Later that evening after Keegan and Logan were both asleep, Alex found herself in the Operations Room with Elias and Merrick. She was sitting in the one chair behind the computer facing her brother and commander who were sitting in chairs across from her. "Well I'd say that was a successful mission…" Alex breathed out. "I'd say your right." Elias seconded. "With the vessel eliminated, nothing stands between us and the Federation's weapon building in Brazil."
"What's the plan here Elias?" Merrick asked.
"You two and the others are going to infiltrate the facility and find out what exactly it is they're building." Elias informed them.
"What about Rorke?" Ales questioned. "Ever since he brought down our plane we haven't been paying much attention to him."
"After that missile launch we saw, Rorke hasn't been top priority." Elias explained.
"I know that, but I don't think we should forget he's still out there."
"We aren't Alex." Merrick told her. "We know he's out there."
"But are we keeping a close enough eye on him?"
Elias let out a breath. "Elias he killed Ajax and he almost killed us." Alex reminded him. "We've been so focused on the missiles and the Federation's weaponry that the whole Rorke situation seems distant."
"It isn't forgotten Alexandra." Elias said. Ah geez he used her full name. "Rorke is a priority, but the lives of thousands of people are at stake. If we don't stop whatever it is the Federation is doing, there will be a whole new brand of hell waiting." Alex stood up after a few seconds. "I'm going to bed." She told them. "I'll see you in the morning." Without another word, Alex left the room and headed towards hers.
While Alex walked towards her room, thoughts of Rorke were filling her head. They weren't keeping a close enough eye on him. He could be planning something. Or already have something planned. Either way it was going to come around and bite them in the ass if they didn't figure out what Rorke was up to. He was being too quiet. It was setting off alarms in Alex's head and she knew if they didn't get their attention back on Rorke soon, it would screw them in the end.
As Alex headed back to her room and thought about the whole Rorke situation, she rounded a corner and walked straight into someone. "Sorry." She instantly said. When she looked up she saw it was Logan. What was he doing out of bed? "It's okay." he told her. He went to walk past her, but she stopped him. "What are you doing up?" she asked. "I thought you'd be dead to the world." Logan met her blue eyes with his brown ones. Alex immediately knew from the look in his eye something was up. "What's wrong?" she questioned.
"I can't sleep." He said.
"Why?"
"Too much pain…"
Alex looked at him for a moment before glancing at his side where his hand was. She dropped her shoulders and let out a breath. After looking down both halls, she told Logan to come with her. "Where to?" he wondered. Alex led him down the hall towards the infirmary. "The nurses here suck. Let me see what they messed up." was all she answered with.
When they got into the infirmary there wasn't anyone there at this hour, so it was empty. Alex went over to the drawers and pulled out hydrogen peroxide and wipes. "Let me see your side." Alex said, unscrewing the cap of the bottle. Logan pulled his shirt off, revealing a large bandage. Alex peeled it off carefully, revealing dozens of small, bleeding holes in his side. "Jesus Christ, what happened?" she asked as she dabbed the area with the disinfectant. "Got pinned down by pieces of wood." Logan told her. Alex cleaned the area and then dabbed a cream on it. "What is that stuff?" he asked, instantly feeling relief in his side from it. Alex smiled. "It's an anti-inflammatory cream." She told him. "It makes the injuries "cool down" pursay." She put a new bandage on it and saw relief on Logan's face. "Thank you." He said.
"How's your arm? Heard you got it crushed."
"I had a dislocated elbow, but they popped it back in on the way back. Still hurts like a bitch, though."
Alex walked over to the cabinet and pulled out a bottle of pain killers. She shook two out of the container and handed them to Logan. "Take these." She told him. "Best pain killers on the market." Logan took them and popped them back and swallowed them. "Thanks." He said.
"Now that that's out of the way, do yourself a favor and get some sleep."
The two walked out of the infirmary and headed back towards the rooms. "I appreciate you hanging out with Hesh today." Logan said as they walked. "Every time I go out without him he gets really stressed."
"No problem. I know what it's like to have a brother out there without me." Alex told him.
"Well I appreciate it, a lot."
The two arrived back at the rooms and Alex stopped in front of her door. "I'll see you in the morning." She told Logan before heading back into her room. "See ya." He said before she closed the door.
When Alex got into her room, she kicked her shoes off as she walked over to her bed and pulled her hair out of the ponytail it was in. She ended up leaving a trail of clothes on her way to her bed so by the time she was there, she was just wearing her long sleeved shirt. Pulling the sheets back, she slipped into her bed and was instantly surrounded by warmth. Sleep overtook her in a matter of minutes and she fell asleep to the thoughts of her and Hesh's day together.
OOOOO
The next morning, Alex woke up to Merrick sitting on her bed side as he gently shook her awake. "Come on little sister." He said quietly. "Time to wake up." Alex opened her eyes and looked at her brother. "Five more minutes." She said as she closed her eyes again. Merrick stood up and pulled the blankets off of her. Alex curled up into a ball and buried her face in her pillow. "Not gonna work." She said. Merrick walked over and picked her up out of the bed and threw her over his shoulder. He carried her over to her closet and set her down, telling her to get dressed. "You know I have my alarm set, but you always wake me up forty five minutes before I plan it goes off." She pointed out.
"Because I know you will hit snooze three times before actually getting up which is why you are fifteen minutes late to briefings half the time." Merrick said. "So if I have to pull the big brother card I will."
Alex smiled and opened her closet. Merrick picked her blankets up off of the floor and put them back on the bed, stretching them out so it was somewhat made. "If you aren't in the Operations Room in fifteen minutes I will come back and drag you there." Merrick teased as he walked towards the door.
"Love you too." Alex said.
"Love you, Alex." With that, Merrick walked out and closed the door behind him.
Alex was dressed and cleaned up in a matter of a few minutes and made her bed and picked the clothes up off the floor before leaving her room. She was walking towards the Operations Room when someone called her name from behind. Turning around she saw it was Hesh. She smiled as he approached her and he put an arm around her shoulders when he was close enough. "Briefing?" he asked as they walked.
"Yeah." Alex confirmed.
"Looks like we're going back to Brazil."
"It all goes back to where it started."
Hesh smiled as they approached the Operations Room and walked in to find everyone else there. Merrick looked up and saw his sister was on time and Hesh's arm was around her. He shot Hesh a look and he immediately removed his arm from Alex's shoulders and retreated next to Logan.
"Keegan and Logan were successful in their mission, so with the LCS at the bottom of the ocean, nothing stands between us and the weapons factory." Elias began. "I'm sending all of you in there to find out what exactly the Federation is building in terms of weapons. We know its big, but the question is how big?"
"Go in quiet leave loud." Alex said. "Seems like the only way to go about this."
"Correct. You'll get dropped off a few miles away from the facility and breach through the side perimeter. You know what to do from there."
"Exactly what we're trained to do." Keegan said. "Do what has to be done."
This kind of just a filler chapter, but I don't know when I will update again because I have a lot of things going on with school right now so I wanted to give you something while I had the time just in case. Anyway R&R!