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Alex awoke with a start. He sat up quickly panting, but soon regretted it as he became dizzy and had to lie back down. His thoughts were fuzzy, but the all too familiar feeling of hopelessness overcame him when the vision of a gun being pointed at Max's head came back into his mind. It made his stomach turn and he wanted to be sick.

He sat up again, but much slower this time and realized that he was in a room alone, it made him uncomfortable that the boys weren't with him. He mentally cursed. For all he knew Max could already be dead, and the others would be soon without him. They were not the most intelligent people and Scorpia was no organization to mess with. Alex felt hypocritical thinking that, but hey, he had good reasons to mess with them.

He took a closer look at the room around him and realized that it was much nicer and bigger than the other room he was in with the boys previously. It was white and sterile, with lights that shone brightly all around him, but the lights did nothing but intensify his headache.

Big Tooth entered the room quickly. Alex was about to close his eyes and pretend that he was still unconscious, but Big Tooth had a look on his face that worried Alex. He looked, scared?

Alex's suspicions were confirmed when Big Tooth grabbed a brief case from the corner of the room and hurried out, without paying Alex a second's notice.

Alex tried to stand up, but there was something restraining him. He looked down and saws that he had IV's attached to him. That was weird, they never gave him medical attention unless he was on the verge of dying. Even though he sort of felt like he was dying Alex knew that they could have gotten at least a couple of more torture sessions in before that was the case.

Alex became very tired again, his body obviously needed sleep in a bad way, but an instinct told him that he needed to stay up for at least a couple more minutes. Alex didn't want to, but his instincts were usually never wrong, so he sat up and tried to imagine himself in another world. A world where he was somewhat normal. He c couldn't though, he was bread to be a spy it was his destiny and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't get out of this life, he was already in way too deep.

Alex was washed out of his thoughts when he heard commotion in the hallway. He prayed that the boys were not involved, but everything was still blurry and he couldn't make anything out.

A couple of minutes later a new guard came into the room and unhooked Alex from the IV.

Alex tried to get a good look at the man's face, but he couldn't. The man then practically dragged Alex to the hallway, Alex knew he would not have been able to make it there on his own, the fresh whip marks were starting to bleed again, and the smell of the iron was enough to make Alex want to pass out again.

The first thing Alex noticed was that Max and the others were still alive. He sighed in relief, but soon regretted it as it made his ribs hurt even worse than before.

The other boys noticed Alex as well and stared at him in amazement. They probably had thought Alex was dead.

Then he saw Big Tooth tied up along with the first guard he had encountered. Was he hallucinating? His mind was still fuzzy and he couldn't tell if what he was seeing was reality or not.

Someone touched his back and he hissed in pain. Yep, he was definitely in reality.

The new guard spoke up. "Alex, the members of Scorpia are sincerely sorry for what has just happened to you. It was a mistake and you do not deserve to be treated that way."

Alex gave the man a funny look, he was really starting to question his own sanity. Maybe the previous whippings were one injury too much.

The man continued. "The orders were for the other boys to be tortured, they played an awful trick on you and deserve to be tortured at the least, probably killed. The idiots probably thought they were being sneaky, but we were able to route the emails from the computer and rewire the microphones on the computer to hear their entire conversation."

Alex was really starting to think he needed to be put on drugs. Absolutely nothing was making since. He didn't say anything though, he wanted more information.

The man took a couple of steps towards Alex holding a gun. "Alex, you are going to kill these two men for the pain they caused you, you are in charge and have more power than you know. You need to be able to understand this. If you do not comply to these terms, then we will make your classmates kill them. If your classmates then don't comply they will be tortured to death and in that moment of time we will have no choice but to kill the two ourselves."

Alex nodded, not fully understanding what was going on. He grabbed the gun and started to have a moral battle with himself. Scorpia always kept their promises. The two men were going to die by the end of the night no matter what. If he was selfish and didn't kill the man, then his classmates would die as well, it all being his fault. He knew what he had to do. He pointed the gun at Big Tooth and got ready to pull the trigger.

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