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Oh, shoot. That was so not planned.

One thing was the three bound soldiers he knew he had shared a bunk with for ten days, a little more than one year ago, starring at him with surprised looks on their faces. That – he could deal with. Worse was Klaus, the German rent-soldier who he had trained with for a longer period of time. Training to become an assassin, working for Scorpia.

Why the heck would Scorpia even be here? They surely didn't have anything to do with the mission Alex was working on. The sloppy way the human-smuggling was handled, with so many loopholes and beginner-mistakes, made it clear to Alex that it was nothing like with his Snakehead-mission and the way he had been handled there.

Well. Whatever this was, he had no way of outrunning a gun pointed at him, and he had far to much experience with guns to have a go anyway. They hurt as hell.

So giving up, his breath still caught in his throat from running, Alex raised his hands to indicate that there was no need for any shooting going this way.

They were brought to the underside of the bridge, through a tiny door carved out in the stone and into the canyon side. The walk was quiet, except for the steady rhythm of feet, nobody talked at all. Alex was in the middle of the line, but with Klaus' gun pressed into his back. The German assassin was clearly not taking any chances with him, and Alex had to wonder as to how much word of his betrayal had reached the lower ranks within Scorpia. He had hoped that the board would find it too embarrassing to say anything, but that clearly wasn't the case, as he was held back when K-unit and the other prisoners where pushed into an old fashioned cell.

As the cell-door closed between them, Alex was aware of the guards spreading out around him, surrounding him so he stood with his back against the other prisoners. Klaus stepped in front of him, before rising his voice to speak for the second time since Alex first saw him.

"I know you're wondering why I didn't just kill him when I first saw him," he said in English with no trace of accent at all, while moving so close to Alex that he was in his personal space. "But you'll understand once he states his name." Alex realized he was talking to the other guards, and quickly peeked a look around him to watch their reactions. They were watching with anticipation, clearly with no clue of whom or what he was.

He was turning back to Klaus as the smack hit the right side of his face, and he stumbled back into the cell door. The smack had come with a flat hand, but the force behind it made Alex taste blood as he straightened up.

"Tell them your name." Klaus hissed, and Alex really did try to fight the reply on the tip of his tongue. Too late though.

"They call me Bond..." was all he got out before he was sucker-punched and sank to his knees clutching his stomach.

"Leave him alone! He's just a kid!" One of the prisoners protested, and Alex had time to reprimand himself. To his credit, it really wouldn't have been good to let the guards know his name, and he probably would get more of a beating if he delivered it. But they would get it anyway, Klaus obviously knew, and he would tell if Alex didn't. Drawing his breath, Alex hurried up so there wouldn't be any more hits.

"Alex Rider."

His voice was slightly croaked, but the guards had apparently understood what he said as there broke out mumbling between them. Then one of them stepped up to him, and with a nod from Klaus, kicked him in the side, bruising up his rib. With a startled yelp, Alex recovered form the kick he had not been prepared for, grabbed the guards leg, and pulled him till he fell to the ground. Getting shaking to his feet, he prepared for the rest of the guards circling in on him.

"Enough" Klaus' voice cut through the ring around him, and Alex stood highly tense awaiting the next order. He would not go down without a fight, that was for sure. Especially not with K-unit watching him. Klaus stepped forward and reached a hand up to touch Alex' collarbone while the teen stood tense awaiting whatever would happen next. The hand traced the collarbone over to the left side of his chest, lingering over his heart for a moment.

"We'll talk with him later." Klaus said as he pressed hard with two fingers in the center of the bullet-wound Scorpia had given him. White, hot pain flashed behind Alex' eyes, before he collapsed on the stone floor.

Alex's body was dragged into the cell while a guard had his gun pointed at the prisoners, daring them to move. Nobody did and when they where left alone, an uncomfortable silence fell over the prisoners, before Snake finally moved up to check how Cub was doing.

When he moved, the tension broke, and the SAS-teams resident shifted around.

"Who is he? You guys seemed to know him" Shark asked nodding at K-unit. They didn't answer though, Panter form E-unit did.

"He was called Cub. Trained with K-unit over a year ago, for like ten days. Wouldn't have recognized him if it wasn't for the fact that a kid training at an SAS camp is highly unusual. " He said, while watching Snake study the unconscious kid. "Is he okay?".

"I guess so. I don't know what knocked him out, but he seems to be breathing just fine." Snake said as he got up.

"What the hell is he doing here, anyway? Quite the coincidence with him jumping over the bridge just as we were led in here." Eagle said to no one in particular.

"You mean he was sent to help us out?" Shark raised an eyebrow.

"You don't know Cub like we do. He did frighteningly good for being a new recruit back at camp. And being a kid, non the less." Eagle said stubbornly.

"Yes, but sending him in all alone? Why do that with a kid? I doubt Cub does those kinds of things, he was at Brecon Beacons for 10 days. You don't do work for MI6 after training for 10 days, idiot." Wolf grumbled from a dark corner of the cell, the shadows marking his glaring face so it looked even more scary than usual. Wolf was glaring at Alex, as if it was all the teenagers fault his unit had been captured and led here. Knowing Wolf, he probably thought it was.

Almost as if the boy had noticed the glare from his unit leader, he shifted his head ever so slightly and blinked three times before keeping his eyes open. Taking in his surroundings and its inhabitants first, Alex moved to get up into a standing position. He did not like laying totally unguarded on the ground, with so many possible attackers all around. Swaying slightly, he walked over to the cell door and checked it for possible weak points where he could aim a kick. He didn't find one.

"Are you here to get us out?" Alex turned to where the voice had come from. Eagle was looking at him with anticipation in his eyes.

"No." The boy answered quietly, his voice cracking up . It was probably meant to be sarcastic.

"See, Eagle? Besides, I hope you don't think MI6 is stupid enough to send Cub in when it's obvious Scorpia recognize him from somewhere." Wolf snorted from his dark corner. "Why did they do that, anyway? Realized your dad is rich and important, and that they could use you to get a ransom? He must be quite high up, to be able to send you to the SAS to teach you manners."

Alex didn't answer that, although he would have wanted to point out that if there was one thing he did NOT learn at Brecon Beacons, it was manners.

After he had done a sweep on the rest of the room without finding anything remotely of interest, he sat down with his back to a wall and leaned his head on it for support. He was dead tired, but couldn't really sleep when he was as thirsty as he was. Instead, he started going through all the details of his latest mission, willing himself to not forget anything for the report he had to get across to Miss Jones.

Snake eyed Alex critically as he sat with his head to the wall. When checking him earlier, he had looked pale, but otherwise relaxed. Now, Snake saw the slightly purple bags under the kids eyes, the emotionless mask he seemed to be wearing, tense but carefully neutral, and the red skin on the right side of his face, which was already starting to turn a shade of blue.

"How are you feeling?" Snake asked at last, a little unsettled with what he had observed.

Alex blinked once and turned his head slightly so he was facing Snake: "Fine." He said, his voice breaking halfway into the word. He then frowned slightly before adding: "I don't suppose any of you have some water?"

There was some sound of rustling as the soldiers checked their bodies for a hidden bottle of water. Non came up.

"If you aren't here to "save" us, then why are you here?" One of the soldiers Alex couldn't name asked after a while, laying the question in a mocking tone.

The teenager merely shrugged, unsure of if his missions were classified to the SAS or not.

"He asked you a bloody question. He is above you in rank, as he is a unit leader like me, so you better answer it. You don't fucking shrug to someone of a higher rank." Wolf sneered from his corner, his voice dripping with warning of what would happen if he didn't answer.

"I'm on another mission, Sir. Didn't expect to run into Scorpia on my way." Alex' voice was flat and raspy with lack of water. He really needed some water soon, he had no idea how long he had been inside the trailer, but it must have been at least two days without anything to eat or drink and now he felt slightly disorientated.

"What kind of mission?" The same man that had asked him the first question said.

"Human smuggling from Morocco."

"You think we're gonna believe that? You going on a mission? No one would authorizer that, double O Nothing." Wold sneered.

Alex looked at him, wondering what the mans problem was. He would have thought they were on a slightly more friendly page, both after the whole plane-incident and Wolf getting shot for him at Point Blanc. Or maybe that was the problem. On the other hand, Alex guessed he couldn't really expect the man to be friendly. He couldn't really expect that of anyone anymore, but perhaps especially Wolf.

"So it is really true that you are an agent? How many missions have you been to" Eagle asked, ignoring what Wolf had said earlier. "I mean, Ben told about meeting you in Thailand, and Wolf worked as a backup for you in France, but have you had more than those two?"

"What do you mean "Ben met him in Thailand?" He never said anything like that to me." Wolf snapped at Eagle.

"He didn't say that to Eagle either, but he told me when I asked how he got shot in the arm. Apparently the bullet was meant for Cub. I told Eagle when we were driving back from a leave." Snake said patiently, trying not to make Wolf attack. He was about to say more when he saw the left side of Cub's mouth twitch.

"You must really love me, two out of five taking bullets for me." Cub said in a monotone and raspy voice.

"Shut up. You have no idea how much a bullet wound hurts, you should be forever grateful to both of us." Wolf said.

"I do and I am." Alex replied a bit sluggishly.

"You've been shot? Where? When?" Eagle searched Alex, eagerly trying to locate a scar or something giving away where he had been shot.

Alex already regretted the last bit of information he had given, knowing he should have kept his mouth shut and offer as little as possible. There were bound to be more questions now, and he really couldn't keep his will to hold his eyes open any longer.

"You sure you don't have any water?" He mumbled as his eyes slid close and he lost consciousness once more.

A/N:

1)Okay, rubbish ending, sorry. I wanted to update before I leave, so it's badly done and rushed.

2) I have a question: If I want to "edit" this chapter after it's posted, will I be able to do that without noting anyone who has the story up for alert that there has been posted "another" chapter?

3) Sorry for the loong wait and all. My computer has lived it's own life for a while now. I had the chapter halfway finished about two months ago, but then every single document on my computer got erased for no apparent reason. I was furious. Yesterday, it suddenly all showed up again, like it had never been gone. I took it as a hint to update this story..

4) And I WILL ask a beta to edit it for me. It's just so embaressing when I don't know how often I'll update..