Hello, Awesome Mr. L again, here's Chapter 2 so I hope you enjoy. More chapters to come.

2: Rumours

Weeks before the New Year broke people were still excited about the coming holiday. A lot of the red shirts were gossiping about what would they get for Christmas while the black and navy shirts would act cool about it and anyone in between would only start caring either a week before or a day before.

Theo and Danny made their way over to their usual table; being the last ones there they noticed that Chloe was at a different table.

Everyone in CHERUB had a circle of friends and Theo's was Danny, Chloe, Brian (Brin) Collins who had just joined the table after years of being a jerk and was rumoured to have named himself after the sexy and frequently visiting Amy Collins, Rob King who came to join every once in a while because he had been part of recruiting Theo, Ella Williams, Robin Walker, Robin Walken (one a guy and another a girl but ever since one of them got a Pixie haircut hard to tell apart) and lastly Graham.

The food in the cafeteria was always good but there were some days when you couldn't tell which end of the animal you were eating.

'You know what this spaghetti actually is for, right?' Brian asked.

The table scoffed, Brian was okay enough but whenever he started talking like that, everyone knew he'd start spewing up dozens of sentences of shit.

'What?' one of the Robins asked.

'To build our immunity, sooner or later one of us is going to get poisoned out in the field and when the arsenic starts going into our system our body will fight it like a cold'.

'Or a Brian' Ella whispered.

The table chuckled, Theo said in a posh voice, 'That's very rude Ms. Williams; I believe his name to be Brin'.

A few people from the closest table laughed. 'It's pronounced Amy you know' one of them said as Danny washed down his food trying to not to laugh and spurt spaghetti sauce back out.

'I'm just thankful, arse wipe, that my name doesn't mean "abandoned' Brian said to Theo.

The cafeteria murmured, 'Pack it in and eat up' one of the cooks said not knowing how bad things were about to get.

Theo sucked air in through his teeth, 'You know, I'd call you stubborn but that would be an insult to mules'.

Everyone looked over to Brian who was picking at his food, 'Jokes, you jammy git' he said.

The room lost interest, things like this happened, there had only been few times when it escalated and Theo hadn't seen any of those. But he was about to be involved.

Theo said, 'You know it's not like I get off with every girl'.

'The other one is louder and has bells on it too' a familiar voice said, it was Rob King, most people stayed with people around their age but Rob had taken a particular liking to the young Theo he recruited.

'I hear you've been knocking boots with two broads at once', Theo looked confused, 'I mean girl wise boy'.

'He has' Danny butted in loudly, 'And he's denying he has ever even touched another girl'. This was a shock, if you had studied psychology, which Rob had, you'd know there was a cycle to your life that you quickly became used to.

No cherub thinks it will be easy adapting to new life when on missions, but on campus anything out of the ordinary captured everyone's attention.

'He is a jammy git, cheating on me!' Chloe shouted from her table.

The usual "quiet & sensible" black and navy shirts, all boys, reacted with hoots.

Theo had had enough, he wasn't cheating, he wasn't a mean person and he wasn't jammy, maybe that one was true, but the rumours didn't please him.

He stood up, 'I never cheated on you, it's just some stupid lie, I only had my hand on Jenna's bum'.

Chloe shot Jenna daggers, 'So was it just two or was it Abby too'. The boys above eleven all cheered and whooped.

Fortunately Abby wasn't in the cafeteria at the moment. 'Look' Theo said, 'I did what I did, if you don't forgive me then might as well not be dating!'.

Only a few people knew that this was a touchy moment, but instead of responding Chloe chucked a plate full of spaghetti at Theo.

Theo couldn't contain his anger but snatching up two blobs full of spaghetti and lobbing them at Chloe may have set off this.

'Food fight!' someone cried. In a few seconds the floors, tables and walls were splattered with sauce and one of the cooks who was telling everyone to sit down got hammered in the nose by a flying tray and slipped on the floor while some of the other kitchen staff were attacked by red shirts who thought it was a game.

Theo and Rob bolted and ducked out of the cafeteria unscathed and only slightly splattered, by the time they were out Theo had forgotten Chloe and they were both laughing.

'That was epic!' Rob said.

Theo laughed, 'I can't believe I started that' Rob's laugh disappeared but couldn't tell him about the chairwoman with her stare making a big hole in the back of Theo's head.

Rob said uneasily, 'I wouldn't say you were responsible for that'.

'Oh yes I was and …' the sentence ended like that because Theo's heart missed a beat when he saw Zara's hand on his shoulder.

'You know Mr. Jameson, my office isn't a hotel, which is why I don't expect frequent visitors'.

Theo's head slumped in his hands.

'So what you're telling me Mr. King, is that you weren't involved because you could have but didn't stop the fight?' Zara asked.

Rob dropped lower in his seat, Zara enjoyed making him squirm by first making him ask if he was involved, then he said why he wasn't but that made it as easy as Zara asking him if he could have done something.

Zara knew perfectly well that Rob wasn't involved but if she didn't act strict on something like this it would happen often.

She had already given Chloe, Danny, a large group of young red shirts and some others.

'You can leave Mr. King, just know that I'll be keeping a close eye on you'.

Rob sighed and quickly left, he hadn't been so worried since he was a red shirt and was put in a room with his sister for six months and threatened with expulsion.

Theo was the last one left.

'Mr. Jameson, could you remind me of some of the punishments I have just given to people'.

Theo coughed, 'No pocket money for a month, help the kitchen staff in cooking for the next two months, no paintballing or trips to town for two weeks, fifteen punishment laps a day …'

Zara stopped him, 'That's enough, if you want those punishments you may have them'. Theo knew this was bound to happen.

'I also need to take you off your upcoming mission'.

Theo sat up, 'I know you saw this as your big break but I cannot let you go after what happened'.

Theo was at a loss for words, a ball the size of a duck egg was in his throat, as a CHERUB you only get good missions if the staff give you your one chance and you perform well, he had heard of a former agent who was on his break but was stupidly interviewed for an educational programme on clothes.

He didn't see the chance of having a career if he didn't end up with a big mission.

'You may leave' Zara said, but her words were drowned out, Theo didn't see the point of carrying on.

On his way out Theo said, 'I quit'.

'You don't mean that' Zara replied.

'No, you're right, I don't' he walked out and said under his breath, 'Not that I'll have a career after this.

Ooooh. Who knows what will happen to Theo, only I know the true answer. You'll find out in the fourth chapter because the third chapter will be about Theo's past and what happened a few days ago.

Disclaimer: I don't own CHERUB.

Acclaimer: I own all the characters in this chapter except the aforementioned:

Zara Asker
Amy Collins
Rob King

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