After running away from Mrs. Jones and Mr. Blunt, Alex wound up sitting in a park thinking over the events that had just took place.

It had been just yesterday when Alex shot the assassin in the building, afterwards he took off to his house and waited for Jordan to call… it never came. Now he knew why.

Beep, beep, beep.

His cell phone rang. Before he opened it he prayed to God it wouldn't be Yassen again with another informative video.

Alex flipped open his phone to see a text message from Jordan's phone.

Jordan: Alex! This is Avery, Jordan's friend.

Alex: What do you want? Do you work for Scorpia too?

Jordan: Yes but so what? Anyways, everything Yassen said was a lie! You have to believe me!!

Alex: Why should I?

Jordan: Because I also want Jordan to be safe… we might not be on the same side but we want the same thing don't we?

Alex thought this over for a second before typing back.

Alex: I guess….

Jordan: Oh shut up you TOTALLY like Jordan and you KNOW she wouldn't do something like that!! She would NEVER go back to Scorpia!!!

Alex: ….

Jordan: So what are you going to do about it???!!!!

Alex: Go save her….

Jordan: I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!

Alex: I'M GONNA GO SAVE HER!!!!!!

Jordan: That's the spirit! I'm sure you know where we're located… good luck :)

After their conversation ended Alex ran back the Royal & General Bank and straight into Mrs. Jones peppermint smelling office.

"Alex," Mrs. Jones shot out of her seat behind her desk and with a motherly expression written all over her face.

"Yassen made up everything," Alex stated while walking up to Mrs. Jones's desk.

"Well…" Mr. Blunt put his hand on Alex's shoulder and lightly pushed him down in a seat, "he didn't lie about everything…."

"What?" Alex looked at both of them and debated if running away again was the right thing to do.

"Jordan did work for Scorpia," Mrs. Jones explained softly, "two years ago actually but she was working for us at the time. We needed her to finish what your father started so she went in. After she aced all of her classes, she was given an assignment. It wasn't a very big job actually, but for a twelve-year-old it was pretty big."

"Why did Yassen let a twelve-year-old girl join Scorpia?"

"We had her pose as a big time gangster's daughter, he was one of Yassen's friends then, or so Yassen thought. The gangster was actually planning to assassinate him so it worked out rather nicely," Mr. Blunt smiled and Alex stopped himself from rolling his eyes.

"Anyways, Alex, she called us saying that she had no idea what she was supposed to do about the assignment they gave her," Mrs. Jones looked down at her fingers and twiddled her thumbs nervously. "And… we didn't exactly help her."

"No, not at all really," Mr. Blunt shook his head, "we were just as clueless as she was, so we just told her to wing it. She didn't like that response at all."

Mrs. Jones shook her head too, "No she didn't. Jordan, of course, screwed up the project purposefully and did a great job of turning Scorpia against each other. But once she returned to England we lost track of her."

"It wasn't until she joined the Chelsea football team when she finally showed back up on our radar."

"You knew about that?" Alex exclaimed.

"Of course, we just had you watch her because we knew she was on some type of mission and we were hoping that you could get close to her and you could find out who she was working for."

"Well she didn't tell me anything, she only said that her soccer coach was trying to assassinate the prime minister but we stopped him yesterday at the parade.

"Oh," was all Mr. Blunt could say. He was shocked of how much MI6 missed, it had never happened before.

Alex shifted uncomfortably in his seat and then looked up at Mrs. Jones.

"I need to get to Scorpia."

"What?!" she exclaimed.

"I need to get Jordan," he explained but Mrs. Jones didn't seem to change her opinion.

"Alex," she exasperated, "let an adult go there and get her! Yassen probably won't roll out the welcome wagon for your arrival." Mr. Blunt muffled his snicker with a cough but nobody was fooled. Mrs. Jones glared at him and then looked back at Alex who just stared hard at her with his famous 'just let me go' look.

She finally sighed.

"Fine, we can get you a ride," she told him and then took out her cell phone and quickly pushed a button and mumbled something into the phone. She looked back up at him and sighed again. "Your flight leaves in a half hour, I'll get you some new clothes."

Once she left Mr. Blunt looked over at him and smiled.

"Man, you really like Jordan don't you?" he chuckled; Alex glared at him and left the room to go get some gadgets from Smithers.

Twenty minutes after her conversation with Alex, Avery was walking down one of the many hallways in Scorpia when Yassen cornered her.

"I hear you took Jordan Nommack's cell phone," he stated and stared right into her guilty eyes.

"Umm… well…" before she could finish, Yassen shoved her against the wall.

"Who did you contact!?" he demanded loudly, attracting attention from the guards.

"No one," she whispered, which rewarded her a slap on the face.

"You contacted someone and you better tell me or Jordan will die!" he threatened and Avery finally broke down.

"I called Alex and told him to come here, but I only did it so we could finally take him down!" she lied and hoped it was believable.

Yassen smiled and then backed away from her.

"Good work, Avery," he said and left with a smile on his face to warn the guards to be on the look out for Alex Rider.

What the hell did you just do, Avery? She thought to herself and then sadly left for her department.