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Alex PoV:
Phew that was a close one. What kind of SAS men are they if they fall for the simplest of tricks. I wait until they all are asleep then get back inside. I lie on my bed and try not to sleep. When I sleep the nightmares come, and that's not what I want.
I hardly get any sleep. 1 hour most and I am forced to live though flashbacks and nightmares. There really is no point of sleeping.
I try to keep my self awake but I can't do it for long and I sink into the darkness of my nightmares.
It's the same one as yesterday.
I am walking through a long corridor and there are rooms on either side. The doors are all locked and I feel the urge to hide. I start running down the corridor trying to open the doors but none of them open. I hear footsteps behind me. I run faster.
I find a door that is unlocked.
I open it and dash inside only to find jacks dead body infront of me. I scream. "JACK."
Suddenly I hear evil laughter being me. I turn around to see non other than julius grief. He grabs me and tries me to a pole. then I hear it. The sound of a whip. I look to a side and see a every single person that I have defeated. Grinning maliciously.
I know what is going on. Sayle is first. He whips me. Then grief. Then sarov. Then cray. Then rothman. The major yu. Then McCain. Then Razim.
I'm screaming , screaming for them to stop. I can't do anything about it.
Snake PoV:
I wake up shivering and wonder why. Then I remember the window was left open. I walk over to close it and as I'm walking back I hear some thrashing and heavy breathing.
I look to see non other than cub sweating in his bed. Thrashing like a wild animal. Tangled up in his sheets. I walk over to him. I realise he is having a nightmare.
Suddenly he screams. "Jack"
Wolf and eagle jump up to the sound and I motion for them to come over.
As they make their way cub starts screaming silently. As if he put himself on mute. But he still is screaming. He looks like he is pain. He screams and screams and then he starts crying. Tears rolling down. He starts begging.
"Stop! Please stop."
My strong sas heart breaks at the pleading and hopelessness in his voice. I look to wolf and eagle and they feel the same thing. We make a silent agreement and wake him up.
But as soon as wolf lays a hand on cub, he springs into action. He punches wolf in the stomach with so much force that he is winded. I then make my way to cub but he jumps of the bed and swings his legs knocking me over. Eagle then tries to stop him but
cub pushes him against the wall and makes attempts to strangle.
"CUB" I scream
Alex PoV:
Suddenly I see three people make their leaning over me and I don't know who they are. Probably more enemies. I Spring into action and two on the floor and one in my grasp.
Suddenly I hear it.
"CUB"
I freeze. I'm confused. Then I realise where I am. I look infront of me and see eagle, with a fearful look in his eyes. Snake and wolf are both on the floor.
I let go quickly. I start panicking. What have I done. I can't believe I did that. What is wrong with me.
I make accidental eye contact with snake and wolf and see confusion and curiosity in them.
I can't do this.
I run out of the hut and into the night time air.
3rd PoV :
Snake wolf and eagle look at each other wondering what the hell happened
Eagle is the first one to speak.
"There is something seriously wrong with cub"
We nod. Then we see the time. 5:30am.
"Looks like we have to get ready for breakfast" wolf speaks.
They get up and get and one by one take a shower. Then they made their way to the canteen.
There they saw cub sitting down on Kunit's table having breakfast. Face closed. Devoid of any emotion.
He seems oblivious to all the staring. Well what do you expect. He looks like a child. 17. And his presence is an insult to the soldiers.
3rd from Kunit's pov
We get breakfast and make our way to sit down. Nobody says anything. The tension is so high you could cut it with a blunt knife.
Suddenly one brave or stupid man makes his way over to cub and taps him on the soldier. Before anyone could blink, cub had the man in a dangerous position with the mans head in Cubs hand. One move and the man died.
"What the hell?"
Cub looks at the man and let's go straight away.
"Sorry. Reflexes"
"What sort of reflexes are that kid?"
"I'm not a kid"
Cub says that sentence with a threatening to it and if it wasn't for his "reflexes" the man would have laughed.
"Whatever"
The man walks back to his table seemingly forgotten about what he was going to say.
Everybody in the canteen stares at cub.
Cub sits back down with a slight tinge of red in his cheeks.
Seeing the tension in the air, wolf attempts to make a conversation with cub.
"So cub have you ever heard of a person called Alex rider"
Cub visibly tensed at the name. Confused, Wolf acknowledges it but dismisses it.
"Um no. Why?"
"Come on cub. Don't tell me that you have never heard of Alex rider. The famous agent." This was eagle. Oh how much eagle loved the Alex rider stories. Eagle launched into his explanation.
"Nobody has ever seen this agent in action but there have been rumours about him. Rumours that are so unbelievable, so crazy, that people have began to think that he is a myth." Eagle loved telling stories too. The whole canteen has stopped to listen
to eagles story. They will never admit it but they loved the Alex rider stories too. I mean who couldn't.
"The rumours say that he once went to this SaS camp. Nobody knows when. Then on his first mission he saved all of school children in Britain from evil computers. He then went to America and saved the world from a nuclear attack. Now here is where the
story gets unbelievable. He was seen on the presidential plane and saved the world then. Some say he even came across the worlds top assassin yassen gregorovich. And survived, highly unlikely, though that is controversial. Then some rumours went as
far as he went up to space. After that rumour nobody knows what to believe. Some say he was in austrailia. Others say he was in America. Some say in the Amazon. And some far fetched rumours which no one believes says he went up against scorpia." Eagle
scoffed "He may be amazing but scorpia is just too far. Anyway. Nobody knows who this agent works for. Some say cia some say mi6 and some say asis wherever he is and wherever he works , he is known as a hero. Alex rider the superspy. 100% success
rate. Saved the world many times"
Eagle told this story like you would tell a mystery story and the whole canteen was hooked.
Suddenly cub stood up. Startling everyone. He looked angry. The look in his eyes could kill. He then walked out.
Everybody stared.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LADIES DOING SITTING DOWN GOSSIPING LIKE A BUNCH OF OLD WOMEN AT BINGO. GET OUT OF HERE AND GO DO YOUR ACTIVITIES."
At that everybody jumped and raced out.
Alex PoV:
ARGHHHH those stupid sas soldiers with their stupid rumours. They way eagle told it made it look like I'm a myth. That everything I've been through is something out of a children's story. And all that about scorpia. Damn yes I've "gone against scorpia.
"Some far fetched rumour" I scoffed at that. that wasn't even half of my story. What will they do when they realise that the famous Alex rider is actually a 15 year old. When they realise that he has defeated scorpia not once but twice. What will
they-
Stop this Alex. Stop it. Your Wall is shaking. You need to hold it steady.
They won't find out because you won't let them. Let them live in their delusional world. Their ignorance proves their innocence and just because you wish you were ignorant doesn't give you the right to unleash your anger.
I walked to our fist activity which was combat training. This was going to be good. Maybe I can get some revenge.
I walk in and a couple of minutes later the rest of k unit join me. I can tell they are shooting coded looks behind my back but I couldn't bring my self to care.
Wolf speaks up.
"Ok cub, as this is your first combat training since you came back. We want to test how much you improved, if at all." He allowed himself a little smirk.
"So what we are going to do is me snake and eagle are going to go against you. We will play attack and you defend. The aim is to see how fast you can stay up. We will not be holding back"
You won't but I will. Alex smiled at that thought. He couldn't risk killing any of them.
They began circling cub. Wolf was the first to attack. Alex dodged easily. Then snake. Then eagle. Then all of them. Alex kept dodging and blocking but someone landed a punch on his arm. He didn't gasp in pain or any of that sort. No something else happened.
Wolf saw it first. Cubs eyes became glazed. His eyes hardened and it looked like he was lost in his own world. He then began to attack. Attack with such ferocity that all the others could was block and dodge but not the same as cub. They were too
slow and cub was too fast. Cub was dangerous. The implications were undesirable.
When Alex got punched, the wall in his mind slipped a bit as he remembered the pain and all he saw was Nile and julius grief and dr three coming at him. He knew that if they got him he will be tortured. His man became empty of all thought but one: He
had to get away.
He began to attack them. His will power growing stronger. Adrenaline rushing through him, coursing through his veins. In a matter of minutes he had then on the floor. That's when he realised who they were and remembered where he was.
Snake was on the floor before he even realised what was happening. He managed to get a look at cub and saw the intention of killing in Cubs eyes. They we determined and powered by anger. This was not the cub he knew. This was a different person. A war
veterinarian going through flashbacks. As a unit medic and studier of phycology, snake recognised the signs of ptsd but dismissed the though. Cub was too young.
Now he looked at cub and saw the realisation dawn on cub. Snake realised is was safe to get up and walked over to cub. But wolf spoke first.
"What the hell was that cub?"
"I'm sorry" Cubs voiced in a hoarse whisper.
"sorry? SORRY?" Oh no wolf was getting angry. He had a temper and now his pride has been punctured.
"ONE MOMENT YOU WERE DEFENDING AND THEN OUT OF NOWHERE YOU BEGAN TO ATTACK LIKE GOD KNOWS WHAT AND THEN YOU SAY SORRY?"
Cub looked down. At that moment who looked less like a soldier and more like a child receiving a stern talking to.
"I didn't mean to"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T MEAN TOO? WHATEVER THAT WAS CUB,IT WAS DANGEROUS. MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN"
"Yes sir"
Snake could see that wolf was calming down.
"Come on guys it's time for swimming. We better not be late. " curiosity was coursing through snake but he knew there was a time and place for everything.
Eagle nodded enthusiastically. Wolf glared and cub just got up. Face once again devoid of any emotion. This face was usually seen on soldiers, on a 17 year old, it was just wrong.
Everyone followed him in silence. Like the calm before the storm, Alex thought.
They reached the lake and everyone began to take the shirt off. Everyone that is except cub.
"Come on cub take your shirt off and get inside" wolf said impatiently.
"Umm is it ok if I swim with my shirt on?" Alex asked looking at his feet.
"why in the world would you want to do that" snake asked. " it'll only slow you down"
"I just don't feel comfortable taking it off"
"Why? Are you hiding something?" Wolf mocked. Little did he realise that cub tensed at the accusation.
"No. I just don't want too"
"Fine then" wolf waved him off impatiently. " as long as you can keep up"
The SAS soldiers dismissed this as embarrassment.
And so they began.
Not only did Alex keep up but he beat everyone else in record breaking time.
"Where" eagle gasped taking in as much oxygen as possible" in the world did you learn how to swim like that" he breathed.
Alex smiled. "If you were chased by a shark, you would swim like that too"
The others stared,shocked into silence.
Alex held the silence for 3 seconds then burst out laughing.
"why you little-" wolf began only to be cut off by cub.
"Language wolf"
Wolf glared at Alex. One of his scariest glares. Everyone else flinched. But not Alex. When facing the worst madmen the world has to offer, little wolf glares are childish.
"Stop glaring wolf. It ruins your beautiful face"
Alex then took off running chased by a threatening wolf who was followed by two shocked sas man. Nobody ever dared say anything like that to wolf.
They had to go save cub.
They followed wolf and cub to the hut but stopped when they saw a smiling Alex pinning down a furious wolf.
"Eagle station yourself to keep wolf away from cub. Cub get of wolf." Snake ordered
Alex got off wolf but in the moment before eagle caught him, wolf kicked out and struck Alex in the chest. Right where bullet scar was. Alex let out a gasp, cluched his chest in extreme agony but forced down the scream.
"cub are you ok" snake asked recognising the signs of intense pain.
"Yh I'm good" he managed to gasp out.
Snake didn't think so, but let it drop.
Half an hour later when wolf had calmed and everyone was sitting in awkward silence wondering how they were supposed to use this time to 'bond'.
snake snapped his fingers.
"I knew I forgot something. Cub as your unit medic I need to do a full check up on you to make sure you are able to do all activities"
Alex's eyes widened. " no snake it's fine you don't have to"
"Cub" eagle warned" don't say no to snake when he is in medic zone"
But cub didn't listen. Alex didn't know what would happen if he took of his shirt. Questions to say the least.
" no-"
"Cub this is no time for your embarrassment, just take the damn shirt off and let my check up on you"
Cub shook his head. "I'm fine. I can do all the exercises. What could I possible have the could stop me from doing the exercises"
"Listen cub, this is an examination. I have to check to make sure you are ok. If there is nothing wrong then what are you worried about" snake tried.
Alex shook his head
" you either do this the easy way or the hard way" wolf threatened
Alex shook his head.
"Hard way it is then"
With three sas men ganging up on him, Alex knew that he couldn't escape without hurting any one them. But that didn't mean he was going to lie down and let them walk all over him. He would decide what the see and what they don't.
Backing up against the wall, to take his shirt off, Alex began to analyse his situation. His back against the wall meant that the worst burns and scars and whips were hidden. And if he took his shirt off in a certain way and clutched it against
his chest , he could keep the bullet scar hidden. That left his torso. Littered with knife cuts and burns. But you can't hide everything. Alex sighed mentally. This was not going to end up good.
He took his shirt of keeping his back to the wall and clutching his shirt to cover his front . He couldn't do it. He couldn't show them.
Wolf didn't understand why the kid didn't want to take his shirt off. Surely he wasn't that shy. Cub took his shirt of slowly and clutched it to his chest covering most of his front. What was strange was that their were a couple of cuts creeping out from
under the shirt and they looked strange yet familiar. He couldn't put his finger on why.
"Put your shirt down cub. I need to actually see your body to examine it"
Cub shook his head. He did not want to do this.
"Cub. I cannot see how healthy you are if you are keeping the shirt like that. So stop being such a baby and let go of the damn shirt."
Cub seemed defeated and two words escaped his lips before he let the shirt down keeping his arm crossed over his heart.
"I'm sorry"
Three SAS men drew sharp intakes of breath at the sight infront of them. A child's body was there littered with scars varying in cuts and sizes.
Alex couldn't look at any of them. He didn't know what to expect. He knew that he won't see the normal expressions. And he didn't want to see any sympathy or pity.
Snake walked over to cub to get a better look at... At, he didn't know what that was.
"Cub turn around"
Alex shook his head, hand never leaving his heart.
" cub" snake warned.
Alex shook his head.
Snake walked over to Alex and grabbed him be the shoulder to turn him around.
As snake saw the mutilated back he let out a gasp and some incoherent swear words " cub what's happened to you" he asked in barely more than a whisper
"Snake what wrong" wolf asked.
Snake moved out of the way still staring and 3 SAS men gasped.
" cub what the hell has happened to you" wolf asked.
Alex tried to turn back around but snake didn't let him. Alex used both his hands to move snakes hand realising too late that he let his bullet show.
"Cub IS THAT A BULLET SCAR?"
Alex flinched and shook his head trying to cover his scar before the others saw.
"No it's not."
Wolf then came over and forcefully removed Alex's hands.
"CUB HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET A BULLET IN THE HEART."
"It's three centimetres above my heart actually"
"CUB HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET HIT BY A BULLET"
"It's not important"
Wolf let out a maniac laugh."HOW THE HELL IS A BULLET WOUND NOT IMPORTANT?"
"Why do you care?"
"WHY DO I CARE? BECAUSE THE YOUNGEST PERSON IN MY UNIT HAS A FLIPPING BULLET SCAR RIGHT ABOVE HIS HEART AND HE DIDNT BOTHER TO TELL ANYONE. HE COULD HAVE GOT SERIOUSLY INJURED. AND NOW HE REFUSES TO TELL ME WHY!"
"Cub have you been tortured?" Everyone turned to look at snake.
"What" eagle asked
Suddenly it clicked for wolf.
"Those marks. On your back and your front. Their torture marks aren't they?"
Alex looked at his feet and nodded.
"Who would do such a thing to a kid?" Eagle asked.
At this Alex looked up, eyes filled with hatred and anger.
"I'm not a kid."
At this Alex picked up his shirt put it on and walked over to his bed.
"Cub do your parents abuse you?" Snake asked, wanting to make sense of all of this.
"My parents are dead"
Three SAS men stared at this young man who said such a heavy statement with no emotion.
"Relatives?"
"Dead"
"God father?"
Alex rolled his hands into fists. And let out a deadly laugh
"Dead"
"Guardian?"
"Mi6"
Three now speechless SAS men stared at this being in front of them. Who had every single family dead. And who can possibly have mi6 as guardians.
Snake sensing the boys discomfort decided to change the subject.
"This is supposed to be our get to know each other time so let's start with names. I'm Paul Aberdeen, eagle is Matt stents
And wolf is James de Luca. You are?
" I'm Alex"
"Alex what?"
Alex hesitated for a second.
"Just Alex"
"Ok" eagle said picking up on the hesitation.
Snake opened his mouth to ask another question when Alex decided to cut in.
" it dinner time"
They got up quite reluctantly and Together they jogged to the dinner hall. As they entered heads turned there way but they ignored them. They got their mush and sat down.
The canteen was full of chatter but k unit sat in awkward silence. Suddenly a man by the code name of bear from d unit came up to eagle.
"Umm eagle. Do you mind telling us a story about Alex rider?"
Alex tensed again at the mention of the name. Only snake and wolf noticed this.
Eagle smiled so widely it almost fell of his face. "Sure thing bear. Which one do you want to hear."
Bear thought about it then replied "the space one"
Eagle began speaking.
"On one of riders missions. He was sent into space. Do you remember ark Angel space hotel?" Everyone nodded "well rumour has it that is was a bomb that was supposed to destroy Washington, D.C. Rider was sent on a rocket into space and managed to diffuse
the bomb in the last second but not before he had a space fight with once of the bad guys. Rumour has it the bad guy had a knife and gun and rider was weapon less. How he survived? No body knows. That was one of the stories that have the least detail"
That night, yassen plagued Alex's nightmares. Alex was on the presidential plane and cray shot yassen.
"YASSEN" he yelled.
He ran to yassen trying to stop the bleeding. He remembered yassens last words. "I loved your father. In a way I loved you too. Got to Venice. Find scorpia. There you will find your destiny"
He forced himself to wake up after that. He knew that dream. The one where he finds out about his dad and then he almost kills Mrs Jones and then-
Stop thinking about it Alex told himself. He checked the time.
3:02am
Not like he was going to get anymore sleep. He got up to take a shower. He was sweating. 10 minutes later he went back to his bed and had nothing to do. He then remembered that he bought some school books in case he had anytime to catch up.
He turned his torch on and began to study.
2 hours later snake woke up and was surprised to see the youngest member of the unit studying? This kid was full of surprises. Snake could never make sense of the kid. He thought him to be about 17/18. He always thought that cub had dropped out of school
or something but his rich parents managed to pull a few strings to get him here. But every second that he spends with this child proves that theory more and more wrong.
"Cub? Are you studying?" Snake asked cautiously.
Cub didn't even look up. "Yeah"
"Why?"
"Couldn't sleep"
"But why are you studying."
"Because I need too"
Arghhh snake was getting frustrated with this kids vague answers.
"Cub?"
"Yeah?"
"How old are you?"
This time cub looked up and when snake made eye contact with cub, there was a moment when he saw tiredness and pain and hurt but it was gone as quickly as it had come covered by a once again blank emotionless mask.
"I can't answer that"
Everyone was beginning to get up and wolf was the one to ask the next question.
"Why?"
"It's classified"
"WHAT?" This was eagle. Ever the dramatic one.
"How can your age be classified?"
Cub shrugged his shoulders and carried on working.
"Cub how old are you" snake asked again
"How old do you think I am?" Cub answered with a question, eyes not leaving the book.
"I dunno 17 18" replied snake
Cub nodded to himself but said nothing.
That evening, all units had to attend a lecture about terrorist organisations.
Once everyone was seated- Alex making sure to sit next to the exit incase he needs a quick escape.
Alex zoned out as soon as he said "good morning soldiers"
It wasn't completely Alex's fault. He just knew that the man wouldn't say anything new.
*half an hour later*
"Ok soldiers. I am now going to move on to the most dangerous criminal organisation the world. Or should I say, was the most dangerous criminal organisation, until they were knocked down a level by one of their mission failures. However, they are still
somewhere at the top and are slowly rising back to the top. Their name: scorpia."
The lecturer paused for effect and the soldiers began to murmur to one another. Nobody noticed the youngest member slip out. Nobody that is except snake for who happened to be sitting next to cub.
Snake who was caught in a battle between curiosity and follow orders, decided to follow cub out hoping for some answers.
Snake walked out of the hall and was surprised to see cub sitting down in the ground in the middle of the huts, hands wrapped around his knees, gazing at the stars. Cub looked so vulnerable at the moment and the way his shoulders were slumped in defeat.
Snake, not willing to disturb cub, returned back to the hall. Cub still on his mind.
"Now I would like to tell you about a man called agent rider" there were sharp intakes of breath.
"No, not that myth of Alex rider who you sit gossiping about like a bunch of old ladies" sheepish smiles all around.
"No this is a real person. John Rider. He was one of the only two people to fully infiltrate scorpia. The second is unknown.
John rider was in scorpia for about 2-3 years delivering information to the military intelligence, sector 6. However from limited information, we were able to gather that agent rider wanted to leave, to go back to his newly born son and wife about 15
years ago, when he was discovered by scorpia and killed. Nevertheless, he was the first to get through scorpia and though he did not fully succeed, he managed to get vital information.
A couple of months ago, scorpia was planning a mass murder of school children in Britain but their plans were, for the first time in living memory, completely and utterly destroyed. This is why scorpia is no longer the top organisation. Other than that,
our resources say very little. Thank you soldiers. You are dismissed."
The soldiers got up to leave and snake was shocked to see cub sitting right beside him.
*before*
At the mention of scorpia, Alex felt his wall slipping. Every single second he spends in this place, threatens his carefully built and constructed wall. Covering his emotions became more and more difficult. The best he could do at times is the blank expression.
Laughing became harder, blocking the thoughts and flashbacks were becoming nearly impossible.
Now as the lecturer mentioned scorpia, Alex knew he was going to be overwhelmed. He had to escape, so he did.
Sitting down, gazing at the stars, Alex did his most favourite thing as a child which was recognising the constellations that his uncle taught him. The constellations seemed to be the only thing that him and his uncle done that had nothing to do with
the world of espionage. The only thing they did together out of pure enjoyment.
He heard steps behind him and recognised snake's slow defined steps. At that moment he couldn't care about the vulnerable position he was in. He was just hoping that snake wouldn't come any closer. If he did, he would have seen eyes that looked too old
and depressed to be human, their edges brimming with suppressed tears.
Sure enough, snake went back and Alex followed him and few seconds later, not being able to imagine the consequences if he was caught.
*back to the present*
After they left to auditorium and returned to the hut, snake turned on to cub.
"Cub why did you leave during the speech"
"Hmmm?" Cub asked not fully focused
"Cub are you even listening to me?"
"Umm sorry what?"
"Why did you leave during the lecture?"
"He what?" Wolf snapped
"He left during the lecture" snake replied.
Wolf turned on cub.
"Why in the world did you leave during the speech? That would have been a lifetime punishment if you were caught?"
"But I wasn't" cub replied testing wolfs patience.
"That's beside the point" eagle butted in before wolf could explode.
"I just wanted fresh air that's all"
Wolf scoffed " so you left during a very important speech that could one save your life all because you wanted fresh air?" Sarcasm dripping of every word.
Cub didn't answer wolf, instead turning around to go to sleep. Today has emotionally drained him. Any more questions and he wouldn't be able to control what comes out of his mouth.
Wolf doesn't take kindly to disrespect. Anybody who knows him knows that and
Having someone so bluntly ignore your question is high on the disrespectful scale.
"Cub" wolf began voice quiet but full with anger. Eagle and snake flinched slightly
"When I ask you a question, you answer it?"
Alex did not want to go through wolfs lecture at this time so he decided to let something "slip" that will shut them up.
He looked at wolf in the eyes, letting some of the experience that he has gathered over the past year show in his eyes. Just a tiny bit, but enough .
"I already knew exactly what the teacher was going to say" Alex said in barely more than a whisper, but with power "and it was because of that knowledge that I almost died." Alex tried to refrain from rubbing his bullet wound.
With that not, Alex turned over and promptly fell asleep.
The same cannot be said for snake. He couldn't get Cubs words out of his head. Cub was like this bug puzzle and every now and then you get a piece of the puzzle but they never fit together. They are close but the joining pieced are missing. But every
time you get a new piece you realise that the picture is a lot bigger than you expected. Snake tried to turn it over in his head.
Cub's guardians are mi6 and they sent him here for training. He has no living relatives. He is covered in torture marks and has a bullet scar. He knows about terrorists and he was almost killed.
Snake rolled the information in his head.
Cub and his family could have been involved in a terrorist attack. That would explain his relatives deaths. His guardians are mi6 so the terrorist could have taken him in for interrogation. That explains some of the torture marks. But the bullet wound
is unexplainable. And why are mi6 Cubs guardians anyway. He could have been sent to a care home. Snake couldn't rid himself of the feeling that there was something big going on.
That night Alex had one of his worse dreams yet.Hewas at scorpia held in one of the torture rooms. That was normal. They began with the normal torture methods: knives, whips, water, electricity. Most of the time he managed to hold back the screams. This wasn't new to him. He expected it.
But now there was no one there. He waited for what felt like hours but suddenly someone came in.