AN: So, so sorry for the long wait. I broke my leg and suddenly everything else takes so much more time than it used to. I will try to not let this much time pass between my updates. Please read, enjoy and review. (Positive, negative, I do not care, I really crave some feedback.)

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Alex didn't really know what to expect when he woke, but it was not to see Yassen and K-unit sitting by the fire drinking tea and talking. None of them were armed and they all seemed quite relaxed. He couldn't hear what they were talking about, but from the looks on their faces it seemed quite serious. They had yet to notice that he had awoken so he decided to just observe.

Wolf hadn't really changed much since the last time he saw him, but he seemed almost mad and so did the others. When Yassen moved a bit Alex was shocked to see that Ben was there. The last he had heard, Ben was on vacation after being shot, why would he be here with the rest of his Unit.

"If you are done lazing around Alex, why don't you come sit with us?" Yassens voice snapped him out of his musing. Alex knew that even though Yassen had voiced the sentence as a question it was really an order, and Alex did not want to take the chance of breaking it. For some reason Alex did not want to disappoint Yassen.

He hurried over to the men and sat down on the free spot next to Yassen. He smiled a greeting to the soldiers and ended up sitting there shuffling his feet anxiously. He really didn't like to be starred at. His uncle had once told him that Alex was the most invisible person he had ever met. Some of his friends had even given him the nickname Shadow, because he was so good at sneaking around and never getting caught. So sitting in front of four SAS soldiers that starred holes through him was really not comfortable.

Yassen seemed to know what he was thinking as he started the conversation again. "These soldiers showed up a while ago looking for you Lexi." Alex was startled by the nickname, but didn't really mind and he could feel something warm his chest. "They claim to know you" Yassen continued like nothing had happened and Alex felt himself calm down. He was so caught up in his mind that he didn't notice that Yassen was finished talking and was waiting for him to say something, he flushed.

"What?" Alex asked and ducked his head when Yassen raised his eyebrows at him.

"Welcome back to earth, are you ready to follow the conversation?" Alex nodded again.

"I know them, I trained with them at br…" the soldiers snapped their gazes to him and he quickly rephrased his sentence. "At their camp before the first mission I did for MI6" Alex said quietly and Yassen starred at them.

Yassen knew that Alex wasn't telling him everything, but he decided to let it go for now. However Alex saw the determined look in his eyes and decided to just tell the rest at once. "I then meet those two" he pointed at Ben and Wolf, "during different missions and they both saved my life." Alex got a thought full expression on his face before he continued. "Oh and that one" he pointed at Ben "was the one who shot the man who killed John Rider."

The soldiers were grateful that he didn't tell the assassin their names, but they were surprised at how much classified information he gave away. The assassin looked at Alex for a while. "Do you trust them? They came here to bring you back to MI6." He said and Alex looked over at the soldiers.

"I do trust them, but that does not mean that I will come with them of my own will." Alex stated and Yassen gained a proud shine in his eyes.

Yassen looked smugly over at the soldiers, "and what if I told you to go with them, would you go by your own will then or would you still fight them." Alex bit his lip and met Yassens eyes. Yassen saw the uncertainty in them and smiled reassuringly at him, "I will either come with you or come to collect you later." He whispered.

Alex smiled. "Then I would go with them." He said and the soldiers gained a goobsmacked expression.

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Sorry for the very short chapter, but I thought you might like to have a short one now, and not a long one in a couple of weeks. Please review.