C POV

Come find me Zach, please, was the last thing I thought before blacking out.

When I woke up, the first thing I noticed was someone's warm arms wrapped around my waist. I tensed, but immediately relaxed when I realized those arms belonged to Zach.

He looked good, no scratch that, he looked hot. His face was calm and relaxed, his hair was slightly ruffled, but there were trails down his cheeks that made it look like he'd been crying. No, I thought, Zach Goode does not cry.

When my hand touched his cheek, his eyes snapped open. I looked into his emerald eyes and felt utterly and completely safe. His face broke out into a real smile as he leaned down and whispered, "I'm gonna kiss you now Gallagher Girl." And he followed through.

When he kissed me, I swear I heard fireworks. It started off as a soft promise, but then he kissed me more fiercely and hungrily. He licked my lip to ask for entrance, which I greedily granted. We explored each others mouths for a while.

After 20 minutes and 43 seconds the door opened and we reluctantly broke apart. Zach looked like I had just ran over his puppy, which caused me to giggle.

Then the person at the door cleared their throat, so I turned to see who it was. MR. SOLOMAN? I quickly untangled myself from Zach to go give my CovOps teacher/godfather a hug. "I'm so happy your finally awake!", Mr. Soloman said.

Then it hit me, "How long was I asleep exactly?" I asked in a you-better-tell-me-now-or-else voice. Zach came up and wrapped his arms around my waist, "3 weeks, 4 days, and 28 minutes," he replied nonchalantly, but there was some emotion hidden deep inside his voice.

"I'm so sorry," I replied in a shaky voice. "Don't be," Zach said as he pressed a kiss onto my temple. "You're awake now and most importantly, you're safe, right here."

"Where am I? I know this isn't Gallagher." I said. "Very good, Cammie. You're right, this isn't Gallagher. You're at Blackthorne." Mr. Soloman replied.

"I'm at Blackthorne? Does that mean Bex, Liz, and Macey aren't here?" I asked incredeously. "Oh, they're here," Mr. Soloman replied with a chuckle. "In fact, they should be here in 3...2...1..."

He was cut off by a very pissed off Bex bursting through the door followed by Macey and Liz. Bex was screaming, "CAMERON ANN MORGAN! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN AWAKE AND WHY DID I JUST BARELY FIND OUT ABOUT IT?" Then they were all running full speed at me, they enveloped me in the biggest bear hug I'd ever gotten. "Can't...breathe.." I choked out. They immediately let me go so I could go help Zach off the floor (not that he needed help, he was just looking kinda hurt).

Over by the door my Blackthorne brothers were anxiously waiting their turn. I just smiled at them and they all sauntered over to me to envelope me into a hug, this time, I could breathe.

After a everyone had told me a million times how happy they were that I was awake and wasn't dead, we all sat down (I was in Zach's lap with his arms around my waist pressing me tightly into his chiseled chest, Bex was on Grant's lap, Jonas had his arms around Liz's shoulders, and Nick had his arm around Macey's waist A/N Soloman slipped out after everyone came in).

"Cammie, would you like to tell us exactly what happened after you left Gallagher?" She demanded with the famous Baxter interrogation look.

I sighed as I settled down even further into Zach's chest. "Okay..." As I started to replay my worst nightmare, except I was awake when I went through it.