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Three hours later K unit were playing cards, four playing, one watching. Snake was loosing abysmally due to him keeping an eye on Cub. They were quietly discussing the teens when their youngest member bolted for the bathroom, Ben dropped his cards and ran out after him, Snake hot on his heels. Wolf and Eagle winced at the sound of retching.
"Let's get you to the infirmary." Ben helped Alex stand, but all too soon he was trying to get out of his grasp and back bending over the basin.
"Answer it." Snake grabbed Alex's phone from the teens pocket and threw it to Wolf,
"Hello?" He answered, "No, but he is... preoccupied... Yes, yes, yes." Wolf stood and paled, "Infirmary now, hep a." He returned to the phone, "Thank you... He'll call when he is better." Wolf hung up and rushed out of the hut after the others.
Alex slowly gained consciousness and opened his eyes gradually feeling worse and worse. He saw Ben asleep his head leaning on the edge of the bed and the other four members of K unit scattered about the room, all of them had small plasters on their arms, Alex glanced down and saw a plaster and a drip.
"Ah, you're awake." The doctor walked in,
"SHH!" Alex exclaimed but the damage was done,
"Alex?" Ben lifted his head, "ALEX!" He exclaimed, "Never freaking do that to me again!"
"Sorry Ben, couldn't help it." Alex chuckled lightly,
"You gave us all quite a fright, everyone had been vaccinated against hepatitis a, those who needed to be anyway, these four needed a check up jab but you," The doctor frowned, "You shouldn't have needed it, you shouldn't have caught it. From what I understand a child gave it to you?" Dr Manning checked, Alex frowned,
"Zara called, wants you to call her back, but she said Sergei had come down with something and soon they had a ward of hep a patients, the entire school has had to be checked for vaccinations and all the orphans you rescued had to be vaccinated." Ben explained,
"Oh, they wouldn't have been vaccinated." Alex agreed, "So yes doctor."
"I'd stay take it slow but due to the crutches you are already. You can be discharged later this morning, once the drip is finished." The doctor checked a few things off his clipboard then vanished out the door,
"I should call Zara." Alex sighed trying to sit up, Ben helped him up and handed him the phone,
"Hey Zara, it's Alex."
"Alex I was worried! They all came down with hep a and I know immune systems are weaker after missions and I thought you would be suffering after what you went through and the last thing you need is hep a and then when I called Wolf said you were already at the vomiting stage and I felt so-"
"Zara, calm down I'm fine." Alex chuckled lightly cutting the woman off mid panic. "How's Joshua?" He asked to distract her,
"Fine, he's fine newly jabbed and grumpy about that but other than that fine."
"How are the others?" Alex asked now she was calm again,
"Exhausted mainly, only twenty of them had it, so it could have been much worse, and now everyone is up to date on vaccinations so we're sorted. First thing Sergei said when he was lucid enough to talk was to ask about you, in Russian he wasn't with it enough to translate it." Zara sighed,
"Sorry about dumping 120 Russian children on you." Alex felt mildly guilty.
"Alex, it's fine, they're lovely. Anyway how are you?" Alex saw the others leave to get breakfast and gestured that he'd still be here when they returned and waved off any worries about leaving him.
"Fine, I'm fine aside from hep a and newly acquired crutches, only a fracture though so should be up and about in no time. I'm at Brecon at the moment though."
"SAS camp." Zara exclaimed,
"PT." Alex exclaimed, there was silence, "Physical therapy and extra training while I'm at it." Alex explained,
"Thanks. Alex, I understand if you don't want to but Sergei wants to talk with you. Is that OK?" Zara sounded uncertain,
"That's fine. Pass me over." Soon an excited voice was on the other end,
"ALEX! I have a red shirt and this place is amazing! I am going to grow up to be a black shirt like Lauren, a friend I made, she was looking after us on punishment duty..."
When K unit returned they were surprised to hear two voices coming from the hospital room, they barged in and Alex gestured at them to be quiet, there was the phone on the table on speaker phone and a young boy was babbling away in Russian, Alex only occasionally needing to make the odd comment.
"Alex, Zara again, I should let you go, I am sure you are needed more there than here with a red shirt who is about to go to lessons. Aren't they Sergei." Zara sounded stern, a 'yes miss BYE Alex!' was heard on the other end then a slight laugh. "See you when I see you Alex. Bye."
"Bye Zara." He hung up. He turned to the shocked adults, "So, how are they doing?" This was met with groans,
"They're good, I've got to give them that but they're kids, they're not designed to do the assault course in under twenty minutes, they're not designed to beat adults in hand to hand combat, they're not wired to think their way through the killing house." Wolf bemoaned, Ben cleared his throat then pointed at Alex,
"Well he's a freak of nature, we already knew that!" Wolf exclaimed,
"He has a point." Eagle conceded,
"You have to go, see you later." Alex pushed them out the room with his crutch.
"He twists when he lands after the third wall, if he didn't do that he wouldn't stumble and loose momentum." Alex's voice made all four SAS men jump and Eagle drop a clipboard on his foot.
"Jesus Christ Cub!" Eagle shrieked,
"Gee, talk about noises only dogs can hear." Alex winced and covered his ears.
"Ha. Ha." Eagle hit him over the head with the clipboard,
"Cub! You're back!" Tom stated looking far too happy with this fact to just be a bystander.
"Yep. May I?" He asked Wolf,
"Go ahead." Wolf grumbled,
"James, you twist when you land after the third wall, if you don't do that you won't stumble and loose momentum. When you go under the netting get nearer to the ground, you'll stop catching your head in the net. Emma, get further up the swinging rope, you won't be in danger of falling off the end, when you go over the planks above the mud pit don't look down, imagine it's a stroll in the park, trust the rope bridge as well, it won't fail you, if it can hold four fully grown SAS men it can hold twenty Emma's." Alex stated, Emma blushed slightly at the comment,
"Alice, you run at the walls full pelt, this can be used to your advantage, jump a little just before you reach them, the momentum will carry you up a little to get a grip in the top, I know it feels stupid but it works. With the rope bridge, don't walk with your feet at the edges, it makes it more likely to tip and wobble, walk in the middle like you normally would. With the rope swing you have the reverse issue that Emma has, you are too far up the rope, it means you stumble when you get off the other side, go lower down and you'll be fine." Alex turned to the last member ignoring the shocked looks,
"Tom, don't be afraid of the course, sure it looks like the devils adventure playground but it's harmless. Run full pelt along the planks of wood, they aren't going anywhere, the ropes aren't going to snap, bogey monsters aren't waiting to eat you, they're waiting at the end if you go too slowly. The walls if you propel yourself off the top you can hit the ground running and shave seconds off your times." He turned to the four as a whole, "Try that next time, see where it gets you."
"Cub, where the hell did that come from?" Wolf asked shocked,
"I notice things, also I did most of them when I first came, I noticed them and changed, how else do you think I got my time down ten minutes in ten days?" Cub retorted,
"I did wonder that." Snake commented off hand, Alex turned to Ben,
"How much of that did you get?"
"About half." Ben admitted.
"You have much to learn my young padawan." Alex teased,
"Piss off Cub." Fox shoved him away causing him to put weight on his bad ankle and it buckled underneath him, Snake caught him as he slipped on the mud,
"Great one Fox, if you're not careful you're going to break it." Snake scolded Cub,
"How was that my fault!" Cub exclaimed,
"Hand to hand, now." Wolf growled, they followed him Ben and Alex bickering like siblings at the rear of the group.
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