hiya, im just going to say sorry and leave it at that for not updating, i would love to sit here and make excuse but i have better things to do (like read the new alex rider book that just came out today) lol anyway ill hopefull update soon but cant promice anything. thank you for all the reviews, story alerts and fav story alerts and ideas. i hope u like it.

Chapter 9

Alexs POV

Alex woke to the sound of 'waking up in Vegas' by Katy Perry playing. Faking sleep he looked around under his eyelashes, seeing no-one in the room he quit faking sleep and using his arms to push himself up, Alex gasped as pain shot though his left arm. Controlling his breathing he took a mental inventory of his injuries and looked around. He was in a white room with no windows, sitting on a sofa opposite the door, the room was bare except for the sofa and a few chairs. Trying to remember the events that had got him here he remembered walking into the royal and general after running out of school and being chased by an organisation that seemed to have changed its techniques.

Great, Alex thought not only will I have to put up with my whole school being totally unimaginative thinking up new rumours, but I have a terrorist organization that's changed its way of working. Just perfect, What the hell??? Alex frowned as he looked around, trying to pinpoint where that stupid song was coming from. That's when he saw his mobile phone in one of the corners by the door, vibrating and playing that thoroughly annoying song. I'm going to kill Jack! Why does she have to change my ring tone all the time? Alex thought angrily as he stood up and instantly found himself on the floor as his legs buckled under him.

"Oh come off it!" Alex said out loud as he heaved himself to his feet, ignoring the pain in his arm and testing his left leg. Limping over to the phone, Alex picked it up and answered not even checking the caller ID as only 3 people had his mobile number. Well maybe 4, but he wasn't certain if MI6 had it or not so he only counted it as 3.

"Hello" Alex said calmly being a master of keeping his emotions hidden as usual.

"Alex, are you o.k.? Where the hell are you? Are you safe? Are you coming home now?" Alex limped back to the sofa and sat down glad to be able to take the weight off his leg, as Jack continued with a list of questions. "Alex, Alex" the voice on the phone said getting more and more high pitched with each passing word.

"God, chill Jack" Alex said snapping back into the convocation as jack took a much needed breath "yes I'm fine, I'm at the bank, I'm as safe as I can be and I'll be home soon. I didn't get the other questions so don't expect me to answer them." Alex finished his little speech and sighed.

"Are you sure you're ok? Jack asked worriedly

"I'm positive now I got to go find out if I can get out of here" peacefully Alex added in his head. "Be home soon, and Jack keep your eyes open" Alex hung up as he knew Jack was about to ask 20 questions. The slipping his phone back in his pocket, Alex limped over to the door and tried to open it. Surprisingly it swung open to reveal the familiar corridor of floor 17 with a lift at the end. Alex got all the way down the corridor and hit the button to call the lift without seeing anyone. When the lift doors opened, he was about to slip inside when Mrs Jones walked out, just my luck, Alex thought as his mood went from low to rock bottom.

"Alex glad to see you up and about, we have a meeting with Mr Blunt" Mrs Jones said around her usual peppermint.

"Oh, nice to know" Alex muttered following Mrs Jones back down the corridor and into Blunts office. Mrs Jones went and stood next to Blunt as Alex threw himself into his usual chair with a slight grimace of pain. Alex sat there looking completely relaxed and waited for them to say something.

"Alex, do you know who attacked you?" Mr. Blunt asked

"Doesn't take a genius to figure it out" Was the sharp reply, Alex still wasn't in a good mood, and it was getting worse by the minute.

Mrs Jones sent him a reproachful look which he pointedly ignored while blunt just sat there with no emotion showing in his face or in his action as he reached for a folder on the desk in front of him and handed it to Alex. "What's this?" Alex asked as he wearily took the folder and started to flip through words on the second page caught his eye. Alex looked up.

"You have got to be kidding me" Alex stated angrily. Before anyone could respond there was a knock on the door.

"Enter" blunt called sharply. Alex spared a glance over his shoulder as the door swung open to reveal Ben Daniels standing there with K-unit. Ben walked into the office and stopped still when he saw Alex sitting in the seat. K- Unit walked in and stood to attention behind Ben by the door, they didn't notice Alex.

"K-unit sir" Ben said his eyes still on Alex; Blunt was blank faced and didn't even look at K-unit as they were introduced. Alex returned to glaring at Blunt effectively hiding his face from k-unit and Ben.

"Right" Mrs. Jones said as she looked at all of them in turn, before looking back at Alex. Seeing the look on his face she sighed internally, he wasn't going for this, not at all. No-one spoke for a couple of minutes, Alex silently fuming, Blunt and Jones trying to think of the best way to get Alex to agree, while Ben and K-unit looked on in confusion. As Alex sat there he realised he still had the folder open in his hand and started to flick though it again, he had to do something with his hands so he wouldn't stand up and punch Blunt, that was a really tempting thought at the moment.

Wolf POV

K-units leader, wolf, entered the room and stood to attention with his team as a solider should. He didn't even bother to look around the room that much only to pin point possible exits. The he stood there at attention and waited. Ben had just introduced them and wolfs eyes flickered involuntary to the head of MI6 as he sat there not sparing them a glance. He saw a woman stood in the corner as she answered

"right", she looked familiar and wolf searched his memories and came up with deputy head of MI6 though he could remember a name. There were a couple of minutes of silence that were uncomfortable at best, but wolf didn't let it show even though he got the impression he had just walked in on an argument.

The sound of shuffling paper brought his eyes to the chair opposite Mr. Blunt. There he could see a blonde teen sat looking though a folder looking completely casual except for the rolls of anger that could be sensed miles away. How did I not notice that? Wolf thought wait teen. He returned his eyes to the teen in the chair he looked young from what he could see, but that was only the back of his head and shoulders. What is a teen doing here? Maybe he's visiting his father or something, a relative that works here maybe, that's it wolf thought with certainty. He was starting to feel awkward they still didn't know why they were here and the oppressive atmosphere wasn't helping.

Alexs POV

Alex finished the folder while silence still reined. He lifted his head slightly to glare at Blunt again. What was it with these people could they not just leave him alone but now he was in danger again, their fault he reminded himself conveniently overlooking the fact that he had sort out Scorpia in the first place. Now they wanted to send him away, no way. Alex thought quickly looking for a way out of his predicament.

"Well, it looks like I'm intruding on your next meeting, you know you really should have better time keeping" Alex stated as he went to stand. Alex threw the folder, still in his hand, onto Blunt's desk, looking around his feet for his bag he remembered it was still at school in his locker, great now I have to make a trip to school, just brilliant. Alex sighed inwardly as he turned and walked towards the door ignoring k-unit entirely. K unit stared in confusion at the now visible face, it jogged something in their memories somewhere especially wolfs.

"Sit down" Blunt's sharp command was heard behind Alex but he just ignored it and carried on walking to the door, face void of all emotion. "You are in danger, and you just want to waltz out of here" Blunt said as if he were talking about the wether not a highly dangerous organization after one of his best agent.

"Sounds about right" Alex said his hand on the door handle, his face and voice still blank but his eyes still burning with a fury he was putting all his energy into controlling.

"We only want to help you, cub" Mrs Jones said a little desperately, referring to his SAS code name as his so called unit were in the room. Their was a collective intake of breath from K unit to his right, as they realized just who this teen was and compared him to the boy who had trained with them nearly a year ago. He looked slightly familiar but his face was older and his eyes looked too old on his still teenage form.

Alex turned around at that statement his eyes still burning with an unearthly rage, registering K units' reaction but paying no mind to it, he was glaring daggers at Mrs Jones. Ben looked between the stunned faces of his old unit and the teenager that was stood there calmly; his whole body relaxed yet the fury of a thousand hells burning in his eyes, fixing his eyes on Alex after a second of debate, Alex was looking murderous, in a relaxed I can kill you without a second thought kind of way, at that statement.

"What, now you want to help? Now I can look after myself, Great timing" Alex said his rage getting stronger if that was possible, how dare they, they had never been their to help him, not even when he'd send out distress signals, and now they had the audacity to tell him they were trying to help, no chance in hell, they were helping themselves, he was only a tool to them, a pawn, a means to an end. Alex turned to the door once more, he'd had enough.