Alex stared at what he was seeing without comprehending any of it.
'No, no, no!' He repeated in his head. The memories threatened to overwhelm him but he pushed them to the back of his mind. When in a life or death situation and you require your head, it becomes easier. He had to focus on what was going on.
"What Alex, cat got your tongue? Last time I remember you were always ready with a comeback"
Alex composed himself, clearing his mind of all emotion. Just like these people taught him
"Walker" he stated in a calm voice.
"Ah so you remember me?" His voice was playful. That was never good. It meant he had a game in mind.
"What are you doing here?"
"Revenge of course"
Strange. That was very blunt. And obvious
"How did you get in a camp full of fully trained SAS soldiers?"
"Scorpia has its ways"
"SCORPIA?" Came a disbelief shout from behind.
Alex and walker turned around. Alex was shocked to see every member of the SAS including the sergeant bound by rope on the floor with k-unit at the front.
"Yes scorpia" Walker replied with a grin on his face.
"Cub what is going on?" Wolf directed his question to Alex. "What is scorpia doing here and what is all this talk about revenge?"
Before Alex could say anything, walker decided to but in.
"What? Alex- I mean cub, hasn't told you?" Walker said in mock surprise.
"Told us what?" Eagle piped up, unable to hide the fear and suspicion in his voice.
"Oh so you haven't told them Alex?"
Alex clenched his fists and grit his teeth. If they were going to kill him then they might as well do it without all these games.
"Stop this" snake shouted. "Who are you and what are you going to do"
"Oh sorry, how could I forget? Mind my manners. Cub will introduce me. Alex?"
Silence.
"Alex?" Walked said as a warning.
Alex spoke through gritted teeth. " this is walker, ex-cia agent, now assassin for scorpia"
"How do you know him?" Someone called bear asked very suspiciously.
Walker smiled very brightly. "Oh now we have got to the real reason we are here. Forgive me for not answering your question now, but all in due course"
He turned to Alex.
"Very good Alex, you remembered. Now you will, as I am sure you already know, be killed today, that is inevitable. But first we need something. I am sure you are very familiar with the saying 'hit two birds with one stone'" Alex grit his teeth harder.
Mi6's favourite saying
"Don't worry cub" walker began enjoying the effect of his words. " what we want is nothing painful. All we want is you to say something while we record it. We will first ask you politely and if you refuse then we will move on to more.." He paused as if
thinking of the right word"... More persuasive methods, and only you can be responsible for the consequences"
"What do you want" Alex repeated his question.
"We want you to tell everyone the truth" Alex was surprised. He hadn't expected such a blunt and straight forward answer.
"Why?"
Walker seemed to be contemplating whether or not to answer. " well I hardly see the problem in answering. We think that mi6 should be taken down a few notches as I am sure you will agree" Alex mentally scoffed at that. " what better way to do that then
to broadcast their association with scorpia."
"What?!" Shouted wolf " that's impossible!"
Alex didn't reply.
Walker however was enjoying this. "Well I can't believe cub didn't tell you this. I think we can wait for him to tell you the truth?"
Alex didn't say anything and the silence was held for half a minute before walker began again.
"Forgive me cub. I admit that was very broad and vague. I will tell you exactly what you have to say. Then you will say it, we will record it, we shoot you and we will be off. Nothing too major. Unless of course you choose otherwise." Walker paused here
for effect before continuing. " now all we want is you to say three things. 1:who you work for. 2 why you are so good at training which answers the question how you know me. And 3 your assignment"
Alex clenched his fists as realisation hit him. With those facts, they could show that mi6 were traitors to the country. Nobody would believe it if scorpia just said it but Alex's word is enough. And if they broadcast this, then mid's threat of telling
that world thBut he would not tell them anything. Sure he wanted to see mi6 brought down but that did not he mean he wanted it to be at his expense.
"That's classified" he said. Matching walkers calm tone. Anyone would think they were talking about the weather.
"That's a shame" walker commented though his tone hinted otherwise. "Final warning Alex."
Alex remained stubbornly silent.
"Ok cub you forced us." He then spoke to his assassins but his eyes never leaving Alex. " bring him in"
Every single soldier drew a sharp breath as in walked a man in his thirties with blonde hair, icy blue eyes a scar running down his neck and the last person Alex expected to see. An Assassin known all over the world.
*flashback*
Alex sat once again in the office in the Royal and general bank faced with the two most lifeless person he had seen. Mr blunt and Mrs Jones.
He had come back from America after an attempted assassination on the pleasures and him being politely told by mr and Mrs pleasure that they no longer wanted him.
He of course had been devastated that the last people left on the planet to care for him just neglected him but he understood. They of course were only thinking about safety.
And so he found himself once again facing Mr blunt to decide his future. But he was not prepared for the first thing Mrs Jones said.
"Yassen gregorovich is alive"
Alex remembered the shock he felt take over him as the mention of that mans name and him being alive. He vaguely acknowledge the story that yassen had been held at mi6 since his mission eagle strike but was helped to escape by scorpia. Mi6 did not know
of the complicated relationship between the man and the teenager so they assumed that this was scorpia start to seek revenge. Alex barely heard Mrs Jones telling him to go home and back his necessities. He was going straight to Brecon beacon for training
and protection. Alex couldn't find it in himself to care about the hell on earth. Not when he just found out that yassen was alive.
It was only when he got to his empty house in Chelsea that anger took over.
He remembered the guttural scream that escaped him before he punched the wall. He remembered the anger he felt towards the man that had killed his uncle and started his life as a spy. The man who had sent him to scorpia.
He then remembered the anger draining out of him replaces by a numb feeling which was then replaced by realisation.
Yassen was one of the faces that plagued his nightmares, right next to Jack. Yassen was the only person who wanted to keep Alex alive in the field. Not because he was a weapon. But because he was Alex. Without yassen, Alex would never have found out about
his parents. Without yassen he wouldn't be alive.
Yassen who had shown worry when Alex was dragged into the games slayer game.
Yassen who had taken a bullet for him.
Yassen who refused to kill him.
Yassen, who now was the single person left in the whole wide world who cared about Alex. The only person Alex had left.
Alex was a child and he needed the comfort of knowing that there was atleast one person left in the world who cared about him. And no matter how impossible the situation was. Alex knew he would hang onto that thought like his life depended on it.
A small part of his mind told him that these kind of attachments were dangerous in his line of world but he quickly smothered that voice.
He was not alone yet.
He still had yassen.
*flashback ended*
And that was the thought that raged though his head as he saw none other than the worlds best assassin yassen gregorovich walk through that door.
Alex was trained in the art of not showing emotion and none showed towards the man who was the only person who he had left. Who was his own- dare he say it- family left.
Instead he turned back to walker.
"What is this? some kind of joke?" Alex was surprised by the strength of his voice when inside he was crumbling.
"Ok the contrary Alex. This is very serious. We believe we have found your one true weakness."
Alex hated himself. Alex hated himself for forming such an attachment with yassen.
An assassin took out a gun and put it towards yassens head.
Walker opened his mouth " so Alex. Have you reconsidered your thoughts and not answering"
Alex closed his eyes for a 3 seconds trying to collect his thoughts. He couldn't lose yassen. Not again. This man would not die because of Alex. Alex wanted so badly to open his mouth and speak. To hell with mi6. Let then be destroyed. It's there fault
for employing a child in the first place.
He opened his mouth to speak but shut it straight away. Suddenly aware of all the SAS soldiers around him. What would they think of him. Would he ever be able to look any of them in eyes if he managed to survive today. It was not fair for him to have
to make this decision. He wanted more than anything to keep yassen alive, but he developed a somewhat friendship with k-unit and he actually cared about what they think. He remembered the voice in his head telling him that k-unit cared about him.
Maybe they did. He remembered how they moved protectively closer to him when the shooting instructor mocked him. Like it or not he cared about them. He didn't want to speak.
But then he looked at yassen and he saw the worry in yassens eyes. The months in mi6 custody must have had their effect on him. Yassen never showed emotion. But now Alex could see the worry and warmth in his eyes and Alex wanted nothing more than to escape
this whole world with yassen. He had only felt these emotions with Jack and seeing those emotions in yassens eyes made Alex want to curl up and cry.
He opened his mouth to speak.
"I work for mi6"
Walker smiled and a ripple of unease ran through the soldiers with a few shouts of 'yh right?' But walker turned towards them.
"Yes that's right soldiers. Your little cub works for mi6 but I hardly believe that is the most surprising thing in his story. Come on cub, time for question 2. Why are you so good at training?"
Alex looked at the his unit sitting at the front. He wondered when he started to think of them as his unit. He didn't want them to think bad of him. He couldn't tell them that he has trained with scorpia to be an assassin.
"Cub we haven't got all day. I would very much like to see mr gregorovich' some brains blown out so please don't tempt me"
Alex didn't want to lose yassen. He felt like a selfish vulnerable child. "I..." He began
"Yes...?" walker prompted
"I..." He steeled himself. He didn't care about the soldiers. " I was trained by scorpia to be an assassin"
A couple of swear words erupted from the soldiers and they began arguing with each other but k unit remained silent. It made sense, In a weird and far fetched way-yes but it still made sense. It explained his shooting, and his fighting and his ability
to be a ninja. But they didn't want to think about what that made their team mate. It made him an assassin.
Eagle looked at cub but Cubs eyes were downcast. He refused to meet anybody's eyes. Eagles head was swimming with all this. Cub was an mi6 agent. Cub was a trained scorpia assassin. And what he couldn't even begin to comprehend was gregorovich. The worlds
best assassin. What the hell was he doing here. And how the hell did cub know him. If eagle didn't know any better he would have said that gregorovich was being used as blackmail against cub. But that was impossible. Right?
Cub knew that Walker was enjoying every single moment. The whispers. The disbelief.
Walker opened his mouth to speak and everybody became quiet. "And the final question Alex. What was your assignment?"
Alex couldn't do it. Alex couldn't open his mouth to speak of his attempted assassination at Mrs Jones. The thought of if he actually killed plagued his nightmares. He couldn't speak about this.
Walker sensed Alex's discomfort and smiled. The SAS soldiers were a bonus. Walker didn't realise how close Alex had got to them within his stay. Another thing to use against him. What walker didn't know was that would be his mistake.
"What cub afraid to speak. Thinking about what your beloved unit and the other soldiers would think about you. A murderer? And assassin?" Walker mocked.
"Afraid that the people who you have finally managed to feel as a tiniest form of family might turn against you because of your past and you will then be left with no one. The pleasures have neglected you. Your parents are dead. Your godfather was the
one who killed them and he is now dead. Your uncle is dead killed by mr gregorovich here and he is soon to die. And Jack is dead also. Interesting death I must add-"
"Shut up"
The words escaped from Alex barely more than a whisper but they effectively shut walker up because of the lethal was and malice behind the words. Alex felt himself loosing control. Anger taking over. He tried to reign himself in but at the mention of
Jack he just snapped.
He ran up to walker and was held back by two assassins.
"Let go" he said in a voice that was not his. In a voice that was not human.
They hesitated and that hesitation cost them. Alex lashed out and both men were knocked unconscious before any body could blink. He ran up to walker but was met by all the other assassins other than the ones taking care of yassen.
Alex was a killing machine and no assassin could get close before they were too knocked unconscious.
He was a killing machine.
A weapon built by Ian, professionalised by scorpia and used by mi6. He was the best of the best.
Within minutes the assassins were down and he walked quiet calmly towards walker. He saw the fear in walkers eyes but he couldn't care. He wasn't human. He had no emotion.
He knocked walker unconscious and was about to deliver the killing blow when his hand was stopped.
"Let go of me" he spoke
"Little Alex don't do this"
That voice sounded familiar to him but he couldn't remember. Nevertheless he clung to it and he used it to bring himself back to reality. To humanity.
"Yassen" the voice was a whisper and a plea
"Little Alex do not do this. Do not let your anger take control. You are better than this. You are not a machine. You are a human. Do not let your body do what your heart will regret"
Alex turned around to look at yassen and was met with eyes that radiated worry and concern and love and warmth and affection and everything Alex had been deprived off.
There were tears in his Alex's eyes and he couldn't fight them back. He couldn't fight anymore.
One lonely tear formed at the corner of his eye.
"Yassen please help me" his voice was broken. "Please. I don't want to do this anymore." The lonely tear began its journey down the side of Alex's face "Yassen it hurts everywhere please make it stop. I don't want to be hurt anymore" he didn't care
that he was begging. That he sounded like a child. He just wanted this to end.
"Please yassen please make the hurt stop. It's everywhere. I don't want to do it anymore. I want it to end. I don't want to be alone anymore."
He was losing his eyesight and his brain was starting to heart. His muscles were screaming in agony and his heart was being ripped to pieces.
"Yassen I want to see mum and dad again." Another tear joined the first one, but he Wasnt crying. He was remembering. He was trapped in his own world. "I want to see uncle Ian and Jack. I don't want to be alone anymore" his voice was becoming quieter
and quieter as he struggled for consciousness.
"Yassen please don't leave me alone. Please don't go away. Yassen please"
As those final words exited his lips, Alex fell into the blissful unconsciousness and into yassens arms.
Yassens eyes where burning with tears and the sight of Alex infront of him. He didn't want to leave Alex but he knew he had to. Alex could have a family with the soldiers here. They would take care of him. He didn't want to leave the Alex but he
knew he had to. He lay Alex on the ground carefully.
He then kneeled down next to Alex.
"Alex I'm so sorry for doing this to you. I'm sorry for sending you to scorpia. I'm sorry for not taking care of you properly. I'm sorry that I am going to leave you." He knew Alex was unconscious but yassen didn't care. Yassen's months in custody seem
to take an effect on his brain. Every single second he spent in prison he spent thinking about Alex.
"I love you Alex" he whispered to the boy
He turned to face the soldiers and they were shocked to see the worlds best assassin with bloodshot eyes.
The assassin then spoke making eye contact with each and every single one of them.
"Take care of Alex for me. He is safe here but he needs a family. Tell him I'm sorry" yassens voice cracked slightly but he quickly recovered. " tell him I'm sorry that I couldn't do it my self and that I don't want to go." He paused before carrying on.
"Tell him that I will miss him."
Then all emotion was wiped from the face and the assassin escaped into the shadows of the night, disappearing of the face of the earth for one last time.