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The Monster in the Cellar by Too_Many_Rooks for icebluecyanide
Fandoms: Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider (TV 2020)
21 Feb 2024
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'Perhaps he’d lied to himself as much as he’d lied to MI6. Every report they’d demanded had read the same; his nephew was normal, and safe, and happy, and they couldn’t have him. Ian was his parent in every way that mattered, not a prison warden for the thing that might lurk inside him. No one would take his kid away from him.
But the snarling, blood-stained, monster, barely conscious with all his hate and his hunger that was chained up in their basement didn’t much resemble the sweet little boy who’d run to greet him at the door when he returned from long overseas missions, or the child who’d stare with wide-eyed joy and fascination as Ian showed him the world, nor even the stroppy tween who liked to complain about how boring and embarrassing his guardian was.'
Ian is forced to enact a plan he'd been desperate to avoid when he returns home one day to find his nephew... changed.