you, but I'd rather not get caught." He turned his eyes back onto the road, needing to concentrate for a while, but not before Alex saw a sly smile flash across his face. Alex new that he could always trust Ben, but he suddenly wondered if it had been a mistake to reveal his weaknesses.

So, do you think Ben is evil? You won't find out for a few more chapters. Now, the app I'm using shows this as being long but I don't know if it is. Please tell me if you think I need to lengthen my chapters. I had some trouble writing this because I kept writing Jack in the past tense, because she's officially dead but I brought her back because she'll play a major part later. Thanks, please review!