Really? Chapter 20

Authors Note: Thank you sooooo much to everybody who has reviewed and to Marie Elaine Cullen for Betaing!

Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider and probably never will:(

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Blunt walked into his dimly lit office and came face to face with the orphaned teenager that he had been blackmailing for the past year. The boy's eyes were flaring dangerously with concern, worry and hatred. The usually witty teenager now seemed cold and dangerous. Blunt could tell the boy was truly worried about Jack and that it was weighing down on him. No matter how hard Alex tried to hide it, itdid not change the fact that Blunt had been in the business way longer and was trained to read things like that. Sure, Blunt felt bad about using this boy and could see that it was destroying his life. Butwhat other choice did he have? One boy versus millions. It was true that they had other agents that they could use, but none of them evencompared to Alex. Whether he wanted to, or not, Alex was the perfect secret weapon. He snapped out of his thoughts a couple of moments later and got Alex's attention.

"We need to talk."

Alex simply nodded in response.

Usually he would attempt to annoy Blunt to no end and cause chaos but he wanted information about Jack more. Besides, he knew there would be plenty more times to do that (unfortunately)…

Even though he would never admit it, he had been very nervous about this meeting ever since it was mentioned to him. Under normal circumstance he would have tried to avoid it, maybe even laughed and made jokes about it with Jack. This was different though, Jack was gone…

He had been having very vivid nightmares ever since the night he found out that Jack had been captured. The realistic dreams were always horrible and scared him to no end. No matter how hard Alex tried to save Jack it was always too late and Jack ended up dying in some gruesome way. The worst part was thatit always ended up being his fault and that it could easily be a reality soon.

Following the dreams Alex would wake up panting in a cold sweat. Then he would usually stay up the rest of the night doing anything and everything humanly possible to keep his mind off of the topic. Which usually ended up with him catching up on schoolwork or doing pushups.

Just the mention of Scorpia made Alex sick to his stomach. They did not give a care about human life. Honestly, what kind of horrid creatures try to kill millions of school children for bloody money!

Alex was snapped out of his thoughts as Blunt started to talk again.

"As you know Jack was captured by Scorpia last week. That's the reason for your current situation. Right now we don't know of her current condition or location. But, we have a pretty good idea of where they are headed."

Alex's eyes lighted up with hope at the mention of this.

"For the past couple of days there has been lots of suspicious activity in an empty warehouse that we have had under surveillance for a couple of months now. We are not totally sure why Scorpia took Jack or what they want with her, but we have a good idea and are almost positive it has something to do with you. As you know, Scorpia never forgets or forgives. They want revenge and the perfect way to get it would be by killing Jack. The only thing stopping them is you. I know it sounds silly, but they still see lots of potential in you. They know that you have the capability of being the best assassin that Scorpia has ever seen. They could easily get you to do it by blackmailing you with Jack." Blunt said while taking his eyes away from Alex's.

"Oh yeah, like the same way you use me?" Alex practically spat, set aflame by the hypocrisy.

He would have continued, but Blunt interrupted him and started speaking again, ignoring his little outburst.

"Alex there is still hope. This warehouse happens to be about twenty minutes away on bike from where you are currently living. We were a little confused by this at first, but it all makes since now. They currently have Jack in a foreign country so we have less of a chance of finding them. Unfortunately, they are also probably interrogating her for Answers about you right now, with torture methods. In a couple of days they are going to relocate in the warehouse. At that point they are going to give you a choice between her life and you working for them. If you say yes then you will work for them and Jack will be saved. On the other hand there is a good possibility that both of you could be killed. With you they could be back on top and have nobody to stop them. They would try to destroy us and every other intelligence agency in the world and gain world dominance. The sad thing is I don't think that there would be anyway for us to stop them. They are powerful enough as it is right now." Blunt said, his eyes becoming serious.

"So what part do I have in this?" Alex said quickly.

"I will tell you the rest after school tomorrow and you will get started right away. We need to get wrapped up because I have a meeting to attend to shortly. My original idea got changed when I got that call from the school. I will let it slide by this time, but you know its kind of hard to go by unnoticed when you knock kids unconscious in the middle of the hallway."

"It was the other kid's fault not mine! Anyways, I hope you have fun at that meeting tomorrow... You know it is just so exciting to have a lecture from the headmaster." Alex smirked and walked out the door, leaving behind an irritated Blunt. He was really not excited about the meeting tomorrow. He usually would have sent another agent, but the only person he could truly trust was himself. He could not afford to let his highest ranked agent's cover get blown because of a stupid mistake made at this stupid meeting. So, he was going as a precaution to make sure nothing could go wrong. How wrong he was...

Authors Note: Hope you liked! I tried to make this chapter longer for those of you who asked:) So do you think that Alex should get captured during his mission and what kind of stuff do you think should happen at the meeting tomorrow? Anyways PLEASE REVIEW! It motivates me to write:)