Hello again I'm back after disappearing for awhile. To those of you who sent me PMs- I'm not ignoring you, I just haven't gotten to answer them since this small upheaval in my everyday life. But it's mostly stable again so I can post and answer PMs and read reviews. Speaking of which thanks for all the reviews you guys have sent me.
Now this chapter is about the next session that Alex is dragged into and sort of sets the stage for the sort of hot water that the team is going to be in, in a little while. By the time they leave this place (which they will) it will have been critical that they did. Meaning if they'd had to wait any longer someone would have died.
Note: I realize now that the members of K-unit were all described as being in their mid twenties in the books but for my own purposes including establishing the dynamics of each character and their interaction with one another their ages a spread apart. Soon I won't do all this explaining; I'll just send you to the bios but until then…
Note: Caught in the Crossfire will be updated soon but I only have like one and a half more short chapters before I run out of prewritten stuff so don't expect anymore updates soon.
Onward.
Day four and everyone was complaining after a meager meal of a slice of bread each when the door opened again. The men knew it was coming and had been preparing for it. Alex shrank into the corner out of sheer terror of it.
Two men had come this time, equipped with tasers to forcefully detach Alex from his unit again.
The members of K-unit put up an impressive fight despite their waning strength. But when the guards finally subdued them with their tasers and made their way over to Alex in the corner, the battle was lost.
Alex crouched down, determined not to go without a fight, and waited for one of the men to get within striking range before lashing out viciously at the knee, aiming for strategic weak spots rather than relying on his vanishing strength. He nearly caught the bastard but the man was able to dodge it because of Alex's slowed reflexes.
The other man made the mistake of bending over him backwards to grab him around the chest so Alex drove his elbow into the man midsection up into his diaphragm, thoroughly winding him. The second man, growing impatient grabbed him around the neck as he came out of the crouch and rammed him into the wall. Before his head smacked it though, Alex rolled across the wall to avoid the punch the man aimed at his stomach. But the second that his back was to the shorter, hot-tempered man, was enough to allow the guard to press his face to the wall cutting the maneuver short and then repeatedly slam his damaged hand against the wall until Alex sank down to the floor, his knees weakened by the onslaught of agony.
As they triumphantly dragged him from the room he grabbed a hold of Wolf's hand with his own good one trying one last time to avoid capture as his comrades tried desperately to clear the haze and act as well. Wolf held on tightly and tried to pull him back in. Alex also gripped his hand as tightly as he could so as not to lose his grip even when Wolf's faltered from another round of tasering. Wolf was consequently dragged out of the door as well since the guards didn't want any other team members to recover and resume the assault.
"You want to see the little brat get tortured, fine by me." The short tempered guard spat at Wolf, binding his partially dazed form. "I promise you that it won't be boring, as a matter of fact you can help us."
Wolf shook his head to clear it enough to take note of their surroundings, but it was a short walk down the hall to a room at the end that was apparently the torture room. The room itself was very large but there seemed to be three much smaller rooms within it; two of which were made of dirty Plexiglas and one was dark brown brick like the rest of the compound. In the area around the small rooms were chairs that were apparently bolted to the floor alternating with hand cuffs hanging from the high ceiling each mode of restraint being at least 2 meters from the other. After looking around Wolf suddenly got the impression that they were underground.
As he was being chained to one of the restraints hanging from the ceiling he noticed that the same was being done to Alex in one of the see-through rooms where he was then dowsed with water. Wolf wondered, watching carefully, what were they going to do to Alex this time but his vigilance was suddenly broken when his captor, having finished securing him, punched him in the stomach hard. Had the restraints not been there Wolf would have doubled over completely but his mid section was instead left vulnerable to the kicks that followed. When the man stopped Wolf's entire midsection was severely bruised so that he couldn't quite stand.
"That will teach you to fight back when you're in here." The man spat on him.
"I will always fight back you scum sucking low life. " Wolf growled out after spitting out a mouthful of blood. "To the death." That earned him a solid punch in the jaw that rocked his already aching head. The enraged guard was about to continue when the leader stopped him.
He was standing at the door to enter the mini room where Alex was but he paused to address Wolf.
"We need information that you all have, Wolf." The man was obviously pleased with the fact that he knew their code names. "But you all won't cooperate. Since we apparently can't separate the Wolf from his Cub, the outcome of this session will directly depend on just how much you would care to see the boy suffer; because if you don't answer my questions things will get real bad for Cub over here. Do I make myself clear?"
Wolf glanced over at Alex, who was shivering, most likely from fear and then reluctantly nodded at the man.
"Good."
He went into the room where Alex was, and closed the transparent door.
"Who do you work for Wolf?" the man asked through the surprisingly porous material.
A second's hesitation, "The SAS."
"And who does the kid work for?"
"He's just a child." Wolf remarked
The man suddenly smacked Alex across the face powerfully. "That's not what I asked!"
Wolf swore under his breath "MI6"
"Good. What is his involvement with Scorpia? How did he end up over there if he works for MI6?"
"I was never told that he was Scorpia." Wolf answered, mildly surprised by this.
"Either you don't care about the boy or else you don't get what I'm saying. What was the kid doing with Scorpia; was he an assassin, did he work undercover? WHAT was he doing with them?"
"I don't know!"
The man scowled furiously and picked up an electrical device known as a picana. Another man turn on the switch on the box it was connected to. "Now do you know?!" The leader shouted suddenly jabbing Alex in the side of his neck with it causing him to scream in surprise and then pain. "Now do you know?!"
Before Wolf could do more damage with his ignorance, Alex spoke up despite the threat of punishment if he spoke without being asked.
"He doesn't know," he gasped out in one breath "I went there myself and then worked undercover for one mission. Nobody knew about it; only MI6."
The man turned off the equipment so Alex could speak more clearly.
"Who was the director when this happened?" he demanded
"Julia Rothman," Alex managed through violently chattering teeth. Somehow they were keeping the room freezing cold and it was rapidly seeping through his bare skin.
"Does any one in Scorpia know you personally?'
Alex was shaking uncontrollably in his chains. "Everyone who did is dead."
"Really?"
A different man, an oriental, perhaps Japanese, snorted in disgust. "How do we know if this is true?"
The leader nodded "I have thought of that," He turned to Alex, whose eyes had drifted shut and slapped him in the face to wake him up. "Name those you say knew you. If they are not dead you will be, because I have no use for FIGs and I have ways of knowing."
Alex was undoubtedly confused by the term but he answered truthfully, confident that no one had come back from the dead.
"Julia Rothman, her assistant Nile, and Yassen Gregorovich."
"Check them." he ordered the Japanese man
"Back to you, Wolf." he continued
Alex stiffened
"Who sent you here?"
"MI6"
"You were sent to investigate bombings right?"
"Yes"
"Then you admit that you were not carrying the boy to Jordan to witness."
"Yes"
"A penalty for the lie." the man announced, looking for a chance to do something to Alex. He hated him from the beginning and also harbored an intense dislike for children in general.
Alex was shocked awake, screaming again as the current coursed through his cold body. When it ended he was sweating despite the cold.
"You fucking bastard. I answer your questions and you do it anyway. DAMN YOU! Damn you to hell!" Wolf yelled indignantly rattling his chains.
The guard who continually stood next to him suddenly slammed Wolf across the face with a solid plastic baton. Wolf felt two of his teeth loosen and blood well up in his mouth from biting his tongue.
The leader ignored his outburst completely. "Who is responsible for the bombings?"
"I don't know!" Wolf snapped spitting out the blood disgusted by the coppery taste of it and all the while fearing what was happening to Alex. His skin had a blue tinge to it now and you could see his breath from time to time when he breathed. He was sagging in his chains and seemed to be mostly unconscious.
The man shook his head in annoyance and went back into the room with Alex after having come out for a respite from the cold.
"Then you say that your investigation failed?"
"We didn't investigate anything yet."
The man gave the activated device to another guard who gladly used it while he came out to talk to Wolf face to face.
"Why do you insist to lie and hurt the child? If you did not investigate anything why were you headed to Jordan?"
"We weren't on our way to Jordan. We came to investigate, but we didn't do it yet."
"Lies, lies, lies."
Alex's screams had begun to fade despite the fact that the assault continued.
"Why can't you speak the truth? What is the name of the organization you found."
"We didn't find anything!" Wolf was frantic for Alex's torture to stop before they killed him
"Yes you did. That's why you were going to Jordan."
"I just told you we weren't going!"
"So if you lied about that, how do I know what is true now?"
The torture continued and Alex's body jerked silently
"If you-" the man was interrupted by Wolf, who in a frenzy of fury, mustered the strength to kick him in the stomach with both feet sending the man flying.
"Shut the fuck up you sadistic freak. We didn't look yet you so leave him alone!"
The man crashed to the floor painfully but he quickly, angrily got up and beat Wolf in a mostly one-sided fight that left him barely responsive. His head smacked the wall repeatedly in addition to the severe bruising of his mid section.
The man went back into the room were Alex was, panting with rage. "Take him down!" he barked. They unlocked the cuffs and Alex collapsed to the floor in an unconscious heap his limbs still jerking.
"Undo the other one too and send them back to the cell and don't help them. I'm finished for now." He rubbed his wrist were he had fallen on it. "This is going to be harder than I thought."
"Eagle, it's not going to budge; get off of the door!" Snake shouted
"It's better than sitting on my arse in the corner covering my ears!" Eagle yelled back. Before Snake could make a comeback, the sound of Alex's screaming hit them again long and continual until it finally faded away. Eagle's body fairly shook with rage. He was a hot-tempered person to begin with and he felt that unless one of the bastards presented themselves for killing soon he was going to burst. The helplessness was driving him crazy. For the moment he was channeling his anger into the door. All he had done so far was break a finger and bruise his shoulder, but he was so consumed by anger and worry that he hadn't yet noticed any of the injuries.
"You're not doing any good Jake, go sit down some where and save your strength for something good instead of wearing down the middle of the door!"
"You can just sit over there with your cold-blooded self and shutout the sound; you can be indifferent to it because you're heartless and selfish. But I can't sit and do nothing!" Eagle roared back, thoroughly infuriated by his inability to do anything and by Snake's silent, seemingly blank faced, indifference.
"The reason why you can't is because you're stupid and immature. You're too naïve to know when its time lay low and be quiet. You're just a kid! As a matter of fact you're too young to have come on this mission at all. Kids don't belong on missions like these; they end up messing up everything!" Snake shot back
Snake's remark surprised even Fox who had been trying to remain indifferent to their arguing ever since Wolf and Alex had been taken. It surprised him because although it was true that Eagle was young, only 22, he was also one of the most valuable members of the team and to be quite truthful Eagle hadn't done anything to mess up the mission. But the way Snake put it made it seems as though he actually looked down on Eagle because of his age.
Snake was the oldest member of the group. He had been in the military since he was 18 and now that he was in his early thirties he'd seen much more than Wolf and Eagle. So sometimes he though of them as inexperienced when compared to him. Sometimes he was able to give them some good advice because of it. But he was also a little rough around the edges when it came to telling people how he felt and you often founding him making a seemingly harsh statement but not regretting it.
"It's good to know how you really feel Snake." Eagle hissed, obviously hurt by what he thought was Snake's true feelings. "It's amazing what you can find out under the right- or maybe the wrong circumstances."
He turned to continue his work on the door when it suddenly swung open revealing Wolf stumbling through the doorway with an unconscious Alex clutched close to his chest. Wolf himself looked about ready to collapse as the guard behind them slammed the door shut.
Well I have to go now because I'm very hard press to quit what I'm doing right now but as always please review. Good nite