Chapter 7:
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It had been quiet for only half an hour before the door was thrown open once again, startling the four men out of their thoughts. Josh's guards came marching in, followed closely by the man himself.
"I see that the shot I gave Alex is working nicely. Put them back in their cells but bring Rider." The guards quickly complied with what he said, wrestling Wolf, Eagle, and Snake back into their cells before ripping Alex away from Ben and throwing him back in his cell as well. The dragged Alex away, as if he matter little more than dog shit. "Don't worry, he'll be back. I won't promise that he'll be in good shape though." The door shut as his laughter rang in their ears.
Wolf broke the silence with a whispered "Shit," before getting up from the floor and pacing his cell.
"The kids dead." Eagle whispered.
"Have some faith in him guys, he's been through a lot. I'm sure he'll make it through this. He'll be scared that's for sure and in more ways than one, but he'll make." Ben didn't know everything about the kid but from the haunted look in his eyes and the mask he kept in place of his emotions, he could tell that he had already been through a lot. His nightmare and the way he was able to easily bandage his own foot before get back on it in less than a minute told him he had been injured more than a kid his age should have been, and Ben had a feeling those injuries were no accidents.
It didn't take long before Snake lost his patience with Wolf's pacing and quickly told him to stop before he found a way to reach through the cells and kick his arse. Wolf compiled and fell back to the floor, losing himself in his thoughts once again.
It didn't take long before he opened his mouth again, this time with a valuable question "Why is Cub being tortured? And why has he been so obviously tortured in the past? He's only fourteen! What could he have possibly done that would provoke someone to torture him to the point of vivid nightmares?"
"Once again Wolf, I wish I knew. Sadly Cub doesn't trust us enough to tell us anything about himself." Snake shook his head. He was a strong believer in the 'if you talk about it, you will feel better' method of things, but it was quite obvious Alex was not. No one had even tried before now, but Alex made it clear that he was not willing to talk about anything in his personal life, including anything that may or may not have been life threatening.
"Can you really blame him? We treated him like crap the first time we meet him. When he came back, we completely ignored him. We haven't' done anything to gain his trust to begin with. I mean if I was him, I would hate us too." It was seldom that Eagle said something wise, but in times like these Eagle was not the same as the man they knew at camp. He always tried to put himself in others people shoes. That's what made him a good solider. He would try and thing of what the enemy would do before they could follow it through.
"So what are we supposed to do? Sit around and wait for them to bring Cub back and then try and make things better as we patch the poor kids wounds up?" Wolf was pacing again and Snake looked ready to throw a brick at his head as the pounding of his boots on the concrete floor echoed around the room, causing his headache to only intensified.
"It's the best we can do right now. So sit down and stop pacing before I kill you. Maybe that's how I'll make it to Cub's good side. You were always the worst to him." Snake rubbed at his pounding head as Wolf took a seat on the ground once again, preparing to wait and joining in the silent prayers that Alex would be okay when he was finally brought back to them.