A/N: So I really can't wait to get through all of these chapters and get to more action packed areas and everything, mainly cause I have a really good idea for this story and everything and want to get up to where I have planned out 'til (which is about 20 of my sized chapters from now). Therefore, I have decided to keep writing, even when one chapter is meant to be done and either write a whole bunch of chapters at once or write a bunch of really really really long chapters. I haven't quite decided yet.

PS: Don't kill me. For one, I live in the US, so I've never been to any place I've been describing, so if I describe any place wrong, or use American language vs. British language, please forgive me.

Chapter 18:

Alex didn't notice that he had dozed off until he felt Ben shaking his shoulder. "Alex? Wake up. We're almost landing."

Alex blearily opened his eyes and nodded to show that he understood. As much as he enjoyed being able to sleep, it didn't mean that he particularly liked where he was sleeping. It was an enclosed space (obviously, seeing how it was an airplane), and wasn't at all as comfortable as a normal bed or even couch.

Ben smiled at the younger man and was relieved that Alex had not had any nightmares while he was asleep. Ben had no clue whether C-Unit had managed to fix the problem, Alex had gotten over them, or Alex was just too exhausted to have them. As much as he hated Alex being part of a unit other than K-unit, he was glad that they had seemed to help Alex find himself once more and patch the nearly broken boy back together.

Alex glanced out the window and saw the beautiful landscape of Australia.

Ben caught him staring out the window and leaned over with a smile, "Guess you didn't get to see this view last time you were here."

"Nope," Alex responded slightly rueful. "Hurtling down to Earth in a small space capsule does have its negatives. Even if the fire from the atmosphere hadn't prevented me from seeing anything, the sickness that came with being back in an atmosphere with gravity certainly would've."

"I still can't believe that you've been to space. I mean, it's just crazy to think about. Especially since you didn't get any training for it or anything."

"Well, it's not like I had that much of a choice."

"True. Anyways, I've never got a chance to ask you- what was it like to have no gravity and to just be floating around?"

"Truthfully, Ben? Kinda scary and weird. At first I didn't even know how the heck I was supposed to move, and then I almost threw up from motion sickness because I made myself spin crazily. You have no idea how hard it is to move in zero gravity."

"I can imagine. And then to have to fight a guy in those conditions must have been terrible."

"It was," Alex replied with a small shudder. "I seriously thought I was going to die right there. Every time I hit the guy, both of us were propelled back and basically slammed into whatever wall was behind us. It was truly on luck that killed the other guy. I mean, the likelihood that his knife would be facing that way and that I would propel him back at such a force and in that specific direction is extremely small. What was really gross was seeing the blood hang there in droplets in mid-air, floating about."

Ben gave a small shudder at the picture that formed in his mind.

The seatbelt light clicked on, and the two spies fell silent and quickly slid their buckles together. Shortly after a blond flight attendant walked through, checking that everyone had their seatbelts on, they felt the plane begin to descend.

Alex took one last glance at the ground below him before switching automatically into spy mode. It had been two full years since he had gone on a mission for MI6, and he was sure that the game had changed during his time at the SAS. One thing was for sure-people wouldn't be looking at him anymore and thinking 'schoolboy'. They might think of him as inexperienced, but certainly not untrained.

For perhaps the thousandth time since he had first told MI6 that Ben knew about him being alive, Alex was glad that he had Ben there watching his back. There was not a single person in the world that Alex trusted more than Ben.

A/N: I understand that this is a super short chapter, but I felt that it should be ended here. It's just the way life is. Anyways, I'll write the next chapter tonight also and then post that one tomorrow. (after all, we can't update a superfluous amount….I have to keep you guys in slight suspense at least some of the time.) There is a chance that I will update again tonight just to be nice, but I'm not sure.