Disclaimer: I don't own the book, I don't own the characters, and I don't own the image which is from the UK book cover of GG5, the amazing Ally Carter does.

A/N: This is my new story, it's going to be a long one so be sure to follow, I'll be updating really regularly too! I'm not too worried if I don't get many followers or reviews because I loved writing this one. Set end of GG4.

A Code black, a life threatening injury, death, betrayal and determination. What more do you want from a story? When the Gallagher Academy catches on fire Cammie must make a decision, between life and death.

I softly padded down the corridors, knowing it was only a matter of time until my friends came searching for me, I'd missed dinner and that meant having to give a long explanation. I sighed. I needed to be alone, I needed some thinking time.

Zach had just told me his idea about us running away, I had shrugged the idea off but now I was seriously considering it, however a dislocated shoulder was enough warning to tell me that The Circle were good. I had to be better.

I found myself in the faculty sleeping department corridor before I knew what I was doing. I suddenly remembered Zach was staying here and quickly turned on my heel ready to make a quick escape without being seen when a movement down the end of the corridor caught my eye. I made another quick turn in time to notice a figure gently pull on the torch at the end of the corridor and to my complete amazement the figure slipped inside a tiny gap in the wall.

I was left breathless as I realised that the figure must have been a teacher, the figure had been so tall and I was pretty sure there were no students that height here. I finally decided that it was most likely my mother, although I had no idea what she would be doing in there, but memories of my mom crying by herself filled my eyes. I just stood there for a moment, staring into the distance.

I felt a touch on my shoulder; I didn't hesitate before I used the weight to my advantage and slung them over my shoulder, bringing them down hard onto the stone floor in front of me. I heard a gasp down the end of the corridor but it was like I was possessed. I was on top of my attacker pinning him onto the floor, he was out cold. Tears were leaking down my face as all I could think about was killing him. Strong arms were around me and before I could attack he was on top of me pinning me down. I looked into my new attackers eyes and felt a surge of rage but then quicker than I can click my fingers something in his eyes stopped me, stopped the power that was possessing me.

Everything I had done suddenly hit me like a bus, and I felt my body judder like my mind had suddenly returned to me. I looked to my right and looked in horror as Dr. Fibs' still body stared back at me, his eyes closed.

I looked back up and took in the boy in front of me. Zach. It felt like his eyes were radiating calmness to me but his face registered pure confusion as he too glanced at Dr. Fibs.

'Cammie?' he questioned.

I stuttered my way through the alphabet trying to find some letters to fit into a word that sounded half coherent. I failed. 'I… er…'

Luckily I wasn't trying too long as a loud sound knocked me to my senses.

'CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK'

I lay paralysed on the floor but Zach was up in an instant. He got some kind of pill out of his bag and stuffed it in Dr Fibs' mouth. I recognised it as a memory eraser pill and mentally made a note to thank Zach later before he pulled me up off the ground.

'I don't know what that was about Gallagher Girl but you're going to have to tell me later because right now we need to GET OUT OF HERE'

Zach started pulled me towards the end of the corridor, towards the secret corridor.

'Zach' I yelled, struggling to be heard over the loud sirens screeching in my ears and thundering footsteps coming from the staff members pushing past. I was completely ignored; sometimes it was hard being a chameleon, especially when I was probably the one they were trying to find!

'Zach' I tried again and he finally turned towards me.

'Let go of my hand, it's hard to run when you've got my hand in a death grip!'

Zach finally let go as he yelled 'Fine, but stay right beside me'

We ran on for a while, not daring to look at the havoc that was probably taking place behind us.

I knew what I had to do. I got to the end of the corridor and casually pulled on the torch, slipping through the gap that was instantly created. The door must have been motion censored because as soon as I stepped in the door sealed shut behind me and I was plunged into darkness. I tried to calm down my beating heart as I thought of my mission.

At 5.01 on a Saturday evening the operative experienced a slight situation in which she knocked out Dr. Fibs but was prevented from killing him, the operative was unaware of what the hell she was doing. The Operative noticed a secret passageway and noticed her mother Headmistress Morgan slipping into it. The Operative decided to follow to observe Agent Morgan's activity in the Secret passageway, even if it did mean ditching the totally cute guy operative Zachary Goode, because what kind of spy would she be if she didn't take the opportunity to find out once and for all what was wrong with her mother.

I ran my hand down the wall, trying to find some kind of light switch. Or anything to be honest. That was until I heard voiced drifting out from the wall.

'She was with me, I have no idea where she went but I think she might have gone down the corridor the other way.' I strained to hear Zach's words. 'Ur… no, I have no idea what happened to Dr Fibbs, I'm guessing he was trying to do a crazy experiment again!'

I couldn't help but smile slightly at Zach's words. That was until I heard another voice.

'Has anyone found my daughter yet? The security department say they found two of The Circle agents trying to climb the wall, I'm getting a bit worried about her…' My mother's worried voice seemed to carry high above the rest of the Faculty member's voices as they all discussed my whereabouts.

'Maybe we should go to the common room, she's probably waiting there for us and all this worry is for nothing!' I heard Dr Steve's voice boom out.

I heard the voice of approximately six faculty members agree. I sighed in relief as I heard footsteps fade into the distance.

Then realisation hit me. My mum was out there… which meant I was in here with…

'Cammie, fancy seeing you here!' An evil laugh filled the corridor as Catherine's voice filled my ears. Before I knew what was happening something hard and heavy struck the back of my head. I fell down unconscious as the black room lit up and Catherine's face was highlighted in the light. All I could see though was blackness.

ZACH POV

The Code Black was still ringing in my ears but I could hardly hear it as concern for Cammie was filling my body. What if she'd been captured? She wasn't strong enough, she'd almost lost her life a few weeks ago and she'd dislocated her shoulder, there was no way she was in any condition to fight. With about a thousand thoughts clogging my mind I quickened my pace as I ran to the common room with the staff, praying that Cammie was there.

I walked into Cammie's class common room which was where her class were expected to go when there was an alarm. The Common Room was in chaos.

Screams seemed to be coming from every corner as me and the staff were instantly swamped by girls asking all kinds of questions.

'Will we be able to put our Cove Ops training into practise now?' Anna cried.

'Can I practise my new death grip?' Mick cried from the other side of the room.

'I heard The Prime Ministers in the school and one of his guards turned out to be a terrorist!' Tina cried.

I pushed past the ridiculous questions and girls as I made my way to the other side of the room where three girls sat in silence.

'Where's Cammie?' Liz asked with a definite shake in her voice.

'She's probably just having a makeup dilemma' Macey stated, trying to keep her voice from cracking. 'I told her she should wait for me before she even attempts to put on Liquid eyeliner!'

'Liz, don't worry' Bex's strong voice rose above the rest. 'You know Cammie, she's strong, and she's going to be fine.'

As soon as they saw me approaching they stood up, their faces etched with worry.

'Well?' Bex said, getting straight to the point as usual.

All I could do was shake my head and stare at the floor.

Before they had a chance to make me explain further Headmistress Morgan's voice silenced the whole room and miraculously the Code Black stopped ringing.

'Girls, I need your attention a minute'. She waited until you could hear a pin drop.

'I'm afraid a girl from the junior class has gone missing. Her name is Demi Williams. Another girl has also gone missing.' She collected her herself and I could see tears form in her eyes and her voice cracked as she said 'Cameron Morgan'.

Whispers echoed around the room as everyone took this in and I could hear sobs echoing around the room from Liz.

'We would like you to stay in here until further notice while we search the castle.' She paused as she seemed to consider something. 'Zach, Bex, Liz and Macey could you come with me please'

We followed Headmistress Morgan out of the room immediately and into the corridor which was eerily silent.

She opened her mouth to speak but closed it straight away when she saw most of the staff returning along with two girls who were obviously twins, they looked young and I realised they must be friends of that other junior girl who had gone missing. They looked scared out of their minds as tears ran down their face and they stared up at the headmistress in awe.

'These are Demi's best friends, Harriet and Hannah Richards.' Madam Dabney said.

Headmistress Morgan nodded and gave them a motherly smile. 'Harriet and Hannah, do you have any idea on where Demi could be?'

Harriet burst into tears and tried to explain between sobs. 'It's our entire fault… Our mother was unable to take us back to our home for summer and so we asked her if it was okay to stay with her and her family, she got really mad at us and screamed, she said her family was none of our business. Then she disappeared into a secret passage earlier and we haven't seen her since.' Harriet paused for effect as she added 'I think there's something she's not telling us about her family, she's always so secretive about them.'

Headmistress Morgan nodded her head. I just stood there thinking, my eyes cross eyed as I concentrated. I tried to think. Demi… that name… it was so familiar. Then it hit me like a bus and I gasped.

As a spy headmistress Morgan noticed. 'Zach?' she questioned.

I gritted my teeth as I said 'Demi, her parents, I remember now. Her parents are some of the top people within The Circle. They've been trying to persuade Demi to join for ages now but she won't. She's like me.' I added.

The twins just stood with their, mouths open in shock as they clearly tried to register what this meant.

Harriet spoke out again 'Poor Demi, we need to find her…'

Headmistress Morgan nodded her agreement and her voice was high and shrill as she said 'Staff please can you keep searching the castle, there's nowhere for them to go, all the passageways leading outside are closed off. I think Cammie and Demi will be together, maybe hidden in that passageway the twins are talking about, let's just hope they're there alone.' She paused before adding 'Twins, do you think you could show us where this passageway was that Demi went into?'

The twins looked at each other and nodded. 'We think we remember'.

We all followed the twins down the corridor, hoping we weren't too late.

CAMMIE POV

When I woke up I found a girl staring at me, her face bloody. I decided I was imagining things and closed my eyes again, bringing my hand up to the back of my head and feeling hot sticky stuff leaking over my hand, I winced as I pressed harder and felt pain sear through my head. I drew my hand away and found a puddle of blood cupped in my hand. 'This is not good' I thought. The girl was still sitting there staring at me, her eyes full of fear and tears leaking down her cheeks. She crawled over to me, clearly too weak to walk. She seemed to be thinking hard as she opened her mouth and said 'I'm not going to hurt you, I'm Demi, my mom's with The Circle, but I'm not.'

I nodded, ignoring the banging pain in my head 'What do they want with us?' I asked calmly, seeing how scared Demi was made me realise I had to be the strong one.

'They want to kill us' She simply stated, then seeing my eyes widen she added 'Catherine is killing me because I won't join, they're killing you because apparently you won't do what they want, I think they've done something to your brain, I'm not too sure'

I felt my eyes widen even more, why would they kill me because of that? It didn't make sense. But then I thought back to what I had done to Dr Fibs. I gasped. What the hell had they done to me?

Tears cascaded down Demi's face and I realised how much pain she must be in, her parents wanted her dead, even Zach's mom wasn't twisted enough to kill her own son. I glanced at her again and saw the cuts and bruises all over her, she was holding her arm which was at a funny angle and had swollen up incredibly.

I suddenly found myself pulling her in towards me, hugging her close to me. She cried in my arms, her body shaking.

I realised she must only be about twelve, she should be worrying about boys and homework not a terrorist group coming to kill her. It made me so angry.

I was about to get up and have a look around the dark room and look for an escape route when I heard footsteps approaching. And a laugh, a laugh that I had heard far too often.

'Oh look what we have here, looks like our little Gallagher Girls have made friends' Catherine cackled as a light turned on above us and I gasped seeing the full extent of Demi's injuries. Her whole face was covered with blood; her body seemed to have more scratches than skin. I pulled her closer to me, feeling the blood trickling down my back from my head injury.

'Well well, at least you two won't die alone' she paused and gave us an evil look as she said 'well actually it's a bit of a shame; I wanted to kill you in the most painful way possible.' She contemplated something as she added 'There was drowning, shooting, stabbing, but none of them were quite painful enough. So, I decided on another one, one I thought was quite clever of me'

She was chucking loads of bed sheets on the floor, scattering them around us in circle. I looked at her in confusion, and then glanced at Demi, wondering if she knew what was going on. She just gave me a blank look back.

I was thinking about running over and knocking that bitch (Macey's favourite word that seemed appropriate at this moment in time) out. However, I caught sight of a knife poking out of one of her jean pockets, a gun in the other, and I knew me and Demi were both too weak to fight.

Catherine then marched over to us grabbing me and pulling me to a nearby old wooden table and handcuffing one of my wrists to it, tightening it so it cut into my wrist until blood started to pour down my arm. 'We don't want any stupid escape moves from you now, do we Cameron?' she smiled obviously content with her work. She then walked away muttering 'I'll be back in a minute'

Demi crawled back towards me tears pouring down her face still as she cuddled in close to me.

'You need to get out of here.' I told her.

'No way' she replied. 'I've been in here a few hours now and I know that theres an exit to the outside of the mansion but it's guarded by The Circle and the other entrance we came in through can only be opened from the other direction.'

I nodded, unsure on what else we could do.

I wondered why I'd never noticed her before, why I never bothered to speak to the girls in the younger years. She'd probably heard plenty about me though; it was hard not to have rumours about you circulating the school when you're the target of an international terrorist organisation.

'How are you feeling?' she whispered to me, genuine concern in her eyes.

I nodded trying to concentrate on staying awake. I put my hand up to my head and felt a massive bump forming and grimaced as I felt more blood.

'No you're not' she said worriedly, her eyes searching mine as if trying to find the hidden answer.

'You're worse than me' I said, gesturing to her bloody face. 'Besides, I've been worse. Far worse'

'Tell me about it' she said. It wasn't a question, it was a command, and no one had ever asked me about it before, not even my friends. I guess they just didn't want to upset me by making me explain it. 'It will make you feel better' she laughed as she added 'and you look like you're about to fall asleep! So spill it.'

We ended up exchanging memories with each other, I spoke about the times I'd been so closely captured by the circle, her eyes staying wide open with shock. She told me about her parents, the way they abused her, the way she loved Gallagher because it was so far away from her other life.

We talked boys, we talked celebrities, and we talked about things we'd never told anybody else.

I finally felt like there was someone who understood me, I felt like I'd known her forever. I put the fact we were tied up and probably going to be killed later to the back of my mind, it wasn't like we were going to be able to escape unless someone found out we were in here, unless Zach realised where I had gone, that's if he'd even noticed yet.

I was laughing at a story Demi had just told me, apparently there's a secret passageway near the elevator to the sublevels that Mr Smith uses to contact his ex-girlfriend from Bulgaria.

My laughing was stopped short when Catherine walked back in, her face full of pure rage. 'I'm glad you two are having such a fun time in here, but I'm afraid that's about to end.'

'Why are you killing me?' I asked firmly, determined to get answers.

'Well Cameron, you haven't been aware of it but we've been making you do something for us… find something that we quite badly need… let's just say when your mom gave you some water that she got from your back pack after you'd dived into the water and been rescued, it wasn't what had been in there in the first place. It was a type of poison that's meant to make the drinker do things they wouldn't normally do, like run away and find what I need, but it hasn't worked, and now it's too late.'

I was so confused, but I decided it didn't matter, Catherine almost killed me once and failed, she wouldn't lose again.

She kicked the bedding that she'd put on the floor into a circle around us, and I could have sworn my heart stopped beating as she pulled out a lighter.