This chapter is short, like the last one, but I still hope you readers enjoy it! XD and please comment, constructive criticism is helpful!

Alex POV (Still)

The reptile man glared at me, and I felt myself lean back, and wanted to run away. "Alex" he was growling now, "Eat the rest of your food."

I ate my food. The man was scaring me.

When I finished my food, they were talking and drinking from cans. Yawning, I took the last sip of my orange juice, and the man Snake looked up. I could feel myself almost falling asleep.

"Alex are you tired?" he asked me, really nicely actually!

I shook my head, and he was about to answer but I blurted out; "can I go and watch TV?"

He didn't answer me for a second, and I wondered if he would just get mad at me and shout, but instead he said "yes, make sure you only watch the kid's channels."

I nodded and practically ran, as fast as I could with a hurt ankle, to the other room before anyone could stop me.

3rd person

Wolf eyed Snake suspiciously. He couldn't understand why the man hadn't sent the 5 year old to bed, because it was just gone 8:30.

"Snake why the hell did you do that, he should be in bed, it's like 8:30!" Eagle blurted out, practically saying what Wolf had though.

Snake cleared his throat and leaned forward slightly. "I didn't want an argument with the kid, he's had a hard enough day as it is, so I said he could watch TV" he said, speaking as if it made all the sense in the world.

"Yeah but now he's gonna go to sleep even later!" Eagle exclaimed.

The mature adult rolled his eyes and lent back, casually saying "ahh that's where you're wrong. If you had looked hard enough, you would've found that his eyes were half closed and he was yawning like there's no tomorrow. I bet you, give it 5 minutes, he'll be deeply asleep in there" with the last word he pointed his thumb towards the lounge door, where they could hear the faint sound of 'the suite life on deck' playing.

Eagle's face brightened, and he shouted "ok I bet you £5 he'll be awake!"

Everyone, minus Eagle, rolled their eyes, but Snake stuck his hand out and muttered "deal". The immature adult shook the others vigourously, and they waited 5 minutes, Fox timing on his phone.

….

When the 5 minutes were up, the four SAS men crept into the lounge, and to Eagle's dismay, Alex was asleep on the floor. "Damn!" Eagle shouted. This made Alex stir. As Fox and Wolf both punched Eagle for being an idiot, Snake went over to Alex, and as if he were going to break at any moment, lifted him up into his arms.

Alex's eyes fluttered half open, and he muttered "wha….?"

"shhhh Alex it's alright, I'm just taking you bed" Snake muttered softly, and was incredibly surprised when he wrapped his little arms around his neck, and was about to ask him if he was okay, but Alex had already fallen under by that time.

The unit watched the little scene. They were amazed how paternal he was to the young boy, and how sure he was about what he did. But because of this, they were surprised about how nervous he was, such as when he picked up Alex. He was as stiff as a post. And the shock on his face when the little boy wrapped his arms around the man's neck, absentmindedly.

Snake POV

I carried the sleeping Alex up the stairs, still shocked by the arms that were wrapped around my neck, and the legs that had were wrapped around my torso. But, despite my shock, it felt…right. It felt perfectly normal to have a 5 year old clinging to my neck, to feel a heartbeat against my chest, to hear the gentle breathing of young lungs. It was a weird sensation for me, and I couldn't understand it.

I continued walking up the stairs, taking caution with every step, walking slowly so I had less chance of falling over something someone else had left as a death trap. Sometimes I just wanted to murder the rest of my unit, the left all their things lying around all the time; it drove him up the flipping wall!

As I gently deposited him onto his brand new, white wooden, bed with the blue sheets, he stirred slightly. The boy's eyes shot open, alarmed and wide. Al began to cry out, but I shushed him soothingly, pulling him onto my lap as I sat down. Slowly rocking him, I continued whispering words of comfort, and, after a while, he calmed down, taking in deep breaths of air. I was startled by how he had reacted. As he gradually fell asleep again, I laid him down on the bed once more. I pulled the cover over him and tucked it round the edges of his small frame. I had left him in his clothes, as I didn't want to wake him again.

"Night Alex." I whispered as I shut the door. I know he couldn't hear me but it felt right, like the other feelings I had discovered today.