[slightly off milliways:
Guppy has suspicions,
Enzo and Alex finally have introductions, and a
Marvelous Escape happens.]Thankfully, after hotfooting it out of the infirmary, Alex did not encounter any more difficulties. Crawley didn't even ask why their youngest MI6 agent was nibbling a giant cookie. (He has to remember to properly thank Steph for
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This time, he's no watching football, just drinking wine and reading a book.
"Guppy Sandhu wants to see you in the infirmary. He's worried. Seems you fled."
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(They did have ridiculous fake moustaches, after all; if Steph gets caught, it'd probably be for the best if he spreads the idea that it was just a teenage prank.)
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It was very Cinderella.
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"Why did you run away? You could have left any time, you know, I just wanted to help you."
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"It doesn't really look like me."
[Disclaimer: views expressed by the pup are not necessarily endorsed by the munagement. eeee milk carton.]
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Small smile. "He's an Alex too, but we call him Fry."
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No, Mia's not responsible for the milk carton. But Alex is kind of talking to himself and sometimes it helps to have a reply.
"Still okay, I imagine, Alex?"
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"I'm fine."
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"Boys your age always are if my memories from that time in my own life are right," she says. "Well, most of them, anyway."
As she recalls, her husband was something of a whiner at Alex's age. Still is sometimes, really.
"I am glad you're all right, though."
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At any rate, he smiles at her cheerfully enough. "You?"
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And at the apple.
It takes a few seconds, but she does seem to spot the milk carton finally, and her face sobers into something less baffled and more shadowed.
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Neither happens, so he settles for tossing it in the nearest bin. At which point, it occurs to him that someone is watching him.
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Soberly.
A close look will show that her focus isn't quite normal, though; not only does she hold eye contact too long, but she seems to be watching the air around Alex as much as his face, with her gaze sliding sideways to focus on nothing.
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