There's a very important question at the bottom of the chapter, I would appreciate it if you took time and answered it.

Disclaimer: I'm not Ally Carter, I'm only a fan.


I always knew I'm going to lose Cammie, one way or another, but I never knew it was going to be this soon.

"Zach. Zach, I just lost my connection with Cammie!" Jonas says the words loud and clear into my earpiece, and I wanted to start panicking, but if there's one thing being a spy taught me it's not to panic in the worst scenario because it won't get you anywhere.

"Open the back-up power then. That should give you back the connection." My voice is calm, too calm, it almost sounds alien to me. My brain starts to analyse everything; it's two minutes and seventeen seconds after Cammie jumped the plane, if everything is right then she should be in the building right now.

"Jonas, stop what you're doing. Track Cammie first, then we'll see where she is."

"Yeah, okay," he replied, his tone full of doubts and I could understand. I really could because I too don't know what's happening and I don't like that —spies don't like that. We like to have control, and right now we have everything but control.

I hear a series of typing and clicking before Jonas replied again, "Zach, I can't track her. I can't find her. The devices can't find her."

My blood runs cold and I lose it, "What do you mean you can't find her? Of course you can! You're the controller of her tracking and communication devices right! You're the one in control!"

"You're right, Zach. But I can't control anything, unless the thing is turned on. Tell me, did Cammie have a working tracker and earpiece before she jumped off?"

Shit. Did she? Oh God.

"I don't know."

"Well, Zach, I'm sorry, but I can't do anything from two hundred miles away, nor can you. We can do nothing about it, but report it to the higher officials."

"Not Cammie's mum. Understand?"

"Why not?"

"Do you really want to have this conversation right now? With two devices that other spies can listen to? Do you?"

"No. You're right. I'll wait for you to get back. I'll call in the girls and Grant, too. They can help."

I doubt it. I doubt they can help. No one can help.

"Yeah. Sure, maybe they can."

Cammie's out there, in the dark night, doing a mission that could cost her own life without getting any help from any of us. It's going to take some fucking miracle for her to get back to us in one piece.

"Zach, we'll find her, yeah? Have some trust in us."

That's what Cammie did, trusted the agency with her damn life and look where that got her.

Sometimes I wonder if things would've been different had I been a spy, would I still have met Cammie? And if I did, would my memory of her be wiped out by some cup of tea? And if it wasn't, would I be in this position right now?

Maybe. Maybe not. But now, is not really the time for questions.

I just need to find Cammie. And quick.


A/N: The chapter might be short, but it will be significant. You'll find that this chapter will, more or less, contain a lot of important information that will be valuable later in the story. But, yes, it is a little bit shorter and that's just because I wanted to partly fill in the readers (yes, you) on what happened after Cammie jumped off the plane, so there's no confusion.

You'll notice that I had a sentence in bold (like this) at the very very start of the chapter, I congratulate you if noticed that. You're a very good observer.
I don't want to make this too long, so I'll cut to the chase now. (Please carefully read the next two paragraphs.)

I'm really concerned about which way I should go with Bex and Zach's relationship. I did two versions of it, early on, and the first one had them as just friends and nothing more while the other one was off the border a bit and had them as a couple. Now, I'm asking this question to you, person from the other screen, would you like them to be friends in this story or a couple?

On my profile I have a poll on this question and I would love to see your vote. Just to let you know, it is a blind poll, meaning that you cannot see what others have voted until the poll has been closed to avoid bias voting. Also, just because the majority of readers wants them to be friends (or a couple), doesn't necessarily mean that I will be taking that road too. For now, I won't assure you of anything about Zach and Cammie's relationship, but don't let it affect your vote. For all you know, I'll make it a Grant/Cammie (Grammie! *giggles*) story. Or I can break up Bex and Zach (if they were a couple). There's just too many possibilities out there, so make sure you VOTE HONESTLY.

The poll will be closed as soon as I feel like I've got enough feedback, and if I were you I'd vote as soon as I reading this!

Bye.
YsMay.

Edit: I did a slip-up and published this on the wrong story. Shit. I'm so stupid. Sorry, folks!