I'm going mad. I can't study for my exam tomorrow, I can't sit down, I've called almost all of my seven best friends, walked around my room multiple times and listened to every kind of music from country to hard rock… so I decided to come and add a new chapter to my fanfic!

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Disclaimer (This is for the last two chapters too): I don't own anything you recognize.

"So he just walks in here and says we have to go to his house for protection?" said James yet again he had been talking nonstop for the last five minutes.

Rose nodded her head not actually hearing what James said. She was thinking of the man who had arrived at her door step a few minutes ago. She looked at Tom, Tom had looked shocked at first but at the moment there was a slight smile on his lips that warmed Rose's heart but as pleasant as it was to see her husband happy she really didn't think they should go with this Alex he had admitted being a drug addict as a kid and then disappears and then suddenly he turns up at his childhood best friend's door step? It all seemed so … strange.

"So, you want proof that I'm not lying?" Rose jumped as she heard Alex's voice. He was standing at the edge of the last step. Apparently, she wasn't the only one who seemed shocked by his sudden appearance.

"yes." Replied James a little uncomfortably though Alex seemed completely relaxed and calm at the same time he was quite intimidating.

Suddenly Rose noticed that Alex was wearing Tom's clothes and it filled her with a ridiculous sense of annoyance. Who did he think he was to just walk into their lives and turn them into something out of an action movie?

"Look," she said glaring at Alex "I don't care if you've been friends with Tom for 50 years I'm not going anywhere till you convince me your not lying."

"Rosie…" Tom said looking exasperated.

"Don't you Rosie me." Snapped Rose at him swinging her long auburn hair over her shoulder. Then she turned to Alex "so?" she asked.

Alex who seemed quote amused to Rose's fury took the phone on the table and punched in a number.

"Tulip, they say they need convincing." And with that he handed the phone to Rose who took it reluctantly.

Military intelligence?

How do I know this isn't all a trick?

Suddenly Rose paled dramatically. "What is he telling her?" said Tom angrily turning to Alex.

Alex shrugged. "Honestly I have no idea, but don't worry." Tom seemed to be doing anything but not worrying.

Of course.

No.

And then she put the phone down.

"Rose?" said Tom anxiously "Rosie?"

Rose seemed to have slipped out of a trance "what?" she said.

"Are you okay?" said Tom looking into her eyes.

"Yes, yes, I'm fine." Said Rose distractedly "and they're not lying."

"How do you know?" asked James.

"I just know." Replied Rose leaving no place for questions James looked tense but he calmed down slightly when Leila put her hand on his arm.

"If you believe them," said Leila "we do too. We trust you."

Rose gave a small sob and with that Tom embraced her as she wept.

"Are the people who are after us dangerous?" James asked Alex.

Alex's face was a blank mask. "Very" he said gravely "they will torture and kill you if they find you."

Leila gasped "but what did we possibly do?"

Alex smiled bitterly. "It's not what you did, it's who you knew." he said "we should leave soon."

Rose pulled herself together. "I should go pack a few things." She said running upstairs.

Tom sat on the sofa and Alex sat behind him paying no attention to Leila and James who were talking in whispers.

"You should hate me now," Alex said tonelessly "I have endangered you and Rose, like everyone else that I have ever known."

"I don't hate you." said Tom and Alex looked almost surprised. "I know that you suffer more than anyone, you shouldn't blame yourself for any of this."

Alex gave a hollow laugh that made Tom shiver. "Not blame myself?" he said "don't you know why they came after you? Because there's no one left."

"They got all of them?" Tom said the sorrow was all too visible in his eyes.

"All of them." Replied Alex with a sad smile, Tom looked at his friend's eyes Alex's eyes had always been serious but now his eyes were so clouded with the things that he had seen that they seemed blank.

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I tried to make this chapter a little longer but I didn't have much time I started a fanfic in the middle of my finals! (The education system in my country is quite different and I go to school on Saturdays and Sundays and my weekend is on Fridays and Wednesdays) so my last exam will be finished on Saturday and hopefully I will make the chapters a bit longer after that…