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Rating: 15
Word Count: 1,132
Summary: Alex receives an instruction he's really not happy with; the filing cabinets suffer for it.

( The door slammed into the wall with enough force to make the clock bounce and clatter down onto the table below, and Milos wondered briefly whether Alex would notice if he hid beneath his desk. )

Rating: 18
Word Count: 1,279
Summary: Milos wants coffee. Alex wants something else entirely.

( He pulled a face and lifted a mug down from the cupboard. Coffee had much the same effect without the embarrassing side effect of having to be pressed up against Ever-Ready Alex. )

Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,147
Summary: Alex finally gets his revenge.

( The obstacle course did what weeks of quiet taunting and unsubtle hints could not. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 334
Summary: Alex and Sarah have a short discussion about murderers and cheats.

( "Why don’t you like Kennet?" Sarah asked, twisting a lock of her long brown hair between her fingers as she looked up from her homework. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 309
Summary: Alex muses on the situation and comes to a conclusion.

( As time passed he wasn’t sure what bothered him more: the idea that the others thought he really had been so stupid and clumsy as to pass out in a pond, or that they knew exactly what had happened and didn’t care. )

Rating: PG
Word Count: 774
Summary: Alex puts Josh's advice into action for the first time.

( "How you survived the last two years I have no idea," Josh said as he watched Alex pick up the books and balance his pad on the top, "but I’m legally obliged to keep you alive for the next four, so remember that sometimes the best assessments are done up close and personal, and for God’s sake pay attention to your surroundings." )

Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,259
Summary: Alex is under the care of the medic, and has maybe found a new role model. Even if his advice is somewhat suspect... as is his bedside manner.

( The medic had given him a disapproving look when he announced that six hours was more than long enough to spend doing nothing, but said nothing as he slid from the bed and got dressed. )

Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,382
Summary: Alex's impromptu sparring session with Kennet goes a little awry, and he learns just how much Kennet really knows about him.

( Even after all this time, he couldn’t get used to the thrill of being able to go outside, whether to train, read or just spend five minutes sitting in the sunshine. It was beautiful and alien and he couldn’t help thinking how easily it could all be taken away from him. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 547
Summary: For the first time in two years Alex and Kennet are in the same class. It's not long before the battle lines are drawn...

( And now, finally, they’d been deemed trustworthy enough to share a room, at least in the daytime, without trying to kill each other. )

Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,055
Summary: Alex is finally getting over the side effects, but discovers something unexpected when he goes to change his shirt. Something that answers his questions... but he'd rather remain ignorant.

( The medic had been right: the nosebleeds had almost come to a stop now, content only to reappear at the most inconvenient times imaginable, like in the middle of his English lesson. )

Rating: PG
Word Count: 821
Summary: Alex's little display has had some unfortunate side effects, and he meets a medic less than enchanted with his job.

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Rating: G
Word Count: 678
Summary: A little lunch-time altercation tells Alex that Kennet is starting to become troublesome.

( "Stop pushing me!" Alex stared at Kennet, then down at the distance between his food tray and Kennet’s. "I’m not." )

Rating: G
Word Count: 935
Summary: Alex indulges in a little library-based research... and receives a (worryingly talkative) warning.

( He liked the library. Not just for the books—although it had an impressive collection, including the always-fascinating scientific journals and studies he’d seen so much of back home—but for the three huge arched windows in the far wall. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 1,052
Summary: Even the martial arts classes Alex enjoys get disrupted by rivalries.

( It was bad enough struggling to learn a new style as his body groaned and protested under the hammering it was receiving during the other two, that it was Kennet making life difficult with the third made it so much worse. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 676
Summary: Alex discovers that sometimes appearances can be deceptive...

( The girl wasn’t as useless as he’d thought. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 526
Summary: 12-year-old Alex's first day at the Academy, and his thoughts on some of his fellow students.

( Alex knew he should be paying attention. Little details were usually scattered throughout such interminable monologues at home, ones that careful notice of could prevent pain further down the line. )

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Rating: 15
Word Count: 340
Summary: Alex's nightmares aren't always about his childhood... sometimes they can be about much more recent things.

( He had him but his hands were slipping, slipping down the length of his arm, slick with terror-sweat, the scrape of palm over skin. )

Rating: 15
Word Count: 1,379
Summary: This time it's Milos's turn to have bad dreams, and Alex has no idea what he's supposed do about it...

( The stupid elf was having a nightmare. Alex knew well enough that he had them: the best sign was usually waking up to find the quilt dumped on top of him and Milos so far across the bed his knees were hanging off it. But somehow he’d always had the good luck to sleep through them. )

Rating: G
Word Count: 357
Summary: Milos asks Alex how to lie.

( "How do you do it?" He stared down at the murky canal waters and watched a rusted shopping trolley drift past. )

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