OK. Another that's been in my documents for a while. ENJOY!

"How do we get down there?" Eagle groaned as he eyed the lake at the bottom of the waterfall, they all knew there was an item in there they had to retrieve.

"Whatever the method, do it quickly I'm freezing here." Fox complained performing star jumps trying to warm himself up,

"Shouldn't have had a snowball fight then." Cub laughed, Ben grabbed his around the waist and held him over the edge of the drop.

"Are you going to shove snow down the back of my coat again?" He threatened,

"No." Alex quickly agreed eyeing the water at the bottom, there were no rock in sight and these pools were renowned for being deep. Ben set Alex back on the solid ground and the four adults looked over the edge debating.

"CUB!" They could only watch in horror as the young spy launched himself off the edge of the rocks and dove down into the water. When he resurfaced he had a red tube in his hands, he swam to the edge of the lake and clambered up the rock face like a monkey.

"Jesus Cub, don't do that to us!" Wolf cuffed him around the head then quickly wrapped him in the foil Cub had laid out earlier, quickly Snake pulled off his soaked thermal top and ran a towel over the shivering form, the cold making his scars stand out more than usual, Eagle pulled the thermal top over his head then the second base layer, Ben wrapped the fleece around him, zipped it up and Wolf waited with the secondary fleece. Snake pulled his hats over his head and Eagle slipped his coat on and zipped it up. Lastly Fox pulled one glove on as Wolf did the other. Eagle pulled off Alex's thermal trousers and dried his legs wrapping the foil around his bottom half.

"Sorry kid, not going any further." The medic grinned.

"Th- that- that's f- f- fine." The teen stuttered slowly warming up, Ben wrapped his arms around him creating friction in an attempt to speed up the warming process. Less than a minute later Cub was having his boots done up by Eagle and Snake, his fingers too numb to do them himself.

"Find a place to camp then read this. Lets get a fire going and then you are not moving Cub." Wolf growled, his over protectiveness coming through as annoyance. They traipsed down the snow covered mountain until they reached a flat area of ground, ten minutes later there was a strong fire blazing and Cub had been situated in front of it under threat of a full medical if he so much as moved a muscle.

"Drink." Snake pushed a cup of hot chocolate into numb hands, Alex nodded his thanks still cold. Ben sat one side of his with Wolf on the other, closer than normal, trying to keep him warm, Eagle simply threw his sleeping bag over him.

"Eagle your turn to cook." Snake announced.

"Oh dear lord." Alex groaned rolling his eyes as the joker in the group rubbed his hands together gleefully. They all watched in horror as Eagle started pulling out pots and food sachets,

"Stop!" Alex exclaimed sliding off the log he had been sitting on and shoving Eagle out the way. Then he attempted to resurrect the food that Eagle had slaughtered.

"Yay. Cub food!" Eagle bounced up holding his mess tin in expectation.

"You get served last, bird brain." Alex teased as the older man pouted and started whining.

"The more you whine the less you get." Wolf growled. Unsurprisingly Eagle shut up.

"What's in the tube?" Alex asked Wolf realising the rest had forgotten about the reason they were in the middle of no where. Ben pulled the tube from his leaders pocket and unscrewed the top.

"Map. Again. And..." Ben's eyes lit up. "Chocolate." He was forced onto his back in the rush of his team mates trying to reach the chocolate. In desperation the older spy threw it to their 'chef' who slipped it inside his coat.

"Mains first people. Dinners up!" He called knowing that would make them all move. Within minutes they were all looking at Cub who was taking his time eating his food knowing that it would aggravate them.

"Snake." Wolf growled,

"I'm with you." Alex only had a seconds warning before he was grabbed around the waist and searched thoroughly for the chocolate. They all leapt back when Alex gave a cry of pain. Alex lay on the ground almost as white as the ground beneath him grasping at his side where they all knew, and suddenly remembered, he had been shot about four weeks ago, add that to them forcefully patting him down on broken ribs then he would have been in pain.

"Shit! Sorry!" Eagle blurted as Snake quickly unzipped Cub's multiple layer of warm clothing then tugged the two base layers out from his trousers and checked the bandaging on his gun shot wound.

"It's fine. Let me just check your ribs." Snake pulled the top up further fighting the anger he always felt when he saw Alex's scars.

"Have to say kiddo, I am a little jealous of your muscles at 17." Eagle muttered frowning.

"I'd take being scrawny and not looking like a drawing board for a knife." Alex replied through gritted teeth as Snake prodded his ribs experimentally.

"You're still shivering slightly. Why didn't you say something?" Snake scolded wrapping him up again. "I think we should all go to bed." He helped Alex up and hurried him towards the tent, Alex crouched inside the marginally larger than average four man tent that managed to house all five of them, only when it was cold. He rolled out his sleeping bag and went to lie on the outside of the tent but was stopped by Eagle launching himself onto one of them and Wolf was already sitting on the other.

"You are in the middle Cub. Deal with it." The unit's leader dictated, Alex sighed and nodded bundling his sleeping bag in the corner so that they could play a quick game of cards before sleeping, he sat slowly, wincing as he went. Snake raised an eyebrow pointedly.

"I'm fine." Alex automatically replied.

"And again?" The red haired medic asked sitting opposite him.

"I'll live." Alex tried.

"Full medical when we return to camp. Cub, no excuses." Was the only comment made.

"Last task then we're at the base." Wolf announced grinning. "Six bulls eye each. Cub you first." Alex pulled his rifle out his pack and built it, then he stood, aimed and fired at his target six times.

"No point checking really is there." Ben commented, his shooting had been a cause of worry for them when he turned up to stay over two years ago, but they had taken it under the heading 'Classified' and were patient. After a year of their constant worry, supervision and trust testing Alex told them everything. From his families death to the Turners two days before he arrived here for good. Then they had discovered the nightmares, but they had nothing on the panic attacks. Three weeks after he had arrived he had been tackled by Eagle for a teasing comment which had triggered a memory of one of his spans in captivity and resultantly a full blown panic attack. No one knew about them, but Alex was easily the most scared out of all of them. Now they panic attacks were rare, if ever and the nightmares were only after some missions.

"Cub." Wolf's voice pulled Alex from his day dreaming. He saw Snake getting slowly more frustrated with his shooting.

"Snake." Alex said calmly, he shot a glance over his shoulder and the the other men vanished into the trees, 'checking the route'. "Breathe." He told the worked up medic, a few minutes later Snake had his six bulls eyes.

"How do you do that?" Eagle sighed shaking his head in amazement, Cub was the only one who could calm Snake, normally because Snake was the one calming all of them.

"Don't know. Done it to myself too much." Alex shrugged slipping on his backpack. "Come on." He pulled his collar up around his neck and gestured that Wolf lead the way. Three hours later they reach a bunk house and, after dumping their bags and pulling off layer after layer of clothes, hurried to the showers. The water wasn't hot, but compared to the Russian air, it was positively tropical.

"Cub." Snake called him over before the blonde could pull on a top. Alex traipsed over dragging his feet. Ben chuckled at his antics rolling his eyes.

"It's healing fine. The breaks are also healing but the bruising around them has yet to leave, including the bruise you got while being a moron." Snake brushed his fingers over the bruise covering the whole side of his body. The incident Snake was referring to was when a few days ago Alex had leaned over the edge of a crevasse to see if there was a way down, a gust of wind had knocked him off balance and that coupled with a concussion from him latest mission caused him to fall. Wolf had grabbed his forearm, resulting in a dubious bruise, but gravity and momentum meant that Alex slammed into the side of the crevasse resulting in more cracked ribs, and the ones that were broken from being shot while wearing a bullet proof vest, but mostly healed, snapped again.

"You'll do. When are we being picked up?" Snake called.

"Three hours. Who's up for a card game?"

Three hours later Sargent Lucas was shocked to hear laughter from the bunkhouse opposed to the usual snores. He sighed,

"Nothing breaks that bloody unit." He muttered before entering.

"Sir!" All five jumped to attention, Cub letting out a small gasp of pain as he did so.

"At ease." He stated, they all relaxed. Now he looked at them he could see the exhaustion and cold in their stances and expressions, and relief at finally getting out of here. "In the helicopter, we're dropping those two off in the states first." He nodded at Ben and Alex who sighed silently.

"Yes sir. Where in the states sir?" Ben asked as they settled into the copter.

"Montana, that's all I know. Buckle up!" Defying all laws of physics they took off leaving the cold eastern Russian Landscape behind.

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