Chapter Three - Truth
Alex Rider's POV
When I walked out of the office I got into my car and drove to my cabin to put away my cloths before picking Sabrina up from the air strip and getting my classmates. The cabin was finer than the last on I had slept in, and I guess my status gives me some privileges. It had two bedrooms with a shared bath and a sitting room together with a entree where I could place my weapons. I quickly put my things away in the wardrobe before driving to the air strip where I had been told that the plane with Sabrina should arrive soon.
At the air stripe
When I arrived at the air stripe the officer in charge of it runs up to me.
"When are the plane expected?" I asked while looking at the skies
"They should be here in a seconds, Sir" the officer said
We stood in the silence until we could see the plane and it was safe on the ground. I gave a nod to the officer before I walked up the stairs that the field personal had placed out. Half way up the stairs I meet the pilot and we exchange some words before I continued into the plane. In one of the few chairs Sabrina sat looking out the window.
"Sabrina" I called her and her head snapped around. I could see a smile spread on her face before she jumped into my arms and gave me a kiss that told her how much she had missed me in the last couple of months. We may talk to each other every day on web cam, but it's hard to not have physical contact.
"I missed you" She said when we started to walk back to my car
"I missed you too, but I'm sad that we had to meet again because of a this" I said
"Me too, but at least we get to spend some time together" She said still happy over our reunion, not that I wasn't glad but all my responsibilities is weighting down on me
"I have a question to ask you" I said when we got into my car
"Well, come with it" She said smiling
"Do you want to share a cabin with the others or will you share my cabin?" I asked
"The real question you are asking is if I want to share your bed, and I bet you know the answers to that" She said laughing seeing straight through me
"Well, if you put it like that; Sabrina would you like to share my bed?" I asked jokily, happy that for once I could just be a normal teenager with his girlfriend. Sabrina was the person I felt I could talk to and yet she didn't now about the one big thing in my life; I hadn't told her about my true name and title.
"Yes, I would love to share a bed with you" Sabrina said still laughing at me before turning serious again "What is going on, Alex? This morning armed personnel knocked on my door and said I had to follow them. The only thing they would say was that it had something to do with you and your codename"
"Another COBRA meeting is called and I'm invited" I said while glancing out the window
"So serious than" She said after a while. Sabrina known about the last COBRA meeting and I'm sure her imagination is running wild with what is going on so I decide to tell her before her fantasy gets to wild.
"A lot of powerful terrorist groups have joined forces to take over the western world and them wants to kill me and by extension you and my classmates. We haven't discovered all their goals and plots yet, but this is bigger than last time and I believe the Worlds power countries will have to join force. If we stand alone we will be easy to take out one by one" I said while thinking about all the problems this would make
"Will you go out in the field again?" She asked worried that I could be killed once again
"No, my time in the field are over" I said and she looked wondering at me. I guess she can't understand why MI6 would set their best agent off the field when he wasn't hurt or to old "Something has changed, but no isn't the time to talk about this. It will be revealed when the time is right" She seems to accept this like I know she would.
"Would you go out with me tonight" I asked out of the blue
"Yes, but is it so smart? We are at a military base and have some terrorist groups are making a big treat against the western countries and especially you" She wondered and was a bit afraid what our little date may cost us
"I will fix it" I said, just as we drove up to the cabin. We got her bags inside and began to make out on the coach.
"It shall be good to live with you again" She said referring to some of our holidays that we had spent together when I wasn't working.
"Yeah, you should and gets some rest. It's going to be some placement test later today, just meet me in the mass hall in an hour" I said and she nodded so I gave her a kiss before getting into my car again. While I was driving I mentally walked through how I was going to arrange my proposal. Soon I arrived at the point where the bus and unit was waiting for me, as I stepped out of the car Wolf announced me.
"-And that is Colonel Cub, he is the highest ranking soldier here and you will address him as Sir. Hell you will call everyone here Sir or Ma'am" My classmates were silent so Wolf screamed at them and got a likeable answer.
"Tom Harris, could you drive with me" I asked and with one look at him I understood that he know about who I was
In the car
We started the drive in silent before Tom started to laugh
"What is so funny?" I asked
"Well, did you see the other? I can't wait to they discover who you really is" He said while laughing. Yes, another civilian that's known about my secret life and Tom know even more than Sabrina in some fields.
"You won't have to wait long because I'm going to tell them in the mass hall in about an hour" I said straight faced, only my training keeping me from rolling on the ground with laughter
"Why you have kept it a secret for a so long time now" he said
"Everything is changing, and I'm tired of hiding everything" I said sadly, thinking about everything I had lost the last years.
"Well people are going to be blown away" He said "How much will you tell them?"
"Enough, but nothings in details" I said "Is it alright if I take couples of phones calls?"
"Sure" He said before glancing out the windows
With one hand on the steering wheel I choose one of my many contacts from my phonebook. The phone only called a few times before it was picked up
"Director Vance of NCIS, speaking" A dark voice answered
"It's Alex, I need a favor" I said
"What do you need Alex?" He asked nothing even thinking about saying no, not after all I had done for them
"Some trouble is coming up and I need a secure place to place my former guardian" I told him, and after a little clicking from his computer
"We have one, empty here in Washington but how soon do you need it and do you need any guards? He asked
"2 guards would be nice, I will call in favors from the other agencies because of the treat I don't want to spend one agency too far. Jack will arrive at DCA tomorrow at 5" I said after a while
"I will send them the information" Vance said before cutting the line
When he cut the line I wasn't late to call the other agencies and got a positive answer from them before parking my car outside of some empty cabins that would be used as my classmate's temporary dorms until they could be put into different units
"Calling in favors now Alex?" Tom asked knowing it was the first time I had called in a favor when not being on a mission
"As I said times is changing, and Jack needs more protection than what we can give her here in UK" I said "But you should go inside and prepare for some hard placement test"
Tom nodded and jumped out of the car and walked inside the building after waving like crazy. I just sat there in my car a few min before discovering that I only had 15 min until I had asked Sabrina to meet me in the mess hall, but before I could meet her I'd to make some calls so this night would become the most memorable in my life.